Short report of the PERSIST Session at the World Library and Information Conference (WLIC), Columbus (Ohio), 15 August 2016 IFLA’s Annual World Library and Information Conference took place in Columbus (Ohio) from 13–19 August 2016. PERSIST was on the agenda… Read More ›
From 3 – 6 October 2016, the 13th edition of iPRES, the international conference on digital preservation will take place in Bern, Switzerland. PERSIST actively contributes to iPRES with a Panel that will focus on virtualization and emulation and a… Read More ›
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 ›
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.
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›