Institutions/professionals invited to the 2009 MoW workshop in Barbados are required to identify aspects of their documentary heritage which they think have the potential to be listed on the international register.
Once this determination has been made, the item has to be written up in compliance with the nomination form of the MoW programme.
Images taken the Eric Williams Collection, Trinidad and Tobago
Among the possible items for nomination are records documenting experiences which made an extraordinary/influential impact on the lives of Caribbean people: the migration of Caribbean people (into and out of the region); labour related records (e.g. Panama Canal, 1930s riots and Moyne Commission); indigenous and the Maroon peoples culture, language and other cultural expressions; sports and recreational pursuits that are particular to the region; business and administrative documents; and, music, literary and visual arts archives.
A full listing of inscribed documents can be found at:
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=25181&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
A copy of the nomination form is available at:
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=4478&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
A draft nomination should be sent to Barbados. This draft will be commented on by the facilitators.
Once the preliminary nomination has been vetted and deemed to be item suitable for submission to the International Register, the nominator/s must agree to continue to work on their nomination until it reaches a standard that, in the view of the facilitators, should be acceptable to the International Advisory Committee. It is therefore important for countries to identify a nominator who can take the process from start to finish.