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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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Action plan for the UNESCO recommendation on Documentary Heritage created
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 ›
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Report of Frankfurt Workshop of Content & Best Practices Working Group
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 ›
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PERSIST at Wallot-Sylvestre Seminar, Ottawa, 19 April 2017
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 ›
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UNESCO Ambassadors lunch
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 ›
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The UNESCO PERSIST Digital Heritage Selection Guidelines – endorsed by IFLA, ICA and ICOM
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 ›
