International Conference on Digital Preservation ICDP on August 05-06, 2026 in Montreal, Canada

Infrastructure
Intelligent and secure storage
scalability
complex formats
large web data sets
software and hardware dependencies
system architectures and requirements
distributed and cloud-based implementations

Communities
institutional contexts for preservation
personal archiving
collaboration
collection content profiling

Strategic environment
legislative, strategy and policy enablers (eg preservation intent, pre-conditioning)
standards
local, regional and national approaches

Preservation strategies and workflows
migration
emulation
metadata
risk measurement and management
preservation planning and actions
acquisition and ingest
access provision

Specialist content types
web
GIS
digital art
primary, scientific, sensor data
governmental and medical records
technical and scientific processes
engineering models and simulation
corporate processes and recordkeeping

A digital preservation marketplace
products
tools
services
registries
understanding authenticity and integrity
exploitation of computationally aware data from our digital repositories
business models
added value
benefits
exploitation
long tail

Theory of digital preservation
models
empirical testing
measuring semantic shift

Case studies and best practice
implementations
repositories
issues and wins

Training and education
educational needs
curricula
innovative offerings