Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Privacy Commissioner of Canada – 2014 Survey of Canadians on Privacy
Dublin Core and the Digital Repository of Ireland
Archives de France – Mesures de simplification relatives au tri et à la conservation des dossiers de demande de cartes nationales d’identité
Common Ground: Exploring Compatibilities Between the Linked Data Models of the Library of Congress and OCLC
De la communauté / From the community
European Thematic Network on Legal Aspects of Public Sector Information – Policy Recommendation Number 6: Rights of Access to Public Sector Information
American Association of Law Libraries – The Economic Value of Law Libraries
Article – Adaptive Web Archival Crawling through Structure-Based Link Classification
Publications
The Chronicle: Newsletter of the Jewish Museum and Archives of B.C., vol. 21, no. 1 (January-April 2015)
Surrey’s (B.C.) Stories Newsletter: Sharing Community Stories of Surrey’s Past, Present and Future (Winter-Spring 2015)
Trent University Archives News, no. 52 (January 2015)
Book – Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities
Book – Digital Heritage: Progress in Cultural Heritage, Documentation, Preservation, and Protection
Book – The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research
Book – Big Data, Little Data, no Data: Scholarship in the Networked World
Book – Data Management for Researchers
Book – Data Privacy for the Smart Grid
Book – Visibly Canadian: Imaging Collective Identities in the Canadas, 1820-1910
Book – Queers Online: LGBT Digital Practices in Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Livre – La documentation dans le numérique
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Information without Borders Conference
February 11, 2015, Halifax
There and Back Again: Searching for Peterborough’s Irish Roots
February 17, 2015, Peterborough (Ont.)
Basic Preservation Workshop
February 19-20, 2015, St. John’s (Newfoundland)
Roots 2015: an International Conference on Family History
June 19-21, 2015, Montreal
Free Online Informational Classes – Records Management University
January 27 – April 7, 2015
Cycle de conférences – Sources, archives et histoire institutionnelle de l’ethnomusicologie de la France
6 février au 5 juin 2015, Paris
The Practice of Digital Preservation
March 16-18, 2015, London (UK)
Presentation of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure
March 26, 2015, Berlin
Traditions of Papermaking in the Islamic World
March 23-27, 2015, London (UK)
Small Archival Projects Conference
April 17, 2015, Dubuque (Iowa)
Digital Approaches to Hebrew Manuscripts
May 18-19, 2015, London (UK)
Association of Moving Image Archivists 2014 Conference: Open Source Digital Preservation & Access Stream (Recordings Available)
October 8-11, 2014, Savannah (Georgia)
Digital Public Library of America Aggregation Webinar (Recording Available)
January 22, 2015
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada – Canadian Directories Online (New Version)
Video – Guided Tour of the Canadian Political Party Web Archive
Slidecast – The Promise WebARChive Files: Exploring the Internet Archive as a Historical Resource
T160k – Cataloging the Timbuktu Libraries (Crowdfunding)
Vidéo – Les mots de l’économie numérique : métadonnées
Vidéo – Patrimoine culturel, patrimoine naturel
Baladodiffusion – L’indexation et le repérage d’images
Slidecast – Metadata Matters: Business Critical Metadata
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Communications Security Establishment tracks millions of downloads daily: Snowden documents
Federal government’s new terror law concerns privacy watchdog
Copyright quirk leaves James Bond up for grabs in Canada
Federal Privacy commissioner embarks on private privacy campaign
Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin alarmed by bleak designs for victims of communism memorial (to be built next to LAC building)
Pre-1920 RCMP service files available at Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada – All papers are not created equal
A Visit to 395 Wellington (Library and Archives Canada)
The war on brains (excerpt from “Kill the Messengers” about federal historians, researchers and librarians)
Magna Carta to Tour Canada in its 800th Anniversary Year
Archives of Manitoba – Counting Down to the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage
Nova Scotia – Documents reveal government’s legal fees way over budget in Bluenose II copyright dispute
University of British Columbia – Bringing history into the future
Ryerson University – Ingersoll to Kingston circa 1905
Dalhousie Libraries’ University Archives launches new archives catalogue
Toronto Public Library – Find the history (and cool historical images) of your neighbourhood
Cour municipale de Québec – Bientôt une cour numérique
Centre du patrimoine de Saint-Boniface – Le lieux de mémoire : fonds Georges Forest
Searching for Kitchener’s lost graveyards: there are folks who probably have bodies buried in their backyard and have no idea
Cure de rénovation majeure à la Société d’histoire de Sherbrooke
Gatineau – Un sous-sol d’église rempli de souvenirs… sportifs
Coquitlam’s city (B.C.) archive collection is booming
Whitby Archives (Ont.) breathes new life into old collection
Edson (Alb.) – Library archives on the move
Belleville (Ont.) – Historical documents on move to city library
Entreprise Androïde à Trois-Rivières – Travailler sans papier, ni crayon
Afrique / Africa
AfriLeaks gives truth a fighting chance
Nigeria – Towards safeguarding of intangible heritage
http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/en/news/Nigeria:-Towards-safeguarding-of-intangible-heritage-00113
Pourra-t-on sauver l’autre mémoire de la République ? (interview du directeur national des Archives de Guinée)
Algérie – Tayeb Zitouni, ministre des Moudjahidine, évoque les archives sur la guerre de Libération
Tunisie – L’Union générale tunisienne du travail veut récupérer ses archives et rendre justice aux victimes des événements du 26 janvier 1978
What is the significance of an Identity Document in post apartheid South Africa?
South Africa – Censorship of public archives and the limits of accountability
Amériques / Americas
Mexico – A Historic Manuscript on Aztec Life is Virtually Repatriated
Saint Kitts – Gems of the National Archives Chronicles Development of Federation
Library of Congress – From the Field: More Insight into Digital Preservation Training Needs
Library of Congress – 1871 plans map out the first circuit of the globe by telegraph
All the Presidents’ Memorabilia
National Declassification Center – Prioritization Update
NARA – Behind the scenes: Microfilm repair and duplication in St. Louis
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Government health care website quietly sharing personal data
Navy – Back to the future: the time to write your chapter of Naval history is now
Wanted: a new generation of Monuments Men for US army
New coalition to advise feds on records management
Society of American Archivists Response to Member Request re University of Texas Acquisition of Gabriel García Márquez Archive
The Smithsonian turned to conveyor belts, cameras to digitize its many artifacts
Smithsonian Opens API Access to Design Museum Collection
Internet Archives – Library of Alexandria v2.0
Indiana – Courts seek funds for statewide e-filing availability
Proposed Elimination of Genealogy at the Indiana State Library
Ambitious Louisiana History Preservation Under Way
Lousiana digital news archive goes online
Michigan’s past comes to life on Twitter feed
University of Oregon – Stop reading, return records: in a letter, officials tell a professor to give back 22,000 pages of documents
Oregonian reportedly releases names of two suspended archivists involved in leaked documents
University of Texas – Fellows Find: H. P. Lovecraft letter sheds light on pivotal moment in his career
Proposal by New Mexico State University would limit access to public records
University of North Texas placing news film from NBC 5 / KXAS-TV on Portal to Texas History
University of Illinois library system has unique collection of Indian comic books
California State University, Dominguez Hills – Archives Department Receives Collection from Longest-Running Black-Owned Bookstore
Cornell Hip Hop Collection to Go Digital
100 Years of National Geographic Maps: the Art and Science of where
Selections of Rolling Stone magazine’s near 50-year archive coming to Google Play for free
The Museum of the Future is Here
Johnson Publishing Company Selling Iconic 70-Year-Old Photo Archive
Dear Johnson Publishing Company, about Selling your Photo Archives
Pennsylvania – Nazareth Moravian diary from 18th, 19th centuries translated and posted online
StoryCorps Interview: Yiddish Book Center (Massachusetts)
All in the (Apple ProRes 422 Video Codec) Family
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Establishment of a Digital Transformation Office
Australia – Queensland election 2015: State Library wants your election junk mail to add to growing collection
Australia – Queensland: the Year that was in Government Recordkeeping
New Zealand – Islandora Show and Tell: Reverend Samuel Marsden Online Archive
Conférence sur les patrimoines mondiaux du Vietnam
Malaysia opens digital library to encourage ICT use
India – Records in Urdu paper in poor shape, so unable to respond to right to information query: National Archives
Europe / Europa
Interview with Dieter Schlenker, Director, Historical Archives of the European Union
Russia – The Search for the Lost Library of Ivan the Terrible
War injuries key to Spanish search for Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes’ remains
Sold as scrap, richest Ottoman archives in Bulgarian Library
Estonian daguerreotypes soon to be published in Daguerreobase
Stefan and Franciszka Themerson archive donated to Poland’s National Library
Italy – City Archives of Milan
Netherlands – The Hague and Leidschendam-Voorburg archives merged
Revealing the Dead Sea Scrolls of the Warsaw Ghetto
Remembering the Holocaust: Haunting Images of Auschwitz
Auschwitz : les archives du crime
Auschwitz – Quatre bouts de pellicule arrachés de l’enfer
Forgotten for a century on a museum shelf, a new cricket is discovered
La protection des données personnelles, nouvel eldorado de la Suisse
Suisse – Vaud: numériser les archives, un défi d’avenir majeur
La Bibliothèque nationale de France choisit Login People pour sécuriser l’accès à ses données
The Little Prince: almost in the Public Domain
Ireland – New Belfast Project Subpoena(s)
Ireland – Loyalist stops police collecting Boston tapes
Ireland – IRA gunmen face arrest over Boston College Belfast Project tapes
Inishowen woman appointed Director of the Irish Traditional Music Archive
Ireland – Thousands of farmers’ confidential documents found on Tuam road
Ireland – Request to access Irish Bank Resolution Corporation liquidation records refused
40 fascinating century-old pictures of Scotland and you’ll be amazed where we found them
UK – Cambridge spies secrets among 170,000 historic files overdue for release
UK National Archives – Irish Poverty Relief Loan records available online
UK National Archives – Kindertransport records go online
@UKNatArchives has 50,000 followers
British Library opens National Newspaper Building
British Library – Into the void (National Newspaper Building)
British Library publishes vast audio archive of Holocaust testimonies for Holocaust Memorial Day
BBC News NI Live archive material provides glimpse of past
Alan Turing’s Notebook Could Fetch $1 Million at Auction
The National Museum of Computing to record, publish audio archive
Historical papers stolen from a Stortford church on a night of raids have been found
Digitised versions of books from the Sibbald Library (medical heritage library) will be appearing on the web from February 2015
Historic collection of documents to remain in Lancashire county archives
Victorian curry recipe with sour apples found in Yorkshire archive
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Luciana Duranti invited to United Arab Emirates
How a long-lost Torah went from Iraq to Israel and why Iraq may want it back
Piece By Piece, Monks Scramble to Preserve Iraq’s Christian History
Israel – Yad Vashem’s new goals: digitizing memories of the Holocaust
Inside the Massive Project to Uncover the Holocaust’s Nameless Victims
The long journey: the significance of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East’s audiovisual archive
International
Commonwealth War Graves Commission – New archive records available to researchers
Everybody Dies: what is your Digital Legacy?
Using Gephi to Explore Web Archive Structures
OCLC Research Launches Terms of Use and Reuse for Finding Aid Metadata Project
Avoiding an Information Crisis: a Practical Guide to Strategically Reducing Corporate Data
The Untold Story of the Invention of the Game Cartridge
Why museums hide masterpieces away
The Real Reason why your Ancestors Didn’t Smile in Old Photographs
The Value of Remembering Ordinary Moments
The Public Domain Project Makes 10,000 Film Clips, 64,000 Images & 100s of Audio Files Free to Use