Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Speech – Guy Berthiaume: A Season in the Life of Library and Archives Canada
UK Department for Culture, Media & Sport – Independent Library Report for England
National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago – Brochure
De la communauté / From the community
United Nations – A World that Counts: Mobilising the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development
Support Action Centre of Competence in Digitisation (SUCCEED) – December 2014 Reports
Report on the Activities and Outputs of the Expert Advisory Board: http://www.succeed-project.eu/sites/default/files/deliverables/Succeed_600555_WP1_D1.1_ReportActivitiesOutputsEAB_1.0_D.pdf
Map of the European Digitisation Landscape: http://www.succeed-project.eu/sites/default/files/deliverables/Succeed_600555_WP7_D7.3_Map%20of%20the%20European%20Digitisation%20Landscape-Future%20Needs_v1.0.pdf
Operational Platform with Additional Tools Integrated: http://www.succeed-project.eu/sites/default/files/deliverables/Succeed_600555_WP2_D2_4_OperationalPlatform_1.0.pdf
Report on Interoperability of Digitisation Platforms: http://www.succeed-project.eu/sites/default/files/deliverables/Succeed_Deliverable_D2.5_v1.0.pdf
Report on Competitions, Awards and their Visibility: http://www.succeed-project.eu/sites/default/files/deliverables/D5.2%20Report%20v1.2.pdf
Research Libraries UK – National Digitisation Review
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Web Annotation Data Model (First Public Working Draft)
Article – The Digitization Age: Mass Culture is Quality Culture: Challenges for Cultural Heritage and Society
Publications
Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, vol. 38, no. 4 (December 2014)
Journal of Library Metadata, vol. 14, no. 3-4 (July-December 2014)
Journal of Documentation, vol. 71, no. 1 (2015)
Journal of Information Science, vol. 40, no. 6 (December 2014)
International Journal of Conflict and Violence, vol. 8, no. 1, 2014 (Special Issue on Violence, Justice, and the Work of Memory)
Feliciter, vol. 60, no. 6 (December 2014)
Documentaliste Sciences de l’Information, vol. 51, no.4 (2014)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 4, no. 9 (November 2014)
La Réserve: Bulletin d’information de la Société d’histoire de Drummond, no. 2 (2014)
For the Records: Newsletter of the New South Wales State Records, no. 108 (December 2014)
Thesis – Information Search in Web Archives
Book – Digital Heritage and Culture: Strategy and Implementation
Book – Oral History and Digital Humanities: Voice, Access, and Engagement
Book – Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites
Book – The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting: Essays on Trauma, History, and Memory
Book – The SAGE Handbook of Intellectual Property
Book – Multilingual Information Management: Information, Technology and Translators
Book – A Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland (3rd edition)
Book – Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary
Livre – Les genres de documents dans les organisations: analyse théorique et pratique
Livre – Le temps des humanités digitales: la mutation des sciences humaines et sociales
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
How Legislation Affects Archives or How not to go to Jail
March 12-13, 2015, Toronto
Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland 2015 Conference
August 26-28, 2015, Dublin
http://www.archives.org.uk/ara-in-action/news/564-ara-2015-conference-in-dublin-call-for-papers.html
19th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
September 14-18, 2015, Poznań (Poland)
78th ASIS&T Annual Meeting
November 6-10, 2015, St. Louis (Missouri)
Association des archivistes du Québec – Présentation du livrel Archiviste d’aujourd’hui (vidéo disponible)
14 décembre 2014
Webinar – Innovative Solutions for Dealing with Born-digital Content in Obsolete Formats (Video Available)
October 20, 2014
Support Action Centre of Competence in Digitisation (SUCCEED) – Final Conference (Videos Available)
November 28, 2014, Paris
Sur le web / On the web
Waterloo Region – Remembering the Great War Database
Video Series – Major Photographic Processes Used Throughout History
Video – British Library: Big Data, Small Data and Meaning: the Conundrums of Tool Use in the Humanities
Slidecast – Automatic Publication of Library and Museum Data into the LOD Cloud
Slidecast – Succeed in Digitisation: National Library of the Netherlands
Indiegogo – The Destruction of Memory
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canadian federal e-petitions system one step closer to reality
Winning design for victims of communism memorial (to be built next to LAC building) features 100 million memory squares
Jury member goes public with criticism of victims of communism memorial site
Royal Proclamation to ‘kitchen accord;’ Canada’s history on display in Winnipeg
Library and Archives Canada – Digitization of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Personnel Service Files: Update of December 2014
Newly Digitized Microfilms on the Héritage Portal
News from Library and Archives Canada
Why are our national archives being locked from public view?
Letter to the Editor – Archives problems should be fixed (on Library and Archives Canada)
A Small Sign of Progress at LAC
BAnQ et Wikimédia : une première collaboration GLAM au Canada
BAnQ – Des ancêtres prisonniers, anglais et protestants?
Archives Society of Alberta – Access to Holdings 2015-2016 Applications now Available
McMaster University Archives: Yuletide greetings from the First World War
University of Guelph Historical Book now Available in Digital Format
Happy Holidays from the Ryerson University Archives and Special Collections
Quelques présents des Archives de Montréal en ce temps des fêtes
A permanent record of Waterloo Region’s Great War soldiers
Esquimalt Municipal Archives (B.C.) now online
Kings Historical Society (Nova Scotia) offers unique and different Christmas gifts
Belleville and Hastings County (Ont.) – Community Archives preparing for historic move
Afrique / Africa
Rwanda: Gacaca Archives Digitisation Starts in January
Namibia – The acting head of the National Archives has been convicted of corruption
Bénin – Commémoration du centenaire des archives nationales : AlassanI Tigri engagé pour un nouvel essor du patrimoine
Spy messages could finally solve mystery of UN chief’s death crash: US urged to hand over intercepts to establish truth of 1961 plane accident in Zambia in which Dag Hammarskjöld died
Tunisie : l’accès du citoyen aux documents administratifs, la condition d’une bonne gouvernance
Congo – Une expertise française au profit de l’archivage de la Direction générale de contrôle des marchés public
http://www.adiac-congo.com/content/une-expertise-francaise-au-profit-de-larchivage-de-la-dgcmp-24957
South Africa – Culture seen as key to reconciliation
South Africa – Missing documents at the Department of Home Affairs
South Africa – Intangible heritage and the archive
Amériques / Americas
Donation of archives to Trinidad was an implicit indictment of Guyana’s failure to preserve its heritage
Library of Congress – Preserving our nation’s film heritage
25 movies chosen in 2014 for preservation in National Film Registry at Library of Congress
Library of Congress and OCLC – Working Together to Clarify Approaches to Library Linked Data
Archivist of the United States Appoints Director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
NARA – Young Fidel Castro Wrote Frannklin Delano Roosevelt to Ask for 10 Bucks
Delays plague Hillary Clinton’s State Department files
From landfill to Smithsonian collections: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Atari 2600 game
Oldest Time Capsule in US Unearthed at Massachusetts State House
Interview: Arkansas State Library
Iowa’s court system going paperless
The Goizueta Foundation to support the creation of a Digital Humanities Laboratory at the Yale University Library
At St. John’s, a quest to save ancient texts
Columbia University – Center for Digital Research and Scholarship Launches New Digital Dante Research Resource
Institute of Outdoor Theatre Archives to be processed at East Carolina University
http://www.ncarchivists.org/2014/12/12/institute-of-outdoor-theatre-archives-to-be-processed-at-ecu/
Central Michigan University digitizes plant and fish samples into online database
Crowdsourcing prize for cataloguing F1 video archive: winners announced
A Cultural History of the Baseball Card
Sotheby’s Smashes World Record for a Photography Auction
Maurice Sendak Museum, Archive Planned in Ridgefield
http://www.courant.com/features/hc-maurice-sendak-ridgefield-museum-archive-1214-20141215-story.html
Rare Photos of Shoeshine Tradition Discovered in Pacific Grove Archive
Robert Wolfe, Archivist of Nazi Documents, Fought Relentlessly To Expose Holocaust
Oklahoma – A Genealogist who Spent his Life Building a Cherokee Archive Retires
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
West Australia archives hold key to history
University of South Australia – Archive captures three generations of Australian political history
Hong Kong protesters seek to archive their art, words for posterity
Hong Kong – Archive restores silver screen’s luster
Taiwan – Des archives de la Terreur blanche rendues publiques
Bangladesh – Star, Grameenphone launch online Liberation War archive
Tongan Royal Archives digitizes history
India – Centre de-classifies files relating to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
India – Digitising Endangered Village Archives: the Sundarbans Case
Europe / Europa
Update on Europeana Cloud’s Technical Infrastructure
How the Lithuanian Art Museum shares their culture with the world
Germany – Vast archive of kimono stencils found in Dresden museum
Old Images of Greenland Show Stunning Changes when Compared to Today
Georgia – National Archive restores old Georgian maps
Spanish Newspaper Publishers’ Association now Asks Government to Help Stop Google News Closure
External traffic to Spanish news sites plummets after Google move
National Library of Spain statement regarding Resource Description & Access (RDA)
Missing artwork rediscovered in Stuart Little sells for over 200,000 euros at auction
Archives fédérales suisses – Les photographies d’identité judiciaire de Carl Durheim : le plus ancien fonds connu d’archives policières publié sur Wikimedia Commons
France – Au Service Historique de la Défense, des fonds consultables sans réservation
Association des archivistes français – Confiée aux services d’archives, la conservation de données personnelles n’est pas incompatible avec le respect des droits des citoyens européens
Médinathèque du Musée des Civilisations Européennes et Méditerranéennes : 60 ans d’archives audiovisuelles de la Méditerannée
De l’archive au témoignage : le premier cinéma de guerre
France – Les écolos veulent créer un centre d’archives LGBT à Paris
Ireland – Knight of Glin’s personal papers now in national archive (Maynooth University)
Wales – Cardiff University explores family archives
UK – Data retention laws: cost of setting up metadata storage scheme is still unclear
British Library – Chance discovery casts new light on origins of polyphonic music
British Film Institute and BBC restore first ever British science-fiction movie
BBC – Archive touch-table developed for 50th anniversary of Midlands Today
Tate puts Unpublished Archival Material of British Artists Online
London’s Screen Archives bring borough’s past back to life
Cambridge University archives show Enoch Powell refused to support Nigel Farage in by-election 20 years ago
University of Cambridge – Crown jewels of English lute music go online
Winchester Cathedral’s hunt for stolen Bible pages worth £1m: eight could have been taken in past 150 years
Designated Arts Council status for Nottingham lace collection
800 years of Poole’s fascinating history can be catalogued, thanks to funding
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Saudi archiving center restores millions of ancient documents
Stealing from history: the looting and destruction of Iraqi and Syrian heritage concern us all
An Introduction to the New Syrian National Archive
Making waves with the Qatar Digital Library
International
World Intellectual Property Organization Members Conclude Year Positively with Copyright Committee, Despite no Changes to Text
Google constitution archive adds Arabic documents
An Oral History of the First Cyberfeminists
Rio Tinto mines dark data
Rehousing is not processing
Ensuring long-term access: PDF validation with JHOVE?
The image in the 21st century: how digital photo archives have changed the way the world looks
In an All-Digital Future, It’s the New Movies that will be in Trouble
Pour quelle mission de la chaîne archivistique êtes-vous fait(e) ?
Gifts for archivists and librarians: from the practical to the luxurious