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In recognition of the growing need among our members for access to online professional development opportunities, the DPC’s Career Development Fund is pleased to offer six grants for the following opportunities at University College Dublin and Aberystwyth University.

#DPConnect has provided an ongoing, online presence at regular intervals each day as a means to connect the global digital preservation community as we worked in isolation.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome data management consulting and software company AVP to its Supporter Program this month.

AVP offers a full range of digital preservation services and products of relevance to the DPC community, including: assessments and audits; system selection, implementation, and customisation; custom software development and software products such as Fixity and Exactly.

In this day and age learning from the wider archival community is more important than ever. There is a critical need and opportunity to capture COVID-19 pandemic materials and in the past weeks, DPC Supporter Preservica has launched the #ourcovid19story initiative to assist archivists in sharing what materials are being captured and preserved and why this is important to their institution and the communities they serve.

Join this webinar and hear guest panelists from a range of sectors discuss their plans and projects, including the drivers for preserving in near real-time such as mandates to preserve public records, governance policies, internal & external communications, websites, oral histories, and ephemeral materials of historic interest. Panelists will go on to share best practice for collection methods, community engagement, and creating stakeholder value – with the opportunity for audience participation and engagement.

After two years in the making, the Australasia Preserves Digital Preservation Essentials Working Group is very pleased to be releasing their pre-ingest and ingest training modules, and are seeking feedback.

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We, the signatories of this statement, call on governments, businesses, and research institutions around the world to document their decisions and transactions now and for the future. 

Building on the UNESCO communique ‘Turning the threat of COVID-19 into an opportunity for greater support to documentary heritage’ and reinforcing the call that decision-makers in the public and private sectors recognise the value of records management and archives, the statement has three calls to action: 

Today the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and the UK National Archives celebrates the release of the Novice to Know-How online digital preservation training pathway with an online launch event. As part of The National Archives' ‘Plugged In Powered Up’ strategy, the free online training provides learners with the skills and confidence required to preserve the born-digital records held by their organisation.

We’re changing a little bit how the DPC works.

From today (Friday 1st May) and until the lockdown is over, we’re giving staff an additional half day of leave each week.  All staff will be taking this at more or less the same time – Friday afternoons – so that work doesn’t accumulate and the benefit of the leave can be optimised.  There are a few meetings and activities already in the diary for Fridays, so we’ll stick to those, but where that happens we’ll start later on the following Monday.

We're doing this in recognition of how hard the pandemic and lock down has been for staff, but also out of recognition for how well staff have responded to the extraordinary circumstance.  They have worked incredibly hard and with enormous goodwill.

So we’re switching off at 1300 today and we’ll cancel the Friday night #DPConnect. 

Have a great weekend and we’ll see you all bright and refreshed on the other side.