Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Archives nationales de France – Projet scientifique, culturel et éducatif pour les années 2013-2016
NARA – 2011 Records Management Self-Assessment Report
De la communauté / From the community
Digital Preservation Coalition Tech Watch Report: Preserving Moving Pictures and Sound
California Digital Library – Unified Digital Format Registry (UDFR) User’s Guide
UK Open Access Implementation Group – Two Reports on the Benefits of Open Access
3e livre blanc – ISO 30300 – 30301 – Système de gestion des documents d’activité
Publications
Journal of Digital Information, vol. 13, no. 1 (2012)
Documentaliste – Sciences de l’information, vol. 49, no. 1, 2012 (Dossier : La curation : entre usages individuels et pratiques professionnelles)
Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (May 2012)
Book – Doing Archival Research in Political Science
Book – Fundamentals of Managing Reference Collections
Book – Heritage Film: Nation, Genre and Representation
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Free webinar – Doing Oral History Interviews: The Basics
Preliminary programs for the International Council on Archives 2012 conference
21-23 August 2012, Australia
Sur le web / On the web
Podcast – Digging for diamonds: hidden histories at The National Archives (UK)
Video lecture series: Sustaining Digital Resources
France – Carte interactive des lieux d’histoire et de mémoire
How You Can Help Launch a Digital Preservation Q&A Site
Outils / Tools
Digital Curation Center – Reviewed Tools and Services Catalogue
FiletypeID (a tool designed to identify file types from their binary signatures)
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Cuts at Library and Archives Canada compilation
Conservatives defend cuts to Archives Canada:
Some comments from Minister James Moore:
Government librarians reactions:
Canadian Library Association statement:
Canadian Historical Association statement:
Blog posts:
Library and Archives Canada Launches Its Immigration Heritage Online Kits
New evidence suggests Cabot may have known of New World before voyage
Alberta court issues important e-Freedom of Information decisions – faculty e-mails not in custody or control
Albertans blocked from obtaining public information, report finds
The Canadian Music Archives Project
Q&A – Patrick Cummins: photographer, City of Toronto archivist
Sudbury – City opens archive building in Falconbridge
Leeds and the Thousand Islands (Ont.) Archive trying to preserve area history
Afrique / Africa
Kigali wants International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda genocide archives
Amériques / Americas
Judge denies freedom of information request to release bin Laden photos
Web Archiving Arrives: Results from the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Web Archiving Survey
Secret files missing at National Archives
In National Archives thefts, a radio detective gets his man
Film Enthusiasts Address the Importance of Rescuing ‘Orphan Films’
ArtBase and the Conservation and Exhibition of Born Digital Art: An Interview with Ben Fino-Radin
Facial recognition to be used in art history research
Occupy Wall Street: From the Streets to the Archives
Oregon – Rare, Once-Lost Pioneer Chinese Immigrant Docs Go Online
Vanderbilt digital archive recovers lost Civil Rights voices
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
India – Panjab University’s rare manuscripts, books to be just a click away — from this year
India – Country’s oldest manuscript out in brand new prints
Philippine – Gov’t backs archive project: private filmmakers may have to submit copies of their films
Taiwan launches Digital Media Development Center
Fiji archives needs money to digitise record
Europe / Europa
Europeana – Extraordinary Personal Stories of World War 1
EU’s top court: application programming interfaces (APIs) can’t be copyrighted, would “monopolise ideas”
Germany – Vast Nazi-era archive says conserving Dachau files
Les archives du cardinal Gomá et la Guerre civile espagnole
France – Découverte: Un brouillon inédit du Petit Prince
France – À qui les archives de Michel Foucault ?
Les archives de Radio France Internationale sauvées par l’Ina
Entretien avec Madame Agathe Sanjuan, Conservatrice-archiviste à la Bibliothèque-Musée de la Comédie-Française
Jersey – Post Occupation Letters Available to the Public for the First Time
UK to make academic research available free on the net
BBC Northern Ireland Archive Footage Now Online
Archivist hunts missing Nestlé films
Oral history’s quiet heroes
Now you can explore John Peel’s record collection: Online archive will allow music fans to explore legendary DJ’s albums and studio
Collection of iconic photographs assembled by Eric and Louise Franck donated to Tate
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Yemen – Parliament approves access to information law
Mahmoud Abbas Seeks Arafat’s Archives in Tunisia
International
Archiving Cell Phone Text Messages
Bit rot: The world is losing its ability to reconstruct history. Better regulation could fix that
Citizens have an appetite for more digital government worldwide, survey shows
Does the future of document management lie in the cloud?
Gone Forever – Dangers and Opportunities for Media Archiving