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 ›
Guidelines
GISwatch 2016: Preserving our digital culture for the future
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 ›
Launch of PERSIST Selection Guidelines
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 ›
PERSIST Selection Guidelines discussed at ‘Digital Heritage 2015’
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 ›
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 ›