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The Digital Preservation Coalition has released a new resource designed to help organizations Level-up with RAM and move forward in their digital preservation capabilities using the DPC Rapid Assessment Model (RAM).

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.

With a 6-month DPC Member preview, 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 National Archives (UK) would like to hear from anyone who uses DROID, or is planning to. Whether this is as part of work or for looking after personal records. DROID is a file format identification tool that is used in many digital preservation workflows. We want to better understand who the users are, how it is used and how it can be better. This will help us make decisions on the priorities and direction of DROID in future iterations.