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Joining Efforts, a Sure Bet in Digital Preservation

Antonio Guillermo Martínez Largo

Antonio Guillermo Martínez Largo

Last updated on 2 November 2023

Antonio Guillermo Martinez is the Founder and Head of Product at LIBNOVA


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One more year we join the Digital Preservation Coalition's initiative to celebrate the World Digital Preservation Day. This year the central theme to reflect on is "Digital Preservation: A Concerted Effort".

At LIBNOVA we firmly believe that a successful digital preservation project is the result of a joint effort between the institution and the provider, which is why we have always advocated a project approach based on cooperation, with the needs of our customers as the driving force for innovation and by engaging in collaborative research projects. But, what does this really mean?

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A Guide to the Installation of IsoBuster, IROMLAB and IROMSGL

Niamh Murphy

Niamh Murphy

Last updated on 11 October 2024

Niamh Murphy is a Digital Archivist with the Royal Dublin Society.


In our community, optical media imaging is an essential yet challenging task to undertake. Despite the plentiful documentation available in support of this topic, establishing a workflow can leave you questioning: Where do I begin?

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Digital Preservation Soup

Ailie O'Hagan

Ailie O'Hagan

Last updated on 2 November 2023

Ailie O’Hagan is the Digital Preservation Officer at Queen’s University BelfastShe attended the iPRES 2023 Conference with support from the DPC Career Development Fund, which is funded by DPC Supporters.


Starting with Digital Preservation is like making stone soup – the more we come together and pool our resources, the better we can sustain our staff and collections needs. 

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Celebrating WDPD2023 at the Nelson Mandela Foundation

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Zandile Myeka

Last updated on 1 November 2023

This video was sent to us by Zandile Myeka, Metadata and Photographs Archivist at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, in celebration of World Digital Preservation Day 2023.


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Digital preservation in interesting times

Mark Schroeder

Mark Schroeder

Last updated on 6 November 2023

Mark Schroeder is a solution architect in Iron Mountain's Digital Business Unit


We are living in most interesting times…

(Joseph Chamberlain, 1898)

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When the collapse of the Soviet Bloc precipitated the breakdown of the German Democratic republic in 1989, the East German Secret Service (Ministerium für Staatsicherheit - Stasi), found themselves holding extensive archives of records. In the forty years of its existence, 91,000 employees of the Stasi and up to 180,000 informants had amassed thousands of linear metres of archive material.

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Graveyards and ghosts in web archiving

Alice Austin

Alice Austin

Last updated on 31 October 2023

Alice Austin is the Web Archivist for the University of Edinburgh.


October 1969 was a busy month. Monty Python’s Flying Circus aired for the first time; Steve McQueen, Trey Parker and PJ Harvey were born; and on a dark, dark night (or about 10.30pm on the 29th), a 21-year-old UCLA student called Charley Kline started to transmit a message to the Stanford Research Institute using the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. He meant to send the word ‘LOGIN’ – but the receiving system crashed at ‘LO’. And thus, the internet was born.

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“So I’ve finally procured a digital preservation system, now what?”: Takeaways from DPC Supporter panel

Jenny Mitcham

Jenny Mitcham

Last updated on 18 December 2023

Jenny Mitcham is Head of Good Practice and Standards at the Digital Preservation Coalition


Last month the DPC hosted a series of ‘Digital Preservation Futures’ events designed to showcase the work of our Supporter organizations. The event that kicked off this series was a panel discussion entitled “So I’ve finally procured a digital preservation system, now what?”. The session began with a representative from each Supporter organization giving a short lightning talk in answer to the question posed in the title, and this was followed by a lively discussion and Q&A with the audience. It worked well to benefit from the expertise of all of our Supporters together and in many cases to hear them effectively ‘singing from the same hymn sheet’ and repeating and developing on the points that others had made. With representatives from Arkivum, Artefactual, AVP, boxxe, Libnova, Preservica, and consultant Simon Wilson, this really did feel like ‘a concerted effort’. Pulling together the key learnings from the session into a blog post for World Digital Preservation Day seemed an obvious next step. 

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Bit List 2023: If digital preservation is possible then data loss is a choice

William Kilbride

William Kilbride

Last updated on 9 November 2023

William Kilbride is Executive Director of the Digital Preservation Coalition


Digits are born vulnerable.

Every single byte of data depends on a global infrastructure of technology, process and people for its meaning and purpose to be realized. Much data serves the moment: it is quickly forgotten in a continuous flow of process and interaction. Other data serve lengthier purposes, as evidence and outputs of transactions that have significant impacts and long duration, longer than the infrastructure and the institutions through which the data was created. Everything in the latter category falls into the scope of digital preservation—the series of managed activities necessary to ensure continued access to digital materials for as long as necessary, beyond the limits of media degradation, technical obsolescence, and organizational change.

The Bit List is not a paper exercise. It was originally conceived as a call to action based on the insight and authentic voice of the global digital preservation community, and it remains so.

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World Digital Preservation Day 2023: A Concerted Effort from Autocar & Exact Editions

Ellie Burnage

Ellie Burnage

Last updated on 31 October 2023

Ellie Burnage works for Exact Editions based in the UK


“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it!” Halford E. Luccock 🎼

November has crept around again, and with it World Digital Preservation Day 2023 on Thursday 2nd November. Organised by the Digital Preservation Coalition, this annual celebration invites all data creators, archivists and curators to celebrate the benefits and opportunities enabled by the hard work of digital preservation community. 

The theme of this year’s celebration is ‘Digital Preservation: A Concerted Effort’ — and a particular project Exact Editions took on during the last year encapsulates the collaborative work that digitising a magazine archive entails. Haymarket documented over 120 years of automotive history when they extended the archive of Autocar, the world’s oldest car publication, back to the first issue ever published in 1895. 

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World Digital Preservation Day 2023: Digital Preservation: A Concerted Effort

Kirsten Hylan

Kirsten Hylan

Last updated on 31 October 2023

This blogpost has been written by St George’s, University of London (SGUL) Records Manager Kirsten Hylan, Research Data Support Manager Sarah Stewart, and Archivist Juulia Ahvensalmi.


‘Digital Preservation: A Concerted Effort’ is the theme of this year’s World Digital Preservation Day, celebrating how, by working with colleagues at our university and beyond, digital preservation allows us to both share and gain knowledge, which in turn supports our efforts at digitally preserving our digital records. 

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