Colombia. The Colombian University of La Salle celebrates 50 years with its library and archival program, with which it has been a leader in the training of professionals focused on the structuring of information regardless of the format. His career has been accompanied by international research in the field and the development of postgraduate courses.
This experience, added to the support for the publication of laws and regulations on archival in Colombia, helped them to be selected by UNESCO at its headquarters in the Andean Region to support the development of technical standards for the audiovisual documentary historical archive.
Nelson Pulido Daza, director of the Master's Degree in Document Management and Archives Administration at la Salle University, told TVyVideo+Radio that the result of this agreement, signed with the UNESCO office based in Ecuador, will be a technical document that will serve as a basis for the adoption of standards in the rest of the countries of the region. The agreement was signed in July and should have results in two years.
The director stressed that the agreement with UNESCO is an endorsement of the trajectory of the University, which in 2017 alone presented 129 research projects in the field of archives and since 2011 has a Master's program in Document Management and Archive Administration, of which its professionals are highly demanded for the comprehensive training they receive and the growing needs to protect the historical archive.
He added that the digitization and protection of audiovisual historical archives is not only to have them in a digital format, it is to have an information management system that allows access in a simple, secure and, most importantly, available at any time.
The University of La Salle is part of the Archival Network, an association created 4 years ago in order to share technical knowledge on the subject of archives and of which representatives of 14 Latin American countries are part. As part of this work, the Network has already published a technical book on archival.
