PROGRAMME

Awards and Prizes

iPRES Awards recognise outstanding contributions and work in the field of digital preservation. We are pleased to be carrying on this tradition with seven awards on offer this year. A massive thank you to our sponsors for supporting excellence at iPRES conferences!

Best Paper Award, sponsored by nestor

The Best Paper Award is based on a shortlist of papers that were either nominated by reviewers or received high overall scores during the pre-conference peer-review process because of their originality, relevance, clarity and organisation of ideas.
- Prize: $1300 NZD + Certificate
- Awarded to: Stacey Jones, Jaime Schumacher, Danielle Taylor - Confidence, Community and a Course of Action: Takeaways from Ten Years of Digital POWRR Training
Best Poster Award, sponsored by Infotel

The Best Poster Award is an audience choice award. iPRES 2025 attendees, both in-person and virtual, will have the opportunity to vote for the Best Poster during the conference.
- Prize: $950 NZD + Certificate
- Awarded to: Stefania di Maria, Sarah Aldrich, Meg Travers, Marcus Burke - Together in Archival Dreams

Angela Dappert Memorial Award, sponsored by Digital Lifecycle Management

The Angela Dappert Memorial recognizes outstanding work in digital preservation that has both strong theoretical underpinnings and a clear impact on practice. The Prize is awarded by Adam Farquhar, based on a short list of papers with high-scoring reviews that meet these criteria.
- Prize: $1550 NZD + Certificate
- Awarded to: Matthew P. Burgess, Peter Brotherton - The PREMIS of Metadata in SIPs: Producer Versus System-generated Preservation Metadata
Best Contribution from a First-Time Attendee, sponsored by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)

The award aims to encourage and celebrate new entrants into the digital preservation field, by recognising the contributions of first-time attendees to the iPRES community.
- Prize: Registration & travel contribution for a future iPRES + Certificate
- Awarded to: Ish Doney and Lara Simmons - At-Risk LTO Migration: A Prioritisation Case Study
Best Lightning Talk, sponsored by Artefactual
This year, the Best Lightning Talk Award is also an audience choice award chosen by iPRES 2025 attendees, both in-person and virtual. This award recognises outstanding quickfire format presentations at iPRES 2025.
- Prize: $1000 NZD + Certificate
- Awarded to: Leanne Harrington - Bottling It: Preserving 3D Objects at the Guinness Archive

Best Reviewer, sponsored by Artefactual
The Best Reviewer Award recognises a member of the iPRES community who volunteered their time and expertise to provide valuable feedback on the peer-reviewed contributions of Papers, Panels, Workshops, Tutorials, and Posters submitted for this year’s conference. This Award recognises the overall quality of their reviews and author feedback.
- Prize: $400 NZD + Certificate
- Awarded to: Dharmeesh Kondaveeti

Great Digital Preservation Bake Off Awards: Best Tasting Spoon and Best Amuse Bouche
While everyone is a winner at the Demo Session (also known as The Great Digital Preservation Bake Off) - just by being brave enough to showcase a tool live in front of an audience - the iPRES audience gets to select the best demo in two categories this year:
- Best Amuse Bouche for a small and focused tool
- Awarded to: Paul Duchesne - Community Kitchen Inspection
- Best Tasting Spoon for a larger end-to-end system demoing one function only
- Awarded to: Richard Lehane - SIPlicity

Best Bag, sponsored by the iPRES 2025 Local Organising Committee

Since we aren’t providing conference bags this year, we invite you to bring - or make - your own tote bag to show off your creativity, style, or sustainability. Judges will be looking for totes that are eye-catching, practical, or have a great story behind them.
- Awarded to: Suman Sajwan