Have you been thinking about what Micky Lindlar wrote in the blog post “PREMIS for All, For Good, Forever!”? I have! And it most certainly aided me in understanding what happened at the award ceremony at iPres 2022 in Glasgow!
PREMIS won!
The road to the award ceremony
Let’s start from the beginning of this award story. We are in early 2022 and the PREMIS EC followed Micky’s suggestion and are grateful for their aid in writing. So the application for the DPC 20th Anniversary Award was created during the spring time. We got to know that we were one of three finalists based upon the reviews of the applications. Next step was the invite to make an interview with the judges in early June. The interview went well but we still knew nothing, it was really silent. No gossip flew around. The anticipation was real! Then we got invited to the award ceremony and still we didn’t know the result. How to plan for iPres 2022 with an award ceremony with unknown result to attend?
Including all the award ceremony
Eld Zierau from the Royal Danish Library planned the way of how we could include all in the ceremony. Eld planned for celebrating all! And all is really all! All is the members of the EC both current and previous ones and the user community. We cant miss the user community! Without the user community PREMIS wouldn’t be around and wouldn’t be the glue all uses to keep all the preservation metadata together. The result a detachable skirt with portraits of all!
Tack, Eld!
The award ceremony
The wait was long, a lot of prices to celebrate! Our award presenters Kevin Ashley and Edith Halvarsson announced all the finalist for the DPC 20th Anniversary Award. Who of the three finalist would get the award? The golden envelop was opened and PREMIS was announced as the winners!
Proud! Proud! Proud!
We are proud to be the recipients and it gives us a lot of encouragement in knowing that we are taking care of the glue of digital preservation!
Next steps
Now the PREMIS EC will continue the work outlined in the previous blog post! The goal to be the glue for a long time!
Recording
If you want to see the whole ceremony, you can find it here https://youtu.be/H7UA2az6akc and if you just want to see us being surprised with the award fast forward to about the 54th minute.
Acknowledgment
All photos courtesy of the Digital Preservation Coalition.
