Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Government of Canada – Digital Privacy Act
Government of Canada – Digital Canada 150
Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada – Interference with Access to Information: Part 2
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec – Aide-mémoire pour la gestion des documents municipaux
European Commission – Standardisation in the Area of Innovation and Technological Development, Notably in the Field of Text and Data Mining
National Archives of Australia and Public Record Office Victoria – Walata Tyamateetj: a Guide to Government Records about Aboriginal People in Victoria
De la communauté / From the community
National Information Standards Organization – Revised Recommendations for Knowledge Bases and Related Tools
American Library Association – Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries, Librarianship, and Book Culture (Spring 2014)
Memoriav: préserver le patrimoine audiovisuel – Rapport d’activité 2013
AVPreserve – Embedded Metadata in WAVE Files: a Look Inside Issues and Tools
PDF Association – Matterhorn Protocol 1.01
Publications
Archives and Records, vol. 35, no. 1 (April 2014)
Journal of the Institute of Conservation, vol. 37, no. 1 (2014)
Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture, vol. 43, no. 1-2 (March 2014)
Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, vol. 7, no. 1 (April 2014)
Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 40, no. 4 (April/May 2014)
Chroniques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, no. 70 (Avril-juin 2014)
Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (April 2014)
Book – Identity Palimpsests: Archiving Ethnicity in the U.S. and Canada
Book – Re.act.feminism no.2: a Performing Archive
Book – Library and Information Science: a Guide to Key Literature and Sources
Book – The Library Juice Press Handbook of Intellectual Freedom: Concepts, Cases, and Theories
Book – Developing Analytic Talent: Becoming a Data Scientist
Book – Managing and Sharing Research Data: a Guide to Good Practice
Book – Hong Kong University Memories from the Archives
Livre – Cartes postales du Québec : identification et guide de valeurs
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Canadian Conservation Institute Workshop Calendar 2014-2015
April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015, Various locations accross Canada
Webinar – What Would an Ideal Digital Preservation Technical Registry Look Like?
April 17, 2014
Webinar – Writing a Sustainability Plan for your Digital Resource
April 25, 2014
Developing an Information Culture in Federal Agencies
May 13-14, 2014, Washington D.C.
Heritage and Memory: Revising Scopes and Means of Physical and Digital Preservation of Holocaust Documentation
September, 8-10, 2014, Jerusalem
International Institute for Archival Science Autumn Archival School
October 20-27, 2014, Trieste (Italy)
Sur le web / On the web
Council of Archives New Brunswick – CANBArchives 2.0
Canadian Government Documents Digitization Registry
Video – The British Library’s Sound Archive
Here & Then: British Newspaper Archives New Mobile App
Slidecast – Pinterest & Facebook for Heritage Institutions
Podcast – Guatemala’s Police State Archive
Baladodiffusion – Google gagnera-t-il la bataille de la bibliothèque numérique ?
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Critics complain Ottawa could have gone further with digital policy
Canada Gazette Publishes its Last Print Issue
Sir John A. Macdonald: rare and intriguing treasures from the vaults of Library and Archives Canada
Oshawa Port Authority added to the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act
Nova Scotia Archives – New Digitized Map Resource for Onsite Researchers
How Western University got its weather data
I cracked the code at the Western University library
Dalhousie Libraries University Archives Receives $100,000 for the Borgese Collection
McMaster University – A Life Revealed in Archives
University of Toronto Acquires Major Collection of Photographs by Allen Ginsberg
Montreal – Visual arts: a romp through the Powerhouse archives
Looking into the Arrow Lakes Historical Society (B.C.) archives
Grey Roots Museum and Archives (Ont.) seeks help to bring war medal home
Ontario – Digital archives could preserve Brighton’s history
Meet The Archivist: Jennifer Weymark, Oshawa Community Museum (Ont.)
Meet the Archivist: Sarah Ferencz, Whitby Archives (Ont.)
Meet the Archivist: Leah-Ann Logel, Port Hope Archives (Ont.)
13 Questions with… Chantal Lareau (Information Management Policy Analyst, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat)
Afrique / Africa
Rwanda – Polaroid archive a documentation of country’s lost children
Une station de numérisation des archives offerte à la Télévision Tunisienne
Amériques / Americas
Does Massive Backlog Mean the Freedom of Information Act Is Failing?
Experts advise not rushing to meet digital records deadline
Library of Congress – Technology saves echoes of past from silence
NARA plans online public access to relocated Alaska archives
Historians gain some ground in fight to keep records in Alaska
That Harvard Book Bound in Human Flesh isn’t Actually Bound in Human Flesh
The riddle of the Voynich Manuscript
City Archives preserves Boston Marathon memorial artifacts
Amid civil rights commemorations, archives of civil rights icon Rosa Parks remain in warehouse
New York City Adds 30,000 Photos to Online Archive
Toyota helps preserve piece of American history
History of boxing takes shape in unique Las Vegas vault
Maine – Historic photographs of schooner Bowdoin now online
Historian of Golf Legend Bobby Jones Donates Research Collection to Emory Library
Newly Digitized Photo Archive Takes a Personal Look at Cesar Chavez and the Farmworker Movement
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
First Australian to head International Council on Archives
Australia – National Film and Sound Archive faces job cuts from efficiency dividend
Wired Hong Kong doesn’t understand the true value of information
http://www.scmp.com/comment/article/1463130/wired-hong-kong-doesnt-understand-true-value-information
Hong Kong – Government must stop dragging its feet on an archives law
Law firm’s archives shed light on the tycoons of Hong Kong’s past
Japan – “Astro Boy” creator Osamu Tezuka collection added to Google historical archives
Sri Lanka – Film, Television and Soundtrack archiving becomes a reality
Fiji – Instruments of Independence recovered at National Archives
Fiji – National Archives step up on awareness
How Kashmir lost 1400-year old Gilgit manuscripts
Europe / Europa
The Court of Justice of the European Union declares the Data Retention Directive invalid
Italy to Crowdsource Hunt for Stolen Art via an App
Netherlands – Digital archaeologist in Amsterdam unearths internet history
Netherlands – Rare film footage shows Rotterdam before the bombardment
Suisse – Accueillir des enfants de neuf ans aux Archives, est-ce possible ?
France – Patrimoine : une loi pour fermer les archives ?
France-Rwanda : il est grand temps d’ouvrir les archives
France – Caserne Bernadotte à Pau : les archives militaires à l’étroit
France – Un généalogiste condamné à 80 euros d’amende pour usage de faux
Digital Repository of Ireland brings history to life online
Government plan to adopt ODF file format sparks standards debate in UK
UK National Archives – Top secret MI5 files of First World War go online
UK – Operation War Diary wins Best of the Web Award
Hidden archives of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO): conspiracy, incompetence or loss of institutional memory?
Information governance in the National Health Service: the challenges and the future
Tate – Listen Back to Thirty Years of Art: Audio Arts Released Online
http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/listen-back-thirty-years-art-audio-arts-released-online
Dustman saves 5,000 rare First World War photos from rubbish dumps
Working in a Private Archive
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Egypt – Library of Alexandria enters digital age
A new online project to archive and store Turkish cinema, from the Ottoman times to the present, has been established
International
Major Refit or Minor Upgrade? Making ISO 15489 a Standard Fit for Next Generation Records Management
The Value of Archival Description, Considered
Protect Your Data: File Fixity and Data Integrity
Q&A: how archives make history
Thinking more about moving email to the cloud
Defining Digital Social Sciences
Paper vs. Electronic: the Not-So-Final Battle
Some thoughts on audio restoration