The Very Best Work in Digital Preservation: DPA 2024

The search for the very best work in digital preservation has begun again this year, with the launch of the Digital Preservation Awards 2024!

Organized by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) every two years, the prestigious Digital Preservation Awards is the most prominent celebration of achievement for those people and organisations who have made significant contributions towards a sustainable future for our digital assets. Entry to the Digital Preservation Awards 2024 is free and open to organisations, projects and individuals at all stages of their digital preservation journey, all around the world – and you do not have to be a DPC member to participate.

The Digital Preservation Awards is open for nominations until Monday 22 April and will culminate in a sparkling ceremony at the iPres 2024 Conference in Ghent on Monday 16 September.

Speaking after the 2022 awards ceremony, winner of the Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy, Clare Lanigan of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) and the Archiving Reproductive Health Project said: “This award means a huge amount to DRI as an organisation, and it means a huge amount to the project as well. We really felt like we were doing important work for reproductive rights activism in Ireland, and this award confirms that.”

Digital Preservation Awards 2022 winners have enjoyed a greater profile within the digital preservation community, with individuals and organisations finding themselves in a much stronger position for further funding and future development.

Click to watch the Digital Preservation Awards ceremony in 2022 and meet the winners

In 2024, the Digital Preservation Awards invites nominations in the following categories:

• Award for Collaboration and Cooperation, celebrating significant collaboration across institutional, professional, sectoral and geographical boundaries which have had a demonstrable and positive impact on digital preservation.
• The Award for Research and Innovation, recognizing excellence in practical research and innovation activities.
• The Award for Teaching and Communications, recognizing excellence in outreach, training and advocacy.
• The Award for the Most Distinguished Student Work in Digital Preservation, encouraging and recognizing student work in digital preservation.
• The Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy, celebrating the practical application of preservation tools to protect at-risk digital objects.
• The Award for the Most Outstanding Digital Preservation Initiative in Commerce, Industry and the Third Sector, encouraging and recognizing the adoption of digital preservation tools and approaches in an organization that is not explicitly a memory institution.

Winners will receive a trophy to be retained by the recipient’s institution, certificates for participating individuals, and a ￡1000 cash prize except for the Award for the Most Distinguished Student Work in Digital Preservation which offers a travel grant covering the costs of attendance at an international conference in 2025.

Enter before the deadline of 0800 (UTC) on Monday 22 April 2024 and read on to find out more about how to enter:

https://www.dpconline.org/events/digital-preservation-awards