Content tagged Digital preservation

On 17 May 2019, after several years of discussion, the European Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market was published in the official journal of the European Union. It enters into...

News - 18 June 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Advocacy, Archives, Associations, Conservation, Copyright, Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives, Cultural heritage, Digital Humanities, Digital libraries, Digital preservation, Digitisation, Europe, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

Summary: Led by the British Library from 2005 to 2011, this project concerns a single document. The Codex Sinaiticus is one of the earliest biblical manuscripts. Because of its complex history...

Informational Page - 9 June 2019

Tags: Digital preservation, digital unification, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

Preserving and celebrating culture can be key to efforts to promote cohesion and cooperation in diverse societies. This is no truer than in the case of indigenous communities, who have...

News - 28 January 2019

Tags: Canada, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Indigenous People, International Year of Indigenous Languages, IYIL 2019, Indigenous Matters

Call for Papers: Programme Session Standards and Best Practices Relating to Serials, Continuing Resources and Scholarly Communications Sponsored by: IFLA Serials and Other...

News - 8 January 2019

Tags: Best practice, Cataloguing, Digital preservation, Serials

Sponsored by: IFLA Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section Co-sponsored by: IFLA National Libraries Section Date: August 23, 2019 (9:00 am to 4:00 pm) Venue:...

News - 7 January 2019

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Digital resources, Scholarly Communication

Sponsored by: IFLA Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section Co-sponsored by: IFLA National Libraries Section   Date: August 23, 2019 (8:00 am to 5:00 pm)...

Event - 7 January 2019

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Digital resources, Satellite Meeting, Scholarly Communication

The IFLA Audiovisual and Multimedia Section, joined by the IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section and the Strategic Programme on Preservation and Conservation (PAC), invite interested...

News - 7 January 2019

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, accessibility, Archives, Audiovisual and multimedia, Best practice, Collection development, Collections, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Data management, Digital Humanities, Digital libraries, Digital preservation, Digital resources, Electronic resources, Information technology, Open Source, Preservation, Profession, Resource discovery, Risk assessment, Society, Usability

The first major reform of Europe's copyright system in almost 20 years aims to update the law for the digital age. In addition to affecting libraries and library users across Europe, it will...

Publication - 20 December 2018

Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Copyright, Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives, Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives, Digital Humanities, Digital preservation, Digitisation, E-Learning, eBooks, eLending, eLending for Libraries, Europe, licensing, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Publications

With source code playing an essential role in the way our digital world works, efforts to preserve and give access to it are essential if libraries are to maintain the historical record. A UNESCO...

Event - 6 November 2018

Tags: Conference, Digital preservation, France, Preservation, software, Software technologies, source code, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

The papers from our successful WLIC 2018 conference session 'National Libraries and Social Media - Meeting the Challenges of Acquiring, Preserving and Proving Long-Term Access' are now...

News - 1 November 2018

Tags: Acquisitions, Archives, Digital preservation, Preservation, Social Media, National Libraries

SIG Library History Session on Transform Libraries, Transform Societies: Library Outreach to Marginalized Populations - Historical Perspectives. The SIG Library History’s session at...

News - 3 October 2018

Tags: Digital preservation, Disadvantaged people, IFLA WLIC 2018, Library history, Library Outreach, Malaysia, Marginalized Populations, Preservation, WLIC 2018, Library History

The 2018 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage will take place on October 27, and has the theme “Your Story is Moving”.   Here is what UNESCO says about the theme...

News - 2 October 2018

Tags: Access to knowledge, Archives, Associations, Cultural heritage, Digital Humanities, Digital libraries, Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Education, Open Access, Preservation, Resource discovery, Society

At the 2018 World Library and Information Congress in Kuala Lumpur, SOCRS held an open program on scholarly communication. The program featured papers from across Asia and Africa.  The main...

News - 4 September 2018

Tags: Africa, Asia and Oceania, bibliometrics, Digital libraries, Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Digital resources, eBooks, Electronic resources, Open Access, Professional development, Scholarly Communication, Serials and Other Continuing Resources

With the Internet having facilitated an explosion of digital content, libraries have worked hard to adapt their practices to deal with virtual documents. IFLA is already involved in the...

Event - 28 August 2018

Tags: digital collections, Digital heritage, Digital preservation, Meeting, Preservation and Conservation

2018 has been declared the European Year of Cultural Heritage. While libraries are active in preserving our heritage every day of every year, this is a valuable opportunity to raise...

News - 8 February 2018

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Europe, Preservation, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

IFLA will be attending this year’s annual Internet Governance Forum – the 12th edition – in Geneva, Switzerland. This is an important opportunity both to make the case for an...

News - 17 December 2017

Tags: digital literacy, Digital preservation, Internet Governance Forum, Internet Shutdowns, Switzerland, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)

The IFLA Audiovisual and Multimedia Section, joined by the Information Technology Section, invite interested professionals to submit proposals for the open session to be held during IFLA WLIC in...

News - 1 December 2017

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Acquisitions, Audiovisual and multimedia, Buildings and equipment, Cataloguing, Classification and indexing, Collection development, Collections, Communities of practice, Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Electronic resources, Games, Information technology, Knowledge management, Lifelong learning, Outreach, Preservation, Services, Success stories, Young adults

​The Internet – and digital technologies more generally – has massively reduced the costs of producing and sharing information. It has allowed for an explosion of creativity, allowing...

News - 30 November 2017

Tags: Digital preservation, Digitisation, Preservation, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

Libraries in the sky: large-scale collaboration strategies and infrastructures to enhance the use of digital heritage collections IFLA RBSCS mid-term conference, National Library of Norway...

Event - 27 November 2017

Tags: Collections, Conference, Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Digitisation, Information technology, Intellectual property, International cooperation, Norway, Rare books and manuscripts, Rare Books and Special Collections

Following the decision of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to incorporate Extended Media Extensions in to the HTML Standard, IFLA has called for reconsideration.  ...

News - 17 July 2017

Tags: Access to knowledge, Copyright, Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries & Archives, Digital preservation, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

IFLA Statement on Government Provision of Public Legal Information in the Digital Age (2016), translated into German. Prepared by IFLA’s Law Library Section and adopted by the IFLA Governing...

News - 12 July 2017

Tags: Access to information, Digital preservation, Law, Open Access, Preservation, Statements, Law Libraries

The working group for the IFLA digital unification key initiative (WGDU) is an ad hoc and temporary working group which will dissolve once its aims have been fulfilled.   In IFLA...

Informational Page - 12 June 2017

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation

Documentary works in all formats, including digital, are a key part of our cultural heritage. Working with, preserving, and safeguarding them in order to provide access to future generations is at...

News - 10 May 2017

Tags: 11.4, Conservation, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Disaster management, Disaster relief, Policy, Preservation, Risk Register, SDGs, UN, UNESCO, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

Collections and original documentary cultural heritage objects have, over time and due to a wide variety of circumstances, found their homes in countries and memory institutions which were not the...

News - 9 February 2017

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, digital unification

The UNESCO PERSIST Project, an initiative founded to implement parts of the UNESCO/UBC Vancouver Declaration to ensure the long-term, sustainable access and survival of digital heritage...

Event - 3 February 2017

Tags: Digital preservation, UNESCO PERSIST, Workshop

On this page we will highlight preservation and conservation resources. You can send us (cultural.heritage@ifla.org) relevant resources.   IFLA's preservation survey results (2016...

Informational Page - 18 January 2017

Tags: Collections, Conservation, Digital preservation, Digitisation, Preservation

Statement English [PDF] Español [PDF] Français [PDF] Statement with Annexes English [PDF...

Publication - 14 December 2016

Tags: Access to information, Digital preservation, Law, Statements, Law Libraries

Article 19 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights sets out the freedom to seek and receive information. This is particularly essential in the case of public legal...

News - 14 December 2016

Tags: Access to information, Digital preservation, Digital resources, Law, Law Libraries

Publication: UNESCO PERSIST Guidelines for the selection of digital heritage for long-term preservation Offical website: UNESCO PERSIST Digital documentary heritage has...

Informational Page - 24 November 2016

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, PERSIST, UNESCO

What a wonderful Library History session at IFLA 2016 Columbus: "Libraries and Immigrants: Historical Perspectives"! I may be biased, but I thought the session went very well with three...

News - 29 August 2016

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Library history, Multicultural populations, United States, Library History

Call For Papers Libraries: Culture, History, and Society (LCHS) We are delighted to announce that "Libraries: Culture, History, and Society" is now accepting submissions for...

News - 18 July 2016

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Library history

IFLA is pleased to announce the creation of a new Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Centre which will focus on digital preservation and digital sustainability. The new PAC Centre is based at the...

News - 31 May 2016

Tags: Conservation, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Digitisation, PAC Centres, Preservation, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

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...

News - 10 March 2016

Tags: Advocacy, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Preservation

19 August 2015, 09:30-12:45, Ballroom East Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) In the spirit of the Lyon Declaration—preserving and ensuring ongoing access to...

News - 7 May 2015

Tags: Access to information, Advocacy, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Disaster management, Electronic collections, Government information, International cooperation, Knowledge management, Preservation

An event co-hosted by MEP Julia Reda, Greens/EFA, Pirate Party and MEP Josef Weidenholzer, S&D Europe is proud of its rich cultural heritage. Institutions like...

Event - 4 November 2014

Tags: Belgium, Copyright, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Event

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...

News - 7 October 2014

Tags: Conservation, Cultural heritage, Cultural Heritage topic, Digital preservation, France, PERSIST Project, UNESCO

[PDF] [WORD] IFLA is pleased to invite libraries to submit a proposal for the new IFLA Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Centre for Western, Northern and Southern Europe. The IFLA PAC...

News - 12 May 2014

Tags: Conservation, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Preservation, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

      We are excited to announce the second installment of this year’s webinar series “New Librarians Global Connection: best...

Event - 4 April 2014

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Archives, Audiovisual and multimedia, Benchmarking, Best practice, Databases, design, Digital divide, Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Electronic resources, Information technology, International cooperation, Internet access, Knowledge management, user design, user experience, ux, Webinar, New Professionals

In April 2012, the IFLA Newspaper Section, IFLA PAC Stretegic Programme, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France held the 2012 IFLA International Newspaper Conference in Paris, France. The...

Publication - 14 March 2014

Tags: Digital preservation, Preservation, Conference presentations, News Media

The Government Information and Official Publications Section invites proposals for papers to be presented at the World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) in Lyon, France , August 16-22, 2014...

News - 19 December 2013

Tags: Cultural heritage, Development, Digital preservation, France, Government information, Information professionals, Library as place, Library history, Government Information and Official Publications

On the 5th and 6th of December a follow up meeting to the UBC/UNESCO Vancouver Declaration on Preservation and Digitisation took place in The Hague. The Vancouver Declaration pinpoints key issues...

News - 11 December 2013

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Conservation, Digital preservation, Digital resources, International cooperation, Netherlands, Preservation, UNESCO, Vancouver Declaration

français Society without Memory is a society without present or future The concept of cultural heritage has multiple dimensions unsuspected and unexpected in the digital age...

Event - 25 November 2013

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Satellite Meeting, Sustainability, Switzerland, Preservation and Conservation

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) is organizing International Conference on Digital libraries (ICDL 2013) from 27-29 November 2013 in New Delhi, India. The conference will also aim...

Event - 13 November 2013

Tags: Conference, Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Digital resources, India, Digital Libraries

UNESCO organized an international conference The Memory of the World in the Digital age: Digitization and Preservation, in September 2012 in Vancouver, Canada, to explore the key issues...

News - 17 January 2013

Tags: Conservation, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, UNESCO, Vancouver Declaration, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the UNESCO Memory of the World Program, UNESCO, in collaboration with the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies and the University...

News - 6 October 2012

Tags: Cultural heritage, Digital preservation

Session 116 — Science and Technology Libraries 14 August 2012 09:30 - 11:30 | Room: 5bc | SI Data curation, access, and preservation are integral to the advancement of research in...

News - 6 April 2012

Tags: Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Information professionals, Open Access, Science and Technology Libraries

26 to 28 September 2012 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme, in cooperation with the School of Library, Archival and Information...

News - 13 January 2012

Tags: Announcement, Canada, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, Preservation

20 December 2011 As the altercations in Egypt endure, and following the recent damages suffered by the Institut d'Egypte in Cairo, the Blue Shield expresses its great concern...

News - 22 December 2011

Tags: Announcement, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation

Initiatives at a cross-cultural level, where libraries, museums and archives work together in creating digital libraries, and making their cultural heritage collections available online, are...

Publication - 3 January 2011

Tags: Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Digital Libraries, Publications

The latest issue of the IFLA ITS Newsletter has three feature articles: "India: the Digital Repository at IICT", "Digital Library Inter-operability" and "...

News - 6 July 2010

Tags: Digital preservation, Digital repositories, Digital resources, Digitisation, Freedom of information, Knowledge management, m-libraries, Open Source, RFID, social networking, Information Technology

Libraries, Archives, Museums, Monuments & Sites (LAMMS) The five international organisations for cultural heritage, IFLA (libraries), ICA (archives), ICOM (museums), ICOMOS (monuments...

Informational Page - 30 November 2009

Tags: Archives, Audiovisual and multimedia, Collaboration, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, International cooperation, International-NGOs

Libraries, Archives, Museums, Monuments & Sites (LAMMS) The five international organisations for cultural heritage, IFLA (libraries), ICA (archives), ICOM (museums), ICOMOS (monuments...

IFLA Group or Activity - 27 November 2009

Tags: Audiovisual and multimedia, Collaboration, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, International cooperation, International-NGOs, Libraries, Archives, Museums, Monuments and Sites, Joint Activities

On November 11th IFLA Senior Policy Advisor Stuart Hamilton took part in the Minerva Conference in Jerusalem, Israel, alongside librarians from the Givat Haviva Peace Library, the Al-Aqsa...

News - 23 November 2009

Tags: Access to information, Digital preservation, Israel, Newspapers, Palestinian Territories, FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression)

Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) in collaboration with IFLA Newspaper Section is organizing the IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2010 at IGNCA, New Delhi in India....

Event - 16 November 2009

Tags: Conference, Digital preservation, India, Open Access, News Media

The Foundation Rinascimento Digitale, in collaboration with the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and the Library of Congress, is delighted to announce the 2nd edition: “CULTURAL...

Event - 9 October 2009

Tags: Digital preservation, Event, Italy, PAC (Preservation and Conservation)

Summary and follow up  On Tuesday 25 August, IFLA’s Professional Committee, together with the Italian Government organized a one day conference on Digital Library Futures, user...

News - 15 September 2009

Tags: Digital preservation, Digitisation, Preservation, Users, Digital Libraries

Libraries all over the world have to deal with fast growing numbers of digital materials that need to be safeguarded. Publications in digital form, online or on CD, digitised images, and...

Publication - 16 June 2009

Tags: Digital preservation, Networking, Publications

Digital technology opens up a totally new perspective. The World Wide Web holds millions of websites and the Internet is the market place for research, teaching, expression, publication and...

Publication - 31 March 2009

Tags: Digital preservation, Digitisation, Guidelines, Preservation and Conservation

On the 21st of November 2008, IFLA President Claudia Lux initiated the first NGO Meeting on Convergence. The outcome of this meeting was that IFLA and its sister organizations for archives (ICA),...

News - 31 March 2009

Tags: Audiovisual and multimedia, Collaboration, Cultural heritage, Digital preservation, International cooperation, International-NGOs