Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
New Zealand Data and Information Management Principles
U.S. – Data Privacy Legislation: An Analysis of the Current Legislative Landscape and the Implications for Higher Education
De la communauté / From the community
International Council on Archives – Principles of Access to Archives (Draft)
Introduction aux technologies du Web sémantique en trois partie
Petite histoire du Web sémantique
Les technologies du Web sémantique
Retour sur le Web de données
Content Clustering and Sustaining Digital Resources: The JISC eContent Programme 2009-11
International Internet Preservation Consortium – Web archives: the future(s)
Publications
The Journal of Electronic Publishing, vol. 14, no. 1 (Summer 2011)
The Social Media Monthly, no. 1 (September 2011)
Livre – Web HT.0 Pour une société informée: la pertinence numérique et ses défis pour les sociétés démocratiques du XXIe siècle (écrit par Daniel J. Caron, bibliothécaire et archiviste du Canada)
Livre – Dictionnaire de la culture numérique
Book – The Struggle over the Files: The Western Allies and the Return of German Archives after the Second World War
Sur le web / On the web
Picture This!: new Library of Congress photo blog
Video – Adding Descriptions to Digital Photos: Your Gift to the Future
Video – American Artifacts: Inside the National Archivist’s Office
UK National Archives – Galaxy Zoo and old weather: exploring the potential of citizen science (podcast)
Stanford University – Free online computer science courses
Machine Learning: http://ml-class.org/
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: http://ai-class.org/
Introduction to Databases: http://db-class.org/
Outils / Tools
American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus (Beta Version)
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
University of Calgary digital library ready for students
Rivière-du-Loup – Un été bien rempli au Centre d’archives
Archives opened, Pointe Claire history book back on track
Government staffers apparently above the law: RCMP decision to drop investigation into violation of Access to Info Act ‘potentially catastrophic’
Afrique
Rwandan libraries go digital
Burkina Fasso : un projet de bibliothèque numérique en développement
Amériques/Americas
Cayman Islands – National records site renamed for archivist
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Proposes Standards on Metadata for Electronic Health Information Exchanges
Department of Defense revises Freedom of Information Act directive to include ‘presumption of disclosure’
NARA takes crowdsourcing approach to tagging historic documents
New Statistics Model for Book Industry Shows Trade Ebook Sales Grew Over 1,000 Percent
Malamud seeks to unlock Smithsonian archives
Eric J. Schwartz’s love of film fueled his push for preservation of old movies
University of North Texas Receives More than $800,000 In Funding To Investigate Needs in Archiving Research Data
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
China Proposes New Rule Including Protections for Personal Information on the Internet
India – ‘More transparency can bring down Right to Information pleas’
India – Rare documents on Bhagat Singh’s trial and life in jail
India – 1947 Partition Archive Preserves Traumatic Past
Librarians in Australia have launched a three-year project to rediscover lost indigenous languages
Europe
European citizens making more requests for Commission documents than ever before
L’Histoire de la discorde (sur la question des manuscrits arabes détenus par l’Espagne)
France – Dans les secrets de la République: les Archives nationales ont ouvert les portes de “l’armoire de fer”
News Analysis: Social media in focus after British riots
UK National Archives – Three million crime, court and convict records to be digitised
Brunel archive reveals hidden treasures in show-and-tell at Bristol docks
Moyen-Orient/Middle East
Historic Meskhetian Turk documents destroyed
Iranian historical documents of UK archive now on Iran National Library and Archives website
International
Is this the end for books?
Era of the PC ‘coming to a close”
Economic risks to preservation
Can Data Breaches Kill?