Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
UK National Archives – Archives for the 21st Century in action: refreshed
De la communauté / From the community
Educopia Institute – Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation (pre-print)
The Economic Impact Evaluation of the Economic and Social Data Service report
Council on Library and Information Resources – The Problem of Data
Paper – Scholarly digital curation in 140 characters
Publications
Feliciter, vol. 58, no. 4 (August 2012)
Book – The E-copyright Handbook
Book – Cultural Policy, Work and Identity: the Creation, Renewal and Negotiation of Professional Subjectivities
Book – Building a Better Chinese Collection for the Library of Congress
Book – How to Photograph Historic Structures and Sites
Book – The Guardian of All Things: The Epic Story of Human Memory
Book – Collect and Record!: Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Links that Last (presentations available)
19 July 2012,Cambridge
Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting Study Workshop (presentations available)
12 July 2012, Brussels
Sur le web / On the web
Le site d’Archives Yukon est maintenant bilingue
Nouveau blogue – Les Archives nationales de France à Brisbane
UK National Archives podcast – Colonial lives, careers and policies: researching printed papers of the British colonial governments
Video – The German National Library’s 100th Birthday
Video – Opening Up the Archives: New Kinds of Metadata
Punch Card Reader
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Archives cataloguing state of Canadiana
Archival Hudson’s Bay Co. film restored, tours Canada
Fixing an ‘archivist’s nightmare’: meet the first caretaker of Victoria’s history
Vancouver – “Conversations with Khahtsahlano” is available online
Photo exhibit portrays early Jewish immigrants to Toronto
Mapping privacy concerns – Your data crosses borders without your knowledge
New project brings war to Oshawa
Canadian-Controlled Ebook Infrastructure Project Progressing
Nancy Gadoury (from Canada) joins the 2012 Flying Reporters team at the International Council on Archives 2012 congress
Amériques / Americas
NARA – New Proposal for the General Records Schedule (GRS)
At the Archives, guards are ready for the ‘National Treasure’ questions
National Archives’ railroad records hold research gems
Air Force officer creates database of every U.S. bomb dropped since World War I
FBI Files Go Digital, After Years of Delays
Yet another Marilyn Monroe mystery: Where are her ‘censored’ FBI files?
Prognosticating Digital Preservation Infrastructure: Finals Results from the NDSA Storage Survey
The Rhizome: A Museum Preserving Our Digital Culture By Collecting Internet Artworks
New Boston College Website of Digitized Rare Books Explores Jesuit Missionaries in China
Hollywood’s “Most Important Photo Archive” Will Go to Auction
University of Hawaii Hilo’s online Hawaiian archive largest of its kind
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Taiwan – Government tries to save ‘live’ history
China – Guardians of Nanjing Library’s old books
Philippine – Danny Dolor: Collector turned film archivist
State records authority of New South Wales – Key digital recordkeeping enquiries July 2012
Europe / Europa
Germany – Wagners at war: Opera family in feud over composer’s Nazi past as they’re asked to carry out ‘moral house cleaning’ and publish Hitler letters
Sweden – First of 56 Books Stolen by Thief Who Killed Himself in 2004 Finally Located
Suisse – Le Comité International Olympique ouvre ses archives des Jeux Olympiques
Guyane française – Il conservait les archives chez lui
France – Des archives photographiques du Herald Tribune sous le marteau en novembre
ICA celebrates the 2012 London Olympic Games with the London Metropolitan Archives
Files reveal brutal treatment meted out by British forces in 1950s Cyprus
UK – Cabinet Iraq papers to remain secret
UK National Archives – Second tranche of colonial administration records released
Museum of London Will Use Twitter To Gather Public Experience Of Olympics
Imperilled archive seeks new fearless champion
Close The 17th-Century Paper Social Network
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel – A High Holy Whodunit: The Aleppo Codex Mystery
International
The Participatory Museum
Big data is our generation’s civil rights issue, and we don’t know it