Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
France – Avant-projet de loi relative à la liberté de la création, à l’architecture et au patrimoine
Living Knowledge: the British Library 2015-2023
National Library of the Netherlands – Strategic Plan 2015-2018
U.S. – Evaluation of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence under the Reducing Over-Classification Act
De la communauté / From the community
National Information Standards Organization – Strategic Directions
National Information Standards Organization – Access License and Indicators
Genetic Genealogy Standards
Schema for the Description of Research Data Repositories (Version 2.2)
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Digital Publishing Interest Group Metadata Task Force Report
Article – World Wide Web (WWW) as an Object of Historical Research: Some Issues
Publications
D-Lib Magazine, vol. 21, no. 1-2 (January-February 2015)
San Jose State University School of Information Student Research Journal, vol. 14, no. 2 (2014)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 4, no. 12 (December 2014)
Library and Archives Canada – Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World, vol. 5, no. 1 (January 2015)
Friends of Library and Archives Canada – A Note Among Friends Newsletter (Winter 2014-2015)
Technology Reports – Managing Your Library’s Social Media Channels
Book – Modern Book Collecting: a Basic Guide to All Aspects of Book Collecting: what to Collect, who to Buy from, Auctions, Bibliographies, Care, Fakes, Investments, Donations, Definitions, and More
Book – The Eternal Criminal Record
Book – Digital Destiny: how the New Age of Data Will Transform the Way we Work, Live, and Communicate
Book – Data Science and Big Data Analytics: Discovering, Analyzing, Visualizing and Presenting Data
Kid Book – The Case of the Missing Museum Archives
Livrel – Archiviste d’aujourd’hui, guide pratique
Livre – Techniques de référencement web
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Exposition – Archives en devenir / Devenir des archives
Jusqu’au 31 mai 2015, Centre du patrimoine de Saint-Boniface
Massive Open Online Course – Library Advocacy Unshushed (University of Toronto)
February 2, 2015 – March 23, 2015
Inspiring Advocacy: in Defense of Social Responsibility and Intellectual Freedom
February 6, 2015, Edmonton
Webinar – Coalition to Advance Learning in Archives, Libraries, and Museums: Project Management 101
February 5 and 19, 2014
Virtual Conference – Scientific Data Management: Caring for Your Institution and its Intellectual Wealth
February 18, 2015
Out of the Archives: a Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Queer or Questioning (LGBTQ) Zine Workshop
February 21, 2015, London (UK)
Managing the Past: the Role of Organizational Archives
March 18, 2015, Birmingham (UK)
19th South East Asia-Pacific Audio Visual Archive Association Conference
April 22-28, 2015, Singapore
15es Journées des Archives de Louvain-la-Neuve
23 et 24 avril 2015, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgique)
International Course on Conservation of Japanese Paper (JPC)
August 31 – September 18, 2015, Tokyo (Japan)
Journée d’études – Outils stratégiques d’évaluation des archives (présentations disponibles)
18 novembre 2014, Montréal
OCLC Webinar – Improving Wikipedia Show and Tell (Recordings Available)
December 8, 2014
Sur le web / On the web
University of British Columbia – British Columbia Sessional Papers Phase 2 now Online
Division de la gestion des documents administratifs et des archives de l’Université Laval – Exposition virtuelle sur la faculté des sciences sociales
Kings County Museum (Hampton, New Brunswick) – New Blog: 100 Hidden Histories
Brantford, Brant County and Six Nations (Ont.) – Great War Centenary Association ‘Doing Our Bit’ website
Slidecast – Accessing Historical Data en Masse
Video – Dan Cohen of Digital Public Library of America at the San Francisco Public Library
Vidéo – Ce que le numérique fait aux humanités: conférence de Bruno Latour
Podcast – Florence and the Machines: the British Library Sound Archive
UK National Archives Podcast – Big Ideas: the Shape of Time
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
To guard government computers from hacking, Ottawa to spend $100-million on security
Beware of Loophole in New Copyright Law
Canadian museum pays $300,000 for world’s oldest hockey stick
Communique – The Canadian Historical Association supports the private member’s bill to restore the mandatory long-form census
Digitization of the Canadian Expeditionary Force Personnel Service Files: Update of January 2015
Bellevue House National Historic Site and Library and Archives Canada commemorate Sir John A. Macdonald
Bellevue House was, of Course, Sir John A’s Home in 1848 (small interview with Madeleine Trudeau from Library and Archives Canada)
Unlocking the mystery of Sir John A. Macdonald’s birthplace: founder of Maclean’s magazine may have uncovered the answer in an 1891 story
Alberta courts to end publishing judgments on own web sites
Généalogie : Au-delà des noms, les archives au cœur des familles québécoises
Toronto’s new city librarian pushes the digital envelope
City of Toronto Archives digitizes John Boyd’s WWI photos
City of Vancouver Archives – Pacific National Exhibition photographs are now online
Project documents Edmonton’s queer history
Portrait: Service des archives et de gestion des documents de l’Université du Québec à Montréal
Wilde times: rare book coup for University of British Columbia
University of Alberta preserves grain elevator history
City of Waterloo stores overflow records in parking garage
Remembering Wasaga’s Thelma Morrison, founder of the Wasaga Beach archives (Ont.)
Lloydminster Regional Archives (Alb.) highlight city history
Les archives du Séminaire rentrent à Sainte-Thérèse
Dématique et système d’archivage électronique : Évolution des intervenants dans un contexte de tiers-archivage
Afrique / Africa
Liberia – National Archives Lacks Specialists
Belgium Backs Digitising Rwanda Genocide Archives
Tunisie – Journée d’étude : le rapport entre les archives nationales et la justice transitionnelle
Mali – Manuscrits de Tombouctou délocalisés à Bamako : malgré l’exfiltration, le travail se poursuit
Amériques / Americas
Obama to beef up laws on privacy and data breaches
This is the most requested photo in the U.S. National Archives
Does every president need a separate library?
Government considering using Internet, smartphones for 2020 census
Size of U.S. Nuclear Arsenal Remains Classified
Editorial – Release government files on Malcolm X assassination
Authors Guild Drops HathiTrust Case
Museums are Now Able to Digitize Thousands of Artifacts in Just Hours
Humanities Open Book: Unlocking Great Books
State Library and Archives digitizing original Tennessee historical maps, accessible online
Military museum working to archive Louisiana veterans in online database
Texas State Archives to provide online access to Texas Senate recordings
Utah government open records portal now online
University of Georgia Media Archives improves access to rare Nixon interview footage
University of the Pacific asks the public to help decipher John Muir’s journals
University of North Carolina – Introducing DocSouth Data: Old Texts for New Readings
The History of Harvard’s Library, One Spine at a Time
Audio Archive Captures the Stories of Wisconsin’s Dairy Farmers
Web Archive Management at New York Art Resources Consortium: an National Digital Stewardship Resident Project Update
Boston Public Library helps suburban institutions put historic images online
Punk music archive to preserve Washington D.C. music history
New Orleans – Academic archive aims to document hip-hop while it’s still vital
Oak Park Public Library awarded $86,900 grant to digitize historical Ernest Hemingway archives
Historian tracks down original King William County (Virginia) documents dating back to 1702
Malcolm X Letter Discussing Boston’s Jazz Scene Goes to Auction
Angry Letter from Titanic Survivor, Lady Duff-Gordon, Goes to Auction
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Library of Australia’s ephemera captures nation’s values
Australia – National Archives documents reveal the 100-year war against public service sickies
Australia – New South Wales looks after Chief Information Officer to lead unprecedented library digitisation
Archives New Zealand – Lest we forget: a tribute to ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Day
Japan – State secrets law could constrain researchers
Japan – Records show millions of artworks destroyed by Great Kanto Quake
India – Can’t reveal Netaji files, will hit international ties: Government
India – Ajmer’s historical film archive dying a slow death
Journalist Launches Online Archive to Document Diversity of Rural India
Europe / Europa
The Support Action Centre of Competence in Digitisation (Succeed) Project comes to an end
The curious case of Angela Merkel and her European Union data retention ideas
East German Stasi archive goes online
The Holocaust film that was too shocking to show
YIT to construct new a building for the National Archives of Estonia
Bibliothèque nationale de France : la réforme du dépôt légal fait vaciller le Code du patrimoine
Association des archivistes français – Pour la liberté d’expression
France – Les archivistes aussi sont #Charlie
France – Quelles données méritent d’être conservées ?
Europe 1 rediffuse ses archives sonores
France – Dix mille photos anciennes mises aux enchères à Lyon
National Library of Ireland – It preserves our past, and visitors flock to it, so why is this essential resource underfunded?
Inquiries ordered into destruction of Northern Ireland shoot-to-kill evidence
British Library – Save our Sounds: 15 years to save the UK’s sound collections
Listen up! Why digitising the British Library’s audio archive is so important
Napoleon’s letter of surrender from Waterloo to go on public view at Windsor Castle
Top secret documents unearthed by officer’s son reveal the names of Second World War D-Day operations were changed almost three weeks before invasion
Bristol – Historic photographs from the record office
Historic papers of immense value stolen from Stortford church in destructive raids
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel – Declassified: Shin Bet knew Israel Kastner was targeted
Turkey – Destruction of tapes calls for 7.5-year-long prison sentence
The Truth Behind Turkey’s Open Archives
Turquie – 1915 les documents officiels cachés sous le tapis selon le journaliste turc Murat Bardakçı
Turkish president vows to preserve historical artifacts
Organization of Islamic Cooperation official visits National Library and Archives of Iran
International
How Old VHS Tapes Helped Save Early Web Design
Partnership Ideas for Cultural Heritage Institutions
Preventing Digital Memory Loss
2015 Trends in Data Storage and Archiving
Trust and confidence in cloud privacy
Millions of Sources: the disruption of history and the humanities?
We know how you feel: computers are learning to read emotion, and the business world can’t wait
Google Translate app upgrades voice, camera translation
Email archiving with PDF/A
Digitizing the Mirror With a Memory: how to Deal with a Daguerreotype’s Reflective Surface to Make a Digital Archive of Record