Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Swiss Federal Archives – Project Ellipse: Concept for the Archiving of Official Geodata under Federal Legislation
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Library Association – Response to Canada’s Action Plan on Open Government
Centre for Law and Democracy – Review of the Nova Scotia Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
Pew Internet – Who’s Not Online and Why
Publications
Journal of Library Metadata, vol. 13, no. 2-3, 2013 (Special Issue: Linked Data, Semantic Web and Libraries)
The Chronicle: Newsletter of the Jewish Museum and Archives of B.C., vol. 19, no. 3 (September-December 2013)
Book – Tracing Your Ancestors Using The Census: A Guide for Family Historians
Book – Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain
Book – The Librarian’s Guide to Academic Research in the Cloud
Book – Bibliographic Information Organization in the Semantic Web
Book – Digital Government at Work: A Social Informatics Perspective
Book – Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice
Livre – La médiation culturelle
Livre – Retrouver un soldat de 1914-1918: et le détail de ses quatre années de guerre
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Sunshine Coast Museum & Archives’ (B.C.) Silent Auction
October 5, 2013, Gibsons
Webinar – Caring for Audiovisual Material
October 16, 21, 23, 28, 30, 2013
The Sedona Conference Working Group On Electronic Document Retention & Production
November 7-8, 2013, Phoenix
Family History and Technology Conference
February 6-8, 2014, Salt Lake City
Personal Digital Archiving 2014 Conference
April 10-11, 2014, Indianapolis
IS&T Archiving 2014
May 13-16, 2014, Berlin
Sur le web / On the web
Archives of Ontario – Franco-Ontarian Resource Page
University of Manitoba Digital Collections
Podcast – Archive Fever
Video – British Library Sound Archive
71 Digital Portals to State History
Video – Audio Preservationist Carl Haber, 2013 MacArthur Fellow
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Census picture far from perfect: neighbourhood left out because of lack of info
Libraries Work Together to Preserve Canadian Federal Government Electronic
New York Times Editorial – Silencing Scientists (in Canada)
The Mountain Legacy Project: An Archive-Based Scientific Project
How a ‘charming’ Halifax researcher stole more than 1,300 historical treasures from unsuspecting galleries
Nova Scotia – Stolen artifacts hoarder pleads guilty to 40 charges
Royal B.C. Museum’s new CEO digs into the Archives for first major revamp of the museum in ’50 years’
B.C. – Archivists unearth forgotten stories of residential schools
Ontario – Huronia institution documents to be shielded by privacy laws
Alberta – Archives become fashionable: local archivist invites public to attend fashion show based on archives
Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française de l’Université d’Ottawa – Partenariat avec les Archives publiques de l’Ontario
Ojibwa author Basil Johnson donates papers to McMaster University
Historic records lost in Grand Forks (B.C.) city hall fire, officials fear
Regina – Prince of Wales library branch celebrates a century of service
Cramahe (Ont.) – Archival collection has plenty to offer
Afrique / Africa
Timbuktu’s ancient manuscripts to get a new digital existence
Ghana’s Poor Record-Keeping Malaise…A Recipe For Mischief
The Canadian effort for a Liberian library: McMaster student builds a library in his homeland
Amériques / Americas
Trinidad & Tobago – Ministry to work with Inter-American Development Bank to upgrade National Archives
Guatemalan Court Convicts Former National Police Chief: Archive Analyst Testifies on Key U.S. Documentary Evidence
Haïti-Archives Nationales : le nouveau support sécuritaire sera disponible à partir du 1er octobre
NARA To Software Vendors: Help Government Rethink Records Management
World’s Largest Stamp Gallery to Open in Washington, D.C.
JFK 50: iPhone app offers archival coverage of Kennedy assassination
How photographer’s daughter rebuilt JFK archive
Google Battles to Prove its Book Digitization Is Actually Legal
Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis Announces Launch of Rhode Island State Archives Online Catalog
US nearly detonated atomic bomb over North Carolina: secret document
Mississippi newspaper archives to be digitized
Trove of Michigan folk music unearthed in archive
Morgan Museum to Make Its Entire Collection of Drawings Available Online
Lost ‘Steve Jobs Time Capsule’ From 1983 Found & Excavated
Stanford asks court to help clarify ownership of Chiang Kai-shek archives
Hip-Hop Archives has a Home at Harvard University
Dell-Led Trio to Donate Magnum Photo Archive to University of Texas
University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives bring history to life with scrapbooks and social media
Preserving the Catholic history of the archdiocese of Atlanta
After decades in a basement, Emily Carr’s Alaska diary sees the light of day
Lost Part Of Film History Found In Barn: Important Mary Pickford Movie Found, Restored
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
New Zealand – Historic newspaper archive publishes three millionth page online
Professor races against time to preserve Japan’s video game culture
Polytechnic in Singapore rolls out records management system
Taiwan – Transport documents to be displayed
Central State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Pakistan – Department of Archives library being digitalised
India – Political disdain and lack of professional leadership plague National Archives
India – Archives to digitize copies of 200-year-old newspapers
Europe / Europa
‘Hitler’s Reign Of Terror,’ First U.S. Anti-Nazi Film, Found In Belgian Film Archive Cinematheque
Saving the Ludwig von Mises Papers: How the Holocaust Museum Helped Uncover a Nazi Treasure Trove in Moscow
Restoring the Nazi-decimated heritage of Lithuanian Jews
Dedicated Archive to be Created to Commemorate Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Games
1st Succeed hackathon at KB National Library of the Netherlands
Crowdsourcing at Amsterdam City Archives, Netherlands
État de Genève (Suisse) – Il pleut dans les Archives: l’État va enfin les reloger
Copy of Napoleon’s will to go on sale in Paris this November at the Drouot auction house
French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s works, personal items sell for $1.3M in New York auction
France – La Rochelle : 4 tonnes d’archives à sauver après l’incendie de l’hôtel de ville
Irish Roots: The Land Commission’s forbidden fruit
Ireland – 1916 Rising digital-archiving project: Trinity College Dublin calls on public to upload old letters and photos
Development underway for shared national library services in Scotland and Wales
UK – How to uncover state secrets through archival research
BBC criticised over children’s archive
Crowdsourcing the World Service Radio Archive: an experiment from BBC R&D
British Library – A map discovery hidden in a 17th century portrait
Archive documents reveal changing dynamic between UK and the Gulf
Leeds Metropolitan University Online Archive Widens Access To University’s Heritage
The False Memory Archive: Artist A.R. Hopwood is carefully collecting all the lies people tell themselves
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Egypt – 2,000 artifacts stolen since 2011 revolution, minister warns
Is Iraq Entitled to the ‘Jewish Archive?’
International
Why you need social media recordkeeping
Outsource Your Memory, With an App
Crowdsourcing Technology Offers Organizations New Ways To Engage Public In History
Just How Much of Musical History Has Been Lost to History?
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