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Happy New Year, and Happy New DPC too: an invitation to guide the DPC in 2023
Added on 4 January 2023
The DPC is owned by and accountable to its members. Each January we ask members to make nominations to the Executive Board which is responsible for corporate oversight, and volunteers are invited from across the membership to join four of the five Sub-Committees who review and guide our work.
Vacancy for Manager, Digital Creativity and Cultures Hub, University of Leeds
20 January 2023
Leeds
£28,762 to £34,308 pro rata (20%)
Part-Time
Vacancy for Digital Development Officer at University of Leeds
20 January 2023
Leeds, England
£28,762 to £34,308 p.a.
Full-Time
Kate Murray elected new Vice Chair for the Digital Preservation Coalition
Added on 9 December 2022
Kate Murray of the Library of Congress was elected as the new Vice Chair of the DPC Board at the Annual General Meeting of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) this week. Kate will be familiar to many people within the digital preservation community for her work on the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI), leading the Sustainability of Digital Formats resource, as well as for her role as co-chair of the Email Preservation Task force which DPC co-sponsored in 2016.
Queen Mary University of London joins the Digital Preservation Coalition
Added on 9 December 2022
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) welcomes Queen Mary University of London’s Library Services, as they become the newest Associate Member of the Coalition.
Queen Mary’s Library Services is custodian of institutional and cultural archives, artworks and other artefacts, as well as research data and other original digital assets. With the growth of ’digital first’ and digital only records and research assets, the University is exploring how to ensure sustainable access to assets for now and in the future. With plans to build end- to- end digital preservation into processes, policies and procedures, Queen Mary’s Library Services will be implementing improved processes and technical solutions for digital asset management over the coming years.
The Digital Preservation Coalition welcomes the National Library of Norway
Added on 9 December 2022
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome the National Library of Norway (NLN) as its newest Associate Member this month.
The NLN is the official custodian of Norway’s documentary heritage; with legal responsibility for collecting, preserving, and providing access to all published material in Norway. The NLN is located in Oslo and Mo i Rana.
A risk driven approach to Bitstream Preservation: Member preview of new DPC Technology Watch Guidance Note
Added on 7 December 2022
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has released a Member Preview of the next in its series of Technology Watch Guidance Notes, A risk driven approach to Bitstream Preservation by Paul Wheatley, today.
A risk driven approach to Bitstream Preservation explores some of the challenges that must be addressed by a storage architecture designed for long-term digital preservation. It considers the risks faced by content stored over the long-term and concludes with a simple approach to assess and document the risks and mitigating actions put in place to address them.
International Bank joins the DPC
Added on 6 December 2022
An International Bank has joined the Digital Preservation Coalition on 6th December 2022.
Harvard Library joins the Digital Preservation Coalition
Added on 22 November 2022
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome the Harvard Library as its newest associate member.
With an active digital preservation program since 2000, Harvard Library has a longstanding stewardship commitment to ensure current and future access to and (re)use of materials critical to the University’s research, teaching, and learning mission. The Harvard Library views digital preservation as a process of facilitating meaningful, technically-mediated human communication throughout time.
DPC Technology Watch Guidance Note: A new case study on understanding user needs
Added on 15 November 2022
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has made a new Technology Watch Guidance Note on Understanding user needs: A case study from the National Library of Scotland by Chris Fleet available on general release today, following a 1-month DPC Member preview.
Access is an important element of digital preservation workflows and ultimately information is preserved so it can be used: so, understanding what users need is a key aspect of successful digital preservation. This case study is a real-world example of how this has been done at one institution, with constraints of time, expertise and resource. It demonstrates how a rich seam of information on user needs can be gathered through a variety of interactions with users and how this can help inform future activities and decision making.
"Understanding user needs is an essential part of planning for digital preservation and access and something that is encapsulated in the latest version of our Rapid Assessment Model (DPC RAM),” explains Jenny Mitcham, Head of Good Practice and Standards for the DPC.