World Digital Preservation Day
About World Digital Preservation Day
World Digital Preservation Day (WDPD) is held on the first Thursday of every November. This year we celebrate all things digital preservation on 6 November 2025!
Why Preserve?
The theme of this year's World Digital Preservation Day is Why Preserve? We invite digital preservation practitioners to reflect on their organization’s motivations for preserving their unique digital collections, to share their stories, and to transform those insights into compelling advocacy messages. This theme will identify and highlight the current digital preservation landscape, outline a path forward and invite the community to unite in answering a powerful question: Why Preserve?
View the Why Preserve? Virtual Wall
Discover some of the reasons members of our digital preservation community do what they do, and add yours too!
Participate in World Digital Preservation Day
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!
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MAKE, BAKE, CRAFT
Can you bake an at-risk digital material, crochet a file format, or reconstruct a process in Lego? Share your pictures with us on social media using the hashtag #WDPD2025 and/or #bakeoff
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SING AND DANCE
Channel your musical talents into creating a digital preservation song to share on World Digital Preservation Day.
Need inspiration? Just look at some of the awesome contributions from previous years…
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BLOG
Use your blogging platform to highlight the collections you are working on, share a workflow or simply to explain how you got started in digital preservation.
Read these amazing #digipres posts from bloggers on the DPC blog!
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EVENTS
Game rooms, watch parties, webinars, and retro offices - an array of exciting events are taking place worldwide on World Digital Preservation Day. Discover what's happening near you!
To get YOUR event off to a flying start, we will put together a World Digital Preservation Day Event Pack! Will you be playing bingo, showing the WDPD 2025 logo on your programme or entertaining your online audience with a scrolling background?
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RESOURCES
For WDPD2025, the DPC will release a new version of the Global Bit List of Endangered Digital Species!
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DOWNLOAD YOUR WDPD2025 LOGO!
The WDPD logo for 2025 is now available in languages from around the world for you to download and use on your website, in your email signature or on social media to promote World Digital Preservation Day 2025 in your country.
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SOCIAL MEDIA
Highlight the collections you are working on by sharing photos, videos, and updates about your own digital preservation day using the social media platform of your choice OR take over the corporate social media account for the day to let others outside our community know about digital preservation. Find us on Mastodon and LinkedIn, where we will be sharing blog posts and news stories.
Remember to use the hashtag #WDPD2025!
Why Preserve? virtual wall
Why Preserve?
...Because digital preservation builds a sustainable future for our digital assets!
Read some of the Why Preserve? messages submitted by the digital preservation community for World Digital Preservation Day below, and add yours now! Whatever the reason you or your organisation preserve digital materials, please complete this short form to submit your Why Preserve? story to our virtual wall.
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Because preserving digital records is essential for compliance, accountability, and transparency in every sector. Karyn Williamson, DPC UK |
Because in a world of misinformation, digital preservation protects the integrity of our records, research, and history. Sarah Middleton, DPC UK |
Because we’re keeping knowledge alive for students, scholars, and our community into the future. Student and Scholarly Services, The University of Melbourne |
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Because digital preservation creates moments of connection across time and space Irina Schidt - American University Cairo |
Because the emergence of libraries and archives stems from humanity's need to preserve cultural heritage. Their core mission is to collect, organize, preserve, and distribute the memories of human civilization. Zhenxin Wu- NDPP National Library of China |
Because when records are lost, blurred or inaccessible, residents and citizens lose their right to know how decisions were made and how public money was spent. Villy Magero |
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...we preserve for future use Helen Dafter - The Postal Museum |
Because public access to information... is an important cornerstone of democracy Kommunalförbundet Sydarkivera |
Because preservation is no longer just about storing files. It’s about shaping identity, protecting truth, and creating pathways for innovation Holly Duncan - Preferred Media |