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h2. Welcome to the OPF Knowledge Base Wiki

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_The OPF wiki is here to gather knowledge relating to key issues in digital preservation and organise these to allow practitioners, developers and information specialists to better preserve digital heritage. This wiki welcomes contributions from every member of the community and provides a hosting space for many global projects. From_ *{_}practitioners{_}*, we welcome your use case scenarios and problems and hope to link these with solution providers. For *{_}developers{_}{*}_, we not only hope to join you to practitioners in the community through online and face-to-face events, but also welcome your valuable solutions with advice on software development, project hosting and distribution. Gathering together communities and key knowledge allows_ *{_}information managers{_}{*}_ to make effective decisions for preserving our digital heritage. _

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Contribute your requirements and solutions
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Share your challenges and solutions with the community, and view the resulting record of digital preservation practice
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Collaborate
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Get involved with these collaborative digital preservation initiatives, including Q&A on Stack, the Atlas of Digital Damages and the OPF Format Corpus
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Find preservation tools
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Find tools for solving your digital preservation challenges in the OPF Tool Registry
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Understand File Format Risks
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File format risks you should be concerned about, and how to identify them in your content
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Develop Software with the OPF
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All you need to know about developing software with the OPF, with guidance on making your software effective, sustainable, maintainable and reusable
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OPF Projects
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Projects hosted by OPF, including: <a href="http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/AQuA/Home">AQuA</a>, <a href="http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SP/Home">SCAPE</a>, <a href="http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/SPR/Home">SPRUCE</a> and <a href="http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/PHC/Home">Preservation Health Check</a>
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OPF Events and Webinars
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The latest OPF events and hackathons
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h2. Key topics in digital preservation

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<a href="http://wiki.opf-labs.org/display/KB/Database+Preservation">Database Archiving</a>
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