World Digital Preservation Day

This year, we celebrate World Digital Preservation Day (WDPD) on 2 November 2023. The theme ‘Digital Preservation: A Concerted Effort’ offers a great opportunity to connect with digital preservation community members around the globe!

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The 'Bit List' of Endangered Digital Species

The current call for new nominations to the ‘Bit List’ of Endangered Digital Species 2023 is now closed and entries to the list are being reviewed by international organizations which represent global expertise in the preservation of the listed digital species. The new edition of the Bit List will be published on World Digital Preservation Day.

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Community

Our activities sustain and enable our community to collaborate and grow, and we maintain and refresh the social infrastructure which helps the community cohere as it expands. In doing so, we foster openness and challenge structural inequalities that constrain participation.

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Advocacy

We work towards a climate of public and institutional policy which is better informed and better inclined towards digital preservation.

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Workforce Development

We provide opportunities for our members to acquire, develop and retain competent and responsive workforces that are ready to address the challenges of digital preservation.

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Good Practice

We support our members towards greater maturity in digital preservation by delivering knowledge exchange, continuous improvement, horizon scanning, advice on standards, authoritative publications, and engaging and informative events.

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Accountable, Sustainable, Dynamic Governance

We remain accountable to members and responsive to their needs, particularly as the scale of our activities expand.

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We are building:
  • A digital preservation community which provides an effective platform for meaningful and sustained professional exchange.
  • A climate of public and institutional policy which is better informed and better inclined towards digital preservation.
  • Competent and responsive workforces that are ready to address the challenges of digital preservation.
  • Greater maturity in digital preservation through knowledge exchange, advice, authoritative publications and informative events.
  • Accountable and sustainable organizational functions and structures to ensure good governance.
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Digital Preservation Handbook

The Handbook identifies good practice in creating, managing and preserving digital materials. By providing a strategic overview of the key issues, discussion and guidance on strategies and activities, and pointers to key projects and reports, the Handbook provides guidance for institutions and individuals and a range of tools to help them identify and take appropriate actions.
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Vacancy for Open Repositories Manager at University of Strathclyde 27 September 2023 Information Services Directorate of the University is seeking to appoint an Open Repositories Manager to join our Scholarly Publications & Research Data (SP&RD) team. Read Article
Celebrating 20 DPC members in Australasia and Asia-Pacific! Robin Wright Robin Wright Last updated on 25 September 2023 The DPC’s activities have flourished in Australasia & Asia-Pacific in the last 5 years. Last month we celebrated our 20th member in the region! That's the same number of members the DPC originally started with in 2002 Go to Blog

Documenting Digital Preservation: watch party

28 Sep 2023 - 04:30PM

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This month we launched our Guide to Digital Preservation Documentation. This guide is the result of a series of focus groups ...

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