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 4th November 2021!
In 2021 the theme ’Breaking Down Barriers’ is an opportunity to demonstrate how digital preservation supports digital connections, unlocks potential and creates lasting value. And because digital preservation is so crucial in supporting these opportunities, it also points to a critical need to make digital preservation and community activities understandable, relatable and accessible to all.
The aim of World Digital Preservation Day is to create greater awareness of digital preservation that will translate into a wider understanding which permeates all aspects of society – business, policy making, personal good practice.
Participate in World Digital Preservation Day
Organised by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and supported by digital preservation networks across the globe, World Digital Preservation Day is open to participation from anyone interested in securing our digital legacy - across all sectors and geographic locations, DPC Members and non-Members alike.
The DPC invites data creators, curators, and consumers from around the world to ‘break down a barrier’ this World Digital Preservation Day by sharing their own digital preservation stories through blog posts, social media posts, events and creative activities.
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BLOG
Break Down a Barrier by sharing your story with us on World Digital Preservation Day. If you have your own blog platform, post your piece there and send us a link to it; we'll add it to the WDPD page! If you are a DPC Member or Supporter, post directly to the DPC blog.
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PICTURES
Show us what a 'digital preservation day' looks like for you by sharing your photos!
Use the hashtag #WDPD2021 when you share.
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VIDEOS
Give and stream a WDPD talk/seminar/lecture! Or, create a song and a dance about digital preservation! (literally).
Follow DPC and #WDPD2021 on YouTube.
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EVENTS
Organise an online seminar, webinar, live stream, watching party, hackathon or gamesroom. The WDPD Events Pack provides everything you'll need for your event.
Keep your eye on the 'What's On' section of the WDPD page of the website (coming soon) to see who else is celebrating and how to get involved!
Keep checking the events page to see what's on.
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RESOURCES
The DPC will publish a new edition of the 'Bit List' of Digitally Endangered Species for World Digital Preservation Day 2021.
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LOGO
The World Digital Preservation Day logo is made available in languages from around the world. Download in your language and add it to related emails, communications and event publicity.
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SOCIAL MEDIA
Break Down a barrier by sharing photos, making videos and showing others what digital preservation is and can do, using the social media platform of your choice.
Follow #WDPD2021
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SUPPORT
World Digital Preservation Day is supported by specialist networks around the world including:
Dutch Digital Heritage Network,
ICPSR,
nestor,
Open Preservation Foundation.
In the run up to WDPD2021, read blog posts shared by the community last year...
- Exact Editions:
Preserving & Distributing Digital Publications During A Pandemic - Bibliothèque nationale de France on the OPF blog:
A Love Letter to Formats (EN) / Une déclaration d’amour aux formats (FR) - Toby Green, Coherent Digital:
Digital Preservation and Policy Commons - Sally McInnes, National Library of Wales
Keeping the Good for Good: Preserving the Laws of Hywel Dda at the National Library of Wales - Stella Wisdom, British Library
World Digital Preservation Day 2020 - Nicole Kearney, Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)
PIDs for historic literature - Klaus Rechert on the OPF blog
Emulating Networks – Preserving Access to Webservers - Charlotte McMillan, Founder, Storychest on the UK Web Archive blog
On World Digital Preservation Day, the UK Web Archive and the ‘Children of Lockdown’ capture the moment for future generations - Beth Pearson and Ali Hayes-Brady, Monash University
Celebrating the positive impact of digital preservation - Kaitlyn Sisk, UTSouthwestern
Preserving digital records during COVID-19 - Faye Fornasier, Courtald Digitisation
World Architecture Unlocked – Our Global Transcription Volunteering On Zooniverse - Expatriate Archive
Expatriate Life in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic - Kayla Heslin, University of Pittsburgh
Multimodal Access: How do we benefit from providing multimodal access to publicly accessible digital collections? - Helena Byrne, UK Web Archive
Request for Information: Metadata Management Tool for the UK Web Archive - E. Carvajal and F. O'Kelly, Univeraity of the Arts London
World Digital Preservation Day: Discussing the Digital - Shropshire Archives
World Digital Preservation Day - David Portman, Preservica
Using digital preservation in real time to document the global pandemic for future generations - Claire Costigan, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland
Preserving Your Experience- World Digital Preservation Day & our RCSI COVID-19 Archive - Lori Ashley, Preservica
Is COVID-19 a threat or opportunity for electronic government records capture, access and preservation? - Antonio Guillermo Martinez, LIBNOVA
La preservación digital de los datos de investigación (research datasets) - Tuomas J. Alaterä, Tietoarkisto
Tutkimusdata on pysyvän tunnisteensa ansainnut - Simon Wilson
Supporting the EMBL Archive on its digital preservation journey - St George's University London
‘Digits: For Good’: Vaccinating Harrods and Selfridges, or, (Digital) preservation of COVID-19 and influenza records - Expatriate Archive
How does blog archiving work? - Mark Alphenaar, Regionaal Archief Alkmaar
Het digitale (stenen) tijdperk - Jorge Gemetto, Ártica
Preservación digital: manteniendo viva la web - Kaye Boyd, University of South Carolina
People Behind The Progress In Digital Preservation