BERENDSE, Martin
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Curriculum
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MARTIN BERENDSE (1963) studied Law at the University of Utrecht and joined the office of the University Board between 1984 and 1986. He was
consultant/account manager for one of the main advertising companies in Amsterdam, before
he moved to the theatre business. Between 1989 and 1998 he was
director of a theatre festival in Utrecht, a national agency for theatre and dance in Amsterdam and the Rotterdam Repertory Theatre Company. He started
at the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science as head of general cultural policy
division in 1998 and worked
as (dep.) director of the
Arts Department/deputy director-general Culture and Media.
Since 2008 he is
general director of The National Archives of The Netherlands (Nationaal Archief) in The Hague and since
2009 national archivist. In 2010 he was elected as president of the
International Council on Archives, a worldwide non-governmental organization
of archival institutions and professionals, based in Paris.
Martin Berendse is
married and father of 3
children.
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Title:
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PERSIST, the information
society and digital sustainability,
a UNESCO Memory of the World
Program
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Brief summary:
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In this plenary session participants will
be informed and discuss about PERSIST a project of
UNESCO Memory of the World. And
furthermore, this session is a call on those present to take the message of
PERSIST home and to help take this UNESCO project to the next stage.
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Content:
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The
outcome of the Memory of the World Conference in Vancouver in 2012 was the pressing
need to establish a roadmap for solutions, agreements and policies to
ensure long term access and trustworthy preservation of digital
information, including issues such as open government, open data, open
access and electronic government.
The follow up in 2013 in
The Hague
was PERSIST, a Platform to Enhance the Sustainability of the Information
Society Trans globally. UNESCO joins forces with the ICA and IFLA to enhance the
sustainability of the information society. It aims at the cooperation
between governments, social organizations and the IT-industry and create practical solutions in this area.
Within the PERSIST project three arenas have been identified. The policy arena will raise awareness among governments
and the IT-industry about the importance of sustainable digital
preservation in light of good governance and the free flow of information. Parallel
to this top down approach, the content curation
arena and the technical requirements arena will develop pilots on the
ground, to gather input for practical solutions. The content curation arena will address the question of what to preserve and the responsibility of
heritage institutions in that respect. The technical requirements arena
will support these findings with answers for issues of technology, such as
backward and forward compatibility of data creation software.
Participants will be informed on the state of affairs of the Persist
project and will be invited to discuss the important issues that arise from
the three selected arenas. Furthermore, this session is a call on those
present to take the message of PERSIST home and to help take this UNESCO
project to the next stage.
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Scientific contribution:
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The
outcome of PERSIST will be about:
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business models that can be adopted;
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reassessment of the role of industry, government and heritage institutions;
- the
information society and democratic rights;
- practical answers to innovation.
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Keywords:
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UNESCO, digital sustainability, access to the information society,
preservation, public-private partnership, standardization
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