Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Information Commissioner of Canada – Letter to the President of the Treasury Board on Action Plan 2.0 for the Open Government Partnership initiative
NARA – 2013 Records Management-Self Assessment
Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative – Guidelines: File Format Comparison Projects
Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative – Guidelines: MXF Application Specification (Draft for Comments)
De la communauté / From the community
Royal Society of Canada – The Future Now: Canada’s Libraries, Archives, and Public Memory
Pew Reseasrch – Public Perceptions of Privacy and Security in the Post-Snowden Era
Ithaka S+R – Information Literacy and Research Practices
From Code to Community: Building and Sustaining BitCurator through Community Engagement
4C – Curation Costs Exchange Framework
Understanding Recognition Technology: an Insider’s Guide
Publications
RBM: a Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, vol. 15, no. 2 (Autumn 2014)
Information Management, vol. 48, no. 6 (November-December 2014)
Information & Culture: a Journal of History, vol. 49, no. 4 (2014)
The Electronic Library, vol. 32, no. 6 (2014)
Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 3, no. 6 (November-December 2014)
Centre d’histoire et d’archives du travail – Bulletin d’information, vol. 1, no. 4 (Automne 2014)
Book – Management Skills for Archivists and Record Managers
Book – Reimagining Reference in the 21st Century
Book – Kracauer: Photographic Archive
Book – Archive Crisis
Book – The Ethics of Memory in a Digital Age: Interrogating the Right to be Forgotten
Book – EBIA Record Retention Requirements for Health & Welfare Benefits
Livre – Album Gabrielle Roy
Livre – Des archives aux terrains: essais d’anthropologie historique
Livre – Secrets d’État: les grands dossiers du Ministère de l’Intérieur (1870-1945)
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Hockey Hall of Fame – Hockey and the First World War
November 10, 2014 – February 2016, Toronto
Data Security: Protecting Information in the Era of Big Data
November 27, 2014, Charlottetown
Big Data and History: how Web Archives Will Challenge, Complement and Enhance the Historical Profession
November 28, 2014, Wolfville (Nova Scotia)
Patrimoines 3.0: Le numérique : nouveaux enjeux, nouvelles formes
28 Novembre 2014, Montréal
The Future of our Libraries: a chat with Guy Berthiaume, Librarian and Archivist of Canada
December 11, 2014, Ottawa
Exhibit – Lines in the Ice: Seeking the Northwest Passage
November 14, 2014 – March 29, 2015, London (UK)
Webinar – The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative, Describing Learning Resources with Schema.org, and more?
November 19, 2014
Capturing Dark Data & Handwritten Information for Better Information Governance
Webinar – Case Study of Digital Record Keeping in Finland (Recordings Available)
November 6, 2014
Sur le web / On the web
Podcast – Canadian Historians and the Media
Nouvelle chaîne Youtube – BAnQ Films d’archives
British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa Youtube Channel
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (France) – Grand Mémorial (Base nationale sur les soldats de la 1ere Guerre Mondiale)
Communiqué de presse: http://www.culturecommunication.gouv.fr/Actualites/En-continu/Grand-Memorial-la-numerisation-au-service-de-la-Grande-Guerre
PERICLES Extraction Tool (for the Extraction of Significant Information from the Environment where Digital Objects are Created and Modified)
UK Data Service Launches QualiBank
KOST-Val, version 1.4.7 (validateur de formats avec nouvelle possibilité d’une double validation PDF/A)
Video – Effect of Humidity Fluctuation on a Rare Book
Video – Digital Preservation at the Library of Congress
Video – Open Government Data : Data Supplier of Open Research Data (by the head of Information Technology Unit at the Swiss Federal Archives)
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Policy making suffering in Canada without the long-form census
Suzanne Legault, Federal Information Watchdog, Says Office Almost Broke
Guy Berthiaume – Library and Archives Canada: at the Crossroads
Library and Archives Canada helps identify soldiers killed during First World War
LAC welcomes the publication of the Royal Society of Canada report on the state and future of libraries and archives in Canada
Report cites Library and Archives woes, urban-rural library divide
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/canadians-love-their-libraries-but-report-urges-new-chapter
Canadiana – Digitizing registers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
Canadiana – New First World War military newspaper titles
Photography of the First World War: Part I: the Canadian War Records Office
Call for Exhibitors at Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Locating Radio History in Ontario, Canada
Remembering Alberta and the Great War at the Provincial Archives of Alberta
Saskatchewan – A Century of Remembrance
Lest We Forget: records document Manitoba casualties of the First World War
Winnipeg posts photo archives online
University of Manitoba – Something to remember: the Frederick D. Baragar collection
BAnQ met la main sur un livre ancien remarquable (Description de la Louisiane) grâce à un don
Yvon Lemay, professeur à l’Université de Montréal – La mémoire de l’art: comment les artistes contemporains manipulent et recyclent les archives artistiques
University of Toronto librarian creates a musical legacy: local listening parties celebrate the diverse and expansive record collection of the late Wayne Sorge
On Display: the University of Toronto and the Great War
L’Université Laval poursuivie en recours collectif pour 4 millions de dollars en violation de droits d’auteur
A look back at war through the McMaster University archives
McGill University – Posters offer insights into “The Patriotism of Death”
Montreal – Black Watch regiment: Candid WW I photographs yield 100-year-old mystery
Memory of local war dead hits home in Montreal West
Monkman acquis par le Musée McCord (oeuvre réalisée à partir de 30 portraits puisés dans la collection d’Archives photographiques Notman)
http://www.ledevoir.com/culture/arts-visuels/423475/le-monumental-monkman-acquis-par-le-musee-mccord
Captivating artist’s conception of wartime Halifax
Newfoundland – Death Penny uncovers new piece of history
Poppy Project maps link Chilliwack (B.C.) past and present
Black war vets remembered at Amherstburg museum (Ont.)
Mapping pre-1600 European manuscripts in the U.S. and Canada
Donation d’annuaires téléphoniques au Centre d’archives régional des Îles-de-la-Madeleine
Société du patrimoine des Beaucerons – Un partenariat qui dure depuis plus de 20 ans
Quand le virtuel ébranle le réel: de quelques problèmes fondamentaux posés par la numérisation des archives culturelles
13 Questions with… Stephanie Glandon, System Administrator and Technical Business Analyst, Natural Resources Canada
Afrique / Africa
How Europe covered its back (about archives in Africa)
South Africa – Ruling puts public’s access to court documents in jeopardy
http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/2014/11/04/ruling-puts-publics-access-to-court-documents-in-jeopardy
Morocco – UNESCO promotes records management for effective implementation of freedom of information right
Niger launches a capacity-building programme for the safeguarding of its living heritage
Algérie – La France coloniale s’est approprié des archives constituant la matière brute des historiens
Archives restituées à l’Algérie : ni falsifiées ni truquées
Amériques / Americas
Furor Over CIA Shake-Up of Email System
Congress Just Gave the Archivist the Power to Protect the Panetta Review from the CIA
Library of Congress – World War I Remembered: 100 Years Later
The A-files: National Records center in area mines holds history of immigrants
Newly declassified audio reveals unscripted daily life in the Nixon White House
The Uncensored FBI Letter to Martin Luther King Found Hidden in the National Archives
A history largely forgotten: 23,000 photos that tell the story of US-China collaboration to fight the Japanese in World War II
Rare Steinbeck WWII Story Finally Published
Vietnam War-era documents donated to Delaware Public Archives
Lost Love Letters Belonging to Marilyn Monroe to be Sold at Auction
Sexual Minorities Archives receives eviction notice
Hollywood honours digital archivist
Digital Preservation Capabilities at Cultural Heritage Institutions: an Interview With Meghan Banach Bergin (University of Massachusetts)
Primary Stages Launches Oral History Project, a Video Archive of Pioneers who Created Off-Broadway Movement
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Department of Defence destroying and hiding sensitive documents
National Library of Australia’s Trove website celebrates five years of uncovering the past
Australian Red Cross donates 100 years of memories to University of Melbourne archives
New Zealand – University of Canterbury earthquake archive wins national award
Pakistan – Land management records: land mafia, missing data hindering computerisation
India – Bahir State archives to compile banned documents
Europe / Europa
EUscreenXL Offers Attractive Home for Archival Videos
Right to be forgotten poses more questions than answers
Berlin’s public Stasi archives serve as constant reminder of that era
The computer that can piece together Stasi documents
Secret war crimes indictments of Nazis released after seven-year fight
Music Archival Collections at the Bavarian State Libary
L’ONG Memorial, archives de la Russie soviétique, condamnée à se taire?
Picasso’s grandson shares hundreds of intimate family photos with the world
Suisse – Les 10 ans du Centre de coordination pour l’archivage à long terme de documents électroniques
Suisse – Sauvegarder les archives des enfances volées dans le canton de Vaud
France – La Grande Collecte : ces Français qui ont confié leurs souvenirs aux archives
France – Un siècle plus tard, les archives de la Grande Guerre livrent l’histoire des soldats fusillés
France – Dans les livres de la bibliothèque de Lyon scannés par Google, les traces des travailleurs invisibles
How pictures of the Eiffel Tower at night violate copyright
1790s Paris reborn through archival research in Assassin’s Creed: Unity
This may be the oldest surviving photo of a human
How Georges Perec’s lost first novel has finally come to be published
Archive of interviews with veterans of Irish War of Independence could be made public
World War One: Belfast soldiers’ letters inspire short film
Ireland – Soldier’s century-old snaps found in archive
UK National Archives – Foreign Office 1111 index cards available online
UK National Archives – A day in the life of an archivist
Imperial War Museum library threatened with closure
Imperial War Museum library petition gathers strength
British Libary – Collecting First World War Websites: November 2014 update
Scotland Yard searching the Bodleian Library for Dickens Dossier on alleged child sex abuse
Digitised WW1 diaries highlight battle confusion
Hidden Stories Revealed Through WW1 Footage
African and Caribbean War Memorial unveiled at the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton
Lost Dylan Thomas notebook may cast light on his most impenetrable poems
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Palestine – Ramallah’s artistic uprising inspired by city archives
Images Released of New Herzog & de Meuron-Designed National Library of Israel
Sultanate of Oman – Environment & Climate Affairs Minister Approves Procedural Tools for Documents Management
Hunger Strike Averted as Turkey Ups Art and Heritage Jobs
International
Managing information in cloud systems
WITNESS: Digital Preservation (in Plain Language) as a Tool for Justice
Big Data and the Underground Railroad: industry and government say collect everything, history suggests this is a bad idea
Agencies Find New Ways to Manage the Video Data Tsunami
A non-archivist’s perspective on cataloguing born digital archives
What is the Professional Archivist’s Role in the Evolving Archival Space?
VeraPDFa Consortium awarded Phase 1 of PREFORMA Call for Tender for PDF/A validation
Rewriting history in 140 characters
Twitter Firehose Reveals How Weather Affects Mood