Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada – New Procedures and Guidelines for Transfer of Digital Records and File Formats posted on Ontario Council of University Libraries Digital Curation Community
U.S. – Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014
NARA Press Release: http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2015/nr15-23.html
National Archives of Australia – What we Keep: Principles for the Selection of the Australian Government’s National Archives (Draft for Comments)
Italian Directorate General of Archives – Surveys on Military and Intelligence Archives and on the Regulation of the Archival Profession in European Union Countries
European Union – Guidelines on the Implementation of the Court of Justice of the European Union Judgment on Google Spain (Right to be Forgotten)
Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés (France) – Droit au déréférencement: les critères communs utilisés pour l’examen des plaintes
New Zealand – Privacy Commissioner’s 2014 Annual Report
De la communauté / From the community
Digital Preservation Coalition – OAIS Introductory Guide (2nd Edition)
Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative – Digital File Formats for Videotape Reformatting
Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative – Creating and Archiving Born Digital Video
Film Heritage Online: Framing Digital Policy for Public Sector Film Archives Online
Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use of Orphan Works for Libraries & Archives
Research Data Alliance – The Data Harvest: how Sharing Research Data can Yield Knowledge, Jobs and Growth
Publications
Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography, vol. 67, no. 1 (January 2015)
Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, vol. 26, no. 4 (2014)
Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 41, no. 2 (December 2014/January 2015)
Maple Ridge Historical Society (B.C.) Family History Newsletter (November 2014)
Book – Echoes of British Columbia: voices from the Frontier
See also: http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/books/Pioneers+tell+tales+history/10424018/story.html
Book – Extensible Processing for Archives and Special Collections: Reducing Processing Backlogs
Book – The Archives: Post-cinema and Video Game between Memory and the Image of the Present
Book – Cinema and Art as Archive: Form, Medium, Memory
Book – Digital Exhaust: what Everyone Should Know About Big Data, Digitization and Digitally Driven Innovation
Book – The Enemies of Books
Book – Marketing Concepts for Libraries and Information Services (3rd edition)
Book – Freedom and Information in the Digital Age
Book – Research Methods for the Records Information Management (RIM) Professional
Book – An Introduction to Comparative Philology for Classical Students
Livre – Les archives de la mise en scène: hypermédialités du théâtre
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
3rd International Open Data Conference
May 27-29, 2015, Ottawa
Webinar – Understanding Electronic Records Storage Technologies
December 8-23, 2014
Webinar – Two-Part Webinar: Sustainable Information (Digital Preservation for Text and Audio-Visual Content)
December 10 and 17, 2014
Webinar – Launch of the Alliance for Permanent Access (APARSEN) Virtual Centre of Excellence
December 10, 2014
Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Artistic Use and a Celebration of the British Library 1 Million Images Collection
December 18, 2014, London (UK)
eCourse – Introduction to Digital Curation 2015
January 19 – March 15, 2015
9th Annual Sedona Conference Institute Program on eDiscovery
March 19-20, 2015, Nashville (Tennessee)
Networked Publishing: Digital Writing in the Humanities
April 25, 2015, University of Kentucky
Les sources de l’audiovisuel (vidéos disponibles)
9 octobre 2014, Paris (Archives nationales de France)
Première session: http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x3ib8z_Archives_nationales_Fr_les-sources-de-l-audiovisuel-premiere-session/1
Deuxième session: http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x3iba2_Archives_nationales_Fr_les-sources-de-l-audiovisuel-deuxieme-session/1
Troisième session: http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x3id2n_Archives_nationales_Fr_les-sources-de-l-audiovisuel-troisieme-session/1
Quatrième session: http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x3id58_Archives_nationales_Fr_les-sources-de-l-audiovisuel-quatrieme-session/1
30th Conference of the European Board of National Archivists and the 17th Meeting of the European Archives Group (Presentations Available)
November 3-4, 2014, Turin (Italy)
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Video – Wallot-Sylvestre Seminar: David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States
New Website – New Brunswick Scottish History
Public Archives and Records Office of Prince Edward Island – Online Exhibits: Advertisements from Hutchinson’s 1864 Directory
New Website and Open Data Portal for OpenDataBC
Podcast – In Depth with Ian Austin: Vancouver Chief Librarian Sandra Singh on Digital Trends
New Europeana Newspapers Tools Available
Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) Online Gallery – Design in the Archives: Taste, Copyright and the Decorative Arts
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
What open government hides: Ottawa’s enthusiasm for open data has not been matched with reforms to the access-to-information system
Canadian Museum of History CEO says Canada’s national treasures need a permanent public home
Library and Archives Canada Begins Negotiations with OCLC to Replace AMICUS
Do the archiving here in Hamilton
RCMP officers break rules on note-taking: internal audit
Digitization program offers funding for BC history projects
Dossiers médicaux électroniques: le Québec à la traîne
Une histoire du courtage financier au Québec (1867-1987) : parcours de recherche à BAnQ
BAnQ – André Brassard: la prégnance de l’éphémère
World War One Halifax explosion: unseen pictures revealed
Q&A: Native North America curator Kevin Howes: the Vancouver record collector on the still-pertinent revolutionary messages of long-lost Aboriginal-Canadian music
Montreal’s Concordia University’s Downtown Library is Allegedly Infested with Bed Bugs
Montreal – Preserving the memory of life in The Point: art history student Clinton Glenn digs into family lore
Sept-Îles – Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec: Un acteur indispensable en généalogie
Sherbrooke – BAnQ: Plongeon dans sa propre histoire
Société de généalogie du Saguenay – À la recherche de ses ancêtres
Vingt étudiants en Numérisation et archivage au Centre de Matane
Osoyoos and District Museum and Archives (B.C.) projects focused on 2017 move
13 Questions with… Katherine Clubine, Senior Information Specialist, Industry Canada
Afrique / Africa
South Africa Broadcasting Corporation donates archive footage to Mandela Foundation
Rwanda: Government Intensifies Plans to Digitise Gacaca Archives
University of Ghana introduces Records Management and Archives Policy
Authenticating electronic record-based evidence in Zimbabwean labour disputes
La copie numérique des archives du drame de Thiaroye remise au Sénégal
Maroc – Le rôle des archives dans la conservation de la mémoire débattu à Rabat: à l’occasion du Centenaire de la Première Guerre mondiale
Amériques / Americas
Aztec manuscript under the microscope: French researchers try to date the Codex Borbonicus, one of the most treasured Mesoamerican historical documents
ARMA comments on Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014
Tobacco Litigation Freeze Lifted
National Security Archive and Historical Associations File Petition to Open Key Remaining Rosenberg Grand Jury Records
George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation Has Sold to a Private Collector
Metropolitan Museum of Art – Crowdsourcing the Letters of Frederick Stuart Church
North Carolina looking at refreshing death records system
Online Digital Archive Provides Glimpse Into Historic World War II Records: First Division Museum at Cantigny Park (Illinois) Website Offers Free, Remote Access
At Harvard, Technology Resurrects Long-Silent Voices Of Poets
City posts 17th century manuscripts from when New York was New Amsterdam online
New York museum digitizes Harlem Hellfighters records
Chicago Film Archives celebrates 10th anniversary
Automotive History Photos Available Online From Detroit Public Library
Eagles Sue Concert Footage Archivist Over Bootleg Performances
Digitized rare maps help Save Texas History
Jack White rescues Blues archives of Paramount importance
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
International Council on Archives President David Fricker met the French President François Hollande during his visit to Australia
Australia – Bill Park, 95-year-old WWII veteran, spends 12 years updating thousands of missing service records
New Zealand – Capital home to oversized atlas: turning a page takes two people
UNESCO honours early New Zealand oral and written heritage items
Literary manuscripts in South Korea
National Library of Cambodia – A once grand symbol longing to be saved
India – BJP wanted files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose made public, now government says no
Europe / Europa
Microsoft and Yahoo respond to European right to be forgotten requests
Archivist rediscovers forgotten 16th century ghetto in Rome
The Archive: an historical but living patrimony: interview with Mario Graziani of Afro’s Archive in Rome
From Shoe Banging to Ukraine, Archives Comb Nikita Khrushchev Past
Historic films from Russian State Archives to be released worldwide
E-services for cross-border municipal archives in Estonia and Russia being created
First art collections and Romanian heritage available on Google Cultural Institute
Germany – Stasi Disguises, Unearthed, are Utterly Unconvincing
Anne Frank’s diary turned into app, complete with interactive timelines
Pope Francis wants to open Holocaust-era Vatican archives as quickly as possible
Defiant Hungarian doctor hid Jewish boy and his aunt, kept a diary as Nazis scoured Budapest in the Holocaust
Historian spots long-lost painting while watching Stuart Little
Monaco – 4ème réunion de la Commission Consultative des Archives de l’État
Archives de l’État en Belgique – Des archives d’une valeur exceptionnelle
Suisse – Les Archives fédérales reprennent les archives de l’Assemblée interjurassienne
Suisse – Un Genevois a découvert un texte inédit de Louis-Ferdinand Céline
France – Droit à l’oubli : la Cour de cassation rejette l’effacement du registre des baptêmes
Sale temps pour les bibliothèques françaises de l’étranger
National Library of Ireland Announces its Most Significant Ever Digitisation Project for Irish Genealogy
UK National Archives – Latest batch of archives accredited
Alan Turing Institute for Data Science to be based at British Library
British Library – Medical Topography in the India Office Records
UK vinyl sales pass 1 million mark for first time in 18 years
Unique theatre archive donated to Bristol University
Historic Penrhyn Papers to be recorded and catalogued in Bangor University
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
United Arab Emirates archives go online with Google
Turkish Foreign Ministry opens its diplomatic archives for researchers
International
Un réseau numérique francophone
Vinyl, Once Thought Dead, Makes a Comeback in the Digital Age
How digital maps are changing the way we understand our world
Is digitisation the answer or is digital preservation the question?
Science journal Nature to make archives available online
Which Writer’s Letters Are Most Worth Reading?