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The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to share the German translation of our 2024-2025 program of activities on World Digital Preservation Day!

The prospectus lists the DPC’s plans for 2024-2025, including the range of new publications, training, webinars and specialist briefings, and supporting resources which will be released.  It is shaped by members’ needs but is shared with the entire digital preservation community around the world, in multiple languages and in multiple time zones.

A program of online events cater for different time zones, providing insight and advice on ‘Appraisal of Digital Content’, ‘Digital Preservation for an Uncertain Future,’ ‘Preservation Planning,’ and ‘Case Studies on Access,’ as well as addressing the community zeitgeists of ‘AI and Digital Preservation.’ A broader range of task forces and working parties than ever will continue to provide focused peer support on specialized areas of digital preservation.

Special thanks go out to Michelle Lindlar of the Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) for translating the earlier press release into German, providing insights into the prospectus's content and the DPC's plans:

November 7^th marks World Digital Preservation Day 2024

As we publish this message, it is 8am in New Zealand, and officially World Digital Preservation Day (WDPD2024)!

We are excited to announce that the iPRES Steering Group (STG) is now inviting bids from prospective conference hosts to organize iPRES for the years 2027, 2028, and 2029, with additional options for 2030 and 2031.

iPRES has become the premier international conference on digital preservation since its inception in 2004. With iPRES 2025 set to take place in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, and iPRES 2026 in København, Denmark, we are looking forward to continuing this global journey.

The biggest celebration of the year is just one week away today: World Digital Preservation Day (#WDPD2024) will take place on Thursday, November 7th! 

With the theme Preserving Our Digital Content: Celebrating Communities, WDPD2024 is a great opportunity to connect the digital preservation community, and to celebrate the digital legacy of all types of communities around the world.

A new report which sets out recommendations and a roadmap for a national persistent identifier (PID) strategy for Ireland has been launched today, 25 October 2024, by Ireland’s National Open Research Forum (NORF) at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.

Titled Interoperability, Openness, and Impact – Recommendations and Roadmap for an Irish National PID Strategy, the report was prepared by NORF and the NORF PID Task Force, in consultation with the scholarly communications consultants MoreBrains Cooperative.

Back by popular demand, the PRONOM team will be running their yearly hackathon, PRONOM Research Week 2024, to mark World Digital Preservation Day. This year the hackathon will be the 7th November-15th November.

Members of the Digital Preservation Community are invited to attend a Digital Preservation Games Event at Kings College London Archives, 19th November, 6-8pm.

Kings College London Archives hosts Digital Preservation games every few months both in person and online. In-person events are held at: Kings College London Archives,  Strand Building, Strand, London WC2R 2LS (see: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/collections/archives). Online events can be accessed via a teams meeting link sent out before the event on registration.