World Digital Preservation Day

On Thursday 2 November 2023 we'll celebrate digital preservation with individuals and institutions from across the globe! Get ready for the theme this year and join us: "Digital Preservation: A Concerted Effort"

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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 Digital Preservation Librarian at University College Dublin Library 21 September 2023 This is a unique and exciting opportunity for a motivated individual to fill the Library’s first post dedicated to digital preservation. Read Article
Notes on the Clear Blue Yonder: Technical Debt and Digital Preservation William Kilbride William Kilbride Last updated on 14 September 2023 Ignoring the future is not an IT strategy. Ignoring the future is the opposite of an IT strategy.  Just ask the Bank of Ireland and the National Air Traffic Control Service... Go to Blog

#DPConnect (weekly)

22 Sep 2023 - 01:00PM

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#DPConnect returns at 1300 UTC/1400 BST as a weekly online space to drop in and discuss all things digital preservation.

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