Andrew Jackson, Preservation Registries Technical Architect for the DPC, said “This isn’t about building a new registry. Rather, the goal is to make the most of everything we already have, and to recognize and empower all those people who
contribute to the range of open information sources and resources we all rely on when preserving our digital heritage. Ultimately, we want to help practitioners find the guidance they need to solve their digital preservation challenges.”
“I’m really looking forward to working with the digital preservation community to help support and amplify all the effort that everyone puts into our various registries and records of formats, tools, workflows and practices.”
The Registries of Good Practice project is funded by Yale University for two years, with initial work focusing on utility and rapid iteration, while keeping in mind the need to deliver stable and maintainable solutions by the end.
The project will operate in the open, with the team sharing progress early and often, encouraging feedback and interaction with the wider community.
Engagement with the wider community will be a critical part of ensuring project outputs are useful.
Registries of Good Practice will be driven by the needs of digital preservation practitioners, so that the results are genuinely useful and can be integrated into the everyday working practices. Before building anything at all, therefore, the project
will engage with the wider community interested in these issues.
The means of community engagement will also likely evolve over the course of the project but, as a starting point, the DPC is establishing a Preservation Registries Interest Group for anyone who would like to identify and discuss registries,
and make suggestions about how these may be used for the development of the project. Participants do not need to be DPC members, all are welcome.
To express interest in participating in the Preservation Registries Interest Group, please contact
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