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The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is pleased to announce the launch of the Digital Preservation Toolkit for Community Archives today on World Digital Preservation Day, November 7, 2024. The new resource is designed to empower community archives at every stage of their digital preservation journey.

This year's World Digital Preservation Day theme, 'Preserving Our Digital Content: Celebrating Communities', couldn't be more fitting for the toolkit's debut. It's a day that brings together digital preservation professionals worldwide to celebrate the diversity of the communities which surround and support us, whilst also drawing attention to the unique and valuable digital content which becomes their digital legacy.

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This World Digital Preservation Day, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to share the Arabic translation of our 2024-2025 program of activities!

“With an established DPC presence now in the Americas as well as Australasia and Asia-Pacific, and 166 members in 24 countries around the globe, this new prospectus makes a concerted commitment to the digital preservation community worldwide. Regular, thematic and returning events will be offered in various time zones, allowing participants from across different parts of the world to share the benefit of the knowledge and expertise in their own regions” says Sarah Middleton, Chief Community Officer for the DPC.

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is delighted to share the Chinese 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 in the year ahead.  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.

“By working together as a group of institutions from a diverse range of sectors and domains and many different countries, we hope to provide the resources, tools, support and skills which will be needed to ensure a sustainable access to our digital memory,” says Sarah Middleton, Chief Community Officer for the DPC.

Special thanks go out to Zhenxin Wu of the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences, for translating the earlier press release into Chinese, providing insights into the prospectus's content and the DPC's plans:

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.