ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Digital Preservation Coalition

Do you know how some things can get old and break over time? Like how your favorite toy might get torn or how old photos can start to fade? It’s the same with things that are on the computer, like pictures or documents. They can get lost, deleted or become unreadable over time if we don’t take good care of them.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is a group of people who want to make sure that important stuff that is on computers doesn’t get lost. They help organizations, like museums and libraries, to save digital things, so they can still be seen and used many years from now.

The DPC helps people who work with computers to learn how to save and protect digital things. They make sure that important documents, photographs, and other digital things are kept in a form that can still be read and used later on, just like how we keep our toys nice so we can still play with them later.

By taking good care of digital things, the DPC helps to preserve important parts of history and culture so that future generations can see and learn from them. So remember, just like how we need to take care of our toys and keep them safe, we also need to take good care of the things on our computers so they can be enjoyed for a long time.