(26 Mar 2023) The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has released a new version of the Digital Preservation Policy Toolkit to coincide with its Relaunch Roadshow in Australasia. Now freely available for anyone within the digital preservation community to use and designed for organizations of any type, the Digital Preservation Policy Toolkit guides users from initial…
(27 May 2016) With just a couple of months left to submit your nominations, do not miss your opportunity for recognition at the most prominent celebration of achievement for those people and organisations who have made significant and innovative contributions to maintaining a digital legacy. Submit your nominations by 12 noon on 26 July 2016.…
(23 September 2013) The Digital Preservation Coalition is offering two fully-funded scholarships to attend the First Steps Towards Digital Preservation at GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, 23rd – 25th October 2013. The workshop – which is taught in English – is intended as a primer in digital preservation. It introduces central concepts…
(12 September 2013) The Royal Institute of British Architects invites DPC members to Archiving the Digital: Challenges in Preserving Design Records a 2-Day Architectural Records Conference in London. 17 October, Royal Institute of British Architects, 66 Portland Place, W1B 1AD, 10:00 – 16:30 18 October, John McAslan + Partners Offices, 7-9 William Road, NW1 3ER,…
There is even more opportunity to keep up to date with the latest developments in Digital Preservation in 2013 – 2014 Member only events include: Writing a Digital Preservation Business Case Talking with the Techies: writing and understanding requirements in digital preservation Cost Modelling for Preservation Virtualization and preservation: New directions Updating OAIS – ISO…
The Digital Preservation Coalition is offering three fully funded scholarships to attend the ‘How to Set Up and Run a Data Service: the Challenges of Social Science Data’ at the UK Data Archive, University of Essex, Colchester, 28th – 29th November 2013. ‘How to Set up and run a Data Service: the Challenges of Social…
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is has published the latest in its series of topical Technology Watch Reports, Preserving Computer-Aided Design (CAD). Writtenby Alex Ball, and published electronically, this report provides a comprehensive overview of the development of CAD technologies, the threat caused by its own innovative application and its vendors’ drive to add ever…
The Digital Preservation Coalition has announced that presentations from the popular DPC / BLPAC Getting Started in Digital Preservation workshop in Aberystwyth, Wales, in June are now available online. To see these, as well as the presentations from similar events in Glasgow in April and London in May click here.
(24 May 2013) The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has released its latest in the series of topical Technology Watch Reports to the public today. ‘Web Archiving,’ by Maureen Pennock, presents a constructive study of the fast-paced digital age and the pressures we face in attempting to capture web based information for the future. Maureen’s report…
(26 March 2013) The Digital Preservation Coalition is offering three fully funded scholarships to attend the Digital Preservation Training Programme at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 20th–22nd May 2013. The Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) is designed for all those working in institutional information management who are grappling with fundamental issues of…