Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #whypreserve, aggregated by home.social.
The sun has set on Hawaii and Rarotonga and so it’s time to bring the curtain down on World Digital Preservation Day 2025 #WDPD2025
📣 Read our last blog of the Day here by #DPC's Executive Director William Kilbride 📣https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/closing-blog-william-kilbride-wdpd2025
Thank you, amazing #digitalpreservation community, for making this another AMAZING day filled with songs, events, videos, blogs and vlogs - and answering a powerful question: #WhyPreserve?
🎉Rolling on with another #WDPD2025 blog🎉Gratz College discusses #WhyPreserve through access, preservation, and ownership, and launches the Grayzel Digital Platform TODAY! Read their blog here👉🏽 https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-alison-joseph-wdpd2025
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Help your colleagues grasp the stakes. The new #BitList includes especially tailored messages for research and academic sectors. Use them to advocate for preserving data, reproducibility, and research integrity👉 https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/champion-digital-preservation/bit-list
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🎉Don’t miss this #WDPD2025 blog — a new #WhyPreserve story🎉Sustainable digital preservation must make the case for why we preserve. This year’s theme is a great opportunity to explore what that means for individuals and organizations. Read Nancy MacGovern´s blog here👉🏿 https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-nancy-mcgovern-wdpd2025
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The #BitList now includes messages especially tailored for media and entertainment, highlighting the risks to digital content and creative heritage. Share these messages to protect creative work and prevent digital cultural loss👉 https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/champion-digital-preservation/bit-list
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🎉New #WDPD2025 vlog just dropped🎉In this World Digital Preservation Day vlog, Kelly Stewart shares Artefactual Systems' reflections on the importance of digital preservation👉🏾 https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/vlog-artefactual-wdpd2025 👀
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The new #BitList includes tailored messages especially for legal, judicial and law enforcement agencies—ready to share with your colleagues who need to understand what’s at stake.
“When digital evidence disappears, justice is compromised… courts and law enforcement depend on trustworthy data to uphold the rule of law.”
Use the sector messages to push for stronger #digitalpreservation👉 https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/champion-digital-preservation/bit-list
🎉The celebration continues with a new #WDPD2025 blog🎉The imperative to preserve arises from a deep human desire to remember and reconnect, and is the means through which we can tell stories about the past in order to make sense of the present and illuminate the future. Read this blog here👉🏽 https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-stephen-abrams-wdpd2025
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Digital memories matter. The new #BitList offers messages tailored for individuals and communities to help explain why #digitalpreservation is essential. Share these messages with the people you know to help protect the digital memories that communities rely on👉 https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/champion-digital-preservation/bit-list
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🎉Next up for #WDPD2025: a fresh blog on #WhyPreserve🎉To mark this year’s World Digital Preservation Day, HSBC is hosting a hands-on event at their headquarters in London, showing some retro tech & classic games to remind colleagues how far technology has come and how important it is to preserve the journey. Read about the event here 👉🏼 https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-james-mortlock-wdpd2025
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🎉New blog on the block for #WDPD2025 🎉#WhyPreserve? In this reflective piece, Paul Stokes (Jisc) explores the many motivations behind digital preservation - from professional responsibility to personal conviction - and the enduring value of what we keep. Read it here👉🏻 https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-paul-stokes-wdpd2025
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🎉Another great read for #WDPD2025 🎉Digitizing illustrated periodicals preserves more than pages. It safeguards cultural memory, expands access, and opens new audiences. Exact Editions shows us #WhyPreserve for #WDPD2025. Read more👉 https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-ellie-burnage-wdpd2025
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🎉Here comes another #WDPD2025 blog — take a look at #WhyPreserve🎉
The Postal Museum preserves for access. This blog explores the types of material they preserve and how this material can be used. Read more here👉🏽 https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-helen-dafter-wdpd2025
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Help your colleagues understand what’s at risk. The new #BitList includes tailormade messages for government and regulators—ready to share. Use the sector messages to advocate for accountability, compliance, and long-term access👉 https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/champion-digital-preservation/bit-list
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Pour célébrer la #WDPD2025, nous sommes ravis d’annoncer que six ressources du #DPC sont désormais disponibles en français !
Un immense merci aux bénévoles de la Cellule Nationale de Veille sur les Formats, d’Aristote et du groupe PIN pour avoir rendu des conseils essentiels en #digitalpreservation plus accessibles aux collègues francophones dans le monde entier 🎉
Découvrez les nouvelles traductions ici : https://www.dpconline.org/news/six-new-french-translations-expand-global-access-to-digital-preservation-guidance
To celebrate #WDPD2025, we’re excited to share that six #DPC resources are now available in French!
Huge thanks to the volunteer translators from Cellule Nationale de Vielle sur les Formats, Aristote and the PIN group for making key #digitalpreservation guidance more accessible for French-speaking colleagues worldwide 🎉
Explore the new translations here: https://www.dpconline.org/news/six-new-french-translations-expand-global-access-to-digital-preservation-guidance
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🎉Fresh #WDPD2025 vlog alert🎉Watch this new vlog and hear from Elisabeth Turlow (University of the Arts London) on why preserving our digital records matters! 👉🏿 👀 https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/vlog-university-arts-london-wdpd2025
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The new #BitList includes messages especially crafted for cultural heritage teams: perfect for explaining why #digitalpreservation matters in museums, archives, and libraries. Share these ready-to-use messages to strengthen the case for preserving our cultural memory and digital heritage.👉 https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/champion-digital-preservation/bit-list
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🎉 Rolling on with another #WDPD2025 blog 🎉A few personal reflections from recent and current digital preservation projects Archives Consultant and #DPC Supporter Simon Wilson is involved with aligned to this year’s World Digital Preservation Day theme of #WhyPreserve? Read more here 👉🏾 https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-simon-wilson-wdpd2025
The Dutch Digital Heritage Network team met to discuss preserving digital cultural heritage. Their fruitful meetings have produced an informative resource 📽️ starring DANS'er Valentijn Gilissen that we would like to share to celebrate World Digital Heritage Day today 🎉. Watch it here 👉 //edu.nl/xeptw
🎉Next up for #WDPD2025: a fresh blog on #WhyPreserve 🎉
Why preserve energy data? The UKERC Energy Data Centre team shares their perspectives on safeguarding research for a sustainable future. Read their blog here👉 https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-catherine-jones-wdpd2025
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🎤 🪇 Who's in for an AMAZING musical intermezzo on #WDPD2025?? Colleagues from the Dutch Digital Heritage Network @NetwerkDigitaalErfgoed gathered to discuss their mission to preserve all digital cultural heritage. On this World Digital Preservation Day, get ready to watch and listen to their promise to our digital cultural heritage ...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8QfnDL8_ko
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🎉 It’s World Digital Preservation Day! 🎉Watch a brand new #WDPD2025 vlog and hear directly from the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick on why they preserve their digital records👉🏼 👀 https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/vlog-uni-warwick-wdpd2025
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🎉 Another voice joins #WDPD2025 — check out this blog 🎉The UK’s Science Museum Group discusses why and what they want to preserve, and how they are taking steps towards a Digital Preservation Programme, and their achievement with procuring ingest workstations. Read the blog 👉🏼 https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-somaya-langley-wdpd2025
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🎉Your next #WDPD2025 vlog is here — explore #WhyPreserve🎉
Preserving our digital future starts with one question: Why Preserve? See how DPC Member CERN answered in this special #WDPD2025 vlog. Watch it now! 👀 https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/vlog-cern-wdpd2025
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🎉 The next #WDPD2025 blog is ready — explore #WhyPreserve 🎉
AUC Digitization Center transforms fragile Middle Eastern manuscripts into searchable digital resources, connecting global researchers with cultural heritage and preserving voices for future generations. Read more here👉🏾https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-irina-schmid-wdpd2025
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🎉Another great #WDPD2025 blog — here’s why we preserve 🎉
When records are lost, blurred or inaccessible, residents and citizens lose their right to know how decisions were made and how public money was spent. Read this blog by the Nairobi City County Assembly 👉🏾https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-villy-magero-wdpd2025
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🎉 It’s World Digital Preservation Day!🎉 Watch our newest vlog and hear directly from #DPC's Head of Good Practice Garth Stewart about the Argyll Street Ash Tree in Glasgow and the need to preserve! 👀👉🏾https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/vlog-garth-stewart-wdpd2025
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The World Digital Preservation Day #WDPD2025 theme this year asks the question #WhyPreserve? and prompts the global #digitalpreservation community to share their motivations for preserving digital materials with the rest of the world. Watch some of the powerful responses in this video: https://www.dpconline.org/news/launch-why-preserve-conversation
🎉 This new #WDPD2025 blog brings a new angle on #WhyPreserve🎉
RMIT University Archives has developed a Digital Preservation Strategy and Roadmap to ensure we can continue to tell the stories of our people and their work. Read their blog on the #DPC website👉🏾https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-cassie-shaw-wdpd2025
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🎉 Fresh #WDPD2025 vlog alert! Dive into #WhyPreserve🎉
For this World #DigitalPreservation Day, #DPC Supporter Preferred Media recorded a VLOG around the Why Preserve theme … Take a look now! 👀 https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/vlog-holly-duncan-wdpd2025
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🎉 Here’s the next #WDPD2025 blog — a fresh take on this year's theme #WhyPreserve 🎉
This World #DigitalPreservation Day, we sat down with DPC Supporter Preferred Media to ask: why preserve, and who benefits? The answer is everyone: because preservation is identity, truth, and a compass for the future. Read here👉🏾https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-holly-duncan-wdpd2025
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🎉 New #WDPD2025 blog just dropped — explore #WhyPreserve 🎉
Read how NLA #DigitalPreservation staff use specialist expertise and some time-saving automation to transform complex publications from CD-ROMs to enable seamless access from Preservica 👉🏾https://www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/blog-coufal-vallance-franklin-wdpd2025
From Kiribati to Wellington and beyond, global #WDPD2025 celebrations are rolling - with stories, events and new releases all World #DigitalPreservation Day long. Dive in this year's theme #WhyPreserve and find out what great things to expect 👉 https://www.dpconline.org/news/start-of-wdpd2025 🎉
🌍 3 weeks to go until World Digital Preservation Day 2025!
On 6 November, the global celebration of #digitalpreservation kicks off live from Wellington during #iPRES2025 and circles the globe 🌎
🎉 The #DPC has surprises in store - including the Why Preserve campaign launch and a new version of the Global Bit List of Endangered Digital Species!
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https://www.dpconline.org/news/wdpd2025-3-weeks-to-go
🌍 3 weeks to go until World Digital Preservation Day 2025!
On 6 November, the global celebration of #digitalpreservation kicks off live from Wellington during #iPRES2025 and circles the globe 🌎
🎉 The #DPC has surprises in store - including a new version of the Global Bit List of Endangered Digital Species and freshly translated #digipres resources!
Get the Event Pack with Zoom backgrounds, #WDPD BINGO + more 👇
https://www.dpconline.org/news/wdpd2025-3-weeks-to-go
🌍 World Digital Preservation Day is 7 weeks away 🎉🎉 This year's theme is: Why Preserve? Share your reasons with us as we count down to Thursday 6 November. Learn more here: https://www.dpconline.org/news/7-weeks-til-world-digital-preservation-day-2025
PS: logos in 40+ languages are coming soon, so keep an eye out on the #DPC website 👀
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