Accepted submissions

Please note that the list is subject to change. 

Full papers
Short papers
Panels
Posters
Workshop and Tutorials

Full papers

Between Subject and Object. Towards a Broader Conceptualization of Authenticity in Digital Preservation
Alloing, Sam; Steinmeier, Daniel

Developing a file format policy for digital preservation: a case study from Qatar National Library (QNL)
Shaon, Arif; Ebrahim, Ya’qub; Blatnik, Alenka

Archival Requirements for emerging non-electromagnetic storage media
Stürzlinger, Martin

Archiving Databases In The French Public Archives Network
Ville, Marion

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE ON THE RESOURCE’S STRATEGIC PLANNING OF THE NATIONAL DIGITAL PRESERVATION PROGRAM TOWARDS 2030
Li, Xin; Wang, Ziye; Wu, Zhenxin; Fu, Honghu

ROLL FOR DIGITAL PRESERVATION! A Gamified Approach to Understanding Trustworthy Digital Repositories
Appel, Rachel; Crowley, Pax

What is an “Information Package” in 2026?
Wildi, Tobias; Clavaud, Florence; Popovici, Bogdan; Williamson, Richard

Keeping Net Art Alive: Self-Healing VMs and a Caching Wayback Proxy from Six Months of Exhibition Operation
Schütze, Marc

Conformant OAIS Information Packages
Giaretta, David; Joguin, Vincent

SAFE HAVEN FOR ARCHIVES AT RISK IN PRACTICE
Enge, Jürgen; Wedl, Alexandra; Nef, Andreas

Good things come to those who collaborate: a case study on custodial migration as preservation
Harrington, Leanne; Thompson, Cydney

Trust Challenges in AI-Generated Metadata for Historical Newspapers: OCR Error Cascades and METS/PREMIS-Based Provenance Recording
Zhang, Naishuai

Community Maintenance: Doing the Work of Digital Learning Object Preservation (A practice-based account of the RMIT University Learning Objects Repository pilot project)
Cianci, Lisa

Bridging Community and Future: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of digital preservation Policies
Wang, Ziye; Li, Xin

CAPABILITY FRAMEWORK AND TEAM BASED IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR NDPP UNDER AI ASSISTED ENVIRONMENTS An Extension of the NDPP Digital Preservation Capability Training Framework
Fu, Honghu; Wu, Zhenxin

STANDING WATCH – Seven Years of Preservation Watch at the National Archives of the Netherlands
Van Veenendaal, Remco; Rappard, Marin; Wijsman, Lotte; Takema, Jacob

BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH DIGITAL ARCHIVING: Indigenous-led Initiatives, Capacity Building, and Outreach at PARADISEC
Miller, Julia Colleen; Gagau, Steven; Kell, Jodie

From Basement to Citizen: an Integrated Approach for the Digitization, Preservation & Access to Environmental Permits
Ruysseveldt, Sofie

PRESERVING EMAIL ARCHIVES OF PROMINENT FIGURES: A PROPOSED METHODOLOGY FOR ACQUISITION AND LONG-TERM PRESERVATION
Allegrezza, Stefano; Abis, Alberto; Stupino, Fabrizio

MYTHS, RISKS, AND REALITIES OF FLOPPY DISK PRESERVATION
Thorsted, Tyler; Talboom, Leontien; Spencer, Ross; Barrera-gomez, Julianna

EXTRACTING A VIDEO ARTWORK FROM AN OBSOLETE ANDROID TABLET WITH EMBEDDED MULTI MEDIA CARD (EMMC). The Development of a Media Art Conservation Approach.
Gelati, Vittoria

A Brief History of Digital Preservation in Finland
Hakala, Juha; Helin, Heikki; Salo, Aleksi; Kylander, Johan; Koivunen, Kimmo; Lehtonen, Juha

Codifying Current Practices in Digital Preservation Operations: EOSC EDEN Core Preservation Processes
Caron, Bertrand; Benauer, Maria; Lindlar, Micky; Addis, Matthew; Kylander, Johan; Dekeyser, Kris

How long is long – and what happens afterwards?
Molloy, Laura; Lindlar, Micky

Lessons Learned in Normalization for Access in the 2024 End of Term Web Archive
Phillips, Mark E.; Phillips, Kristy K.; Alam, Sawood

PROVENANCE AND TRUSTWORTHINESS IN RESEARCH DATA: AN ARCHIVAL APPROACH TO QUALITATIVE DIGITAL PRESERVATION
Praxedes, Karina; Sales, Luana; Sayão, Luis

From Capture to Care: Initiating Responsible Web Archiving at NIOD
Hamza, Lili; Nathoe, Joran; Bouten, Lucas

Adopting a packaging specification in a heterogeneous digital archive. Running a tight s(h)ip
Vander Sande, Miel; Vanden Eynden, Lobke

Digital Preservation in Nigerian Heritage and Academic Institutions: Initiatives, Strategies, Challenges, Successes, and Prospects
Obim, Ify Evangel; Igwebuike, Ejike Udensi

LEVERAGING CONSORTIA FOR MUNICIPAL DIGITAL ARCHIVING IN CANADA: Lessons from Denmark
Bak, Greg; Mueller, Blake; Paasch, Marianne

Preserving Bill Viola’s Threshold Reverse Engineering Obsolete Display Control Hardware
Heiss, Daniel; Erforth, Thomas

Short papers

Beyond Collaboration: Examining Power, Equity, and Epistemic Justice in Global Digital Preservation Communities
Schmid, Irina

Success Rates in Digital Media Preservation
Whyte, Jess

WHEN TRADITIONAL PATHWAYS DON’T EXIST: HOW WE BUILT DIGITAL PRESERVATION EXPERTISE FROM SCRATCH
Wong, Joyce

Introducing JSONID: Parser-driven file-format identification of serde file formats
Spencer, Ross

SPREADING KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE – Videos And Podcasts By nestor, German network of expertise in Digital Preservation
Markus, Katharina; Yvonne, Tunnat; Svenia, Pohlkamp

Expanding Access From Digital To Datasets: The National Library Singapore’s Digital Preservation Journey
Goh, Lee Kim

Digitising an Analogue Media Collection: Early-Stage Planning at the Heritage Conservation Centre Singapore
Tan, Angelyn; Toh, Kezia; Cruz, Marion

Digital is Everyone’s Job: Cross-Functional and Peer-Guided Training in an Academic Archive
Goff, Alexa; Ruddell, Mahala

AN OAIS-COMPLIANT ARCHIVING PLATFORM WITH DNA CONNECTOR
Burgi, Pierre-Yves; Cazeaux, Hugues; Genga, Dario; El Kharroubi, Michaël

CHARMing Research Data: Towards Collaborative Preservation Planning
Stobbs, Robyn; Tomé, Amanda; Peuramaki-Brown, Meaghan; Inanloo Dailoo, Shabnam

Should I build or should I buy?… Building will give trouble, buying makes it double…
Ligtenberg, Richard; Teigen, Trond

AI IN DIGITAL PRESERVATION: QUESTIONS AND CONSIDERATIONS
Smith, Richard; O’sullivan, Jack; Tilbury, Jonathan

Long-term Qualities of Research Data. Constructing a Community Standard
Nippert, Klaus; Naumann, Kai

REAL-ENVIRONMENT EMERGENCY SERVICE DRILL FOR DIGITAL PRESERVATION: A COLLABORATIVE CASE STUDY WITH 25 MEDICAL LIBRARIES IN CHINA
Hu, Jiahui; Fang, An; Ren, Huiling; Fan, Yunman; Yang, Chenliu; Peng, Yuanyuan; Wang, Qian

Managing Risk in Moving to the Cloud: The Custodial Copy Approach
Daly, Steve

FROM FIXITY PRO TO OPEN FIXITY Lessons learnt making a proprietary digital preservation tool open source
Jefferies, Neil; Wilson, Carl

Designing Leadership for Sustainable Stewardship: A Governance Consultation Case Study from the Centre for Computing History
Smith, Caylin

Safeguarding the national memory at RTÉ
Culjat, Miroslav

Challenges of Digital Preservation in Public Entities in Peru
Del Carpio Llerena, Nadithza Dasshiell; Yturbe Mori, Laura

Regional Impact at iPRES 2025: Building relationships and capability across Aotearoa, Australia and the Pacific
Caldwell, Nicola; Gengenbach, Martin

Output Signal Recording and Playback: Promising Approach for the Conservation of Black-Box Artworks
Stricot, Morgan; Hirt, Anika

AN ODE TO THE DESIGNATED COMMUNITY AND FRENCH SOCIOLOGISTS: AKRICH, ALTHUSSER, BOURDIEU AND LATOUR ON VIEWERS OF ARCHIVES
Bettivia, Rhiannon

RECOVERING THE GLASGOW GUARDIAN ARCHIVE
Gray, Jarvis; Konstantelos, Leo

BEYOND GOOD AND BEST: Reflections on how we talk about our practice
Dietrich, Dianne; Dietz, Brian

SHARED KNOWLEDGE, BETTER PLANNING
Brøcker, Karen

CARBON FOOTPRINTING FOR DIGITAL ARCHIVES: FROM IPRES WORKSHOP TO DPC TOOLKIT (2024–2026)
Mitcham, Jenny; Smith, Caylin; Wise, Alicia

How we use AI. How AI uses us. The impact of AI on open data preservation services
Griffith, Lisa; Long, Kevin; O’carroll, Aileen; Kenny, Stuart

TIERED COMMUNITY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CONTENT AUTHENTICITY AND PROVENANCE FOR LAMS CONTENT IMPACTED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Murray, Kate; Krabbenhoeft, Nick; Rice, Dave; Hosale, Charlie

Reading Between the Files: Designated Communities as Contributors to Preservation Knowledge
Wijsman, Lotte; Talboom, Leontein; Mackenzie, Francesca

Floppy Files & Context Rot: A format mystery in an artist’s archive
Moya, Cynde; Jackson, Andrew

RETHINKING SHORT-TERM STORAGE TO SUPPORT LONG-TERM POST-CUSTODIAL PRESERVATION AT THE MODERN ENDANGERED ARCHIVES PROGRAM (MEAP)
Lhost, Elizabeth

Is that Information Assurance I see on the Horizon? Implementing a Digital Records Centre for Long-term Record Keeping at the University of Sheffield
Hooper, Bryony

Reusing Legacy Digitizations: A Cost-Effective Preservation Workflow for Small and Medium-Sized Institutions
Santos, Murilo Souza Dos; Piconi, Andressa Cristiani

We the Data: Community Preservation of US Federal Data
Burns, Halle; Narlock, Mikala

The Bits and Bots Study Group: Two Years of Learning, Building, and Further Development
Wijsman, Lotte; Van Den Eijkel, Susanne; Mackenzie, Francesca

Poetry, Preservation, and Custodial Clarification: Stabilizing Governance in The New River Journal
Kinnaman, Alex; Patel, Soham

Deciphering Fire Insurance Maps Through Virtual Delamination: Using OCR to Infer Attribute and Geographic Data
Farr, Chloë; Hurd, Emilia

PRESERVING WORLDS, NOT JUST BITS: Climate Justice, Data Sovereignty, and Critical Pedagogy in Digital Preservation Education
Shaffer, Elizabeth

Panels 

Working With What You Have: Digital Preservation When Best Practice Isn’t An Option
Phippard, Grace; Lees, Marcella; Rezaei, Fatemeh; Rudolph, Katie

Are We nearly There Yet? Digital Preservation as Business as Usual
Doig, James; Hofsink, Inge; Mitcham, Jenny; Pedersen, Torbjørn; Smith, Caylin; Wales, Lucy

Shared Infrastructure, Shared Responsibility: Discussing how federated and consortium-based repository communities can display their trustworthiness
Verburg, Maaike; Alaterä, Tuomas J.

Posters

Don’t Stop Retrievin’: Ensuring Version Integrity in Publications and Metadata
Hofsink, Inge; Ligtenberg, Richard

DIGITAL FORENSICS AND CONTEMPORARY PRACTICE: Updating and Reframing the DPC Technology Watch Report (2012)
Mckean, Callum; Talboom, Leontien

THE DISKOVERY PILOT: Amiga Coverdisk Emulation & Videogaming the Incidental
Walker, Conor De Quincey

LTO-7 to LTO-10: Migrating Holocaust Survivor Testimonies for Long-Term Digital Preservation
Alster, Ada; Singh, Rohini

Repository Autoscaling Through Use Of Containers And Operational Metrics – A Cloud-based Approach
Lopatin, Eric

Roadmap to Preservation (maybe the real treasure was the friends we made along the way…)
Shaw, Cassie; Tropea, Rachel

Shrinking the Digital Heap: Triaging Digital Carriers at Cambridge University Library
Johnston, Rebekah; Talboom, Leontien

Forwarding the Email Archive: Stewarding Donna J. Haraway’s Digital Correspondence at UC Santa Cruz
Norton, Alix; Berry, Annika

Captioning: Everything, Everywhere, All At Once? Integrating Automated Speech Recognition into a Digital Preservation Workflow
Rao, Nina; O’riordan, Simon

Let’s doWARC! Semantic Modelling of web archiving artefacts to support their sustainable long-term preservation
Storrar, Thomas; Pallotto Strickland, Manuela

Overcoming Barriers to Preserving and Sharing Qualitative Data: The Experience of FORS
Ferrez, Eliane; Heers, Marieke

ADVOCACY AS A CORE DIGITAL PRESERVATION COMPETENCY: STRENGTHENING AWARENESS, ACTION AND ORGANISATIONAL SUPPORT
Middleton, Sarah; Waugh, Dorothy

Adapting to Context: Generating Collaboration Opportunities
Tomé, Amanda; Bos, Maaike

FROM SIMULATION TO REALITY: CHINA’S FIRST AUTHENTIC-SCENARIO EMERGENCY DRILL FOR PRESERVING LICENSED ELECTRONIC JOURNALS IN BIOMEDICINE
Peng, Yuanyuan; Ren, Huiling; Fu, Minjun

How Well Did We Do? Measuring Digital Preservation Performance
Goethals, Andrea; Gengenbach, Martin; Wu, Cynthia

ARE WE ON THE RIGHT TRACK?
Stokes, Paul; Flores, Jacques

AIDA: A Network-Based Approach to Technical Partner Communication
Maene, Merijn; Savels, Maarten

Taking a risk …
Lucas, Rebecca; Whibley, Simon; Day, Michael

The Good, the Grey and the Redundant – Data Redundancy and Grey Literature at the EDC
Brough, Oliver; Holt, Peter; Mistry, Vivek

We Can’t Keep Everything Forever: A Landscape Analysis of Data Retention in U.S. Data Repositories
Narlock, Mikala; Luong, Hoa; Taylor, Danielle

Current Trends in Fixity Practices: Results from the 2025 NDSA Fixity Survey
Taylor, Danielle; Kussmann, Carol; Pahl, Aaron; Kidd, Margaret; Oldham, Krista

LOWER SAXONY STATE INITIATIVE FOR DIGITAL PRESERVATION
Walz, Annabel; Rücknagel, Jesko

Sustainable and systematic: building a search index of research and practice in web archiving and digital preservation
Holownia, Olga; Jackson, Andrew N.; Healy, Sharon

AI-ENABLED ACCESS TO LARGE AND SENSITIVE COLLECTIONS
West, Brent; Kaczmarek, Joanne

Repository-Native Documentation for Research Data Preservation with Well-known Repository Files
Kameda, Akihiro; Kitaoka, Tamako; Goto, Makoto

Workshops and Tutorials

(W) Building Bridges: A Workshop on Relationship Management for Digital Preservation Professionals
Tallman, Nathan; Anderson, Martha; Waugh, Dorothy

(W) Flop Around and Find Out: A hands-on floppy disk data recovery workshop
Talboom, Leontien; Jackson, Andrew N.; Waugh, Dorothy; Vanderperren, Nastasia; Mckean, Callum

(W) EXPLORING THE DIGITAL PRESERVATION LIFECYCLE Building Skills and Workflows Together
Dignam, Darren; Slotboom, Amanda

(W) WRANGLE THE WIKI: A COPTR EDIT-ATHON Coming together to help COPTR fly
Wilson, Carl; Jackson, Andrew

(W) CARBON FOOTPRINTING FOR DIGITAL ARCHIVES: Taking first steps with the new Carbon Footprint Toolkit
Mitcham, Jenny; Smith, Caylin; Wise, Alicia

(W) Core Preservation Processes in Action – Using structured documentation to understand what it is that we do
Benauer, Maria; Lindlar, Micky; Caron, Bertrand; Kylander, Johan; Dekeyser, Kris; Zhang, Fen

(W) Keeping Net Art Alive: Open-Source Tools for Self-Healing Exhibition Systems
Schütze, Marc

(W) SolrWayback- Unlocking Archived Web Data with SolrWayback: Deploy, Explore, Collaborate
Egense, Thomas; Klindt Myrvoll, Anders; Holownia, Olga; Toth, Laszlo; Carlstedt Tønnesen, Jon

(W) From Inbox to Archive: Policy, Processing, and Preservation of Email Records
Drmacich, Jessika; Martinez, Ruby L; Prom, Christopher

(W) Safeguarding Humanitarian Memory: Presenting The Digital Humanitarian Archives Toolkit
Chatt, Flora

(W) Under the Hood: File Formats Unmasked, A File Format Identification Workshop
Clipsham, David; Mackenzie, Francesca; Spencer, Ross; Thorsted, Tyler

(W) JUPYTER NOTEBOOKS FOR BORN-DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
Holownia, Olga; O’brien, Ben; Zhan, Yizhe; Candela, Gustavo; Byrne, Helena; Tønnessen, Jon

(T) Understanding and implementing METS – A tutorial focused on METS 2
Bredenberg, Karin; Hofsink, Inge; Lehtonen, Juha; Steinke, Tobias; Nef, Andreas

(T) Understanding and Implementing PREMIS
Bredenberg, Karin; Steeman, Marjolein; Lindlar, Micky; Fu, Honghu

(T) Local Emulation in Practice: A Tutorial
Fox, Claire