Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Suisse – eCH-0160: Interface de versements d’archives (SIP)
De la communauté / From the community
ACTI – Data Management Glossary
Book Industry Study Group – Best Practices for Identifying Digital Products (Revised Edition)
Public Records Resources Online: How to Find Everything There Is to Know About “Mr./Ms. X” (Updated version)
Article – Intégrité, signature et processus d’archivage
Training in Digital Preservation: what we’ve learned and what we’re going to do about it
Publications
Heritage: the Journal of the Jewish Archives & Historical Society of Edmonton & Northern Alberta, vol. 15, no. 2 (Winter 2013)
City of Richmond (B.C.) – Archives News, vol. 18, no. 1 (Spring 2013)
South Peace Regional Archives Newsletter, vol. 4, no. 2 (March 2013)
À rayons ouverts: Chroniques de BAnQ, no. 91 (hiver 2013)
Book – Improving the Visibility and Use of Digital Repositories through Search Engine Optimization (SEO): A Library and Information Technology Association Guide
Book – International Life Writing: Memory and Identity in Global Context
Book – Workplace Culture in Academic Libraries: The early 21st Century
Book – Teaching History in the Digital Age
Book – Freedom of Information: Local Government and Accountability
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Social Media In Small Archives Workshop
April 15, 2013, Oshawa
Exhibit – The Face of the Ghetto: Pictures by Jewish Photographers from the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-1944
Until March 17, 2013, York University, Toronto
Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group 12th International Meeting
May 22-24, 2013, Washington
Online Course – Digital Content and Social Media Copyright Issues
March 18 – April 8, 2013
Webinar – Acrobat XI and PDF/A Standards: Long Term Preservation of Documents
Sur le web / On the web
Archives de Montréal 1913-2013
International Committee of the Red Cross – Archive Room (for the 150th anniversary of the Committee)
Manuscripts Online (online primary resources relating to written and early printed culture in Britain during the period 1000 to 1500)
Video – Fmt/known…? Problems with format identification at New Zealand National Library
Video – Hardware and soft skills: surveying scientific personal papers in the digital age
UK National Archives podcast – Reckless, Rash and Repentant: Convicts Petitions for Mercy 1819-1858
Outils / Tools
Web Archiving Integration Layer
HTTP framework for time-based access to resource states – Memento (new version)
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Feds dispute Canada’s poor global ranking in freedom of information
Drastic Cut at Library and Archives Canada
National Gallery of Canada cuts 29 positions to balance budget
Building repairs put Alberta records in temporary limbo
Vancouver – The Map and Plan Digitization Project
University of Toronto – Recent acquisiton: Petition to Queen Anne reviewing the Hudson’s Bay Company’s claims against the French
One of the leading war photographers of the 20th century exhibits his “art” at the National Gallery
The Oldest Known Photos of Toronto
Editing Canada: help British Library’s Team Americas and Wikimedia with a new digital collection
Aurora (Ont.) artifact collection could cost $200K per year
Afrique / Africa
The Role of Archives in Nation Building: Preserving Sudan’s documentary heritage
Zambia – Freedom of Information Bill will be presented to Parliament in June
Archives nationales à l’étranger: l’Algérie signera des conventions avec plusieurs pays pour récupérer sa mémoire
IFLA – International Meeting of Experts on the Safeguarding of Mali’s Cultural Heritage, UNESCO Headquarters, 18 February 2013
Amériques / Americas
White House – Expanding Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research
Transforming the National Archives: A Conversation with David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States
Hiding in public: How the National Archives wants to open up its data to Americans
Judicial Watch Sues National Archives Challenging the Withholding of Robert F. Kennedy’s Department of Justice Records
Navy to Close Archives if Sequestration Occurs
Justices consider Virginia limits on access to public records
Smithsonian Now Using Archive-It to Crawl Websites
Lest we forget: The arcHIVe Project
SCLC civil rights archive exhibit opens amidst ‘3/5’ controversy at Emory University
Columbia University acquires Elfquest comic archives
Immigrant Archive Project showcases the ‘real’ immigrant experience
Not-so-secret atomic tests: Why the photographic film industry knew what the American public didn’t
Photographic Artifacts of Black Civil War Troops
Iconic Photographer Lee Miller Estate To Publishes Online Archive
Born Digital Folklore and the Vernacular Web: An Interview with Robert Glenn Howard
“The Digital Data Backbone for the Study of Historical Places”: An Interview with Matt Knutzen of the New York Public Library
Disney’s Ex-Archivist Sues Company for Firing Him Over Sexual Harassment Tale
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Australia – Public servants baulk at Freedom of Information changes
India – 50 archival beauties to raise fund for deaf kids
Europe / Europa
Jewish group rejects Putin’s suggestion to house disputed archives in Moscow’s Jewish Museum
Russian Helicopters Marks 90 Years oF Russian Civil Aviation with Unique Archive Photos
Rare Polish color home video from 1938 found in Florida closet shows laughing children in a shtetl
Dutch libraries not to lend e-books
Malta – Restoration of documents to begin at the Notarial Archives
Suisse – L’École polytechnique de Lausanne va numériser les archives de Venise
Association des archivistes français – Au nom du droit à l’oubli, quel patrimoine pour l’Europe de demain ?
Accords Bibliothèque nationale de France sur la numérisation : informations complémentaires
Ireland – Infamous Dunmanway diary found in military archives
Edinburgh through the ages shown in new archive
Documenting LGBT history across the UK
The British Library georeferencing website puts historic maps in their place
Slave Owner Database: UK University Makes Online List Of British Who Owned Slaves
U.K. family archive site offers 2.5M crime records to track down family ne’er-do-wells
Oxfam donates archive to the Bodleian Libraries
BT makes digitised version of its archive available online
The map London has in its head
Rare poem written by 13-year-old Charlotte Brontë goes on sale
Lost Rudyard Kipling poems published
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel – Knesset archives go digital
International
Facebook reveals plan for new archival data centre
Disappearing Ink: What will happen to all the books?
Beyond a href: Preserving Flash-driven Art
Experts tout nanotechnology to preserve cultural treasures