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The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to announce that Dr. Andrew Jackson will join its staff in January 2024 as Preservation Registry Technical Architect.

Based in the UK, Andy will lead efforts on the new “Building registries of digital preservation good practice” project, which is a collaboration between the Digital Preservation Coalition and Yale University. The project aims to enhance the registry ecosystem and make it easier for practitioners to both share and discover good practice guidance.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has released its 2023 edition of the Global ‘Bit List’ of Endangered Digital Species today, on World Digital Preservation Day.

An open resource for digital preservation advocacy, the DPC's Global Bit List of Endangered Digital Species (Bit List) is a community-sourced list of at-risk digital materials which is revised every two years. Entries to the list are nominated by the community, who are at the forefront of digital preservation efforts, and entries are reviewed by the Bit List Council – a group of international organizations which represent global expertise in the preservation of the listed digital species.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) welcomes Evolved Binary to its Supporter Program this World Digital Preservation Day!

Established in 2014, Evolved Binary specialises in information storage and retrieval, providing development and consultancy services to help organisations with their complex archival, and access needs.

“Evolved Binary is excited to join the DPC community. We look forward to both sharing our expertise and knowledge in the areas of preservation, archiving, and cataloguing, and also to learning from the DPC members,” explains Adam Retter, Director of Evolved Binary.

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This World Digital Preservation Day, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to share two new translations of its popular DPC Rapid Assessment Model, in Traditional and Simplified Chinese.

Now available as PDF downloads from the DPC website as part of a suite of other translations, the second edition of the DPC RAM is a digital preservation maturity modelling tool that has been designed to enable rapid benchmarking of an organization’s digital preservation capability.

“The Rapid Assessment Model is so universally applicable and helpful when planning digital preservation activities,” explains Peter Chan who created the Traditional Chinese translation. “And I wanted to make sure it was accessible to as many people around the world. I am delighted to be able to help make this available to speakers of Chinese within the digital preservation community, especially on World Digital Preservation Day.”

16-20 September 2024, iPRES comes to Ghent and Flanders. Hosted by Ghent University, Digital Archives Flanders, VRT and meemoo, Flemish Institute for Archives, we invite you to unlock the past, present and future of digital preservation together. We are pleased to announce the iPRES 2024 Call for Contributions!