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In just five weeks, on Thursday 6 November 2025, the global digital preservation community will come together to celebrate World Digital Preservation Day (#WDPD2025)!

This year’s theme, “Why Preserve?”, invites digital preservation practitioners to reflect on their organization’s motivations for preserving their unique digital collections. Whether it’s safeguarding evidence and accountability, ensuring access to culture and knowledge, reducing risks and costs, or passing today’s stories on to tomorrow’s communities - your “why” matters.

Organized by the DPC and supported by digital preservation networks around the globe, World Digital Preservation Day is open to participation from anyone interested in securing our digital legacy - across all sectors and geographic locations. Join us in a whole day dedicated to discovering digital preservation stories and answers to the question Why Preserve? and share your unique motivations through blog posts, social media posts, events and creative activities!

WDPD logos and stickers now available
We are thrilled to announce that the official WDPD 2025 logos are ready to download in 47 languages, now including Papiamento! Use them on your website, in your email signature, or on social media to promote World Digital Preservation Day in your country.

Back by popular demand, the WDPD stickers are now available to order!* They’re a fun and simple way to start conversations about digital preservation - whether with colleagues, friends, or those new to the community.

Please note: stock is limited and orders will be filled on a first come, first served basis.

Other ways to celebrate
There are so many ways to take part! How about:

• Hosting a webinar, lightning talk, workshop, or open house

• Sharing your organization’s “why” in a blog

• Getting creative - sing, bake, crochet, code, or build something that celebrates digital preservation

• Posting your activities, photos, and ideas on social media with the hashtag #WDPD2025

Global events page

Visit the WDPD Global Events page to see a whirlwind of activities organized by institutions around the world on World Digital Preservation Day. Your event can be up there too: let us know your plans so we can add your event to the list and share it with the international community. Please submit details to angela.puggioni@dpconline.org.

With five weeks to go, now’s the perfect time to plan your WDPD2025 activities. Together, let’s raise awareness, inspire action, and make digital preservation visible around the world.

For stickers, logos, events, and the latest updates, visit the World Digital Preservation Day page.

Each year, DPC Members are encouraged to carry out a self-assessment using the DPC Rapid Assessment Model (RAM) and to share their results with us so that they can be collated, summarized, and shared back across the membership. Members can complete an assessment at any point in the year to fit their own schedule.

The DPC RAM, a maturity model for digital preservation, helps organizations of all sizes assess and improve their capacity to preserve digital content.

This year’s report provides a valuable snapshot of digital preservation capacity across the Coalition, showing strengths, trends, and gaps. 

We are pleased to announce that v.121 of PRONOM has now been released. Version 121 features 29 new PUIDs, 29 new signatures and 18 updates.

The countdown is on: In just six weeks, on Thursday 6 November, we’ll be celebrating World Digital Preservation Day (#WDPD2025)!

This global day is our chance to raise awareness of digital preservation and connect with colleagues and organizations around the world. Every year, on the first Thursday of November, the digital preservation community celebrates all things digital preservation, and in 2025 we’re asking the powerful question: “Why Preserve?”

This year’s theme encourages organizations and individuals to share their motivations for digital preservation. What drives your work? What stories are you planning to tell on World Digital Preservation Day?

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to welcome Kommunalförbundet Sydarkivera as its newest Associate Member.

A local federation of 39 municipalities and one region in Sweden, Kommunalförbundet Sydarkivera serves as a shared archive authority for its members. It manages a joint archival system and is responsible for the preservation and long-term archiving of digital information.

"As our members’ preservation agency, our goal is to be an active part of the digital preservation community so we can provide the best possible service to meet our members’ needs - covering the full range of digital objects found across municipalities and regions," says Karin Bredenberg, Metadata Strategist at Kommunalförbundet Sydarkivera.