News
Indiana University Libraries joins the Digital Preservation Coalition
Added on 15 February 2024
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) welcomes Indiana University Libraries (IU Libraries) this week, as they become the Coalition’s newest Associate Member.
Based on Indiana University’s flagship campus at Bloomington, Indiana, IU Libraries is the largest research library system in the state and serves not only its students, faculty, and alumni, but all residents of Indiana and many researchers from around the world. In collaboration with its many campus partners, IU Libraries have undertaken a number of innovative and ambitious digitization projects over the past few years, most notably the Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative. Nearly 20 petabytes of digital preservation data were produced in this multi-year project that digitally reformatted over 350,000 audio, video, and film assets from IU’s university-wide holdings, many on degrading or obsolete media formats.
Vacancy for Research Data Librarian at The London School of Economics and Political Science
10 March 2024
London
£40,229 to £48,456 pa inclusive
Full-Time
Save the Date: DPC Members Unconference – Tuesday 28th and Wednesday 29th May 2024
Added on 14 February 2024
DPC Members, please save the date for our annual Members Unconference event in Dublin on Tuesday 28th and Wednesday 29th May 2024.
Exclusively for DPC Members, the Unconference will be hosted by the Digital Repository of Ireland and will take place face-to-face at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin over the course of two days. It will form part of a worldwide program of Member networking activities which aims to offer events in locations in other parts of the world as scheduling permits (details to follow in due course).
Vacancy for Research Associate at University of Glasgow
26 February 2024
Glasgow
£39,347 to £44,263 per annum
Fixed Term
Vacancy for Project Archivist, Metadata Support at University of Oxford
26 February 2024
Oxford
£32,332 - £38,205 per annum
Fixed Term
Vacancy for Project Archivist (Cataloguer) at University of Oxford
20 February 2024
Oxford
£32,332-£38,205 (per annum)
Fixed Term
Vacancy for Web Archive Technical Lead at British Library
3 March 2024
St Pancras / Boston Spa
£51,188 - £65,833 (STP) / £47,250 - £61,895 (BSP)
Full-Time
The Digital Preservation Coalition welcomes National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences as its newest member
Added on 5 February 2024
附中文翻译 
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSLC) as its latest Associate Member. NSLC is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), founded in 1950 and formerly known as the Library of CAS, and has two branches in Chengdu and Wuhan. NSLC has a floor area of over 40,000 ㎡ and houses a collection of nearly 10 million volumes.
Landmark report shows scholarly content at risk
Added on 5 February 2024
Martin Eve of CrossRef has some sobering news for researchers. A recent analysis suggests that around a quarter of academic publications are not being preserved for the future.
Eve’s sample is based on the assessment of around 7.5 million of the e-books and articles for which CrossRef provides a fixed identifier, or Digital Object Identifier. These identifiers prevent ‘link rot’ so that, even if a URL changes, an article or book can still be cited and retrieved. But they’re not enough on their own because they only preserve the link not the destination. So, unless there’s a preservation service guaranteeing the content, the DOI will stop working if a publisher goes out of business or simply removes a title. Scholarly content needs to be preserved before it is deleted, not after.
Call for Papers | Museum Archives | Yale Center for British Art
Added on 1 February 2024
Prompted by the 2022 Society of American Archivists (SAA) publication of Museum Archives: Practice, Issues, Advocacy (ed. Rachel Chatalbash, Susan Hernandez, and Megan Schwenke), the Yale Center for British Art and SAA's Museum Archives Section are hosting a one-day symposium to examine the current position and future directions of the museum archives field. The symposium will be held in person at the Yale University Art Gallery and livestreamed online. We welcome proposals from new and established museum archivists, and their professional allies, that examine any aspect of the museum archives profession. Themes for consideration include, but are not limited to: