We’re delighted to return as a team to the iPRES conference, with this year’s event taking place in Copenhagen. As the leading conference on...

Watch the Open Preservation Foundation's short demonstration of our latest product, a validator for Open Document Format (ODF) for Office Applications documents. The software was developed in…

One year into its three-year span, the EOSC EDEN project is hitting its stride. We at the OPF are partners working on Work Package 4...

A playlist collecting each recording from the Videogame Preservation: Practices and Approaches online symposium, on the 12th March 2026. For the full program...

The Deutschland-Stack names ODF and PDF/UA as the only permitted document formats for German public administrations.

This paper examines critical challenges in preservation, such as infrastructure limitations, technological barriers and resource constraints, and explores potential solutions through collaborative in...

All of the OPF’s projects use GitHub as a source code host and as a way of managing the development process. As these projects are...

Are your digital assets prepared, ready for the future? Join other cultural heritage professionals, librarians, archivists, and museum experts for an intensive virtual summit dedicated to mastering…

Are your digital assets prepared, ready for the future? Join other cultural heritage professionals, librarians, archivists, and museum experts for an intensive virtual summit dedicated to mastering…

Release: CloudViPER 1 Release (November, 2025)

As part of the Humanitarian Archive Emergency Project we are seeking proposals to undertake a census of threatened humanitarian archives, records and datasets and to contribute to the development of…

Infra Finder provides verified information on open infrastructures’ technical attributes, community engagement, governance, key policies, and more.

Part 1 | Open Infrastructures: Why they matter for long term access Part 2 | Open Infrastructures: Control If you want to go fast, go...

It’s not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin Part 1 |...

OPF Executive Director Neil Jefferies has found that Open Infrastructure is becoming a more prevalent topic of discussion, with the topic as a whole expanding...

Neil Jefferies, Executive Director of the Open Preservation Foundation, and Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL) Editor, gives an introduction to the OCFL Specification and an update on the status of…