iPRES 2025 November Newsletter
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Kia ora iPRES Enthusiasts!
Message from the Conference Chairs
iPRES 2025 in Wellington has now come and gone - and what a conference it was! We were delighted to host 567 registered participants this year, with 340 attending in-person in Wellington and 227 virtual participants from around the globe. We are immensely proud to have been able to showcase the unique regional digital preservation context, challenges, and insights from across Aotearoa, Australasia and the Pacific, and beyond. Plus, in-person attendees got to experience a true Wellington moment - a 4.9 magnitude earthquake centred 25 km northwest of the city on Thursday night. Luckily it was just a bit of a wobble - nothing out of the ordinary for a city that runs along a major fault line!
Ngā mihi nui - thank you so much to everyone who attended either in person or online. Thank you to our keynote speakers and presenters for sharing your insights and knowledge with the iPRES community. Thank you to our Sponsors who make events like this possible. And a big thank you to the many volunteers who helped out along the way, whether as committee members, reviewers, session chairs, moderators, Slack Crew, timekeepers, Care Team, and more. This includes a number of iPRES enthusiasts who for a variety of circumstances weren’t actually able to attend the conference, but who still made the time to help out with planning, reviewing, and supporting iPRES 2025 along the way.
As anyone who has organised a conference before knows, the end of the conference is not actually the end of the work, but it’s taken us a moment to catch our breath after a very full and intense week of all things digital preservation! So read on to hear about what we’ve been up to these past couple weeks following iPRES, and what you can expect going forward.
– Andrea Goethals (Conference Chair); Valerie Love, Jan Hutař, and Martin Gengenbach (Conference Vice-Chairs)
Awards at iPRES 2025
We are delighted to announce the Award recipients at iPRES 2025:
Best Amuse Bouche (Great Digital Preservation Bake Off) - Paul Duchesne - Community Kitchen Inspection
Best Tasting Spoon (Great Digital Preservation Bake Off) - Richard Lehane - Siplicity
Best Reviewer - Dharmeesh Kondaveeti
Best Poster - Stefania di Maria, Sarah Aldrich, Meg Travers, Marcus Burke - Together in Archival Dreams
Best Lightning Talk - Leanne Harrington - Bottling It: Preserving 3D Objects at the Guinness Archive
Best Contribution from a First-Time Attendee - Ish Doney and Lara Simmons - At-Risk LTO Migration: A Prioritisation Case Study
Best Paper - Stacey Jones, Jaime Schumacher, Danielle Taylor - Confidence, Community and a Course of Action: Takeaways from Ten Years of Digital POWRR Training
Angela Dappert Memorial Award - Matthew P. Burgess, Peter Brotherton - The PREMIS of Metadata in SIPs: Producer Versus System-generated Preservation Metadata
Congratulations to all of our winners, and thank you to our sponsors for supporting these awards.
Conference Portal
The Conference Portal will remain available through 13 January 2026. Registered attendees can watch recordings in the Portal using the unique login details provided by email ahead of the conference. If you attended in-person in Wellington, you can still go back and watch recorded sessions that you may have missed! After that, you will need to wait till the release of the conference proceedings to be able to read papers and access other resources.
Didn’t make it to iPRES this year? You can still register for a virtual attendance to watch recorded conference sessions between now and 13 January 2026. Current virtual registration rates apply.
Conference Proceedings We know you are all keen to access the Papers, Posters and other materials from iPRES 2025. We will be working to make these available in the new year and will announce via the iPRES mailing list when materials are available. Please feel free to get in touch at info@ipres2025.nz with any questions, or if you as a presenter have any updated materials to supply.
Attention all workshop, tutorial, and panel organisers! If you would like to submit a summary of your session for the proceedings, please edit your submission and send it to info@ipres2025.nz by 12 December 2025 End of Day, Anywhere on Earth. Please use the submission templates and don’t exceed 8 pages. We suggest adding the summary of the session after your original submission text.
Conference Photos We didn’t have an official conference photographer this year, but our team on the ground in Wellington took some candid snaps. Visit the iPRES 2025 Flickr account to see the conference photos so far. If you took photos as well that you would like to share, please get in touch at info@ipres2025.nz. If anyone has written blog posts or other reflections on this year’s conference, let us know! You can also tag us at @ipres2025 on LinkedIn.
Have Your Say! In the coming weeks, attendees will receive a link to an iPRES 2025 participant survey. We’d love to hear your thoughts and experiences from this year’s conference.
Save the Date - København, Denmark 2026 and beyond
iPRES 2026 is less than a year away, being held 21-25 September 2026 in beautiful Copenhagen, Denmark!
The 2026 Conference Themes are: Community Preservation Horizon. The Call for Contributions peer-reviewed contributions opens 1 December 2025 - stay tuned for more info!
Visit the website for details: https://ipres2026.dk/. You can also follow iPRES 2026 on LinkedIn and on Mastodon.
Future iPRES locations
2027 – Ville de Québec, Canada
2028 – Mexico City, Mexico
2029 – Prague, Czech Republic
2030 – Belfast, Northern Ireland / Dublin, Ireland
Stay up to date with iPRES!
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