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The Annual General Meeting of the DPC will be on Monday 3^rd December, 1500-1530 with tea and coffee available from 1530.  We will meet in the Burroughs Room of the Wellcome Collection Conference Centre, Euston Road, London NW1 2BE. 

Informal notes from the Alliance for Permanent Access conference are now available online for DPC members:

Informal notes from the Alliance for Permanent Access conference are now available online for DPC members:

The Digital Preservation Coalition is delighted to offer members a preview of the latest in its popular Technology Watch Reports series - ‘Digital Forensics and Preservation’ by Jeremy Leighton John of the British Library.

This report provides a broad overview of digital forensics with pointers to resources and tools that may benefit the preservation of digital cultural heritage. More specifically, the report focuses on the application of digital forensics to the curation of personal digital archives.

The Digital Preservation Coalition is delighted to invite its members to vote in the 2012 Digital Preservation Awards.

The awards celebrate the excellence and innovation that will help to ensure our digital memory is accessible tomorrow.  Because 2012 is the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Coalition we are offering 3 awards:

• DPC Decennial Award for an outstanding contribution to digital preservation
• DPC Award for Research and Development in Digital Preservation
• DPC Award for Teaching and Communicating Digital Preservation

The Digital Preservation Coalition is today publishing the latest in its popular Technology Watch Reports ‘Intellectual Property Rights for Digital Preservation’ by Andrew Charlesworth of the University of Bristol.

Legal issues, in particular the process of obtaining copyright clearance for preservation and access of archived material, can contribute significantly to the cost and complexity of digital preservation. It is an area where the wider preservation community often needs to make its case with government and other legislators.

The shortist for the Digital Preservation Awards was announced at a reception in the House of Lords on Monday 8th October. 

The shortlist is as follows:

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) marks its landmark tenth year anniversary of its establishment at a reception at the Palace of Westminster today.

At this event, DPC Chairman Richard Ovenden and Lord MacNally, Minister of State for Justice, will celebrate the achievements of the Digital Preservation Coalition over the past ten years, but will also highlight the continuing risk to government, business, educational and cultural organisations and by society at large in failing to address the preservation of digital information. In his speech, Richard Ovenden points to major improvements that have been made in the past ten years but highlights recent studies which show how major data losses continue to be suffered:

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has awarded three scholarships so that members can attend the Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) at the National Library of Ireland, Dublin 2nd – 3rd October 2012.

 'This is the eighth time we've offered scholarships to attend DPTP. They're very popular and an increasingly important way for members to supplement their training budgets', explained Richard Ovenden, Chair of the DPC.

The deadline is approaching for DPC members to apply for three fully-funded scholarships to attend the Digital Preservation Training Programme at the National Library of Ireland, Dublin, 2nd – 3rd October 2012.  Applications are due by 1200 on Friday 14th September.