The “Registries of Good Practice” project is a two-year (2024-2026) co-funded collaboration between the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and Yale University Library (YUL). The project explored and developed different approaches to analyze, collate, present and, most importantly, make discoverable the many existing registries and collections of digital preservation good practice.
- The offical DPC project page is here.
- The formal project announcement can be found here.
- The high-level project plan is managed through this GitHub project.
Project Outputs#
- The Digital Preservation Publications Index
- The Digital Preservation Workbench
- The Awesome Indexer
- The DigiPres Toolbox and a sandbox to play with the toolbox.
- Tool Recipes A highly experimental ’tool registry’ for sharing recipes to assemble and run tricky tools
- Low-maintenance websites:
- The DigiPres Learning Resources Portal
- Copy That Floppy! - Imaging floppy disks for long-term preservation with the Future Nostalgia project
- Updates to DigiPres.org including pages for Communities and about Workflows
- The Bit List of Endangered Digital Materials.
- Work with the Open Preservation Foundation on the COPTR tool registry, summarised here
- The Preservation Registries Special Interest Group
Publications#
- iPRES 2024:
- Understanding your collections with the DigiPres Workbench (workshop)
- Was it all worth it? (a poster based on data from the project)
- BDCAM 2025 - Preserving the born-digital world: How many formats are out there? (details TBA)
- NTTW9 - How many formats are there in the digital world? (details TBA)
- iPRES 2025 (details TBA):
- Understanding the Digital Format Ecosystem (short paper)
- Format Identification in Context: Patterns & Hazards in Digital Preservation Workflows (long paper written with the PR-SIG group)
- Don’t Disk-Ard The Past: Preserving Floppy Disk Knowledge for the Future (short paper co-authored with the Future Nostalgia project)
- Preservation.exe: Working with ICT in Digital Preservation (panel)
- From Silos to Strategy: Aligning Web Archiving and Digital Preservation (panel with IIPC)
- Jupyter Notebooks for Providing Access to Digitized and Born-Digital Collections (workshop with IIPC)
- Stories of Failure and Resilience (birds-of-a-feather with IIPC)
- Blog posts from the project, some hosted here and others hosted by the Digital Preservation Coalition
- Registries of Good Practice: Midpoint Review (2025)
- Registries of Good Practice: Project Closure & Legacy Plan (2026)
Gallery#
Overview of the Digital Preservation Workbench#
See Welcome to the DigiPres Workbench for more information.
Visualisation of the iPRES author network#
See Constellations for more information.