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• UNESCO PERSIST joins forces with Digital Preservation Coalition

  By Unesco PERSIST on 9 March 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Spanish Translation of Persist Guidelines for the selection of digital heritage for long-term preservation

  By Unesco PERSIST on 20 February 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• PERSIST at ALA ICA Conference, Mexico

  By Unesco PERSIST on 8 December 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Blog on PERSIST’s Policy Working Group

  By Unesco PERSIST on 1 December 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• International Digital Preservation Day

  By Unesco PERSIST on 1 December 2017 • ( 0 )

  

    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 ›

• The International Advisory Committee of the Memory of the World Programme discusses PERSIST

  By Unesco PERSIST on 2 November 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• PERSIST Policy Working Group publishes report on National Policies and Strategies on the Preservation of Digital Heritage

  By Unesco PERSIST on 26 September 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  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 ›

• PERSIST Selection Guidelines for sustainable digital preservation

  By Unesco PERSIST on 15 August 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  The UNESCO PERSIST Project has launched The UNESCO/PERSIST Guidelines for the selection of digital heritage for long-term preservation in 2016. The Guidelines provide an overarching starting point for heritage institutions when drafting their own policies on the selection of digital… Read More ›

• Action plan for the UNESCO recommendation on Documentary Heritage created

  By Unesco PERSIST on 30 June 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  The ASEAN-UNESCO+3 Consultation on the UNESCO Recommendation on Documentary Heritage took place on may 8th in Kuala Lumpur. The consultation resulted in a concrete action plan fot the UNESCO recommendation on documentary heritage. The UNESCO Persist Guidelines play an important… Read More ›

• Report of Frankfurt Workshop of Content & Best Practices Working Group

  By Unesco PERSIST on 12 April 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›