Digital Preservation Award

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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. It was initially presented as part of the Institute of ConservationConservation 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 Museum and the Wellcome Trust.

Winners and shortlisted entries

2004

Winner

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

Shortlisted

2005

Winner

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

Shortlisted

  • Choosing the optimal digital preservation strategy: Vienna University of Technology
  • Digital Preservation Testbed: National Archives of the Netherlands
  • Reverse Standards Conversion: British Broadcasting Corporation
  • UK Web Archiving Consortium

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

2010

Winner

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 [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

  • 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 at the University of York

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

2014

Winner - OPF Award for Research and Innovation

Shortlisted - OPF Award for Research and Innovation

Winner - NCDD Award for Teaching and Communications

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

Shortlisted - NCDD Award for Teaching and Communications

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

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 and partners
  • Emulation v Format Conversion by Victoria Sloyan, University College London

Winner - Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy

Shortlisted - Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy

  • Conservation and Re-enactment of Digital Art Ready-Made, by the University of Freiburg and Rhizome
  • Inspiring Ireland, Digital Repository of Ireland and Partners
  • The Cloud and the Cow, Archives and Records Council of Wales

2016

Winner - SSI Award for Research and Innovation

Winner - NCDD Award for Teaching and Communications

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

Winner - The National Archives Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy

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

DPC Fellowship

  • Brewster Kahle, the Internet Archive

Full List of Finalists 2016


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