Marcel Ras was part of the comittee that organized the iPRES in Amsterdam 2019. That was the last iPRES that took place before the COVID-19 pandemic. He now talks to Katharina Markus (ZB MED) and Yvonne Tunnat (ZBW) about pre-pandemic and post-pandemic conferences and the challenges of hybrid conferences.

He also speaks about the advantages to organize iPRES in your own country, in his case, the Netherlands; and why it is a good idea to bring iPRES to other continents like Africa and South America within the next few years and what will be necessary to achieve this goal.

The interview was recorded in April 2025.

Persons involved:

• Marcel Ras: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Yvonne Tunnat: Projektmanagerin Digitale Langzeitarchivierung, ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
• Dr. Katharina Markus: Leitung Digitale Langzeitarchivierung, ZB MED - Infor­mations­zentrum Lebens­wissen­schaften

Links:

• iPres Statement of Principles: https://dev.ipres-conference.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/iPRES_Statement_of_Principles_1.0.pdf
• Context of the iPRES Code of Conduct: https://dev.ipres-conference.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Context_iPRES_Code_of_Conduct_1.0.pdf
• iPRES Code of Conduct: https://dev.ipres-conference.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/iPRES_Code_of_-Conduct_1.0.pdf
• Code of Civility of the iPRES Steering Group: https://dev.ipres-conference.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Code_of_Civility1.0_iPRES_Steering_Group.pdf
• International Conference on Digital Preservation: https://ipres-conference.org/
• Research Data Alliance: https://www.rd-alliance.org/