As a result of the Conference in Budapest, training courses to teach people the skills of creating digital documents and producing CD-ROMs were run at the Czech National Library by Adolf Knoll. Mr. Abid continued by saying that the Second Meeting of the IAC held in Paris in 1995 had accepted the principles of creating the Memory of the World Register. It had also agreed the basic criteria to be used for the selection of nominations for inclusion in the World Register. The criteria were not firmly fixed but could be adjusted in the light of experience. He reminded the IAC that preservation requires that priorities be set.
Selection is a key activity for all fonds and collections.
The pilot projects were reviewed by Abdelaziz Abid. He referred to the need for extra-budgetary funding to support new projects. The first extra-budgetary resources will be provided by Norway to fund work on the Slave Trade Archives Project. The members of the IAC and the Observers were invited to seek additional sources of funding to assist the development of the Programme.