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3 Weeks to Go Until World Digital Preservation Day 2025 — Launching Live from Wellington!
Added on 16 October 2025
The countdown is on: We are just three weeks away from World Digital Preservation Day 2025 (WDPD2025)! 
This year’s global celebration officially launches at the iPRES 2025 conference in Wellington, New Zealand (NZDT = UTC +13), setting off a wave of celebrations that will travel around the world on Thursday 6 November - from Asia (UTC +5 to +9) to Europe and Africa (UTC +0 to +3), and on to the Americas (UTC –3 to –8).
On World Digital Preservation Day, archives, libraries, museums, and institutions around the world will share stories, blogs, and events that shine a spotlight on why we preserve - celebrating the people, practices, and purpose behind digital preservation. Will you be blogging, vlogging, or maybe cross-stitching your preservation story?
Congratulations to the 2025 NDSA Excellence Awards winners!
Added on 14 October 2025
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.
Tune In to iPRES Radio 2025 – Registration Now Open!
Added on 13 October 2025
With just three weeks to go until iPRES 2025, iPRES Radio is gearing up to bring the conference buzz straight to you - live and online!
Running daily from Monday 3 til Friday 7 November, iPRES Radio is a relaxed, one-hour online session hosted via Zoom. It’s your front-row seat to the global digital preservation conversation happening in Wellington this year.
Participate in World Digital Preservation Day on Thursday 6 November 2025!
Added on 9 October 2025
World Digital Preservation Day is a great opportunity to raise global awareness for digital preservation and to connect the digital preservation community. Every year, on the first Thursday of November, we celebrate all things digital preservation and in 2025, we’re bringing a special focus on the different reasons why we preserve! 
Through this year's theme Why Preserve? we invite digital preservation practitioners to reflect on their organization’s motivations for preserving their unique digital collections, to share their stories, and to transform those insights into compelling advocacy messages.
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Register Now for the DPC Members Forum in Australasia and Asia-Pacific!
Added on 8 October 2025
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.
The Digital Preservation Coalition welcomes ACMI as its newest member
Added on 8 October 2025
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is pleased to announce that ACMI, Australia’s national museum of screen culture, has joined as its latest Associate Member.
ACMI is a globally recognized hub that connects people, communities, technology and ideas to shape our futures. The ACMI Collection comprises diverse forms of screen culture including films, TV, videogames and commissioned works. By preserving, emulating, exhibiting and sharing the collection, ACMI ensures it is widely accessible to both audiences and industry.
ACMI Director & CEO Seb Chan said: “ACMI has been at the forefront of solving complex digital preservation challenges associated with contemporary media, art and videogames since the early 2010’s, so we are thrilled to join the DPC and continue sharing our knowledge with the wider international community. As software increasingly drives our heritage, culture and society, digital preservation is more critical than ever for future generations, the public record and democracy.”
Registration Now Open for 20th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC26) in Zagreb, Croatia
Added on 7 October 2025
Registration is now open for the 20th edition of the International Digital Curation Conferenceth20th 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.