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Unique opportunity for community archivists in Ireland to meet and network, with advice on funding and other opportunities.

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) and the Irish Community Archive Network (iCAN) are pleased to announce our collaborative conference ‘Supporting Community Archives into the Future’, taking place on 29 September 2023 in the Royal Irish Academy.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has made the next in its series of Technology Watch Guidance Notes, Defining the Designated Community by Christian Keitel (State Archives of Baden-Württemberg) and Jenny Mitcham (DPC), available on general release today after an exclusive one-month Member preview.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has made the resource Level-up with RAM available on general release today.

Designed to enable rapid benchmarking of an organization’s digital preservation capability, the DPC RAM is a digital preservation maturity modelling tool which is applicable for organizations of any size in any sector, and for all content of long-term value.

First released to DPC Members 6 months ago, this new companion resource is designed to help organizations work out how to address any gaps in digital preservation capacity highlighted through their RAM assessments, and to help them move up the levels from ‘Basic’ to ‘Optimized.’ For each of the 11 sections of RAM there are helpful tips, links to useful resources and case studies from others who have already tackled some common digital preservation challenges.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) organizes an exciting and informative series of digital preservation events in Australia & New Zealand.

Ranging from in-person workshops to panel discussions and digital preservation training, the events take place in September and October and aim to provide an opportunity for the digital preservation community to learn more about different aspects of preserving digital materials for future generations.

PRONOM v.114 has now been released (v.113 being skipped due to an internal error). Version 114 features 39 new PUIDs, 39 new signatures and 63 updates. The release notes of the changes can be found here. 

Are you interested in digital preservation? Do you like games? If so, then this event is for you. You are invited to a World Digital Preservation Day Special at King's College in London: come play digital preservation games on 2 November 2023 (6-8pm GMT)!