The deadline for peer-reviewed submissions has been extended to March 16
If the visit has already reached its capacity, you will be notified and placed on a waitlist.
There is no need to sign up for the virtual professional visits. The visits will be pre-recorded and a short online Q&A will be held Friday 25 September for each of the visits. Links to the visits and the Q&A will be available on the website.
All Professional Visits take place on 25 September.
10:00-11:00 am
Get a taste of the impressive collection that dates back 750 years.
The City Archives stores Copenhagen’s most important records and documents, going back to 1275. The archive exists to contribute to the exploration, documentation, and dissemination of the history of the city of Copenhagen.
Copenhagen City Hall
Rådhuspladsen 1,
1599 København V
10:00-11:00 am
The tour takes place both in the newer building, The Black Diamond, and in the older part of the library, the Holm and Hansen buildings.
Hear about the architecture, history, cultural activities and the library’s work.
In the buildings of Royal Danish Library on Slotsholmen, you can enjoy exhibitions and events, use the reading rooms and visit the cafe, all while enjoying the view of the harbour.
Royal Danish Library
Søren Kierkegaards Plads 1
1221 Copenhagen K
10:30-11:30 am
Royal Danish Library has been collecting digital cultural heritage material since 1998. Participants will get a chance to visit both the “Forensic and Game Lab” and the “Special Collections”.
In “Forensic and Game Lab” they process any- and everything from Nintendo cartridges and SyQuest discs to highly sensitive personal archives. Participants will join a tour and a talk about the methods, tools and processes.
In the “Special Collections”, participants will explore how the digitisation of renowned author Hans Christian Andersen’s manuscripts and letters spanning more than 50,000 pages ensures long-term preservation and creates new opportunities for exploring the data.
Royal Danish Library
Søren Kierkegaards Plads 1
1221 Copenhagen K
11:00-12:00 am
Join us for a behind-the-scenes tour of the Danish National Archives at Kalvebod Brygge. Discover the archive’s storage facilities and get an insight into how Denmark preserves and safeguards its documentary heritage for future generations.
Kalvebod Brygge 34
1560 Copenhagen
10:00 am
Get a peek behind the curtains and hear how the National Gallery of Denmark approaches conservation and preservation of Time-Based Media artworks.
Sølvgade 48-50
1370 Copenhagen K
1:00-3:00 pm
The Danish public service broadcaster DR has produced radio for more than 100 years and television for 75 years, and has over time also created hundreds of thousands of promotional photographs. Until around 2005, almost all production was saved on physical carriers. As in many other broadcasting organisations, a large part of last century’s output was either transmitted live only or recorded on carriers that were later reused. As a result, many broadcasts from the early decades no longer exist.
Despite this, DR’s physical archive today still comprises around 500,000 individual items. Over the past 25 years, DR has carried out extensive digitisation projects, so that the digital archive now includes not only the born-digital production of the last quarter century, but also substantial amounts of content from the previous century.
In this session, we would like to invite you behind the scenes in DR’s physical archives and give a brief introduction to our major digitisation initiatives and to the scope and structure of our digital archive.
DR Byen
Emil Holms Kanal 20,
0999 København C
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Danish Data Museum collect, register and preserve hardware and documentation from the evolution of Danish Computer History.
The comprehensive collection dates back to 1957 and it holds many unique artifacts.
The museum is driven by a large group of passionate volunteers, many of whom have been part of the Danish computer evolution themselves.
Danish Data Museum
Charlottegårdsvej 1
2640 Hedehusene
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Get a peek behind the scenes at the Danish Film Institute and its Film Archive. The archives hold 50.000 film titles, 2.5 mio still images, scripts, posters, equipment and special collections including 490 films from the period 1897-1928 when Denmark was a global leader in the film industry.
Danish Film Institute / Film Archive
Naverland 13
2600 Glostrup
10:00-11:30 am
Visit the archives and learn about the Danish Arctic Institute and the unique challenges related to collecting, filing and registering material regarding Greenland and the other Arctic regions.
Danish Arctic Institute
Strandgade 102
1401 København K
Virtual Professional Visits can be watched at any time during the conference, but if you wish to attend the Q&A-session, please make sure to have watched the video beforehand. Zoom links for the Q&A sessions will be available for all attendees.
11:00 AM CEST / 05:00 PM SGT
The National Archives of Singapore is the official custodian of Singapore’s collective memory. Ranging from government files, private memoirs, historical maps and photographs to oral history interviews and audio-visual materials, the NAS is responsible for the collection, preservation and management of Singapore’s public and private archival records.
This tour will take you through the various functions and activities at the National Archives building, with special focus on the digital preservation activities conducted by the Records Management department and the Audiovisual Archives department.
10:00 AM CEST
Royal Danish Library has many locations in Denmark, and one of them is in Aarhus. This is the home office of the iPRES 2026 Chair Jette G. Junge, who will guide you around some of the most exciting parts of Royal Danish Library’s location in Aarhus, Jutland, – her home office. We will hear a bit about the history of the library, visit digitization and server rooms, hear about analogue audio-visual media, and the tour also includes a short interview with Deputy Director Søren Bitsch Christensen.
08:00 AM CEST / 06:00 PM NZST
Join us for a virtual tour of Auckland Council Libraries’ Digital Preservation workflow. From its beginnings in 1880, Auckland Council Libraries has grown into the Southern Hemisphere’s largest public library network, with 57 local branches, two research hubs, mobile library services and an extensive heritage collection, including medieval manuscripts, rare books, foundational historical documents, and one of New Zealand’s most comprehensive photograph collections.
