Documentary heritage

According to the guidelines of the Memory of the World Programme – which is in charge of the heritage housed in museums, archives and libraries around the world -, the definition of documentary heritage includes the following elements:

• mobile;
• consisting of signs/codes, sounds and/or images;
• can be conserved (the supports are inert elements);
• can be reproduced and transported;
• is the result of a deliberate documentation process.

Source(s): http://www.unesco.org/new/en/santiago/communication-information/memory-of-the-world-programme-preservation-of-documentary-heritage/what-is-documentary-heritage/