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The Digital Preservation Award is an international award sponsored by the
Digital Preservation Coalition The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is a UK-based non-profit that works with global partners to provide the necessary resources to educate various public and private entities on the best practices for long term digital preservation. Backgr ...
. The award 'recognises the many new initiatives being undertaken in the challenging field of
digital preservation In library and archival science, digital preservation is a formal endeavor to ensure that digital information of continuing value remains accessible and usable. It involves planning, resource allocation, and application of preservation methods an ...


It was inaugurated in 2004. It was initially presented as part of the
Institute of Conservation The Institute of Conservation (Icon) is the professional charitable body, representing and supporting the practice and profession of conservation. It has around 2500 members worldwide, including professional conservators, scientists and teachers i ...
Conservation Awards. Since 2012 the prize is presented independently. The prize includes a trophy and a cheque. Awards ceremonies have taken place at the
British Library The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is one of the largest libraries in the world. It is estimated to contain between 170 and 200 million items from many countries. As a legal deposit library, the Briti ...
, the
British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docume ...
and the
Wellcome Trust The Wellcome Trust is a charitable foundation focused on health research based in London, in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1936 with legacies from the pharmaceutical magnate Henry Wellcome (founder of one of the predecessors of Glax ...
.


Winners and shortlisted entries


2004


Winner

* The Digital Archive: The National Archives of the United Kingdom


Shortlisted

* The CAMiLEON Project:
University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...
&
University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
(Special Commendation) * JISC Continuing Access and Digital Preservation Strategy:
Jisc Jisc is a United Kingdom not-for-profit company that provides network and IT services and digital resources in support of further and higher education institutions and research as well as not-for-profits and the public sector. History T ...
* Preservation Metadata Extraction Tool: National Library of New Zealand * Wellcome Library/JISC Web Archiving Project:
Wellcome Library The Wellcome Library is founded on the collection formed by Sir Henry Wellcome (1853–1936), whose personal wealth allowed him to create one of the most ambitious collections of the 20th century. Henry Wellcome's interest was the history of m ...
&
Jisc Jisc is a United Kingdom not-for-profit company that provides network and IT services and digital resources in support of further and higher education institutions and research as well as not-for-profits and the public sector. History T ...


2005


Winner

* PREMIS (Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies): PREMIS Working Group


Shortlisted

* Choosing the optimal digital preservation strategy:
Vienna University of Technology TU Wien (TUW; german: Technische Universität Wien; still known in English as the Vienna University of Technology from 1975–2014) is one of the major universities in Vienna, Austria. The university finds high international and domestic recogn ...
* Digital Preservation Testbed:
National Archives of the Netherlands The Nationaal Archief (NA) is the national archives of the Netherlands, located in The Hague. It houses collections for the central government, the province of South Holland, and the former County of Holland. There is also material from private i ...
* Reverse Standards Conversion:
British Broadcasting Corporation #REDIRECT BBC Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board exam. ...
*
UK Web Archiving Consortium The UK Web Archive is a consortium of the six UK legal deposit libraries which aims to collect all UK websites at least once each year. History In 2005, the British Library, The National Archives, Wellcome Trust, National Library of Scotland, ...


2007


Winner

* Active Preservation at The National Archives - PRONOM Technical Registry and DROID file format identification tool: The National Archives of the United Kingdom


Shortlisted

* LIFE:
British Library The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is one of the largest libraries in the world. It is estimated to contain between 170 and 200 million items from many countries. As a legal deposit library, the Briti ...
* Web Curator Tool software development project: National Library of New Zealand &
British Library The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is one of the largest libraries in the world. It is estimated to contain between 170 and 200 million items from many countries. As a legal deposit library, the Briti ...
* PARADIGM (The Personal Archives Accessible in Digital Media):
Bodleian Library The Bodleian Library () is the main research library of the University of Oxford, and is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. It derives its name from its founder, Sir Thomas Bodley. With over 13 million printed items, it is the sec ...
,
University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in contin ...
, &
John Rylands University Library The University of Manchester Library is the library system and information service of the University of Manchester. The main library is on the Oxford Road campus of the university, with its entrance on Burlington Street. There are also ten other ...
,
University of Manchester The University of Manchester is a public university, public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester city centre, Manchester City Centre on Wilmslow Road, Oxford Road. The university owns and operates majo ...
* Digital Repository Audit and Certification:
Center for Research Libraries The Center for Research Libraries (also known by its acronym, CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research library, research libraries, based on a buy-in concept for membership of the consortia. The cons ...
, RLG-OCLC,
NARA The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an " independent federal agency of the United States government within the executive branch", charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records. It ...
,
Digital Curation Centre The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) was established to help solve the extensive challenges of digital preservation and digital curation and to lead research, development, advice, and support services for higher education institutions in the United ...
,
Digital Preservation Europe The Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development, also called Framework Programmes or abbreviated FP1 to FP9, are funding programmes created by the European Union/European Commission to support and foster research in the Europea ...
and NESTOR


2010


Winner

* The
Memento Project Memento is a United States ''National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program ( NDIIPP)''–funded project aimed at making Web-archived content more readily discoverable and accessible to the public. Technical description ...
: Time Travel for the Web :
Old Dominion University Old Dominion University (Old Dominion or ODU) is a public research university in Norfolk, Virginia. It was established in 1930 as the Norfolk Division of the College of William & Mary and is now one of the largest universities in Virginia wi ...
and the
Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory (often shortened as Los Alamos and LANL) is one of the sixteen research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy (DOE), located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, i ...
in the United States


Shortlisted

* Web Continuity: ensuring access to online government information, from The National Archives UK * PLATO 3: Preservation Planning made simple from Vienna University of Technology and the PLANETS Project * The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access * Preserving Virtual Worlds, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign with Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Maryland, Stanford University and Linden Lab in the United States


2012


Winner - outstanding contribution to teaching and communication in digital preservation in the last 2 years

* The Digital Preservation Training Programme, University of London Computing Centre


Shortlisted - outstanding contribution to teaching and communication in digital preservation in the last 2 years

* The Signal, Library of Congress * Keeping Research Data Safe Project, Charles Beagrie Ltd and partners * Digital Archaeology Exhibition, Story Worldwide Ltd


Winner - outstanding contribution to research and innovation in digital preservation in the last two years

* The PLANETS Project Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services, The Open Planets Foundation and partners


Shortlisted - outstanding contribution to research and innovation in digital preservation in the last two years

* Data Management Planning Toolkit, The Digital Curation Centre and partners * TOTEM Trustworthy Online Technical Environment Metadata Registry, University of Portsmouth and partners * The KEEP Emulation Framework, Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands) and partners


Winner - most outstanding contribution to digital preservation in the last decade

* The
Archaeology Data Service The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) is an open access digital archive for archaeological research outputs. It is located in The King's Manor, at the University of York. Originally intended to curate digital outputs from archaeological researcher ...
at the University of York


Shortlisted - most outstanding contribution to digital preservation in the last decade

* The
International Internet Preservation Consortium The International Internet Preservation Consortium is an international organization of libraries and other organizations established to coordinate efforts to preserve internet content for the future. It was founded in July 2003 by 12 participatin ...
* The National Archives for the
PRONOM PRONOM ( Public Record Office and Nôm 喃) is a web-based technical registry to support digital preservation services, developed by The National Archives of the United Kingdom. PRONOM was the first and remains, to date, the only operational p ...
and DROID services * The
PREMIS PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (PREMIS) is the de facto digital preservation metadata standard. Digital preservation metadata defines the information that is needed to ensure the long-term usability of digital objects to keep th ...
Preservation Metadata Working Group for the PREMIS Standard


2014


Winner - OPF Award for Research and Innovation

* bwFLA Functional Long Term Archiving and Access by the
University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württe ...
and partners


Shortlisted - OPF Award for Research and Innovation

* Jpylyzer by the KB (
National Library of the Netherlands The Royal Library of the Netherlands ( Dutch: Koninklijke Bibliotheek or KB; ''Royal Library'') is the national library of the Netherlands, based in The Hague, founded in 1798. The KB collects everything that is published in and concerning the N ...
) and partners * The SPRUCE Project by The
University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...
and partners


Winner - NCDD Award for Teaching and Communications

* Practical Digital Preservation: a how to guide for organizations of any size by Adrian Brown


Shortlisted - NCDD Award for Teaching and Communications

* Skilling the Information Professional by
Aberystwyth University Aberystwyth University ( cy, Prifysgol Aberystwyth) is a Public university, public Research university, research university in Aberystwyth, Wales. Aberystwyth was a founding member institution of the former federal University of Wales. The universi ...
* Introduction to Digital Curation: An open online UCLeXtend Course by
University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = � ...


Winner - Award for the Most Distinguished Student Work in Digital Preservation

* Game Preservation in the UK by Alasdair Bachell,
University of Glasgow , image = UofG Coat of Arms.png , image_size = 150px , caption = Coat of arms Flag , latin_name = Universitas Glasguensis , motto = la, Via, Veritas, Vita , ...


Shortlisted - Award for the Most Distinguished Student Work in Digital Preservation

* Voices from a Disused Quarry by Kerry Evans, Ann MacDonald and Sarah Vaughan,
University of Aberystwyth , mottoeng = A world without knowledge is no world at all , established = 1872 (as ''The University College of Wales'') , former_names = University of Wales, Aberystwyth , type = Public , endowment ...
and partners * Emulation v Format Conversion by Victoria Sloyan,
University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = � ...


Winner - Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy

* Carcanet Press Email Archive,
University of Manchester The University of Manchester is a public university, public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester city centre, Manchester City Centre on Wilmslow Road, Oxford Road. The university owns and operates majo ...


Shortlisted - Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy

* Conservation and Re-enactment of Digital Art Ready-Made, by the
University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württe ...
and Rhizome * Inspiring Ireland,
Digital Repository of Ireland The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is a digital repository for Ireland's humanities, social science and cultural heritage data. It was designed as an open access infrastructure that allows for interactive use and sustained growth. Three insti ...
and Partners * The Cloud and the Cow, Archives and Records Council of Wales


2016


Winner - SSI Award for Research and Innovation

* NCDD and NDE, �
Constructing a network of nationwide facilities together.
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Winner - NCDD Award for Teaching and Communications

* The National Archives and The Scottish Council on Archives: �
Transforming Archives/Opening Up Scotland’s Archives.
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Winner - Award for the Most Distinguished Student Work in Digital Preservation

* Anthea Seles, University College London and �
The Transferability of Trusted Digital Repository Standards to an East African context.
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Winner - The National Archives Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy

* Amsterdam Museum and Partners, �
The Digital City revives: A case study of web archaeology.
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Winner - DPC Award for the Most Outstanding Digital Preservation Initiative in Industry

* HSBC,
The Global Digital Archive


DPC Fellowship

* Brewster Kahle, the Internet Archive


Full List of Finalists 2016


List of Finalists


2018


Winner - Software Sustainability Institute Award for Research and Innovation


ePADD
University of Stanford


Shortlisted - Software Sustainability Institute Award for Research and Innovation

* VeraPDF, Open Preservation Foundation * Contributions towards Defining the Discipline, Sarah Higgins - Aberystwyth University
Flashback: Preservation of legacy digital collections
British Library


Winner - DPC Award for Teaching and Communications


The Archivist’s Guide to KryoFlux
Universities of Texas, Duke, Los Angeles, Yale and Emory


Shortlisted - DPC Award for Teaching and Communications

* Evidence-based postgraduate education in digital information management, University College Dublin * Leren Preserveren (Learning Digital Preservation), Digital Heritage Network and Het Nieuwe Instituut * Ibadan/Liverpool Digital Curation Curriculum Review Project, Universities of Ibadan and Liverpool


Winner - National Records of Scotland Award for the Most Distinguished Student Work in Digital Preservation

*
Navigating the PDF/A Standard: A Case Study of Theses
by Anna Oates, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Shortlisted - National Records of Scotland Award for the Most Distinguished Student Work in Digital Preservation

* 'Preserving the past: the challenge of digital archiving within a Scottish Local Authority' by Lorraine Murray, University of Glasgow * 'Essay on the record-making and record-keeping issues implicit in Wearables' by Philippa Turner, University of Liverpool


Winner - Open Data Institute Award for the Most Outstanding Digital Preservation Initiative in Commerce, Industry and the Third sector

* Archiving Crossrail - Europe’s largest infrastructure project, Crossrail and Transport for London


Shortlisted - Open Data Institute Award for the Most Outstanding Digital Preservation Initiative in Commerce, Industry and the Third sector

* Music Treasures, Stichting Omroep Muziek (SOM) * Heritage preservation of contemporary dance and choreography through research and innovation in digital documentation and annotation of creative processes, ICKamsterdam and Motion Bank


Winner - The National Archives Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy


IFI Open Source tools: IFIscripts/ Loopline project
IFI Irish Film Archive


Shortlisted - The National Archives Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy

* Cloud-Enabled Preservation of Life in the 20th Century White House, White House Historical Association Digital Library * Design, Deliver, Embed: Establishing Digital Transfer in Parliament, UK Parliamentary Archives * Local Authority Digital Preservation Consortium: Dorset History Centre, West Sussex Records Office, Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre


DPC Fellowship

* Barbara Sierman, KB Netherlands


See also

*
List of computer science awards This list of computer science awards is an index to articles on notable awards related to computer science. It includes lists of awards by the Association for Computing Machinery, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, other comput ...
*
Digital preservation In library and archival science, digital preservation is a formal endeavor to ensure that digital information of continuing value remains accessible and usable. It involves planning, resource allocation, and application of preservation methods an ...
*
Digital Preservation Coalition The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is a UK-based non-profit that works with global partners to provide the necessary resources to educate various public and private entities on the best practices for long term digital preservation. Backgr ...


References

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External links


Digital Preservation Awards website

Conservation Awards website
Digital preservation Computer science awards