Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Prince Edward Island Public Archives 2014 Almanac
Library of Congress – Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Graphics)
UK Intellectual Property Office – Copyright Works: Seeking the Lost (Consultation on Orphan Works)
De la communauté / From the community
Mémoire conjoint Association des archivistes du Québec et Réseau des archives du Québec déposé à la Société Royale du Canada
Sustaining Domain Repositories for Digital Data: a White Paper
Association des professionnels pour l’économie numérique – Archivage sur le cloud : pratiques et perspectives
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Three Linked Data Vocabularies
Article – Content-Aware Surface Parameterization for Interactive Restoration of Historical Documents
Publications
Journal of Western Archives, vol. 5, no. 1 (2014)
Information Management, vol. 48, no. 1 (January / February 2014)
D-Lib Magazine, vol. 20, no. 1-2 (January / February 2014)
Chroniques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, no 69 (janvier-mars 2014)
Maple Ridge Historical Society (B.C.) Family History Newsletter (January 2014)
Book – Digital Preservation for Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Book – Education, Values and Ethics in International Heritage: Learning to Respect
Livre – La valeur heuristique de la littérature numérique
Book – Archive Photography: how to Photograph Oversize Photos Curled Documents, and Heirloom Treasures
Livre – Loi sur la protection des renseignements personnels dans le secteur privé (2e édition)
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta – Creating our Community Album
January 22, 2014, Calgary
Webinar – eDiscovery Year in Review: Focus on 2013
January 29, 2014
Research Data Canada Eighth Webinar
February 5, 2014
Things to Remember: Materializing Memories in Art and Popular Culture
June 5-6, 2014, Nijmegen (Netherlands)
The Holocaust in Eastern Europe in the Records of the International Tracing Service Digital Archive
July 28 – August 1, 2014, Washington, D.C.
Public History in a Digital World: The Revolution Reconsidered
October 23-25, 2014, Amsterdam
Sur le web / On the web
Prince Edward Island Public Archives and Records Office – This Week in 1864
Heritrix (Web Crawler Designed for Web Archiving) 3.2.0
Slidecast – Building Research Data Management Infrastructure in Canada from the Bottom-up
A National Agenda Bibliography for Digital Asset Sustainability and Preservation Cost Modeling
Linking to Objects From Finding Aids
UK National Archives Podcast – Hidden treasures? Uncovering Maps among the Files of Government
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Documents reveal secret space plans
Canada unveils plans to commemorate the World Wars (LAC will publish “100 Canadian Stories” and digitize 640,000 records from the First World War)
A chronological account of chaos & consolidation at the Department of Fisheries & Oceans libraries
Canada’s librarians question Tories’ policy of closing government-run libraries
The stealing of our collective memory
Federal government’s library-closing policy comes to Halifax
Interview with a librarian and archivist at Acadia University: should we protect libraries and archives or are they a thing of the past?
Creating a Manitoba First Nations Archives: Next Steps
Les jugements, arrêts et délibérations du Conseil souverain de la Nouvelle-France : encore plus accessibles
Obituary – K.B. Sterling, Archivist, Legislative Compliance and Access Unit, Saskatchewan Archives Board
Ontario Jewish Archives gets audiotapes of 1970s leaders
This Week in Jewish Public Library History: The Rare Book Collection
Thief plotted course through continent’s rare maps
University of Texas at Austin abandons Olympics archive project as court battles build (with McGill University)
University of British Columbia – Announcing another archival donation: the Douglas Rickson fonds
Ryerson University Archives and Special Collections – Forgotten Amusements
Vintage colour photographs of Toronto at night
Kitchener library wants you to adopt WWI soldiers
Guarding the gateway to Burnaby’s history
Alberta letter returned 94 years later
200 histoires pour le 200e de Drummondville (campagne de sensibilisation au don d’archives)
Colchester Historical society (N.S.) celebrates 60 years
White Rock (B.C.) history buff discovers WWII ship in Deas Slough
Northumberland County (Ont.) Archives temporarily closed due to flooding
Belleville (Ont.) – Community archives move soon
André Gareau, président, Association des archivistes du Québec : Réflexion sur la contribution de l’archiviste en soutien au travail de l’historien
Afrique / Africa
Tanzania – Government incurs loss due to archives misuse in Iringa Region
South Africa – A box of lost memories, a journey long forgotten
Amériques / Americas
St. Kitts National Archives Emails Historic Gems
Haïti – Séisme/4 ans : Des pertes irremplaçables, une partie de l’histoire contemporaine toujours en danger
Haïti – Identification : Vers une modernisation des Archives Nationales ?
Literary Archives at the University of Guyana
Library of Congress digs into 170 billion tweets
December 2013 Declassification Deadline Passes – And?
CIA and the National Archives Present Newly Declassified Documents Detailing Life in the Shadow of the Berlin Wall
John F. Kennedy Library Releases Letters to Jackie After Assassination
FBI Document Bandits Reveal Themselves More Then 40 Years Later
Alaska – Archivists to provide consultations under program
Archives collect and store Minnesota history
Message From the North Carolina Division of Archives and Records (about the recent destruction of local records stored in Franklin County’s courthouse basement)
Tape of 1962 Martin Luther King speech found in New York state archives
Duke University has acquired a very rare manuscript copy of the Haitian Declaration of Independence
My Photo Archiving Find of a Lifetime: How I Found Hundreds of Civil War and Old West Photos in an Attic in Vermont
Civil War Archive to Go on Sale
Holocaust Geographies Collective Explores Visual History Archive
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
New Zealand – Digital archive failure hits First World War commemorations
Kangaroo in 400-year-old manuscript could change Australian history
Philippines – Grace Poe calls for files backup for government documents
Japan’s State Role in Wartime Sex Slaves Documented
Japanese biological warfare crimes documented
India – ‘The 1947 Partition Archive’ starts online crowd-funding to preserve the fading memories of the world’s largest mass human displacement
Europe / Europa
RESAW: Research infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web materials
Hungary – KDNP (Christian Democrats) calls on Socialists to hand over communist era files
Bosnia opens library to house ancient manuscripts that narrowly survived war
Nearly all German National Library metadata now available under CC0 license
Belgique – Archives de l’État : argent débloqué
Suisse – Simplifier l’utilisation du certificat numérique
France – Les archives des victimes de conflits depuis un siècle
Bibliothèque nationale de France – Fuite d’eau dans les magasins du département Littérature et art
France – Les lettres d’amour de Marie-Antoinette à son amant bientôt rendues publiques
France – Chateaubriand : un manuscrit inédit, qui a échappé à l’autodafé, aux enchères
Records of 49,000 Irish WWI dead in new digital archive
Ireland – New digital archives store tales of 1916 Rising volunteers
Scotland – Former Herald art critic donates huge archive to students
UK National Archives – First World War diaries go online to mark centenary
British Library – Done! 2,700 maps georeferenced by volunteers
UK profited from East German forced labour, Stasi archives report claims
Academics consider legal action to force Foreign Office to release public records
The map that saved the London Underground
Historical images of women using scientific instruments
Black Watch soldier secrets revealed after century wait
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Iraqi Jewish Archive controversy aired at Jerusalem forum
New archives enhance Armenian Jerusalem history project
http://www.reporter.am/go/article/2014-01-15-new-archives-enhance-armenian-jerusalem-history-project
International
Soon: International Committee of the Red Cross Records of WWI Prisoners of War
The downfall of digital storage
Writers’ wills: a rich legacy for readers
2014: The year of encryption
Dropbox and Uber: Worth Billions, But Still Inches From Disaster
Scattered Leaves: on Trail of a Dismembered Book
Internet permanence: down the memory hole
Do I need to wear gloves in the archives? A helpful flow chart