Preserving our Digital Content: Celebrating Communities
Happy World Digital Preservation Day – the Digital Preservation Coalition’s annual celebration of all things Digital Preservation! It’s a special day for the team at Preservica to recognize the importance of safeguarding our digital history and to reflect on the dynamic work taking place in the Digital Preservation community.
Preservica is celebrating this year’s WDPD theme, “Preserving our Digital Content: Celebrating Communities,” with a new blog written by Preservica's Chief Innovation Officer, Jon Tilbury, which takes a dive into the past, present and future importance of Digital Preservation within our communities.
Don’t miss out on the recap and collage from our What Do You Preserve campaign, plus we have shared a few ways to get involved in the celebration of WDPD - find out more below!
Connecting with the Digital Preservation Community
We've travelled far and wide this year, from Scotland to Australia, Houston to Washington, and we were even lucky enough to spend time in the beautiful city of Ghent for iPres 2024!
We have loved catching up with old faces (and meeting new ones!) discussing all things Digital Preservation. Our diary is already filling up for 2025 - we'd love to see you at one of our events, user days or webinars. Keep an eye on our Events page to see where you can find the Preservica team next.
Preservica User Groups
Our User Groups this year were a huge success, and provided the perfect environment for networking and collaboration with like-minded individuals.
If you were unable to attend, some of the sessions recordings are available to view on demand here.
What Do You Preserve Recap
In celebration of Archives Month we invited the community to showcase the great work being done to preserve amazing digital assets and collections. As a part of this celebration, we asked the community to show off some of its prized collections being future-proofed through Digital Preservation efforts using #WhatDoYouPreserve.
Customer Success Stories
Digital Preservation success stories from communities around the world. Learn how these communities implemented a Digital Preservation strategy to make their digital archives accessible and future-ready.
The Folklore Library & Archive
The PreserveIt! Community Challenge
With the theme of Preserving Our Digital Content: Celebrating Communities, WDPD2024 provides a great opportunity for you to connect with your communities and highlight the importance of safeguarding our digital heritage for future generations, as well as recognizing the hard work and dedication from you, the Digital Preservation practitioners.
Here’s 3 simple ways you can get your archive involved on WDPD2024:
- Engage your communities using your Starter Public Portal
Login to Starter and be sure you set your favourite assets to the public tag – then post on your social channels & we’ll amplify your post by sharing it with our global community
- Invite community submissions to your archive
Easily invite submissions from your community for participatory archiving, ensuring a standardized, secure & quick way to manage contributions to your archive.
- Apply for the Preservica Grant Program
Learn how our Grant program helps organizations with limited resources jump start their digital preservation journey. Four grants will be awarded each year with winners announced in May.
Build skills to achieve your goals
Coming soon… Accelerate and certify your Digital Preservation skills & achieve your career goals with the Preservica Academy.
Look out for more information early December, 2024.
Additional resources
Digital Preservation Overview
Learn about Digital Preservation in our Digital Preservation Overview, part of our Digital Preservation White Paper Series.
