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'. 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.

Winners and shortlisted entries

2004

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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

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