Digital Preservation Award

Winners and shortlisted entries

2004

Winner

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

Shortlisted

• The CAMiLEON Project: University of Leeds & University of Michigan
• JISC Continuing Access and Digital Preservation Strategy: Jisc
• Preservation Metadata Extraction Tool: National Library of New Zealand
• Wellcome Library/JISC Web Archiving Project: Wellcome Library & Jisc

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

• LIFE: British Library
• Web Curator Tool software development project: National Library of New Zealand & British Library
• PARADIGM : Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, & John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester
• Digital Repository Audit and Certification: Center for Research Libraries, RLG-OCLC, NARA, Digital Curation Centre, Digital Preservation Europe and NESTOR

2010

Winner

• The Memento Project: Time Travel for the Web : Old Dominion University and the Los Alamos National Laboratory 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 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

• The International Internet Preservation Consortium
• The National Archives for the PRONOM and DROID services
• The PREMIS 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 and partners

Shortlisted - OPF Award for Research and Innovation

• Jpylyzer by the KB and partners
• The SPRUCE Project by The 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
• Introduction to Digital Curation: An open online UCLeXtend Course by University College London

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

• Game Preservation in the UK by Alasdair Bachell, University of Glasgow

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

• Carcanet Press Email Archive, University of Manchester

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

• NCDD and NDE, ‘’

Winner - NCDD Award for Teaching and Communications

• The National Archives and The Scottish Council on Archives: ‘’

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

• Anthea Seles, University College London and ‘’

Winner - The National Archives Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy

• Amsterdam Museum and Partners, ‘’

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

• HSBC, ''

DPC Fellowship

• Brewster Kahle, the Internet Archive

Full List of Finalists 2016

2018

Winner - Software Sustainability Institute Award for Research and Innovation

• , 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
• , British Library

Winner - DPC Award for Teaching and Communications

• , 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, 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

• '' 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
• 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 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