The Bake-Off showcases digital preservation tools by having developers and/or vendors compete on specific tasks with a shared set of data. The tasks relate to any number of digital preservation themes, such as integrating digital preservation into line-of-business systems, thorny content types, metadata extraction and handling, meeting user requirements, scaling up, web-archiving, or achieving greater efficiencies while not sacrificing quality of outcomes. Attendees see real-time application & tool demos, and developers and vendors get to show how their tools or systems solve real-world problems.

Committee member tasks

• Prepare the call for proposals to developers & vendors

• Review the existing data sets and determine what new data is needed

• Review the existing tasks and determine if there are new feasible tasks for the competition

• Evaluate the proposals and assemble the Bake-Off program

• Serve on the Bake-Off panel of judges

Schedule

• April 28: Deadline to volunteer 

• May 8: Call for Bake-Off Proposals published

• July 7: Deadline for Bake-Off proposals

The Bake-Off typically takes place in 3 sessions on a single day. Watch the iPres 2022 Bake-Off sessions linked here - https://ipres2023.us/2023/04/10/bake-off-call-for-committee-members/.