Lost in the Cloud : Saving Humanity’s Digital Documentary Heritage This symposium will explore the nature of digital heritage and the vulnerabilities that place it at risk. Speakers from government, academia and the ICT industry will consider the implications, threats… 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 ›
Yesterday was the last Thursday of November, so we celebrated International Digital Preservation Day. This day, an initiative from the British Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), aims to create wider recognition for the value of digital heritage, and for the… Read More ›
At its 13th meeting from 24 to 27 October 2017, the International Advisory Committee (IAC) of the Memory of the World (MoW) Programme discussed not only the 132 submissions for the MoW Register, but also various other aspects of its… Read More ›
One of the outcomes of the UNESCO PERSIST meeting in Abu Dhabi (14-16 March 2016) was the decision to organize a global survey about governmental policies and national strategies on long-term preservation of digital heritage. The survey took place between… Read More ›