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 Project Officer at Newcastle University 20 November 2025 This is an exciting time to join our high-performing Digital Library Services Team as we embark on a project to develop the University’s digital preservation infrastructure. Read Article
25 Years of Conversation, Connection, and Community: Celebrating the DPC Discussion List Angela Puggioni Angela Puggioni Last updated on 13 November 2025 Happy 25th to DPC-DISCUSSION! For 25 years, our listserv has been a supportive place where DPC members can ask questions, share ideas, and help each other make sense of the ever-changing world of digital preservation. Go to Blog

#DPClinic November – Mastering DROID

26 Nov 2025 - 09:00AM

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DROID is a free open-source software tool developed by The National Archives in the UK (TNA) and used by archivists across ...

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