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PERSIST at Dutch EU Presidency Conference
On Thursday 30 June, the Natasa Milic-Frayling, chair of the PERSIST Technology Working Group, will present PERSIST and the plans for the legacy software archive at the conference Ready to reach out, Connecting Cultural Heritage Collections and Serving Wider Audiences. This conference… Read More ›
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PERSIST at IFLA / WLIC, 14 Aug. 2016
PERSIST will host a session on digital preservation policies at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress, which will take place from 13-19 August 2016 in Columbus, Ohio. The PERSIST is planned for Monday 14 August 2016.
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Blog about PERSIST on The Signal
The PERSIST Content, Technology and Policy Working Groups met March 16-18, 2016 in Abu Dhabi, hosted by the National Archives of the UAE. Read about the meeting on The Signal, the blog of the Library of Congress on digital preservation. The full meeting report is… Read More ›
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Devising strategies for digital sustainability
Recently, over 30 experts and policy makers gathered in Abu Dhabi to speed up the efforts of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme for digital sustainability and digital preservation. The meeting of the PERSIST-project team was organised by Dr Abdulla El Reyes, Director-General of… Read More ›
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Launch of PERSIST Selection Guidelines
The UNESCO PERSIST Project, an initiative of UNESCO, ICA, IFLA and other partners, for enhancing the sustainability of digital heritage, has now launched The UNESCO/PERSIST Guidelines for the selection of digital heritage for long-term preservation. The aim of the Guidelines is… Read More ›
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Old and new PERSIST-partners at UNESCO’s General Conference
On 11 November 2015, a side event organised by the Netherlands National Commission for UNESCO informed participants of the 38th UNESCO General Conference on the results and prospects of the PERSIST project. The event also opened the exhibition of educational… Read More ›
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PERSIST Selection Guidelines discussed at ‘Digital Heritage 2015’
Digital Heritage, an annual international conference for societies, organizations, and events around ICT for heritage, was organised this year in Granada, Spain. The PERSIST Content Task Force participated with the workshop Demand driven selection for long term preservation of born… Read More ›
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IFLA Congress and the Unesco PERSIST Project
From 15 to 21 August the 81th IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) took place in Cape Town. The traditional UNESCO session at the WLIC was devoted to the work of the PERSIST project. More specifically to the Guidelines… Read More ›
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Open Source Community KDE supports Persist software platform
At the end of July, UNESCO’s project for digital sustainability, PERSIST, was presented at the annual conference of the Open Source Community KDE, that took place in A Coruña, Spain. KDE is an international team co-operating on development and distribution of Free, Open Source… Read More ›
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Expert meeting on digital sustainability
On 20 and 21 April 2015 UNESCO convened a consultative meeting on digital sustainability jointly with the International Council on Archives (ICA), the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) and the Netherlands National Commission for UNESCO at the headquarters of the… Read More ›
UNESCO PERSIST Programme 