30 November 2018
The Digital Preservation Awards for 2018 were presented at Amsterdam Museum as part of an International Conference hosted by the Dutch Digital Heritage Network for World Digital Preservation Day on Thursday 29th November 2018.
The evening celebrated the achievements of those people and organizations that have made significant and innovative contributions to securing our digital legacy for the long-term, and this year saw the greatest number of nominations received to date. Watch the Ceremony
The IFI Irish Film Archive claimed The Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy with their exception project to preserve the rare Loopline collection of Irish cultural documentaries. Other finalists were the White House Historical Association, the UK Parliamentary Archives and the Local Authority Consortium of West Sussex Records Office, Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre.
The Award for the Most Outstanding Digital Preservation Initiative in Commerce, Industry and Third Sector made a return this year and was won by Crossrail and Transport for London, who beat Stichting Omroep Muziek (Dutch Broadcast Music) and ICKAmsterdam and Motion Bank, with their work to preserve a heavily interlinked dataset covering all phases of Europe’s biggest infrastructure project.
The innovative ePADD project from Stanford University Libraries won the Award for Research and Innovation, while Jennifer Allen, Matthew Farrell, Shira Peltzman, Alice Prael and Dorothy Waugh shared the Award for Teaching and Communications for their open and collaborative ‘Archivists Guide to Kryoflux’. Anna Oates, who completed her thesis at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, took the prize for the Most Outstanding Student Work in Digital Preservation with her work on the PDF/A standard.
2018 also saw the return of the DPC Fellowship Award which was presented to Barbara Sierman who will be known to many in the digital preservation community for her work with the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands) and Open Preservation Foundation, as well as the development of the ISO standards 16363 Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories and ISO 161919 Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of candidate trustworthy digital repositories as well as many other digital preservation projects. The award recognizes Barbara’s sustained personal contribution to digital preservation, her generously shared insights and ongoing collaboration for the widest possible benefit.