Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
NARA – Records Management Maturity Model
Testimony of David S. Ferriero Archivist of the United States Before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Chiliwack Museum and Archives (B.C.) – Annual Report 2014
Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre (UK) – Artists in the Archives: a Toolkit for Best Practice
De la communauté / From the community
Preforma (PREservation FORMAts for Culture Information) – Reports
PDF/A Conformance Checker: http://www.preforma-project.eu/pdfa-conformance-checker.html
Functions of the Open Source Portal: http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PREFORMA_D4.3_Functions-of-the-Open-Source-Portal_v2.0.pdf
Dissemination Report Year 1: http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PREFORMA_D4-4_Dissemination-Report-Year-1_v1.1.pdf
Networking Report Year 1: http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PREFORMA_D3-2_Networking-Report-Year-1_v1.1.pdf
Competitive Evaluation Strategy: http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PREFORMA_D8.1_Competitive-evaluation-strategy_v1.2_no-appendix.pdf
Preparing the Workforce for Digital Curation
Ascodocpsy – Guide des archives hospitalières : législation et réglementation
Publications
International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 16, no. 1 (May 2015)
National Archives of Australia – Government Agencies Information Network Newsletter, no. 3 (2015)
Trent University Archives News, no. 53 (April 2015)
Observatoire des métiers de la fonction Information, no 1 (2015)
Thesis – Investigation of Unmarked Graves and Burial Grounds at the Brandon (Manitoba) Indian Residential School
Book – Digital Curation in the Digital Humanities: Preserving and Promoting Archival and Special Collections
http://www.elsevier.com/books/digital-curation-in-the-digital-humanities/sabharwal/978-0-08-100143-1
Book – Falsifying Beckett: Essays on Archives, Philosophy, and Methodology in Beckett Studies
Book – Information and Knowledge Management in Complex Systems
Book – Genealogy: a Practical Guide for Librarians
Book – The Technique of Islamic Bookbinding: Methods, Materials and Regional Varieties
Book – The Yemeni Manuscript Tradition
Book – Privacy: a Very Short Introduction (Second Edition)
Book – Ethnography for the Internet: Embedded, Embodied and Everyday
Book – Law Librarianship in Academic Libraries: Best Practices
Book – Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing for the Web and Beyond (4th Edition)
Livre – L’édition critique des textes contemporains (XIXe-XXIe siècle)
Livre – Architecture de l’information : méthodes, outils, enjeux
Livre – Petites histoires drummondvilloises
http://www.histoiredrummond.com/Nouvelles/petites-histoires-drummondvilloises-maintenant-disponible/
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Something Old, Something New: Access at the Heart of LAC’s Mandate (Conference by Guy Berthiaume)
April 30, 2015, Ottawa
Council of Nova Scotia Archives Annual General Meeting
May 8, 2015, Halifax
Arnprior & McNab/Braeside Archives – A Face for Every Name: Discovering 7 Local War Heroes
May 9, 2015, Arnprior (Ont.)
A Problem Well Stated is a Problem Half Solved: Putting the OAIS Standard to Work for Your Archives
May 22, 2015, Edmonton
Catholic Archivist Group Annual Conference 2015
September 21-24, 2015, Saskatoon
Exposition – La projection du passé
Jusqu’au 31 mai 2015, Archives nationales du Luxembourg
Webinar – Delving Deeper into Digital Preservation for Higher Education Institutions
May 13, 2015
Exposition – Mémoires croisées / dérives archivistiques: archives de la critique d’art
18 mai au 18 juillet 2015, Paris
Séance d’information: le portail européen des archives et les données de description
27 mai 2015, Berne (Suisse)
Journée d’étude AFNOR CN46 / Bibliothèque nationale de France
26 juin 2015, Paris
Social Media Archiving Workshop
September 1-4, 2015, North Cyprus
Webinar – Managing Records and Information for Transparent and Accountable and Inclusive Governance in the Digital Era (Recording Available)
April 16, 2015
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Video – 1867: Rebellion and Confederation
Royal B.C. Museum – Transcribe (Crowdsourcing)
New Online Guide to Russian and Ukrainian Archives
Slidecast – The Future of Memory: Disrupting the Archives to Save It
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canada Set to Extend Artist Copyright Term from 50 to 70 Years
Copyright Term Extension Benefits Canadian Artists, Music Companies and the Economy: Music Canada
Change to copyright law in federal budget ‘a really bad idea’ as critics worry about threat to artistic freedom
Federal Court strikes down fees for electronic documents
Australians should learn from Canadians’ big census mistake
Communications Security Establishment worried about how its use of Canadian metadata might be viewed
Library and Archives Canada – The William Redver Stark sketchbooks: impressions and paper
Health Canada’s curious deletion from an information request
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/health-canada-s-curious-deletion-from-an-information-request-1.3033842
Editorial: Don’t neglect the archives (B.C.)
Archives vital to B.C. government
Archives of Manitoba – Keeping a Diary in the Trenches
Trent University and Champlain: a bond, University has paid tribute to early explorer since its founding days
Saskatoon – Underground work reveals urban artifacts
Vancouver Public Library prepares to raise curtain on digital technology lab
Visual history of the Alexandria-Cornwall Catholic Diocese (Ont.) on exhibit
Sudbury council adopts open government model
New online archive for Windsor nursing school history
Port Hope (Ont.) – Archives exhibit raises curtain on movie theatres
How to Research Peel (Ont.) Properties at the Archives: an Overview
Le Comité du patrimoine de Price (Bas-Saint-Laurent) rend ses archives accessibles
http://www.linformation.ca/2015/04/21/le-comite-du-patrimoine-de-price-rend-ses-archives-accessibles
Centre d’archives de la Grande Zone argileuse (Ont.) – Ils sont maintenant classifiés
Online genealogy bringing out the ‘skeletons’ in every family’s past
Afrique / Africa
Professional records management will dictate Uganda’s future
Niger strengthens its capacities for inventories of intangible heritage
Président Bouteflika: l’Algérie oeuvre à la préservation de la mémoire de la nation
New Archive Creates Global Access to Rare African Photos
Destroyed UNESCO sites in Mali rebuilt with Swiss help
Le Mali face au défi culturel de son patrimoine écrit: la préservation des manuscrits de Tombouctou
How anyone at home can help catalog the rescued Timbuktu manuscripts
South Africa – Truth and Reconciliation files expose apartheid’s handmaidens
Amériques / Americas
Mexico expands freedom of information legislation
CIA Declassifies 99 Documents on Dr. Zhivago’s Publication
National Endowment for the Humanities – New program will digitize your family heirlooms for the world to see
Under new legislation Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library could become own agency
NARA – What Are you Working on, Sara Lathom (Student Trainee in Archival Science, Archives Technician)?
Arthur C. Clarke papers come to Air and Space Museum Archives
Format Migrations at Harvard Library: an National Digital Stewardship Resident Project Update
Back Issues of the Quarterly Publication of the State Historical Society of Iowa Available Online
May 1 Named National Day of PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) Protest
Nation’s libraries to provide guidance on how to preserve priceless heirlooms, collectibles
Former University of Oregon archivist James Fox tells his side of his dismissal
University of Arizona Launches School of Information
New Duke Library Collection Spans Five Centuries of Women’s History
University of Tennessee Libraries’ New Digital Collection: Smokies Photos, Film Clips Set to Music
VHS recordings are enjoying retro revival
Deleting the Family Tree: when Ancestry.com shuttered its social network for relatives, it erased 10 years’ worth of my family’s correspondence and memories
Photo Scanning Businessman Being Sued for $90M After Making $120K Per Week
Museum of Modern Art’s Digital Art Vault
Digitizing Museum of Modern Art’s Video Collection
Guggenheim Releases 1970s Archival Radio Show
Anti-Environmental Archives Launched on Earth Day
Arrest by F.B.I. is Tied to $500 Million Art Theft From Boston Museum, Lawyer Says
Biggest US antiquities seizure finds $100m trove of Asian antiquities in New York storage rooms
Dallas sets up new vault for historic archives, JFK items
Do municipal Facebook pages and comments count as public records?
Missouri – History on the move: St. Cecilia is donating 131-year-old archive to Grand Rapids Public library
Folkways archivist saves historic music, including recordings by bluesman Lead Belly
The girl game archival project that’s rewriting geek history
The Animus Amicus: Archive Activism and Marriage Equality
Timothy McVeigh defense archive shows Oklahoma City bomber viewed blast as failure
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Unearth treasures at the National Library of Australia
Australia – Libraries concerned over copyright changes
Australia – Mystery of the historic Lindt photographs solved by family of main subject
State Archives of New South Wales (Australia) – Enterprise Search: part 2
Queensland State Archives (Australia) busts myths on record transfers
Queensland State Archives – First World War casualty records revealed
New Zealand – Digital court system E-Bench’s failure leads to near $7 million write-off
Found Cambodia archive charts life before and after Khmer Rouge
National Archives of India to digitise records
Netaji snooping controversy shows how India’s system of archiving state documents is utterly broken
Documenting India’s Villages Before they Vanish
India – Jodhpur-based painter gets singers recognition; archives history by digitising old song records
India – Rs 4.60 lakh (460 000) swindled : Scams Over Digitization in Manipur State Archives
Europe / Europa
Russia’s forgotten WWII heroes gain recognition thanks to online project
Historic Serbian film archive sold despite protests
Old Georgian audio archives going digital
In 2017, Norway will be first country to shut down FM radio
Germany – Frankfurt: First Museum set to Archive the Electronic Music Legacy
Goebbels’ estate sues Random House for diary royalties
Pre-Holocaust ID Cards of Thousands of Jews Discovered in Lithuania
National Library of Netherlands – Supporting History Research with Temporal Topic Previews at Querying Time
Internet is not a reliable archive, Dutch organisations warn
France – L’Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 numérise près de 50 ans d’archives
France – The Complete History of Paris Record Stores, from 1890 to 1960
France – Les stagiaires du Stage technique international d’archives 2014 sont toujours en relation
Northern Ireland Screen re-launches Digital Film Archive
Scotland – Rare Japanese scroll found in archive restored for show
Digital archive seeks WWI memorabilia in north Wales
Britain sidesteps Armenian genocide recognition a century after killings
British Library – Web archiving as a challenging business
Are you related to Simon Cowell? Find out when 21 million historic Birmingham records are made available for free
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Turkey’s National Library archives renovated
Turkey – Armenians deny archive access, continue ‘genocide’ business
Turkey ready to open military archives to resolve Armenian dispute: President Erdogan
Turkey – Bogaziçi University exhibits over a century’s worth of history
Antiquities market on alert for looted Syrian spoils to help finance the jihadists’ war
International
How to prepare information governance for the Internet of Things
Ubiquitous Commons: how to Regain Ownership of your Data in the Internet of Things Era
Eternal camera can take pictures forever
How can I copy old photographic plates?
Facts, Patterns, Methods, Meaning: Public Knowledge Building in the Digital Humanities
Getting your collections online
Going, going, gone: the imperative for archiving the web
Les métadonnées : un enjeu majeur pour le secteur de la musique
Object lesson: why we need physical books
Can paper survive the digital age?
Digitization of Print Materials: a Solution in Search of a Problem?
Une étude révèle les trois grands profils d’utilisateurs sur Facebook