World document heritage

The World Soundtrack Awards is a directory within the framework of the 1992 UNESCO established program Memory of the World ( MOW , English for Memory of the World ) "to preserve the documentary heritage of humanity." The purpose of this program is to ensure free access to important documents and to preserve the documentary heritage.

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See also : List of World Document Heritage

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The program is administered by the International Advisory Committee (IAC), whose 14 members are appointed by the Director General of UNESCO.

In 1997 the first documents were entered in the register. Valuable book holdings , manuscripts , scores , unique items , image , sound and film documents , "which represent the collective memory of people in different countries around the world" are to be recorded. The appointment is not a financial support, but should be understood as an award: As with the other World Heritage programs, the home states undertake to ensure the "preservation and availability" of the respective documentary heritage in the service of the international community.

The Memory of the World program was continued in 2003 with the Charter for the Preservation of Digital Cultural Heritage on the question of the long-term archiving of digitized documents and of exclusively digital materials.

Every two years, states can nominate up to two documents for a new entry in the list. The IAC then decides on their inclusion at its meetings. The list of the world document heritage currently comprises 427 documents (as of 2019) .

Meetings

meeting	year	date	Conference location
1	1993	September 12-14	Pułtusk / Poland
2	1995	May 3-5	Paris / France
3	1997	September 29th - October 1st	Tashkent / Uzbekistan
4th	1999	September 4-5	London / United Kingdom
5	2001	June 10-12	Vienna / Austria
6th	2003	August 28-30	Gdansk / Poland
7th	2005	June 13-18	Lijiang / People's Republic of China
8th	2007	June 11-15	Pretoria / South Africa
9	2009	July 27th - 31st	Bridgetown / Barbados
10	2011	May 22-25	Manchester / United Kingdom
11	2013	June 18-21	Gwangju / South Korea
12th	2015	October 4-6	Abu Dhabi / United Arab Emirates
13th	2017	October 24-27	Paris / France

literature

• Natascha Albus et al .: The legacy of the world. The cultural and natural monuments of the world according to the convention of UNESCO. Large special chapter: The document heritage of UNESCO. Kunth, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-89944-902-0 .
• Henning Aubel et al .: The memory of mankind. The document heritage of UNESCO. Kunth, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89944-609-8 .
• UNESCO: Safeguarding the Documentary Heritage of Humanity. 2010 ( PDF; 3.6 MB , English).

Web links

Commons : World Document Heritage  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Memory of the World : In: Site of UNESCO (English)
• UNESCO World Document Heritage . In: Website of the German UNESCO Commission
• Literature on world document heritage in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. The Memory of Mankind. The document heritage of UNESCO. Kunth-Verlag, Munich 2010, p. 5.
2. ↑ The UNESCO program. Austrian Commission for UNESCO, accessed on July 1, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Charter for the Preservation of Digital Cultural Heritage. (PDF) German UNESCO Commission, accessed on July 1, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Document heritage . Retrieved March 17, 2017 .