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Get your calendars ready, your stories lined up and perhaps your baking tins out: World Digital Preservation Day is just one week away! On Thursday 5 November 2026, our global community will come together to celebrate digital preservation and the people who make it happen.

This year’s theme, ‘Save Our Stories (SOS): Our Digital Heritage in Danger’, gives the celebrations a shared purpose: to highlight what is at risk and inspire action. What better occasion to show colleagues, friends and decision-makers why your work matters?

Following the Digital Preservation Awards ceremony in Warsaw on 15 October, the celebrations continue with an opportunity to learn directly from this year’s winners!

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) will host an online Digital Preservation Masterclass on 24 and 26 November, showcasing the very best work in digital preservation. The people behind the winning projects will share their approaches, discuss lessons learned and answer your questions.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is pleased to offer one Career Development Fund grant to support a DPC Member attending the 21st International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC27), taking place in Lisbon, Portugal between 9-12 February 2027.

This Career Development Fund grant will cover 100% of the conference registration fees and provide a contribution towards travel and accommodation. Grant applications are welcomed from DPC Members until 23:59 anywhere in the world on 9th November 2026, and more details about the grant, eligibility, and criteria are provided below.

The global digital preservation community came together in Warsaw today as the winners of the Digital Preservation Awards 2026 were revealed at a celebratory ceremony co-hosted by the No Time to Wait (NTTW) Conference and the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute (FINA), recognizing outstanding contributions to securing our digital legacy for future generations.

The winners of the Digital Preservation Awards 2026 will be revealed this evening at FINA in Warsaw, with audiences worldwide invited to watch the ceremony live!

Organized by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) every two years, the Digital Preservation Awards are the leading international celebration of achievement in digital preservation. The Awards recognize the people, projects, and organizations making outstanding contributions to securing our digital legacy.

With the Digital Preservation Awards ceremony just ONE day away, our “Meet the Finalists: Digital Preservation Awards 2026” video series concludes with the three finalists for the Award for the Most Distinguished Student Work in Digital Preservation.

Sponsored by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), this award recognizes student contributions to digital preservation. Through two videos and a blog post, Alice Thacker, Manuela Pallotto Strickland and Rosa Methol introduce their dissertations and the questions behind their research.

With the Digital Preservation Awards ceremony taking place this Thursday, 15 October, our “Meet the Finalists: Digital Preservation Awards 2026” series turns to the finalists for the APTrust Award for Resilience, Maintenance and Continuity.

New to the Awards, this category recognizes the ongoing work that keeps digital preservation infrastructure reliable, sustainable and ready to respond to change.