**Proceedings of the 2022 iPres Conference** iPres is the premier and longest-running conference series on digital preservation. Since 2004, there have been annual iPres conferences in rotation around the globe on four continents. The 18th edition of the iPres conference was celebrated in Glasgow, Scotland, from 12 through 16 September 2022. The conference (ipres2022.scot) brought together 649 scientists, students, researchers, archivists, librarians, service providers, vendors and other experts joining in-person and online to share recent developments and innovative projects in a wide variety of topics in digital preservation from strategy to implementation, and from international and local initiatives. Year on year the debate and research profiled at iPres have moved digital preservation from a technology driven niche specialism of experts to a global challenge with the community to match. **Digital Preservation Coalition** The eighteenth International Conference on Digital Preservation was hosted by the [Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)][1]. The DPC is a membership-led charity active in 20 countries around the world. Its mission is to build a welcoming and inclusive global community, working together to bring about a sustainable future for our digital assets. DPC enables its members to deliver resilient, sustainable and useful long-term access to digital content and services, helping them to access and use digital materials beyond the limits of technical obsolescence, media degradation and organizational change. It raises awareness of the strategic, cultural and technological challenges which our members face, independent of the interests of solution providers, and we encourage collaboration for mutual benefit and the greater good. It sustains and delivers these aims through advocacy, community engagement, workforce development, good practice and good governance. 2022 was the twentieth anniversary of the Digital Preservation Coalition. Its mission has remained constant over those two decades, a recognition that digital preservation is not only a technical challenge but a human one too. As iPres has shown over the years, the maintenance and renewal of technical infrastructures are a familiar topic in this community but they are oriented towards a socio-technical challenge. Long term success demands renewal and support of the social infrastructures too. As the posters around Glasgow almost said at the time of the conference, ‘People make digital preservation’. Also constant through the work of the DPC has been the hospitality and generosity of colleagues and partners around the world. On this twentieth anniversary of its foundation the DPC sought to repay that generosity, renew those friendships, and welcome delegates from all over the world to their home city of Glasgow. **Conference Theme** iPres 2022 met under the heading ‘Data for all, for good and for ever’. The call for contributions invited reflection and debate about how digital preservation can support flourishing communities, ecologies, economies and ideas, and it framed these around moments and ideas from the history of the city. It also adapted the motto of the host city, ‘Let Glasgow Flourish’ with the subtitle ‘Let digits flourish.’ The name ‘Glasgow’ means literally the ‘Dear Green Place’: a place to consider the ethical and ecological context of our work. Glasgow is ‘The Workers’ City’: a place therefore to build sustainable communities of practice and professional exchange. Adam Smith wrote ‘The Wealth of Nations’ in Glasgow: a place therefore to model, measure and expand an emerging digital economy, open to all with common purpose for the common good. Glasgow is a ‘city of revolutions’, industrial and otherwise: a place therefore for innovation and radical disruptions. Glasgow is ‘Clyde-Built’, an idiom that means ‘built to last’: a place therefore to engineer for the harshest of conditions, enduring whatever comes. These five themes were expressed in the main headings of the conference: - Community - Environment - Exchange - Innovation - Resilience **Venue** The 18th iPres conference took place in the Technology & Innovation Centre (TIC), a state of the art conference facility in the city centre, ideally placed for visitors to Glasgow. iPres 2022 also welcomed delegates to participate online via the Zoom Events platform. **Important dates** The conference was fully booked and took place between 12 and 16 September 2022. **Conference Program** See https://youtu.be/n0Oy0iMKFYc for Amina Shah's keynote See https://youtu.be/lDEWqey559M for Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty's keynote See https://youtu.be/pFCqgmLgqzg for Steven Gonzalez Monserrate's keynote The peer reviewed conference program included sessions of paper presentations, panels, posters and bake-off demonstrations, preceded by workshops and tutorials. Following a peer review process iPres 2022 was able to accept a total of 128 submissions. In addition to the peer reviewed programme, iPres 2022 also had a non-peer reviewed program which saw the return of the popular Digital Preservation Bake-Off on Wednesday, Games and Lightning Talks on the Tuesday and Wednesday, and Professional Visits on the Friday. Following its debut at iPres 2019 in Amsterdam, the Digital Preservation Bake Off returned to Glasgow this year. The Bake Off Challenge is an open, light-hearted competition in which solution providers, developers and coders can demonstrate their products and tools while allowing participants to observe the process and verify the claims they make. Twelve solution providers or ‘bakers’ demonstrated preservation tools and implementations of tools and services in front of a critical audience in a fine setting surrounded by baked goods. Vendors demonstrated their solutions based on a test data-set the conference organizers created for them. By providing a test data-set, demonstrations became more comparable. Back on the programme in 2022 was the Ad Hoc session with 23 short presentations of three to five minutes each and seven digital preservation games, both in person and online. In a new addition to the Ad Hoc program, and in response to calls from the iPres community, the conference offered informal Career Development mentoring. Seven new professionals were paired with experienced members of the community to meet throughout the week and chat together, discuss questions, and share experiences. Following the main conference attendees were invited to attend one of 14 professional visits to Scottish cultural institutions. This Program allowed all iPres 2022 attendees to take a peek into the digital preservation world of Scotland and to see how some of their collections are being preserved. Each of the visits were fully subscribed. Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the DPC's foundation, the social program also included the 2022 Digital Preservation Awards as well as the launch of the DPC's newly adopted Strategic Plan 2022-2027. - Watch the [Digital Preservation Awards Presentation][2] - Read the [DPC Strategic Plan 2022-7][3] **iPRES 2023** Thank you! The next iPres is in Urbana, USA, hosted by the University of Illinois from 19 through 22 September 2023! **Relive iPres 2022?** Do you want to relive iPres 2022? Take a look at the [iPres 2022 flickr photo gallery][4] for the best conference moments. The recordings of the conference sessions will be made freely available in January 2023 at the following DOI: [http://doi.org/10.7207/ipres2022-recordings][5] In the meantime we are pleased to share recordings from the three keynotes as well as from the Digital Preservation Awards Cermony. **iPres Interest Group** The iPres Interest Group has been established to help the digital preservation community raise issues, debate proposals and report outcomes relating to the drafting of a new charter for the iPres conference. If you are involved with the digital preservation community and have an interest in informing and/or tracking the efforts of the iPres Working Group, you are invited to subscribe to DIGITAL-PRESERVATION-IPRES@JISCMAIL.AC.UK here: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=DIGITAL-PRESERVATION-IPRES. [1]: http://www.dpconline.org/ "DPC" [2]: https://youtu.be/H7UA2az6akc "Digital Preservation Awards 2022" [3]: https://www.dpconline.org/docs/miscellaneous/about/2607-dpc-strategic-plan-2022-2027 "DPC Strategic Plan 2022-7" [4]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dpconflickr/albums/72177720302874856 [5]: http://doi.org/10.7207/ipres2022-recordings