Digital Preservation Award

The Digital Preservation Award is an international award sponsored by the Digital Preservation Coalition. The award 'recognises the many new initiatives being undertaken in the challenging field of digital preservation'.[1] It was inaugurated in 2004 and was initially presented as part of the Institute of ConservationConservation Awards. Since 2012 the prize, which includes a trophy and a cheque, is presented independently. Awards ceremonies have taken place at the British Library, the British Museum and the Wellcome Trust.

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2010 edit

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  • 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 edit

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

  • 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 edit

  • 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 edit

  • The PLANETS Project [1] 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 edit

  • 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 edit

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

2014 edit

Winner - OPF Award for Research and Innovation edit

Shortlisted - OPF Award for Research and Innovation edit

Winner - NCDD Award for Teaching and Communications edit

  • Practical Digital Preservation: a how to guide for organizations of any size [2] by Adrian Brown

Shortlisted - NCDD Award for Teaching and Communications edit

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

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

Winner - Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy edit

Shortlisted - Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy edit

2016 edit

Winner - SSI Award for Research and Innovation edit

Winner - NCDD Award for Teaching and Communications edit

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

Winner - The National Archives Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy edit

Winner - DPC Award for the Most Outstanding Digital Preservation Initiative in Industry edit

DPC Fellowship edit

  • Brewster Kahle, the Internet Archive

Full List of Finalists 2016 edit

2018 edit

Winner - Software Sustainability Institute Award for Research and Innovation edit

  • ePADD, University of Stanford

Shortlisted - Software Sustainability Institute Award for Research and Innovation edit

Winner - DPC Award for Teaching and Communications edit

Shortlisted - DPC Award for Teaching and Communications edit

  • 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 edit

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

  • '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 edit

  • 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 edit

  • 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 edit

Shortlisted - The National Archives Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy edit

  • 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 edit

  • Barbara Sierman, KB Netherlands

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Planets: Home". web site. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  2. ^ "Practical Digital Preservation". web site. Retrieved 23 November 2014.

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