Digital Preservation Coalition

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The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is a UK-based non-profit limited company which seeks to secure the preservation of digital resources in the UK and internationally to secure the global digital memory and knowledge base.

Founded in 2001, the DPC acts a consortium of those organisations interested in the preservation of digital information. Participation in the coalition is open to all sectors including commercial, cultural heritage, educational, governmental, and research bodies.

Since 2004, the DPC has sponsored an international Digital Preservation Award, which is presented as part of the Conservation Awards.

Contents 1 Coalition membership 1.1 DPC, full members 1.2 DPC, associate members 1.3 DPC, allied organisations 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Coalition membership

[edit] DPC, full members

• British Library (BL), British Library website
• Cambridge University Library (CUL), Cambridge University Library website
• Consortium of National and University Libraries (CONUL), Consortium of National and University Libraries website
• Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), Museums, Libraries and Archives Council website
• Digital Curation Centre (DCC), Digital Curation Centre website
• Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), JISC website
• The National Archives -- National Archives website
• National Archives of Scotland (NAS), National Archives of Scotland website
• National Library of Scotland (NLS), National Library of Scotland website
• Open University (OU), Open University website
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), Public Record Offices of Northern Ireland website
• Publishers Licensing Society (PLS), Publishers Licensing Society website
• Research Councils UK (RCUK), Research Councils UK website
• University of London Computer Centre (ULCC), University of London Computer Centre website
• Oxford University Library Services (OULS), Oxford University Libraries website

[edit] DPC, associate members

• Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) -- Arts and Humanities Data Service website
• British Broadcasting Company (BBC) -- British Broadcasting Company website
• Centre for Digital Library Research (CDLR) -- Centre for Digital Library Research website
• City of London Corporation^[1] -- City of London Corporation website
• National Library of Wales (NLW) -- National Library of Wales website
• Natural History Museum (NHM) -- Natural History Museum website
• Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) -- OCLC Products and Services website
• Oxford Archaeology (OA) -- Oxford Archaeology website
• Parliamentary Archives -- Parliamentary Archives website
• Portico (digital archives) -- Portico website

• Society of Archivists (SOA) -- Society of Archivists website
• Trinity College Library (Dublin) (TCL) -- Trinity College Library website
• UK Data Archive (UKDA) -- UK Data Archive website

• University of Southampton -- University of Southampton website

• Wellcome Trust -- Wellcome Trust website, Wellcome Library website

[edit] DPC, allied organisations

• British Library (BL), BL National Preservation Office website
  • Library of Congress (LOC), LOC Preservation Directorate website
  • National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)
• National Library of Australia (NLA), NLA National Preservation Office ---> NLA Conservation Policy & Planning website

[edit] See also

• Digital curation
• Digital object identifier

[edit] References

• Milne, Ronald -- moderator: Webcast panel discussion, "Economics," Scholarship and Libraries in Transition: A Dialogue about the Impacts of Mass Digitization Projects (2006), Symposium sponsored by the University of Michigan Library and the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (US).

[edit] External links

• DPC website

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