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 3rd November 2022! 

The DPC invites all data creators, curators and consumers from around the world to celebrate digital preservation by participating in a whole day dedicated to all of the benefits and opportunities enabled by the hard work of our dynamic and collaborative community.

Continuing the theme ‘Data For All, For Good, Forever’ from another celebration - iPres 2022 - World Digital Preservation Day is an opportunity to showcase how digital preservation enables ‘digits to flourish.’

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 across all sectors, from anyone interested in securing a sustainable future for our digital assets.

• 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 hashtags #BitListBakeOff and/or #WDPD2022.

   

• 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…

• 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 some of the WDPD2022 posts from bloggers around the world 

• EVENTS

  Hold a seminar, webinar, live stream, watching party, hackathon or games room! If you would like your event to be added to our WDPD2022 events listing on the DPC website, submit details to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

• RESOURCES

  The DPC will publish a revision of the BitList of Digitally Endangered Species AND the conference proceedings from iPres 2022 as part of the celebrations.

  Check out the BitList

  See the iPres 2022 Program

• LOGO

  The WDPD2022 logo is available in 40 languages from around the world.

  Download in your language and add it to related emails, communications and event publicity OR order as stickers!

• NEWS

  Read our World Digital Preservation Day news stories on the DPC website.

  Go to news pages

• 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.

  Remember to use the hashtag #WDPD2022!