Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Librarian and Archivist of Canada Speaking Notes – Everything you Ever Wanted to Know About LAC but Were Afraid to Ask
Portuguese Web Archive – A First Attempt to Archive the .EU Domain
U.S. Department of State – Review of State Messaging and Archive Retrieval Toolset and Record Email
U.S. Public Health Emergency – Public Access to Federally Funded Research: Publications and Data
De la communauté / From the community
Several Library and Archives Associations – Statement on New report from United Nations Special Rapporteur on Copyright Policy and the Right to Science and Culture
Digital Collection Contexts: Workshop Report
MetaArchive Cooperative – Getting to the Bottom Line: 20 Cost Questions for Digital Preservation
Article – Digital Preservation of Scholarly Content, Focusing on the Example of the CLOCKSS Archive
Article – A Shared Geospatial Metadata Repository for Ontario University Libraries: Collaborative Approaches
Publications
Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, vol. 8, no. 2 (March 2015)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 2 (February 2015)
Transitus Domini: Bulletin des Archives de l’Archidiocèse de Québec, vol. 1, no. 1 (2015)
Free eBook – International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance: Killing Sites Research and Remembrance
Book – More than Words: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art
Book – Managing Cultural Heritage: an International Research Perspective
Book – Running a Small Library: a How-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians (Second Edition)
Book – Data-ism: the Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else March
Book – The Complete Guide to Using Google in Libraries Research, User Applications, and Networking: Volume 2
Book – Data and Goliath: the Hidden Battles to Collect your Data and Control your World
Livre – Raconter son histoire familiale
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
The Most Feared Topic: Enterprise Information Management Software for Physical and Electronic Records
March 24, 2015, Regina
Webinar – Tracing your Ancestors: Women in the Military Services during First World War
March 16, 2015
Researching and Writing the History of your House
March 26, 2015 (London)
Webinar – Cloud Storage and Digital Preservation Case Studies
March 27, 2015
Webinar – Email, Social Media and Website Archiving for Beginners: an Archival View for Librarians
April 9, 2015
Massive Open Online Course – Objects that Define America
April 15 – May 15, 2015
Cours en ligne massif et ouvert – La Première Guerre mondiale expliquée à travers ses archives (2e session)
27 avril – 15 juin, 2015
Massive Open Online Course – Behind the Scenes at the 21st Century Museum
Starting June 1, 2015
Webinar – Measuring the Right to Information (Recording Available)
March 12, 2015
Recording: http://www.kaltura.com/tiny/r58rw
2015 Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives Symposium (Papers Available)
March 12-13, 2015, Philadelphia
Sur le web / On the web
Canada’s History Video – Maps That Changed our World
Podcast – Major Contours in the History of the Book in Canada
Cape Breton University – Beaton Institute Launches Digital Archive
Video – AtoM Introductory Webinar
British Library – Videos to Help Bring Awareness and Discussion to Online Privacy
Centre de coordination pour l’archivage à long terme de documents électroniques – CSV2SIARD Version 1.9
Indiana University – MediaSCORE and MediaRIVERS (Free, Open Source Media Preservation Prioritization Software)
First Version of Transkribus Now Online (Enables Users to Transcribe Documents with HTR Support)
UK National Archives Podcast – Vanishing for the Vote: Diverse Suffragettes Boycott the 1911 Census
Video – Preserving New York Public Library’s Audio & Moving Image Collections
Video – Preserving the Born-Digital Cultural and Scientific Record
NARA – @ThisisArchives Staff Twitter Account
Slidecast – Gestion électronique des documents vs Système d’archivage électronique
Slidecast – Introduction to Text Analysis with Python and the Natural Language Toolkit
Slidecast – Data Description Registry Interoperability Working Group
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
E-petitions coming to the House of Commons after the next election
Treasury Board President Tony Clement concern about electronic information access queried
NDP asks federal info watchdog to probe email deletion by former Jason Kenney aide
Memo to Canadian politicians: don’t try Hillary Clinton’s email tricks at home
RCMP database remains out of date, police and prosecutors say
Research is Getting a Bit More Open: Good News for Historical Research in Canada
Normand Charbonneau Appointed Chief Operating Officer of Library and Archives Canada
For the Record: Early Canadian Travel Photography: an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada
Canadian Library Association Technical Services Network (TSN) working group on LAC negotiations with OCLC
Newfoundland – The foundation for The Rooms Provincial Archives
Nunavut still not ready to take Inuit artifacts stored in Yellowknife
Mariage forcé pour la Cinémathèque? Des ténors de l’industrie craignent une fusion avec BAnQ et ses conséquences sur l’organisme de renom.
Crise à la Cinémathèque: le conseil d’administration tente de calmer le jeu
New cultural centre recommended for Prince Edward Island arts industry
UBC students launch desktop recycler that turns pop bottles into 3D printer plastic
McMaster University shines a light on local music legends
Un manuscrit du poème Le Vaisseau d’or d’Émile Nelligan classé document patrimonial
John Lennon and Yoko Ono bed-in images found in Outaouais
Ombudsman raps city of Winnipeg for how it denied access to police HQ documents
Musée Héritage Museum (Alb.) photo on display in the new curling exhibit at Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame
My London: Harmonious history revealed
Register for first Wasaga (Ont.) school in archives
Peterborough (Ont.) – Solving a marble mystery: exploring the origins of a long-lost advertising sign found in an East City cellar
Portrait: Archives d’Hydro-Québec
Afrique / Africa
Congo : remise des archives historiques au mémorial Pierre Savorgnan De Brazza
Le Maroc présente cinq siècles de son histoire dans une exposition inédite
Sénégal – Archives nationales : délocalisation critique
Colonial Archives of Brazzaville: a New Digital Resource
Amériques / Americas
Paraguay Data Retention Act to Destroy Online Privacy: US Advocacy Group
Hillary Clinton’s printed emails a headache for archivists
Archiving Government Email
NARA’s new IT governance structure merges strange bedfellows
National Security Archive Sues State Department over Kissinger Telephone Messages
Wikimedia sues the National Security Agency
Operation HOPE and the Afro-American Historical Society of the National Archives Join to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Freedman’s Bank
Christopher Nolan Urges Hollywood to Step Up Efforts to Preserve Film
Louisiana Public Broadcasting, State Archives launch Louisiana Digital Media Archive to house and preserve historic video footage
Old photograph purchased for museum archives of northern New Mexico VIPs
Strange but True Tale of how Biggest Nazi Archive Wound up in Colorado
For 80 years, ancient gold treasure rested undisturbed in University of Buffalo library
University of California, Santa Cruz – Treasure hunting in the University Archives
George R.R. Martin Donated Rare First Edition of The Hobbit to Texas University
How the Discovery of Thousands of Hoarded Maps Transformed Los Angeles’ Public Library
Raising the Dead: the Grateful Dead Archive and the Legacy of the Sixties
Jimmie Rodgers archive goes on auction online
The Unknown Notebooks of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
New Zealand – Launch of online archive of nursing oral histories
Singapore – New portal to crowdsource captions, transcripts of old photos, national archives
Singapore – National Archives releases documents as much as possible
Korea – Critical historical documents get digital treatment
India – National Archives to display archival gems to kick off 125th-year celebrations
India – All books of national importance to be digitised: government
India – Bihar Archives to soon publish documents, literature banned by British Raj
Europe / Europa
More than 1000 new archival records of the European Commission available at the Historical Archives in Florence
Vatican receives ransom demand for stolen Michelangelo letters
Kidnap of handwritten letters from Michelangelo could only have been an inside job, says former head of Vatican museum
Spanish court blocks London auction of Columbus letter
Greece – Committee for War Reparations from Germany has 400,000 Documents of Archive Material
Dutch Court Strikes Down Country’s Data Retention Law
Georgian archives from League of Nations returns home
Suisse – Des manuscrits de Louise Michel découverts à la bibliothèque de l’Institut des hautes études internationales et du développement
Suisse – Séquences concrètes pour l’évaluation archivistique: un modèle
France – Avec VITAM, l’administration choisit l’open source pour l’archivage de ses données
Bibliothèque nationale de France – Un accord pour numériser et valoriser la presse ancienne
France – Droit à l’oubli : les premiers recours devant la Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés
France – Commission d’accès aux documents administratifs : le code source d’un logiciel développé par l’État est communicable
French court says has jurisdiction in case over Gustave Courbet painting on Facebook
France’s king of manuscripts held over suspected pyramid scheme fraud
Données culturelles : alerte rouge pour le principe de réutilisation
Dans la quête de la vie de nos ancêtres, il faut être prêt à tout découvrir, dit une généalogiste
Il voulait vendre aux enchères les Mémoires d’outre-tombe: un notaire au tribunal jeudi
Ireland – Boston College Oral History Project Faces Ongoing Legal Issues
Archive lifts lid on life in 1940s Ireland
Scotland’s historic artefacts go online
Churchill plan to give Magna Carta copy to US revealed
The 14-year-old sailors in the First World War: archives show one in three who served the Navy were under the legal age
Rugby Football League Archives Catalogue Online
When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle became a real-life Sherlock Holmes: trove of evidence author used to exonerate wrongly jailed man goes on sale for £40,000
Historic records of Robert Marsham detail how spring gets earlier in Norfolk each year
Norwich jeweller’s attic reveals secrets of hidden past
How I Started: Emily Hick, Conservator, Lothian Health Services Archive
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Lebanese university builds digital immigration archive
In the first Hebrew city, a final farewell to Yiddish: in a two-day event held this week, the Tel Aviv municipal library unloaded its entire Yiddish book collection
Les archives incendiées du Caire contenaient-elles des documents relatifs au Génocide arménien ?
Turkey – Atatürk’s will missing, state archives reveal in presidential palace case
Les Éditions du Net veulent sauver les manuscrits d’Irak
Egyptian Museum to launch new conservation database
Afghans defy odds to protect ancient artefacts
Meet the Monuments Men Risking Everything to Save Syria’s Ancient Treasures From ISIS
Islamic State demolishes ancient Hatra site in Iraq
Statement from the British Institute for the Study of Iraq Council
Destruction of Hatra marks a turning point in the cultural cleansing underway in Iraq say Heads of UNESCO and ISESCO
UNESCO mobilizes the international community to end cultural cleansing in Iraq
International
What CIOs should do about the Hillary Clintons in their lives
Internet Archive Urges Game Developers to Save their Work for History
In a World where Email no Longer Exists
Chief Data Officers: Shaping One of the Newest Positions in Government
Reuters partners with ITN Source to bring rare and unseen historical video footage back to public view
La dématérialisation pour les nuls
Archivage: la gestion documentaire
Post-Internet Poetry Comes of Age
How to Find Old or Expired Websites