2nd Inter‐regional Conference for the UNESCO MoW: Preserving & Providing Access to Digital Heritage, 5-8 November, 2019, Gwangju, Republic of Korea. Lai-Tee Phang, Deputy Director of the National Archives of Singapore and member of the PERSIST project, will give a talk on the Executive… Read More ›
UNESCO and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) have collaborated to produce the UNESCO/DPC Executive Guide on Digital Preservation, an online resource for raising awareness of the importance of digital preservation, leading to action to preserve digital assets, including digital documentary… Read More ›
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and UNESCO Memory of the World PERSIST Project have launched the Executive Guide on Digital Preservation (1 May 2019). The guide provides practitioners in the memory and heritage institutions, commercial organizations, government bodies and not-for-profit organizations… Read More ›
Lost in the Cloud: Saving Humanity’s Digital Documentary Heritage The UNESCO Persist Symposium Lost in the Cloud was held on Wednesday 3 October 2018 in Canberra, Australia as a joint initiative of the National Archives of Australia, the International Council on Archives… Read More ›
PERSIST will be giving a presentation on the shared challenge of long-term preservation at the World Library and Information Congress in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. PERSIST will be joining a number of speakers to talk in the session Planning digital preservation:… Read More ›
The Persist Guidelines for the selection of digital preservation are now available in seven languages. A Chinese (Mandarin) translation of the Persist Guidelines can be found here. Find all seven translations of the Guidelines can be found at here.
PERSIST, with the UNESCO Memory of the World Secretariat, is joining forces with the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) to produce an Executive Guide on Digital Preservation. The Guide will provide an overview on the importance and urgency of digital preservation… Read More ›
After the presentation on the Persist project made by Ingrid Parent at the ICA annual conference in Mexico in 2017, various participants expressed the wish that the Persist Guidelines for the selection of digital heritage for long-term preservation should be… Read More ›
The Latinamerican Association of Archivists (ALA – Asociación Latinoamericana de Archivos) hosted the annual conference of the International Council on Archives (ICA) in Mexico City in November. The event attracted over 600 archivists and other information professionals from around the… Read More ›
Robert Buckley, Chair of PERSIST’s Policy Working Group, wrote a blog on PERSIST at the website of the Digital Preservation Coalition. The blog focuses on the past and future work of this Working Group: the survey on policies and the… Read More ›
