Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)
Description
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is a registered company (Registered no: 4492292) and charity (Charity no. SC051077).
DPC is a membership organisation, managed by a small team of full time staff and overseen by a Board of Directors appointed from its Full Members. DPC's primary function is to deliver on behalf of their members. They were established in 2002 as a collaboration between a number of agencies operating in the UK and Ireland. Although DPC's program and membership has changed a lot since 2002, the committee remains true to the founding principles of community oversight described in their Articles of Association and Memorandum of Incorporation. The majority of DPC's income is still derived from the annual subscriptions which members pay: and the coalition's workplan is scrutinised and approved by its members annually.
DPC enables its members to deliver resilient, sustainable and useful long-term access to digital content and services, helping them to access and use digital materials beyond the limits of technical obsolescence, media degradation and organizational change.
DPC raises awareness of the strategic, cultural and technological challenges which its members face, independent of the interests of solution providers, and the coalition encourages collaboration for mutual benefit and the greater good.
DPC sustains and delivers these aims through advocacy, community engagement, workforce development, good practice and good governance. These actions create, empower, structure and extend a global community, working together for a sustainable digital legacy. This ambition for the greater good underpins DPC's charitable purpose.
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Founding year
2002
Contact details
Central Mail Room
University Avenue
Glasgow
Lanarkshire
G12 8QQ
United Kingdom
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Aberystwyth University
Durham University
Heriot-Watt University
King's College London (KCL)
Lancaster University
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Loughborough University
Queen's University Belfast
The Open University
University College London (UCL)
University of Bristol
University of East Anglia
University of Glasgow
University of Hull
University of Kent
University of Liverpool
University of London
University of Nottingham
University of Oxford
University of Portsmouth
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University of Sheffield
University of Southampton
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University of Strathclyde
University of Sussex
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