✨📢Call for Speakers!

We’re hosting a community led webinar on embedding digital preservation into everyday workflows using simple, low cost tools. Got tips, lessons learned, or examples of what works (or doesn’t)? We’d love to hear from you!

📧 sat@archives.org.uk

#DigitalPreservation #Archives

Poster for Preservation & Migration Seminar Dublin 2026. Text includes the theme: "Digital time: show me how you do it! Recipes for audiovisual content longevity". The logos for the Digital Repository of Ireland, FIAT/IFTA and RTE appear at the bottom of the image.

⏰Less than one week left to submit your proposal for the @fiatifta.bsky.social (FIAT/IFTA) Preservation and Migration Seminar taking place in Dublin this June!

Find out more: fiatifta.org/pmc-seminar-...

#DigiPres #CallForProposals #DigitalPreservation #DigiPresNews

CFP: Online Survey about Searching Digital Archives in the Age of Generative AI ← dh+lib dhandlib.org/cfp-online-s...

New #DPC Blog is up! Read about The Postal Museum’s journey to making their born-digital collections publicly accessible online 👉 www.dpconline.org/blog/blog-pathway-public...
#DigitalPreservation #Coalition #digipres #DPC #community #museum #BornDigital #collections #JoinUs

#BitCuratorForum is back for 2026! This all virtual forum will take place on June 17

Submit your proposals by March 8!

bitcuratorconsortium.org/bitcurator-f...

#digiPres #bornDigital #bitCurator

Rylands BlogA new era for Manchester computing: the Ferranti Mark I, 1951 Dr James Peters discusses the Ferranti Mark I computer, installed at the University of Manchester in February 1951.

75th anniversary of the University of Manchester’s Ferranti Mark I includes description of the purpose of the preserved paper tape pictured below #DigiPres rylandscollections.wpcomstaging.com/2026/02/12/a...

A Conversation with Carol Kussmann: Digital Preservation Analyst at the University of Minnesota Libraries This interview by Kari May is the thirteenth post in a new series of conversations between archivists actively working with digital materials. Carol Kussmann, is the Digital Preservation Analyst at…

A Conversation with Carol Kussmann: Digital Preservation Analyst at the University of Minnesota #Libraries (via @saa-official.bsky.social) saaers.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/a... #digipres #digitalpreservation #saa_ers

YouTube’s earliest video has been deemed museum-worthy | CNN London’s V&A museum has added YouTube’s first video to its collection, displaying 2005’s “Me at the zoo” in one of its galleries.

“Our digital conservation team have spent the last 18 months rebuilding the design and experience of the platform from 8 December 2006, the oldest timestamp documented online…”

www.cnn.com/2026/02/18/s...

#digipres #archives #library 📚

New AI guidelines launched to help galleries, libraries, archives and museums prepare for the future — Archives & Records Association The Archives and Records Association UK & Ireland (ARA) has today published new open-access guidelines to help the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector prepare their collection...

Today we launch new AI guidelines to help galleries, libraries, archives and museums prepare for the future - read more here: www.archives.org.uk/news/new-ai-...

Hello #DigiPres! Can anyone help with this question we received from a DPC member? "What power supply cable would be compatible with an old Tableau Forensic USB Bridge T8-R2? The specs for this old model give 'TP7 and TP2', but I cannot find either product online."

Have something to say about the role of play in advancing skills, projects, and tools in #DigitalPreservation? Want to hear what others think about the increasing need for #collaboration?

Submit your proposal TODAY and join us for DPASSH2026!

dpassh.org/conference-t...

⏰The #DigitalPreservation Summit 2026 is just around the corner, and the full program for Feb 5 is live.Join this virtual event from Henry Stewart Events, in partnership with #DPC, for practical insights on securing cultural heritage in the digital age. Explore the program👉https://buff.ly/ut0dbym

PMC Seminar 2026 - Call for Proposals The call for proposals for the FIAT/IFTA Preservation & Migration Seminar 2026 in Dublin, Ireland is now open.

FIAT/IFTA PMC, with RTÉ & the Digital Repository of Ireland, invites submissions for the first on-site PMC Seminar at the Royal Irish Academy (Dublin), June 2026.

Topics: preservation, migration & digital preservation of media content.

#CallForProposals #DigitalPreservation #MediaArchives #PMC2026

Start 2026 off right with a DPASSH conference proposal submission and make a plan to join us in #Belfast this summer! #DigiPres #CFP #Play

➡️ Ready, Set, Preserve! Making Space for Play in Digital Preservation

Library of Congress Announces Updates to the Sustainability of Digital Formats (via @librarycongress.bsky.social) blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/20... #libraries #digitaldata #digipres

Vacancy for a Research Representative on ARA’s Section for Archives and Technology — Archives & Records Association The ARA's Section for Archives and Technology is looking for new committee members.

📢 ARA SAT is recruiting!
We’re looking for a Research Representative to join our committee in 2026. If you can bring insights from an academic/research perspective and help shape our programme of work, we’d love to hear from you.
👉 Full details: www.archives.org.uk/officer-vaca...

📣 Help shape new resources to future-proof PhD theses! Work with e-theses or digital preservation in HE? Share your experience in our short survey (10–15 mins).

🗓 Open until 16 Jan 2026
👉 www.dpconline.org/news/consultation-e-thes...

#DigitalPreservation #digipres #eTheses […]

Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship - University of London Press Failure is ordinary. From technological failures and computational obsolescence to rejected applications and challenging collaborations, failure is an unavoidable part of any scholarly endeavour. This...

Anna-Maria is also the co-editor with Michael Donnay of @uolpress.bsky.social 's newly published open-access ‘Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship’ which gathers reflection pieces from across SAS including @jfwinters.bsky.social, @cmohge.bsky.social and @naswells.bsky.social: bit.ly/3Y69HAn

Do any London based #digitalhumanities colleagues have recommendations for galleries or exhibitions focusing on something like data, computing, digital technologies, or digital history coming up in the first half of 2026?

#digipres

Calling #digipres colleagues worldwide 📣 We’re looking for volunteers to share their workflows for the March 2026 #DPC Workflow Webinars!

Share your #digitalpreservation workflow and help strengthen our community in the 2026 Workflow Webinars series. Read more & Fill out the Form: buff.ly/0rUgIoX

New @dpc_chat news of an exciting and new variety: Digital Preservation Coalition launches new Research and Development Fund for Members www.dpconline.org/news/dpc-launches-new-re... #DigiPres

DPC Blog: Call for comments on a new guide to help you copy those floppies www.dpconline.org/blog/call-for-comments-o... thanks to #FutureNostalgia led by @makethecatwise #DigiPres

It's HERE... World Digital Preservation Day 2025!! We are excited to kick off #WDPD2025 with our traditional opening blog from #DPC Executive Director William Kilbride, writing from the #iPRES2025 conference in Aotearoa New Zealand - one of the first places in […]

[Original post on digipres.club]

#digipres in 3.

1. I am attending #iPRES2025 virtually. Sad to miss the buzz of in person attendance and visit NZ, but I am excited to help host some of the Europe/Africa iPRES Radio broadcasts.
To listen in, follow the link:
www.dpconline.org/events/event...

NDSA's Digital Preservation Conference 2025 - YouTube Presentation recordings from the National Digital Stewardship Alliance's Digital Preservation Conference held October 9 and 10, 2025 virtually. The conferenc...

The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Digital Preservation Conference playlist is now available on YouTube with 37 videos from the conference!

#digipres #DigitalPreservation #archives #library 📚

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Empowering the cultural heritage community through Responsible AI training A lunchtime webinar on Wednesday 26th November, 12.00pm -13.00pm.

On Wednesday 26th November, Dr Anna-Maria Sichani, BRAID Research Fellow, will discuss how the cultural heritage sector can build capacity for responsible #AI

💻 Online
🕑 12-1pm GMT
🎉 Free and open to all ARA members
🎟️ Book your place here by Mon 24th Nov: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/empowering...

When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age Explore archival memory, data loss, and attempts to preserve the past in the digital age at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.

Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!

🎉JPEG 2000 turns 25! To celebrate, the #DPC is hosting a free event on 19 Nov 2025 exploring how this standard has shaped digitization and #digipres over the past 25 years. Have YOU used JPEG 2000 in your work? Share your story by 24 Oct 👉 buff.ly/W2KahKk

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The DRI October Newsletter is out now!
This month's updates include news of new DRI Expert Advisory Group Members, our updated Digital Preservation Policy, a new collection and more, as well as a variety of exciting upcoming #DigiPres and #OpenScience events!

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