Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Canada’s Action Plan on Open Government
UNESCO – Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access
Institut français d’éducation – Architecture de l’information, architecture des connaissances
World Bank – Open Access Policy for Research and Knowledge, Open Knowledge Repository
De la communauté / From the community
Organizing Digital Information for Others: How to Organize Webpages and Shared Documents to Improve Findability
Orphan Works: Causes of the Problem
Publications
Culture & History Digital Journal, vol. 1, no. 1 (2012)
Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (April 2012)
Livre – Bibliothèques numériques : logiciels et plateformes
Livre – Utilisation des images d’archives dans l’audiovisuel
Book – The New Professional’s Toolkit
Book – Lester J. Cappon, Pioneer Public Historian
Book – Archivists, Collectors, Dealers, and Replevin: Case Studies on Private Ownership of Public Documents
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Call for Contributions – iPRES 2012: the ninth annual conference on digital preservation
October 1-5 2012, Toronto
Webinar – Archival Materials: Using RDA with DACS
May 30, 2012
Webinar – What does tagging have to do with a taxonomy?
April 18, 2012
Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists – “Let’s Go for a Beer”
May 2, 2012, Saskatoon
Sur le web / On the web
Interview – Garry Shutlak, Senior Archivist at the Nova Scotia Archives – Titanic
Video – Keeping Our Stories Alive: Canadian Lesbian + Gay Archives
Slidecast – Better Cross-Channel Experiences With Metadata
Outils / Tools
Crowdsourced Transcription Tool List
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Democracy watchdog, Opposition say Tory open government plan falls short
Library and Archives Canada – Vimy Ridge images now on Flickr
Vancouver’s history goes digital: 5,000 photos from more than 70 years being posted online for library
Titanic: Budget crunch forced Vancouver museum to sell rare photo
Kitchener – Region’s archives contain pearls of local history
Cobourg – There’s a future in archives
Afrique / Africa
Despite information law, Nigeria still largely refuses to release government data
Call to preserve the ancient manuscripts of Timbuktu and Mali
Timbuktu librarians protect manuscripts from rebels
Amériques / Americas
Bermuda Archives receives dozens of records for preservation
A Colonial WikiLeaks? The Migrated Archives and the Caribbean Pt.1
NARA to Issue Records Management Directives by July
NARA eyes a shared scanning hub in the cloud
Linking libraries, museums, archives: U.S. archivist says interactivity must rise because users demand it
Movie Studios Are Forcing Hollywood to Abandon 35mm Film. But the Consequences of Going Digital Are Vast, and Troubling
Coalition On Political Assassinations, in Washington,D.C., believes gov’t records hide details surrounding King assassination
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Opens Archives
New York Public Library’s plan to take books off shelves worries scholars
New York Public Library’s Massive Digitization Project Begins
The Boston Globe Launches Photos “From The Archives”
Ford Foundation Files Reveal Insights on Culture
Archives of American Art contributes to Syracuse University Library’s Marcel Breuer digital archive
Doak Ewing is baseball’s biggest private film archivist
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
India – Helping faded pages turn a fresh leaf
India – Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal’s archives go digital to aid academic research
Pakistan – Lutfullah preserves 5,000 plus voices
Historical exhibition handed over to Seychelles National Archives
Japan – Digital images of official gazettes from the Meiji Era are now available on the Internet
Europe / Europa
Archive Reveals New Details Of Holocaust In Moldova
Spanish couturier Cristobal Balenciaga’s personal archives on show for first time
Yuri Gagarin’s Falsified Record
Vatican and Oxford University share ancient texts online
Scotland – Titanic discovery: Victim’s letter discovered in national archive
Sixty years of Irish history captured in photographic archives
Ireland’s film archives set for new research centre at NUIM
UK – True cost of university Freedom of Information requests revealed
Medieval Monastic Library of Lorsch recreated online
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
‘Silent Holocaust’ finds its voice: Wartime documents tell story of lost Soviet community
International
Ancestry.com Releases Comprehensive Collection of Titanic Records Available Online
The Challenge of Teaching Personal Archiving
Gloves or no gloves? The archivist’s dilemma
Survey: Email archiving heads to the clouds
YouTube founders’ new project will help you publish your own digital magazine