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The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) has published its 2025 Fixity Survey Report, continuing the longitudinal study into fixity practices across the digital preservation community.

The UCL Department of Information Studies has announced that applications are now open for the 2026 UCL Widening Participation in Archives and Records Management Summer School, taking place 6 - 9 July in central London.

Ever wondered who gets to shape the historical record? Curious about questions of power, truth, and accountability? Want to know what a career in archives, records management, or information governance involves?

This summer school aims to open doors to studying and working in the recordkeeping sector, with a focus on widening access to professionally accredited ARM postgraduate courses.

Now is the moment to celebrate the work that is securing our digital future, as nominations for the Digital Preservation Awards 2026 draw to a close.

With nominations open until 09:00 UTC on Tuesday 5 May 2026, this is your final opportunity to recognize and share the work - your own or that of others - that is making a difference across our community.

Organized by the Digital Preservation Coalition every two years, the Digital Preservation Awards are the most prominent global celebration of achievement for those people and organizations who have made significant contributions towards a sustainable future for our digital assets.

The Digital Preservation Coalition is inviting responses from DPC members to a new survey exploring current approaches to “scan-to-preserve” digitization, with submissions open until 8 May (Anywhere on Earth).

Digitization has long supported access and use, often creating digital surrogates of physical records. Increasingly, however, organizations are adopting a scan-to-preserve approach, where the digitized version becomes the official record and the original paper record is subsequently destroyed.

The Digital Preservation Coalition invites its members and the wider digital preservation community to contribute to a global survey identifying humanitarian archives and records at risk of loss.

The survey forms part of the Humanitarian Archives Emergency (HAE) project, led by the Humanitarian Conflict and Response Institute in collaboration with ELRHA, and supported by partners including Key Aid Consulting and the Institute of Development Studies.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is pleased to share that recordings from the Digital Preservation Workflow Webinar Series 2026 are now available to all, following an exclusive six-week preview for DPC members.

The series, held in March, brought together a range of real-world workflows developed and implemented by the digital preservation community. Across four episodes, contributors shared practical approaches to different stages of the digital preservation process and a variety of content types, with space for discussion and questions throughout.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has launched a new online training course today, N2KH: Advocacy, designed to support digital preservation professionals in communicating the value of their work and building support within their organizations. This training is the latest addition to the Novice to Know-How (N2KH) online learning pathway. Like previous courses in the series, it has been conceived and funded by The National Archives (UK) and delivered by the DPC.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to share that Digital Preservation Analyst Andrew Jackson is featured in the latest episode of the Code for Thought podcast, hosted by Peter Schmidt.

Launched in 2021, Code for Thought is a podcast about software for research and the people who make it, exploring the tools, practices, and challenges shaping research software today.

To support members working through digital preservation assessments, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is offering one-to-one “RAM-bulance” and “CAT Scan” support sessions this May.

These confidential sessions give you the opportunity to speak directly with DPC staff about using the Rapid Assessment Model (RAM) and the Competency Audit Toolkit (CAT), whether you’re just getting started or looking for answers to any questions you might have on the model(s), the process(es), and your next steps.