Communities
The main general-interest digital preservation communities you can easily join are:
- This mailing list: DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK.
- Mastodon: Join the digipres.club (see this blog post).
- Bluesky: Get started with the Digital Preservation Starter Pack.
- LinkedIn: First follow the DPC and OPF then build out from there.
Lists of Digital Preservation Groups
As digital preservation is a shared concern across a lot of different fields and applications, there are lots of different groups out there. Here are some links to lists of related groups:
- The Digital Preservation Awesome List has a section on the communities in and around digital preservation.
- The nestor Community Profiles are compilations of data on individual communities in digital long-term archiving.
- This shared Google Sheet lists forums and channels related to the practice of digital preservation.
Local & Regional Groups
This is an experimental addition to the site, and to keep things manageable, the initial work has been scoped to a small set of groups. Other groups are welcome to add themselves (or ask me to add them) if they wish. You can read this GitHub discussion to find out more about the status of this experiment.
This is a list of local and regional communities of practice dedicated to digital preservation can set up a simple public web page. The idea is to help people find groups:
- That are run by and for practitioners working in and around digital preservation.
- That are local, so that in-person meetings are possible for members that do not have access to funding to attend conferences.
- That speak a natural/native language they understand.
If your group isn’t listed, please open an issue to tell us about it, or add it directly youself (required a GitHub account).
If there isn’t already a group near you, you could consider starting your own digital preservation community group.
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