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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.  

The biggest celebration of the year is just one month away today: World Digital Preservation Day (#WDPD2023) will take place on Thursday 2^nd November! 

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.

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.

• Papers - 15/10/23 

• Lightning Talks - 15/10/23 

• Workshops - 15/10/23 

• Posters - 29/10/23 

Matthew Addis is the Chief Technology Officer at Arkivum.

It was great to be at iPRES 2023 in person again this year.  I was privileged to be invited onto a panel called ‘Tipping Point’ that was run by Paul Stokes and Karen Colbron from Jisc.  The panel questioned the premise that there is so much data being generated each year that we are at the point where we no longer have the ability to process it in any meaningful way, let alone curate and preserve it.  Panellists included Helen Hockx-Yu, Kate Murray, Nancy McGovern, Stephen Abrams, Tim Gollins and William Kilbride.   As you can imagine, the discussion was varied, insightful and thought provoking!  It was perhaps my favourite session at iPRES this year (other than the ever inspiring keynotes). 

For my very small part on the panel, I raised the issue of environmental sustainability and climate change, as did some of the other panellists. 

As an aside, environmental sustainability was a recurring theme of iPRES 2023 and built upon a similar thread that ran through last year’s conference.   A shout out goes to a great paper by Mikko Tiainen and colleagues from CSC on Calculating the Carbon Footprint of Digital Preservation – A Case Study and likewise a great panel from a team at the University of Illinois on The Curricular Asset Warehouse At The University Of Illinois: A Digital Archive’s Sustainability Case Study.

Angélique Bonamy is Associate Archivist, Sound & Film, at the National Railway Museum, Science Museum Group. She attended the NEDCC Digital Directions 2023 Conference with support from the DPC Career Development Fund, which is funded by DPC Supporters.

In June I attended the NEDCC’s Digital Directions online training conference thanks to a Career Development Fund grant from the DPC. I am a film and sound archivist working in a group of museums with a wide range of collections. My knowledge of digital preservation is very tied to audiovisual and I was interested in better understanding digital preservation for a wider range of digital objects. The Digital Direction is a well-rounded package to explore and understand the different facets of digital preservation with sessions presented by professionals pulling from their day-to-day experience and concrete examples. It ranges from digital preservation principles to access to digital collections, whilst covering management of born digital collections, planning of digitisation, copyright considerations, metadata, storage, preservation of audiovisual collections and digital preservation tools.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to announce that boxxe, provider of hardware, software and managed IT services, is the newest organization to become part of its Supporter Program.

Having worked within the field of data infrastructure for more than 20 years, boxxe is a creator of flexible technology solutions, with expertise in security and data management, supporting its customers’ data journey through retention, storage, archive and/or preservation.