Welcome to the iPRES Poster Tours! Picture yourself in a vibrant gallery, where each artwork tells a different story about the world of digital preservation. Our poster tours are your chance to explore these stories, guided by experts who bring them to life through a curated selection of themes.

On this page you can find:

• Information about the tours

• The tours that will be offered

• Practical information (how to sign up and when the tours are)

About

Each of our six tours is a unique experience, led by a diverse group of seasoned professionals who have a deep understanding of the field. These guides have handpicked posters that speak to specific themes, whether it’s about keeping it FAIR, democratizing digital preservation or the accessibility of born-digital archives. They’ll offer insights that connect these posters to broader conversations, making them accessible and engaging for both veterans and newcomers alike.

Join us for a tour, and dive into a thematic exploration where each poster is not just a display, but a gateway to deeper understanding and lively discussion. Whether you’re looking to expand your knowledge or discover something entirely new, our poster tours are the perfect opportunity to engage with the ideas shaping our field today.

Tours

A Trustworthy FAIRy Tour

About the tour guide

Remco van Veenendaal is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in language technology, software engineering, and digital preservation. He is currently Preservation Officer at the National Archives in The Hague and board member of the Open Preservation Foundation. As Preservation Officer, he is responsible for the development, implementation, dissemination and keeping up to date of the preservation policy, Preservation Watch and preservation practice. Moreover, he has been involved in projects concerning persistent identifiers, Preservation Watch, and the significant properties of spreadsheet.

In addition to his professional work, Remco is passionate about developing language applications, board games, and bad puns. You can find information about his self-made board game Preservia about digital preservation here: https://preservia.nl/.

For publications and other achievements, see Remco’s public ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2351-1677

What is the tour about?

In this tour you will visit posters demonstrating how to make your digital repository trustworthy and your data FAIR. One is of the only US organization with ISO 16363 and CoreTrustSeal certifications. Another is a sustainable energy research centre that used the DPC’s Rapid Assessment Model and FAIR-IMPACT support for sustainable accessibility of their collection. The third shows how Flemish universities collaborate to achieve a trustworthy and FAIR-aligned long-term preservation solution. At the end of this tour, the guide will tip you extra related posters to visit. You've never been on a more trustworthy FAIRy tour.

How accessible can we make digital born archives?

About the tour guide

Sarah Eloy is the Digital Collections Conservator at Ghent University Library,

where she serves as a key connector between various teams. Her role involves coordinating the end-to-end process of managing the digital Special Collections and Archives, from intake and careful digitization to preservation and online presentation via IIIF. Working closely with different departments, Sarah bridges gaps between various areas of expertise.

With a deep-rooted passion for history and cultural heritage, Sarah began her career as a historian in Ghent's museums. Her experience expanded as a Project Manager at meemoo, the Flemish Institute for Archives, where she coordinated digitization flows. Sarah’s work connects the past and future, ensuring that digital collections are not only preserved but also made accessible and reusable for research and a global audience.

What is the tour about?

This tour focuses on the acquisition of recent digital born archives and its subsequent dissemination towards research communities. This domain harbors questions regarding accessibility and legal rights, considerations during the intake, pre-ingest and ingest phases striking a balance between long term preservation and accessibility and the organization of day-to-day operations. As a University Library with a rich Special Collection & Archives department, ever more (complex) digital archives and datasets are entrusted to our care, confronting us with a challenging reality. This tour presents the perspectives and insights of three other institutions that have tackled some of these questions in recent years.

Democratizing Digital Preservation

About the tour guide

Kate Murray is a Digital Projects Coordinator at the Library of Congress where she leads the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) Audio-Visual Working Group and the Sustainability of Digital Formats website. Kate is a member of AMIA, IASA (technical committee member), SMPTE, and several ISO committees. Professional recognitions include: JTS Award (2019) for outstanding contributions to the technology of the audiovisual archiving field, NDSA Excellence Award for Individuals (2021) for making a significant contribution to the digital preservation community through advances in theory or practice, and finalist for the DPC 20th Anniversary Award (2022). She is also the Vice Chair of the Digital Preservation Coalition Executive Board (2022-current).

What is the tour about?

Digital preservation is a continuum of tasks and perspectives. There’s no need to wait for the ideal workflow or time or funding because they may never materialize. Do what you can now for the most impact, even if it’s not perfect. This includes assessing and improving skills to use over time, considering impacts of legacy workflows and evaluating creative outreach to increase awareness. This tour will look at how three projects and institutions bring digital preservation into real world situations and work with what they have.

Tales from the Engine Room

About the tour guide

Micky Lindlar leads the Digital Preservation team at TIB Leibniz Information

Centre for Science and Technology, located in Hannover, Germany. An iPRES regular since 2010, Micky values the conference series for both, the wealth of knowledge and research shared in the official program as well as for the adventures-in-file-format-land and stories-of-things-gone-wrong shared during breaks and in social program conversations.

What is the tour about?

The engine room is where it all happens – we’re knee-deep in XML and json structures, have grease on our hands from wrangling problematic files and are wondering if we’re still steering into the cloud … all while keeping an eye on the monitors to ensure that all systems are still running smoothly. While the bridge with its policies, strategies and network overviews is a shiny a pretty place, the engine room is the place where things get real.
This tour will highlight some of the more technical posters. What tools are digital preservationists around the world using or even developing? How are they dealing with new challenges such as changing technologies? We will visit three different engine rooms - that of a university, of a library and of an archive – and learn about work being done there.

Other tours will be shared soon, so keep watching this page

Practical information

• Session

  The tours will be taking place on Tuesday September 17th, during the final session of the day (15:30-17:00). Every half hour, two tours will start.

• Signing up for a tour

  You can find a sign-up sheet at the registration desk at iPRES. Please be aware there are a limited amount of spots available for each tour.