Tool Demonstrations: The Great Digital Preservation Bake Off at iPRES 2025

The Great Digital Preservation Bake Off Tool Demonstration at iPRES 2024 in Ghent, Belgium. Photo credit: Michiel Devijver, iPRES 2024, CC BY-SA 4.0

The legendary Great Digital Preservation Bake Off returns to iPRES 2025. Think of it as a high-energy demo session for the latest and greatest in digital preservation tools. Just like in a real kitchen, bakers (aka toolmakers and practitioners) will whip up short, flavorful demos to showcase how their tools can solve real preservation challenges.

Bring your curiosity and your appetite; this year’s Tool Demo Bake Off promises a feast of ideas!

Two Styles of Demos

• 🥄 Tasting Spoon: slightly heartier portions—still short and tasty, but enough to sink your teeth into.

• 🥟 Amuse Bouche: bite-sized tool demos that give you a quick flavor of what’s possible.

The Bake Off will be served up in three sessions on Wednesday, 5 November, each featuring a menu of inventive entries.

Session 1 – 10:45–12:00 (75 min)	Session 2 – 13:00–14:30 (90 min)	Session 3 – 15:00–16:30 (90 min)
EMILiA’s Secret Ingredient – Nico Beyer (🖥️ virtual) [🥄 Tasting Spoon]	Community Kitchen Inspection – Paul Duchesne (🇳🇿 onsite) [🥟 Amuse Bouche]	PROTOWEB – Cynde Moya (🇳🇿 onsite) [🥟 Amuse Bouche]
By Reservation Only: Time-Sensitive Access in Arcsys – Morgan Attias (🖥️ virtual) [🥄 Tasting Spoon]	IDENTIFICATION TOOLS FOR MACINTOSH – Tyler Thorsted (🇳🇿 onsite) [🥟 Amuse Bouche]	WEBVTT Metadata – Nina Rao (🇳🇿 onsite) [🥟 Amuse Bouche]
Automatic Preservation: The Arkivum Bread Machine – Jack Leitch (🖥️ virtual) [🥄 Tasting Spoon]	WAVA Brings the Flava – Ben O’Brien (🇳🇿 onsite) [🥟 Amuse Bouche]	SIPlicity – Richard Lehane (🇳🇿 onsite) [🥄 Tasting Spoon]
A Taste of (Apache) Tika – Tim Allison (🖥️ virtual) [🥄 Tasting Spoon]	New Features in DROID – Sonia Ranade (🇳🇿 onsite) [🥄 Tasting Spoon]	Packaging Ingredients, Simplified – Linda Tadic (🇳🇿 onsite) [🥄 Tasting Spoon]
Bring Your Wild File Ingredients: the Archipelago Kitchen – Allison Sherrick (🖥️ virtual) [🥄 Tasting Spoon]	Knead a SIP? Rise to the Challenge with this Fully Proofed Agency Transfer – Sara Aldrich (🇳🇿 onsite) [🥄 Tasting Spoon]	Innovating Digital Preservation: Automated OCFL Archival Object Creation with Libsafe Advanced – Miguel Blanco (🇳🇿 onsite) [🥄 Tasting Spoon]
	Whisk, Slice, Preserve: Your Custom Workflow Cuisine Awaits You – Daniel Greenberg (🇳🇿 onsite) [🥄 Tasting Spoon]	Automated Digital Preservation: What Happens When You Want to Change the Recipe After Baking? – David Clipsham (🇳🇿 onsite) [🥄 Tasting Spoon]

Just like any good dessert table, you won’t leave hungry. Whether you’re looking for quick sips of innovation or a richer sample, the Bake Off is the perfect place to discover tools that can add flavor to your digital preservation practice.

Bring your curiosity and your appetite; this year’s Tool Demo Bake Off promises a feast of ideas!