Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
State of the Holdings: The Condition of Analogue Holdings at Library and Archives Canada
For The Record: Yukon Archives 1972–2012
UK National Archives – Records collection policy (draft)
U.S. National Declassification Center – Fifth biannual Report
De la communauté / From the community
IFLA, EIFL and CLA joint intervention before the World Intellectual Property Organization Standing Committee on Copyright and related rights
Association des archives de l’Ontario – Archeion pour archivistes (version française)
Electronic Discovery Reference Model XML White Paper
UK Heritage Lotery Fund – Using digital technology in heritage projects
Compilation – Records of the Scottish Poor
Publications
D-Lib Magazine, vol. 18, no. 7-8 (July-August 2012)
Museum Practice (Special Issue on New approaches to archives)
Historical Social Research, vol. 37, no. 3 (Special Issue: Controversies around the Digital Humanities)
Mémoire d’avenir: en direct des Archives nationales de France, no. 10 (Juillet – septembre 2012)
La Gazette des archives, no 225 (2012)
IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Sections newsletter (July 2012)
Book – Heritage Under Siege: Military Implementation of Cultural Property Protection Following the 1954 Hague Convention
Book – Tracing Your Prisoner of War Ancestors: The First World War
Livre – Sécurité de la dématérialisation: de la signature électronique au coffre-fort numérique, une démarche de mise en oeuvre
Book – The Past Is a Moving Picture: Preserving the Twentieth Century on Film
Book – Image Processing and Analysis with Graphs: Theory and Practice
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
International conference – Dublin Core and Metadata Applications
September 3-7 2012, Malaysia
Slavery in New France, an Exhibit at the Montréal Archives Centre
July 17 to August 26, 2012, Montreal
Exhibit – Of Prairies, Pens and Poets: Celebrating Manitoba Writers on the 30th Anniversary of the Manitoba Writers’ Guild
July 16 – August 24, Winnipeg
Sur le web / On the web
Vancouver, Then & Now Mobile App
National Library of Australia podcast – Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Ford discusses his new book Canada and his writing life
Baladodiffusion de la CNIL (France) – Publication d’archives publiques sur internet: quelles conséquences pour la vie privée?
Video – Wikimania 2012 Closing Plenary by David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States
Outils / Tools
Inventory of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in the Cultural Heritage Domain
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
2.4 million Ontario voter records missing
#history #dilemma: Social media proving difficult for archivists
Victoria’s early history bursts from the archives
Edson (Alb.) – Local vets take part in archive project
UBC – Unpacking the Douglas Coupland fonds: a new acquisition and a new project
Tracing your family history takes time, effort and money: how to avoid barking up the wrong tree
Afrique / Africa
Preserving Algeria’s audiovisual memory: EU-funded project putting digitized archives online
Swaziland – Govt working on effective record managing, archiving system
Kenyatta National Hospital records go digital
Amériques / Americas
That plan to archive every tweet in the Library of Congress? Definitely still happening
MIT Economist: Here’s How Copyright Laws Impoverish Wikipedia
U.S. Department of the Interior Deploys OpenText Cloud-based Enterprise Content Management Solution
Historian unveils one of the few surviving audio recordings of blast from 1950’s Nevada tests
Volunteer transcribers preparing letters to and from Lincoln
Alaska – Famous carver Amos Wallace’s documents headed for public archive
Connecting the Dots: Issues with Preserving Complex Websites
Op-Ed: Jewish groups must preserve vital records
Stanford Oral History Comes Alive
Silent film thought to be lost is restored by the Oklahoma Historical Society
One Family’s Personal Digital Archives Project
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Malaysia – Police to recover insurgency-era battle records from Britain
Malaysia – National Archives To Use Films To Nurture Patriotism Among Younger Generation
Pakistan, China ink agreement for cooperation in archive
Australia – Defence personnel’s personal secrets revealed in archive files
Europe / Europa
Heritage scandal: Italy shuts down national sound archives
Italy – Vivaldi’s lost masterpiece is found in library archives
350 millions de documents dans les archives de l’Arménie
Public Consultation on New Dutch Freedom of Information Law
Suisse – La bibliothèque de Zurich achète une carte de 1635
France – Une réseau de musées consacrés à la Résistance vient d’être créé afin d’enrichir leurs archives
Scotland – Pressure grows on Church over archives controversy
U.K. Government confirms transition to 20-year rule will begin from 2013
Free access to British scientific research within two years
UK Web Archive in the eyes of scholars
British Museum to display Robben Island copy of Shakespeare’s works
Canterbury Cathedral and University of Kent in bid to preserve unique historic collection
Canterbury Collection of 128,000 images now available for online research
Closure of forensic archive a ‘shambles’, experts warn
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Iraq rejects US offer to restore half of seized Jewish Archive: report
Israel State Archives – Scanning and digitizing in Hebrew
The British Library and Qatar Foundation unveil project to digitise half a million pages of archive material
International
Why a link between MoReq2010 and the OAIS model would benefit both records managers and archivists
How can museums preserve our digital heritage?
Is This the Most-Viewed Photo of All Time?
La révolution de la photographie vient de la conversation
Preserving Online Science: Reflections
Project Gutenberg Launches Repository for Self-Published Works