Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada – Conducting Research on Residential Schools: A Guide to the Records of the Indian and Inuit Affairs Program and Related Resources
Archives de France – Version française du schéma XML EAC-CPF (Contexte archivistique encodé – Collectivités, personnes, familles)
Library of Congress – Federal Government Strategic Sourcing Of Information Products And Services
De la communauté / From the community
Institute of Museum and Library Services – Libraries and Museums in an Era of Participatory Culture
IFLA – Background Paper on e-Lending
OCLC – Lasting Impact: Sustainability of Disciplinary Repositories
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Centuries of Knowledge: Graduate School of Library and Information Science Data Curation Education Program
Publications
RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, vol. 13, no. 1 (Spring 2012)
D-Lib Magazine, vol. 18, no. 5-6 (May-June 2012)
New Review of Information Networking, vol. 17, no. 1 (May 2012)
Review of the National Center for Digitization, no. 21 (2012)
Library Hi Tech, vol. 30, no. 2 (2012)
ISO 26324:2012, Information and documentation – Digital object identifier system
Book – Tracing Your Ancestors from 1066 to 1837
Book – The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
From Reel-to-Reel to MP3: The Challenge of Converting Archival Records
May 23 2012, Nanaimo
Sur le web / On the web
Podcast – Medieval queens in The National Archives (UK)
Video – Historians Reconstruct Thousands of Medieval Documents Bombed in the Four Courts (Ireland)
Vidéo – Les archives à l’heure de la migration numérique
Outils / Tools
PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Schema), version 2.2
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
BANQ – Towards a Pooling of the Archive Collections of Major East Coast Institutions
Bookkeeper gets 20 months for stealing from Opera Lyra, Council of Archives
The cost of open data: A Canadian lawyer’s analysis
Stratford Institute for Digital Media – Digitizing content increases our ability to use it, share it, preserve it
Nunavut ATIPP tips public on their information rights: brochures hitting northern communities on privacy rights and how to seek information
Yukon Archives marks milestone with a book and a new vault
Whistler Answer gets the digital treatment: Will be featured on WHistler Museum Website
Royal Victoria Hospital records safe in McGill archives
Amériques / Americas
U.S. Federal Judge Slows Down Declassification Secret Documents
Ferriero talks role of National Archives
GeoMAPP and the Future of Digital Geospatial Preservation
Vermont – State archivist Gregory Sanford retiring after 30 years
Longtime Nevada state archivist calls Distinguished Nevadan honor ‘pinnacle of career’
Projects Aims to Build Online Hub for Archival Materials
University of Michigan computer and video game archive has lofty goal: collect every game ever made
The Surreal Selling of Man Ray: how a Long Island family with an auto-body shop wound up controlling the artist’s legacy
A Few Minutes with an Archivist (from the Connecticut Historical Society)
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Kashmiri medico launches digital oral history archive
Graffiti Artists Document Indonesia’s Street Art Online
South Australia State Library says thousands of pics out of copyright
New South Wales Government – Our top 10 tips for a great EDRMS implementation
Mutiny on a convict ship: Carpenter’s diary describing how vessel heading for Australia was seized by French soldiers is sold at auction
Australia – Nation’s History in Donated Insurance Archive
Trove of original Abraham Lincoln documents found in Japan
Europe / Europa
EU Ministers Threaten Access to Information
Germany – Agency Chief Says Stasi Archive Should Stay Open
Association des archivistes français – Archives et politique : le fantasme du broyeur
France – Un manuscrit fondateur de Jean Jaurès trouve acquéreur à 178.000 euros
Scotland – £2m facelift for National library storage site
Scotland – ‘Cultural vandalism’ claims as church breaks up archive
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh – Napoleon’s post mortem among documents featuring in new online archive
Introducing Discovery, The UK National Archives’ new catalogue
UK National Archives – Olympic records available online
BBC archive director to move to British Library
Archive films used in pioneering approach to tackling dementia and memory loss
Archives from the pioneers of modern genetics to be brought together for the first time
North Yorkshire County Records Office – Rapid response centre to save archives at risk
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Turkey, Azerbaijan to Cooperate in State Archives
International
Digital and Print: Living in a World of “Both/And”
Bloggers of the World Unite: Rare Book Bloggers and the Links They Build
When digital dies, where does that leave game preservation?
Are we ready for 3D printing?