New Members

The Irish Traditional Music Archive / Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann (ITMA) has joined the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) this month, becoming the Coalition’s newest Associate Member.

Based in Dublin, ITMA is the national public archive and resource centre for Irish traditional music, song and dance, with a mission to be the globally recognised specialist advisory agency to advance appreciation, knowledge, and the practice of Irish traditional music. ITMA was born into the digital age and digitisation has been a core activity since inception. ITMA holds born-digital collections through both field recording and donations and has also amassed large volumes of digital surrogates from over 30 years of digitisation work carried out on analogue audio, audio-visual, photograph and print collections.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome the University of Strathclyde, as they become the newest Associate Member of the Coalition.

Located in Glasgow, the University of Strathclyde is responsible for the digital preservation of more than 80000 scholarly publications as well as over 40TB of archive collections, with more on the way. Workflows are deployed for research publications, datasets and theses which aim to standardise digital preservation activities.

“The University of Strathclyde increasingly views digital preservation as a key part of the workflow for a variety of digital objects and an essential part of system functionality,” explains Alan Slevin, Scholarly Publications Manager for the University of Strathclyde.

Amidst the excitement of the Digital Preservation Coalition’s (DPC) Relaunch Roadshow series of events to celebrate the successful establishment of its Melbourne Office, the Coalition is delighted to welcome the National Museum of Australia (NMA) as its newest Associate member.

Located in Canberra, the NMA tells stories of Australia with a particular focus on First Nations histories and culture, European settlement, and interaction with the environment. These stories are ever evolving and growing and, in the 21st century, are being played out across both the physical and digital landscape. In response to these cultural and societal shifts, the Museum is embarking on a bold digital transformation initiative to research, refine and develop collecting and display practices in this era of digital change.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as they become the Coalition’s newest Full Member.

With a mature digital preservation program, the University of Illinois Library has a bespoke digital preservation repository and staffing for digitization, curation, and computer programming. Its mission is to ensure continued access and use of digital materials stewarded by the library.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) welcomes Queen Mary University of London’s Library Services, as they become the newest Associate Member of the Coalition.

Queen Mary’s Library Services is custodian of institutional and cultural archives, artworks and other artefacts, as well as research data and other original digital assets.  With the growth of ’digital first’ and digital only  records and research assets, the University is exploring how to ensure sustainable access to assets for now and in the future. With plans to build end- to- end digital preservation into processes, policies and procedures, Queen Mary’s Library Services will be implementing improved processes and technical solutions for digital asset management over the coming years.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome the National Library of Norway (NLN) as its newest Associate Member this month.

The NLN is the official custodian of Norway’s documentary heritage; with legal responsibility for collecting, preserving, and providing access to all published material in Norway. The NLN is located in Oslo and Mo i Rana.

An International Bank has joined the Digital Preservation Coalition on 6th December 2022.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome the Harvard Library as its newest associate member.

With an active digital preservation program since 2000, Harvard Library has a longstanding stewardship commitment to ensure current and future access to and (re)use of materials critical to the University’s research, teaching, and learning mission. The Harvard Library views digital preservation as a process of facilitating meaningful, technically-mediated human communication throughout time.

Dublin City Library and Archive has joined the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) this month, becoming the Coalition’s newest Associate Member.

With ultimate responsibility for preserving the core records of Dublin City Council, the City Archives is working to create a secure reliable digital repository that reflects the business of the Council across all services and departments for born digital records and digitised heritage collections.

This World Digital Preservation Day, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome the Library and School of Information and Communications Studies at Charles Sturt University (CSU), as they become the Coalition’s newest Associate Member.

With campuses across New South Wales, Australia, CSU has a long-standing interest in digital preservation across its research, teaching and scholarship activities. The School of Information and Communications Studies is currently expanding its research support over the coming years, resulting in an increased need for digital preservation and research data management.