Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Saskatchewan Archives Board – 2013-2014 Annual Report
UK National Archives – In a Spin: Guidance on Spinning out Local Authority Archive Services
U.S. – Inspectors General Letter about Access to Agency Records
NARA – Metadata Guidance (Draft)
De la communauté / From the community
Bureau de Coopération Interuniversitaire – Guide de gestion d’un projet de numérisation
4C – Investing in Curation: a Shared Path to Sustainability (Draft)
Digital Public Library of America – Metadata Application Profile (Version 3.1)
OCLC – Agreement Elements for Outsourcing Transfer of Born Digital Content
Article – The ICON Database: New Data for Decision-making on Newspaper Digitization and Preservation
Publications
Archivists & Archives of Color Roundtable Newsletter, vol. 28, no. 4 (August 2014)
Book – Information Management Solutions: Communications and Collaboration in a Web 2.0 World
Book – Rule by Numbers: Governmentality in Colonial India
Book – Berry Boys: Portraits of First World War Soldiers and Families
Book – The Forgotten Fifties: America’s Decade from the Archives of LOOK Magazine
Book – Digital Paper: a Manual for Research and Writing with Library and Internet Materials
Book – Zen and the Art of Local History
Book – Security Architect: Careers in Information Security
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
La numérisation : les meilleures pratiques
3 octobre 2014, Montréal
Creepy Alberta! Archives Week
October 5-11, 2014, Alberta
Webinar – Teaching Information Policy, or The Thing that affects Virtually Every Aspect of Information about which People Often Forget
August 27, 2014
Preserving PDF: Identify, Validate, Repair
September 1-2, 2014, Hamburg (Germany)
Accounts of the Conflict: Digitally Archiving Stories for Peacebuilding
November 17-18, 2014, Belfast (Ireland)
Popular Culture and Libraries, Archives, & Museums
April 1-4, 2015, New Orleans
Webinar – To Standardise or Not: is Normalisation of Video a Thing of the Past? (Recordings Available)
July 30, 2014
Webinar – Getting Started with the Linked Data Platform (Recordings Available)
August 11, 2014
Sur le web / On the web
Smithsonian – Transcription Center (Crowdsourcing for a Massive Digitization Project)
NARA Video – Controlled Unclassified Information
4C – Curation Costs Exchange (Beta Release)
Slidecast – Digital Public Library of America: What we Learned by Aggregating Metadata for 7 Million Items
Two Rudimentary Tools and a Few Support Files for Publishing Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Files as Linked Data
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canada Proposes New Action Plan on Open Government
Federal departments divulge details of dozens of privacy breaches
Library and Archives Canada – Major Update to the 1861 Census of Canada Database
Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians – Letter to Dr. Guy Berthiaume in Opposition to LAC’s Proposal to Move Hosting of AMICUS to OCLC
Québec – La cyberjustice, pour après-demain
A paradise for genealogists: Quebec’s civil registers
L’Association des archivistes du Québec a un nouveau directeur général intérimaire
Sault Ste. Marie (Ont.) – Local residential school survivor responds to court ruling
Calgary – Stockpile of gifts in city’s archives range from weird to wonderful
City of Greater Sudbury Archives – The Worthingtons key Sudbury pioneers
Pages of history: newspapers from 1917 donated to Corner Brook Museum & Archives (Newfoundland)
Institut Tshakapesh de Sept-Îles – L’héritage innu mieux documenté
Lennox and Addington County (Ont.) to mark 150th anniversary (Lennox and Addington County Museum and Archives will Reopen)
Lida Moser, 1920-2014: la photographe laisse en héritage un témoignage du Québec des années 1950
Afrique / Africa
Côte d’Ivoire – Interview: G. Baroan-Dioumency Lydie explique l’importance d’avoir un département d’archives
Congo – Documentation : importance d’un service des archives
http://radiookapi.net/regions/national/2014/08/08/documentation-importance-dun-service-des-archives/
Congo – 190 instruments de musique traditionnelle serviront de bibliothèque virtuelle
Ghana – Public officials urged to use authorised email addresses
South Africa – What are our parliamentarians saying and hearing about archives?
Nigeria – The military and information management
Morocco Debates Freedom of Information Bill
Amériques / Americas
The Brazilian Bus Magnate Who’s Buying up all the World’s Vinyl Records
Haïti – L’Action citoyenne pour l’abolition de la torture fait don de sept laptops et de trois imprimantes aux Archives Nationales
Development of Archives and Libraries in Mexico
U.S. Congress Moves to Phase Out Printing the Federal Register
Judicial Watch Statement on Declarations by IRS Officials in the IRS Missing Emails Case
National Archives Releases Hispanic Americans in Congress Book: a Look at Latino Lawmakers’ Service
NARA records now safe in Alaska State Libraries Archives and Museum
Alaska Supreme Court: Native corporation’s shareholders should have records access
Deleting all government emails violates Pennsylvania policy
Despite generous-sounding records law, public documents often hard to get in Alabama
Black hole in Oregon prisons: Piles of paper medical files mean risks and delays
Northeast Document Conservation Center – A Hefty Challenge for IRENE: Working with Delaminating Lacquer Discs
The Treasure in the Old Will: Iowa Women’s Archives Inherits Valuable Nancy Drew Collection
Digitizing Andy Warhol’s Film Trove to Save it
These GIFs From The Smithsonian Archives Make History Come To Life
San Diego State University – Preserving Chicano history for future generations
New York Police Files on Radicals are at Center of a Lawsuit
Electronic health records were supposed to be everywhere this year. They’re not, but it’s okay.
Scarecrow Video raising $100K on Kickstarter to preserve world’s largest archive of movies
Salem Museum nominates recently discovered documents as one of Virginia’s Top 10 Most Endangered Artifacts
Merrilee Proffitt inducted as Fellow of the Society of American Archivists
Netnography and Digital Records: an Interview with Robert Kozinets
Photographer Discovers an Old Leica and 20K Slides in Late Grandfather’s Belongings
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – National Film and Sound Archive moves to preserve WWI collection
Australia – Agent Albert: MP listed as secret KGB informant in Russian archives
Australia – The metadata debate: What you need to know about data retention
Australia – Old Ships’ Logs Help Forecast the Future
Historical records of Korea, Vatican ties go online
Pakistan – Draft of Right to Information law finalised
My personal journey with Citizen Archives of Pakistan’s Oral History Project
Files Related to Mahatma’s Assassination in National Archives of India Custody: Government
Europe / Europa
Wikimedia Wants You to Remember the Links Europe Wants You to Forget
Germany promotes digitisation of national film heritage
Germany – Retirement of Federal Archives Vice-President Dr. Angelika Menne-Haritz
KGB watched Czechoslovak Communist Party’s leaders: archive
Suisse – Il faut sauver les archives de la radio»
France – Open data et démocratie : la réponse d’Henri Verdier, « monsieur Data » du gouvernement
Surreal Photos that Capture what World War I Looked Like in Color
Ireland – Discover the wills of fallen soldiers at the National Archive
Local historian seeks answers to perplexing question about the number of Irish war dead
British soldier’s prison diaries vanish after book deal rejected
UK National Archives – Upgraded version of Discovery launched
British Library – Digital Music Lab: Analysing Big Music Data
British Library – Web Archiving in the JavaScript Age
Behind the scenes at the British Postal Museum and Archive
Academics fear for Warburg Institute’s London library, saved from the Nazis
New archives highlight WW1 conscription controversy
15 Million Pages of Historic Medical Books to go Online
Students with autism create electronic archive of Sunderland’s Holy Trinity Church
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
United Arab Emirates – Roads and Transport Authority, the National Archives ink MoU to promote identity, culture
Le patrimoine culturel de Gaza s’effondre sous les bombes
International
Using Images to Gain Insight into Web Archives?
Text Mining Interchange: the Promise of Digital History
The Data Centers of Tomorrow Will Use the Same Tech Our Phones Do