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Evolved Binary joins the DPC Supporter Program
Added on 2 November 2023
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) welcomes Evolved Binary to its Supporter Program this World Digital Preservation Day!
Established in 2014, Evolved Binary specialises in information storage and retrieval, providing development and consultancy services to help organisations with their complex archival, and access needs.
“Evolved Binary is excited to join the DPC community. We look forward to both sharing our expertise and knowledge in the areas of preservation, archiving, and cataloguing, and also to learning from the DPC members,” explains Adam Retter, Director of Evolved Binary.
DPC Rapid Assessment Model: translations in Chinese now available!
Added on 2 November 2023
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This World Digital Preservation Day, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to share two new translations of its popular DPC Rapid Assessment Model, in Traditional and Simplified Chinese.
Now available as PDF downloads from the DPC website as part of a suite of other translations, the second edition of the DPC RAM is a digital preservation maturity modelling tool that has been designed to enable rapid benchmarking of an organization’s digital preservation capability.
“The Rapid Assessment Model is so universally applicable and helpful when planning digital preservation activities,” explains Peter Chan who created the Traditional Chinese translation. “And I wanted to make sure it was accessible to as many people around the world. I am delighted to be able to help make this available to speakers of Chinese within the digital preservation community, especially on World Digital Preservation Day.”
World Digital Preservation Day
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 2nd November 2023!
The DPC invites all data creators, archivists, curators, community members and digipres folk 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.
With the theme ‘Digital Preservation: A Concerted Effort’, World Digital Preservation Day 2023 is a great opportunity to connect the digital preservation community and celebrate the positive impact digital preservation has had in another year where digital information and infrastructure have been so instrumental in supporting all parts of our global society. Taking digital preservation to the next level takes time and actively working together with colleagues, partner institutions, open-source developers, friends and other community members. Or, in the words of this year’s WDPD theme: "No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it!” (quote by H.E. Luccock)
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.
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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 hashtags #BitListBakeOff and/or #WDPD2023.
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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, watching party, hackathon or games room! We've prepared a World Digital Preservation Day Event Pack with everything you need for your event. Check out the list of global events to see what others are organizing around the world!
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RESOURCES
The DPC will publish a new edition of the Global Bit List of Endangered Digital Species as part of the celebrations.
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LOGO
The new WDPD logo is now available in 45 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
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 #WDPD2023!
The room of requirement: working together to set up a digital preservation lab at State Library Victoria
This blog has been written by Carey Garvie, Senior Digital Preservation Specialist, Library Systems & Digital Preservation and Susannah Bourke, Digital Archivist, Description Original Materials at State Library Victoria
This year’s theme for World Digital Preservation Day - Digital Preservation: A Concerted Effort feels extremely pertinent to our experience over the last year. In December 2022, State Library Victoria appointed two new Digital Preservation positions. Together these roles have been focused on setting up procedures and equipment for processing incoming and legacy digital acquisitions. One of the first steps has been to set up a working group of staff from across the acquisitions, description and library systems teams who process unpublished digital materials for the collection. This group has been working together to map out current workflows, identify opportunities for improvement and document procedures. While this was occurring a search was also underway for a location to set up the digital preservation equipment.
iPRES: Contributing to the Digital Preservation Community
Chris Prom is Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign is proud to release the iPRES 2023 Proceedings on World Digital Preservation Day. We hope you find them profitable and useful for your work.
Doing so is a fitting capstone to the community effort that underpins digital preservation work so evident during the iPRES 2023 meeting, held from September 19 - 22, 2023. As conference co-chair, along with Tracy Seneca, I can truly say that organizing the conference was THE highlight of my professional career to date. The sense of welcome, collegiality, rigor, and fun that the entire conference planning team - our program committee, local organizers, peer reviewers, and supporters - brought to the table, was truly extraordinary and inspiring!
Announcement: Call for Contributions iPRES 2024
Added on 1 November 2023
16-20 September 2024, iPRES comes to Ghent and Flanders. Hosted by Ghent University, Digital Archives Flanders, VRT and meemoo, Flemish Institute for Archives, we invite you to unlock the past, present and future of digital preservation together. We are pleased to announce the iPRES 2024 Call for Contributions!
New Digital Asset Registers Project from The National Archives (UK) and the DPC
Added on 1 November 2023
The National Archives (UK) and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) are delighted to announce today on World Digital Preservation Day that we will be working together on a new project to develop guidance for creating Digital Asset Registers.
Bit List 2023: If digital preservation is possible then data loss is a choice
William Kilbride is Executive Director of the Digital Preservation Coalition
Digits are born vulnerable.
Every single byte of data depends on a global infrastructure of technology, process and people for its meaning and purpose to be realized. Much data serves the moment: it is quickly forgotten in a continuous flow of process and interaction. Other data serve lengthier purposes, as evidence and outputs of transactions that have significant impacts and long duration, longer than the infrastructure and the institutions through which the data was created. Everything in the latter category falls into the scope of digital preservation—the series of managed activities necessary to ensure continued access to digital materials for as long as necessary, beyond the limits of media degradation, technical obsolescence, and organizational change.
The Bit List is not a paper exercise. It was originally conceived as a call to action based on the insight and authentic voice of the global digital preservation community, and it remains so.
Celebrating WDPD2023 at the Nelson Mandela Foundation
This video was sent to us by Zandile Myeka, Metadata and Photographs Archivist at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, in celebration of World Digital Preservation Day 2023.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia Group Archives joins the Digital Preservation Coalition!
Added on 1 November 2023
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to announce today on World Digital Preservation Day that the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Group Archives has joined the Coalition as an Associate Member.
Based in Sydney, the CBA Group Archives houses information about the Commonwealth Bank and other financial institutions whose archives are curated by the Group Archives team. They are custodians of over 4 million legacy digital items dating back many decades that record and preserve the ongoing evolution of the Commonwealth Bank and Australia’s financial system.