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Call for Papers

“Museums and digital memory: from creation and curation to digital preservation”
Free conference and debate at the British Museum, Monday 3rd September 2018

The British Museum’s National Programmes team and the Digital Preservation Coalition invite you to contribute towards a day of workshops, discussion and debate on the subject of digital content in museums.

The DPC is delighted to invite DPC members to register for the first meeting of the reconvened Web Archiving and Preservation Task Force. This DPC member-only event will take place in Dublin on 27 June 2018, hosted by the National Library of Ireland. This gathering will provide an opportunity to discuss and agree the revised Terms of Reference as well as commence discussions on the topics important to participants’ institutions, their collections, and their users.

This event is free and open to all Full and Associate DPC Members. However, spaces are limited so we ask that each institution send one delegate in the first instance and more if the event does not fill up. 

The Revised Terms of Reference are still open for comment by DPC members. 

For more information and to register.  

The British Library are pleased to announce not one, not two, not even three but FIVE new file format assessments from the BL's Digital Preservation Team.

To have a look, check out the DPC WIki page on File Format Assessments.

The assessments cover formats used for digital sheet music (MusicXML, Sibelius), sound (FLAC, MP3) and eBooks (Mobipocket).

The British Library makes these assessments available to facilitate discussion and any feedback or comments would be welcome. To do so please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..