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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 ›
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Further steps towards selection guidelines for digital heritage
The Content Task Force of PERSIST recently made a worldwide call to libraries, archives and museums to share digital heritage strategies as part of its effort to write selection guidelines for this type of heritage. Some 30 responses were received… Read More ›
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Share your digital heritage strategy with the UNESCO-PERSIST project
Digital preservation has been hotly debated for a long time already, but the selection of digital heritage seems to be a somewhat neglected subject. We are asking heritage institutions – libraries, archives, museums, scientific institutes and other organisations that collect,… Read More ›
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PERSIST discusses strategies of digital preservation
On October 13 PERSIST organized the session Evaluation and Strategies of Digital Preservation & UNESCO’s Role in facing the Technical Challenges during the 2nd Annual Conference of the International Council on Archives (ICA). The report of this session has now… Read More ›
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PERSIST workshop on digital preservation strategies at ICA Conference
From 11 to 15 October 2014, the International Council on Archives (ICA) will hold its Annual Conference in Girona. The PERSIST project organises a workshop on digital preservation strategies as part of the activities of its technology task force. Microsoft Research, KO gmbh and the National Archives of Estonia present different… Read More ›
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The problem of selection in digital heritage – The UNESCO PERSIST project
At the World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) in Lyon this summer, the UNESCO session was spent on the problem of selection in digital heritage. It is one of the challenging subjects within the PERSIST project, an initiative of UNESCO, ICA,… Read More ›
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3rd LIBER workshop on the process of data curation
In May 2014 the Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) organised a conference on digital sustainability. Theme of the meeting was ‘Keeping Data: the Process of Data Curation’ Key note speaker was Herbert Van De Sompel (Los Alamos) who gave an interesting… Read More ›
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Towards a Sustainable Information Society: Collaboration on the Vancouver Declaration
On the 5th and 6th of December a follow up meeting to the UBC/UNESCO Vancouver Declaration on Preservation and Digitisation took place in The Hague. The Vancouver Declaration pinpoints key issues affecting the preservation and long-term accessibility of digital documentary… Read More ›
