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Message of support and friendship from DPC to Colleagues and Partners in the Middle East
Added on 9 October 2023
This weekend has brought distressing news of events in the Middle East. We refer in particular to the harrowing events in Israel and Palestine, as well as an earthquake on the western borders of Afghanistan. We affirm our friendship and offer our support to all those affected.
In particular, the DPC has written today to colleagues in the National Library of Israel and at Ex Libris expressing our concern for their well-being and safety. We hold their work in high esteem, and value their friendship even more so. We join our thoughts with many around the world in praying for the safety of their loved ones at a time of great distress, and for an end to violence.
Knowing that peace, justice and truth are aligned, we celebrate those who create and preserve the digital record of our turbulent times, and insofar as it is in our power, we offer them our full professional support and recognition.
The Agency for Facility Operations of the Flemish Government upgrades to become a Full Member of the DPC
Added on 5 October 2023
DPC Associate Member since 2020, the Agency for Facility Operations of the Flemish Government (the Agency) upgraded its membership this month to become the latest Full Member of the Coalition.
The Agency, which provides professional support to the entities of the Flemish government, has developed a shared digital archiving service - Digital Archives Flanders. This service is open to more than 300 organizations and local authorities of the Flemish government. Supporting this development, the Agency provides the technical infrastructure, the software and the expertise with regard to the management, storage and preservation of born digital information.
Vacancy for Assistant Digital Preservation Analyst at Rockefeller Archive Center
17 November 2023
New York, US
s $66,422 - $96,312 per year
Full-Time
Vacancy for Director of Digital at the British Library
12 October 2023
Boston Spa/London
£110K
Fixed Term
World Digital Preservation Day Events
Institutions all over the world are organizing events on Thursday 2 November 2023 in honour of World Digital Preservation Day. Scroll down to see if there are any events in your region to join! If you would like your event listed here as well, please submit details to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Personal Digital Archiving Workshop at Buncombe County Public Libraries
November 7, 4-6 pm at Pack Memorial Public Library, Asheville, NC
Buncombe County Special Collections archivists will present basic steps you can take to mitigate risks to digital content, then will be on hand to answer questions, demonstrate tools as requested, and talk directly with you about how to manage and preserve your digital treasures.
WDPD 2023 Webinar at the National Archives of Malaysia
The National Archives of Malaysia are organizing a full day of virtual presentations to mark World Digital Preservation Day. Speakers include (amongst others) Muhammad Idzwan bin Ramli of the National Archives of Malaysia, Abigail Grotke of the Library of Congress, Joshua Ng of the Archives New Zealand and William Kilbride of the Digital Preservation Coalition.
Virtual Apache Tika Intro and Workshop
This will be a virtual hands-on introduction to Apache Tika. We'll work with a new beta-grade user interface that was developed in response to feedback in the iPRES 2022 Bake-Off. This event is held in honor of World Digital Preservation Day and will be tailored to digital preservation practitioners. Please bring your own files! Details on required resources and dial in information will be available via Meetup. Please note that this event is scheduled this to leave a 30 minute break before the PRONOM hackathon!
WDPD 2023 with the Brazilian Network of Digital Preservation Services Cariniana
The Rede Cariniana team will be celebrating World Digital Preservation Day with a series of activities, all of which will be published on the Network's YouTube Channel. The Brazilian Network of Digital Preservation Services Cariniana collaborates with external partners to provide its members with tools and services. It also provides training and support for preservation platforms and services, seeking to integrate platforms and new service offerings. This year, our celebration focuses on a few network activities: the preservation of institutional repositories, digital asset management systems, multimedia repository platforms, web archives, indigenous data repositories, risk management, and audiovisual archives. We will also have a sample of memes, comic strips and talents.
Collaborate, Crawl, Collect: Web Archiving at the University of Illinois
HYBRID EVENT: Online (registration required) or in Main Library Room 106
Web archiving is necessary for future people to know what our contemporary moment is like as much of our communication happens online and the internet does not last forever. At the University of Illinois, it takes collaboration and effort to archive the internet at every step of the process: collecting, preserving, and providing access to the web archives. Learn about web archiving at the University Library on Thursday, November 2, 2023, 10:00 am CST, and hear about ways archivists collaborate in honor of World Digital Preservation Day! Talk held by Abigail Barrett, Web Archiving and Digital Curation Graduate Assistant at the University of Illinois.
Penn State University Libraries World Digital Preservation Day Event
Celebrate World Digital Preservation Day 2023 with Penn State University Libraries! Join us for a full day of virtual and in-person sessions, spanning from 9:00 AM (EST) to 4:00 PM (EST). The agenda features a webinar, Digital Preservation Jeopardy, an exploration of digipres workflows at Penn State, and an informative resource session. Don't miss this opportunity for engaging discussions. Explore the detailed schedule now:
A Preservação Digital na Justiça / Digital Preservation in Justice
The Secretaria-Geral do Ministério da Justiça and o Instituto de Gestão Financeira e Equipamentos da Justiça, IP in Portugal will demonstrate the work they are developing to face the challenges of digital preservation. The event starts at 9am with an presentation about the meaning of digital preservation and its status in Portugal. During the event, suggestions for improving the area will be shared, culminating in a round table attended by representatives of the national entity coordinating digital preservation policies, the scientific community and those responsible for planning and applying preservation instruments. These celebrations will provide an unique opportunity for constructive discussion and advancement in the field of digital preservation. The face-to-face event in Lisbon, Portugal ends at 1pm.
Digital Preservation Acronym Game
Artefactual created the Acronym Game as a way to help digital access and preservation practitioners build our shared understanding of acronyms from many domains - computer science, internet standards, archival standards, digital preservation terms, and many others. While acronyms help us to quickly communicate complex and sometimes abstract concepts in a clear way, they can also limit collaboration and exclude some of us from the conversation if we don't make sure everyone understands the terms we're using. We believe that the best approach to solving complex problems is through openness and collaboration and so we look forward to sharing this event on 2 November (at 11:00am-12:00pm ADT / 7:00am-8:00am PST) with those who would like a fun way to learn or refresh their acronym knowledge regardless of where you are at in your digital preservation journey!
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iPRES 2024 Call for Contributions released on World Digital Preservation Day
The iPRES 2024 Organizing Committee will publish the Call for Contributions on World Digital Preservation Day! Keep an eye out on 2 November 2023!
Software Preservation and Emulation in Australia: A #WDPD2023 Event
The Australian Emulation Network (AusEaaSI for short) is a consortium of university researchers, GLAM organisations, and technology providers that received Australian Research Council Linkage Infrastructure funding to roll out shared emulation infrastructure in the form of an EaaSI (Emulation as a Service infrastructure) network and set up a Community of Practice in software preservation. There are opportunities to join the network as it expands. If you’re interested in learning more about the network and the project, we invite you to join us for a one hour session on World Digital Preservation Day at 2pm Melbourne time (AEDT)!
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The Idea Workshop
The Software Preservation Network’s Community Engagement Collaborative is organizing The Idea Workshop on Thursday, November 2 at 15:00 UTC. It's an online place for people to pitch their ideas, plans, and projects related to software preservation in order to receive feedback and to find collaborators to help bring those ideas to life! Whether you have the seeds of an idea, you are halfway through an on-going project, or simply want to help, we hope you will join us in what will surely be an exciting event!
The DDI Alliance World Digital Preservation Day event
Do you have questions about the Data Documentation Initiative standard and how it can help you preserve your data and metadata ? Come and meet DDI Training group members and ask all the questions you have on Thursday November 2, 2023 between 16:00-17:00 UTC. You can ask your questions in English or French. More about DDI here: https://ddialliance.org/
Launch of the Global 'Bit List' of Endangered Digital Species 2023
The Digital Preservation Coalition releases the Global 'Bit List' of Digitally Endangered Species 2023 with a live Panel Discussion. This community-sourced list of at-risk digital materials is revised every two years and aims to equip digital preservation practitioners with independent evidence that digital materials are critically endangered, and that action is required. In this Panel Discussion, members of the Bit List Council - international organizations which represent global expertise in the preservation of the listed digital species - will discuss key changes to the listing this year, alongside discussions with nominators and users of the Bit List.
Dutch Digital Heritage Network Seminar
Together with the Flemish organizers of iPRES 2024, the Dutch Digital Heritage Network (DDHN) will hold an event in Breda, The Netherlands, focusing on digital preservation. Dutch and Flemish digital preservation communities are invited to join this day-long event featuring workshops, panel discussions and presentations.
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Digital Preservation Games - World Digital Preservation Day Special
Sean Macmillan (King’s College London), Francesca Mackenzie (The National Archives), and Megan Guest (Archives and Records Association) are hosting a free games event at King’s College London with a focus on digital preservation. There will be a selection of games to play, and this event is open to everyone of all skill levels and knowledge of digital preservation. Feel free to attend regardless of whether you are an expert in the area or have only just begun to learn about digital preservation.
Open House at George Blood LP
In celebration of World Digital Preservation Day and UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, George Blood LP is hosting their first Open House on Monday, October 23, 2023 at their facility in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. Librarians, archivists, engineers, movie buffs, collectors, scholars, and anyone interested to tour the 41,000 square foot facility are invited to learn how they transfer audio, video, film and data to digital files.
PRONOM Hackathon
This year there will be another PRONOM Research Week (2nd November-9th November). The week will consist of both a file format research strand but we are also encouraging everyone to get involved in the Descriptathon. PRONOM has lots of entries that still don’t have a description and we want to encourage anyone that wants to participate BUT doesn’t quite feel ready for hex yet or is simply a little time strapped to give it a go. All you need is curiosity and the internet, no GitHub account will be required to take part in this strand. To find out more how you can participate, join the virtual welcome event on 2 Nov 2023 at 15:30 (GMT) which will be a short presentation, an informal Q&A and maybe if time some games!
Vanderbilt University’s Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries join the DPC
Added on 2 October 2023
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome Vanderbilt University’s Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries as they become the newest Full Member of the Coalition.
With more than 18 million digital items in their collections, the Heard Libraries pursue effective and inclusive models for digital preseration and stewardship. In addition to a diverse range of digitized manuscript collections, the academic research library in Nashville, Tennessee, holds and preserves one of the preeminent digital audio-visual collections in the United States through the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, featuring more than 62,000 hours of transcribed video content.
Byte-sized Bit List: Using the Bit List to discover video game preservation
Ellie O'Leary is the Administration Manager at the DPC and a part-time PGR student at the University of Glasgow.
There have been some excellent blog posts detailing how the Bit List has been used in various organizations, but I wanted to take this in a more individual direction.
So, if you’ll indulge me, I’m going to take you back to September 2020 when I started the Masters’ course in Information Management and Preservation at the University of Glasgow. One of the modules in the first semester was “Introduction to Digital Curation” where our first assignment was to take a Bit List entry and write a data report on preserving an example from this entry. To no one’s surprise, I was drawn to the Gaming species and wrote a 2000+ word data report on preserving Wii Fit, based on the mention of unique peripherals on the “Old or Non-current Offline Video Games” entry. This report dived into various elements, from significant properties of video games (hello Preserving Virtual Worlds report!) to the legal challenges of emulation and introduced me to a whole new world.
Participate in World Digital Preservation Day 2023!
Added on 2 October 2023
The DPC invites all data creators, archivists, curators, community members and digipres folk from around the world to celebrate digital preservation by participating in a whole day dedicated to all of the benefits and opportunities enabled by the hard work of our dynamic and collaborative community.
Vacancy for Senior Digital Archivist (Team Leader) at The National Archives (UK)
15 October 2023
London, England
£44,500 per annum
Full-Time
18th International Digital Curation Conference Call for Papers Extended
Added on 29 September 2023
Following requests for more time to work on submission proposals, the deadline for papers, lightning talks and workshop submissions has been extended to the 15 October 2023.
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Papers - 15/10/23
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Lightning Talks - 15/10/23
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Workshops - 15/10/23
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Posters - 29/10/23