Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Archives of Ontario annual report 2011-2012
UK – Government Policy Statement: Consultation on Modernising Copyright
De la communauté / From the community
The Preservation of Complex Objects: Visualisations and Simulations
Survey Report on Digitisation in European Cultural Heritage Institutions 2012
International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property – Measuring Heritage Conservation Performance
JISC – TechWatch: Preparing for Data-driven Infrastructure (Draft)
Copac Collection Management Tools Project – Retention and Preservation: Final Report
Publications
Scandinavian Library Quaterly, vol. 46, no. 2, 2012 (Special issue on Digitizing the Scandinavian cultural heritage)
Ngā Tapuwae: the newsletter of Archives New Zealand (June 2012)
IFLA Journal, vol. 38, no. 2 (2012)
First Monday, vol. 17, no. 7 (July 2012)
Afnor – NF Z42-020: Spécifications fonctionnelles d’un composant Coffre-Fort Numérique destiné à la conservation d’informations numériques dans des conditions de nature à en garantir leur intégrité dans le temps
Livre – Introduction à la Loi concernant le cadre juridique des technologies de l’information
Book – Successful Enquiry Answering Every Time (6th edition)
Book – Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America
Book – The Metadata Handbook: A book publisher’s guide to creating and distributing metadata for print and ebooks
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
4th conference Digital Document & Society
April 29-30 2013, Croatia
Society for Imaging Science and Technology – Archiving 2012 (conference proceedings available)
June 12 – June 15, 2012, Copenhagen
Sur le web / On the web
New Library and Archives Canada Film on YouTube
Public Consultation on 2012 modules for MoReq2010
George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum New Website
Video – Linking Library Data to Wikipedia (OCLC)
UK National Archives podcast – Edwardian rollerskating
Slidecast – A Research Agenda for “Obsolete Data or Resources”
Outils / Tools
Unified Digital Format Registry (UDFR) now available
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canada Extends Available Data in Portal
Mounties admit records a mess
Le gouvernement du Québec pose le premier jalon du gouvernement ouvert et lance le portail www.données.gouv.qc.ca
Stampede archives bursting with memories
U.K. archives marks Canada Day by posting historic photographs of Toronto
Montreal – Cummings Centre Archives Project
Maps dating back to 16th century donated to York University
uOttawa library’s French-language collection going digital
Canadian facing jail for ‘breathtaking’ theft of U.S. historical artifacts
UBC Student receives Holmes Travel Award from the Society of American Archivists
Searchable Colchester (Nova Scotia) records now online
Delta (BC) Museum & Archives negotiations
Afrique / Africa
Algeria, France tussle over archives 50 years after split
870 documents sur les relations algéro-yougoslaves remis à l’Algérie par la Serbie
Germany assists Ghana govt to recover burnt data
South Sudan Archivists Battle Rats, Termites, Time
Amériques / Americas
For first time ever, US seeking international limits on copyright
Cost of protecting U.S. classified data doubles over 10 years
Social media bringing National Archives to homes
Library of Congress – Rescuing the Tangible From the Intangible
ALA president responds to Forbes.com post that library and information science is among the worst master’s degrees
Getty Images Draws Initial Bids in Auction of $4 Billion
States, Cities Use Social Networks to Test Open Records Laws and Transparency Goals
Pennsylvania – State destroying online court records, raising debate over privacy, consistency
Colorado state archivist retires after 45 years
New York Judge Overrules Twitter: Tweets Broadcast to the Public ‘Belong to the Public’
Princeton library brings Revolutionary-era texts alive online
Grateful Dead archive gallery opens at UC Santa Cruz
USC Shoah Foundation Institute Completes Preservation Of Holocaust Testimonies
Time running out for African-American collection
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
India likely to buy Gandhi-Kellenbach archive
India – Archives dept roped in to restore burnt Mantralaya files
Fiji – National Archives to Showcase Memory of the World Initiative
New Zealand – Stringent security when Treaty of Waitangi moved
Japan – Historical Recordings Collection now provided to public libraries on a regular basis
Europe / Europa
Germany – Munich researchers discover 500-year-old map of America
Google, Italy’s Luce Archives Plan to Digitalize More Than 100,000 Films
Four held over Spanish medieval manuscript theft
Switzerland – Researchers exploit Montreux’s musical heritage
France – L’Institut national de l’audiovisuel s’ouvre aux archives personnelles des Français
France – Appel: Soutien au Catalogue national des films documentaires
Scotland – Anger over decision to close church archives
Henry Dundas’ private papers bought for Scots archive
British Newspaper Archive Wins Scottish IT Project of the Year Award
UK National Archives – Websites captured in local authority archiving pilot
A view from the counter (the UK National Archives bookshop)
UK National Archives – Marking the centenary of Crown copyright – open government in practice
British Library to pilot St Helena archives digitisation
Photographer launches ‘people’s Olympic archive’
Chariots of Fire 1924 Film Footage Discovered At British Film Institute
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Kuwait Radio receives part of its archives from Iraq
International
Allies With an Eye on Each Other: France and the Library of Congress Start a Media Project
Millions of documents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are now more accessible online
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