Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
NARA – Automated Electronic Records Management: Managing Government Records Directive (Draft for Review)
The Unintended Consequences of Privacy Paternalism
Archives de France – Préconisations relatives au tri et à la conservation des archives des délégués du Défenseur des droits
UK National Archives – Triennial Review Findings on the Advisory Council on National Records and Archives
Hong Kong Office of the Ombudsman – Direct Investigations into the Access to Information Regime and Public Records Management
See also: http://www.scmp.com/business/article/1453449/yet-another-damning-report-government-archives
UK Parliament – Freedom of Information and Ministerial Vetoes: House of Commons Library Standard Note
De la communauté / From the community
The State of Digital Publishing in Canada 2013
4C Project – Quality and Trustworthiness as Economic Determinants in Digital Curation
Info Kit – High Level Digitisation for Audiovisual Resources
Durable Architectural Knowledge Project – Current State of 3D Object Digital Preservation and Gap Analysis Report
A Modest Proposal for Improving Access to Archives and Other Records
Institut français – Humanités numériques : état des lieux et positionnement de la recherche française dans le contexte international
Publications
D-Lib Magazine, vol. 20, no. 3-4 (March-April 2014)
À rayon ouvert: chroniques de Bibliothèque et archives nationales du Québec, no. 94 (Hiver 2014)
The Journal of Electronic Publishing, vol. 17, no. 1 (Winter 2014)
Maple Ridge Historical Society (B.C.) Family History Newsletter (March 2014)
eBook gratuit – Pratiques de l’édition numérique
Book – Using Primary Sources: Hands-On Instructional Exercises
Book – Outsourcing Technology: a Practical Guide for Librarians
Book – The Myth of Piers Plowman: Constructing a Medieval Literary Archive
Book – Proactive Data Mining with Decision Trees
Book – Perspectives on Privacy: Increasing Regulation in the USA, Canada, Australia and European Countries
Livre – Ancêtres paysans : mieux les découvrir à travers les archives
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Hidden Treasures: Celebrating 100 Years of Yiddish Song and Montreal Poets
March 30, 2014, Montreal
Council of Archives New Brunswick Annual General Meeting 2014
May 23, 2014, Fredericton
Colloque international archives / déplier l’histoire
25 avril 2014, Bruxelles
Scottish Records Association Conference on Common Lands and Common Good
November 6, 2014, Linlithgow (Scotland)
Archives 2.0: Saving the Past, Anticipating the Future
November 25-26, 2014, Bradford (UK)
Sur le web / On the web
Video – Historic photographs donated to University of British Columbia
See also: http://news.ubc.ca/2014/03/18/1-2m-ubc-photo-collection-offers-priceless-glimpse-into-b-c-history/
National Archives of Australia – Forced Adoption History Project
Podcast – Head of Archive and Library at the UK National Maritime Museum : Current and Future Roles and Challenges for Archives
UK National Archives Podcast – Spies like us: The secret life of Ernest Oldham
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Conservatives painting Government of Canada website blue, organizing by themes not departments, NDP says new look obscuring sensitive facts
Info czar loses key case over Defence delays
Information act ‘terribly outdated,’ NDP MP says
Court of Queen’s Bench of New Brunswick – Screencap of Facebook conversation is “electronic document” under the Evidence Act
Commission des relations du travail du Québec – Une bande vidéo est un document technologique
Why is this the most popular archival photo in Toronto?
Go back in time: Vintage Toronto photos shared on Twitter
University of Waterloo – New collections open for research
Grande Prairie (Alb.) – City Hall exhibits mark centennial
Hythe (Alb.) historians honoured by South Peace Regional Archives Society
The Examiner donates archives to Westmount (Que.)
Courtenay and District Museum (B.C.) – Photos in the Attic?
Québec – Sortir l’archiviste de l’ombre (Partie 3)
Afrique / Africa
Google Cultural Institute launches 1st Nigerian historical archive in partnership with Pan African University
Netia, Archives du Monde, Digitize Togo’s Audio Treasures
Les archives royales aux archives nationales de Madagascar
Mali launches an inventory of intangible cultural heritage
Mali – Le délicat sauvetage des manuscrits de Tombouctou
Amériques / Americas
Signings of times: US archives show history by pen
The Menace of Overclassification
Editorial: Keep Alaska’s archives in Alaska
Maryland man may have found two lost or forgotten photos of Lincoln’s funeral procession
State Dept. seeking ways to keep access open to Iraqi Jewish Archive
Archiving project earns Oregon Heritage Excellence Award
Ohio State gives cartoon history a big new home
Digital project archives personal accounts of Boston Marathon bombing, aftermath
Behind the Scenes at the Coca-cola Archives
Resident jazzes up University of Nevada, Las Vegas vinyl archive with 10,000 records
Find teacups, manuscripts and sex toys in California State University, Northridge’s Special Collections and Archives
University of California, Berkeley hires first Wikipedian-in-residence
Story Corps: Preserving Family History, One Memory at a Time
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
New home for John Howard (former Australia Prime Minister) collection at University of New South Wales
Australia – Welcome the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office to The Commons (Flickr)
National Archives of the Philippines issues guidelines to facilitate systematic records recovery after disaster
Ancient Prescriptions From Tibet
China restricts academic access to historical archives
Polynésie française – Trésors archivistiques : Musique pa’umotu des années 30
Taiwan – Les archives de la fondation Awakening versées au fonds documentaire de l’Université Tamkang
Europe / Europa
A European Journey: The Archives Portal Europe
Activists, Soldiers Move to Protect Libraries in Ukraine
Ukraine maps chart Crimea’s troubled past
Apocalypse la 1ère guerre mondiale : des archives exceptionnelles
Slovenia – Commission Calls for Responsibility for Destruction of SDV (Yugoslav-era secret service) Archives
Russian Defense Ministry develops WWI website
Vatican Library digitizing its archives and will put them online
Armenia’s National Archives to Compile List of Genocide Victims
Negatives Go Digital for Romanian WWI Army Photographer
Italy – Gucci Opens its Archive to the World
La Belgique va rendre des caisses d’archives à l’Allemagne
France – Affaire Buisson : l’Elysée prié de récupérer les enregistrements, “archives publiques”
France – L’art contemporain aux Archives Nationales de Pierrefitte
Ireland launches project to bring together its digital collections
Christy Brown letters, photos and poems to remain in Ireland
National Library of Scotland – Historic maps now online for every town in England and Wales
UK – Govt extends Freedom of Information rules to more private firms
UK – Latest batch of archive services receive accreditation
Swansea are first university archives in UK to meet gold standard
UK Foreign Office excludes public from its public records day
The British Library acquires two rare manuscripts preventing them from leaving the UK
Lost poems of Douglas Adams and Griff Rhys Jones found in school cupboard
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Syrie : César, le mystérieux archiviste des tortures du régime
World’s largest collection of Dead Sea Scrolls to get new home in Jerusalem
Cleveland foundation announces gift to Israeli archaeological archives
Copyright as Censorship: Turkey’s Prime Minister Copyrights his Recorded Calls to Get them off YouTube
Ban Ki-moon regrets no progress on Kuwaiti remains, archives
Afghanistan – Government Ministries, Administrations Should Submit Historic Documents to National Archive
International
Cloud archive pros and cons and the questions to ask providers
Web archiving: an antidote to ‘present shock’?
Bit rot: the Internet never forgets, or does it?
International Ediscovery: Best Practices Around the World
Golden Age of Discovery … Down in the Basements
How To Extract Sheet Music From YouTube Videos