Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
United States – Second Open Government National Action Plan
India – e-Governance Standard for Preservation Information Documentation (eGOV-PID) of Electronic Records
India – Best Practices & Guidelines for Production of Preservable e-Records (PRoPeR)
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision – OAIS Compliant Preservation Workflows in an AV Archive
State Records Office of Western Australia – General Disposal Authority for State Government Information
De la communauté / From the community
From Silence to Memory: Report on the Guatemalan Police Archives (now in English)
Collaboration to Clarify the Cost of Curation: Evaluation of Cost Models and Needs & Gaps Analysis (Draft)
Ithaka S+R – Stop the Presses: Is the Monograph Headed Toward an e-only Future?
Society for the Philosophy of Information – The Philosophy of Information: An Introduction
OCLC – Starting the Conversation: University-wide Research Data Management Policy
IFLA – Statement on Libraries and Text and Data Mining
Article – The InterPARES Trust Project – Trust and Digital Records in an Increasingly Networked Society
Publications
Journal of Visual Culture, vol. 12, no. 3 (The Archives Issue)
The Electronic Library, vol. 32, no. 1 (2014)
Provenance: the journal of Public Record Office Victoria, no. 12 (2013)
Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 40, no. 2 (December 2013 / January 2014)
Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (December 2013)
Archivistorique: journal des archives municipales de Béthune, no. 13 (premier semestre 2014)
MIS Thesis – Government Cloud Computing Strategies: Management of Information Risk and Impact on Concepts and Practices of Information Management
Book – The Archive Effect: Found Footage and the Audiovisual Experience of History
Book – Delivering Research Data Management Services: Fundamentals of Good Practice
Book – Web-Scale Data Management for the Cloud
Livre – Les archives audiovisuelles
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Massive Open Online Course – Library Advocacy Unshushed: Values, Evidence, Action (University of Toronto)
Starting February 24, 2014
Free online Course – CopyrightX
Spring 2014
Webinar – Achieving Thresholds for Discovery: Addressing Issues with EAD to Increase Discovery (Recording Available)
December 5, 2013
Getting Started in Digital Preservation (Presentations Available)
December, 6, 2013, London
Webinar – Certification of Digital Preservation Repositories (Video and Slides Available)
December, 9, 2013
Video: http://youtu.be/ZNvBVUQDXWY
Sur le web / On the web
UNESCO publications now freely available through a new Open Access Repository
Video – NARA: Guidance on Managing Social Media Records
Video – Steven Spielberg at the National Archives
Podcast – Talk with Kate Theimer, Achivist, Writer, and Editor
Vidéo – Storification automatique de vidéos
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Screen-printed underwear, outdated safety videos among items illegally using copyrighted government material
Conservatives resist move to change PMO policy on deleting e-mails
Government of Canada Acquires Historically Significant Documents About the 1758 Siege of Louisbourg
This is the First Ever Photo of Canada
Dismantling of Fishery Library ‘Like a Book Burning,’ Say Scientists
University of Manitoba – Scientists go fishing for old documents
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/scientists-go-fishing-for-old-documents-234554691.html
The Canadian Historical Association writes to the Acting Archivist of Canada on Whole-of-Society-Approach
The Canadian Historical Association and Bill C-7: Bill to Amend the Museum Act
Archives of Ontario and the World War 1 Centenary
Idolizing Riel, MP Gene Rheaume helped Métis (and one of Louis Riel’s diaries) find a place
Ford donates Yousuf Karsh photos to Art Gallery of Windsor
New Edmonton Public Library digital space boasts 3D printers, book-printing machine
Banff Centre’s literary and publishing programs to focus on disseminating content
Mennonite Archives of Ontario – Lorraine Roth’s collection finds archival home
Le patrimoine de la MRC de Drummond mis en valeur
White Rock Museum & Archives (B.C.) renews appeal for more funds
Quebec family reminisces over 74-year-old National Geographic photo
LaSalette (Ont.) – Shedding light on church’s history
Medecine Hat (Alb.) – Old directory perfect for archives
Afrique / Africa
A rare look inside Nelson Mandela’s personal archive
Mali – Archives nationales : un besoin de fomation permanente
Tunisie – Pour l’ouverture immédiate des archives nationales
Amériques / Americas
Haiti quake destroyed or damaged 60 years of archives
Cayman Island – Government record keeping ‘troublesome’
US – The War On Military Records: The Era of Big Data has Arrived on the Battlefield and we Need to Find New Ways to Deal With it
Using Search Tools to Declassify Presidential Docs: Starting with Reagan’s
Slowly They Modernize: A Federal Agency That Still Uses Floppy Disks
Appointing the first Historian of the National Archives
Layers of meaning at National Archives’ ‘Records of Rights’
Turn up the volumes: the efforts to reconstitute Thomas Jefferson’s library
Robert F. Kennedy’s Papers: Finally Open to the Public
Hospital Donates Records of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to JFK Library
National Geographic opens its cartography archive with Google Maps Engine
The Artful Accidents of Google Books
Vermont’s history frozen in time, space
http://www.stowetoday.com/stowe_reporter/community/article_58961772-5de0-11e3-aab4-001a4bcf887a.html
Crossing the River: An Interview With W. Walker Sampson of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Missouri University College of Education Partners on Digital Archive to Capture Struggle Against Apartheid
George Mason University to host C-SPAN’s historical archive
Preserving Indiana University’s classic movie archive presents a ‘reel’ challenge
University of Texas in Austin – Academic library stockpiles heavy metal for future study
Pioneering Photographer Robert Cornelius Credited With World’s First Selfie c. 1839
Immigrants and the Great Recession: A do-it-yourself historical archive
1960s and 70s American “third camp” socialist archives now online
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
New Zealand – Government digital archives $10 million blowout
New Zealand – Rare Shackleton Antarctic photos unveiled
Hong Kong’s colonial era records remain intact
India – Pak Punjab government to digitise land records
Europe / Europa
National Library of Norway – What is being digitized?
16th-century Book of Hours looted by the Nazis could become the world’s most expensive book
Confiscated Histories: Access to ‘Sensitive’ Government Records and Archives in France
France – La Cour de cassation adopte la signature électronique
Un ensemble exceptionnel de lettres de François 1er et de son entourage rejoint les collections des Archives nationales de France
France – Les manuscrits médiévaux de la bibliothèque municipale de Chartres sont en ligne
France – 100 ans d’archives du Théâtre des Champs-Elysées sont en ligne avec un nouveau portail numérique développé par Jouve
France – La bibliothèque de Nantes dévoile un manuscrit inédit de Jules Verne
Scottish passports planned in sixties, archive reveals
Historic Book of Aneirin put online by National Library of Wales
UK – Law Commission seeks change in law to protect archive stories from Contempt of Court action
UK prepares to launch internet archive without internet access
How the UK’s national memory lives in a ROBOT in Kew
UK National Archives – First accredited archive services announced
Preserving the online reaction and comments on Nelson Mandela’s passing, as part of the UK web archive
British Library – Political party web archives
Britsh Library hits one million Flickr images
Fascinating archive of WWII propaganda posters shows how Britain boosted morale at home and abroad
Oxford and Cambridge to jointly purchase ancient Jewish archive
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Iraq – How did Saddam seize the Jewish archive?
International
IFLA, ICA and UNESCO – Towards a Sustainable Information Society: Collaboration on the Vancouver Declaration
Social Media as a Primary Source: A Coming of Age
Historians and Web Archives
3-D images, with only one photon per pixel
24 fun and practical gifts for archivists