Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Presentation by the National Archives of Australia Director-General – The digital reality: optimising government business in a digital world
De la communauté / From the community
Digital archives: from ingest to availability
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Linked Data Platform 1.0
Article – From Information to Progress : How an Audit of Electronic Information Management May Contribute to the Overall Efficiency of an Organization
Publications
Journal of Archival Organization, vol. 10, no. 2 (2012)
Restaurator: International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material, vol. 33, no. 3-4 (October 2012)
Silhouettes: The Associates of the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Newsletter, no. 34 (2012)
Broadsheet: the Schottish Council on Archives newsletter, no. 19 (October 2012)
ISO 19005-3:2012 – Document management – Electronic document file format for long-term preservation – Part 3: Use of ISO 32000-1 with support for embedded files (PDF/A-3)
Book – Powering Search: The Role of Thesauri in New Information Environments
eBook – Publishing and Using Cultural Heritage Linked Data on the Semantic Web
Book – Digital_Humanities
Livre – L’archiviste et autres histoires
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Cultural Heritage Archives: Networks, Innovation & Collaboration
September 26-27, 2013, Washington D.C.
Library and Archives Canada, Ten Years After the Merger (video available)
October 3, 2012, Vancouver
National Declassification Center Public Forum (video available)
August 29, 2012, Washington D.C.
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Video – The Out of the Trenches: A Linked Open Data Project
Now in English – France Overseas Territories Archives Website
UK National Archives Podcast – Remembering Samuel Coleridge Taylor; African British musician and pan-Africanist
Video – Digital Initiatives Forum Opening Session with the State Librarian & Library of Congress Digital Archivist Trevor Owens
Podcast – Interview with Astrid M. Eckert (author of The Struggle for the Files: The Western Allies and the Return of German Archives after the Second World War)
Outils / Tools
T-PEN: A New Tool for Transcription of Digitized Manuscripts
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Library and Archives Canada – Queen Victoria’s Journals now available at 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa
Lettre du président de l’AAQ aux quotidiens La Presse et le Devoir concernant les archives des politiciens
Centre d’archives de la Mauricie et du Centre-du-Québec – Une exposition sur la dynastie des architectes Caron
University of Victoria – Transgender Archives call for material
University of Alberta – Old books hide even older secrets from Middle Ages
Calgary – Bow Valley College records found for nearly 200,000 people on recycled computer server
Afrique / Africa
South Africa – Is the National Film, Video and Sound Archives in a Position to Preserve our Audio-visual Heritage Properly?
Burkina Faso – Hamidou Diallo, DG des archives nationales : « Avant, les gens ne savaient pas ce que sont les archives ni où les trouver »
Amériques / Americas
Virgin Island – Public records dispute goes to court today Obstructing the public’s right to know
U.S. Copyright Offices Continuing Work on Orphan Works Problem With Public Inquiry
NOAA, National Archives team up with citizen-scientists to reconstruct historical climate of the Arctic
National Geographic to auction part of massive archive for first time
News of yesteryear: Online archive of digitized historical newspapers hits 5 million pages
Kentucky governors’ executive journals now available in digital format
Texas Archives Commission to loan Travis ‘victory or death’ letter to Alamo
L.A. Public Library inherits treasure of maps
Yale University – Archivist an expert on all things ‘born digital’
Thomas Edison Audio: Recording From 1878 Unveiled
St. John’s library begins placing historic manuscripts online
A Few of the Best LGBT History Archives in the U.S.
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
India – Film preservation still ignored; even `Sholay` hasn`t been archived
Vietnam, Laos Boost Archives Management Cooperation
Sydney Opera House to be digitally recorded by team of Scottish experts
Europe / Europa
Vienna Jewish community denies losing case to retrieve archive documents
Netherlands – Officials gave millions of death registrations to Mormon church
‘Irreplaceable’ Nazi-era documents stolen from Danish archives
Photograph links Germans to 1915 Armenia genocide
Guernsey Occupation Museum plans archive
Young Henry VIII revealed at National Library of Wales
L’Institut national de l’audivisuel ouvre des accès libres à ses archives en région
Minister Deenihan launches National Archives documents relating to Northern Ireland conflict on CAIN (Conflict Archive on the INternet)
Ireland – Abbey Theatre archive to go online
UK National Archives – Newly released MI5 files include early Cold War diaries
UK – The National Archives of…where, exactly?
British Film Institute to digitise Royal film collection
Introducing the British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
Filed under ‘B’ for bomb? Museum makes an explosive discovery in its archive
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Network preserving photo heritage of Middle East
International
UN sides with law enforcement over data retention
Digital preservation: preserving heritage and protecting civil rights: Interview with Anne Thurston, International Records Management Trust
‘Collect the WWWorld’ attempts to archive the internet through art
Ancestry.com sells for $1.6B to private-equity firm
Mythbusting: Records management
Archival future of the history of science
A Vibrant Past: Colorizing the Archives of History
The is of the Digital Object and the is of the Artifact