title: Start 2 Preserve: Building a Community of Practice
creators: Rony Vissers Tamara van Zwol
abstract: Digital preservation can best be approached and worked on within a community. A safe place where practitioners are nearby and where you can ask questions, put forward your experience, share knowledge and insights and work together on issues that are larger than life. But how do you form a community of practice in the first place and keep the community alive and thriving in your region. 
  
  If you wish to start or expand your existing local community of practice: be inspired by a few good practices, provided by members of the subcommittee Start2Preserve.
  
  Collaboration, knowledge sharing, and community-building are key. No expert knowledge required.
keywords: governance, resourcing, and management for dp start 2 preserve