With four weeks left to submit your nominations, do not miss your opportunity for recognition as part of the most prominent celebration of achievement for those people and organisations who have made significant and innovative contributions to securing our digital legacy!

 

Send your nominations by 0800 UTC on Monday 25^th April and be in with a chance of being named the best in your field of expertise.

 

2022 is the DPC’s 20^th Anniversary. To mark this milestone, a special award will be presented to the digital preservation initiative which has had the most impact since the start of 2002:

 

• The DPC 20th Anniversary Award, celebrates a sustained and impactful contribution to the digital preservation community in any form, over the last 20 years.

 

In addition, six further awards will be presented for initiatives completed between August 2020 and July 2022: 

 

• The 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 institutions which are not explicitly memory institutions.

 

This year the exciting process will culminate with the presentation of the awards at the Conference Dinner at the International Conference on Digital Preservation, iPres 2022 on Wednesday 14^th September. Entry to the Digital Preservation Awards is open to all.

 

Find out more and enter before the deadline of 08:00 UTC on Monday 25^th April 2022

 

*Apologies for cross-posting*

 

Sarah Middleton | she/her

Head of Communications and Advocacy

Digital Preservation Coalition

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