Danielle Taylor introduces Digital POWRR program. Speaker with slide presentatio.
Danielle Taylor gets us under way at #DPC member forum describing the Digital POWRR program. #DigitalPreservation #digipres.
Empire States Building and the Manhattan Skykine.
Statue of Liberty viewed from a distance.
Setting up the registration desk for the DPC member forum
Plate of bagels.
Delighted to be in New York today and tomorrow for the #dpc member forum. 2 days of lively #digitalpreservation discussion and debate. Also, we have many bagels to work through... #digipres
Pure joy. Tears. Heaving with laughter. Libramony.
📍A few focus group slots still open – Mapping the Humanities and AI
We’d love to hear from researchers, practitioners, policy-adjacent colleagues, and anyone working across humanities and AI who’d like to help us test and refine the map before it goes public: blog.humanities.org.uk/mapping-the-...
DPC Members 👋
Looking for support assessing your digital preservation capabilities or skills?
Join our one-to-one RAM-bulance 🚑 and CAT Scan 🐱 sessions this May - quick, confidential, and tailored to you.
🗓️ 7 & 12 May
⏰ 06:00–22:00 UTC
To book your 30-minute slot, visit buff.ly/qEXaxxl
Help, #DigiPres folks: do you have a "deposit station" for digital content on external devices (HDD, USB, DVD, CD etc.)?
If yes:
1. Desktop / Laptop?
2. Unix / Windows?
3. Offline / separate network? If offline, how do you update?
4. One or more antivirus programs?
5. Other recommendations?
Thanks!
🎼 Every Object An Orchestra: A Software Preservation & Emulation Showcase 🎼
Join this online event on 28 April (14:00-16:00 UTC) by the Digital Preservation Coalition #DPC 👉 buff.ly/MoNpEZD
Cover of the novel 'Flesh' by David Szalay.
Update on 2026. This just finished.
People standing in the shape of a heart with text Team UofG in the Gilbert Scott building courtyard.
We have a number of funded PhD opportunities available, including CoSS PhD Scholarships and funding with our global partners, The University of Sydney Business School and The University of the West Indies.
You can find all the opportunities below: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/soc...
May I interest you in £10k for humanities or social science research? Our small grants scheme is open. Apply by 3rd June.
We allocate through partial randomisation - awarding randomly between all applications that meet our quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
Really enjoyed sharing this afternoon with @ucdischool.bsky.social students discussing #digitalpreservation. Great questions about platform dependency and vitrualization. The future of #digipres is in great hands. #dpc
Excited to welcome the Candian Broadcasting Corporation as the DPC's newest member, joining Australian Broadcasting Corporation who joined earlier in the year.
www.dpconline.org/news/new-mem... #digitalpreservation #dpc #digipres
Oh Martin. Sending hugs and tummy rubs, letting you decide who gets what.
Cover of novel A Long Winter by Colm Tóibín
Update on 2026. This just finished.
Cocktail shaker and glass with negroni and large chunks of ice and orange.
Evening to the #confinedcocktails crew from Kilbride Towers. A very fine and well-deserved negroni. Χριστὸς ἀνέστη
Cover of novel 'The Rest of Our Lives' by Ben Markovits.
Update on 2026. This just finished
Very pleased to announce that BT Group Archives and UCL Department of Information Studies have a fully-funded PhD on offer.
It's a really exciting one: to investigate how new computational methods can be used to get the most out of a digitised audiovisual collection.
www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
A woman sits at a computer monitor holding a hand-written document. Another woman stands next to her, also holding the document and pointing at a particular section with a pencil.
The International Council on Archives’ Climate Change Working Group has opened a global questionnaire exploring the effects of climate change on archives and recordkeeping practices 🌍
Take part here by Wednesday 22 April: icarchives.limequery.org/528765?lang=en
Help shape the DPC’s new Carbon Footprint Toolkit 🌍️
We’re looking for participants to join our Carbon Calculation Support Group and help test the draft toolkit over the coming months. Find out more in our news post and apply here: buff.ly/Bd7ccCb
And that's another new member confirmed at #dpc. Great way to end the week. Details to follow. #digitalpreservation #digipres
And that's another new member confirmed at #dpc. Great way to end the week. Details to follow. #digitalpreservation #digipres
🌍 New from DPC: the draft Carbon Footprint Toolkit is now open for comment and testing!
Read it, try it, and share your feedback: buff.ly/Bd7ccCb
#DigitalPreservation #Coalition #community #digipres #carbonfootprint
My brilliant former PhD student Isabel Gilbert (now Lecturer at Worcester) is doing a research project on what good collaboration between academics and heritage sector orgs/professionals looks like - please do fill in if you do this sort of work 😊 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ucw/herita...
New DRP post: Help Protect At-Risk Humanitarian Archives. We aim to support a range of data rescue projects. This one from the Univ of Manchester is an incredible effort to recognize the loss of many small humanitarian archives.
www.datarescueproject.org/humanitarian...
Are you a student in archives, museum studies, or information studies? Do you know one?
@saa-snap.bsky.social, the Students section of the Society of American Archivists, has two calls open—poster proposals and committee nominations. 🧵
That's one hour now by my reckoning #TickTock ⏳
The Digital Preservation Awards 2026 are now open for nominations! With 7 award categories to choose from, now is the time to recognize the people, projects, and organizations making a real impact in digital preservation. Explore the #DPA2026 categories and submit your nomination: buff.ly/D6zZU2V
¡ Los Premios de Preservación Digital vuelven en 2026! #DPA2026 celebra el gran trabajo de #PreservaciónDigital de todo el mundo y de todos los sectores.
Nomina el proyecto o iniciativa que crees que debería ganar un premio award👇🏽
buff.ly/nhIhtWd
#DigitalPreservation #Awards #lanzamiento #DPC
🏆️Les Digital Preservation Awards sont de retour pour 2026🏆️Le #DPA2026 célèbre les grands travaux de #PréservationNumérique de tous les coins du monde et de tous les secteurs.
Nommez le projet ou l'initiative qui, selon vous, devrait gagner un award👇🏽https://buff.ly/nhIhtWd
