Vietnam lacks the expertise required to study and preserve its archival materials, the director of the National Archives Center No. 4, Pham Thi Hue, has said.
Speaking at a conference on preserving historic artifacts in Hanoi Wednesday, she said 34,628 woodblocks inscribed with old Nom [Chinese] characters -- made during the Nguyen Dynasty era between 1802 and 1945 and named a documentary heritage by UNESCO this year -- has yet to be fully studied.
Now being kept at the National Archives Center No. 4 in Dalat, their preservation is also a challenge due to the shortage of experts, she said.
Another UNESCO-recognized documentary heritage, the stone laureate doctor steles in Hanoi, is also at risk of degradation due to environmental factors.
The 82 steles in Van Mieu (Temple of Literature) in Hanoi are carved with the names of 2,313 doctors who passed the court examinations between 1442 and 1779.
Exhibiting them could cause damage but keeping them in a vault will mean not promoting or widely disseminating their values, Hue said.
UNESCO has launched a program to recognize documentary heritages all over the world to promote their preservation and dissemination.
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