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Documentary Heritage News
September 26, 2014May 2, 2021

Vol. 8, no. 4

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat – Policy on Access to Information (Revised Edition)
http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=12453

Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat – Policy on Privacy Protection (Revised Edition)
http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=12510

B.C. Office of the Information and Privacy Commissionner – A Step Backwards: Report Card on Government’s Access to Information Responses 
http://www.oipc.bc.ca/special-reports/1696

NARA – Automated Electronic Records Management Report and Plan
http://blogs.archives.gov/records-express/files/2014/09/A31-Report-and-Plan-2014-9-19-14.pdf

UK Intellectual Property Office – Orphan Works Diligent Search Guidance for Applicants
http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/orphan-works-diligent-search-guidance-for-applicants

National Records of Scotland – Digital Preservation Strategy
http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/news/2014/national-records-of-scotland-publishes-its-digital-preservation-strategy

Archives de France – Préconisations relatives au tri et à la conservation des archives produites par les communes et structures intercommunales dans leurs domaines d’activité spécifiques
http://www.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/static/7759

Institut national du patrimoine (France) – Restauration des papiers transparents: orientations bibliographiques 
http://mediatheque-numerique.inp.fr/index.php//mediatheque_numerique/documents_pedagogiques/bibliographies/restauration_des_papiers_transparents

De la communauté / From the community
IFLA – Guidelines for Planning the Digitization of Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
http://www.ifla.org/files/assets/rare-books-and-manuscripts/rbms-guidelines/ifla_guidelines_for_planning_the_digitization_of_rare_book_and_manuscripts_collections_september_2014.pdf

JISC – Equipment for Image Digitisation Projects Toolkit
http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/blog/entry/jisc-digital-media-releases-a-new-toolkit-for-digitisation-projects

Digital Preservation in the Age of Cloud and Big Data
http://atos.net/content/dam/global/ascent-whitepapers/ascent-whitepaper-digital-preservation-in-the-age-of-cloud-and-big-data.pdf

Confederation of Open Access Repositories – Annual Report 2013-2014
http://www.coar-repositories.org/files/COAR-Annual-Report-2013-14_public.pdf

Preliminary Declaration of the Digital Human Rights
http://www.ddhn.org/index-en.php

Article  – What’s in a Title? Aboutness versus Intellectual Form in Archival Description
http://apex-project.eu/index.php/en/articles/193-eddy-put-what-s-in-a-title-aboutness-versus-intellectual-form-in-archival-description

Publications
The Electronic Library, vol. 32, no. 5 (2014)
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/el/32/5

National Archives of Australia – Government Agencies Information Network Newsletter, no. 8 (September 2014)
http://email.synergymail.com.au/t/ViewEmail/r/57A19EE6058BFE082540EF23F30FEDED

Impact Digitisation Centre of Competence News, no. 6 (September 2014)
http://www.digitisation.eu/blog/newsletters/6

Thesis – No File left Behind: the Predicament of Archival Appraising in the Digital Age
http://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1365&context=wwuet

Book – The Shakespearean Archive: Experiments in New Media from the Renaissance to Postmodernity
http://www.cambridge.org/fr/academic/subjects/literature/renaissance-and-early-modern-literature/shakespearean-archive-experiments-in-new-media-renaissance-postmodernity

Book – Writing Your Family History: a Guide for Family Historians
http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Writing-Your-Family-History-Paperback/p/7224

Book – The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10303.html 

Book – Britain’s X-traordinary Files
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/britains-x-traordinary-files-9781472904935/

Book – Foundations of Museum Studies: Evolving Systems of Knowledge
http://www.abc-clio.com/LibrariesUnlimited/product.aspx?pc=A3975P 

Book – The Network Reshapes the Library
http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=0419

Book – Implementing Web-Scale Discovery Services: a Practical Guide for Librarians
http://rowman.com/ISBN/9780810891265

Book – Creating a Streaming Video Collection for Your Library
http://rowman.com/ISBN/9780810884557

Book – Six Key Communication Skills for Records and Information Managers
http://store.elsevier.com/product.jsp?isbn=9781843347828&pagename=search

Book – Slides and Negatives: Digitizing and Protecting your Vintage Film
http://phototree.com/book_slides_negatives.htm

Book – Sites of Popular Music Heritage: Memories, Histories, Places
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415824507/

Livre – Intégrer des ressources numériques dans les collections
http://www.enssib.fr/presses/catalogue/integrer-des-ressources-numeriques-dans-les-collections-29

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Portes ouvertes – Centre de conservation du Québec
28 septembre 2014, Québec
http://www.ccq.gouv.qc.ca/index.php?id=312

Saanich (B.C.) Remembers WWI: Shelbourne Memorial Trees
October 2, 2014, Saanich
http://events.gvpl.ca/eventsignup.asp?ID=14790

L’histoire de Montréal à travers ses archives
4 octobre 2014, Montréal
http://www.societehistoriquedemontreal.org/2014/09/25/conferences-de-la-societe-historique-de-montreal-8/

Mennonite Archives of Ontario: Mennonite Memories of Migration
October 25, 2014, Waterloo
http://uwaterloo.ca/mennonite-archives-ontario/events/mennonite-memories-migration

Current Trends and Future Directions for Digital Imaging in Libraries and Archives
November 10, 2014, London (UK)
http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/latest-news/1299-current-trends-and-future-directions-for-digital-imaging-in-libraries-and-archives-registration-now-open

Survey Photography and Cultural Heritage in Europe (1851-1945): Expanding the Field
April 14-15, 2015, Warsaw  (Poland)
http://britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blogs/cfp-survey-photography-and-cultural-heritage-in-europe-1851-1945

Webinar – SCAPE Project Webinars (Videos Available)
Pagelyzer: http://vimeo.com/106592196
Tools for Uncovering Preservation Risks in Large Repositories: http://vimeo.com/106590070
Digital Preservation Policy Part I: http://vimeo.com/106578632
Digital Preservation Policy Part II: http://vimeo.com/106579484

Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada – New Home Page
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Pages/home.aspx

Library and Archives Canada Video – Collaboration
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/2014/collaboration-video.aspx

Saskatchewan Archives Video – Saskatchewan and the First Months of World War One
http://youtu.be/5E0XLqvzVXE

Baladodiffusion – Entretien avec Denis Vaugeois sur le Traité de Paris
http://www.societehistoriquedemontreal.org/2014/09/20/emission-du-20-septembre-2014/

Centre d’histoire et d’archives du travail – Questionnaire sur les besoins des syndicats en matière de gestion des documents et des archives
http://www.archivesquebecoisesdutravail.org/CHAT/PDF/questionnaire_chat_syndicats_archive_20140916.pdf

Documentary – Digital Amnesia 
http://youtu.be/NdZxI3nFVJs

UK National Archives Video – Tracing British Battalions or Regiments During First World War
http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/webinar-tracing-british-battalions-regiments-first-world-war/

Tibetan eText Repository
http://about.tbrc.org/tibetan-etext-repository-born-digital/

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
For an illuminated time only: light limits 1982 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms display
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/illuminated+time+only+Light+limits+Charter+display/10216401/story.html

Canadian Museum for Human Rights – Documents a vital part of our history: first treaty among papers on loan here
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/Documents-a-vital-part-of-our-history-275580041.html

Federal government has spent more than $20M on monitoring massive log of keywords
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/09/24/federal-government-has-spent-more-than-20m-on-monitoring-massive-log-of-keywords/

A message to Canadian genealogists from Library and Archives Canada
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2014/09/a-message-to-canadian-genealogists-from.html

Traité de Paris: les papiers de la conquête
http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/arts-et-spectacles/expositions/201409/20/01-4802120-traite-de-paris-les-papiers-de-la-conquete.php

Le traité de Paris à Québec: l’autre document significatif de l’après-1759
http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/419067/le-traite-de-paris-a-quebec-l-autre-document-significatif-de-l-apres-1759

Bringing the Legacy of Residential Schools into the Classroom
http://activehistory.ca/2014/09/14059/

Council of Archives New Brunswick – New Brunswick Grant Program
http://canbarchives.ca/canb/5893/CANB—NB-Grant-Program

Archives Association of Ontario – Wikipedia and Archeion
http://aao-archivists.ca/Archeion-News/3108292

Alberta Aviation museum heralds arrival of 96-year-old letter
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Aviation+museum+heralds+arrival+year+letter/10219723/story.html

Newfoundland – A soldier lost, then found: records of First World War naval veteran uncovered 100 years later
http://www.thetelegram.com/News/Local/2014-09-19/article-3875952/A-soldier-lost,-then-found/1

Calgary – Glenbow library and archives could be on the move: institution looks to change its mandate amidst continued financial shortfalls
http://www.ffwdweekly.com/news–views/news/glenbow-library-and-archives-could-be-on-the-move/

Archives de Montréal – Montréal en 1914 et en 1964
http://archivesdemontreal.com/2014/09/22/chronique-montrealite-no-12-montreal-en-1914-et-en-1964/

Archives bien fournies au musée de la Gaspésie
http://chau.teleinterrives.com/nouvelle-n_Archives_bien_fournies_au_musee_de_la_Gaspesie-15089

Plus de 600 000 $ pour l’aménagement du Centre d’archives Mgr-Antoine-Racine de Sherbrooke
http://www.newswire.ca/fr/story/1414540/plus-de-600-000-pour-l-amenagement-du-centre-d-archives-mgr-antoine-racine-de-sherbrooke

Manitoba – Mise à niveau des ordinateurs au Centre du patrimoine de Saint-Boniface
http://shsb.mb.ca/Carnet/ete2014-ordinateurs

Ontario – Archive fever hits ceramics gallery
http://www.therecord.com/whatson-story/4871064-archive-fever-hits-ceramics-gallery/

Huntsville (Ont.) – Municipal archive hot topic at mayoral debate
http://www.muskokaregion.com/news-story/4877943-municipal-archive-hot-topic-at-mayoral-debate/

Vaughan (Ont.) – Researching the History of a Property
http://vaughancityblog.ca/2014/09/25/archives-series-researching-the-history-of-a-property/

Chilliwack (B.C.) Poppy project will create interactive map of WWI soldiers
http://www.theprogress.com/news/275810341.html

Bowen (B.C.) biographies at the Archives
http://www.bowenislandundercurrent.com/community/bowen-biographies-at-the-archives-1.1378078

Afrique / Africa
Maroc – De la culture du secret à la culture de la transparence
http://www.challenge.ma/de-la-culture-du-secret-a-la-culture-de-la-transparence-34495/

Amériques / Americas
Colombia – FARC Demand Declassification of Paramilitary Related Archives
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/FARC-Demand-Declassification-of-Paramilitary-Related-Archives-20140923-0067.html

17th-Century Manuscript Detailing Early History of Aztec Nation Returns to Mexico
http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/press/2014/09/17th-century-manuscript-detailing-early-history-of-aztec-nation-returns-to-mexico.phtml

Archives départementales de Guyane: des documents historiques bradés sur eBay
http://www.franceguyane.fr/regions/guyane/des-documents-historiques-brades-sur-ebay-212176.php

Guyane – Aux Archives, la saga continue
http://www.franceguyane.fr/actualite/societe-social-emploi/aux-archives-la-saga-continue-212743.php

Guyane – Archives : « les documents n’ont pas été volés »
http://www.franceguyane.fr/actualite/societe-social-emploi/archives-les-documents-n-ont-pas-ete-voles-212879.php

U.S. – House Approves Federal Records Accountability Act
http://www.fedweek.com/item-view.php?tbl=3&ID=6014

On the Trail of Nazi Counterfeiters: with the recent declassification of hundreds of CIA case files, some strange tales of history have come to light
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/20/on-the-trail-of-nazi-counterfeiters.html

Online court archive PACER says it will restore access to missing records
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/09/19/online-court-archive-pacer-says-it-will-restore-access-to-missing-records/

Keeping track for the National Archives and Records Administration
http://blog.seattlepi.com/bookpatrol/2014/09/18/keeping-track-for-the-national-archives-and-records-adminsitration/

A Glimpse Into NASA’s New History Archives
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2014/0923-nasas-new-history-office.html

Crowdsourcing Consortium for Libraries & Archives (CCLA) Kicks Off with Inaugural Meeting in Boston
http://blog.imls.gov/?p=5219

Previously Unidentified, 101-Year-Old Film Footage Discovered in Museum of Modern Art’s Collection is The Earliest Known Feature Film Made with Black Actors
http://press.moma.org/2014/09/100-years-in-post-production/

Emerging Collaborations for Accessing and Preserving Email
http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/09/emerging-collaborations-for-accessing-and-preserving-email/
Massachusetts Secretary of State regularly keeps government records secret
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/09/13/secretary-state-galvin-faces-criticism-for-keeping-government-secrets/e70pa1N2jfwTzKQyrLMWSL/story.html

Utah State Archives has a problem
http://blog.dshr.org/2014/09/utah-state-archives-has-problem.html

Books, archives survive in chilly home: secrets of the Pennsylvania Capitol
http://www.pennlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/09/books_archives_survive_in_chil.html

Governor Beebe donates archives to Arkansas State University
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=157&sid=31644128

Boston College – The Belfast Project That Students Forgot
http://bcheights.com/opinions/2014/the-belfast-project-that-students-forgot/

Lost Ansel Adams Negatives Owner Sues Attorney for Fraud
http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/09/18/71556.htm

We’re All Digital Archivists Now: an Interview with Sibyl Schaefer (Head of Digital Programs at the Rockefeller Archive Center)
http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/09/were-all-digital-archivists-now-an-interview-with-sibyl-schaefer/

Maryland – We need a Wayback Machine for all cultural archives: Edward Papenfuse
http://technical.ly/baltimore/2014/09/18/alchemy-learning-edtech-cultural-institutions-papenfuse-biw/

Visiting Kurdish delegation to receive Iraqi secret police documents from University of Colorado Boulder human rights archive 
http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2014/09/22/visiting-kurdish-delegation-receive-iraqi-secret-police-documents-cu

Tom Hayden, counterculture icon, invites public to dig into his archives
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/9/18/tom-hayden-archivesuniversitymichigan.html

Happy birthday, Boston. Here’s the city’s oldest document
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/09/17/happy-birthday-boston-here-city-oldest-document/fABtzK2zv93Ot5xWntb5cI/story.html

Archivist explores Oklahoma City’s past in records project
http://newsok.com/archivist-explores-oklahoma-citys-past-in-records-project/article/5344304

Archive of Pioneering Astronomer George Willis Ritchey to be Offered at Bonhams
http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/press/2014/09/archive-of-pioneering-astronomer-george-willis-ritchey-to-be-offered-at-bonhams.phtml

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – National Film and Sound Archives: caring for two million collection items
http://nfsa.gov.au/blog/2014/09/22/caring-2-million-items/

Australia – Victoria: Records management on trial? Justice Legislation Amendment (Discovery, Disclosure and Other Matters) Act 2014  
http://prov.vic.gov.au/government-recordkeeping/records-management-on-trial-justice-legislation-amendment-discovery-disclosure-and-other-matters-act-2014-2

New Zealand freedom of information (FoI) model urged for South Australia
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/25065271/new-zealand-freedom-of-information-foi-model-urged-for-south-australia/

Weirder than old: the CP/M File System and Legacy Disk Extracts for New Zealand’s Department of Conservation
http://ow.ly/BQCiG

National Diet Library – Conservation work on local documents damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake completed
http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/news/fy2014/1207234_2113.html

India – Soon, you can own radio, TV, film digital content from government archives
http://freepressjournal.in/soon-you-can-own-radio-tv-film-digital-content-from-govt-archives/

India – Rare Sanskrit manuscripts crying for attention
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/Rare-Sanskrit-manuscripts-crying-for-attention/articleshow/43261348.cms

India – Srinagar: 60% of police records destroyed?
http://www.asianage.com/india/60-police-records-destroyed-860

Europe / Europa
Roll-out of Archivportal-D: Germany’s archives now online and easier to access
http://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/content/news/2014-09-24-001

Germany – Hamburg’s transparency portal goes live
http://www.epsiplatform.eu/content/hamburgs-transparency-portal-goes-live

Romania to open communist-era crimes trial
http://m.aljazeera.com/story/20149225422119324

Files of Slovak communist agents still in Czech Republic
http://spectator.sme.sk/articles/view/55338/10/files_of_slovak_communist_agents_still_in_czech_republic.html

République Tchèque – La grande aventure de la numérisation des livres
http://radio.cz/fr/rubrique/literature/la-grande-aventure-de-la-numerisation-des-livres

Vatican reveals unpublished Armenian genocide documents from its secret Archives
http://tekeyanmontreal.ca/latest/vatican-reveals-unpublished-armenian-genocide-documents-secret-archives/

Suisse – Plongée dans les archives à l’occasion de l’inauguration de la gare Cornavin (Genève)
http://www.rts.ch/info/regions/geneve/6155253-plongee-dans-les-archives-a-l-occasion-de-l-inauguration-de-la-gare-cornavin.html

France – Françoise Banat-Berger nommée directrice des Archives nationales
http://www.lepoint.fr/culture/francoise-banat-berger-nommee-directrice-des-archives-nationales-21-09-2014-1865243_3.php

Napoléon et Joséphine, un contrat de mariage à 437.500 euros
http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/encheres/2014/09/21/03016-20140921ARTFIG00165-napoleon-et-josephine-un-contrat-de-mariage-a-437500-euros.php

France – Stockage des données électroniques, SAE et système d’information des archives
http://siaf.hypotheses.org/279

France – L’Opéra Comique dévoile ses archives sur Internet
http://www.actualitte.com/international/l-opera-comique-devoile-ses-archives-sur-internet-52699.htm

Des brebis aux Archives de Paris: l’expérience d’éco-pâturage initiée aux Archives de Paris est une belle et sympathique réussite
http://www.franceregion.fr/des-brebis-aux-archives-de-paris-art578

France – Comment prendre en charge des documents numériques sans plate-forme d’archivage numérique ?
http://siaf.hypotheses.org/254

Project discovers hundreds of lost Scottish golf courses
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/project-discovers-hundreds-of-lost-scottish-golf-courses.1411037462

Wales – National Library staff suffer 20% pay cut
http://aberstudentmedia.com/2014/09/25/national-library-staff-suffer-20-pay-cut/

UK National Archives – Indian infantry unit war diaries go online
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/962.htm

Findmypast.co.uk publishes National School Admission Registers, 1870-1914
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/961.htm

British Museum to be digitally recreated in Minecraft
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29281051

Victoria & Albert Museum acquires Peter Brook archive
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29363133

Rare Jane Austen Manuscript Goes on Exhibit
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/rare-jane-austen-manuscript-goes-on-exhibit/

Historians hope to save historical Hulton Archive
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-29344661

The 10 strangest freedom of information requests
http://www.itv.com/news/channel/2014-09-24/the-10-strangest-freedom-of-information-requests/

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Saudi Arabia – Rare Photo Archive of Prophet’s Mosque to Go on Auction
http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=171928&frid=56&seccatid=67&cid=56&fromval=1

A 300-years-old endowment document found in Lebanon’s Tripoli
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2014/Sep-22/271529-a-300-years-old-endowment-document-found-in-lebanons-tripoli.ashx

Les archives égyptiennes apporteront un nouveau éclairage sur la personnalité de Salah Ben Youssef
http://directinfo.webmanagercenter.com/2014/09/20/les-archives-egyptiennes-apporteront-un-nouveau-eclairage-sur-la-personnalite-de-salah-ben-youssef/

International
The state of document security in a post-Snowden world
http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/the-state-of-document-security-in-a-post-snowden-world-1265400

Why were corporate wide records systems in the paper age so much more successful than those in the digital age?
http://thinkingrecords.co.uk/2014/09/19/why-were-corporate-wide-records-systems-in-the-paper-age-so-much-more-successful-than-those-in-the-digital-age/

SCAPE (Scalable Preservation Environment) Project Ends on the 30th of September
http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2014-09-23-scape-project-ends-30th-september

American and Lithuanian institutions to merge Jewish archives online
http://en.delfi.lt/lithuania/society/american-and-lithuanian-institutions-to-merge-jewish-archives-online.d?id=65926444

Box, une boîte dans le nuage à surveiller
http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/instantanes/2014/09/19/box-boite-nuage-surveiller/

Présentation préliminaire du schéma VITAM conçu pour le versement d’archives: exemples d’utilisation
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2014/09/presentation-preliminaire-du-schema_21.html

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