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Qatar National Library took another step towards fostering heritage preservation efforts across the region, this time in partnership with the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). As the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Regional Center for the MENA region, the Library partnered with IASA to complete Arabic translations of four pivotal publications from IASA’s Technical Committee.

These translations will empower regional organizations and professionals to leverage IASA’s technical conservation expertise in the audiovisual field to preserve and disseminate the region’s cultural heritage.

DPC members are invited to cast their vote and help decide the Digital Preservation Awards winners for 2024!

The prestigious Digital Preservation Awards is the most prominent celebration of achievement for those people and organisations who have made significant and innovative contributions to maintaining a digital legacy and the finalists for this year’s set of categories have all been selected for their work to towards this goal.

#DPConnect will take a break throughout the months of July and August after our #DPConnect session on Friday 28th June.

Following the break, we will return on Friday 6st September at 1300 UTC and #DPConnect will continue thereafter, as a weekly online gathering to drop in and discuss all things digital preservation.

DPC Members are invited to save the date for our first DPC Members Unconference event in Australasia and Asia-Pacific! This will be held in Canberra on Tuesday 15^th October 2024.

Exclusively for DPC Members, the Unconference will be hosted by the National Archives of Australia and will run alongside the NFSA’s Fantastic Futures event that week. It will take place over the course of a full day. The event forms part of a worldwide program of Member networking activities which aims to offer events in locations in other parts of the world as scheduling permits.

The Digital Curation Centre is pleased to announce that the 19th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC25) will take place in The Hague, the Netherlands between 17-19 February 2025. The main theme of IDCC25 this year will be Twenty years back, twenty years forward: lessons and directions in digital curation.

On the occasion of what would have been Sarah’s 43rd Birthday, the Research Data Alliance is pleased to announce ‘The Sarah Jones Award for exceptional contribution to fostering collaboration in Open Science.’

Sarah Jones was an esteemed member of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Council, former member of the Technical Advisory Board (TAB), and RDA community member since 2014.