The royal woodblocks of the Nguyen Dynasty, part of the world documentary heritage, are preserved at National Archives Centre No 4. (Photo: VNA) The conference will serve as a venue for state management agencies, experts and localities to evaluate the management, protection and promotion work for documentary heritage and cultural heritage as a whole.
Also discussed at the event will be measures to preserve the value of documentary heritage items after they are recognised by the Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific.
The conference is expected to help local officials gain a deeper understanding about the preservation of document heritage, remove obstacles, as well as better prepare dossiers to seek documentary heritage recognition.
Documentary heritage is an important asset of a country as it keeps track on the nation or region’s history and socioeconomic development. Besides being protected by families, communal houses, temples and pagodas, a huge amount of heritage documents are being stored at the state archive centres.
UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme was established in 1992 as a global initiative to raise public awareness of the significance to preserving documentary heritage of humanity.
Vietnam has engaged in the programme since 2007, and had nine documentary heritage items on the UNESCO’s list, including three at the world level and six at the Asia-Pacific level./.
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