Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) – Recommended Practice for Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories Will be released as ISO 16363
De la communauté / From the community
Revenue, Recession, Reliance: Revisiting the SCA/Ithaka S+R Case Studies in Sustainability (how twelve digital content projects fared during the economic crisis)
Research paper – Evaluating the Impact of Open Data Websites
Brennan Center for Justice – Reducing Overclassification Through Accountability
Publications
Broadsheet: the Scottish Council on Archives Newsletter, no. 7 (September-October 2011)
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol. 38, no. 1 (October/November 2011)
Library Hi Tech, vol. 29, no. 4
Book – Management Skills for Archivists and Records Managers
Book – Records Management for Museums and Galleries
Livre – Nouveaux usages des archives audiovisuelles numériques
Livre – Les archives audiovisuelles : description, indexation et publication
Livre – Archives personnelles : histoire, anthropologie et sociologie
Livre – Typologie des dossiers des organisations: analyse intégrée dans un contexte analogique et numérique
Book – Digital Media: Technological and Social Challenges of the Interactive World
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
2011 Information and Social Networks Symposium
November 4th, 2011, Dalhousie University, Halifax
DLM Forum Triennal Conference 2011
12-14 December 2011, Brussels
Future Perfect Conference 2012: Digital Preservation by Design
26-27 March 2012, Wellington, New Zealand
Sur le web / On the web
Podcast – Searching for British records in the new FamilySearch website
University of Toronto – New Digital Collection: Soviet Samizdat Periodicals
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Library and Archives Canada – Cultural events may lose access to archives venue
Nova Scotia Archives asks public to help solve mystery
Canada mediocre in access to information rankings
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1062154–canada-mediocre-in-access-to-information-rankings
University of Alberta is the recipient of the first Grace-Pépin Access to Information Award
Copyright changes: how they’ll affect users of digital content
Mandatory data breach reporting proposed
History revisited: new photos of the Winnipeg General Strike offer different perspective on seminal event
Archival Collections at the Alberta Teacher’s Association: Tomb or Treasure?
Afrique / Africa
Côte d’Ivoire – Destruction de l’état civil : 60 milliards pour réhabiliter les archives judiciaires
Amériques / Americas
“Well-intentioned Practice for Putting Digitized Collections of Unpublished Materials Online” Endorsed as a Standard by the Society of American Archivists
House Dems seek to formalize former presidents’ ability to withhold records
NARA hires IBM to move records system into next phase
Former National Archives employee stole Babe Ruth recordings, sold them on eBay
National Archivist’s statement regarding guilty plea by former Archives employee
California adds digital books to privacy laws
The Noriega file
Government Printing Office Partners With University of Iowa To Preserve Historic Collection of Posters
A letter’s journey, from founding father to religious question
The Walters Art Museum Removes Copyright Restrictions from more than 10,000 Images
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
India – Keeping alive women-related history by archiving invaluable reference materials
Europe/Europa
Europe’s national librarians support Open Data licensing
Swedish Archives Confirm Armenian Genocide: Scholar
Professor chronicles history of 700-year-old missing Spanish document
French Data Protection Authority Moves Forward with Privacy Seal Project
France – Archives: le bras de fer reprend entre personnel et ministère de la Culture
Les précieuses archives du poète Adonis confiées à un institut français
UK – New leadership role for The National Archives
UK Postal archive is safe
Huge archive of northern women’s history goes online
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2011/oct/05/herstory-archive-jill-liddington-anne-lister
Royal Holloway, University of London unveils vast collection of theatrical memorabilia
Following Burberry’s success, more brands are delving into their archives for inspiration
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
In Jerusalem, an old-fashioned medium goes online
Yad Vashem Breakthrough Agreement For Access to Archives In Lithuania, Ukraine & Belarus
International
It’s exciting to find manuscripts abandoned by writers or musicians but early drafts were locked away for a reason
Flickr Celebrates 200 Million Creative Commons Photos
Newspapers to disappear by 2040: UN agency chief
New Program to Help Scientists Share Large Data Sets