The NDSA Excellence Awards working group is pleased to share the 2025 Excellence Awards recipients with the NDSA community. Winners were announced and recognized on October 10, 2025 during the NDSA Digital Preservation 2025 conference.
This year's award recipients are:
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Tyler Walters (Individual Award)
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Folasade Adepoju (Educator Award)
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Data Rescue Project (Organization Award)
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BACKER: Building Archival Capacity for Keeping Electronic Records (Project Award)
To learn more please visit this blog post.
Thank you to all those who submitted nominations for the awards this year. The Excellence Awards will be open for nominations again in 2027.
Big thank yous also go out to the Excellence Awards working group for their effort to make this a successful award cycle. This year's working group volunteers were: Matt McEniry, Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez, John Dewees, Brian Dietz, Doreen Dixon, Brenna Edwards, [Matthew] Farrell, Sarah Middleton, Jessica Venlet, and Lauren Work.
Congratulations to the 2025 Excellence Awards recipients!!