:: Key UNESCO resources and documents ::

• UNESCO-CI : e-Heritage
  and the UNESCO Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage: "The Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage is a declaration of principle designed to assist Member States in preparing national policies to preserve, and provide access to, digital heritage. The digital heritage consists of unique resources of human knowledge and expression, be they cultural, educational, scientific or administrative, as well as technical, legal, medical and other kinds of information created digitally or converted into digital form from existing analogue resources... The Charter recognizes that this material constitutes a common heritage and that its preservation requires urgent measures."
  » http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/e_heritage
• Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (full text)
  "The 'intangible cultural heritage' means the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills--as well as the instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associated therewith--that communities, groups and, in some cases, individuals recognize as part of their cultural heritage. This intangible cultural heritage, transmitted from generation to generation, is constantly recreated by communities and groups in response to their environment, their interaction with nature and their history, and provides them with a sense of identity and continuity, thus promoting respect for cultural diversity and human creativity. For the purposes of this Convention, consideration will be given solely to such intangible cultural heritage as is compatible with existing international human rights instruments, as well as with the requirements of mutual respect among communities, groups and individuals, and of sustainable development."
  » http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich_convention/index.php?pg=00022