Vol. 5, no. 15 – Documentary Heritage News

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State

European Commission’s Open Data Strategy: Questions & answers

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/11/891&format=HTML&aged=0&language=en&guiLanguage=en

Press release on the Open Data Strategy : http://epsiplatform.eu/content/european-open-data-strategy-announced

France – Proposition de loi adoptée par le Sénat relative à l’exploitation numérique des livres indisponibles du XXe siècle

http://www.senat.fr/petite-loi-ameli/2011-2012/54.html

New South Wales Government – The problems of identifying which digital records to keep and which to throw away: survey shows digital disposal is hard

http://futureproof.records.nsw.gov.au/the-problems-of-identifying-which-digital-records-to-keep-and-which-to-throw-away-survey-shows-digital-disposal-is-hard/

De la communauté / From the community

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – The PROV Ontology: Model and Formal Semantics

http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-prov-o-20111213/

The Legal Case for PDF/A

http://www.pdfa.org/2011/12/the-legal-case-for-pdfa/

Publications

Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol. 38, no. 2 (December/January 2012)

http://asis.org/Bulletin/Dec-11/Bulletin_DecJan12_Final.pdf

First Monday, vol. 16, no. 12 (December 2011)

http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/ issue/view/354

Arbido (revue de l’Association des Archivistes suisse et de Bibliothèque Information Suisse), 4/11 (Décembre 2011)

http://www.arbido.ch/userdocs/documents/arbido%204-2011-Titel%20und%20Inhalt.pdf

Book – Open Access

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12862

Book – Visual Orgasm: The Early Years of Canadian Graffiti

http://www.visualorgasm.com/store/book.html

Book review: http://calgary.openfile.ca/blog/curator-blog/curated-news/2011/graffiti-book-archive-canadian-art-or-vandalism

Book – Getting Started with GIS (Geographic information system): A Library and Information Technology Association Guide

http://www.neal-schuman.com/gsgis/

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Actes – Congrès des milieux documentaires du Québec

30 novembre au 2 décembre 2011, Montréal

https://milieuxdoc.ca/2011/congres-des-milieux-documentaires-corporatif.php?id=13363

Society of American Archivists Webinar – Information Architecture for Electronic Records

February 09, 2012

http://saa.archivists.org/4DCGI/events/313.html?Action=Conference_Detail&ConfID_W=313&Time=33040552

Archive numérique : un parcours à travers administrations et entreprises

9 février – 16 novembre 2012, France

http://calenda.revues.org/nouvelle22064.html

Sur le web / On the web

Podcast – Copyright & Commerce: Orphan Works & Fair Use in a Digital Age

http://beyondthebookcast.com/orphan-works-and-fair-use-in-a-digital-age/

A new website for Asociación Latinoamericana de Archivos

http://www.ica.org/?lid=11961

Audio Slidecast – Creating a Blueprint for Building a National Digital Public Library

http://www.slideshare.net/DigPubLib/1-palfrey-john?from= ss_embed

Outils / Tools

Archiving websites with the Web Curator Tool

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/webarchive/2011/12/web-curator-tool.html

OCLC releases FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) as Linked Data

http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2011/201171.htm

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Canada gets moving on Open Government

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-politics-blog/2011/12/-governments-treasure-the-values.html

Library and Archives Canada – New First World War digitized content available via the Microform Digitization application

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/index-e.html

Charitable donation tax-credit scheme raises many questions

http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/Charitable+donation+ credit+scheme+raises+many+ questions/5841613/story.html

British Columbia – Custody and control of Ministers electronic calendars

http://informationandprivacylaw.com/information-and-privacy-law/public-sector/custody-and-control-of-electronic-calendars/

From the archives: the roots of Calgary’s pathway system

http://blogs.calgaryherald.com/2011/12/09/from-the-archives-the-roots-of-calgarys-pathway-system/

Edmonton – Recognition of the Importance of Archives in Society

http://www.transformingedmonton.ca/index.php/2011/12/13/recognition-of-the-importance-of-archives-in-society/

Ottawa – New archives will be named after Bartleman

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/archives+will+named+after+Bartleman/5860063/story.html?id=5860063&cid=megadrop_story

Dalhousie University – Recent Archival Acquisitions at Archives and Special Collections

https://blogs.dal.ca/libraries/2011/12/15/recent-archival-acquisitions-at-archives-and-special-collections/

Records privatization okayed: Niagara Region opts to hire out management of inactive files

http://www.niagarathisweek.com/news/article/1261586–records-privatization-okayed

Afrique / Africa

Madagascar – Le photographe malgache Dany-Be ouvre ses archives

http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20111211-daniel-rakotoseheno-dit-dany-be-photographe-malgache-ouvre-archives

Amériques / America

Archives Conservation in Haiti, Part 1

http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/archives-conservation-haiti-part-1

Washington seals records that might embarrass insiders

http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/12/washington-seals-records-might-embarrass-insiders/1989516

The C-SPAN Campaign: How Online Video Archives Are Changing the Game in 2012

http://swampland.time.com/2011/12/14/the-c-span-campaign-how-online-video-archives-are-changing-the-game-in-2012/

Data.gov goes global

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/239/2666225/Datagov-goes-global

Eisenhower museum staffer honored by federal archivist for efforts to tell history

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/8c60ac14ed9f4c248f9b4292813cd3 a1/KS–Archivist-Honored/

Washington State Archives – Budget cuts cause concerns over digital record preservation

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Budget-cuts-cause-concerns-over-digital-record-2393399.php

Non-profit uses big data to track big government

http://gigaom.com/cloud/non-profit-uses-big-data-to-track-big-government/

Hollywood firm to help restore Cuban classic films

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/entertainment/2011-12/09/c_131296937.htm

From a shoebox of forgotten tapes, a folk music collection emerges

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/9346223-452/from-a-shoebox-of-forgotten-tapes-a-folk-music-collection-emerges.html

Apple founding papers sold at auction for nearly $1.6m

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16170953

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

Taiwan – National Archives must open files: association

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/12/10/2003520406

India – Digitization of Books at National Library

http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=78705

New Delhi – Researchers to preserve city’s oral history

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/ Researchers-to-preserve-citys-oral-history/articleshow/11066367.cms

Online window to Cambodian history

http://asiancorrespondent.com/71814/online-window-to-cambodian-history/

Treasures of Australia’s past lost from the National Archives

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/treasures-of-australias-past-lost-rare-items-missing-from-the-national-archives/story-fn7x8me2-1226220439496

Australia’s Public Broadcaster (ABC) to Open Access to Digital Archives

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/284553,abc-to-open-access-to-digital-archives.aspx

Digitized archive of Korean War to be unveiled this week

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2011/12/14/13/0301000000AEN20111214000100315F.HTML

Europe / Europa

The discovery of two rare 18th-century books from Amsterdam’s Jewish community has left archivist Stefan Litt looking for answers

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/the-mystery-of-amsterdam-s-jewish-community-1.400730

Suisse – Les archives russes proposées à l’Hôtel des Ventes centuplent leur estimation

http://www.tdg.ch/actu/culture/archives-russes-proposees-hotel-ventes-centuplent-estimation-2011-12-13

Carlos : peut-on croire aux archives communistes ?

http://balkans.blog.lemonde.fr/2011/12/14/carlos-peut-on-croire-aux-archives-communistes/

France – Atos première grande société informatique agréée par le Ministère de la Culture et de la communication pour l’archivage de documents électroniques

http://bourse.lci.fr/bourse-en-ligne.hts?urlAction=bourse-en-ligne.hts&idnews=HUG111214_01571307&numligne=2&date=111214

Charlotte Brontë manuscript bought for £690,000 by Paris museum

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/15/charlotte-bronte-manuscript-paris-museum

Brightsolid data centre handles huge demand for British Newspaper Archive site

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/Living/Digital/article/19588/brightsolid-data-centre-handles-huge-demand-for-british-newspaper-archive-site.html

International Cotton Association Liverpool Record Office to house ‘cotton archive’

http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/textile-news/newsdetails. aspx?news_id=106003

Interactive maps reveal London’s history in unprecedented detail

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2011/12/locatinglondonspast.aspx

Sir Isaac Newton’s handwritten notes about momentous discovery of laws of motion and gravity now available online

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2072992/Sir-Isaac-Newtons-handwritten-notes-laws-motion-gravity-online.html

The Data-Mining’s The Thing: Shakespeare Takes Center Stage In The Digital Age