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• Share your digital heritage strategy with the UNESCO-PERSIST project

  By Unesco PERSIST on 20 January 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• PERSIST discusses strategies of digital preservation

  By Unesco PERSIST on 1 December 2014 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• PERSIST workshop on digital preservation strategies at ICA Conference

  By Unesco PERSIST on 26 November 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• The problem of selection in digital heritage – The UNESCO PERSIST project

  By Unesco PERSIST on 7 October 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• 3rd LIBER workshop on the process of data curation

  By Unesco PERSIST on 28 May 2014 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• Towards a Sustainable Information Society: Collaboration on the Vancouver Declaration

  By Unesco PERSIST on 11 December 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›