Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Network

Join DPOE-N for a free virtual workshop: Getting Started with Advocacy for Digital Preservation 🗣️ featuring Sarah Middleton and Anna Perricci! RSVP here by June 17th: https://airtable.com/appjiUFI2BklUQ3xu/shrhcVKAGGGIwneHe?prefill_Application+for=recH6w0OyrsBHoMie

Mark your calendar! The 2026 SAA Preservation Section meeting focuses on the digital dimensions of archival preservation. DPOE-N Program Manager Kirk Mudle will join a panel discussion on practical resources, professional networks and training opportunities, and advocacy strategies for institutional digital preservation.

This virtual event is free and open to all. RSVP: https://connect.archivists.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=a77673da-5294-481f-9e4f-019d308e80ef&Home=%2fevents%2fcalendar

Time for a digital preservation pop quiz! What is a codec? Have you come across them in your work?

DPOE-N helps you level up your skills in digital preservation! Since 2020, we’ve supported 56 cultural heritage professionals seeking to add the Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) certificate to their CVs.

The DAS curriculum is designed to provide you with the information and tools you need to manage the demands of born-digital records. For more information, visit: https://www2.archivists.org/prof-education/das

Test your knowledge of digital preservation terms and concepts with DPOE-N flash cards. What are your thoughts about the 3-2-1 rule? Does it still stand in today’s cloud-forward landscape?

Slides, files, and recordings from both days of our Digital Preservation Metadata 101 workshop are live on the DPOE-N website. Thank you to the instructors, Alexandra Provo and Maureen Harlow, and to all attendees for your participation.

How do you create and maintain meaningful metadata that makes your content repeatedly discoverable and usable for your audience? This workshop delves into what quality preservation metadata consists of and how it may change and evolve over time.
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Las diapositivas, los archivos y las grabaciones de los dos días de nuestro taller «Metadatos para la preservación digital» ya están disponibles en el sitio web de DPOE-N. Gracias a las instructoras, Alexandra Provo y Maureen Harlow, y a todos los asistentes por su participación.

¿Cómo crear y mantener metadatos significativos que hagan que su contenido sea repetidamente detectable y utilizable para su audiencia? Este taller profundizará en qué consisten los metadatos de preservación de calidad y cómo pueden cambiar y evolucionar con el tiempo.

https://www.dpoe.network/past-workshops/

If you’re an archivist receiving a set of photographs documenting a newsworthy event, how can you verify that the images were not altered by AI to distort what occurred?

If you’re a special collections librarian receiving a set of chatbot transcripts illustrating an author’s creative process, how do you document its provenance?

If you’re indexing and transcribing a recorded interview, what measures should be taken to guarantee that the voices are authentic and words or whole passages not synthetically inserted or deleted?

In the recent paper “Content Authenticity and Provenance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Call-to-Action for the LAMs Community”, Kate Murray and Joshua Sternfeld outline four pillars guiding cultural institutions to develop strategies and protocols to secure trust in content authenticity and provenance data.

Read it here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VMkNDcY1KBH1YV0QOVGs38o6eetUTddj/view

Last call! Join our next free virtual workshop: Digital Preservation Metadata 101. RSVP today here: https://airtable.com/appjiUFI2BklUQ3xu/shrRpLdcLFrgeyHpK?prefill_Application+for=reclaeIHU7MFJqs9s

¡Última oportunidad! Únete a nuestro taller virtual gratuito: Metadatos de preservación digital 101. Haz clic en el enlace anterior para confirmar tu asistencia hoy.

Grant Update! ✨ This year we've awarded 35 professional development microgrants, totaling $62,504 to support digital preservation training in our nation’s libraries, archives, and museums.

Award recipients include employees of Fundación Pedro Albizu Campos, Inc., New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, Hawaiian Historical Society, American Irish Historical Society, among others.

Congratulations to all our award recipients! During these challenging times in the cultural heritage field and the world at large, we are pleased to support individuals dedicated to the stewardship of our collective memory.

We have temporarily closed our application portal, but we will resume accepting new applications later this year.

The first wave of 2026 DPOE-N Professional Development microgrants have been awarded! 28 funding applications were approved by our Board of Directors, totalling $46,648 to support digital preservation training in our nation’s libraries, archives, and museums. Award recipients include employees of Media Burn Archive, Jacksonville Public Library, CUNY TV, Utah Historical Society, Western Kentucky University, and 16 emerging professionals. Congratulations to all our award recipients! During these challenging times in the cultural heritage field and the world at large, we are pleased to support individuals dedicated to the stewardship of our collective memory.

We have temporarily closed our application portal, but we will resume accepting new applications later this year.