New Members

The Swedish Tax Agency has joined the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) this month, becoming the Coalition’s newest Associate Member. Skatteverket, as the Swedish Tax Agency is known in Sweden, is the government organization tasked with the collection of national taxes and administering the population registration in Sweden. It plays a crucial role in ensuring the financial stability and functioning of the country. Within the agency the digital preservation team is dedicated to efficiently and accurately preserving petabytes of data.

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The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) welcomes the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), as they become the newest Full Member of the Coalition.

The Bibliothèque nationale de France is one of the oldest libraries in the world and the national repository of all that is published and distributed in France. As the custodian of both national and global collections, the BnF holds 42 million items, including 16 million books, 410.000 periodicals, 950.000 maps, 2 million music sheets, 2 million audio and video recordings, and nearly 50 billion files in its digital repository, equivalent to 8,000 terabytes. Over 10 million items are freely available on its online digital library, Gallica.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) welcomes the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) Library, as they become the newest Associate Member of the Coalition. 

ICAEW is a professional membership organisation that provides training, support, and resources for chartered accountants and students around the world. Founded in 1871, its Library is one of the largest accountancy libraries in the world.

Deakin University has joined the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) this month, becoming the Coalition’s newest Associate Member.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to announce today on World Digital Preservation Day that the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Group Archives has joined the Coalition as an Associate Member.

Based in Sydney, the CBA Group Archives houses information about the Commonwealth Bank and other financial institutions whose archives are curated by the Group Archives team. They are custodians of over 4 million legacy digital items dating back many decades that record and preserve the ongoing evolution of the Commonwealth Bank and Australia’s financial system.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome Hampshire County Council as its latest Associate Member.  Incorporating Hampshire Archives and Wessex Film and Sound Archive (WFSA), Hampshire County Council preserves and provides access to archives relating to Hampshire, as well as film and sound material relating to central southern England, which bring Hampshire’s history to life. Holding over 22,000 cinefilms and video recordings, more than 16,000 sound recordings, and 1 million entries in its online catalogue of records in all formats, the County Council is also embarking on a 3-year project which aims to generate additions to born-digital contemporary collections. 

DPC Associate Member since 2020, the Agency for Facility Operations of the Flemish Government (the Agency) upgraded its membership this month to become the latest Full Member of the Coalition.

The Agency, which provides professional support to the entities of the Flemish government, has developed a shared digital archiving service - Digital Archives Flanders. This service is open to more than 300 organizations and local authorities of the Flemish government. Supporting this development, the Agency provides the technical infrastructure, the software and the expertise with regard to the management, storage and preservation of born digital information.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome Vanderbilt University’s Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries as they become the newest Full Member of the Coalition.

With more than 18 million digital items in their collections, the Heard Libraries pursue effective and inclusive models for digital preseration and stewardship. In addition to a diverse range of digitized manuscript collections, the academic research library in Nashville, Tennessee, holds and preserves one of the preeminent digital audio-visual collections in the United States through the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, featuring more than 62,000 hours of transcribed video content.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision as they become the Coalition’s newest Associate Member. 

Based in Wellington, Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision is the audiovisual archive of Aotearoa New Zealand. With more than 800,000 items spanning over 120 years of Aotearoa New Zealand’s sound and moving image history, the collection includes film and television, sound and radio recordings.

The University of Arizona Libraries have joined the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) this month, becoming the Coalition’s newest Associate Member.