Philippines Memory of the World Register

UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme is an international initiative launched to safeguard the documentary heritage of humanity against collective amnesia, neglect, the ravages of time and climatic conditions, and willful and deliberate destruction.[1] It calls for the preservation of valuable archival holdings, library collections and private individual compendia all over the world for posterity, the reconstitution of dispersed or displaced documentary heritage, and the increased accessibility to and dissemination of these items.[1][2][3]

Any organization or individual can nominate a documentary item for inscription on the Register. During its meetings, the IAC examines the full documentation of the item's description, origin, world significance, and contemporary state of conservation. The body uses a set of criteria in examining each of the nominations:[4]

  1. Time: Absolute age, of itself, does not make a document significant: but every document is a creature of its time. Some documents are especially evocative of their time, which may have been one of crisis, or significant social or cultural change. A document may represent new discovery or be the "first of its kind".
  2. Place: The place of its creation is a key attribute of its importance. It may contain crucial information about a locality important in world history and culture; or the location may itself have been an important influence on the events or phenomena represented by the document. It may be descriptive of physical environments, cities or institutions since vanished.
  3. People: The social and cultural context of its creation may reflect significant aspects of human behaviour, or of social, industrial, artistic or political development. It may capture the essence of great movements, transitions, advances or regression. It may reflect the impact of key individuals or groups.
  4. Subject and Theme: The subject matter may represent particular historical or intellectual developments in natural, social and human sciences, politics, ideology, sports and the arts.
  5. Form and Style: The item may have outstanding aesthetic, stylistic or linguistic value, be a typical or key exemplar of a type of presentation, custom or medium, or of a disappeared or disappearing carrier or format.
  6. Social/Spiritual/Community Significance: This concept is another way of expressing the significance of a document or set of documents in terms of its spiritual or sacred values. It allows a specific community to demonstrate its emotional attachment to the document or documents for the way in which these contribute to that community's identity and social cohesion. Application of this criterion must reflect living significance – the documentary heritage must have an emotional hold on people who are alive today. Once those who have revered the documentary heritage for its social/spiritual/community significance no longer do so, or are no longer living, it loses this specific significance and may eventually acquire historical significance.

Other matters that will also be taken into account for each nomination are:[4]

The Philippines currently has four registered memories in the Memory of the World Register out of the current 193 registered memories all over the world.

The Registered Memories of the World of the Philippines

Memory Date of Submission Date of Inscription Submitted By References
Presidential Papers of Manuel L. Quezon 2010 2011 The Manuel L. Quezon Papers, University of Michigan Library [5]
José Maceda Collection 2007 2007 U.P. Center for Ethnomusicology, Quezon City [6]
Radio Broadcast of the Philippine People Power Revolution 2003 2003 Radio Veritas Asia, Quezon City; Raja Broadcasting Network, Makati City; Personal Archives of Mr. Orly Punzalan, Dasmariñas [7]
Philippine Paleographs (Hanunoo, Buid, Tagbanua and Pala’wan) 1999 1999 National Museum, Manila [8]

Despite having one of the most diverse memories in Southeast Asia, the Philippines has yet to submit important memories of the world such as the Ninoy Aquino Assassination Files, the drafts and books of Dr. Jose P. Rizal, the Marcos Regime Memories, Documents and Recording of World War II in the Philippines, Typhoon Haiyan Documentaries, important speeches and papers of top Philippine officials and important Filipino figures, Colonial Memories in the Philippines, and other important Memories of the World in the Philippines. The last memory of the Philippine to be declared by UNESCO was in 2011.[9]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "UNESCO MEMORY OF THE WORLD PROGRAMME: The Asia-Pacific Strategy". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. 1999-04-17. Archived from the original on 2005-02-28. Retrieved 2004-10-21.
  2. ↑ "Official website". UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. Retrieved 2009-09-06.
  3. ↑ "Twenty-three new inscriptions on Memory of the World Register of Documentary Collections". UNESCO Press. 2003-09-01. Retrieved 2009-09-06.
  4. 1 2 "Memory of the World: General Guidelines to Safeguard Documentary Heritage". UNESCO. February 2002. Retrieved 2009-12-08.
  5. ↑ http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/flagship-project-activities/memory-of-the-world/register/full-list-of-registered-heritage/registered-heritage-page-7/presidential-papers-of-manuel-l-quezon/#c200548
  6. ↑ http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/flagship-project-activities/memory-of-the-world/register/full-list-of-registered-heritage/registered-heritage-page-4/jose-maceda-collection/
  7. ↑ http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/flagship-project-activities/memory-of-the-world/register/full-list-of-registered-heritage/registered-heritage-page-7/radio-broadcast-of-the-philippine-people-power-revolution/#c188230
  8. ↑ http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/flagship-project-activities/memory-of-the-world/register/full-list-of-registered-heritage/registered-heritage-page-7/philippine-paleographs-hanunoo-buid-tagbanua-and-palawan/
  9. ↑ http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/flagship-project-activities/memory-of-the-world/register/access-by-region-and-country/asia-and-the-pacific/philippines/
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