Preserving Digital Heritage: Principles and Policies

The UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage addresses these issues.

The instability of the Internet is an additional risk for knowledge accumulated in html format. The need to safeguard this relatively new form of documentary heritage calls for international consensus on its collection, preservation and dissemination which resulted in the adoption of “UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage” Guidelines accompanying the Charter adapt and extend present policies, legal frameworks and archival procedures so that this new form of heritage will not sink into silence.

See Also: Full Text of Conference Report (Including Presentations, PPT)

+ Abdelaziz Abid: Safeguarding our Digital Heritage

+ Marie-Anne Chabin: Selection of Digital Archives; an Archivist’s Point of View

+ Catherine Lupovici: Web Archiving and Cultural Heritage Mission

+ David Bearman Why Selection and Digital Preservation are an Issue

+ Erik Oltmans: The International e-Depot

+ John Mackenzie Owen: Preserving the Digital Heritage

+ Maggie Jones: The Digital Preservation Coalition

+ Ute Schwens: Creating a Network of Roles and Responsibilities in Germany

Source: UNESCO

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