Looking back at World Digital Preservation Day 2022
On 3 November 2022 it was World Digital Preservation Day
[https://www.dpconline.org/events/world-digital-preservation-day]
(WDPD), an annual event hosted on the first Thursday of every November
by the Digital Preservation Coalition
[https://www.dpconline.org/events/world-digital-preservation-day]
(DPC). This is a registered company and charity established in 2002 as
a collaboration between several agencies operating in the UK and
Ireland, among which research institutes such as CERN
[https://home.cern/] and the University of London
[https://www.london.ac.uk/]. 

The goal of WDPD is to celebrate and raise awareness at global level
about all things digital preservation and showcase how Digital
Preservation enables ‘digits to flourish’. With digital
preservation is meant in fact all processes aimed at ensuring safe
storage of digital information, which can be revived and interpreted
whenever the information is needed. This is necessary to safekeep
digital data from being lost, especially from technological threats.

The theme of the 2022 WDPD was ‘Data for all, for good, forever’.
Among many activities, such as webinars and events, a digital
making-baking-crafting competition - #BitListBakeOff - was initiated,
challenging participants to bake an at-risk digital material, crochet
a file format, or reconstruct a process in Lego. Moreover, DPC also
published the updated BitList of ‘Digitally Endangered Species’
[https://www.dpconline.org/digipres/champion-digital-preservation/bit-list]
and the conference proceedings from the iPress 2022
[https://inconference.eventsair.com/ipres-2022/], the International
Conference on Digital Preservation held in Glasgow in September.

At EU Level, the European Union´s Publications Office
[https://op.europa.eu/en/home] (OP) is certainly a pioneer in digital
preservation
[https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/2019/11/04/The+EU+Publications+Office+based+its+long-term+preservation+service+on+international+archiving+standards],
having implemented their first electronic archiving system already in
1987. Since then, OP has continued to master eArchiving
[https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/eArchiving]
to ensure long-term preservation of all official publications
published by the European Institutions (Decision 2009/496/EC, EURATOM
[https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32009D0496]),
as well as the number of documents that need archiving is ever
growing.

The European Union´s Publications Office also manages our
data.europa.eu [https://data.europa.eu/en] portal, which aims at
fostering not only the preservation of public sector open data, but
also its reuse in new and innovative forms
[https://data.europa.eu/en/impact-studies/use-cases].[Z(4]
[https://eceuropaeu.sharepoint.com/teams/GRP-Data.europa.eu858/Shared%20Documents/Service-3_Data-reuse/Challenge%202%20-%20Communication%20activities/Weekly%20News/data.europa.eu%20News%20Week%2045.docx#_msocom_4] 

If you want to know more about the services provided by data.europa.eu
or the topic of digital and data preservation, visit the portal and
discover its 176 catalogues
[https://data.europa.eu/data/catalogues?locale=en] and more than 1.5
million datasets [https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets?locale=en],
including on data preservation repositories.
[https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets?locale=en&query=data%20preservation%20repository&page=1]

 

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