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Karyn
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Archivist and Digital Preservation Practitioner. Digital Preservation Analyst at the Digital Preservation Coalition. Keen crafter and theatre goer.
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🎉 Whoop whoop! The #wdpd2025 logos are live — in languages from around the world! Use them on your website, email signature, or socials to promote World Digital Preservation Day 2025 in your country. Get ready for the celebrations on Thursday 6 November 2025 […]

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September 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
If you are looking for easy to understand digital preservation training resources then look no further than our next #DPClinic. The resources produced by this project are second to none and of particular relevance to community groups.
www.dpconline.org/events/event...
September 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
With the issues around class gender race and diversity in general facing the record keeping sector at the moment, I cannot recommend this book enough. A brilliant introduction and lots of practical guidance we can apply to our sector.
Give it a read!
September 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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📢 DPC Career Development Fund announcement!

Supporting #dpc members to attend #ipres2025 in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington), Aotearoa through our latest grant opportunity!

🎯 Full registration coverage
🌏 In-person & virtual options
⏰ Apply by July 1st, 2025
🔐 Available to DPC Members only […]
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June 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
We're taking our community archives toolkit on the road! Come and start your digital preservation journey with support and guidance from us, including 1-2-1 sessions.
www.dpconline.org/events/event...
February 20, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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It's #dpc #digitalpreservation #ff Follow Friday. This week a simple reflection. Data has never mattered more, and never more fragile. #DPC and the #digipres community have expertise and contacts that will help with that. Spread the word and save the bits.
February 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Explore Your Archive is now on BlueSky! Come say Hi @ @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social . So many gems found in archives being posted every day!
February 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Photo-Me trashed all their analogue booths when restructuring in late 90s so all analogue photobooths today are run by independent people/small companies. I’ve been conducting interviews w/all these techs (incl Ryan below) for a community archive: The Photobooth Technicians Project- link in bio!
January 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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As the world goes to shit, we are all going to have to work extra hard to be consciously, deliberately and aggressively decent to each other
January 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Thanks to the 1,600 people and organisations who responded to the UK Ministry of Justice’s proposals on the retention of wills. Good news: The UK Government has determined not to proceed with any reforms that involve the destruction of original wills
Read in full here: www.gov.uk/government/c...
January 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Well done everyone who responded! Great result!
Well, this IS good news, isn’t it?

Well done to everyone that responded to the plans, see, people power can make a difference!

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/677e4b...
January 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I'm working on a cataloguing resource for the Digital Preservation Community Archives Toolkit (www.dpconline.org/digipres/imp...) today. If you could tell Community archives #JustOneThing about cataloguing hybrid collections, what would it be? Do you have any rules for cataloguing digitised content?
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January 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Still lot's of time to sign up and learn more about the toolkit. I'm also hoping to hear feedback from those using it!
I'm talking about the Digital Preservation Toolkit for Community Archives at the December #DPCClinic on the 16th December at 5pm. I'd love you to join me. Have a look and sign up here, www.dpconline.org/events/event...
December 6, 2024 at 10:41 AM
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Unsure what Business as Usual means for #DigitalPreservation?

Join me and Jenny Mitcham online on January 21st if you're interested in this topic and how it might apply to your own work!

Register here: www.dpconline.org/events/event...
Digital Preservation as ‘Business as Usual’ - Digital Preservation Coalition
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December 6, 2024 at 10:18 AM
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This is a fine article on the difficulties of archival digitization.

Worth adding, that high quality text transcription also requires considerable time, investment and quality control.

#Archives
November 25, 2024 at 2:00 PM
I'm talking about the Digital Preservation Toolkit for Community Archives at the December #DPCClinic on the 16th December at 5pm. I'd love you to join me. Have a look and sign up here, www.dpconline.org/events/event...
November 25, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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Now published, #TaNC report 'Unlocking the Potential of Digital Collections. A call to action' zenodo.org/records/1383...
#MuseTech #DH
Unlocking the Potential of Digital Collections. A call to action
This document presents the policy recommendations of Towards a National Collection (TaNC), a five-year, £18.9 million investment in the UK’s world-renowned museums, archives, libraries and galleries, ...
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November 21, 2024 at 1:17 PM
This handout created by the Heritage Trust Network is one of the most useful I've seen in a long time. #CelebrateCHC
November 21, 2024 at 12:19 PM
I'm at the Engine Shed in Stirling today to be a panelist at a Scotlands Community Heritage Event. #CelebrateCHC. Been asked for thoughts on a strategy that hasn't included archives or digital although it focuses on the historic environment. Should be interesting!
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November 21, 2024 at 10:03 AM
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My next book, Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory comes out in just a few weeks (December 10th!) with @hopkinspress.bsky.social. It'll be open access.

Can't wait to share it all with you.

www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
November 19, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Just finished the second talk in the series of CAHG Digital Preservation webinars. This one on policy and documentation and how the toolkit can help. You can access the toolkit here, doi.org/10.7207/comm... and the webinar recoding will be on the SCA YouTube channel soon!
November 19, 2024 at 1:21 PM
This account will usually be digipres related, but today I am on a train to Birmingham reading this absolute banger of a book and heading to see HERE and Now, the Steps musical and I don't think I've ever been more excited!
November 15, 2024 at 8:38 AM
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To celebrate 2,000 BlueSky followers, I'm going to do a little giveaway.

Repost and follow and I'll pick one lucky person at random to win a 12-month Gift Subscription at Bert's Books worth OVER £100.

You have until noon on Sunday 17th November
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November 13, 2024 at 9:09 AM
I did a presentation for CAHG Scotland yesterday. Talking about what digital preservation is and introducing the 'Just One Thing' resource from the Digital Preservation Community Archives Toolkit. You can see the resource here, www.dpconline.org/docman/digit...
November 13, 2024 at 12:13 PM