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UNESCO and DPC release Executive Guide on Digital Preservation
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 ›
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NEW Executive Guide on Digital Preservation available to support internal advocacy campaigning
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 ›
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UNESCO PERSIST joins forces with Digital Preservation Coalition
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 ›
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Spanish Translation of Persist Guidelines for the selection of digital heritage for long-term preservation
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 ›
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PERSIST at ALA ICA Conference, Mexico
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 ›
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Blog on PERSIST’s Policy Working Group
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 ›
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International Digital Preservation Day
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 ›
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The International Advisory Committee of the Memory of the World Programme discusses PERSIST
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 ›
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PERSIST Policy Working Group publishes report on National Policies and Strategies on the Preservation of Digital Heritage
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 ›
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PERSIST Selection Guidelines for sustainable digital preservation
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 ›
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