Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
European Commission – Guidelines on Recommended Standard Licences, Datasets and Charging for the Re-use of Documents
Guide to the Manuscript Sources for the Study of the First World War in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
UK National Archives – CSV Validator Version 1.0
Archives nationales de France – Quand l’archivage devient électronique (actes de colloque)
Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information (France) – Référentiel général de sécurité
De la communauté / From the community
Digital Defenders Partnership – The Digital First Aid Kit
Article – Archival Authority Control: an Introduction to Encoded Archival Context for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families (EAC-CPF)
Article – What does the Hathitrust Decision Mean for Libraries?
Publications
D-Lib Magazine, vol. 20, no. 78 (July/August 2014)
Information Management, vol. 48, no. 4 (July/August 2014)
RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, vol. 15, no. 1 (Spring 2014)
The Electronic Library, vol. 32, no. 4 (2014)
South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science, vol. 80, no. 1 (2014)
Quarto: revue des Archives littéraires suisses, no. 38 (2014)
Ngā Tapuwae: Archives New Zealand’s Newsletter, no. 24 (June 2014)
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Newsletter (July 2014)
Friends of the D.C. Archives Newsletter, no. 1 (July 2014)
Book – Shadows of the Slave Past: Memory, Heritage, and Slavery
Book – Reframing Information Architecture
Book – Intellectual Property, Indigenous People and their Knowledge
Book – Collecting the Contemporary: Recording the Present for the Future
Livre – De l’autorité à la référence (École nationale des chartes)
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Semantic Visualization in Data Mining
August 1, 2014, Montreal
Webinar – Essence Quality Control for AV Archive Digitisation, Migration and Exploitation
September 18, 2014
The Information Behaviour Conference
September 2-5, 2014, University Leeds (UK)
International Workshop on Visions on Internet of Cultural Things and Applications
November 27, 2014, Marrakech (Morocco)
Écrire l’archive: deux journées d’étude à l’Université de Bourgogne
28 novembre 2014 et 7 février 2015, Dijon (France)
Validating Visual Heritage in Africa: Historical Photographs and the Role of the Archive
January 26-31, 2015, Buea (Cameroon)
Technical and Field Related Problems of Traditional and Electronic Archiving
April 15 – 17, 2015, Radenci (Slovenia)¸
Webinar – Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers (Video Available)
June 25, 2014
1st International Workshop on Computational History (Presentations Available)
June 27, 2014, Dublin (Ireland)
Sur le web / On the web
University of Alberta – DMP Builder: a Web-based Tool to Help Prepare Data Management Plans
Slides and Talk – Clustering Search to Navigate a Case Study of the Canadian World Wide Web as a Historical Resource
Video – NARA: Freedom of Information Act Advisory Committee Meeting
Part 1: http://youtu.be/cAYNzSrenNw
Part 2: http://youtu.be/WWX4uT0V9lk
Slidecast – Browser-Based Digital Preservation
Slidecast – Defragmenting Digitized Manuscripts Sources
Service interministériel des archives de France – Base juridique pour la collecte des archives (BaJuCA)
Phonotèque nationale suisse – Expo 64, un paysage sonore
Pétition – Pour le maintien à Paris des livres asiatiques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Court urged to seal, not destroy, residential school records
Residential school survivors raise outcry over possible erasure of records
Made in Canada online copyright infringement regime to come into force
http://www.internationallawoffice.com/newsletters/detail.aspx?g=6f80c328-537d-42fd-91c7-17d224eaae90
Twitter account tracks anonymous Wiki edits from House of Commons addresses
Saving the Vimy Ridge dead: Researcher trying to find bodies of 48 Canadian soldiers before land developed
Échange massif de fichiers sur les Québécois
Une nouvelle présidente à la barre de BAnQ
Europe: avis du G29 sur la Loi québécoise sur la protection des renseignements personnels dans le secteur privé
No gimmicks needed to travel back in time to the first Calgary Stampede
http://www.torontosun.com/2014/07/11/no-gimmicks-needed-to-travel-back-in-time-to-the-first-stampede
B.C. – Oral history goes digital as Google helps map ancestral lands
B.C. government warns 1,600 people about PharmaNet breach
Ryerson University Archives and Special Collections – The Early Days of Kodak: The Strategies Eastman Used to Form his Legacy
Shingwauk residential school (Ont.) gathering this August: art and archives
Newfoundland – Protecting the past: Trinity Historical Society and The Packet team up to preserve photographic records
Lloydminster (Alb.) Archives seeking World War relics
Vaughan (Ont.) – The story of the Pierre Berton family records
Musée québécois de culture populaire (Trois-Rivières) – Avis de recherche: films d’archives familiales
Animating the archives: international and Northern artists collaborate to explore colonial connections at Sheguiandah Museum (Ont.)
250 ans d’histoire pour le Quebec Chronicle Telegraph
The power of librarians: Marcel Fortin’s mapping skills make him a University of Toronto wide resource
My summer internship report at the Audrey & Harry Hawthorn Library & Archives (Museum of Anthropology at UBC)
B.C. – Italian immigrant a photographic pioneer
Afrique / Africa
Mali – Direction régionale de l’Urbanisme et de l’Habitat de Bamako : des archives délabrées, le personnel aux pires conditions de travail
South Africa – Firms prefer paper to electronic records
Amériques / Americas
National Archives also wants answers for agencies’ lost documents
Republican Senators probe lost Environmental Protection Agency emails
Forget Metadata, 80% of Calls Stored by NSA, Whistleblower Says
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota to rely on extensive digital archives
http://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2014/07/12/teddy-roosevelt-library-to-rely-on-digital-efforts
Student’s Lawsuit Prompts Release of FBI Records Detailing Spying on Nelson Mandela
The Digital Public Library of America: Collaboration, Content, and Technology at Scale
More than 14,000 draft notices sent to men born in the 1800s
Recording Industry Association of America Copyright Pressure Silences Historical Radio Archive
Alaska – State archives closing for 6 weeks
New Mexico – How much should DVDs of public records cost?
New Hampshire students digitize Civil War letters
Holocaust Museum opens UN archive on WWII crimes
Getty Research Institute acquires Robert McElroy archives
MapStory and D.C. Public Library join forces to map Washington D.C.’s past
LOLCats and Libraries: A Conversation with Internet Librarian Amanda Brennan
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia – When racism was a game in White Australia
Tahiti – Des agents de Papeete visitent la salle des archives de la mairie de Faa’a : un exemple à suivre
Taiwan – Ministry of Culture launches online museum database
India – Gandhi assassination files safe, says Home minister Rajnath Singh
Europe / Europa
Google launches ‘advisory council’ page on right to be forgotten
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/11/google-advisory-council-page-right-to-be-forgotten
Allemagne – Que vont devenir les archives d’Helmuth Kohl ?
This Never-Before-Seen WWII Document Offers an Inside Account of an Elite Nazi Combat Unit’s Collapse
How Germany Is Using Big Data to Win the World Cup
Italy – CNR (National Research Council), agreement on the digitalization of the archives of Gramsci Foundation and Sturzo Institute
Intelligence: the Great KGB Archive Heist
Poland – National Library gets legendary jazzman Zbigniew Seifert archive
Appels à films amateurs tournés dans l’ancien bloc de l’est
Gibraltar – Government Archives Starts Digitisation Process
Sweden – For this Author, 10,000 Wikipedia Articles is a Good Day’s Work
Les plus anciens dessins de constellations découverts en Grèce
Almost all archives of world are studied on Armenian genocide: Ruben Safrastyan
Belgium – 2,000 rare architectural plans discovered in Brussels
Belgique – La Grande Guerre en dessins
Les Archives nationales de Luxembourg, membres du Portail européen des archives
Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg: une découverte de la musique de A à Z
France – La gestion du patrimoine culturel du ministère de la Défense
Bibliothèque nationale de France : le manuscrit des Misérables prend ses vacances en Australie
Ireland – James Joyce papers go up online
Britain moves to force communications companies to store customer data
Video games set in old maps from the British Library
UK Web Archives Blog – Researcher in focus: Saskia Huc-Hepher: French in London
The secret writings of Isaac Newton: the physicist’s private religious and alchemical musings have tantalised scholars for centuries
Charles Darwin’s evolutionary reading: HMS Beagle’s library goes online
Kingston University’s new digital archive provides open access to historic collections
Manchester – Take a journey back in time: App and website reveal fascinating stories from the First World War
The Nifty, Portable Copying Technology Used by Early-19th-Century Letter-Writers
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Lebanon – Beirut : The Arab Image Foundation
Lebanon – Film history faces destruction again
UNESCO – Emergency Response Action Plan to safeguard Iraqi heritage
Prehistoric ‘bookkeeping’ continued long after invention of writing
Arabie Saoudite – King Fahad National Library
International
Project Gado: On a mission to digitize and share the world’s visual history
Johns Hopkins, Princeton and University College London – Digital Humanists to Catalog Notes Scrawled in Books
Where Online Services go when they Die: Rebuilding Prodigy, one Screen at a Time
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/where-online-services-go-when-they-die/374099/
What Happens when Digital Cities are Abandoned?
The Importance of a Dynamic Information Management Strategy in Your Company
Introduction to: Linked Data Platform
The Universal Typeface Project Averages the World’s Handwriting to Produce an Incredibly Average Font