Hello, and welcome to the UNESCO Policy Dialogue on Digital Preservation. You can watch the live streams below (in English and French) as well as view the full event schedule.
20 October 2020. The programme for the UNESCO Policy Dialogue on “Documentary Heritage at Risk: Policy Gaps in Digital Preservation” has been released. The virtual dialogue will take place on 27 October 2020 on Zoom. The event is organized in… Read More ›
UNESCO Virtual Policy Dialogue, 27 October 2020. UNESCO aims to build an international policy agenda for digital preservation of documentary heritage and invites the preservation community to a Virtual Policy Dialogue (VPD) that will be held on Zoom on… Read More ›
#WeMissiPRES 22-24 September 2020. Members of the Preservation Sub-committee of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme, David Fricker, Lai Tee Phang and Robert Buckley, presented at #WeMissiPRES on the Digital Preservation for Documentary Heritage at Risk and the UNESCO… Read More ›
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.
