The first set of finalists for the prestigious Digital Preservation Awards 2020 is revealed today, with three exceptional projects being recognised for their collaborative achievements!
Laura Molloy, Senior Research Lead at CODATA and Chair of the judging panel, said:
"Once again this year, the standard of applications was excellent. We were delighted to receive more nominations than ever before, and to welcome more projects from across the globe for consideration. The judges have had an enormous -
and enjoyable - challenge deciding on a set of finalists. We are very excited to share these with the rest of the community now and look forward to celebrating this excellent work in digital preservation through the Digital Preservation Awards."
Finalists for the International Council on Archives (ICA) Award for Collaboration and Co-operation are (in no particular
order):
Other finalists will be announced over the course of this week and DPC Member voting will open on Wednesday 16th September 2020.
Winners will be revealed on
World Digital Preservation Day on 5th November 2020 as part of an online celebration with the digital preservation community, friends, family and peers from leading organisations.
The Digital Preservation Awards are a world-wide celebration of significant and state-of-the-art contributions to securing our digital legacy and just one of the ways the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) helps to raise awareness of
the strategic, cultural, and technological issues which make up the digital preservation challenge.
The DPC would like to thank
sponsors: Google, The International Council on Archives, The Software Sustainability Institute (SSI), The Dutch Digital Heritage Network (DHN), The National Records of Scotland, The National Archives UK, Arkivum, Artefactual, AVP, CAE Technology Systems,
Formpipe, LIBNOVA, Max Communications and Preservica for their support of the Digital Preservation Awards 2020.
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