Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Canada’s Action Plan on Open Government 2014-2016
Library and Archives Canada – Departmental Performance Report 2013-2014
UK National Archives – Open Government Licence 3.0
UK Intellectual Property Office – Reducing the Duration of Copyright in Certain Unpublished Works (Consultation Document)
De la communauté / From the community
Digital Curation Centre – Five Steps to Decide what Data to Keep
NESTOR – Guideline for Preservation Planning: Procedural Model and Implementation (Version 2.0)
Digital Preservation: a Planning Guide for the Five Colleges
Survey of American Archivists – How Much Did You Earn in 2013?
Communia – Policy Paper on the Reuse of Public Sector Information in Cultural Heritage Institutions
National Information Standards Organization – Protocol for Exchanging Serial Content (Draft for Public Comment)
Publications
The Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction, vol. 2, no. 1 (November 2014)
New Review of Information Networking, vol. 19, no. 2 (November 2014)
First Monday, vol. 19, no. 1 (November 2014)
IFLA Journal, vol. 40, no. 3 (October 2014)
News in Conservation, no. 44 (October 2014)
Europeana Sounds Newsletter, no. 5 (November 2014)
e-Abhilekh: Quarterly Newsletter of the National Archives of India, vol. 2, no. 1 (April-June 2014)
Friends of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Archives (Toronto) Newsletter, vol. 22, no. 2 (Autumn 2014)
ISO 16919:2014 – Space Data and Information Transfer Systems – Requirements for Bodies Providing Audit and Certification of Candidate Trustworthy Digital Repositories
Also available here: http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/652x1m2.pdf
Book – The No-nonsense Guide to Archives and Recordkeeping
Book – The Taxobook: Principles and Practices of Building Taxonomies (Part 2 of a 3-Part Series)
Book – World Philology
Book – Crash Course in Marketing for Libraries (Second Edition)
Book – The Power of Memory in Democratic Politics
Book – The History of Photography in 50 Cameras
Book – The Scarlett Letters: the Making of the Film Gone With the Wind
Livre – Les archives électroniques
Livre – Réutilisation des informations publiques (open data) : aspects juridiques
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
The Making of an Archive
November 11-19, 2014, Toronto, Richmond Hill, Peterborough
Simple Preservation Treatments for Flat Records
November 21, 2014, Toronto
Journée Porte Ouverte – Centre d’archives, de généalogie et d’histoire de la maison de la culture de Gatineau
29 novembre 2014, Gatineau
Association des archivistiques québécois – Webinaire : Vendre ses projets ou services, élément essentiel de votre expertise
3 décembre 2014
Society of American Archivists Webinar – Forming Names According to Resource Description and Access (RDA)
December 4, 2014
British Library: GLAMs and the Games Industry
December 8, 2014, London
International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology 41st Annual Conference
June 2-5, 2015, Minneapolis
Rethinking Early Photography
June 16-17, 2015, Lincoln (UK)
Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities
June 25-26, 2015, Dublin (Ireland)
Keystone Digital Humanities Conference
July 22-24, 2015, University of Pennsylvania
Sur le web / On the web
Saskatchewan Historic Newspapers Online
Slidecast – Involuntary Secondary Permanence: do many Copies Replace the one Original? (by Luciana Duranti)
ALIADA 1.0 (an Open Source Tool to Share Data from Europe’s Libraries, Archives and Museums)
Slidecast – Researcher Identifiers: what’s in a Name (or URI)?
Slidecast – Challenges, Workflows, and Insights in the Collaboration to Preserve America’s Public Media
Slidecast – Training the Trainers for Linked Data: a Workshop
Slidecasts – Interrogating the Archived UK Web
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Metadata needs protection, warns privacy commissioner
Information Management Results in the 2013-2014 Federal Government Departmental Performance Reports
Shared Services Canada documents reveal further delays on $398-million integrated government-wide email system
Tabling of the 2014 Fall Report of the Auditor General of Canada (chapter 7 will be “Documentary Heritage of the Government of Canada, Library and Archives Canada”)
Canada’s new human rights museum shares oral histories
Speaking truth to power: Canadian war crimes in Korea: a history professor uncovers some troubling evidence from the Korean War
WWI Canadian soldier’s remains identified: Sidney Halliday died in the Battle of Amiens, 1918
Prince Edward Island government creates new office to handle freedom of information requests
Archives’ Nova Scotia Christmas Cards for Sale
Québec – Les agendas et les rencontres des ministres seront rendus publics et seront archivés pour quatre ans
L’histoire du Québec encadrée
The Manitoban: a century now online: Q&A with Shelley Sweeney, head of the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections
University of Manitoba – Letters from First World War soldiers published online
Information overload? There’s a Big Data Consortium for that: a new academic-industry initiative will help chart Canada’s future
Rare Jewish War Heroes comic from 1944 found in box of donated used books
Mike Dubue crafts a new soundtrack for Canada’s first epic film
Toronto’s Great War Attic project takes the family heirloom show on the road
Encapsulating Toronto’s Past: a look at time capsules across the city and what’s in them
Hamilton – Dusting off forgotten songs from the Great War
Art Gallery of Hamilton returns Nazi looted painting by Johannes Verspronck
Living archive World War One Thunder Bay Centennial Project commemorate historic conflict
Saskatoon – Book of Remembrance honours fallen soldiers
Publicité Sauvage’s posters featured at Old Montreal gallery
Most relatives ‘tickled’ by Guelph (Ont.) archivist finding closeted ‘skeleton’
Brampton Library donates WWII records to Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (Ont.)
Port Hope Archives (Ont.) unveils Remembrance Day exhibit
Le Centre d’histoire de Saint-Hyacinthe, un lieu à découvrir
Uncovering the secrets of John Franklin’s doomed voyage
Twitter Adoption and Use by Canadian and US Genealogical Societies
Afrique / Africa
South Africa – Mandela papers may soon be off limits
Rwanda – National Archive Construction Set to Start: Minister Habineza
Algérie – Dans le temple bien gardé du Centre des archives nationales: le doux pouvoir des archivistes
Algérie – Le DG des Archives nationales : la consultation des archives conditionnée
Les éditeurs militants de l’indépendance algérienne: une masse de documents qui constituent de véritables archives citoyennes
France refuses to hand over the remaining archives to Algeria or lingers to do
Amériques / Americas
Haïti – Archives en danger, il reste beaucoup à faire
Insert Quarter: a Profile of the Video Game Archivists at the Library of Congress
Veterans Archives archaic archives give way to simpler computerized system
Supreme Court Refuses Appeal, 50 Sherlock Holmes Works Officially in Public Domain
Archive of Contemporary Music and the Internet Archive Team up to Create a Music Library
Old becomes new: California State Library digitizes 3-D images from 1800s
Florida – State Agency Loses Almost Two Years Worth of Public Records
Genealogy service to provide access to Oklahoma Indian archives
David Carmichael Named State Archivist for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Unboxing the Chomsky Archive: a new website offers a glimpse at a lifetime of work, and the chance to support it
MIT Institute Archives & Special Collections Receives Papers of Jordan J. Baruch
Yale University – Digital humanities go vogue
University of California, Los Angeles – On Excess: Susan Sontag’s Born-Digital Archive
Samuel Suratt, long-time CBS News archivist, dead at 81
50,000 of Norman Rockwell’s Photographs Digitized
Talking with… an archivist steeped in San Francisco history
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Nepal – National Archives starts preserving ancient papyruses
Thailand – Scholars want ancient manuscripts to go online
Thailand – National Library archive online in three years
Myanmar begins to experience inventorying of its intangible cultural heritage
India – Jodhpur to house National Cultural Audio-Visual Archives
Europe / Europa
Continuity of Archives Portal Europe ensured
The Large Hadron Collider is Going to Produce 400PB of Data Every Year
Germany – bwFLA: Functional Long-term Archival and Access: University of Freiburg and Partners
Adolf Hitler’s personal copy of Mein Kampf falls £40,000 short of estimate at auction
Archival Reels Capture Life During Wartime in Warsaw Uprising
Archive of Italian Captain Carlo Montu’s Aviation Heroics at Auction
Netherlands – Rotterdam City Archives discovers photos of 1500 British soldiers from the First World War
Netherlands – Historian Discovers 800-Year-Old Medieval Doodles in Some of the World’s Oldest Books
Netherlands – Negotiations between Elsevier and universities failed
Sonia Combe : Il faut toujours s’interroger sur l’origine d’une archive… (sur les archives des anciens pays communistes)
Suisse – Les archives d’entreprise: contrainte ou patrimoine identitaire ?
French museums face a cultural change over restitution of colonial objects
Hopelessly inaccurate record of Irish WWI dead criticised
Open Licensing at the National Library of Scotland
UK cultural institutions leave their WWI cases empty to protest insane copyright
UK National Archives – Launch of the Design Collection
UK National Archives – Dramatising revolution: a new outreach project
British Library – Interoperable Infrastructures for Digital Research: A proposed pathway for enabling transformation
British Library – Powering the UK Web Archive search with Solr
MPs’ expenses: official records from scandal-hit era have been destroyed
Magna Carta 800 years on: recognition at last for England’s greatest export
University of Manchester – A book 100 years older than the Magna Carta goes digital
Who will save the historical treasures that inspired Downton Abbey?
Hammer horror archive opens to public for first time
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
UNESCO Director-General Calls for Halt to Attacks against Cultural Diversity in Iraq
Égypte – La Bibliotheca Alexandrina: patrimoine de l’humanité
Jerusalem Post sues Israel Hayom over digital archive
International
Finally ISO 16919 is published, ISO auditing can start
Voiceprints being harvested by the millions
The Internet Archive, Trying to Encompass All Creation
The Internet Archive Now Lets You Play 900+ Classic Arcade Games in Your Browser
What’s Behind the Great Podcast Renaissance?
In 2014, countries are still paying off debt from World War One
Le XML pour écrire du texte, l’EAD pour produire des données
Next generation of optical storage offers a big data option
Audio for Eternity: Schüller and Häfner Look Back at 25 Years of Change