Introducing the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Network (DPOE-N)
Anthony Cocciolo, acocciol@pratt.edu
In this presentation, Dean Anthony Cocciolo from the School of Information will introduce the work of the Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Network (DPOE-N). DPOE-N supports digital preservation education and outreach in the nation’s libraries, archives, and museums, and has been supported by a $1.2 million investment from the Mellon Foundation.
DPOE-N was created by the Library of Congress in 2010 to provide digital preservation training across the US. The program transitioned to Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ School of Information and New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program in 2018 to further develop it and support it into the future.
DPOE-N supports digital preservation in LAMs through a number of activities. Its largest program is a microgrant program where cultural heritage professionals, including emerging professionals and COVID-impacted professionals, can apply for professional development funding in the area of digital preservation from a wide variety of providers. DPOE-N also offers a free workshop program across a variety of topics in the digital preservation landscape, such as web archiving, command line tools and python for digital preservation, and anti-racist digital preservation practice. Upcoming workshops include topics around environmentally sustainable digital preservation practice. As DPOE-N has operated much of its time during the pandemic, it is pleased that, this March, it will host a digital preservation workshop for cultural heritage professionals at the University of Puerto Rico. Additional work is underway to support Spanish-speaking communities with digital preservation.