Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
UK National Archives – Deaccessioning and Disposal: Guidance for Archive Services
Library of Congress Recommended Format Specifications 2014-2015 (Draft for Comments)
Archives de France – Guide méthodologique: les outils de validation du format PDF/A
Queensland State Archives – Machinery-of-Government Changes
De la communauté / From the community
Online Audiovisual Catalogers – Best Practices for Streaming Media Using RDA and MARC21 and Best Practices for Cataloging DVD-Video and Blu-ray Discs Using RDA and MARC21
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Data on the Web Best Practices (First Public Working Draft)
National Information Standards Organization – The Future of Library Resource Discovery
Le règlement européen du 23 juillet 2014 sur l’identification électronique et les services de confiance (eIDAS) : analyse approfondie
Article – Mapping Methods Metadata for Research Data
Publications
Archival Science, vol. 15, no. 1 (March 2015)
Restaurator: International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material, vol. 36, no. 1 (March 2015)
Journal of Electronic Publishing, vol. 18, no. 2 (Spring 2015)
Historic Librairies Forum Bulletin, no. 30 (February 2015)
Performance: Newsletter of the Society of American Archivists Performing Arts Roundtable (Winter 2015)
National Archives of Australia – Government Agencies Information Network (February 2015)
World Distribution Report on Libraries & Archives
Book – Autobiography of an Archive: a Scholar’s Passage to India
Book – Rights in the Digital Era (Society of American Archivists)
Book – Public History: a Practical Guide
Book – Environmental Management for Collections: Alternative Conservation Strategies for Hot and Humid Climates
Book – The Living Library: an Intellectual Ecosystem
Book – Graph Analysis and Visualization: Discovering Business Opportunity in Linked Data
Book – The Copyright Zone: a Legal Guide for Photographers and Artists in the Digital Age (2nd Edition)
Book – Sport Heritage
Book – Digital Diplomacy: Conversations on Innovation in Foreign Policy
Book – The Eternal Letter: Two Millennia of the Classical Roman Capital
Book – Tracing Your Ancestors’ Parish Records
Book – Managing Chaos: Digital Governance by Design
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Kamloops Museum & Archives Exhibit: Mary Spencer, Photographer
Starting February 27, 2015, Kamloops (B.C.)
Academic Libraries in the Digital Age: Search Engine Optimization and Linked Open Data
March 2, 2015, McMaster University (Hamilton)
50th Anniversary of the Proclamation of the Prince Edward Island Archives Act
March 3, 2015, Charlottetown
Researching the History of a Building: Vancouver Archives
March 11, 2015, Vancouver
Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta – Annual General Meeting
April 25, 2015, Edmonton
Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta – Postcards from the Past: Insights into History, Technology and Popular Culture
April 27, 2015, Calgary
Repositioning the Archive
March 13, 2015, New York
Beyond the Digitized Slide Library: a Digital Art History Summer Institute
July 5-15, 2015, Los Angeles
Exploring New Digital Destinations for Heritage and Academia
October 12-14, 2015, Manchester (UK)
Classification & Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery
October 29-30, 2015, Lisbon (Portugal)
Colloque international sur le document Électronique
18-20 novembre 2015, Montpellier (France)
Des archives audiovisuelles pour l’histoire du camp de Drancy et de la résistance juive (vidéo disponible)
29 janvier 2015, Paris
Library Data [R]evolution: Applying Linked Data Concepts (Recordings Available)
February 10, 2015, San Francisco
Sur le web / On the web
UK National Archives – England’s Immigrants 1330-1550 Database
Nouveau site – Archives de l’Afrique Équatoriale Française (Brazzaville)
Video – Fair Use Introduction
Vidéos – Série d’entrevues avec des archivistes italiens
Video – Les minutes notariales : de la collecte à la salle de lecture (Archives départmentales de la Seine-Maritime)
Global Investiagive Journalism Network – Drilling Down: a Quick Guide to Free and Inexpensive Data Tools
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Federal government quietly tightens cabinet secrecy rules
Communications Security Establishment monitors millions of Canadian emails to government
The Tragedy of Canada’s Census
3% reduction to LAC Funding in Main Estimates 2015-2016
Monument aux victimes du communisme (supposé être construit à côté d’un des édifices de BAC): un changement de site demandé
Impasse involving historical B.C. archives may soon be resolved: Royal B.C. Museum backlog includes more than 30,000 boxes of documents
Public weighs in on future of archives at New Brunswick Museum
Saskatchewan government’s proposal for a premier’s library wasted resources: NDP
Archives of Manitoba – Counting Down to the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage: the Political Equality League
McMaster University – Faculty member in residence program promotes library research
How cities are searching for solutions among massive mounds of data
The Ottawa that was: Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation uploading its vast photo archive to the web
Montreal – Canada’s first gay publication
B.C. student preserves school’s history using digital archive
New Brunswick – Girl Guides seek memorabilia for Saint John archives
Ville de Gatineau: Projet de numérisation des procès-verbaux et des règlements
Le maire de L’Assomption serait à l’origine de l’enquête sur les boîtes détruites
Parksville (B.C.) – Council shoots down $600,000 archives
Bruce County Archives (Ont.) Donation
Trois-Rivières – Société de Généalogie: de nouveaux locaux après 37 ans
Afrique / Africa
Mali : les manuscrits de Tombouctou pourront-ils y retourner ?
Algérie – Session de formation au profit de 306 archivistes au ministère de l’Intérieur
Zambia – Rampant theft of confidential files and leakage of secret information should be curtailed: Former minister of Home Affairs Lameck Mangani
Amériques / Americas
Police probe video of possible data hack at the National Archives
NARA – What’s New on Amara?
NARA – What Are you Working on, Lloyd Beers? (Senior Appraisal Archivist)
Introducing the Federal Web Archiving Working Group
Internal Revenue Service watchdog reveals Lois Lerner missing emails now subject of criminal probe
Conflict over the Nixon Presidential Library
Montana Historical Society – Gazette opinion: Legislators must make historical decision
Texas paid $2.2 million to buy archive of Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez
University of Oregon leaks investigation grows to 30,000 documents, could be released soon
Louisiana – Hill Memorial Library to digitize Reveille archives
Fort Hays State University – Glass negatives pack historic punch
Remembering the Dead, Part 1: the Press Series of the Grateful Dead Archive
Stolen 17th century books discovered in San Francisco, to be returned to Italy
Getty Conservation Institute and the City of Los Angeles Announced the Launch of HistoricplacesLA
New York Philharmonic’s Archive Expands
Chicago – Copyright battle over prized photos: could stop releases of once-unknown work
The Barnes Foundation Discovers Two Sketches by Paul Cézanne
Tompkins County (New York) Shared Services Electronic Records Repository Recognized as Bright Idea in Government
Going digital: it’s not your grandma’s humanities anymore
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – A contemporary new home for the nation’s archival treasures
Australia – National Archives documents show public service battle against women in the workplace
Anzac voice: a soldier’s recording lives on at the Australian War Memorial nearly a century after his death
Australian artists’ archives revealed for the 40th anniversary of International Women’s Day
New Zealand – Digitally archiving important as Canterbury earthquake anniversary approaches
Archives New Zealand is defending the plan by Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority to destroy documents
Ancient Chinese Buddha statue has a mummy with surprises inside (Chinese writing found in belly)
India – Film Heritage Foundation gets corporate funds to preserve old Indian cinema
What Martin Scorsese’s Doing to Preserve India’s Film Archive
India – Petroleum Ministry leak case: now, mysterious fire at Prayas Jain’s office destroys files
Europe / Europa
Europeana Sounds’ first birthday
Denmark’s largest digital archive opens
Germany returns historic books stolen from Italian libraries
Inside Russia’s Leninka State Library
Armenian National Archive continues publication of Genocide-related documents, director says
Malta – Notarial Deeds dating back 400 years undergoing restoration in Gozo
Monaco recense les personnes juives arrêtées sur son sol et déportées
Suisse – L’intégration des données historiques dans un système d’information du territoire (SIT/GIS): exemple d’une médiation réussie
Suisse – Plongez dans la Genève de Calvin en quelques clics
Belgique – Une mise au pilon qui jette le trouble: une foule de dossiers relatifs aux permis d’urbanisme et primes vont être détruits
Belgique – La reine Fabiola était un pion du franquisme: les archives espagnoles révélées
Archives de France – Archives et données liées : nos outils sont-ils prêts à compléter la toile ?
France – La dématérialisation de l’expertise judiciaire
France – L’École des chartes ne forme pas des clones
France – Danse nationale: les archives vidéo en ligne
Le premier portrait daguerréotype à l’épreuve des enchères
Pierre Bergé va vendre sa bibliothèque privée aux enchères
Ireland – National Survey of Hospital Records: Update
British Library – Preserving our digital heritage: how are we really doing?
British Library – Stories they tell: clues from endangered archives
UK National Archives – Ship shape: conserving the Regent’s Canal Company’s minute books
Creating an Archive Just for a Giggle: the British Stand-up Comedy Archive
Lost Sherlock Holmes story discovered
Library of Birmingham photo archive still at risk
http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/news/regional-affairs/library-birmingham-photo-archive-still-8686588
New West Yorkshire Archive building to store millions of historical records
From Fred Astaire dancing on the roof to the guest who arrived with a pet leopard: fascinating peek inside the The Savoy archive
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
United Arab Emirates – A delegation from the Directorate General of Residency and Foreigners Affairs in Abu Dhabi visits National Archives
Une stèle contemporaine de la pierre de Rosette découverte en Égypte
Turkey paid $1 million to have Armenian Genocide archives burnt in Egypt
Fostering Values to Protect Cultural Heritage in Syria
ISIS Burns 8000 Rare Books and Manuscripts in Mosul
Video shows ISIS fighters roaming through Iraq museum with sledgehammers and power tools, destroying artifacts
International
Digital Dark Age? What Digital Dark Age?
Are E-Signatures the Missing Links in Paperless Offices?
The anti-information age: how governments are reinventing censorship in the 21st century
DNA storage could preserve data for millions of years
Dictionnaire: Gestion électronique des documents (GED)
Making digital as long-lasting as paper
Why Digital Storage Formats Are so Risky
The Latest Privacy Risk? Looking up Medical and Drug Information Online
Privacy is at a crossroads. Choose wisely.
Preserving your Personal Collection: Daguerreotypes
History as it can be played: a new public history?
Technology aims to store photos, data long-term
1/4″ Audio Heads Available Again