Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada Strategic Policy Suites (Available on the Internet at Last)
Copyright Board of Canada – Discussion Paper on Two Procedural Issues
B.C. – Government Information Act
UK National Archives and Research Libraries UK – Guide to Collaboration between the Archive and Higher Education Sectors
Archives de France – Étude sur le traitement de fichiers numériques “techniques” (plans) d’un fonds d’archives d’architecte
Note d’information: http://www.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/static/8092
De la communauté / From the community
E-Ark – Three New Reports: SIP Draft Specification ; AIP Draft Specification ; Maturity Model for Information Governance
College Arts Association – Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts
Council on Library and Information Resources – The Center of Excellence Model for Information Services
Recode – Using Existing Open Access Networks to Support Policy Harmonisation Across Europe
A Unified Approach to Preserving Cultural Software Objects and their Development Histories
Publications
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Journal, no. 44 (2015)
Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, vol. 7, no. 4 (February 2015)
Information Standards Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 4 (2014)
The Almanac: Newsletter of the Chiliwack (B.C.) Museum and Archives (Spring 2015)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 1 (January 2015)
Book – Management Accounting at the Hudson’s Bay Company: from Quill Pen to Digitization
Book – Afterlife of Events: Perspectives on Mnemohistory
Book – Encounters with Popular Pasts: Cultural Heritage and Popular Culture
Book – Social Semantic Web Mining
Book – The Complete Guide to Using Google in Libraries Instruction, Administration, and Staff Productivity: Volume 1
Book – The Metadata Handbook: a Book Publisher’s Guide to Creating and Distributing Metadata for Print and Ebooks (2nd Edition)
Book – Cultural Networks in Migrating Heritage: Intersecting Theories and Practices across Europe
Book – Playful Intelligence: Digitizing Tradition
Book – Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis
Book – Letter to a Future Lover: Marginalia, Errata, Secrets, Inscriptions, and other Ephemera Found in Libraries
Livre – Archivistes de 2030: réflexions prospectives
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Third Annual Family History Day
February 14, 2015, Grande Prairie (Alberta)
Ottawa Heritage Day 2015
February 17, 2015, Ottawa
2015 Toronto Open Data Day
February 20-22, 2015, Toronto
Webinar – Discover Canada Government Publications and Legislative Libraries via the GALLOP Portal
February 26, 2015
Free Online Course – Digging Deeper: Making Manuscripts
January 20 – March 6, 2015
Webcast – Presenting the Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use of Collections Containing Orphan Works
February 26, 2015, Washington D.C.
The Audience is the Archive: how Performance has Changed our Notions of Special Collections
February 27, 2015, New York
35th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
July 6-10, 2015, Jerusalem
Web Archiving: Preserving the History of Data-Driven Society (Recordings Available)
January 28, 2015, National Library of Estonia
Webinar – The Right to Information: Designing Laws to Support Effective Implementation (Recordings Available)
February 5, 2014
Webinar – Digitization is Possible: Identifying & Overcoming Barriers (Recordings Available)
February 6, 2015
Webinar – The Right to Information in Morocco: Features and Lessons (Recordings Available)
February 12, 2015
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Canada’s Flag: the Maple Leaf Forever
Video – On the Road to 2017 with Library and Archives Canada
UN Human Rights Office Launches Major Online Database of Treaty Body Case Law
Video – What’s Going on in Lugansk and Donetsk Archive (Ukraine)
Video – Improving the Odds of Preservation
Video – Online-Only Media: 21st Century Collection Crisis?
Slidecast – Green Shoots: Research Data Management Pilot at Imperial College London
Slidecast – The Stuff we Forget: Digital Humanities, Digital Data, and the Academic Cycle
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Concerns about copyright in Canada
Antonia Maioni, President of the Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences: We haven’t forgotten the long-form census
MP Paul Dewar, Mayor Jim Watson speak out against site for victims of communism memorial (to be built next to LAC building)
2014 e-discovery year in review
Queer Archives in Canada
Canadianagram
Manitoba Legislative Library receives collection of rare books
Will the internet be the death of museums? The Royal Ontario Museum doesn’t think so
Royal B.C. Museum’s interactive website a portal to B.C.
La pdg de BAnQ élue vice-présidente du conseil d’administration de l’ÉNAP
Online Dispute Resolution to Become the Norm in Quebec?
Viola Irene Desmond: 2015 Honouree, Nova Scotia Heritage Day
Ontario Provincial Police seizes BlackBerry in deleted e-mail investigation
Dalton McGuinty aides planned to delete records of staff who discussed gas plants
Two Decorated Brothers: Leo and David Heaps at the Ontario Jewish Archives
Ukrainian Canadian Archives and Museum of Alberta at standstill due to $4M funding shortfall
The hard task of writing a university history
University of Alberta, Harvard team up to bring hidden medical data to light
Concordia University – Acquisition of Ken Whittingham fonds
University of British Columbia Acquires Books with Possible Link to Oscar Wilde
McCord Museum acquires significant collection of magic memorabilia
Gramophone tour to memorialize RCAF airmen lands at Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum (Ont.)
Behind the scenes at the Toronto Archives
Vancouver – Veterans share memories of war with next generation
Il est essentiel pour les communautés francophones de montrer leur patrimoine
Montreal – Jewish General Hospital: Archives working with McGill Practicum Student
History Pin already posting pictures of yesteryear Sarnia (Ont.)
Ontario – Thieves accidentally steal a bit of Navan’s history (a small black book containing a roughly 20-year record of marriages)
Lloydminster (Alb.) – History on display at City Hall
Techniques de la documentation: un milieu pour les gens avides d’information
Appel à tous: Chronique d’archives de la Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française
Afrique / Africa
Financial assistance, a key mechanism for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in Africa
Tunisie – Mohsen Marzouk (conseiller politique auprès de la présidence de la république) : les archives présidentielles ne peuvent être déplacées
Mali – Bamako conference urges emergency action to safeguard manuscripts
Côte d’Ivoire – Incendie aux impôts de la Riviera 3: le bureau des archives part en fumée
Congo – Coopération culturelle : la Bibliothèque nationale dotée de plusieurs ouvrages russes
Rwanda strives to take custody of Genocide International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda archives
South Africa – Lost court records delay judgment in activist court case
South Africa – Chief Justice details R600m plan to store court documents online
Amériques / Americas
Trinidad and Tobago – National Archives awarded Public Service Diamond Standard Certification
A big win for open government: Sunlight Foundation gets U.S. to release indexes of federal data
Library of Congress Receives Papers of American Composer Marvin Hamlisch
ARMA Launches Coalition to Advance Public Sector Information Governance
Government wonders: what’s in your old emails?
A Painstaking Effort to Reunite Forgotten Films with their Owners
Montana archivists saving history in a digital age
New York – Salvaged from fire, document restoration underway
Warehouse fire raises questions on perishable public records
New York – Donation Will Preserve Historic Documents Burned in 1911 Capitol Fire
Guardians of Maine’s Cultural Treasures Fear Impact of LePage’s Tax Proposal
With release of thousands of emails, Jeb Bush opens window to his time as Florida governor
Florida – State reviewing protocol after giving Bush email archive with sensitive information
New legislation would update Maryland Public Information Act, improve access to public records
Columbia – Rare Book & Manuscript Library Acquires Frederick Fried Coney Island Collection
A Glimpse Inside the Hidden Vault where Harvard Keeps Millions of Books
Stanford Libraries to acquire the Chinese American Citizens Alliance archive
East Carolina University archivists to catalog items from more than 600 outdoor theaters
Digitizing Southwest Minnesota State University’s archives
Dallas cultural center’s archives to be preserved by University of North Texas
University of Maryland – Crowdsourcing History: Take a Look at what’s on the Menu?
Unknown Andy Warhol Discovered in Carnegie Mellon Archive by Artnet Critic Blake Gopnik
Occupy Houston assassination plot records won’t be released
The New York Public Library is Using Old Maps to Create a Time Machine of the City
Doctoral student finds first known footage of 1915 Chicago ship disaster that killed 844
Conservation Documentation Metadata at Museum of Modern Art: a National Digital Stewardship Resident Project Update
Wisconsin Veterans Museum – Preserving images of the Civil War in the age of Google
Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives – Digital collection available
Florida – Keys Library Acquires Historic Document: a 19th-Century Facebook
Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Interview: Three Trainers Launch Virtual Courses
A California startup tries to capture the elusive spoken word and make it searchable
How a Lone Hacker Shredded the Myth of Crowdsourcing
Meet the Archivists Working to Preserve Classic Sex Films
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Preserving records for Forgotten Children
Australia – Queensland State Archives’ digital strategy going to plan
Digitial New Zealand – Creative reuse and digital collections
Japan – 70 years after WWII: Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry racing to collect war vets’ stories
Fiji – Archival Training for Salvaging Waterlogged Records
The National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia
Asia Art Archive’s Mobile Library travels to Myanmar
All Internet is Local: Digital Folklore in China
All India Radio has digitised around 1, 40000 hours of archival material, plans to outsource digitisation
India – Digital archive to preserve Kolkata’s past
Europe / Europa
Lithuania – Digitizing the Jewish Past
Hey, fashion geeks! Prada has put its whole archive online
National Library of the Netherlands – Take-up of Tools within the Succeed Project: Implementation of the INL Lexicon Service in Delpher.nl
Poland restricts access to digitized cultural heritage
Belgique – Les Archives de l’État veulent un musée virtuel sur la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Belgique – La gestion des archives des administrations publiques flamandes : compétence flamande ou fédérale ?
France – Les Archives nationales (Fontainebleau) resteront fermées encore au moins un an
France – Dépôt légal : projet de réforme
ProQuest Transforms Research with Digitization of Rare, Historical Works from Bibliothèque nationale de France
France – Classement du fonds de la section spéciale de la cour d’appel de Paris : une étape décisive est franchie
France – Les archivistes de Rennes sauvent l’esprit de Charlie
Twitter : ce que les graphes nous disent de #CharlieHebdo
Ireland – Police seek loyalist’s Boston College tapes in murder, attempted murder and robbery investigation
Ireland – Boston College tapes: Winston Rea loses legal challenge
Ireland – First Digital Archive of Troubles Art Launches
Scotland – Edinburgh team to create visual archive of UK tower blocks
Scotland – Effort to conserve Tain’s 500 year old Papal Bull
National WW1 Welsh letters archive plans
UK – Save our sounds: 2030 and the threat of audiovisual extinction
The memories of the British people who met and befriended the wartime American air force
How much is a retro-computer worth?
The cost of retaining old records
Forgotten edition of the Magna Carta that could be worth £10million discovered in a scrapbook in a Kentish town’s archive
University of Bristol – Send us your election literature for archive
Exploring a wealth of local history in York Archives
Expert cracks mystery of historic manuscript found buried in Trafford council archives
Can you help find 800-year-old Droitwich Town Charter?
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Museums in Israel: the National Portal is launched
Syrian Monuments Men Race to Protect Antiquities as Looting Bankrolls Terror
International
Go digital by all means, but don’t bring the venture capitalists in to do it
The World’s Email Encryption Relies on a Guy Who is Going Broke
Email is not Forever: Advice on Archiving
The Ultimate Guide to Information Architecture
The Confusion about Information Governance
Keeping our games alive: video game archiving and preservation/
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