Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) – The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing
Afnor – Introduction à la série de normes ISO 30300, système de gestion des documents d’activité (2e version)
De la communauté / From the community
Australian Society of Archivists and Records and Information Management Professionals Australasia – Joint comment on the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records Bill 2011
ARMA Draft for public review – Policy Design for Managing Electronic Messages
PDF/A-2 Overview
Guide du RDAQ: comment saisir des descriptions de fonds et collections dans le Réseau de diffusion des archives du Québec
Library Linked Data Incubator Group (W3C) – Final Report + Datasets, Value Vocabularies, and Metadata Element Sets
Final report:
Datasets, Value Vocabularies, and Metadata Element Sets:
The ODE Project – Ten Tales of Drivers & Barriers in Data Sharing
The ODE Project – Report on Integration of Data and Publications
Digital Curation Center – How to Cite Datasets and Link to Publications
Publications
National Archives of Australia – Your Memento, no. 4 (October 2011)
Association of Research Libraries Spec Kit – Digital Preservation
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Digital Preservation Summit 2011 (presentations available)
19-20 October 2011, Hamburg
Video – Digital Public Library of America Plenary Meeting
October 21 2011, Washington D.C.
Disposal in a digital environment Workshop (summary available)
11 September 2011, Darwin (Australia)
French Theory in Translation: The Question of the Archive
3-5 November 2011, Chicago
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada – Canadian Feature Film Database
Press release: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/whats-new/013-544-e.html
EUscreen: Discover Europe’s television heritage
Press release: http://blog.euscreen.eu/?p=2195
Flying Reporters at CITRA 2011
Swiss National Library – Bibliography on Swiss History now online
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Information commish likely to review legislation proposing the destruction of long gun records
Newfoundland and Labrador – Justice Watchdog fights for powers under Access to Information law
Research for the masses: Concordia’s librarian prioritizes open access
Le Centre régional d’archives de Lanaudière accueille L’Action
Take a stroll through literary Ottawa (with a Library and Archives Canada employee)
Amériques / Americas
Protection of Access to the National Police Historical Archive in Guatemala
U.S. Archive Advances Records Management
U.S. National archivist: International Action On the Open Government Front
NARA electronic archive has fundamental flaw in search, IG says
‘Snapshots’ cannot accurately archive gov 2.0 content, says Navy official
Art investigators: Saving the country’s cultural heritage, one recovered work at a time
Presidential “historian’s” assistant pleads guilty in Maryland document theft conspiracy
109 Years of American Jewish History Goes Digital
The National Baseball Hall of Fame’s research center keeps the records of our national pastime
North Carolina – Open Source Tool Speeds Up Web Archive Scoping
Nextpoint to Preserve New York City’s Social Media Efforts
Modern Algorithms Crack 18th Century Secret Code
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Philippines – Finally, a national film archive
India – Vice-president: Change in rules to make archival records
India – Digitisation of Mathilakom documents to resume
Canterbury quake to be with us forever (an archive of New Zealand earthquake related digital content)
Europe / Europa
Changes to EU freedom of information laws backed
Russians open secret files to refute claims Hitler escaped from bunker
Russian ship cancels U.S. visit over Judaic book collection
The Language Archive opens in Berlin
Spain adopts ‘Open By Default’ per Royal Decree
BBC Studios And Post Production Transfers Historic Archive
Archive discovery brings colourful life of Shakespeare’s rival Ben Johnson into focus
New Wimbledon heritage archive launched
Diagrams from Titanic inquest to be auctioned
Il y a 70 ans aux Archives nationales de France
Communiqué : Dématérialisation des instruments de recherche aux Archives nationales de France
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel – Holiday greetings from WWI troops
Archive Offers Glimpse Inside the Mind of Saddam Hussein
International
Digital Public Library of America and Europeana Announce Collaboration
Big data and archival will drive $22 billion in cloud storage spending, says International Data Corporation
Open Planets Foundation – Archiving Complete Environments for Complex Objects
How Will Astronomy Archives Survive the Data Tsunami?