As you may be aware, this Agenda integrates, annually, the perspective of dozens of experts and hundreds of institutions to outlines the challenges and opportunities related to digital preservation It provides funders, decision-makers, and practitioners with insight into emerging technological trends, gaps in digital stewardship capacity, and key areas for research and development to support the work needed to ensure that today's valuable digital content remains accessible, useful, and comprehensible in the future, supporting a thriving economy, a robust democracy, and a rich cultural heritage. 

The new edition of the Agenda builds on our earlier work, updating our 2014 report, and identifying high-level action recommendations, directed at funders, researchers and organizational leaders, that will advance the community capacity for digital preservation, the evidence base for efficient and reliable practice, and the network of durable content that is available to the nation. The new edition draws particular attention to challenges around digital content -- from the overarching challenges of building broad evidence base describing the practice and content of stewardship, to specific challenges for long term access to "big" data, and software.