About World Digital Preservation Day
World Digital Preservation Day (WDPD) is held on the first Thursday of every November. This year we celebrate all things digital preservation on 6 November 2025!
Why Preserve?
The theme of this year's World Digital Preservation Day is 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. This theme will identify and highlight the current digital preservation landscape, outline a path forward and invite the community to unite in answering a powerful question: Why Preserve?
Participate in World Digital Preservation Day
Organized by the DPC and supported by digital preservation networks around the globe, World Digital Preservation Day is open to participation from anyone interested in securing our digital legacy - across all sectors and geographic locations. Join us in a whole day dedicated to discovering digital preservation stories and answers to the question Why Preserve? and share your unique motivations through blog posts, social media posts, events and creative activities!
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MAKE, BAKE, CRAFT
Can you bake an at-risk digital material, crochet a file format, or reconstruct a process in Lego? Share your pictures with us on social media using the hashtag #WDPD2025 and/or #bakeoff
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SING AND DANCE
Channel your musical talents into creating a digital preservation song to share on World Digital Preservation Day.
Need inspiration? Just look at some of the awesome contributions from previous years…
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BLOG
Use your blogging platform to highlight the collections you are working on, share a workflow or simply to explain how you got started in digital preservation.
Read these amazing #digipres posts from bloggers on the DPC blog!
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EVENTS
Game rooms, watch parties, webinars, and retro offices - an array of exciting events are taking place worldwide on World Digital Preservation Day. Discover what's happening near you!
To get YOUR event off to a flying start, we have put together a World Digital Preservation Day Event Pack! Will you be playing bingo, showing the WDPD 2025 logo on your programme or entertaining your online audience with a scrolling background?
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RESOURCES
For WDPD2025, the DPC will release a new version of the Global Bit List of Endangered Digital Species!
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SOCIAL MEDIA
Highlight the collections you are working on by sharing photos, videos, and updates about your own digital preservation day using the social media platform of your choice OR take over the corporate social media account for the day to let others outside our community know about digital preservation. Find us on Mastodon and LinkedIn, where we will be sharing blog posts and news stories.
Remember to use the hashtag #WDPD2025!