Awards at iPRES 2025
- ipres20254
- Oct 8
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 30
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
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
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
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
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
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
New for 2025!
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
Best Tasting Spoon for a larger end-to-end system demoing one function only
Prize: Certificate + a Kiwi kitchen tool
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.
Prize: A totally delicious surprise