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NEW Executive Guide on Digital Preservation available to support internal advocacy campaigning
Added on 1 May 2019
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Memory of the World PERSIST Project (UNESCO/MoW/PERSIST) have released their online Executive Guide on Digital Preservation today. The new resource provides practitioners with a combination of generic and specific messages and motivators designed to communicate with senior executives, legislators and budget holders, as well as decision and policy makers with a view to embedding the value of digital preservation at the core of every organization.
University of Bristol joins the Digital Preservation Coalition
Added on 5 April 2019
The University of Bristol becomes the newest organisation to join the Digital Preservation Coalition as Associate Member this month.
The University holds a wide range of digital assets in its cultural collections including born digital materials, digitised and analogue material. With the aim of safeguarding these assets for future use, as well as embedding digital collections in teaching, learning and research, the Library in conjunction with the University’s Theatre Collection has embarked on a project to implement a digital preservation system.
Channel 4 joins the Digital Preservation Coalition
Added on 18 March 2019
Channel 4 has joined the DPC as its newest Associate Member. Channel 4 is a public service broadcaster in the UK which is publicly owned, free to air but commercially funded. Their digital archive looks after significant amounts of web materials as well as business documents and a diverse range of digital materials.
The International Atomic Energy Agency joins the Digital Preservation Coalition
Added on 8 March 2019
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) welcomes the Archives and Records Management Section of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as they become the Coalition’s newest Associate Member.
The International Atomic Energy Agency is the world's central intergovernmental forum for scientific and technical co-operation in the nuclear field. It works for the safe, secure and peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology, contributing to international peace and security and the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.
The Digital Preservation Coalition welcomes CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, as Full Member
Added on 5 December 2018
The DPC is delighted to announce that the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CERN, has joined the Coalition as a Full Member this month.
CERN has three main digital preservation interests: Scientific Data from CERN’s accelerators, notably the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), where the data volume at the end of LHC Run2 (end 2018) is over 300PB; Scientific publications, papers and articles; and CERN’s “digital memory”, including meeting minutes, photographs, video recordings and scanned legacy material.
Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg joins the Digital Preservation Coalition
Added on 29 November 2018
The National Library of Luxembourg, la Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg, has joined the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) this month, becoming the Coalition’s newest Full Member.
As part of its legal mission as a national heritage library, Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg (BnL) collects, catalogues, enriches and preserves all publications issued in Luxembourg as well as all those issued abroad relating to the Grand Duchy. Through its Digital Preservation project, the BnL ensures the management, availability and long-term preservation of digital publications, resulting from a digitization process, collection of born-digital material or through legal deposit.
The Digital Preservation Coalition welcomes the Imperial War Museum as its newest associate member
Added on 24 October 2018
Imperial War Museums (IWM) hold an internationally renowned collection covering the cause, course and consequence of war. The collection covers conflicts involving Britain, its former Empire and the Commonwealth, from the First World War to the present day.
Comprising photographs, film and artworks, each of the important personal, political, cultural and technological items held by the museums tell a story about the experiences of those caught up in conflict. IWM is committed to preserving these digital assets in perpetuity, making them accessible and available for future generations to appreciate and understand.
DPC Publishes 'Digital Preservation Topical Notes' Series
Added on 13 September 2018
The DPC is pleased to announce the publication of a series of "Digital Preservation Topical Notes", produced with the kind 
support of the National Archives of Ireland.
This series of topical notes aims to address key issues of digital preservation for a non-specialist audience. Starting with "What is Digtal Preservation?" , the notes examine why digital preservation is important, while giving an overview of the steps needed to maintain access to digital information. Written specifically with record creators in mind, the notes also provide simple guidance on how they can ensure their digital records are preservation ready.
The full series of ten notes is now available on the DPC Website: https://www.dpconline.org/knowledge-base/dp-topical-notes
Jenny Mitcham to join DPC staff in November as Head of Good Practice and Standards
Added on 21 August 2018
The Digital Preservation Coalition is delighted to announce that Jenny Mitcham will join the DPC staff in November in a new role as Head of Good Practice and Standards.
Jen is well known to the DPC membership and the wider digital preservation and archives community from her current work at the Borthwick Institute at the University of York. Originally trained as an archaeologist and a graduate of the Universities of Nottingham and Southampton. She administered the Clwyd-Powys Sites and Monuments Record in the late nineties before moving into digital preservation as a Digital Archivist with the Archaeology Data Service for nine years, helping to shape archiving practices and procedures as the discipline evolved.
Two new organisations join the DPC’s Supporter Program
Added on 1 August 2018
This month sees the addition of two new organisations to the DPC’s Supporter Program. The Coalition welcomes:
- Ex Libris, Cloud-based Solutions provider for the Higher Education sector.
- Formpipe, Developer of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Information Quality Management and Electronic Quality Management System (eQMS) software solutions.
Both organisations have committed to supporting the DPC, and to a constructive collaboration for the benefit of the whole digital preservation community.
“As the membership of the DPC diversifies and expands globally, it is essential that both users and the solution providers who support our community have a meaningful way to communicate and learn from each other” explains Executive Director of the DPC, William Kilbride. “We are delighted therefore to see these organisations, which represent various aspects of digital preservation, choosing to support the DPC in this way.”