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Warsaw, Poland, 8–10 May 2012
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2013
The meeting of experts in Warsaw is one of the activities marking the 20th anniversary of the Memory of the World (MoW) program. The events started on 1 April and were held throughout 2012, including a MoW Exhibition at the UNESCO headquarters that focused on items that are listed on MoW Register (national, regional, and international) and an international conference held 26–28 September 2012 in Vancouver, Canada, on Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation. The challenges and solutions relating to the impact of the technological advances for the preservation and accessibility of the documentary heritage have occupied the attention of UNESCO for some time, culminating in the adoption of the Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage by the 32nd session of the General Conference of UNESCO on 17 October 2003.
1. The information about the beginning, growth, and progress of the MoW program is taken from the UNESCO website, Communication and Information section (http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/flag..). Information has also been gleaned from the Warsaw meeting working papers. The recommendations of the experts' meeting as well as the message of Roslyn Russell, Chair of Memory of the World International Advisory Committee (IAC), to mark the 20th anniversary of MoW are on the Communication and Information section of UNESCO's website (http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/mow/mow_warsaw_declaration_en.pdf). The Warsaw Declaration and Recommendations are the outcome of the Fourth International Conference, UNESCO MoW program: Culture – Memory – Identities, Warsaw, 18–21 May 2011.
