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We are delighted to invite DPC Members to our DPC Members Forum and Networking Event in The Hague, The Netherlands on June 4th and 5th, 2025!

This face-to-face event will take place over the course of two days and forms part of a worldwide event series, with further DPC Members Fora taking place in the Americas and the Australasia and Asia-Pacific region.

The DPC is pleased to announce a new community resource aimed at helping digital preservation practitioners find professional development opportunities.

Originally developed as part of the iPRES 2024 Start to Preserve stream and now being officially launched, the new DigiPres Learning Resources Portal aims to help digital preservation practitioners, educators, and students find training and development opportunities and content. The DPC will host and maintain this new resource, and it is open to anyone working in digital preservation and related disciplines to use and edit.

This month, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is pleased to announce updates to its leadership. Owned and run by its members, this annual update ensures that members have the opportunity to shape and oversee the programs delivered by the DPC.

Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) Archives has joined the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), becoming the Coalition’s newest Associate Member.

RTÉ Archives is home to Ireland’s largest collection of audiovisual material. The Archives are responsible for collecting, preserving and making accessible the creative and documentary output of the national broadcaster. Combining hundreds of thousands of hours of moving image and sound recordings together with significant collections of photographs, manuscripts and administrative documents, RTÉ Archives contain a unique record of Irish life.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to announce that the program is now available for the DPC Member Forum and Open Networking Event in Nashville, TN on 24-25 April 2025, hosted by Vanderbilt University!

The Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) has joined the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) this month, becoming the Coalition’s newest Associate Member.

Based in Sleepy Hollow, New York, the RAC stewards the archival records of philanthropic organizations and other institutions and individuals working on behalf of the public good.  It provides broad and equitable access to the collections in its care and contributes knowledge to its diverse communities of practice. The RAC is dedicated to preserving digitized and born-digital records and has developed workflows to support the efficient transfer of digital records from its donor organizations into the RAC’s preservation and archival management systems.

The International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES 2025) has launched new resources to support potential contributors as the deadline for peer-reviewed submissions approaches. The conference, scheduled for November 3-7, 2025, in Wellington, will accept submissions until April 14, 2025 (End of Day, Anywhere on Earth).