World Digital Preservation Day 2025 Launches Global Conversation: Why Preserve?

[Angela Puggioni]

On the first Thursday in November, we celebrate World Digital Preservation Day. This year's theme asks the question ‘Why Preserve?’ and prompts the global community to share their motivations for preserving digital materials with the rest of the world.

Launched alongside the iPRES 2025 conference in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand today, the campaign aims to inspire action through powerful, practical and relatable messages which can be used to help organizations and individuals advocate for digital preservation within their own contexts.

“As a community we understand that digital preservation matters for many reasons - and those reasons vary across sectors, regions, and communities,” explains Sarah Middleton, Chief Community Officer for the Digital Preservation Coalition, which convenes World Digital Preservation Day. “But if we can frame the reasons WHY we preserve in a way that is more broadly relatable, we hope we can inspire greater support and action!”

Watch some of the powerful responses to Why Preserve? already shared by the digital preservation community in this video.

Everyone is invited to take part in World Digital Preservation Day and to share their Why Preserve?

• Visit our virtual wall and submit your message
• Post your reflections, videos, crafts, artworks or messages on social media using #WDPD2025 and #WhyPreserve.
• Use the campaign messages to help colleagues understand why digital preservation matters.

Whether through a sentence, a video, a stitched message, or a social post, your contribution helps amplify the importance of digital preservation worldwide. Let’s make this a global conversation.

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Kind regards/Met vriendelijke groet,

Angela Puggioni
Community Engagement Manager

Digital Preservation Coalition

https://www.dpconline.org/

Email: angela....@dpconline.org

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Why Preserve? Share Your Stories on World Digital Preservation Day, Thursday 6th November 2025