Vol. 5, no. 30

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State
National Library of Australia – Trove: the terrors and triumphs of service-based social media
Public Record Office Victoria – Recordkeeping Implications of Social Media

De la communauté / From the community

JISC – Future Proofing: enabling practical preservation of born-digital records
La gouvernance documentaire dans les organisations françaises
Law Society of Scotland – Cloud Computing: Advice for the profession

Publications
Journal of the Society of Archivists, vol. 33, no. 1, 2012 (Special Issue: Community engagement and the Olympic and Paralympic Games)
Records Management Journal, vol. 22, no. 1 (2012)
The Reference Librarian, vol. 53, no. 2 (2012)

JISC Inform, no. 33 (Spring 2012)
British Standards Institution – PAS 198:2012 – Specification for managing environmental conditions for cultural collections
Booklet – Save As…: Basic Rules for Digital Preservation

Book – Managing Canadian Electronic Records: Electronic Records Management, Document Management & E-Discovery in Canada

Book – Publishing, Digital Information and Society: New Models of Information Production, Distribution and Consumption
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
4-7 October 2012, Barcelona

Semantic Technologies & Linked Data for Digitized Collections (video available)
March 7, 2012, New York

The book: history and practice workshop (video available)
March 12, 2012, Dublin 

Sur le web / On the web

Library and Archives Canada Podcast – The Lest We Forget Project

UK – New website for the archives sector launched

Archives Portal Europe (final version)
Video – CNI: Crowd Sourcing Metadata

Video – Oublier l’oubli : mémoire et traçabilité numérique
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Budget – National museums, Canada Council spared cuts, Library and Archives, NAC, NFB, Telefilm see reductions over 3 years
Judge upset by RCMP records backlog
 
New Irish Famine documents shed light on incredible nuns and priests in Canada
Afrique / Africa
Amériques / Americas
Justice accused of hindering multi-agency Freedom of Information Act website
Archives crowdsources advice on federal e-records management
National Archives Announces Discovery of “Hitler Albums” Documenting Looted Art
California – Council Votes To End Implementation Of $1.9 Billion Court Records System
Florida – Digitalizing Duval courthouse making up for loss of manpower, clerk of court says
San Francisco State University’s Labor Archives and Research Center earns RUSA award for preservation and promotion of labor history
 
An Archival History of Women’s Education at Harvard
Getty gets NEH grant to organize huge contemporary art archive
Transmissions from The Timothy Leary Papers: Applying Archival Processing
 
Unpublished Letters Written by Ernest Hemingway Made Available for the First Time by JFK Library
“Empire Strikes Back” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark” Visual Effects Producer Thomas Smith donates collection
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

Malaysia – National archives to digitise collections

Europe / Europa

European Computer and Video Game Archives and Museums Joining Forces to Preserve Gaming Legacy
Spain moves toward freedom of information law amid widespread disgust over corruption
Dutch Broadcaster Releases Footage for Re-use
Historians call for faster access to Václav Havel archives
France – Échec de la vente d’un manuscrit de Jean Jaurès faute d’offre suffisante
France: Law on Digital Exploitation of Unavailable Books
UK – Government consults on revised archive plans for ‘non-print’ content
UK National Archives – Discover more than 300,000 naturalisation records
British Film Institute National Archive acquires over 20,000 COI films
Make your history part of Kent’s history
Victorian Newcastle brought to life in photographic treasure trove
Exeter Cathedral: How do you move 70,000 archives?

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

International