Documents prepared by the Sub-Committee on Technology
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Fundamental principles of documentary heritage digitization
The digitization guidelines document collates the basic information needed to understand the requirements of digitization.
It is not exhaustive, but serves as a primer, especially for developing countries, to guide or inform on digitization. It sets out the most basic elements to be taken into consideration before embarking on the process of digitizing documentary heritage. It includes a small bibliography of international source documents that are currently available online. These should not necessarily be interpreted as having been endorsed by UNESCO or reflecting the Organization’s views.
Reports of the Technical Sub-Committee of the International Advisory Committee meetings
- Final report of the 10th Memory of the World Technical Sub-Committee meeting
10th Memory of the World Technical Sub-Committee meeting, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt, 20-21 November 2008 - Final report of the 9th Memory of the World Technical Sub-Committee meeting
9th Memory of the World Technical Sub-Committee meeting, Mexico City, Mexico, 7-8 September 2006 - Final report of the 8th Memory of the World Technical Sub-Committee meeting
8th Memory of the World Technical Sub-Committee meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 17-18 May 2005 - Final report of the 7th Memory of the World Technical Sub-Committee meeting
7th Memory of the World Technical Sub-Committee meeting, Paris, France, 6-7 February 2004 - Final report of the 6th Memory of the World Technical Sub-Committee meeting
6th Memory of the World Technical Sub-Committee meeting, Paris, France, 13-15 June 2002 - Final report of the 5th Memory of the World Technical Sub-Committee meeting
5th Memory of the World Technical Sub-Committee meeting, Madrid, Spain, 17-19 January 1999 - Final report of the 4th Memory of the World Technical Sub-Committee meeting
4th Memory of the World Technical Sub-Committee meeting, London, United Kingdom, 15-17 May 1997 - Final report of the 3rd Memory of the World Technical Sub-Committee meeting
3rd Memory of the World Technical Sub-Committee meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, 1-4 March 1996 - Final report of the 2nd Memory of the World Technical Sub-Committee meeting
2nd Memory of the World Technical Sub-Committee meeting, London, United Kingdom, 4-5 November 1994 - Final report of the 1st Memory of the World Technical Sub-Committee meeting
1st Memory of the World Technical Sub-Committee meeting, Vienna, Austria, 3-4 June 1994
Publications
- Lost Memory: libraries and archives destroyed in the twentieth century
by Hans van der Hoeven and Joan van Albada
CII.96/WS/1, 1996 - Risks associated with the use of recordable CDs and DVDs as reliable storage media in archival collections: strategies and alternatives
by Kevin Bradley
CI/INF/2006/1 REV., 2006 - IFLA UNESCO Survey on Digitisation and Preservation
by Richard Ebdon and Sara Gould
1970 - Memory of the World: a survey of current library preservation activities
by Jan Lyall
1996 - Memory of the World: safeguarding the documentary heritage: a guide to standards, recommended practices and reference literature related to the preservation of documents of all kinds
By George Boston
CII.98/WS/4, 1998