The Digital Preservation Coalition

Abstract

The Digital Preservation Coalition was formed in the belief that no single organisation, sector, or indeed country, can hope to single-handedly address all the challenges and issues associated with ensuring continuing meaningful access to the growing volume of digital information. It was launched in February 2002 with an initial membership of 19, and has grown to 27 members as of April 2005. While the emphasis is on developing a digital preservation agenda within the UK, the high-level issues are of course global in nature and so collaboration and communication with colleagues working overseas is another essential characteristic of the DPC There are a number of assumptions underlying the DPC: • Intense collaboration and cooperation across and between sectors are essential. • There is a far wider range of key players who need to be involved at various different stages in the lifecycle of digital resources. • There is still a pressing and increasingly urgent need for advocacy and awareness-raising and to raise the profile of digital preservation to a much wider community. This article describes the formation of the DPC and explores some of the activities undertaken to help to accelerate the digital preservation agenda in the UK. Maggie Jones is the Executive Secretary of the Digital Preservation Coalition, Innovation Centre, York Science Park, Heslington, York YO10 5DG, United Kingdom.

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