Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
U.S. National Information Standards Organization – Updated Recommended Practice on SERU: A Shared Electronic Resource Understanding
France – Avis du Conseil national du numérique relatif à l’ouverture des données publiques
De la communauté / From the community
AIIM – Forms Processing: user experiences of text and handwriting recognition (OCR/ICR)
The Age of Exabytes: Tools and Approaches for Managing Big Data
Free ebook – Linked Data Patterns: A pattern catalogue for modelling, publishing, and consuming Linked Data
IFLA – Data driven futures – censorship takes new forms
Publications
Off the Record: E-magazine of the Archives and Records Association Section for New Professionals
Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (June 2012)
Thesis – Long term preservation of product lifecycle metadata in OAIS archives
Book – Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Book – The Archivists’ New Testament: An Archival Arrangement of the Documents of the New Testament
Book – Records and Information Management Surveys: The Alpha and Omega
Library Technology Report – Linked Data Tools: Connecting on the Web
Book – Rare Book Librarianship: An Introduction and Guide
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Telling stories with data: SLAIS presentations
June 15, 2012, Vancouver
Séminaire L’information-documentation au coeur des collectivités locales (présentations disponibles)
25 mai 2012, Paris
Sur le web / On the web
New web portal – Open Metadata
Global Philatelic Library
Video – The Daguerreotype: Photographic Processes
Video – Digital Curation Centre: Managing Research Data
Video – Gay Archives Project
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Library and Archives Canada – D-Day images now on Flickr
Budget Cuts Threaten Access To Information, Watchdog Says
Record collector buys CBC Vancouver’s vinyl motherlode
Lake Country (B.C.) Museum digitizes its archival records
Nanaimo archives in crisis after feds cut grants
Feds help out Cortes Island (B.C.) Museum & Archives
Framing Canada: the work of William Notman
Entretien avec Denis Beauregard, pionnier de la généalogie en ligne
Afrique / Africa
Algérie – Le Directeur du Centre National des Archives, Abdelmadjid Chikhi confie : «Les archives appartiennent au territoire sur lequel elles ont été produites»
Blue Shield Statement on Mali
Rwanda – Un document compromettant enterré dans les archives de l’ONU
Amériques / Americas
Guatemalan Government to Dismantle its “Archives of Peace”
Jamaica – Scotiabank-Gleaner Archival Exhibition Rolls Into St Ann
Web Archiving and Mainstreaming Special Collections: The Case of the Latin American Government Documents Archive
The Library of Utopia (a Harvard-led group is launching its own sweeping effort to put literary heritage online)
Library of Congress – Picturing the War of 1812
Report of first doctor to reach shot Lincoln found
Long-sealed Watergate documents may be released
The state of open records laws: Access denied
Maine launches first-in-the-nation medical image archive
Vietnam soldier’s letters make it home
New interactive database lets Stanford scholars map a mindset
Stonewall National Museum & Archives Stores America’s LGBT History
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. Visits Chinese Military Archives
Pakistan – Archival collections contribute to formation of nation’s collective memory: Yaseen Anwar
India – A treasure trove from history
India – 70,000 files declassified by external affairs ministry
Europe / Europa
Historical archive Sarajevo makes cooperation with historical archives from Belgrade and Ljubljana officials
German National Library Linked Data Service now includes dumps for downloads
Rare Napoleon letter in English goes on sale
France – Afghanistan : le combat des archives
France – Rêve d’archives, archives de rêve
Online archive showcases Wales’ high streets of yesteryear
Ireland – Minister for Arts and Heritage Jimmy Deenihan to move on heritage mergers
Scotland to strengthen freedom of information legislation
Helping hedgehogs to cross the road – games in the UK Government Web Archive
University of Greenwich releases online wartime memory archive
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Egypt – National Archives to acquire Mubarak trial documents after case closes
International
Human Computation and Wisdom of Crowds in Cultural Heritage
Can Governments Keep Up Their Open Data Initiatives?
In the War of the Maps, Google’s Secret Weapon Is Offline Access
The Internet now has 340 trillion trillion trillion addresses