On 23-24 February 2017 Unesco PERSIST and IFLA organised a workshop for the Content and Best Practices Working Group at the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main. The purpose of the workshop was to scope the mandate of the Content &… Read More ›
Dr. Ingrid Parent, member of the PERSIST Programma Committee on behalf of IFLA, will be the guest speaker at the next Wallot-Sylvestre Seminar, held at Library and Archives Canada’s in Ottawa on 19 April 2017, between 1:00 p.m. and 2:30… Read More ›
To raise awareness about the problem of digital amnesia and the PERSIST solution the Dutch Ambassador to UNESCO, H.E. Lionel Veer, convened an Ambassadors lunch on 24 February 2017. Twelve UNESCO Member States were represented, including Australia, Canada, India, France… Read More ›
The UNESCO PERSIST Project launched the UNESCO/PERSIST Guidelines for the selection of digital heritage for long-term preservation in March 2016. The Guidelines were created by experts from the libraries, archives, and museums community and have now been endorsed by all… Read More ›
The UNESCO PERSIST Project is holding a workshop to define the scope and objectives of the Content and Best Practises working group. The Content working group has finalised its first goal when launching the Guidelines for the selection of digital heritage for… Read More ›
Last week the Global Information Society Watch published GISWatch 2016. GISWatch is their yearly report covering the state of the information society from the perspectives of civil society. This year’s edition contains an article on the challenges of preserving digital… Read More ›
As of November 2016, Stein van Oosteren will act as the PERSIST Coordinator. Stein was already a member of the PERSIST Programme Committee. His personality, his communication skills and his close involvement with UNESCO made him the ideal candidate to… Read More ›
Short report of the PERSIST Session at the World Library and Information Conference (WLIC), Columbus (Ohio), 15 August 2016 IFLA’s Annual World Library and Information Conference took place in Columbus (Ohio) from 13–19 August 2016. PERSIST was on the agenda… Read More ›
From 3 – 6 October 2016, the 13th edition of iPRES, the international conference on digital preservation will take place in Bern, Switzerland. PERSIST actively contributes to iPRES with a Panel that will focus on virtualization and emulation and a… Read More ›
Unesco PERSIST has launched a global survey to identify and assess national or federal policies and strategies on the preservation of digital heritage. PERSIST invites all those involved in the making or implementing of such national policies and strategies to share… Read More ›
