About World Digital Preservation Day
World Digital Preservation Day is held on the first Thursday of every November. This year, on 7th November 2019, the digital preservation community will come together to celebrate their work - the collections they have preserved, the access they have maintained and the understanding they have fostered by preserving digital materials.
Pervasive, changing and ubiquitous, digital technologies are a defining feature of our age. Digital materials are a core commodity for industry, commerce and government. They are fundamental for research, the law and medicine. The creative industries, cultural heritage and the media depend on reliable access to digital materials while families and friends extend and sustain their relationships through digital interactions. What better reason to celebrate the opportunities created by digital preservation?!
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.
Participation 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. World Digital Preservation Day is a window into the daily activities of those involved with or contemplating digital preservation. And, in order to create a full a picture as possible, we showcase a wide range of experiences, activities, projects, collections and challenges.
Data creators, curators and consumers from around the world, DPC members and non-members alike, are invited to get involved and share stories of their own 'digital preservation day.'
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BLOG
Read the digital preservation stories shared with us on World Digital Preservation Day 2018.
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PICTURES
See what a 'digital preservation day' looks like around the world.
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VIDEOS
See how digital preservationists around the world celebrated World Digital Preservation Day 2018:
Watch videos on vimeo:
All the Corrupt Files (Single Ladies [Put a Ring on it] parody)
Digital Preservation: What & Why Leads to Who & How - Teresa Soleau
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EVENTS
Digital preservation themed events, webinars, seminars, launches and informal gatherings took place around the world on World Digital Preservation Day in 2018.
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RESOURCES
The DPC's 'Bit List' of Digitally Endangered Species was updated for World Digital Preservation Day 2018.
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LOGO
The World Digital Preservation Day logo is available in languages from around the world.
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SOCIAL MEDIA
Check out some of the #WDPD2018 tweets to see what the digital preservation got up to on World Digital Preservation Day.
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SUPPORT
World Digital Preservation Day is supported by specialist networks around the world including: Dutch Digital Heritage Network (DHN),
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social
Research (ICPSR), nestor and Open Preservation
Foundation (OPF).
Read more blogs from World Digital Preservation Day 2018, around the world:
Hanging on to what you've got - on Digital Preservation Day
Charles Miller, UK
Introducing the unique archive of Hilma Granqvist (Finnish)
Kira Pihlflyckt, Finnish Institute in the Middle East (FIME)
Reise in die Vergangenheit – Wie Emulationen frühe Arbeitsumgebungen wiederauferstehen lassen / Journey into the past - how emulations revive early work environments (German)
Beat Mattmann, University of Basel
Understanding long-term preservation – today and tomorrow
Fabian Till Schneider, ETH Zürich
Columbia Libraries Celebrates World Digital Preservation Day
Columbia Libraries, USA
Certificate Transparency
David Rosenthal, USA
Inside the Seas of Knowledge Digitization Project
Mattie Gainer, National Archives Foundation, USA
Digitizing Film Guide
by Carla Arton, Director of Technical Operations (Film), Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, Indiana University
A map of Digital Preservation Island – World Digital Preservation Day 2018
Merle Friedrich, TIB Germany
Digging in Digital Dust: Internet Archaeology at KB-NL in the Netherlands
Peter de Bode and Kees Teszelszky, IIPC and KB
Web archiving – what you need to know
Katie Lyne, National Records of Scotland
#WDPD2018
Alex Kinnaman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Digital Preservation: How UM Libraries are Confronting the Challenges of Record Keeping in a Digital World
Natalie Vielfaure, University of Manitoba, Canada
Happy World Digital Preservation Day from New Zealand!
PRC Team, National Library of New Zealand
World Digital Preservation Day 2018
John Trendler, USA
La préservation numérique, un enjeu majeur pour les institutions de mémoire (French)
Martine Renaud, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
Archives Unleashed – Vancouver Datathon
Carl Cooper, Bodleian Libraries, UK
Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group
Shawn M. Jones, Old Dominion University, USA
Celebrating World Digital Preservation Day with the Rosetta Team
Daniel Greenberg, Ex Libris, Israel
How much is doing nothing really costing your organisation? Why digital preservation shouldn’t be ignored.
Paula Keogh, Arkivum, UK
World Digital Preservation Day 2018
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
Mae Moss, Archives and Special Collections Cataloguing Placement.
Mae Moss, University of the Arts London, UK
ADS Business Process Review
Julian Richards, Archeology Data Service, UK
Eight weeks with the OPF
Charlotte Armstrong, Open Preservation Foundation, UK
Community Cultivation, Revisited
Katherine Skinner, Educopia, USA
Humans of Data 28
Kirsty Morrison, The Kings Fund, UK
Humans of Data 28
CODATA
Being trustworthy and FAIR requires people, processes, technologies and collaboration
Mari Kleemola, FSD, Finland
World Digital Preservation Day 2018
Rachel MacGregor, UK
Celebrating World Digital Preservation Day
Elisabeth Thurlow, University of the Arts London, UK
in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate
Tim Evans, Archaeology Data Service, UK
Library and Archives Canada’s journey of discovery: modernising our digital preservation infrastructure using Preservica
Sylvain Bélanger, Library and Archives Canada
Researchers about TiU Dataverse
Petra Ploeg, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Preservación digital, aquí y ahora (Spanish)
García González & M.J. Baños-Moreno, Odilo, Spain
World Digital Preservation Day 2018
Helena Byrne, British Library, UK
Archives and special collections in the digital age
Elisabeth Thurlow, University of the Arts London, UK
Dealing with computer viruses in digital collections
Evanthia Samaras, British Library, UK
Nieuwe publicatie over digitaal preserveren (Dutch)
Bart de Nil, Faro, Belgium
Kansallisarkisto tarjoaa ratkaisuja sähköiseen säilyttämiseen (Finnish)
Markus Merenmies, National Archives of Finland
Digital photography – asking the right questions
Anne Hocking, State Library of New South Wales, Australia
PanDA – digital asset ingestion at scale
Pete Brotherton, State Library of New South Wales, Australia
A ragtag bunch of computer misfits
Leigh Rosin, National Library New Zealand
Archives digipres team and World Digital Preservation Day today!
Archives New Zealand
The history of you and me
Valerie Love, National Library of New Zealand
Digital Preservation in Practice
Teresa Soleau, Lorain Wang and Linta Kunnathuparambil, The Getty, USA
Queering up Kiwi history
Will Hansen, National Library of New Zealand
World Digital Preservation Day 2018 – Ein Rückblick (German)
Beat Mattmann, University of Basel
Digital Preservation in the media on World Digital Preservation Day 2018
It’s Almost 2019. Do You Know Where Your Photos Are?
New York Times
World Digital Preservation Day And Other Storage News
Forbes