Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Newfoundland Information and Privacy Commissioner – First Report under the Personal Health Information Act
Bibliothèque nationale Suisse – Rapport annuel 2011
De la communauté / From the community
Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of Science Network – Report on peer review of digital repositories
Final Report of the Persistent Digital Archives and Library System
2012 Data Breach Investigations Report
International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property – Protecting Cultural Heritage in Times of Conflict
W3C – Open Annotation Core Data Model
Publications
Archival science, vol. 12, no. 2 (June 2012)
Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, vol. 8, no. 2 (2012)
Journal on Data Semantics, vol. 1, no. 1 (2012)
First Monday, vol. 17, no. 5 (May 2012)
Book – Past or Portal? Enhancing Undergraduate Learning through Special Collections and Archives
Book – Information Storage and Management: Storing, Managing, and Protecting Digital Information in Classic, Virtualized, and Cloud Environments (2nd edition)
Livre – Mémento de l’information numérique
Book – The Laughing Librarian: A History of American Library Humor
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
International Internet Preservation Consortium 2012 General Assembly (presentations available)
April 30 – May 4, 2012, Washington DC
Heritage Matters Workshop (presentations available)
6 May 2012, Texas
National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators – Presentations from the 2012 E-Records Forum
April 25-26 2012, Texas
Sur le web / On the web
MemoryBC Policies page
Video – Contextual Futures: The Meaning, Structure, and Use of Archival Description
Korean Film Archive YouTube channel (with many films available for free streaming)
Outils / Tools
Swiss Federal Archives – Package Handler: Creating, examining and validating digital packages
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Looming layoffs ‘toxic’ for Public Service morale (include interviews with two LAC employees)
Library and Archives Canada – New digitized reels: War of 1812 Records
Ontario moves toward digital court records
Newfoundland and Labrador – French culture collection coming soon; Digital archive to contain three decades of material
Manitoba artists find inspiration at the archives
University of Victoria launches archive website
Finnish-Canadian collection donated to Clara Thomas Archives
Vancouver pair make name for themselves by restoring lost music history
Toronto Star publishes digital archive of Ernest Hemingway columns
Altona (Manitoba) – Bringing the past to the present
Amos – La Coop IGA Extra veut refaire ses archives
Afrique / Africa
South Africa – Archives on mission to market its role
Tunisie – Les archives de Ben Ali, quand parleront-elles?
Anglican Communion – Kenya: Appreciating History
Algérie – Préservation du patrimoine archivistique : Des chercheurs envisagent la création d’une école itinérante
Amériques / Americas
Digital Preservation Network launched by US Universities
Judge to Decide Fate of Authors Guild Class Action Against Google
Telling Tales: Joe Lambert from the Center for Digital Storytelling
Life-Saving: The National Software Reference Library
In a sweeping reform, New Jersey aims to become first to craft state e-discovery rules for criminal cases
Physicists Store Short Movie In A Cloud of Gas
Wyoming – Searching for Stan Lee in the vault
Syracuse University Library Plastics Collection expands online presence
Black history ‘undertaker’ loses treasures
Auction Preview of D&D Co-Creator’s Personal Collection and Archives
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
India – Modernisation of National Archives
India – Treasure trove of political secrets
India – Raj pictures found in shoe box at Edinburgh national collection
India – Preserving songs from fragile records for posterity
Australia – Without easy access to records, we’re history
Laws blamed for Australia’s ‘climate of secrecy’
Japan – Gov’t finds map of Iwoto Island’s underground bunkers
Europe / Europa
Vatican’s Secret Archives? There’s an App for that
The Lost Papers of Vatican II
Belgique – La Bibliothèque Royale prête avec ses archives numériques de journaux 1831-1950
Les archives de René Girard données au département des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Spiders on the web: Archiving UK Government websites
UK National Archives – Perceval assassination papers published online
British Council announces digitisation of over 120 unique films from its own archive
War archive mission finds Hitler postcard
Black history archive project set back by collapse of building firm
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel’s National Library director pledges to place disputed Kafka manuscripts on Internet
National Library: Iran’s best culture center, Ahmadinejad
International
The Case for PDF/UA
Ask an Archivist
Tale of the tape: How IBM ushered in the age of digital storage
Should your GLAM (gallery, library, archive or museum) be on Pinterest?
Why Publishers Don’t Like Apps
What Will Become of the Paper Book? How their design will evolve in the age of the Kindle