Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
National Archives of Australia – Digital Continuity Plan
France – Rapport d’information sur les enjeux européens de la numérisation de l’écrit
De la communauté / From the community
Orphan Works: Mapping the Possible Solution Spaces
Digital Curation Centre – Digital curation and the cloud
JISC – Value and benefits of text mining
Publications
Journal of European Television History and Culture, vol. 1, no. 1, 2012 (Special issue: Making Sense of Digital Sources)
International Journal of Digital Curation, vol. 7, no. 1 (2012)
D-Lib Magazine, vol. 18, no. 3/4, March/April 2012 (Special issue on Web archives)
Restaurator: International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material, vol. 33, no. 1 (March 2012)
Microform & Digitization Review, vol. 41, no. 1 (March 2012)
Book – Libraries and the Enlightenment
Book – Managing Organizational Knowledge: 3rd Generation Knowledge Management and Beyond
Book – Understanding Digital Humanities
Book – The Nineteenth-Century Press in the Digital Age
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Archives Society of Alberta Conference – Verne Harris, “Nelson Mandela and Reckoning with Pasts and Futures”
May 23 2012, Calgary
http://archivesalberta.
Sur le web / On the web
UK National Archives Podcast – Finding your family in Canada
Nouvelle interface de recherche de BANQ – Images : le patrimoine visuel québécois en 50 000 reflets
New blog – Irish Jesuit Archives
NARA Open GOvernment Idea Forum
Podcast – The nature of electronic records
Outils / Tools
ChronoZoom Beta (Interactive Timeline Database and Open-Source Software)
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Copyright bill hits the home stretch
Aboriginal Affairs exploiting loophole in Access to Information legislation
Bibliothèque et Archives Canada resserre ses critères de préservation
New Brunswick – Bank ledger from 1800s restored: historic ledger was later used as a scrapbook
Nainamo – Unearthing lost Johnny Cash archive ‘cathartic’ for manager’s son
Montréal, mémoire vive des pires atrocités du monde
Calgary music store buys entire music archive of CBC Calgary
Nicola Valley Museum Archives Association (B.C.) wants to preserve local mementoes
Cambridge (Ont.) – New Hall of Fame may raise archives profile
Reduced Cobourg Archive hours could cause hardship, says archivist: Northumberland County to take over local archive operations
Council confirms one year of rent relief for North Grenville Archives
Afrique / Africa
Rwanda: Archives for UN Genocide Tribunal to Remain in Arusha
Burundi : un ministre plaide pour le rapatriement des archives se trouvant en Allemagne et en Belgique
Amériques / Americas
The Fight for Freedom of Information in Chile
U.S. Government can’t keep up with information requests
Justice backs new category of secret gov’t files
Library of Congress – Unlocking Sounds of the Past
National Archives chief unlocks secrets
Google Begins to Scale Back Its Scanning of Books From University Libraries
Nixon love letters go on display
Huge Digital Archive of African American History Now Available Online
Digitize the Afro American Newspaper Using Open Source Robot
Fashion History, Just a Click Away
Lakeland woman is thought to be the only carillon librarian in the world
Devoted movie poster collector sees an art form waiting to be discovered
Rare witch document expected to sell for thousands
Denver Public Library launches new site to digitize neighborhood histories
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
$200M annual storage costs drive Australia’s digital transition
Korea – Restoring classics
Europe / Europa
Poland – New documents from the archives of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington
Google will form partnership with Belgian ‘paper internet’ museum
Time to Come Clean on Shoah Role: French Train Company Faces Pressure To Open WW II Archive
Ireland – Auction of ‘Gusty’ Spence archives casts new light on UVF’s secret talks with IRA
Scotland – Historical Catholic archive items may be sold off
Open Education Metadata UK (OEM-UK) has started
UK – Free access to 65,000 19th century books for HE users
The British Library releases the first ever audio CD of Shakespeare spoken in the original pronunciation
Project Barcelona to see BBC open archive for downloads
First World War digitisation project off to a flyer as crowds flock to museums roadshow
Laser ‘unprinter’ wipes photocopied ink from paper
Bletchley Park tweet saves Alan Turing computing papers
M&S archive moves to Leeds university
Literary legends brought to life in publisher’s archive
Earliest Charles Dickens film uncovered
Using web archives to preserve the past
450-year-old Royal letter sells for £5,000
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
The Turkish Army’s Gay Porn Archive
Bahrain – Press Archives Inaugurated
Egypt – The angry librarians of Alexandria
French Embassy Officials in Tehran Burned Diplomatic Archives
Iranian library, Indian university sign MOU
International
National Libraries and a Museum open up their data using CC0
Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage: The Objectives Are Upside Down
Big data and the end of theory?