Introducing "Who needs Digital Preservation?" 1-page resources and chatterbox game

Who needs Digital Preservation? chatterbox game

Your friendly local iPRES Regional Impact Committee, in collaboration with the Australasia Preserves community of practice, are excited to invite you to check out our new advocacy resources entitled “Who needs Digital Preservation?”. 

Designed to be approachable and informative for people who have never considered digital preservation, the resources include one page overviews for different audiences, and a fun paper chatterbox game. We hope that you will use these to engage with your friends, whānau (family), communities, and your workplaces! That way, we can share our digital preservation passion with everyone!

Our uniting theme is Who needs Digital Preservation? Our first batch includes:

• Future Generations need Digital Preservation
• Artists need Digital Preservation
• Gamers need Digital Preservation
• GLAM needs Digital Preservation
• The internet needs Digital Preservation
• Researchers need Digital Preservation
• Leaders need Digital Preservation
• Government needs Digital Preservation
• Who needs Digital Preservation? chatterbox + chatterbox instructions

We've also created a poster that you can put up in your workplaces and communities to direct people to Australasia Preserves and a tagged list of links that will take you to further digital preservation information.

We have embraced the DIY (do-it-yourself) aesthetic, and all of these resources are designed to be printed on standard office printers on A4 paper. You can print an individual one-page topic or print the suite and assemble them into your very own introduction to digital preservation zine. 

You can access the all the resources online here: Australasia Preserves Google Drive. We’ve made them available under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY-SA) so that you can take these and run with them. Please feel free to translate ours, create your own versions, and add to the suite! 

In a true collaborative effort, these resources were developed by members of the 2025 iPRES Regional Impact Committee alongside staff and cadets at the National Archives of Australia and are hosted by our awesome regional community of practice - Australasia Preserves. Thank you to everyone involved!

And fresh from iPRES2025, we're planning to carry the spark forward! The Regional Impact Committee has set strong momentum in motion, and with a refreshed Australasia Preserves community of practice we're excited to keep sharing, connecting, and strengthening digital preservation practice across our region. 

Make sure to sign up to the Australasia Preserves Google Group to keep in the loop!