Announcing the Digital Preservation Services Collaborative (DPSC) Planning Project | August 23, 2022 | Educopia Institute

"The Educopia Institute, partnering with six members of the Digital Preservation Services Collaborative (APTrust, Chronopolis, CLOCKSS, LYRASIS, MetaArchive, and Texas Digital Library), has been awarded a grant of $147,688 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to study the needs for and feasibility of a collaborative community-supported digital preservation service. Together, the partners in this project serve over 800 member organizations of varying types and sizes, ranging from university archives to publishers to historical societies. Through this planning grant, the project team will articulate the need for community-supported, values-driven digital preservation services and develop a design for a future shared service model. By centering a set of shared values that empower communities of practitioners, the project aims to engage in a collaborative, bottom-up process that brings multiple stakeholders into the big tent of planning for the future of digital preservation.  Hannah Wang and Jessica Meyerson from Educopia Institute will act as Co-Principal Investigators, with Wang serving as Project Director. Partner institution representatives for the project include Bradley Daigle (APTrust), Sibyl Schaefer (Chronopolis), Alicia Wise (CLOCKSS), Lydia Tang (LYRASIS), and Courtney Mumma (Texas Digital Library). ..."