Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada – Report on Plans and Priorities 2015-2016
Information Commissioner of Canada – Striking the Right Balance for Transparency: Recommendations to Modernize the Access to Information Act
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec – Recueil de gestion des documents et des archives des services de police 2015
Archives de France – Élaborer une charte courriels et l’inscrire dans une stratégie d’archivage
NARA – General Records Schedule 6.1: Email Managed Under a Capstone Approach (Draft)
U.S. Government Accountability Office – Library of Congress: Strong Leadership Needed to Address Serious Information Technology Management Weaknesses
UK Intellectual Property Office – Copyright Notice: Public Exhibition of Copyright Works
De la communauté / From the community
New Records Management Resources from the Presbytarian Church in Canada Archives
Council of Canadian Academies – Accessing Health and Health-Related Data in Canada
The London Manifesto: Fair Copyright Reform for Libraries and Archives in Europe
Preforma: Future Memory Standards Brochure
Publications
International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 15, no. 2-4, April 2015 (Special Issue on Semantic Digital Archives)
National Archives of Australia – Government Agencies Information Network Newsletter, no. 2 (March 2015)
Chroniques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, no. 73 (Avril-Juin 2015)
Discover the National Library of Scotland Magazine, no. 28 (Spring 2015)
CENDARI (Collaborative European Archive Digital Infrastructure) Newsletter (Spring-Summer 2015)
The Village Crier: Georgina Pioneer Village & Archives (Ont.) Newsletter (Spring 2015)
Book – Educational Programs: Innovative Practices for Archives and Special Collections
Book – Appraisal and Acquisition: Innovative Practices for Archives and Special Collections
Book – The Last Campaign: how Presidents Rewrite History, Run for Posterity and Enshrine their Legacies
Interview with the author: http://imperialglobalexeter.com/2015/03/30/the-untold-history-of-presidential-libraries/
Book – Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities
Book – Social Media and Library Services
Book – Memory and Complicity: Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance
Book – Social Big Data Mining
Book – Bosnia and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage
Livre – Archivistique, bibliothéconomie, documentation et légistique: des disciplines de la bibliologie
Livre – Prophétisme et alliance: des Archives royales de Mari à la Bible hébraïque
Livre – Numérique et écriture littéraire: mutations des pratiques
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Quel droit d’auteur pour un 21e siècle numérique ?
9 avril 2015, Québec
Challenging Provenance: Physical, Traumatic, Ignored Archives
April 17, 2015, Toronto (York University)
The Future Now: Canada’s Libraries, Archives, and Public Memory
June 1, 2015, Ottawa
Online Course – Preservation of Audiovisual Materials
April 7 & 9, June 2 & 4, 2015
Free Webinar – From 0 to 60 on SPARQL Queries in 50 Minutes
May 13, 2015
Digital Archive Innovations for a Connected Heritage: a Game of Semantic Snakes & Ladders?
June 5, 2015, Newcastle (UK)
Association des archivistes suisses – A-t-on encore besoin d’archivistes ?
11 septembre 2015, Porrentruy
Sur le web / On the web
Ottawa Museums & Archives Virtual Collections Catalogue
Video – Trustworthiness of Digital Photographs in Social Media: Jessica Bushey (UBC)
Video – The Future of Remembrance: Presentation of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure
Vidéo – La collecte d’archives orales aux Archives départementales du Val-de-Marne
Video – Patty Nicholas: Fort Hays State University Archivist, Special Collections/Center for Ethnnic Studies
Podcast – Implementing the new Standard on Records Management (New South Wales State Archives)
Slidecast – Utilisation de nouveaux supports numériques en médiathèque
Slidecast – The Digital Public Library of America and Academic Libraries: how the DPLA Advances Teaching, Learning, and Research
Slidecast – The Mechanical Curator, Maps and the Online Community
27 Free Data Mining Books
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
What happened when Canada stopped counting its numbers: five years after leaders killed the long-form census, researchers can’t tell you what direction the country is going in
The year in review for Canadian copyright law
Library and Archives Canada purchases eight lots of Peter Winkworth Canadiana
Valuable addition to the Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana
Making Library and Archives Canada Work: a Superficial Start, 2015
Thousands of artifacts stolen by John Tillmann going home
De nouveaux défis pour Normand Charbonneau
Sept postes de cadre sont abolis à BAnQ
Sursis pour la Cinémathèque?
Archives Association of Ontario – About the Archives Advisor
Archival Moment: Newfoundland Confederation with Canada
University of Guelph’s Extensive Scottish Chapbook Collection Goes Online
Ryerson University Archives & Special Collections – All the news that’s fit to print: a brief history of Ryerson’s news outlets
Centre Canadian d’architecture – S’affranchir des frontières
Musée de la Civilisation de Québec – Place au patrimoine immatériel
Archive Montréal – Protecteur de la culture underground montréalaise
Meet Miss Martin: Behind the Scenes at the Royal Ontario Museum Library & Archives
My London: Hall of Fame salutes local music icons
Port Hope’s (Ont.) Barbara Bolton presented with Governor General’s Caring Canadian award for her volunteer work (notably at the Archives)
Morinville (Alb.) – Historical Society votes to close the museum and go Back to the Future
Alnwick (Ont.) records to be moved to archives
What to wear? Find out at the Peterborough Museum and Archives (Ont.)
Grimsby Archives (Ont.) a great tool for anyone to use
Footage from 1941 Sarnia (Ont.) military parade to be shown to public
Les archives d’Adélard Lambert accessibles à Berthierville
Nouveau Brunswick – Radio Restigouche en quête d’archives
Digital revolution brings new edge to Helsinki museum designs (about Troy Conrad Therrien, a Canadian recently named the Museum’s curator of architecture and digital initiatives)
Internet use by Canadians highest in world, comScore says
BAnQ – De la correspondance en ordre alphabétique ou chronologique? Là est la question!
Dis-moi : l’archiviste face à ses paradoxes (par Laurent-Philippe Baril, analyste au Service de la gestion de l’information de la Société des alcools du Québec)
Afrique / Africa
Algérie – Histoire : la bataille de Djebel Béchar entre archives coloniales et témoignage du seul moudjahid survivant
Tanzania: Zanzibar Vows to Recover Stolen Archives
Nelson Mandela Foundation ensures the digital preservation of Madiba’s legacy
South Africa – Truth & Reconciliation Commission secret records: finally out in the open
Amériques / Americas
Mexico Quietly Placed Archives Related to its Dirty War Under Lock and Key
Haïti – Archives Nationales: des dispositions stratégiques à l’approche des élections
National Archives to release Dick Cheney shooting incident records
What’s New in the National Archives Catalog: Photographs from the Battle of the Bulge
Delete, erase, shred: enemies of federal record-keepers
When do Official Documents Belong to the Public?
Hillary Clinton wiped email server clean, refuses to turn it over
John Kerry Asks State Department Watchdog to Review Records Practices
Contract worker at National Records Center fired for mishandling draft-card information
Library of Congress acquires rare trove of Civil War images
Federal Advocacy for Archives: Pointers from a Former Hill Employee
The Internet Archive and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) announce a joint collaborative program to enhance sharing of collections
From Archives to Court: Historians and Human-Rights Abuses
Arizona court protects climate scientists’ e-mails from think tank
South Carolina’s oldest document conserved
Preserve our Texas public records
Princeton University Library Acquires Jacques Derrida’s Personal Library
Yale is Starting a VHS Archive and it’s Full of Horror Movies
Yale’s Beinecke Library buys vast collection of Lincoln photos
Yale’s Beinecke Library Acquires the Lance Loud and Loud Family Papers
Harvard – Early English Manor Rolls Go Online
Harvard microbiologist on the case to save artifacts
Saint John’s University (Minnesota) – Hill Museum & Manuscript Library digitizes Timbuktu’s historic manuscript collections
University of North Dakota Writers Conference Director working to digitally archive decades of conference video and audio
Archival Crime Scene Photos from the New York City Police Department will Soon be Available Online
An Online Gallery of Over 900,000 Breathtaking Photos of Historic New York City
Queens Library Fills Void After Closure of City’s Last Sheet Music Store
FBI Identifies Thieves Behind Gardner Museum Heist, Art Still Missing
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
12 million Anzac records available online at Ancestry and National Archives of Australia
State Library of Queensland (Australia) – Web Archiving and the Anzac Centenary
Australia – Valuable Northern Territory history archive gets re-vamp
National Library of New Zealand and Archives New Zealand – Digital preservation as a service
Archives New Zealand – Tweets from Gallipoli
Archives reflect pain of old Tibet
Europe / Europa
Leave Facebook if you don’t want to be spied on, warns European Union
Russie – À Vladivostok, un opéra de Prokofiev ressuscité grâce à des documents d’archives
Dutch digital developments
Netherlands – Scientists report finding reliable way to teleport data
Germany – Cologne publishes its Open Data software
Italy wants Neapolitan pizza to be included in UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage List
http://dunyanews.tv/index.php/en/LifeStyle/270140-Italy-wants-Neapolitan-pizza-to-be-included-in-UNE
Albania well equipped to tailor its efforts in safeguarding living heritage
France – VITAM : vers un socle d’archivage électronique commun à toute l’administration
Ireland – Rare RTÉ footage from 1966 fifty-year commemoration of 1916 Rising available to view online
Edinburgh’s literary history mapped at the click of a button
Digitisation of George III’s private archive
There is nothing to fear in Prince Charles’s letters
British Library – Greek manuscripts digitisation project: the final seventy-five manuscripts go online
Crowdsourced maps turn democracy into an art form: project encourages people to explore UK streets that have a historic link
London Film Archive Has a Focus on New Recruits
Thames – Historical documents solve oyster mystery
Dorset County – New online archive unlocks the past
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Le porte-parole du parti Républicain d’Arménie a réagi aux propos du Président turc sur les archives du génocide arménien
Armenian diaspora calls on Turkey to open border and archives
Turkey – Photographer documents Istanbul’s little-known treasures: libraries
Ara Sarafian: the Ottoman archives in Turkey represent what Turkish officials have chosen to declassify so far
Portrait of a nation: from the harems of the Qajars to the Iran-Iraq war: a history of photography in Iran
In Syria, National Museum of Damascus races to save antiquities from looting, damage
UNESCO Director-General calls for the protection of Yemen’s cultural heritage
The Director-General of UNESCO calls for all Syrians to commit to the safeguarding of cultural Heritage in Bosra and Idlib
International
United Nations Establishes Landmark Role for Expert to Investigate and Report on Right to Privacy
Flickr now Offers Public Domain and CC0 Designations
Mapping the Past with Linked Data in OpenHistoricalMap
The Documentation Strategy and its discontents
Digital First World War Resources: Online Official Histories: the War on Land
A Guide to Managing Corporate Image Archives
What’s the cost of curating content in the digital age?