Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada – Guidelines on File Formats for Transferring Information Resources of Enduring Value (Available on LAC Website at Last)
Library and Archives Canada – Louis Riel, the Red River Rebellion and the North West Campaign Thematic Guide
B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner – Letter Re: Bill 5 – Government Information Act
New Brunswick – Review of the Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act: Discussion Paper
Ireland – Consideration of Options for Open Data Licences
UK House of Lords – Make or Break: the UK’s Digital Future
Indispensability of the Archives for Development (Text of the Lecture to Mark the 60th anniversary of the National Archives of Nigeria)
De la communauté / From the community
Digital Repository of Ireland – Metadata Quality Control
Archives & Records Association UK and Ireland – Volunteering in Archives 2014
Information Architecture Institute – Annual Report 2014
Recode – Policy Guidelines for Open Access and Data Dissemination and Preservation
Guide to Open Science Publishing
Union of Concerned Scientists – Freedom to Bully: how Laws Intended to Free Information are Used to Harass Researchers
Publications
International Journal of Digital Curation, vol. 10, no. 1, 2015 (Open)
Library Management, vol. 36, no. 3 (March 2015)
Ariadne: Web Magazine for Information Professionals, no. 73 (February 2015)
Nautilus, no. 21, 2015 (Special Issue: Information: the Anatomy of Everything)
Mémoires d’avenir: en direct des Archives nationales de France, no. 18 (Février-Avril 2015)
For the Records: Newsletter of the New South Wales State Records, no. 109 (February 2015)
Maple Ridge Historical Society (B.C.) Family History Newsletter (February 2015)
Free eBook – Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies: an Introduction
Free eBook – From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme
Free eBook – Library and Information Sciences: Trends and Research
Book – Copyright versus Open Access
Book – Writing Material Culture History
Book – Bodleian Library Treasures
Book – Cybercrime and Digital Forensics: an Introduction
Book – How to do Everything: Genealogy (4th Edition)
Book – Usability and the Mobile Web: a Library and Information Technology Association Guide
Book – Information Security Auditor: Careers in Information Security
Book – Digitizing Identities
Book – Roots and Flowers: the Life and Work of the Afro-Cuban Librarian Marta Terry González
Book – Genre Theory in Information Studies
Livre – Les manuscrits astrologiques latins conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Who Left the Lights on? : how a Government-Industry Open Data Partnership is Driving Innovation in the Delivery of Electricity Load and Generation Data to Islanders
February 27, 2015, Charlottetown
Records and Information Management (RIM) and the Law
March 5, 2015, Winnipeg
Massive Open Online Course – RootsMOOC: Intro to Genealogy and Family History Research
March 23 – June 1, 2015
Agir ensemble pour le patrimoine
26-27 mars 2015, Paris
Digital Curation Center – Digital Curation Webinars
13 April – 27 May, 2015
Preserving the Old, Creating the New: Archives of World Faiths within the UK
May 5, 2015, London (UK)
Engaging the Public: Best Practices for Crowdsourcing Across the Disciplines
May 6-8, 2015, University of Maryland
Beyond Methods of Mining: a Workshop on Doing Historical Research using Digital Data
September 14-15, 2015, Utrecht (Netherlands)
Biennale du numérique 2015
23 – 24 novembre 2015, Lyon (France)
Réutilisation et open data : quels enjeux pour les archives ? (enregistrements disponibles)
23 septembre 2014, Paris
10th International Digital Curation Conference (Videos Available)
February 9-12, 2015, London (UK)
Sur le web / On the web
Video – The Real Story behind the Canadian Flag
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick – The War of 1812 Document Exhibit
Podcast – As it is Written: Judaic Treasures from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (Toronto)
The International Internet Preservation Consortium now has an Official Blog
UK National Archives Podcast – The Huns Have Got my Gramophone: Advertisements from the Great War
Archives départementales d’Ille-et-Vilaine (France) – Vidéo: Les archives avec Archi et Réginald
Slidecast – Authority Control: Are you who we Say you Are?
Podcast – Listening on the Edge: Oral History in the Aftermath of Crisis
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Did losing the long-form census weaken Canada’s jobs data?
Total Information Awareness: the Disastrous Privacy Consequences of Bill C-51
The Nine Year Wait for Government Urgency on Privacy Reform
Truth and Reconciliation Commission – Vatican may be asked to repeal edicts on heathen aboriginals
Supreme Court removes Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC)’s power to search law firms
Open Government: Library and Archives Canada cited as a good example
Library and Archives Canada – Opening the vaults: 10 million pages and counting
Who Killed Canadian Studies?
B.C. – Province moves to digital archive system for official records
Newfoundland – Ocean Ranger victim’s photos donated to The Rooms
Québec – La fin des données ouvertes sur l’adoption
Québec – Accès aux documents en conformité avec les articles 10 de la Loi sur l’accès et 23 de la Loi concernant le cadre juridique des technologies de l’information
Alberta plans document dump of freedom of information requests
Rare artifact from early B.C. goes to auction: letter from a Hudson Bay’s Company fur trader to his daughter is 17 years older than the province
Un carnet d’asile de Nelligan aux enchères
University of British Columbia – Papal bull media roundup
Hunt is on for rare 1880 paintings from B.C.’s first professional artist
Winston Churchill, Emily Carr artifacts found hidden in Vancouver schools
$32 Million Toronto Archives under Secure Management
Inside the Film Reference Library at Toronto International Film Festival Bell Lightbox
Black history in Toronto
InsideToronto – Genealogist Janice Nickerson shares her passion in new column
Waterloo – Photographs document transition for area Mennonites
Peterborough Museum and Archives (Ont.) has more room to store history
Peterborough Museum and Archives (Ont.) secrets unveiled
A walk through time in Pembroke (Ont.)
Esquimalt (B.C.) celebrates road through municipal history
Milo (Alb.) working on expanding online inventory of archives
Nova Scotia – La Société Saint-Pierre receives federal support to enhance Acadian landmark (including an archives)
Nouveau-Brunswick – Des étudiants d’Edmundston visitent des sites religieux et des lieux de mémoire (la visite était guidée par des archivistes)
Afrique / Africa
Rwanda: Access to Information Portal Launched
Open data: how mobile phones saved bananas from bacterial wilt in Uganda
Photographies d’Ouganda, portrait nuancé
Access to Information and Ghana’s Commitment under the Open Government Partnership
Mali – Qu’y a-t-il dans les manuscrits de Tombouctou?
Algérie – La France n’est pas prête à restituer les archives
Tunisie – La question du transfert des archives de la Présidence sera résolue prochainement, annonce Khaled Krichi (vice-président de l’Instance Vérité et Dignité)
South Africa – ISO 15489: ensuring compliance for information, records management
Amériques / Americas
Dutch Caribbean islands press on with inventorying its living heritage
NARA – From Slaves to British Loyalists: the Book of Negroes Revealed
Robert E. Herzstein, who Foiled Nixon over White House Tapes, Dies at 83
Preparing thousands of the earliest ethnographic recordings on wax cylinders for transfer to the National Audiovisual Conservation Center
Northeast Document Conservation Center – WWII Veteran’s Recording Recovered with IRENE Technology
Rescuing orphan films as Hollywood goes digital
Watchdog: Open-records site designed to pull back curtain on Texas government
Oregon governor tries to delete emails, instead creates paper trail suggesting cover-up
Washington State – Attorney General rejects Seattle man’s request for 600 million emails
Princeton University Receives $300-Million Bequest of Rare Books
University of Illinois – Professors to build digital comics archive
Algorithm tests your tweet skills using website created by Cornell University scientists
Grants will help Ojibwe language preservation efforts
Activists suspect cover-up after files into 1946 Georgia lynching destroyed
Archdiocese of Cincinnati’s Chancery Archive preserves state’s Catholic history
Boxes of Hard Drives and Other Challenges at WGBH: a National Digital Stewardship Resident Project Update
Computer algorithm can accurately identify Jackson Pollock paintings
I tried to use the Internet to do historical research. It was nearly impossible.
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – What Metadata Retention Looks Like: Prepare to be Shocked
Australia – Stanley Fowler historical photographic collection in limbo between storage at CSIRO and conservation at National Archives
Vietnam – Vu Kiêm Ninh, l’homme qui préserve les portes des villages à Hanoi
Les archives des Khmers rouges et le centre de ressources audiovisuelles Bophana, Phnom-Penh
Archives of Asia Africa Conference (Bandung, 1955) nominated jointly by India & Indonesia for incorporation in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register
India – Delhi Metro Rail Corporation launches archival website
Europe / Europa
How Google determined our right to be forgotten
Sweden’s cultural heritage gets a digital identity makeover
Spanish court sentences cathedral electrician to 10 years for stealing priceless Codex
Espagne – L’expérience d’implémentation des normes du Records Managament : l’exemple de l’Escola Superieur d’Arxivistica i Gestio de documents
NATO Archives discloses documents related to the events in Poland 1987-1991
Romanov items from archives of Prince Yusupov return to Russia
Employee at Russia’s Hermitage arrested for stealing books and documents, some centuries-old
German Federal Cabinet Drafts Law on Public Sector Information Re-use
German Crew’s Rotterdam WWII Destruction Film Discovered
Codex Vaticanus is now On-line
La bibliothèque vaticane, outil de la diplomatie vaticane
Malta – National Archives Create Register of Living Evacuees
Swiss team uncovers time-tested preservation method
Suisse – Berne subventionne le fond d’archives de l’ancien Évêché de Bâle
Suisse – La tuerie de 1932 exhumée: le Centre d’iconographie a retrouvé des images de la fusillade qui a fait 13 morts
Luxembourg – Enseigner les Humanités numériques
France – Ségolène Royal invite ses fonctionnaires à réduire leurs emails
Entrée des archives de Bernard-Marie Koltès à la Bibliothèque nationale de France
France – Archives de Rennes: sauvegarde des messages Charlie
Ireland – Boston College tapes: Winston Rea’s interviews to be flown back from America but police must not examine contents
Ireland – Winston Rea Boston College tapes to be stored at Belfast court
Important role that South Wales schools played during the Great War revealed in opened archives
UK still in top spot for open data
Britain Just Found Another 170,000 Unlawfully Withheld Government Files
UK – Managing digital National Archive a challenge
UK National Archives – Winners of First World War short film competition announced
LGBT history in the National Archives’ Library
British Library – Millions of images from the world’s endangered archives made available online
A macroscope for UK web history
Creating a Directory of UK Sound Collections: an Update
Navy Museum launches first crowdfunding appeal for Gallipoli survivor
Case Study: Digitisation at the Bodleian Library
Lost wartime love letter found in Norwich charity shop sewing machine
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Who Are the People? A Conversation on the Assemblages and the Archives of the People
Preserve and prosper: Rotana Group is carrying out one of the world’s biggest film restoration projects: 1,700 Arab films
Google at the Israel State Archives
Has AKP sacrificed Turkey’s Ottoman heritage?
Turkey – Historic calligraphies under restoration
Turkey – Footage of Nemrut works discovered in Germany flea market
International
Google’s Vice-President Vint Cerf warns of Digital Dark Age
When you store your entire life online, you gamble with your memories
Managing information in a mobile working environment
One Republic of Learning: Digitizing the Humanities
Saving information to computer frees your mind to learn new material according to a new study
Records Management: you Gotta Take your Medicine
Fixing Links on the Live Web, Breaking them in the Archive
Big data : les désillusions pointent déjà