# Digital Preservation Coalition

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC051077
- **Known as:** DPC
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)
- **Registered:** June 24, 2021
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC051077


## Contact

- **Address:** 11 University Gardens, Glasgow
- **Postcode:** G12 8QQ
- **Website:** www.dpconline.org



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;

**What the charity does:** The Digital Preservation Coalition is building a welcoming and inclusive global community, working together to bring about a sustainable future for our digital assets.  We enable our members to deliver resilient, sustainable and useful long-term access to digital content and services, helping them to access and use digital materials beyond the limits of technical obsolescence, media degradation and organizational change.   We raise awareness of the strategic, cultural and technological challenges which our members face, independent of the interests of solution providers, and we encourage collaboration for mutual benefit and the greater good.  We sustain and deliver these aims through advocacy, community engagement, workforce development, good practice and good governance. These actions create, empower, structure and extend a global community, working together for a sustainable digital legacy. This ambition for the greater good underpins our charitable purpose

**Objectives:** 1. The Company’s objects (the “Objects”) are the advancement of education, for the public benefit, concerning securing the preservation of, and access to, digital resources and an enduring global digital memory nationally and internationally. through research, strategic alliances and collaborative working





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** Glasgow City
- **Geographical spread:** UK and overseas






