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World Digital Sustainability Day 2025

6 November 2025, 09:30-16:30

On World Digital Sustainability Day, the focus worldwide is on the future-proof preservation of digital collections. On this day, the latest insights on AI, cybersecurity, and the archiving of multimedia files such as podcasts, VR, 3D files, and social media are discussed.

The theme of World Digital Sustainability Day 2025 is Why Preserve? This invites professionals to reflect on the importance of digital sustainability and how to convey this to colleagues and your organization. See the program of this event below. 

Program

9:30 AM Arrival

10:15 AM Welcome to the world day, with surprises and launches

10:45 AM Session Round 1

  • Cybersecurity and digital preservation: secure your digital future
  • The past in 3D ensured for the future

11:45 AM Musical interlude

12:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM Session Round 2

  • AI: from hype to realism
  • Podcasts – worth preserving

2:00 PM Session Round 3

  • Barbara Sierman on developments around the OAIS model
  • The Facebook Museum: ‘Bringing the end closer together’

2:45 PM Quiz interlude

3:25 PM Live moment with Ghent, where World Digital Sustainability Day is also celebrated

3:40 PM Session Round 4

  • Preserving VR experiences from the theater
  • How linked data reunites scattered Castle Amerongen archives
  • Developments from the Certification Network

4:30 PM Closing

4:45 PM Drinks

Throughout the day, you can visit the gameroom of the HomeComputerMuseum.