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 ›
The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and UNESCO Memory of the World PERSIST Project have launched the Executive Guide on Digital Preservation (1 May 2019). The guide provides practitioners in the memory and heritage institutions, commercial organizations, government bodies and not-for-profit organizations… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
Last week the Global Information Society Watch published GISWatch 2016. GISWatch is their yearly report covering the state of the information society from the perspectives of civil society. This year’s edition contains an article on the challenges of preserving digital… Read More ›
Unesco PERSIST has launched a global survey to identify and assess national or federal policies and strategies on the preservation of digital heritage. PERSIST invites all those involved in the making or implementing of such national policies and strategies to share… Read More ›
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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