Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Canada Competition Bureau – Enforcement Guidelines: Production of Electronically Stored Information
Alberta Records Management Committee – Application of Justice Records Schedules to Justice Lawyers’ Records at Seconded Offices
North Carolina Division of Archives and Records – General Schedule for State Agency Records
De la communauté / From the community
The Hague Declaration: Access to Facts, Data and Ideas for Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age
OCLC Research: 2014 Highlights
OECD – The Proliferation of Big Data and Implications for Official Statistics and Statistical Agencies: a Preliminary Analysis
Ithaka S+R – Educating the Research Librarian: Are we Falling Short?
Publications
La Gazette des archives, no 237 (2015)
Information Management, vol. 49, no. 3 (May/June 2015)
Performance Matters, vol. 1, no. 1-2, 2015 (Special Issue: Archiving Performance)
Library Hi Tech, vol. 33, no. 2 (2015)
Lettre d’information de l’Association des Archivistes francophones de Belgique, no 21 (avril 2015)
Friends of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Toronto) Archives Newsletter, vol. 23, no. 1 (Spring 2015)
PhD Thesis – The Impact of the Perceived Value of Records on the Use of Electronic Recordkeeping Systems
Free eBook – Web Writing: why and how for Liberal Arts Teaching and Learning
Book – Archives Alive: Expanding Engagement with Public Library Archives and Special Collections
Book – The Art of Medicine in Early China: the Ancient and Medieval Origins of a Modern Archive
Book – Museums 101
Book – Contesting Antiquity in Egypt: Archaeologies, Museums, and the Struggle for Identities from World War I to Nasser
Book – Integrated Pest Management for Cultural Heritage
Book – Emerging Technologies: a Primer for Librarians
Book – Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right: a Guide to Archives (Volume 1)
Book – Thinking Ahead: Essays on Big Data, Digital Revolution, and Participatory Market Society
Book – Learning from the BRICS: Open Access to Scientific Information in Emerging Countries
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Archives au pluriel : le Montréal de 1914-1918
21 et 22 mai, 2015, Montréal
Webinar – E-Signature Success Stories in Canadian Financial Services
May 26, 2015
Enjeux et opportunités de l’ère numérique (conférence de Daniel J. Caron diffusée à la télévision)
1er juin au 12 juillet 2015, Canal Savoir
Israel Archive Network: Primary Sources at your Fingertips
June 2, 2015, Montreal
Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta – Genealogy: What is the Point?
June 22, 2015, Calgary
Webinar – Exploring Partnerships with Faculty and Other User Groups for Digital Humanities Projects
May 12, 2015
Webinar – Digital Preservation Metadata and Improvements to PREMIS in Version 3.0
May 27, 2015
History From Elsewhere: the Use of Archives and Recollection of Memory
September 18, 2015, London (UK)
The Explicit Material: on the Intersections of Cultures of Curation and Conservation
February 3-6, 2016, Washington D.C.
Sustainable Audiovisual Collections Through Collaboration
March 7-9, 2016, Singapore
Webinar – Integrating Open Government and RTI in Business Processes for Accountability (Recording Available)
May 7, 2015
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada – Last Copies Portal
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – In Flanders Fields: a Century of Poppies
Vidéo – Les Archives de la ville de Montréal
Archives New Zealand New Website – Records Toolkit
Library of Congress – New Online Preservation Resource: Saving our Stuff
Records and Information Management Professionals Australasia – Webinars now Available On-Demand
Ville de Bayonne (France) – Bilketa: portail des fonds documentaires basques
Video – Stewarding New York Public Library’s Audio and Moving Image Research Collections into the Future
Video – Moving Image Preservation 101
Video – Realizing the Potential of Research Data
Baladodiffusion – L’historienne Arlette Farge
YouTube Data Tools
Slidecast – Finnish Digital Preservation Service for Cultural Heritage
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
In Flanders Fields: Canada’s National Poem Turns 100
Liberation of Holland 70th: Canadian vets reflect on extreme hardship
Dr Guy Berthiaume at the City of Ottawa Archives
A Webarchiving Short Story: the Liberal Party of Canada, 2006-2008
Canadian Museum for Human Rights ‘model of complacency’: ex-employee blasts limits on indigenous exhibits
Self-portraits by women artists in Library and Archives Canada’s collection
Library and Archives Canada – Stabilizing the new books added to the Rare Book Collection
B.C.’s Chinese-Canadian history going digital
B.C. – Artist, historian team up to preserve First Nations tales
Nova Scotia history explained in 50 objects
Archives of Manitoba – British Empire Army Certificate of Identity for Civilians Wearing the Red Cross Brassard
Québec – Accès à l’information: le nombre de demandes de refus double en un an
Un doctorat honorifique pour Michel Prévost, archiviste de l’Université d’Ottawa
Ryerson University Archives and Special Collections – The Automobile in Early Twentieth-Century Portraiture
Toronto – SickKids, 140 years: Archivist sifts intriguing artifacts at storied hospital
Winnipeg – Civic archives need your help
Kamloops (B.C.) – Extensive newspaper archive launches online
Documenting Peterborough’s (Ont.) musical history
Port Hope Archives (Ont.): fires created Waterworks Commission
http://www.northumberlandtoday.com/2015/05/04/port-hope-archives-fires-created-waterworks-commission
Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines: nouvelles vocations pour l’ancienne caserne de pompiers (les archives de la ville y seront déposées)
Mercier, un village disparu au coeur de Rouyn-Noranda
Portrait: Service des archives du Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario
Afrique / Africa
Algérie – Guerre de libération nationale : 12 pays ont remis des archives concernant cette période
Amériques / Americas
Virgin Islands – Genealogy group seeks help to fund archive project
Jamaica – Missing Customs Files Result in $16 Million Revenue Losses
Columbia – First edition of Garcia Marquez novel stolen in Bogota
A Long Way from Wax Cylinders, Library of Congress Slowly Joins the Digital Age
What’s New in the U.S. National Archives Catalog: WWI Photographs
Film and Television Archive project to restore Latin American movies
Only in Rhode Island: Millions of state historical records stored in flood-prone basement
Rhode Island – State officials tried, and failed, to fix archives a decade ago
West Virginia – Electronic court records about practicality and preservation
Indiana – New home sought for state archives
California Museum Acquires Japanese Internment Camp Art Pulled from Auction
University of Louisiana-Lafayette students on hunt for remains of early Acadiana settlers
Duke University – Human Rights Archive Collection Sheds Light on 1983 Assassination of Peruvian Journalists
University of Chicago acquires papers of cartoonist Daniel Clowes
University of Maryland – Edit-a-thons team up Wikipedia users and archivists to fix wiki mistakes
University of Pennsylvania – Penn Libraries Launches ‘OPenn’ Digital Resources Online Platform
Arizona State University – Words to remember: digital archives help immigrants share their stories
California State University Northridge – Ellen Jarosz Holds the Keys to the Nation’s Biggest Sex Archives
http://www.laweekly.com/news/ellen-jarosz-holds-the-keys-to-the-nations-biggest-sex-archives-5534141
University of Texas at San Antonio – Archival collections provide links to the history of the battle for Same-Sex Marriage
University of Illinois at Chicago preserves queer Asian-American archives
Mississippi – Building an archive of transgender history
Exxon’s archives at Hill Memorial Library mark historical importance of the oil industry
Sci-fi magazines touching down in Methodist archives
Long-lost film about Native Americans is restored
Mark Twain stories, 150 years old, uncovered by Berkeley scholars
Ghostly Voices from Thomas Edison’s Dolls Can Now Be Heard
Why America’s medical records are stuck in the 18th century
This Instagram Archivist is Really Schooling a New Generation of New Yorkers
Publishers Weekly Announces Archives Partnership with NA Publishing
Leaving Cloister of Dusty Offices, Young Archivists Meet Like Minds
Insights Interview: Josh Sternfeld on Funding Digital Stewardship Research and Development
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Old is new again at the National Film and Sound Archives
Australia knew about Indonesia’s napalm plans in Timor Leste according to secret documents unearthed by an Australian researcher
Australia – Mr Fluffy archives quarantined because of asbestos
National Library finds Australia’s first pound note, thought to be lost for nearly 80 years
State Records of New South Wales (Australia) – Recent digital advice
Archives New Zealand to house pictorial history of Antarctica
Snaps from Air New Zealand’s archives reveal glamorous days when passengers wore their best clothes and flying was an event to be celebrated
Japan – New National Archives must be source of knowledge about dramas of history
Korea – Hunt is on for missing diary of Sung Wan-jong
Singapore – Restoring sights and sounds from past for future generations
Digging to save Nepal’s cultural heritage after quake
Celebrating its 125th year, the National Archives of India, a grand symbol of Lutyens’ Delhi, is no less historic than the past it preserves
Europe / Europa
Seeing sound: the gallery where the sonic dreams of the Soviet avant-garde live on
Lenin’s lover? Picture of woman described as his true love uncovered
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus: much of Belarus’ war archive records still to be explored
Albania opens communist secret police files
Sweden (University of Uppsala) – A Google for Handwriting: Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) Being Used to Digitize Cultural Heritage Materials
Portugual – An Archive where living memories are kept
Comment le Vatican va-t-il numériser sa bibliothèque?
France – La CNIL autorise les Mormons à numériser l’état civil français
France – A Visit to the Archives Diplomatiques in Nantes
France – Les archives du réseau Du Guesclin sauvées de l’oubli
UK – Supreme court puts archive of recordings of past cases online
The British Library Machine Learning Experiment
Digitisation at the Royal College of Surgeons England
Jane Austen’s real Mr Darcy unmasked by historian
Nottingham’s history brought to life as archives reopened
Archivists record residents’ memories for York: Gateway to History project
Derbyshire’s first official archivist, Joan Sinar, is mourned
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
New Discovery: The Earliest Manuscript of Methodius of Olympus and an Unattested Saying about the Nile
Oman’s e-government initiative receives boost through latest Singaporean technology
International
The Hiroshima bomb detonated 3km from my house: veterans around the globe tell their extraordinary war stories
Your Right to Know: open government must embrace digital age
So you want to be an Audiovisual Archivist
Trends in Information Governance: eDiscovery and Big Data
http://www.datamation.com/applications/trends-in-information-governance-ediscovery-and-big-data.html
Leading art libraries pull together to make research available on the web: joint project to place 31.5 million images on a single website
Mini launches prototype of glasses that give X-ray vision