About World Digital Preservation Day
World Digital Preservation Day (WDPD) is held on the first Thursday of every November. Save the date for 7 November 2024, when we will celebrate all things digital preservation!
With the theme Preserving Our Digital Content: Celebrating Communities, WDPD2024 is a great opportunity to connect the digital preservation community, and to celebrate the digital legacy of all types of communities around the world.
The DPC invites all data creators, archivists, curators, consumers, community members and digipres folk from around the world to celebrate the diversity of the communities which surround and support us, whilst also drawing attention to the unique and valuable digital content which becomes their digital legacy.
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 Preserving Our Digital Content: Celebrating Communities and share your own digital preservation stories 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 #WDPD2024 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.
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EVENTS
Hold a seminar, webinar, live stream, watch party, hackathon or games room! We have put together a World Digital Preservation Day Event Pack to get your event off to a flying start. Will you be playing bingo, showing the WDPD 2024 logo on your programme or entertaining your online audience with a scrolling background?
Let us know what you are organizing, and we'll publish it right here to show everyone what's happening around the world on World Digital Preservation Day.
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RESOURCES
For WDPD2024, the DPC is launching the Our Heritage, Our Stories Post-Custodial Digital Preservation Toolkit in collaboration with the University of Glasgow and a range of community archives. It's designed for those working with community generated digital content. Stay tuned for practical guidance, advice and support!
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NOW AVAILABLE: WDPD2024 LOGO!
The WDPD logo for 2024 is available in 45 languages from around the world. Go ahead and download the logo in your preferred language to use on your website, in your email signature or on social media to promote World Digital Preservation Day 2024 in your country. Due to an overwhelming response, we've closed the possibility to order stickers.
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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.
Remember to use the hashtag #WDPD2024!