World Digital Preservation Day Events
Institutions all over the world are organizing events on Thursday 2 November 2023 in honour of World Digital Preservation Day. Scroll down to see if there are any events in your region to join! If you would like your event listed here as well, please submit details to angela.puggioni@dpconline.org.
Personal Digital Archiving Workshop at Buncombe County Public Libraries
November 7, 4-6 pm at Pack Memorial Public Library, Asheville, NC
Buncombe County Special Collections archivists will present basic steps you can take to mitigate risks to digital content, then will be on hand to answer questions, demonstrate tools as requested, and talk directly with you about how to manage and preserve your digital treasures.
WDPD 2023 Webinar at the National Archives of Malaysia
The National Archives of Malaysia are organizing a full day of virtual presentations to mark World Digital Preservation Day. Speakers include (amongst others) Muhammad Idzwan bin Ramli of the National Archives of Malaysia, Abigail Grotke of the Library of Congress, Joshua Ng of the Archives New Zealand and William Kilbride of the Digital Preservation Coalition.
Virtual Apache Tika Intro and Workshop
This will be a virtual hands-on introduction to Apache Tika. We'll work with a new beta-grade user interface that was developed in response to feedback in the iPRES 2022 Bake-Off. This event is held in honor of World Digital Preservation Day and will be tailored to digital preservation practitioners. Please bring your own files! Details on required resources and dial in information will be available via Meetup. Please note that this event is scheduled this to leave a 30 minute break before the PRONOM hackathon!
WDPD 2023 with the Brazilian Network of Digital Preservation Services Cariniana
The Rede Cariniana team will be celebrating World Digital Preservation Day with a series of activities, all of which will be published on the Network's YouTube Channel. The Brazilian Network of Digital Preservation Services Cariniana collaborates with external partners to provide its members with tools and services. It also provides training and support for preservation platforms and services, seeking to integrate platforms and new service offerings. This year, our celebration focuses on a few network activities: the preservation of institutional repositories, digital asset management systems, multimedia repository platforms, web archives, indigenous data repositories, risk management, and audiovisual archives. We will also have a sample of memes, comic strips and talents.
Collaborate, Crawl, Collect: Web Archiving at the University of Illinois
HYBRID EVENT: Online (registration required) or in Main Library Room 106
Web archiving is necessary for future people to know what our contemporary moment is like as much of our communication happens online and the internet does not last forever. At the University of Illinois, it takes collaboration and effort to archive the internet at every step of the process: collecting, preserving, and providing access to the web archives. Learn about web archiving at the University Library on Thursday, November 2, 2023, 10:00 am CST, and hear about ways archivists collaborate in honor of World Digital Preservation Day! Talk held by Abigail Barrett, Web Archiving and Digital Curation Graduate Assistant at the University of Illinois.
Penn State University Libraries World Digital Preservation Day Event
Celebrate World Digital Preservation Day 2023 with Penn State University Libraries! Join us for a full day of virtual and in-person sessions, spanning from 9:00 AM (EST) to 4:00 PM (EST). The agenda features a webinar, Digital Preservation Jeopardy, an exploration of digipres workflows at Penn State, and an informative resource session. Don't miss this opportunity for engaging discussions. Explore the detailed schedule now:
A Preservação Digital na Justiça / Digital Preservation in Justice
The Secretaria-Geral do Ministério da Justiça and o Instituto de Gestão Financeira e Equipamentos da Justiça, IP in Portugal will demonstrate the work they are developing to face the challenges of digital preservation. The event starts at 9am with an presentation about the meaning of digital preservation and its status in Portugal. During the event, suggestions for improving the area will be shared, culminating in a round table attended by representatives of the national entity coordinating digital preservation policies, the scientific community and those responsible for planning and applying preservation instruments. These celebrations will provide an unique opportunity for constructive discussion and advancement in the field of digital preservation. The face-to-face event in Lisbon, Portugal ends at 1pm.
Digital Preservation Acronym Game
Artefactual created the Acronym Game as a way to help digital access and preservation practitioners build our shared understanding of acronyms from many domains - computer science, internet standards, archival standards, digital preservation terms, and many others. While acronyms help us to quickly communicate complex and sometimes abstract concepts in a clear way, they can also limit collaboration and exclude some of us from the conversation if we don't make sure everyone understands the terms we're using. We believe that the best approach to solving complex problems is through openness and collaboration and so we look forward to sharing this event on 2 November (at 11:00am-12:00pm ADT / 7:00am-8:00am PST) with those who would like a fun way to learn or refresh their acronym knowledge regardless of where you are at in your digital preservation journey!
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iPRES 2024 Call for Contributions released on World Digital Preservation Day
The iPRES 2024 Organizing Committee will publish the Call for Contributions on World Digital Preservation Day! Keep an eye out on 2 November 2023!
Software Preservation and Emulation in Australia: A #WDPD2023 Event
The Australian Emulation Network (AusEaaSI for short) is a consortium of university researchers, GLAM organisations, and technology providers that received Australian Research Council Linkage Infrastructure funding to roll out shared emulation infrastructure in the form of an EaaSI (Emulation as a Service infrastructure) network and set up a Community of Practice in software preservation. There are opportunities to join the network as it expands. If you’re interested in learning more about the network and the project, we invite you to join us for a one hour session on World Digital Preservation Day at 2pm Melbourne time (AEDT)!
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The Idea Workshop
The Software Preservation Network’s Community Engagement Collaborative is organizing The Idea Workshop on Thursday, November 2 at 15:00 UTC. It's an online place for people to pitch their ideas, plans, and projects related to software preservation in order to receive feedback and to find collaborators to help bring those ideas to life! Whether you have the seeds of an idea, you are halfway through an on-going project, or simply want to help, we hope you will join us in what will surely be an exciting event!
The DDI Alliance World Digital Preservation Day event
Do you have questions about the Data Documentation Initiative standard and how it can help you preserve your data and metadata ? Come and meet DDI Training group members and ask all the questions you have on Thursday November 2, 2023 between 16:00-17:00 UTC. You can ask your questions in English or French. More about DDI here: https://ddialliance.org/
Launch of the Global 'Bit List' of Endangered Digital Species 2023
The Digital Preservation Coalition releases the Global 'Bit List' of Digitally Endangered Species 2023 with a live Panel Discussion. This community-sourced list of at-risk digital materials is revised every two years and aims to equip digital preservation practitioners with independent evidence that digital materials are critically endangered, and that action is required. In this Panel Discussion, members of the Bit List Council - international organizations which represent global expertise in the preservation of the listed digital species - will discuss key changes to the listing this year, alongside discussions with nominators and users of the Bit List.
Dutch Digital Heritage Network Seminar
Together with the Flemish organizers of iPRES 2024, the Dutch Digital Heritage Network (DDHN) will hold an event in Breda, The Netherlands, focusing on digital preservation. Dutch and Flemish digital preservation communities are invited to join this day-long event featuring workshops, panel discussions and presentations.
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Digital Preservation Games - World Digital Preservation Day Special
Sean Macmillan (King’s College London), Francesca Mackenzie (The National Archives), and Megan Guest (Archives and Records Association) are hosting a free games event at King’s College London with a focus on digital preservation. There will be a selection of games to play, and this event is open to everyone of all skill levels and knowledge of digital preservation. Feel free to attend regardless of whether you are an expert in the area or have only just begun to learn about digital preservation.
Open House at George Blood LP
In celebration of World Digital Preservation Day and UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, George Blood LP is hosting their first Open House on Monday, October 23, 2023 at their facility in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. Librarians, archivists, engineers, movie buffs, collectors, scholars, and anyone interested to tour the 41,000 square foot facility are invited to learn how they transfer audio, video, film and data to digital files.
PRONOM Hackathon
This year there will be another PRONOM Research Week (2nd November-9th November). The week will consist of both a file format research strand but we are also encouraging everyone to get involved in the Descriptathon. PRONOM has lots of entries that still don’t have a description and we want to encourage anyone that wants to participate BUT doesn’t quite feel ready for hex yet or is simply a little time strapped to give it a go. All you need is curiosity and the internet, no GitHub account will be required to take part in this strand. To find out more how you can participate, join the virtual welcome event on 2 Nov 2023 at 15:30 (GMT) which will be a short presentation, an informal Q&A and maybe if time some games!
Media Types
The following Bit List entries represent media types; where the the risk is caused or aggravated because of the media used:
Engaging with Public Policy
The DPC campaigns for digital preservation and long term access to be a feature of public policy and routinely advises Government and related agencies on issues that are relevant to our members and our mandate.
The DPC Board has adopted a set of principles for the DPC's engagement with public policy and direct advocacy. While this document is due for renewal, it lays out in clear terms the values of the Coalition and how and when the DPC will intervene in public policy matters. Download the full policy [PDF 332KB].
Our responses are published as a commentary of public policy consultations relating to digital preservation:
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Scottish Government Finance and Public Administration Committee Budget Scrutiny 2024 - 2025 consultation on funding for culture submitted 18 August 2023
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Australian National Cultural Policy Submission submitted 22 August 2022
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Response to Call for Evidence: Impact of Covid-19 on DCMS sectors, submitted 19th June 2020
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DPC Response to Public Data Corporation and Open Data Consultation, 11 November 2011: DPC has responded to two connected consultations from the Cabinet Office on proposals for the Data Policy for a proposed Public Data Corporation and for the UK government's Open Data Policy. The DPC believes that open data should be planned for the long-term otherwise the opportunities that it creates will be unsustainable and underdeveloped. Four practical implications follow from this principle: open data needs to be signposted predictably so that links and references to data are resilient; open data needs to be robust in terms of format, media and description to avoid the inadvertent disruptions caused by obsolescence and media failure; changes to open data need to be tracked and published to ensure that the integrity and authenticity is not lost; open data needs to be predictable in form enabling comparison of performance through time and facilitating the creation and refinement of analytical tools.
- See the original consultation on Making Open Data Real
- See DPC Response to the Making Open Data Real consultation
- See the original consultation on Data Policy for a Public Data Corporation
- See DPC Response to Public Data Corporation consultation
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DPC Response to EU Science Information Policy Consultation, 08 September 2011: The DPC has responded to a consultation from the EC regarding science information policy, noting that the impacts sought from improved access to scientific information are only viable where sufficient attention is paid to preservation. Preservation has a particular importance for scientific information because meaningful innovation is necessarily responsive previous generations of research. In that sense, preservation of appropriate research outputs is essential to all sciences, especially for unrepeatable experiments or unique moments of discovery. Aspirations about access to information are meaningless without commensurate actions that to ensure preservation. We welcome all actions that will encourage a dialogue between and within member states to ensure the preservation of scientific information and we call on the EU to engage in that dialogue as a matter of urgency, using existing examples of best practice to help build capacity.
- The original consultation from the EC
- See the full text of the DPC response
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DPC Response to Second Consultation on Legal Deposit, December 2010: The DPC has responded to the second phase of consultation on Electronic Legal Deposit noting the essential relationship between preservation and access. We note and welcome the proposal that extend legal deposit to include charged content as well as content to which access is restricted. This will create the conditions where a more rounded and more valuable national archive can be created. Experience in digital preservation shows that normalization and adherence to standards in the creation of digital resources are advantageous to long term access. Therefore we have some questions pertaining to the practicality of provisions regarding deposit of materials, in particular those regulations that leave the medium and quality of electronic deposits at the discretion of publishers, and those regulations that pertain to adapting content for preservation. If poorly implemented, these provisions could have the inadvertent result of making preservation intractable or excessively complicated. We recognise that recommendations from the DPC are best focussed on those topics where we can offer specialist commentary. Therefore it is not our intention to provide a detailed scrutiny of each element of these regulations. However it is our view that preservation is only sensible within the context of access, and that preservation should be configured around the impact that comes with access. Therefore we have commented on a small number of access issues that we believe have a bearing on the case for preservation. In January 2010 the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) consulted on draft regulations for the legal deposit of ‘free of charge’ electronic publications – the ‘free web’. This consultation was intended to be the first part of a two part process and the DPC responded arguing inter alia that the second phase of proposals be presented without delay as arguably the ‘paid web’ includes material of lasting value and that until regulations were introduced this element of our collected digital memory would be at risk. In September DCMS published a paper for the second phase of the consultation process. The regulations discussed this time apply to a much broader range of material including publications for which there is a charge, publications which are subject to access restrictions and material compiled by queries from databases. It excludes sound and film recordings and unpublished material.
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DPC Response to Public Records Review, 30 July 2010: The DPC has responded to the consultation on the Public records review, welcoming the explicit statement that digitized and ‘born digital’ materials constitute a public record, noting and supporting the focus on informational content and the consequent need for ‘technology proofing’ and the management of formats. The DPC has offered its assistance in identifying and resolving issues that may arise. Research shows that clear advice about the preservation of digital materials is both in high demand and can be difficult to procure, so we note the new role for the Keeper of the Public Record to advise and inspect archives. The DPC has offered its help in two ways: to assist the Keeper in the production of specialist advice notes; and to support the Keeper in the wider dissemination of advice to a diverse audience that is hungry for solutions. 'This represents an opportunity to build capacity for digital preservation in a diverse range of authorities' explained William Kilbride, Executive Director of the DPC.
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DPC Response to Review of Exceptions, 31 March 2010: The DPC has published its response to the recent Intellectual Property Office consultation on exceptions to copyright law with a detailed discussion of how these proposals impact on digital preservation. In summary, the DPC warmly welcomes the proposal to permit multiple copies to be created for preservation purposes. It notes and welcomes the proposal to broaden the types of content that can qualify for this exception and welcomes the proposal that extends this exception to a wider range of institutions. The DPC seeks a number of clarifications to ensure that perfectly reasonable preservation actions are not inadvertently inhibited. For example the Coalition want to ensure that institutions are not prevented from collaborative preservation and is concerned that attempting to restrict preservation copying to an institution’s permanent collection may interfere with perfectly laudable and reasonable rescue and appraisal efforts.
- The original consultation is online here from the Intellectual Property Office.
- See the full text of our response here . [PDF 430KB]
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DPC Response to First Consultation on Legal Deposit, March 2010: The DPC has published its response to the recent consultation from the Department for Culture Media and Sport on 'UK Online Publications'. The DPC has welcomed the progress which has been made by the Legal Deposit Advisory Panel on recommendations for collecting digital material and is eager that the momentum recently achieved is maintained so that continuing progress can be made. It warmly welcomes the proposal for regulation-based harvesting and calls for early implementation of this proposal, offering the assistance of the DPC in capacity building for staff and tools which this will necessitate. There is a range of opinions within the DPC's membership regarding the access provisions within the Proposals. The position of the DPC itself, however, remains clear that future access to the harvested materials at any level will be impossible without the safeguards that rigorous attention to preservation provides.
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DPC Responds to Archives for the 21st Century, 15 December 2009: The DPC has welcomed a new government consultation by arguing that 'the challenge of managing digital information is one that the UK is well placed to address'. On the 6th May 2009 the National Archives, on behalf of the Department for Communities and Local Government, Department for Culture Media and Sport and the Ministry of Justice, released a consultation on the future of archival services in the UK. It calls for better and fewer archives; better leadership and training in the archives sector; better electronic access to and wider participation in archives; and greater attention to the challenges of digital data. The DPC Response to the report concentrates on the latter of these issues. It offers support to the project team in meeting the challenge of digital data and it provides examples of the ways in which DPC members have already ensured that the UK is uniquely well placed to face the challenge of digital data.
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National Heritage Science Strategy Consultation, December 2009: The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee inquiry on Science and Heritage called for the production of a new National Heritage Science Strategy, a task that is now being taken forward by the National Heritage Science Strategy Steering Group. Work has progressed in four packages: at the time of writing 3 reports have been released for consultation and a fourth document - the strategy iteslf is in development. The DPC has responded to this consultation observing that digital resources constitute a heritage which is worthy of preservation, and that developments in heritage science in relation to digital heritage will be better served where they are aligned with existing and forthcoming initiatives.
- Reports from the National Heritage Science Strategy [external]
- The role of science in the management of the UK's heritage: A response from the Digital Preservation Coalition [pdf]
- The use of science to enhance our understanding of the past: A response from the Digital Preservation Coalition [pdf]
- Understanding Capacity in the Heritage Science Sector: A response from the Digital Preservation Coalition [pdf]
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DPC welcomes Digital Britain Interim Report and calls for greater clarity and consideration of digital legacy, especially where this pertains to content, March 2009
Subcategories
Bit List
The DPC's 'Bit List' of Digitally Endangered Species is a crowd-sourcing exercise to discover which digital materials our community thinks are most at risk, as well as those which are relatively safe thanks to digital preservation. By compiling and maintaining this list over the coming years, the DPC aims to celebrate great digital preservation endeavors as entries become less of a ‘concern,’ whilst still highlighting the need for efforts to safeguard those still considered ‘critically endangered.’