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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 will celebrate all things digital preservation on 5 November 2026. Save our Stories (SOS): Our Digital Heritage in Danger Organized by the DPC and supported by digital preservation networks around the globe, World Digital Preservation Day is open to anyone interested in securing our digital legacy. On 5 November 2026, we invite you to join this year's...
Saving Local News Stories - From Preservation Pilot to Sustainable Service
Karen Hanson is the Lead Research Developer at Portico. For World Digital Preservation Day and the Save Our Stories theme, it seemed apt to introduce our current pilot project to preserve digital news and a new Mellon-funded project with Portico’s long-time partner, NYU Libraries. For over a decade, members of the library, archives, and journalism communities in the US have raised concerns about whether digital news is being adequately preserved as the industry shifts from print to...
When Music History Becomes Hard to Find: My Fight to Preserve an Independent Artist’s Legacy
Melissa Bailey is an independent recording artist, author and network engineer. I looked back to see how far I had come, only to discover that some of my achievements were becoming harder to trace publicly. One example is the historical Billboard R&B Digital Song Sales entry connected to my single “Dancing in the Rain.” I have older evidence of that chart history, but the entry is no longer easy to locate through the current artist-profile experience. I have been in contact with...
SOS! DPC RAM needs you! Call for community input into DPC’s Rapid Assessment Model
Jen Mitcham is the Chief Digital Preservation Officer at DPC. The DPC developed the Rapid Assessment Model (RAM) in 2019 as part of a project with the UK’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. Based on a maturity model published by Adrian Brown of the UK Parliamentary Archives, RAM provided a way of articulating what digital preservation good practice looks like, and a means for organizations to better understand their current capability and set targets for continuous improvement. Since...
Architecture in print! Professional magazines as heritage in danger
Phoebus Panigyrakis, Architect-Researcher, PhD, at Architectural Periodicals Database When does a building become architecture? When it is experienced, and appreciated as a cultural object that people can live in. But a building is an idea long before it becomes reality, and this idea has been documented in designs long before it is built, and lives on paper even after it has been altered or demolished. For most of the twentieth century, the architectural magazine was where building news...
Fighting for justice and capturing the cassettes: saving the stories of early twenty first century activism
Eren Delaney is the Digital Preservation Specialist and Rachel MacGregor is the Digital Preservation Office at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. As an archives service, the Modern Records Centre’s main aim is to preserve and provide access to the historical material that we look after, seeking to maintain its existence in its current form for as long as possible. Our mission statement could well be "Save Our Stories" and we work hard across a wide range of...
Save Our Data: Preserving At-Risk US Federal Data at the University of Cambridge
Alea Cook is the Digital Preservation Analyst at Cambridge University Libraries and Archives (CULA). When we talk about digital preservation today, the scope goes beyond scanning historical volumes or maintaining local drives. Modern preservation practices are fundamentally digital, and increasingly, they include open public data. Public datasets form the statistical backbone of modern society - underpinning democratic representation, public infrastructure, and research worldwide.
Archives in danger: preserving CERN’s history of international collaboration
This blog is co-authored by Salomé Rohr, Concepción Pérez Carrasco and Olivia Mandica-Hart at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). This year's World Digital Preservation Day theme, "Save our Stories (SOS): Our Digital Heritage in Danger ", invites us to reflect not only on archives threatened by conflict, neglect or technological obsolescence, but also on collections whose value remains insufficiently recognised. Administrative records are sometimes among the most...
Saving Student Stories
This blog is authored by Cassie Shaw, Lead Digital Archivist at RMIT University Archives. The concept of stories as a hook to grab an audience has been a major advocacy tool for us at RMIT University Archives as we’ve worked on our Digital Preservation Strategy and Roadmap over the past three years. When we started engaging with our users across the university via interviews and focus groups, we used the line “What is the story you want to tell about RMIT in the future?” to draw them into...
Preserving Holocaust Testimony for the Future
Ada Alster is the archivist at the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre (VHEC), where she works to preserve and provide access to the Centre’s collections. She sleeps a little more soundly knowing that the VHEC’s audiovisual testimonies are being carefully preserved, monitored and protected through ongoing digital preservation work. What does it take to ensure that Holocaust testimony remains accessible decades from now? The VHEC holds more than 200 audiovisual testimonies, oral histories...
Save Our Signs to Save our Stories!
Carol Kussmann is the Digital Preservation Analyst and Jenny McBurney is the Government Publications Librarian at University of Minnesota Libraries. The Save Our Signs project has been helping to Save our Stories since July 2025. With educational signs and displays at U.S. National Parks, monuments, and historic sites at imminent risk of removal or censorship, the SOS team recruited the help of the public to collect photographs of as many signs as possible before the initial submission...
World Digital Preservation Day PRONOM Hackathon (7th - 14th November 2024)
Back by popular demand, the PRONOM team will be running their yearly hackathon, PRONOM Research Week 2024, to mark World Digital Preservation Day. This year the hackathon will be the 7th November-15th November.
The room of requirement: working together to set up a digital preservation lab at State Library Victoria
This blog has been written by Carey Garvie, Senior Digital Preservation Specialist, Library Systems & Digital Preservation and Susannah Bourke, Digital Archivist, Description Original Materials at State Library Victoria This year’s theme for World Digital Preservation Day - Digital Preservation: A Concerted Effort feels extremely pertinent to our experience over the last year. In December 2022, State Library Victoria appointed two new Digital Preservation positions. Together these...
How to make friends and expand your brain: why not give DPC Reading Club a try?
Earlier this year, we established our DPC Reading Club. It is something we had talked about doing for a while but we finally put those thoughts into action and held our first session in April this year. It has been a monthly fixture in our events calendar ever since and we even managed a face-to-face session at our unconference in June. Our Reading Club sessions are small, informal and friendly and genuinely one of the highlights of my month. I was really sad to miss last month’s...
Invitation to join our Python Study Group Launch & Information Session
Are you passionate about coding in Python, teaching others and supporting the digital preservation community? Or would you like to improve your coding skills and learn how to use Python for your digital preservation work?
Does net zero emissions from energy usage in the cloud mean carbon free digital preservation is on the horizon?
Matthew Addis is the Chief Technology Officer at Arkivum. If cloud infrastructure providers such as Google, AWS and Azure have net zero emissions from their use of energy, then does this mean we no longer need to worry about the carbon footprint of digital preservation in the cloud? The answer is no. Carbon emissions from energy consumption is just one part of the story. The embodied footprint [7] of all the ICT servers that run in the cloud also needs to be taken into...
DPC Reading Club: How the concept of AI technology impacts digital archival expertise
Today’s Reading Club session was a thought provoking discussion inspired by an article from Amber Cushing and Giulia Osti in the Journal of Documentation - “So how do we balance all of these needs?”: how the concept of AI technology impacts digital archival expertise (https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-08-2022-0170). The article summarized the thoughts and expectations of a focus group of archival practitioners around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the impact on expertise within the sector. After a...
DPC Reading Club: a radical empathy approach to disk imaging
Our second DPC Reading Club was held last month and focused on an article by Monique Lassere and Jess M. Whyte called “Balancing Care and Authenticity in Digital Collections: A Radical Empathy Approach to Working with Disk Images” (available at https://doi.org/10.24242/jclis.v3i2.125) This paper was a great follow on from our reading from Thorsten Ries last time as it looked at the topic of digital forensics from a different angle, suggesting a ‘radical empathy’ approach to tackling disk...
Call for Applicants: DPC Grants for NTTW7 in Prague
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is pleased to announce it is offering up to two Career Development Fund travel grants to support DPC members attending the 7th edition of The No Time To Wait Conference (#NTTW7), which will be hosted by the Národní filmový archiv and MediaArea.net on November 8th – 10th 2023 at Kino NFA Ponrepo in Prague, Czechia. These grants, detailed below, will contribute funding to help with the costs of travel for DPC Members attending the conference in...
DPC Reading Club: digital forensics and born-digital archives
Yesterday was the first meeting of DPC’s Reading Club…I’m hoping the first of many! A group of DPC Members met over Zoom for a friendly chat to discuss a recent article by Thorsten Ries - Digital history and born-digital archives: the importance of forensic methods.