The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is pleased to announce it is offering up to two Career Development Fund travel grants to support DPC members attending the 7th edition of The No Time To Wait Conference (#NTTW7), which will be hosted by the Národní filmový archiv and MediaArea.net on November 8th – 10th 2023 at Kino NFA Ponrepo in Prague, Czechia.
These grants, detailed below, will contribute funding to help with the costs of travel for DPC Members attending the conference in person. Applications are welcomed from all DPC Members until the grant application deadline of 7:00 UTC on 11th July 2023.
About The No Time To Wait Conference
The seventh edition of the No Time to Wait conference will be hosted by the Národní filmový archiv and MediaArea.net on November 8th – 10th 2023 at Kino NFA Ponrepo in Prague.
No Time to Wait is a free three-day conference focused on open media, open standards, and digital audiovisual preservation managed by MediaArea.net. No Time to Wait has been a conference that blends in-person and online participation and this year shall work to emphasize online participation in response to the social, travel, and financial restrictions related to the pandemic.
The conference features presentations and discussion on topics that include:
- developing collaborative initiatives to preserve media
- efforts to extend capabilities and opportunities within archives
- active open media standardization projects
- seeking consensus in audiovisual preservation strategy
- examination of open media use in film and video digitization
- integration of open source tools into archival workflow
- examples of cross-community collaboration and skill-sharing
- developments in open media
To find out more, please visit the No Time to Wait 7 website, follow @nttwconf for news and updates, and the recommended hashtag is #nttw7.
About the DPC Career Development Fund Travel Grants
This DPC Career Development Fund Travel Grant will provide funding to help support the costs of travel for DPC members attending the No Time To Wait 7 conference in person.
The Travel Grant will provide a contribution towards travel to supplement in-person attendance, with amounts offered up to the following limits:
- Domestic travel (within Czechia) - £150
- Intra-Continental travel - £300
- Inter-Continental travel - £750
Eligibility
All DPC Members are eligible to apply for this Career Development Fund grant. This includes prospective members whose request to join is approved by the application deadline of 07:00 UTC on 11th July 2023. The Career Development Fund grant is not available to non-members. For information about joining the DPC, see https://www.dpconline.org/about/join-us.
Please note that only one grant is available per member. In other words, DPC members may submit a maximum of one application for one applicant for this advertised travel grant (e.g., one application for a person representing a DPC member organization). We recommend that any member organization which supports an application discusses appropriate outcomes and benefits for the organization prior to submission. Moreover, because only one grant is available per member institution, we recommend that applicants ensure that they are not inadvertently competing with colleagues.
For more details about eligibility and criteria for the grants, please read the full Career Development Fund Guidelines. Applicants are also encouraged to contact the Training and Grants Manager, Amy Currie, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. should any questions arise.
How to Apply
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The application form for this grant and the full Career Development Fund grant guidelines are available on the DPC website’s Career Development Fund page.
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All sections of the application form should be completed and returned to Amy Currie (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), accompanied by explicit approval for attendance from a supervisor (via email or attached letter), by 7:00 UTC on 11th July 2023 (click here to see the deadline in your local time).
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Please note that only one grant is available per member per call. In other words, DPC members may submit a maximum of one application for one applicant for this advertised No Time to Wait grant. There cannot be multiple applicants representing the same DPC member organization, so please coordinate with colleagues to ensure one application is submitted.
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Applicants are encouraged to contact the Training and Grants Manager, Amy Currie (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), should any questions arise.
Important Dates
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All sections of the application form should be completed and returned, accompanied by explicit approval for attendance from a supervisor via email or attached letter, by 7:00 UTC on 11th July 2023 (click here to see in local time).
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Successful applicants will be notified on or before 25th July 2023.
Further information
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For information about The No Time To Wait Conference, visit the website at https://mediaarea.net/NoTimeToWait7, follow @nttwconf for news and updates, and the recommended hashtag is #nttw7.
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For questions relating to the grant programme, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
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For a list of other Career Development Fund grants available to DPC Members, see https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/train-your-staff/cdfund/cdf-calendar.
Acknowledgements
The Career Development Fund is sponsored by the DPC’s Supporters who recognize the benefit and seek to support a connected and trained digital preservation workforce. We gratefully acknowledge their financial support to this programme and ask applicants to acknowledge that support in any communications that result. At the time of writing, the Career Development Fund is supported by Arkivum, Artefactual Systems Inc., AVP, Ex Libris, Iron Mountain, Libnova, Max Communications, Preservica and Twist Bioscience. A full list of supporters is online here.