Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Network

Did you miss DPOE-N’s Introduction to Digital Preservation workshop? 💾📱💻

The recordings and materials from our "Introduction to Digital Preservation: Why, What, How" workshop led by Sam Meister of Future Access for All is now available on our Past Workshops page.

Feel free to peruse the materials or share them with anyone looking to understand the importance of preserving born-digital materials and create a sustainable digital preservation workflow for their institution.

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Did you miss DPOE-N’s Introduction to Digital Preservation workshop? 💾📱💻

The recordings and materials from our "Introduction to Digital Preservation: Why, What, How" workshop led by Sam Meister of Future Access for All is now available on our Past Workshops page. Feel free to peruse the materials or share them with anyone looking to understand the importance of preserving born-digital materials and create a sustainable digital preservation workflow for their institution. Thank you to Sam for leading this informative workshop!

✨ DPOE-N Now Accepting Applications for Professional Development Microgrants ✨

The Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network (DPOE-N) is now accepting funding requests on a rolling basis until December 2028! We are interested in hearing from both individuals and institutions who are looking to enhance their digital preservation capacities, and emerging professionals with an interest in digital preservation.

Microgrants | General Professional Development:
For individuals currently employed in the United States or U.S. territories who are partly or wholly responsible for the stewardship of a collection.

Microgrants | Emerging Professionals:
Current students or recent graduates not yet employed by an institution. Individuals may be students and recent graduates of programs in library and information science, archival studies, museum studies, media art conservation, or related fields, on a certificate or Masters level track who are interested in pursuing digital preservation practice in a professional context.

Maximum funding per person is $2,500 USD.

Interested in applying ? For more information on professional development support, and to apply, please visit: www.dpoe.network/professional-development-support/ or contact us at [email protected].📱

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Visit our website (dpoen.network) to learn more about the professional development support we offer to cultural heritage professionals in the area of digital preservation.

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🌟 We’re going back to the basics for our first workshop of 2025! Join us for an essential workshop on the fundamentals of Digital Preservation!🌟

🗓️ When: Wednesday and Thursday February 12th and 13th 12-2pm EST
📌 RSVP Deadline: Monday, February 10th
🔗 RSVP Link in Bio!

🌐 This event will feature simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish. *Este evento contará con interpretación simultánea de inglés a español

ℹ️ In this workshop, facilitated by Sam Meister, learn the Why, What, and How of Digital Preservation. Sam is a seasoned archivist and educator who has been working in and with libraries, archives, museums, galleries, artists, and nonprofit organizations for over 15 years.

💡 Join to understand the purpose, function, and value of digital preservation, learn the elements that make up digital objects, the range of risks that can impact digital objects, understand the initial steps needed to develop a sustainable digital preservation program and workflow.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn or refresh yourself on the essentials of digital preservation! RSVP now to secure your spot! Link in Bio

We are excited to announce another new initiative from DPOE-N — Recommended readings! Each month, DPOE-N will highlight a recent publication that provides insight into the state of digital preservation in the cultural heritage field. This month, DPOE-N recommends a timely report from the Internet Archive: Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record, edited by Luca Messarra (Public Humanities Fellow), Chris Freeland, (Director of Library Services) Juliya Ziskina, (Policy Fellow & Attorney). Link in Bio!

About Vanishing Culture:

“Corporate interests, alongside changes in media distribution, are eroding the public’s ability to construct and access its own cultural record. As more digital content is being provided to individuals, libraries, and archives solely through streaming and temporary licensing deals, rather than through permanent ownership, cultural objects such as sound recordings, books, television shows, and films are at constant risk of being removed from platforms without ever being archived. This means that cultural expression is vanishing from public access largely at the whims of media conglomerates.

Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record seeks to inform the public, creators, institutions, and policymakers about the breadth and scale of cultural vanishing by highlighting recent instances of loss, identifying key causes of these losses, and showing why empowering public-serving libraries and archives financially, culturally, and legally is a necessity for ensuring that our cultural record remains built by the public, and accessible to it for generations to come.

Collaboratively, Vanishing Culture begins to tell a story of what happens when media ownership disappears, why preservation and access matters for the public good, and what needs to change so that our physical and digital heritage is not needlessly forgotten.”

We are excited to share that DPOE-N microgrant recipient Jesse Keel (Associate Preservation Specialist at NEDCC) earned their Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) Certificate from the Society of American Archivists! Jesse was awarded a Professional Development microgrant from DPOE-N in February 2024, which enabled them to complete all the required coursework and pass the certification examination by September 2024. Congrats Jesse!

The DAS curriculum, developed by experts in the field of digital archives, was designed to provide cultural heritage professionals with the information and tools they need to manage the demands of born-digital records. The entire cost of DAS coursework and exam can be covered by a DPOE-N professional microgrant. Although DPOE-N is not accepting funding applications at this time, we are actively fundraising with the goal of restarting our microgrant program in early 2025. Be sure to follow us and sign up for our newsletter for updates! Link in bio!

November 7th marks World Digital Preservation Day 2024!

The theme of WDPD2024 is “Preserving Our Digital Content: Celebrating Communities.” This is a great opportunity to connect the digital preservation community, and to celebrate the digital legacy of all types of communities around the world.

Organized by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC, ) and supported by digital preservation networks around the globe, World Digital Preservation Day - always on the first Thursday in November - is open to participation across all regions and sectors, from anyone interested in securing a sustainable future for our digital assets. Data creators, archivists, curators, consumers, and community members around the world are invited to showcase how their own activities contribute towards the digital preservation field through blog posts, social media posts, events and creative activities, sharing with the online community with the hashtag . A list of global WDPD2024 events happening around the world is posted on the DPC website.

Let us know how you’re celebrating WDPD2024 in the comments!

DPOE-N is proud to share that it awarded Jeannette Lebrón Ramos, MIS, Ph.D. (https://sites.google.com/view/jeannette-lebron-ramos-sb/inicio), a microgrant to attend the 2024 ACURIL Annual Conference in Georgetown, Guyana!

Got your eye on an upcoming conference? DPOE-N funds all types of digital preservation education for eligible programming and provides additional information on trainings and eligibility on our website: https://www.dpoe.network/. Don't miss out, subscribe to our monthly newsletter(https://mailchi.mp/pratt/dpoenetwork_newsletter_subscription) or follow us!

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