Join us for the second iteration of the Born Digital Cultural Heritage Conference (#BDCH22), from 16-18 February, 2022, Australian time. This free, online conference is hosted by the Play It Again game history and preservation team, in conjunction with our… Read More ›
UNESCO Virtual Policy Dialogue, 27 October 2020. UNESCO aims to build an international policy agenda for digital preservation of documentary heritage and invites the preservation community to a Virtual Policy Dialogue (VPD) that will be held on Zoom on… Read More ›
PERSIST will be giving a presentation on the shared challenge of long-term preservation at the World Library and Information Congress in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. PERSIST will be joining a number of speakers to talk in the session Planning digital preservation:… Read More ›
The Persist Guidelines for the selection of digital preservation are now available in seven languages. A Chinese (Mandarin) translation of the Persist Guidelines can be found here. Find all seven translations of the Guidelines can be found at here.
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
UNESCO PERSIST Programme 