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Wednesday 28 July 2021 and Thursday 29 July 2021

0700 - 0830 UTC or 1400 - 1530 UTC

Registration is now open for 'Getting Started with Advocacy for Digital Preservation' training which will be delivered in two short instructor-led blocks on 28th and 29th July, with timing options designed to be suitable for attendees around the world.

Open to all, and free to attend for DPC Members, this workshop comprises a series of presentations, interactive workshops and self-study.

Aimed at helping provide attendees with skills and ideas for identifying stakeholders and champions required to affect change, it includes ways to showcase digital preservation as an indispensable service within an organization and provides resources to help support organizational advocacy activities.

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The application deadline for the following Career Development Fund grant has been extended to 17:00 UTC on Monday, 26 July 2021. The DPC is pleased to offer a Career Development Fund grant to contribute to the course fees for the online Postgraduate Certificate in Digital Curation at the University of Salford, starting in September 2021 or January 2022. 

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) invites the digital preservation community to submit nominations for its 2021 edition of the ‘BitList’ by Monday 2^nd August.

First published in 2017, the DPC's BitList of Digitally Endangered Species is a community-sourced list of at-risk digital materials is revised every two years. By compiling and maintaining the list, the DPC highlights the need for action to preserve high-value digital content that is critically endangered, whilst celebrating the progress the digital preservation community has made to ensure a secure digital legacy.