Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library of Congress – Recommended Format Specifications
Service interministériel des Archives de France – Autoriser la destruction de documents sur support papier après leur numérisation: quels critères de décision ?
Testimony of the U.S. Archivist before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on “IRS Obstruction: Lois Lerner’s Missing E-mails, Part II”
European Union Open Data: the Basics for European Union Data Providers
European Commission – Cloud Service Level Agreement Standardisation Guidelines
De la communauté / From the community
DCH-RP – Digital Preservation at Cultural Heritage Institutions in Sweden: Analysis of the Current Situation and of Future Needs and Requirements
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Linked Data Platform 1.0
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Resource Description Framework (RDF) 1.1 Primer
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Concepts et syntaxe abstraite de Resource Description Framework (RDF) 1.1 (Version française)
La gouvernance de l’information dans les organisations
National Information Standards Organization – Open Discovery Initiative: Promoting Transparency in Discovery
ARMA – 2013/2014 Information Governance Benchmarking Survey for the U.S. Federal Government
Article – Long-Term Sustainability through Open Source Software Implementations of Open File Formats
Publications
Records Management Journal, vol. 24, no. 2 (2014)
Restaurator: International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material, vol. 35, no. 2 (June 2014)
Library & Archival Security, vol. 26, no. 1-2 (2013)
Daguerreotype Journal, no. 0 (June 2014)
Big Data & Society, vol. 1, no. 1 (April-June 2014)
Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, no. 1 (June 2014)
IFLA Journal, vol. 40, no. 2 (June 2014)
Maple Ridge Historical Society (B.C.) Family History Newsletter (June 2014)
Bulletin du Centre d’histoire et d’archives du travail, vol. 1, no. 3 (juin 2014)
Book – Serial Memoir: Archiving American Live
Book – Annual Review of Cultural Heritage Informatics: 2012-2013
Book – Library Management for the Digital Age: a New Paradigm
Book – Preserving our Heritage: Perspectives from Antiquity to the Digital Age
Book – Large Scale and Big Data: Processing and Management
Book – Customer-based Collection Development: an Overview
Book – Aboriginal and Visible Minority Librarians: Oral Histories from Canada
Book – Repertorium bibliographicum or, some Account of the Most Celebrated British Libraries
Livre – Archives et acteurs des cinémas d’animation en France
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Exhibit – A Thrilling Narrative: Documenting the Klondike Gold Rush
July 3 – October 30, 2014, Whitehorse (Friends of the Yukon Archives Society)
Dans leurs propres mots : la mobilité dans les écrits personnels et les sources orales, XIVe-XXIe siècles
27-29 août 2015, Saint-Boniface
Massive Open Online Course – Copyright for Educators & Librarians
July 21 – August 18, 2014
The Technology of Information, Communication and Administration: an Entwined History
March 26-27, 2015, Bern (Swiss Federal Archives)
26th International Conference on the History of Cartography
July 12-17, 2015, Antwerp (Belgium)
Séminaire sur l’évaluation des archives (comptes-rendus disponibles)
12 mars 2014, Université de Versailles, Saint-Quentin en Yvelines
Sur le web / On the web
Canadian Conservation Institute – New Website
Video – Our Toronto: Pride Exhibit (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library)
Slidecast – Archivatopia: the Akashic Record: what if? (ACA 2014)
Research Data Curation Bibliography (version 4)
Video Tour of First Digital Exhibit Built Using New Spotlight Plugin For Blacklight Developed at Stanford University
Cost of Inaction (COI) Calculator: Calculating the Cost of Not Preserving Media Assets and Metadata
Inside the Coor’s Archives – Archivist’s Role
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Voices of 40,000 survivors would be silenced if documents destroyed: archivist
Survivors of residential schools push back against document destruction
Revamp Access to Information law, say federal advisory panel members
Step back in time: Library and Archives Canada helps the National Gallery of Canada recreate a First World War exhibition experience
Canadian Museum of History signs collaboration agreement with Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
Nomination à la tête de Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec: Mme Carole Payen de la Garanderie est nommée membre du conseil d’administration et présidente par intérim
Archivists enjoy downtown tour at annual general meeting (Saskatchewan Council of Archives)
Exit interview: Ann Cavoukian leaves Ontario privacy watch dog role to lead Ryerson’s big data institute
The Toronto Star donates more than one million archive photos to Toronto Public Library
Toronto library board to consider creating a Toronto Music Library
Court asked to order release of Toronto Port Authority audit
L’Université Laval se retire d’une entente sur le droit d’auteur
Des biens patrimoniaux du Québec aux Archives de Montréal
Out of the Ashes comes a Living Legacy (Memorial University has launched a First World War Commemoration Program)
Museum of the Highwood (Alb.) dreams big for future expansion (include an interpretive archive)
Afrique / Africa
Story of Moroccan Jewry Now Available Online
Amériques / Americas
More than 20 unknown poems by Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda found in archives
Panama – Advances on scanning documents from the National Archives
Declassified Diplomacy with Brazil: National Security Archive Hails Obama Administration Decision to Assist Brazilian Truth Commission
President Obama is Now the First President to be 3D Scanned and Printed
Library of Congress – Preserving 120 years of U.S. cultural history
Library of Congress Gets African-American Oral History Archive
Clinton Donor Bans Free Beacon From University of Arkansas Archives
Archival film of African-American baseball game screened at National Baseball Hall of Fame
19th century Georgia newspapers now online
Nebraska homestead files have been digitized
A rich archive of Japanese internment gets richer with federal grant
Portland State University uncovers recordings of Kennedy, Ginsberg
Tours of Patton archives to be offered
Web Archiving and Preserving the Performing Arts in the Digital Age
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia – Digital check-up for Government
National Archives of Australia – Archival bonds with Indonesia set to 2019
Australia – $22mil Budget boost for New South Wales Records digital push
Archive photo shows Nagasaki residents wearing masks a month after atomic bombing
China – Rare photographs of early Shanghai go on display
India – Suchitra Sen’s Bangladesh home to become archive
Europe / Europa
Libraries and archives prepare for tense copyright negotiations in Geneva
Inside the Soviet Union’s Secret Erotica Collection
Russia – Ural State Economics University opens archival exhibit on Nuremberg trials
Venice – Blueprints finalized for digital archive
Michael Schumacher’s ‘medical records stolen’
Spain – The University of Barcelona creates a digital collection of priceless historical items
Swiss lift restrictions on South Africa archives
Belgique – Centenaire de la Première guerre mondiale: les archives de l’État mettent en ligne les témoignages d’institutions religieuses
Belgique – La SONUMA entend préserver plus de 8 pétaoctets d’archives audiovisuelles
French cave home to earliest drawings wins World Heritage status
France – Les trésors des Archives Nationales
France – Les Archives nationales accueillent les archives d’Act Up-Paris
Inondation à la Bibliothèque nationale de France : quels traitements pour les livres concernés ?
France – Procès Barbie: des avocats obtiennent le retrait de la vente d’archives de Jacques Vergès
France – Les archives Pierre de Coubertin rejoignent Sciences Po
France – Le Journal de Paul Landowski, sculpteur français auteur du “Christ Rédempteur” de Rio de Janeiro, est en ligne
Ireland – Here are the state files recalled from the National Archives by the Department of Health
Oldest known Irish manuscript to be exhibited publicly
When the UK goes digital by default, who will be left behind?
British government breaking law in forcing data retention by companies
David Cameron to ‘look at’ Gerry Conlon’s archive request (access to secret government documents about the 1974 IRA Guildford pub bombing)
UK National Archives – Shakespeare documents gain prestigious UNESCO status
UK National Archives – New Jacobite education collections online
Keeping Magna Carta safe in the United States
South Wales archives to join collection of worldwide historically important documents
Oldest surviving Bannockburn manuscript restored
Fears over 60,000 photo archive of Exeter history
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Russia Today expects Israel to return seized archives from its Palestinian office
The sands of time: ancient Egypt and early film
Iraq authorities: Rare manuscripts smuggled out of Mosul
International
International Archives Day 2014: Message from the International Council on Archives President
Saving old software from extinction in the age of cloud computing
The macabre world of books bound in human skin
Beyond Pong: why digital art matters
My Childhood Memories are Locked in a Yahoo Account
Systems are episodes in the life of information
Archivage et conservation : les impératifs de préservation d’accès
A Guide to Little-Known Image Collections with Millions of Free, Hi-Res Images