Digital Preservation Workflow Webinars 2026
Delivered online and free to attend, the series is open to all members of the digital preservation and information management community.
Across four themed episodes, speakers from leading institutions will showcase practical workflow processes developed to manage, preserve and provide access to digital content. Each session will feature short presentations followed by live discussion and Q&A, providing attendees with both technical insight and peer exchange.
Program Highlights
Episode 1 – 2 March
Topics include using Power Automate to catalogue records (University of St Andrews), ingesting born-digital records from a major cultural programme (Croydon Archives), and Internet Archive backup processes within the Michigan Digital Preservation Network (University of Michigan Library).
Episode 2 – 4 March
Sessions explore digital preservation on high-performance computing clusters (Digital Research Alliance of Canada), describing and providing access to web archives (Library of Congress), and article processing workflows for the CLOCKSS Archive.
Episode 3 – 5 March
Presentations focus on integrating statistics into preservation workflows (University of Washington), low-budget preservation approaches (City of Newcastle, Australia), and cost-effective workflows using Google Workspace (Ministry of Culture and Francophonie of Côte d’Ivoire).
Episode 4 – 6 March
Topics include automated data import generation in EMu (Bristol Museums), pre-ingest workflows for born-digital transfers (Rockefeller Archive Center), and developing email archiving workflows using historical manuscript collections (Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan).
Each episode concludes with an introduction to the Community Owned Workflows (COW) COPTR wiki, encouraging participants to share and document their own workflows for the benefit of the broader digital preservation community.
Who Should Attend?
This series is particularly relevant for:
-
Practitioners new to digital preservation seeking workflow inspiration
-
Professionals interested in implementing simple or low-cost preservation solutions
-
Those looking to refine or enhance existing workflows
-
Practitioners ready to contribute and discuss their own processes
Access and Recordings
All sessions will be recorded and made available via the DPC website. Recordings will be accessible to members for six weeks before general release. Registration is not required to access recordings after the event.
Registration Details
Registration is free and open to all. Bookings for each episode close 48 hours prior to the session. Attendees are encouraged to confirm availability before registering, as minimum participation numbers are required for events to proceed.
The Digital Preservation Coalition remains committed to fostering an inclusive, respectful and technology-neutral community in alignment with its Inclusion and Diversity Policy.
For records and information professionals working with born-digital content, archives, research outputs or email preservation, this series offers practical, real-world insight into contemporary digital preservation workflows.