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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.
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Get Ready to Celebrate: 5 Weeks Until World Digital Preservation Day!
Added on 2 October 2025
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.
New RAM Benchmarking Results 2025 Now Available!
Added on 1 October 2025
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.