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The DPC is pleased to offer a Career Development Fund grant for DPC Members to attend the Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities (DCDC) Conference (#DCDC23), taking place 11-13 July, in Durham, UK, and online via EventsAir.

This grant will cover 100% of conference registration and provide an additional contribution towards travel and accommodation if attending in person. More details about the grant are provided below, and applications are welcomed from DPC members until the grant application deadline of 7:00 UTC on 2nd May 2023.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is thrilled to announce that - thanks to the hard work and efforts of our multi-lingual digital preservation community – the transcripts for the iPres 2022 keynotes are now available in Arabic, French, German, Japanese and Spanish. The translations are part of the DPC's efforts to provide better access to support for digital preservation practitioners worldwide.

#DPConnect will take an Easter Break between 4 - 11 April.

Following the break, we will return on Friday 14 April at 1400 BST with our weekly #DPConnect.

The NDSA Levels of Preservation steering group would like to find out more about particular scenarios in which the Levels are being used. This information will help others who are using the Levels and may also inform future work. Rather than looking for full and detailed case studies, the group hopes to gather real life activities from a range of different organizations using the Levels answering specific questions and scenarios of interest to the community. 

The Digital Preservation Coalition and Members are part of a new project that works to increase access to valuable research and is to receive more than £5.8 million in funding.

Led by Lancaster University, the Open Book Futures (OBF) project will develop and support organisations, tools and practices that enable both academics and the wider public to make more and better use of books published on an Open Access basis. Open Access books can be accessed and used online free of charge.

Register by April 17 for a free, on-line workshop offered by the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education. There is no application necessary, but please RSVP to attend.

Climate change, archives, and digital preservation

Date/time: Friday April 21, 1:30-4:00 PM Eastern Time (2.5 hours)

Workshop description:

Climate change poses enormous challenges to archives and archivists. In the short term, climate change presents issues such as unpredictable weather and the potential for more frequent and severe disasters. In the long-term, climate change may reshape decisions around the geographic location, appraisal, and use of archives. In this workshop, archivists and cultural heritage professionals, regardless of their location, will learn about how climate change impacts our work and cultural heritage institutions.

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 research and preparation phases, through to drafting a policy, gathering feedback and communicating the finished policy.