Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Librarian and Archivists of Canada Speaking Notes – The Hybrid, the Heretic and the Humanist: Educating Today’s Archivists for Tomorrow’s World
Government of Canada – Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications
National Library of Australia – Easy as ABC: a Triumph of Re-usable Metadata
New South Wales State Records – Standard on Records Management
Tasmanian Archive & Heritage Office – Appraisal Statement for State Records Required as State Archives
Open Data Strategy for Northern Ireland 2015-2018
De la communauté / From the community
World Archaeological Congress – The Dead Sea Accord (on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict)
American Archive of Public Broadcasting – Cataloging Guidelines
Digital Public Library of America – Metadata Application Profile (Version 4.0)
UNESCO – Access to Information and Knowledge, Freedom of Expression, Privacy, and Ethics on a Global Internet
Report – The Advisory Council to Google on the Right to be Forgotten
The American Archivist Reviews: Archivematica
Publications
Archives & Manuscripts, vol. 43, no. 1 (March 2015)
Journal of Archival Organization, vol. 1-2, 2014 (Special Issue: Identity Matters: Describing and Interconnecting with EAC-CPF)
Arbido: périodique de l’Association des archivistes suisses et de Bibliothèque information suisse (1/2015)
La Gazette des archives, no 236 (2014)
Information Management, vol. 49, no. 2 (March-April 2015)
IFLA Journal, no. 41, no. 1 (March 2015)
Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana Final Newsletter (Winter 2015)
Archives Society of Alberta Newsletter, vol. 34, no. 2 (Winter 2015)
Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists – Outside the Box Newsletter, vol. 3, no. 1 (Spring 2015)
City of Richmond (B.C.) – Archives News, vol. 20, no. 1 (Spring 2015)
Telling our Stories: Newsletter of the South Peace Regional Archives (Alb.), vol. 6, no. 2 (March 2015)
Book – Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives: a How-to-do-it Manual for Librarians (Third Edition)
Book – Popular Memories: Commemoration, Participatory Culture, and Democratic Citizenship
Book – They Know Everything about you: how Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy
Book – Application of Big Data for National Security: a Practitioner’s Guide to Emerging Technologies
Book – The Library of Essays on Law and Privacy: 3-Volume Set
Book – Hacking Exposed: Wireless Security Secrets & Solutions (Third Edition)
Book – Introduction to Social Media Investigation: a Hands-on Approach
Book – Knowledge Discovery Process and Methods to Enhance Organizational Performance
Book – White Magic: the Age of Paper
Livre – Rhétorique du texte numérique: figures de la lecture, anticipations de pratiques
Livre – Big data : nouvelles partitions de l’information
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Library and Archives Canada – Double Take Exhibit
Until June 2015, Ottawa
Preservation of Photographic Images
March 19-20, 2015, St. John’s (Newfoundland)
Séminaire d’introduction à la Loi québécoise sur le cadre juridique des technologies de l’information
27 mars 2015, Montréal
Canada’s Chronicles: a Glimpse of the Past through Modern Eyes
March 31 – April 14, 2015, Ottawa
Finding Your Upper Canada Ancestors
April 11, 2015, Toronto
Archives Society of Alberta Archives Institute
May 4-9, 2015, Calgary
L’archive dans l’institution psychiatrique comme matériel empirique : enjeux méthodologiques et épistémologiques
2 juin 2015, Montréal
Out of the Box: Enabling Access to Archives
April 17, 2015, London (UK)
Cour en ligne massif et ouvert – Architecture de l’information
6 mai – 1er juillet 2015
ISO 16363 (Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories) Course
May 18-22, 2015, Den Haag (The Netherlands)
Records Management and Access to Information: Challenges and Guidelines for Institutions of Teaching and Reseach
June 24-26, 2015, Rio de Janeiro
Webinar – Balancing Secrecy and Openness (Recording Available)
March 5, 2015
Recording: http://www.kaltura.com/tiny/qzxzz
Sur le web / On the web
Online Exhibits – Preserved by Letters: Fifty Years of the Prince Edward Island Public Archives and Records Office
Mennonite Archives of Ontario – New Online Photo Database
University of Waterloo Virtual Exhibit – Kitchener and the First World War
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Portal (Beta Version)
Back Issues of International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Journal and Phonographic Bulletin Available Online
UK National Archives – Magna Carta and the Emergence of Parliament
CrawlRSS: Crawling websites using RSS feeds
New Blog – International Committee of the Red Cross History
Podcast – The Right to be Remembered
L’Association des archivistes français maintenant sur Linkedin
Video – Trends in 3D Printing
Video – The Archives Portal Europe
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Appeal court slams government’s 3-year access to information request
Misuse of Canada’s Copyright Notice System Continues: U.S. Firm Sending Thousands of Notices With Settlement Demands
RCMP records called incomplete and inaccurate in memo
Meetings between Kinder Morgan and feds leave no paper trail
Malak: Major Photographic Acquisition by Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada – Linked Open Data sets for the First World War
Library and Archives Canada: planning for a new union catalogue
An Immodest Proposal Rankles a Capital Known for Modesty (Memorial to the Victims of Communism to be built next to LAC building)
Canadiana.org accelerates local and regional newspaper digitization
Canadiana.org Digital History Essay Prize
L’utilisation des archives dans les films de l’Office national du film
Canadiana up for auction in London on preview at Toronto’s Gardiner Museum
First-ever Canadian Haggadah has a distinctly north-of-the-border vibe
Newfoundland and Labrador to reverse access to information restrictions
Ontario government under fire over inaction on health privacy law
Contre le mépris de la généalogie
Vers une dissolution de la Cinémathèque québécoise?
Maritime Museum of B.C.needs a good home
Assurer la survie de l’héritage franco-ontarien
Ouverture officielle du Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse (Université de Hearst)
On the Occasion of International Women’s Day, Toronto’s Ryerson Image Centre Announces Acquisition of the Archive of Famed American Photographer Berenice Abbott
Vancouver – Map of New Westminster District: a Collaboration
Vancouver – Thanks for a great Hackathon
Nouveau Brunswick – Le Restigouche perd sa Société de généalogie
White Rock Museum & Archives (B.C.) requests boost to city funding
Brant Museum Archives (Ont.) – Provincial awards recognize work with history
Lambton County archives (Ont.) seeking vintage film
Bruce Country Museum and Cultural Centre (Ont.) – Preserving the past for the future
Aylmer-Malahide Museum and Archives (Ont.) launches exhibit about massive Aylmer fire
Remembering Grimsby (Ont.) during WWI 1914-1918
Portrait: Archives de l’Évêché de Chicoutimi
Afrique / Africa
Côte d’Ivoire : déclassifier les documents liés au bombardement de Bouaké de 2004
Maroc – Préservation du patrimoine culturel : la RASD (République arabe sahraouie démocratique) fait appel à l’Unesco
Mali – La Ministre de la Culture visite une Bibliothèque de manuscrits anciens en cours de réhabilitation
Uganda’s Right to Know Data Revolution
South African boost for Gandhian digital archive project
Amériques / Americas
Jamaica – Secrecy, Protocol and Dumping Government Documents
Bermuda – First information commissioner is appointed
FARC demands Colombia government release classified files
Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email Account at State Department, Possibly Breaking Rules
Hillary Clinton personal e-mail: big deal or business as usual?
What Hillary Clinton’s Emails Really Reveal
Preserving a new type of public record: Aaron Schock’s Instagram feed
Woodrow Wilson President Library is seeking to preserve Woodrow Wilson’s papers by embarking on a digitization project
Inside the vaults of the Delaware Public Archives
Following investigation, Missouri death certificate archives getting a black out
New York – State emails now include expiration dates
New York City warehouse fire destroyed files from 1 million court cases
Yale – Library acquires 2,700 VHS tapes
University of California, Los Angeles – Preserving Spencer Tracy, Laurel & Hardy and More
Lousiana – Hill Memorial Library preserves University history
University of Texas at Austin – Drama in the Archives: Humanities class fosters undergraduate research
Jewish archivist honored for using new technology to revive old films
Frank Lloyd Wright archives open up for preservation help
How a Near-Pristine 35mm Print of Orson Welles’ Chimes at Midnight was Found
Stolen Pablo Picasso painting The Hairdresser worth millions discovered in New York
Sacramento plans to automatically delete old emails because it can
Computer Generated Archival Description
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – How the Post-it note helps the public service evade scrutiny
Australian museums join global web archive
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-2976867/Australian-museums-join-global-web-archive.html
New South Wales – Future Feminist Archive
Japan – Panel: National archives should display historic documents to public
Vietnam – Remise aux gardes-frontières d’une collection d’archives sur Hoang Sa et Truong Sa
Malaysia – Archive helps restore documents damaged by floods
India – National Archive slowly goes digital: government spends Rs 25 lakh (2.5 million) to digitise 11 lakh (1.1 million) documents
India – Sensitive files destroyed in mysterious fire at AIIMS
Quest to save India’s cine history
India’s first municipal archive comes up in Kolkata
Europe / Europa
Global IT solutions provider NTT Data digitally archives Vatican manuscripts
Bulgaria’s Government Replaces Chair of Archives State Agency
Cyprus – New body to combat looting and trafficking of antiquities
Georgia – Ministry of Internal Affairs Archive Presented Documentry Film and Book Composed on the Basis of Archive Materials in Guria Region
New report on Open Culture (and the opening of cultural data) in Romania
Suisse – Hackathon: un safari culturel dans la jungle des données
France – Archives Turgot : polémique autour de leur achat par l’État
France – Quand les Archives confisquent le patrimoine culturel
France – Il proposait d’épargner sur des manuscrits: le patron d’Aristophil mis en examen
Northern Ireland police win latest round in battle to hear Boston College tapes
Ireland – Loyalist to take Boston College tapes battle to Supreme Court
Ireland – Boston Tapes Lead Researcher Comments on Winston Rea Case
Ireland – Limerick photographic archive unearthed in attic in Cornwall
British Library – Happy Birthday Magna Carta! All the Best from the Web Archive
A digital public space is Britain’s missing national institution
Reassembling William Morris’ Library
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Memories of Mosul’s Libraries
Iraq reopens Baghdad museum 12 years after a third of its collection was looted
L’autorité musulmane égyptienne dénonce la destruction de sculptures par l’État islamique
ISIS Attacks Archaeological Site at Nimrud
International
Metadata enables users to find records and information
Les historien-nes et le numérique : usages et besoins de formation
Containerized cloud computing: the next big thing?
Why tweet deleters are choosing to erase their digital past
Government must improve its digital customer experience
Copyright Issues Blur Google’s Attempt to Make All Art Available