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29th November marks World Digital Preservation Day 2018 (WDPD2018). Organized as a way to celebrate the ordinarily uncelebrated work of a large, growing and widely dispersed digital preservation community, the day will bring together individuals and institutions from across the world, highlighting and profiling the importance of their work.

Digital materials remain a core commodity for industry, commerce and government. They are fundamental for research, the law and medicine. The creative industries, cultural heritage and the media depend on reliable access to digital materials, while families and friends extend and sustain their relationships through digital interactions. The opportunities created by these digital materials rely on the work of the digital preservation community.

DPC members are invited to the Sixteenth Annual General Meeting of the Digital Preservation Coalition which will be held on Thursday 13th December, in Room G21A, Senate House, Malet Street, the University of London, WC1E 7HU.

Tea and coffee will be served at 14:30 GMT and the meeting will commence at 15:00 GMT.  It is scheduled to be complete at 15:30 GMT. Options are available for members wishing to dial in to the meeting.

As a reminder, Full Members are invited also to send delegates to the Representative Council which will precede (lunch at 12:00 GMT, Representative Council from 12:30 GMT).

Please email to Alyson [dot] Campbell [at] dpconline [dot] org to confirm attendance.

As a largely public-funded repository the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) believes it is important to make long-term preservation of digital materials open to a wide range of organisations, including those operating on a non-funded, voluntary basis. To that end, the DRI is launching a Community Archives Membership Scheme. One organisation will be granted a year’s free membership for the year 2019 under this Scheme.

The iPRES2019 Programme Committee is excited to announce the Themes & Topics for iPRES2019! Thanks to the digipres community, we received lots of ideas and suggestions for the 2019 Amsterdam programming.

Central Theme

The main theme in 2019 is Eye on the Horizon and aims to broaden the voices and approaches participating in the conference. In this spirit, the iPRES 2019 Programme Committee invited the digital preservation community to share their ideas in a Participatory #iPRES2019 Programme Design. 

The preliminary deadline for Archiving 2019 abstract submissions has passed. However, the conference committee is continuing to accept submissions on a rolling basis.

About the IS&T Archiving Conference

Archiving provides a unique opportunity for imaging scientists and those working in the cultural heritage community (curators, archivists, librarians, etc.), as well as in government, industry, and academia, to engage and discuss the most pressing issues related to the digital preservation and stewardship of hardcopy, audio, and video.

The agenda and registration for the Mexico City Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) meeting February 12-14, 2019 is now online at http://pasig2019.colmex.mx.

The two tier Early Bird registration fee is either $150 or $50, depending upon your location. The PASIG team have set out multiple agenda times for Lightning Talks since these have been popular in the past. The PASIG community will be notified at a later date about submitting Lightning Talk topics prior to the conference, though there will also be ad hoc submissions at the conference. The event will have bi-lingual translation.

Conference space is limited so early registration is recommended. Hotel recommendations are on the website. To keep updated on the PASIG Mexico City conference, please go to the main PASIG website and sign up for the pasig-announce mail list.