Digital Preservation Coalition.doc

Digital Preservation Coalition

NAS is a member of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), which was established in 2001 to foster joint action to address the urgent challenges of securing the preservation of digital resources in the UK and to work with others internationally to secure our global digital memory and knowledge base. It publishes a quarterly summary of digital preservation activity around the world in its ‘What’s New’ section, http://www.dpconline.org/

e National Archives (TNA)
Digital Preservation pages, including links to information about:
TNA’s Digital Archive
UK National Digital Archive of Datasets (UKNDAD)
TNA trials and pilots
PRONOM (a database system that stores and provides information about file formats and the application software needed to open them).
http://www.pro.gov.uk/about/preservation/digital/default.htm