As the digital technological developments in today's world are moving forward with an immense speed it has become imperative for the international community to act on how to best preserve digital material for the future. As old analogue material more and more is being digitised, and new born digital material created every day, we are faced with questions on how to preserve all of this material in a sustainable long-term way. Whenever objects are being digitised or born digital, the problem of preservation arises. The digitisation process creates a digital file, but this file is not automatically preserved at the same time it has been created. Therefore, there is a crucial need for international co-ordination in order to find sound ways to safeguard valuable digital cultural heritage. The objective of this paper is to investigate what digital preservation methods lie ahead of us and what role open-source can have.As the digital technological developments in today's world are moving forward with an immense speed it has become imperative for the international community to act on how to best preserve digital material for the future. As old analogue material more and more is being digitised, and new born digital material created every day, we are faced with questions on how to preserve all of this material in a sustainable long-term way. Whenever objects are being digitised or born digital, the problem of preservation arises. The digitisation process creates a digital file, but this file is not automatically preserved at the same time it has been created. Therefore, there is a crucial need for international co-ordination in order to find sound ways to safeguard valuable digital cultural heritage. The objective of this paper is to investigate what digital preservation methods lie ahead of us and what role open-source can have.