The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is pleased to offer a Career Development Fund grant for a DPC member to attend the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) Archiving 2025 Conference (#Archiving2025), taking place in person in Granada, Spain, June 24-27, 2025.
This Career Development Fund grant will cover 100% of the registration fee for the conference registration and provide a contribution towards travel and accommodation. Grant applications are welcomed from DPC members until 07:00 UTC on 25 March 2025, and more details are provided below.
About the IS&T Archiving Conference
Since 2004, the Archiving Conference has served as a pivotal forum, uniting a global network of technical experts, managers, practitioners, and academics from cultural heritage institutions, universities and commercial enterprises. The conference is dedicated to exploring state-of-the-art technologies and methodologies in the imaging, digitization, preservation, and access of 2D, 3D, audiovisual materials, and born-digital assets.
The interdisciplinary nature of Archiving fosters a rich environment for the exchange of ideas and knowledge. Beyond showcasing the latest research in imaging, digitization, and their related fields, the conference delves into emerging technologies, strategic approaches, and policy frameworks. Successful case studies are highlighted as benchmarks, while diverse platforms and visualization methods are explored to deepen connections with collections.
This year’s Archiving 2025 will take place in Granada, Spain, June 24-27. The 2025 Key Themes are:
- Science: Exploring cutting-edge research and developments across all aspects of digitization, imaging, preservation, archiving, access, and presentation.
- Sustainability: Examining how digitization, imaging, preservation, archiving, access, and presentation can impact and promote a sustainable stewardship of collections in archives, libraries, and museums.
- Security: Addressing the protection of cultural heritage from the impacts of climate change, conflict, cyber attacks, and other risks, with a focus on modern technologies, innovative prototypes, digital repositories, content authenticity, virtual museums, and digital libraries.
Program topics will cover areas including, but not limited to: Digitization / Imaging, Preservation / Archiving, Access / Presentation, and Management and Assessment.
To find out more, please visit the Archiving 2025 conference page here.
About the DPC Career Development Fund Grant
This Career Development Fund grant will cover 100% of the ‘Technical Registration’ fees for conference registration, which includes admission to all technical sessions, the conference e-proceedings, exhibition, Welcome Reception, Conference Reception, coffee breaks, and Behind-the-Scenes Tours.
The grant will also provide funding to help with expenses incurred attending in person. This may be used towards any one or all of the following expenses:
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Hotel booking for up to four nights (Monday 23rd June – Friday 27th June) based on the suggested/prefereed hotels list of organizers
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Contribution towards travel expenses (e.g., economy flight, train, and/or public transport to/from Granada)
The amount of funding is at the discretion of the review panel and will be explicitly stated in the grant offer letter to successful applicants.
Eligibility
DPC Members are eligible to apply for this Career Development Fund grant. This grant is not available to non-members. Prospective members are eligible if their membership application is approved by the application deadline of 07:00 UTC on 25th March 2025. For information about joining the DPC, see https://www.dpconline.org/about/join-us.
Please note that a DPC Member may submit a maximum of one application for one applicant for this advertised grant for Archiving 2025(e.g., one application for a person representing a DPC member organization). We recommend that any member organization which supports an application discusses appropriate outcomes and benefits for the organization prior to submission. Moreover, because only one grant is available per member institution, we recommend that applicants ensure that they are not inadvertently competing with colleagues.
For more details about eligibility and criteria for the grants, please read the full Career Development Fund Guidelines. Applicants are also encouraged to contact the Training and Grants Manager, Amy Currie (amy.currie@dpconline.org), should any questions arise.
How to Apply
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The application form for this grant and the full Career Development Fund Guidelines are available on the DPC website’s Career Development Fund page.
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All sections of the application form should be completed and returned to Amy Currie (currie@dpconline.org), accompanied by explicit approval for attendance from a supervisor via email or attached letter, by 7:00 UTC on 26th March 2025 (click here to see the application deadline in your local time).
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DPC members may submit a maximum of one application for one applicant for this advertised grant. There cannot be multiple applicants representing the same DPC membership, so please coordinate with colleagues to ensure one application is submitted.
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Applicants are encouraged to email any questions about the grant or process to amy.currie@dpconline.org.
Important Dates
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All sections of the application form should be completed and returned, accompanied by explicit approval for attendance from a supervisor, by 7:00 UTC on 25th March 2025 (click here to see the deadline in your local time).
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Successful applicants will be notified on or before 18th April 2025.
Further Information
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For information relating to the Archiving 2025 conference, see https://www.imaging.org/IST/Conferences/Archiving/Archiving2025/Archiving2025_Home.aspx.
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For questions relating to the DPC grant programme, email amy.currie@dpconline.org.
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For a list of other Career Development Fund grants available to DPC Members, see https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/prof-development/cdfund/dpc-grant-calendar
Acknowledgements
The Career Development Fund is sponsored by the DPC’s Supporters who recognize the benefit and seek to support a connected and trained digital preservation workforce. We gratefully acknowledge their financial support to this programme and ask applicants to acknowledge that support in any communications that result. At the time of writing, the Career Development Fund is supported by Arkivum, Artefactual Systems Inc., boxxe, Cerabyte, Evolved Binary, Ex Libris, Iron Mountain, Libnova, Max Communications, Preferred Media, Preservica and Simon P Wilson. A full list of supporters is online here.