Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
European Commission Speech – Europe’s Future is Digital
Statement from B.C. Privacy Commissioner Welcoming Agreement Addressing Province’s Archival Backlog
De la communauté / From the community
Europeana Photography 2012-2015: Final Report
Qualified Dublin Core and the Digital Repository of Ireland
Society of American Archivists – Case Studies in Archival Ethics: the Harding Affair Letters
Rapport de l’Assemblée Générale de l’Association des Bibliothécaires, Archivistes, Documentalistes, Muséographes et Institutions du Cameroun
The State of the Humanities: Higher Education 2015
Paper – Colonial Archives and Second Life Post-Colonial Applications in the Digital Humanities
Article – Adaptive Web Crawling through Structure-Based Link Classification
Publications
Code4lib Journal, no. 28 (2015)
Pouvoirs, no. 153, 2015 (numéro spécial sur les archives)
Library and Archives Canada – Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World Newsletter, vol. 15, no. 2 (April 2015)
Everything Old is New Again: News From the York University Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections (Spring 2015)
Report – Archival Strategies in Media and Entertainment: a Special Study
Book – Participatory Archives in a World of Ubiquitous Media
Book – The Curatorial: a Philosophy of Curating
Book – When Should State Secrets Stay Secret? Accountability, Democratic Governance, and Intelligence
Book – Improbable Libraries: a Visual Journey to the World’s Most Unusual Libraries
Book – Mindsharing: the Art of Crowdsourcing Everything
Book – The Record Store Book: Fifty Legendary and Iconic Places to Discover New and Used Vinyl
Book – Sport History in the Digital Era
Novel – Host Writer (Book 1: the Archivist)
Livre – Cadastre et généalogie : Paris et grandes villes
Livre – Contribution aux avancées de la connaissance en information – communication
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Exhibit: Canadian Soldiers of the First World War
April 13 – May 1, 2015, York University
Learn about Archive Ontario’s Collection
April 28, 2015, Toronto
Getting ready for Linked Data: MARC to BIBFRAME
June 2, 2015, Ottawa
Islandora Webinar: Mind the Gap: Bridging Digital Libraries and Archives
April 28, 2015
Questions d’archivage d’actualité et transversales : état des lieux et développement
5 juin 2015, Chavannes-près-Renens (Suisse)
What do we Lose when we Lose a Library
September 9-11, 2015, Leuven (Belgium)
Archives et démocratie à l’ère du numérique : nouveaux enjeux, nouvelles responsabilités pour les archivistes (vidéos disponibles)
6 février 2015, Angers (France)
Webinar – Email, Social Media and Website Archiving for Beginners: An Archival View for Librarians (Recording Available)
April 9, 2015
NARA National Declassification Center Prioritization: what Secrets Do People Want to See? (Recording Available)
April 10, 2015, Washington D.C.
Sur le web / On the web
Historical Supreme Court of Canada Judgments now Available Online
African Journal Archive now Online
Emularity (a Loader Designed to be Used with a Family of in-Browser Emulation Systems)
Culture Object (Open Source WordPress Plugin for Getting Museum Objects Online)
Video – Worst Federal Jobs in the U.S. Federal Government (the National Archivist Testifies)
Video Series – Saving the Timbuktu Manuscripts
Financement participatif – Sauvons les Manuscrits de Tombouctou au Mali
Video – The Last Reel
Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries, Librarianship, and Book Culture (Spring 2015)
Slidecast – Software Curation as a Digital Preservation Service
Slidecast – The Curator Rules
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Unearthed artifacts on Parliament Hill tell pre-Confederation story
Library and Archives Canada – Progress on the government record backlog
Library and Archives Canada acquires Robert Hood watercolours
B.C. – Agreement reached to address archival backlog
Prince Edward Island Public Archives and Records Office – Over 26,600 post-1906 death records are now searchable
Toronto’s iSchool Leads Snowden Archive and Surveillance Response
Communiqué de l’Institut d’histoire de l’Amérique française – Fermeture du portail Archives Canada-France
Mise à jour de la situation d’Archives Canada-France
Ontario land surveyors can sue land registry managers for copyright infringement, court says
Québec – En route vers le dépôt électronique des documents
Un nouveau fonds sur les orphelins de Duplessis à BAnQ Vieux-Montréal
Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Center – Oral history project focuses on children of Holodomor survivors
Burnaby (B.C.) – City archives in need of expansion
Burnaby takes cautious approach to archives expansion
Negatives capture a bit of Sudbury’s history
Hamilton Spectator archives may show the way to the future: King and James was the heart of Hamilton in 1944, and can be again
Northumberland’s (Ont.) historic records revealed in vault opening
Meet the Archivist: Erin Walsh, Port Hope Archives (Ont.)
Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (Ont.) – Why Education Records Matter
CHEX-TV celebrates its own 60-year history after helping document Peterborough’s (Ont.) past with a program called Settling the Backwoods
Tecumseh (Ont.) Online Archives Launched
Lloydminster Regional Archives (Alb.) to celebrate churches
Fire Destroys a Missisquoi Historical Society (Que.) Building and Contents
Kamloops (B.C.) – Does the museum need a building?
Afrique / Africa
Mali – International community supports UNESCO’s #Unite4Heritage campaign in Timbuktu
La Bibliothèque nationale du Maroc n’admet que les bacheliers
South Africa – University of the Witwatersrand: memorabilia of the late Helen Suzman has been digitally preserved for posterity
South Africa – Vinyl records making a comeback
Amériques / Americas
National Archives Tackles Email Management
Tracking Digital Collections at the Library of Congress, from Donor to Repository
Library of Congress: the Unexpected Diplomat
Library of Congress – Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature Launched
NARA – Photographs Relating to the Marshall Plan and Post-WWII Economic Recovery in France
Ancestry.com Employees Caught Throwing Away Records they Were Supposed to Be Archiving for the US Government
Donated materials offer clearer picture of George H.W. Bush’s presidency
150 years after Lincoln assassination, massive online archive goes live
Grassroots radio gets profile in new online archive
American Archive of Public Broadcasting at WGBH – Preserving History
Bill to allow photographing of documents passes Alabama Senate
More than 100 University of Oregon professors sign letter urging suspended archivist James Fox’s reinstatement
Anarchist’s Archive Gets Temporary Reprieve: Donors Buy Time for Emma Goldman Project
Stanford Literary Lab Maps Emotions in Victorian London
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/books/stanford-literary-lab-maps-emotions-in-victorian-london.html
University of Texas professors look to digitize Central State Hospital archives
Student groups preserve their history with University of California, Los Angeles’s new archive project
Montana State University’s student newspaper to post website with 120 years of Exponent archives
Japanese Americans Protest Sale of Art from World War II Internment Camps
Key handwritten scientific document by Alan Turing sells for $1 million in New York
For a Biography of John Wilkes Booth, Terry Alford Turns to Amateur Researchers
Kim Kardashian has already created an ‘archive’ of outfits for her daughter who will inherit her entire wardrobe
Iowa – Women’s political speeches and ads available through Catt Center archive
See Early Ads and Photographs From the McDonald’s Archives
Dallas’ Treasured Documents Protected
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Photographers call on WWII veterans to sit for national archives album
National library of Australia to show 500-year-old illuminated manuscript for first time
Australia – Rare books collection donated to the State Library of Victoria
Australia – Gallipoli 2015: Diary of a WWI digger discovered 100 years after it was written
New Zealand – Fairfax’s photo nightmare
L’après tsunami : le Japon à la recherche de sa mémoire
Vietnam – Archipels : Quang Nam organise une formation sur les archives
Hong Kong artist Ha Bik-chuen’s archives made available for public use
Click through history of Singapore theatre with digital archive The Repository
Malaysia – Public not Aware of Importance of Records Management, Say Academics
India – Subhas Chandra Bose’s kin snooping case: UPA declassified first batch of Netaji files in 2012
India – New files reveal Intelligence Bureau ‘ratted’ on Bose’s family to British MI5 and Nehru allowed UK spy to reside in Delhi AFTER independence
Europe / Europa
How newsreels told the story of the First World War
When fire devastated great Moscow library in January, book lovers stepped up: the state didn’t
Secret Archives Show Vatican Tried to Stop Armenian Genocide
Preserving the Ghastly Inventory of Auschwitz
Prague library to digitise works of Czech Jewish authors
Kazakhstan – State Archive to Present Book Chronicling 20th Century History of Kazakhstan’s Jewish Community
MKD, Macedonia: Greece to open the archives of the Communist Party, called Macedonian refugees from Aegean Macedonia
German schoolboy makes freedom of information request asking government to release exam papers
The Untold Story of Mussolini’s Fake Diaries
Armenian’s pages full of pain kept in Italian archives
Researcher-in-residence at the National Library of the Netherlands
Suisse – Canton de Vaud: Les documents anciens passent à l’ère 2.0 pour mieux se retirer
Suisse – Histoire de St-Maurice: sept siècles de documents déposés aux archives valaisannes
France – Génocide des Tutsis: la liste des pièces déclassifiées par l’Elysée
Preuves de vie : les SMS et e-mails de Pierre Guyotat entrent à la Bibliothèque nationale de France
France – Les archives d’Édouard Glissant déclarées trésor national
Scotland – University of Glasgow: Conservation analysis and basic conservation treatment for archive’s photographs collection
A Dance Takes Shape From Pringle of Scotland’s Archives
British Library – British wildlife recordings on the move
Story written by future Queen Victoria aged 10 to be published for first time
Fake Shakespeare play Double Falsehood ‘is genuine’ after all
Birmingham – Grim deaths unveiled in city’s archives dating back to 12th century
Centuries-old family album’s trans-Atlantic journey ends at Quarry Bank
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Turkey opens Ottoman archives over 1915 incidents on 100th anniversary
European Parliament urges Turkey to open archives of 1915
Early data on deaths rewrites history in dust of Ottoman archives
Cultural heritage at heart of propaganda battle in Iraq
International
Data Storytelling and Historical Knowledge
How ‘You Do You’ Perfectly Captures our Narcissistic Culture
Infographics: PDF/UA and WCAG 2.0
Mapped: the world’s most open governments
Why we Have a Civic Responsibility to Protect Cultural Treasures During Wartime
Digital strategy is not enough: we need to embrace design thinking
Tweets and Deletes: Silences in the Social Media Archive
Why it’s down to this generation to begin preserving video game history
Internet Archive and Chinese Academic Digital Associative Library Partner to Digitize 500,000 Academic Texts