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We are delighted to invite DPC Members across Australasia and the Asia-Pacific to join us for our 2025 Members Forum and Networking Event in Wellington, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia!

Exclusively for DPC Members, this year's event spans two days, two cities, and two countries! Day 1 will take place alongside the iPRES 2025 conference in Wellington, New Zealand on Friday 7th November, and Day 2 will take place a week later, on Friday 14th November in Sydney, Australia.

Registration is now open for the 20th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference^th20th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC26) organised by the Digital Curation Centre, taking place in Zagreb, Croatia between 16-18 February 2026. The theme of IDCC26 is AI, austerity, and authoritarianism: contemporary challenges in digital curation. 

In just five weeks, on Thursday 6 November 2025, the global digital preservation community will come together to celebrate World Digital Preservation Day (#WDPD2025)!

This year’s theme, “Why Preserve?”, invites digital preservation practitioners to reflect on their organization’s motivations for preserving their unique digital collections. Whether it’s safeguarding evidence and accountability, ensuring access to culture and knowledge, reducing risks and costs, or passing today’s stories on to tomorrow’s communities - your “why” matters.

Each year, DPC Members are encouraged to carry out a self-assessment using the DPC Rapid Assessment Model (RAM) and to share their results with us so that they can be collated, summarized, and shared back across the membership. Members can complete an assessment at any point in the year to fit their own schedule.

The DPC RAM, a maturity model for digital preservation, helps organizations of all sizes assess and improve their capacity to preserve digital content.

This year’s report provides a valuable snapshot of digital preservation capacity across the Coalition, showing strengths, trends, and gaps.