Cache it if you can: memory and the fragile web

World Digital Preservation Day 2026

5 November 15:00 to 16:30
Online event

Free event. Registration required. Please follow the registration link below to attend. 

The web is a fundamental part of our daily lives - but the digital world so many of us depend on is much more fragile than it seems. Join us online for this special World Digital Preservation Day event, and learn more about some of the current risks to our digital heritage and what is being done to try to preserve our collective cultural memory. The event will feature guest speakers in Digital Preservation and will be chaired by David De Roure.

Chair

David De Roure is Professor of e-Research at Oxford and a long-standing leader in Digital Scholarship. An early pioneer of Hypertext and Web research, his work on knowledge infrastructure has long been concerned with how digital research is shared, sustained and preserved, and how it intersects with AI.

Event Details and Registration

Registration is required for this free event. Registration closes at 17.00 (UK time) on Tuesday 3 November 2026.

Date and time: Thursday 5 November 2026, 15:00 - 16:30 (UK time)

Location: Online

 

Register for 'Cache it if you can: Memory and the fragile web'

 

For further information, please email the Centre for Digital Scholarship: cds@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Office for Open Research

The Office for Open Research supports researchers at the University of Oxford to adopt open research practices and helps deliver the University’s strategic approach to open research. The team brings together expertise in open access publishing, research data management, copyright, digital preservation, open infrastructure, and research metrics to provide joined-up support across the research lifecycle.

Centre for Digital Scholarship

The Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at the Bodleian Libraries is a space and place for engaging, leading and shaping discussions around digital scholarship practice and research within and beyond the University of Oxford.