About us

Preserve Together offers a broad range of training and consultancy services to help you build capacity and skills for digital preservation.

Who we are

Preserve Together was established in 2025 by Sharon McMeekin and Paul Wheatley with the aim of offering a broad range of training and consultancy services to help organizations and practitioners build capacity and skills for digital preservation. They bring more than 40 years’ experience at prominent organizations, where they have both played leading roles in advancing preservation good practice. 
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Why choose us

At Preserve Together we believe community and people are at the heart of preservation, and that is a core tenet of how we approach our work. We also understand that there is no one right way to approach digital preservation, and aim to help you develop policy, systems, and processes that work for your unique context and needs.

Based on Good Practice

We bring our substantial knowledge and experience of digital preservation good practice to all our training and consultancy.

Flexible Options

We can tailor our services to any organization size or sector. From large-scale projects to addressing specific issues.

Client Focused

We work with our clients to understand their unique challenges and partner with them to find solutions.

Meet our team:

Sharon McMeekin

Consultant
Sharon is a co-founder of Preserve Together and leads our training outputs as well as contributing to consultancy. Prior to this, she was Head of Workforce Development with the Digital Preservation Coalition for more than a decade, and a Digital Archivist with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland for five years. She has led the development of resources such as the Novice to Know-How training courses, the Digital Asset Register Toolkit, and the Digital Preservation Competency Framework, as well as serving as Managing Editor of the Digital Preservation Handbook. Her community activities have included serving as a board member for the Bridging the Digital Gap trainee program, a trustee for the Scottish Council on Archives, and a co-chair on the iPRES conference program committee. She holds Master’s degrees in Information Technology and Information Management and Preservation from the University of Glasgow.

Paul Wheatley

Consultant
Paul is a co-founder of Preserve Together and leads our consultancy services as well as contributing to training development. He has 25 years of experience working in the field of digital preservation and has previously delivered contracts as an independent consultant to organizations such as Harvard University. Paul has worked on a number of collaborative research and development projects, including leading sub-projects of multi-million-euro EU integrated projects. At the British Library, he led the Digital Preservation Team through the period in which it established itself as a leader in this field. Paul has made significant contributions to digital preservation policy and good practice as one of the leading presenters to this field’s main annual conference, iPRES. In his most recent role at the Digital Preservation Coalition, Paul provided consultancy and support to solve the digital preservation challenges of organizations around the world.