The Memory of the World Guidelines and Companion documents are being reviewed. The review group has developed a discussion paper and welcomes submissions to assist with the development of its recommendations. Submissions must be received before 15 August 2016.
The discussion paper also has information on the review process and can be accessed here.
A revised and updated edition of the UNESCO publication Audiovisual Archiving: Philosophy and Principles is now available. It was launched at the official opening of the CCAAA Joint Technical Symposium, held at Singapore’s National Museum on 6 March 2016. It is published under UNESCO’s Memory of the World programme.
The publication can be accessed here.
It was released along with a short video illustrating the audiovisual journey from the first time sound was recorded in 1860.
The 7th MOWCAP General Meeting will be held in Hue, Vietnam from 18-21 May 2016. The MOWCAP Bureau will meet on 17 May 2016. More details are available in the draft programme.
Invitations to attend the 7th MOWCAP General Meeting in Hue, Vietnam have now been sent to Memory of the World Committees and UNESCO National Commissions in the MOWCAP region. Registrations to attend the meeting should be received by 17 March 2016.
Please use the contact form if you have any questions.
Here is the MOWCAP newsletter for December 2015. Lots of MOWCAP activities in the last 6 months.
Press Release
The activities of the “Memory of the World” National Committee of Uzbekistan in 2015 were focused through open solutions and supporting the digital preservation of documentary heritage. [Read more…]
Mr. Li Minghua, Chairman of MOWCAP signed the Memorandum of Understanding between the UNESCO Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific (MOWCAP) and the Asia Culture Center of the Republic of Korea (ACC) on Cooperation Concerning the Memory of the World (MOW) Programme in Asia and the Pacific with Mr. Bang Sun-gyu, President of ACC in Beijing on 9th December 2015.
The Exhibition and Forum of Memory of World Programme and the significance of Historical Documentation were held on Dec 6 2015 in Macao Science Centre, with the purpose of stimulating public awareness on the importance of documentary heritage. The activities were organized by the Macau Documentation and Information Society (MDIS), together with Macao Youth Entrepreneurship Association, archives institutes, and research center. The Exhibition includes the topics of introduction of MoW and the value of documentary preservation, war’s disasters and the history, rethink on war, and appreciate peace. Old photos and archives are being exhibited until 19 Dec.
The preservation of documentary heritage materials is one of the daunting tasks of memory institutions worldwide. This task is becoming more and more important, not least because of the fast development of the Internet and the digital technologies as well as with the well-documented need for updated legislation at national and international levels. For UNESCO, it is beyond doubt that humanity’s documentary heritage is a fundamental expression of the richness and diversity of different cultures and traditions and its preservation is therefore considered of the utmost importance.
The Borobudur Conservation Office (BCO), Indonesian Memory of the World Committee, the National Archives of Indonesia (ANRI), Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), the Australian Memory of the Committee, and UNESCO have collaborated to hold a workshop on the ‘Nomination of the Archives of the Borobudur Temple World Heritage site as Memory of the World’, from the 10-11 November 2015. The workshop was a continuation of the general training conducted with the support of UNESCO in September 2015, and gave advanced training support for the development of a nomination for the archives of the Borobudur Conservation Office as UNESCO Memory of the World (MoW).
Safeguarding documentary heritage has become the passion of five Archivists from the Pacific that met in Suva, Fiji from October 20th to the 22nd, 2015.
See here for the full report
