Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Librarian and Archivist of Canada Speech – Finally Revealed: Everything you Always Wanted to Know about LAC but Were Afraid to Ask (Given at AAQ)
Librarian and Archivist of Canada Speech – Bewitched, Digital and Bewildered: the Surprising 21st Century World of Library and Archives Canada (Given at CLA)
Library of Congress – PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata (Version 3.0)
NARA – Released Documents in Response to Freedom of Information Act Requests for Records about Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal Email Account
De la communauté / From the community
Mémoire de l’Association des archivistes du Québec et du Réseau des services d’archives du Québec sur le projet de loi 47
Canada’s Privacy Plan: a Crowdsourced Agenda for Tackling Canada’s Privacy Deficit
Simon Fraser University Archives and Records Management – Digital Preservation and Copyright Policy Framework
Copyright Policy Framework for Online Dissemination of Archival Materials: http://www.sfu.ca/archives/digital-repository/CopyrightPolFrame.html
Archival Digital Repository Technical Overview: http://www.sfu.ca/archives/digital-repository/dr-overview.html
Europeana – Partner and Data Development Plan
E-Ark – Dissemination Information Package (DIP) Draft Specification
Association of Research Libraries – Text and Data Mining and Fair Use in the United States
Paper – How would I Feel?: Personal Privacy and Intellectual Rights in the Nouwen Archives’ Photographs Series (Given at the Archives Association of Ontario Conference)
Paper – The Big Humanities, National Identity and the Digital Humanities in Germany
Publications
International Journal of Digital Curation, vol. 10, no. 1, 2015 (Final Version)
Records Management Journal, vol. 25, no. 2 (2015)
Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, vol. 49, no. 3 (2015)
Cahiers interdisciplinaires de la recherche en communication audiovisuelle, no 24, 2015 (numéro spécial: Histoire(s) de l’Internet)
National Archives of Australia – Government Agencies Information Network e-Bulletin, no. 4 (2015)
Cathedral Library & Archives Association Newsletter (Summer 2015)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 5 (May 2015)
Book – Treasures of the Royal British Columbia Museum and Archives
Book – The Canadian Oral History Reader
Book – Film Programming: Curating for Cinemas, Festivals, Archives
Book – Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles: Powerful Times
Book – Copyright: Interpreting the Law for Libraries, Archives and Information Services (Sixth Edition)
Book – From the Ashes of History: Loss and Recovery of Archives and Libraries in Modern Latin America
Book – The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict
Book – Thomas Annan of Glasgow: Pioneer of the Documentary Photograph
Book – Historians as Expert Judicial Witnesses in Tobacco Litigation: a Controversial Legal Practice
Livre – Éducation aux archives: théorie, pratique et valorisation
Livre – Archives des dictatures: enjeux juridiques, archivistes et institutionnels
Livre – Droit codifié et nouvelles technologies : le Code civil
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Exhibit – Settling the Language: Dictionaries and Language Change, 1490 to Today
June 3 – August 15, 2015, University of British Columbia
Voices from the Dust 2015: Ottawa’s Rootstech
June 20, 2015, Ottawa
Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives Exhibit – Queering Space
Starting June 20, 2015, Toronto
ARMA National Capital Region – Information Security in GCDOCS (Content Server)
June 23, 2015, Ottawa
Making Progress in Digital Preservation
July 10, 2015, Liverpool
International Federation for Public History Third Annual Conference
July 7-9, 2016, Bogotá (Colombia)
Webinar – Ontario Genealogical Society Annual General Meeting (Recording Available)
May 30, 2015, Barrie
Panel Open Jerusalem à la conférence Ouvrir les archives (textes disponibles)
13 avril, 2015, Paris
Webinar – Freedom of Information Acts and Disclosure in Public-Private Partnerships (Recording Available)
June 2, 2015
Webinar – Promoting Legislated Duty to Document for Government Accountability (Recording Available)
June 4, 2015
Sur le web / On the web
Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care (Ontario) – Remembering Oak Ridge Digital Archive and Exhibit
Association des archivistes du Québec – Vidéo : Entrevue avec Hervé Lemoine, directeur des archives de France
Association des archivistes du Québec – Vidéo : Saint Laurent, le patron des archivistes
Port Hope Archives (Ont.) now on Linkedin
Slidecast – Les archives sonores : de l’archivistique à la création (Congrès de l’Association canadienne des bibliothèques, archives et centres de documentation musicaux)
New Zealand Archivist Digital Archive
British Library – Introducing LibCrowds (Crowdsourcing Platform)
Video – First Among Many: the Bay Psalm Book & Early Moments in American History
Video – Brewster Kahle: Digitize Everything
Video – A Big Data History of Music
Slidecast – The Austrian National Library’s Vision 2025
Slidecast – Building Web Archiving Collaborations to Save [More of] the Web
http://www.slideshare.net/annaperricci/building-web-archiving-collaborations-to-save-more-of-the-web
Slidecast – Religion, Social Media and the Web Archive
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
A Superior Court judge has ordered that historical Royal Canadian Mounted Police documents be searched in a residential school abuse case
Government of Canada Introduces Measures to Protect Personal Information of Canadians
StatsCan chief turns to blog to dispel data ‘myths’ about National Household Survey
Mrs. Laureen Harper visits Library and Archives Canada’s Preservation Centre
Library and Archives Canada – Progress on the government record backlog
Library and Archives Canada – Project Naming expands to Nunavik region
Library and Archives Canada – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Tour of Western Canada, June 1914
Nova Scotia – Delays grow for freedom of information
Archives of Manitoba – Whiz Bangs: Field Service Post Cards
Monsieur Jacques Parizeau et BAnQ Vieux-Montréal
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales accélère et accentue la numérisation des journaux québécois
Mémoire morte: la Société canadienne du microfilm a fermé ses portes
Mémoire vive: CEDROM-SNi et son demi-milliard d’articles accumulés
Where quirky collectibles go to rest: from puppets to a personalized pizza box, libraries’ special collections are home to some very strange items
University of Saskatchewan – Neil Richards’ sexual diversity history unprecedented in Canada
Original Star Wars script discovered in University of New Brunswick library
Original Copy of Star Wars Script Found in Library, Proves Han Solo Shot First
University of Toronto Archives – David Dunlap Observatory Scrapbook now Online
University of Toronto Archives – New Acquisition: Canadian Paleoanthropologist Davidson Black Papers
University of Waterloo Researchers Funded through Early Researcher Awards: will Give Historians the Tools Required to Find and Interpret Digital Sources from Web Archives
Archives for the Future: Simon Fraser University Archives’ Digital Repository will bring the university’s past to the future
Islandora and the Public Knowledge Project Announce Strategic Relationship
Major West Coast photographic archive donated to West Vancouver Museum
Regina Indian Industrial School history captured on film
Toronto’s Lesbians Making History goes digital
Westmount – City Council Minutes Archives dating back to 1874
Rio Tinto et l’histoire… (à propos du rappatriement des archives d’Alcan au Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean)
How to Research your Peel (Ont.) Family History at the Archives: an Overview
A Trip Around the World in Archival Records: a Peel Tribute to International Archives Day
City of Vaughan (Ont.) Archives showcases oldest artifact
Vaughan – What’s New in the Archives
Afrique / Africa
Burkina Faso – Le centre national des archives : qu’est-ce que c’est ?
Burkina Faso – Conservation des documents d’archives : visite guidée avec les élèves de l’École nationale de l’Administration et de le Magistrature
Sénégal – Plaidoyer pour une politique nationale des archives
Sénégal – L’indispensable maison des archives
Tunisie – Les enquêteurs sur la dictature réclament l’accès aux archives policières
La récupération des archives du Maroc est une bataille politique qui ne profite pas aux chercheurs, selon un responsable
Madagascar – Archives nationales : les grands travaux de la 1ere guerre mondiale
Aegis Trust Launches Expanded Website for Genocide Archive of Rwanda
Kenya News Agency Digitization Drive to Be Completed By December 2015
Liberia: Archive Takes Charge of Foreign Ministry’s Depository
South Africa – Secret Truth and Reconciliation Commission files reveal apartheid secrets
South African History Archive’s case to gain access to Truth and Reconciliation Commission victims database goes to court
Amériques / Americas
Cayman Islands – The Premier and Freedom of Information: from Signal Moment to Burden
White House – Help us Strengthen Open Government
US to require HTTPS for all government websites
NSA: our systems are so complex we can’t stop them from deleting data wanted for lawsuit
US Copyright Office’s Proposal on Orphan Works wouldn’t Be Allowed if TPP Is Ratified
CIA Search for JFK Records Mostly Sufficient: United States District Court
Statement on NARA’s Records Management Activities Relating to the State Department
James H. Billington to Retire as Librarian of Congress Effective Jan. 1, 2016
Primary Sources, Primary Sounds: the Radio Preservation Task Force of the Library of Congress
An Important Library of Congress Acquisition Helps People See the US Civil War in 3D
National Institutes of Health approves strategic vision to transform National Library of Medicine
ARMA International Names Veteran IT Executive as CEO
More than 16 million Virginia records now digitized
New York State considers new email retention policies, may be able to look to city
Governor Samuel Johnston Correspondence (1787-1789) Digitized, Available at North Carolina Digital Collections
Maine State Archives Celebrates 50th Anniversary
Indiana State archives hold key to Indiana’s history, good and bad
Michigan Launches Open-Data Mapping Portal
Stanford University researchers seeking Chinese railroad workers’ descendants
University of Pennsylvania – Introducing kids to medieval manuscripts
LGBT Archive of the American West Launched at the University of Wyoming
Florida International University – History students digitize photos, memorabilia from Miami Beach
Archivist Spotlight: Béatrice Colastin Skokan, Manuscripts, Archives & Outreach Librarian at the University of Miami Libraries
Albright College to Digitize and Share Archival Holocaust Materials
Studebaker National Museum digitizes film archives
Film Archivists’ New Supporting Role: Silent Film Preservation
Found: gold rush of vanished Charlie Chaplin gags
The HIV Story Project Launches Generations HIV Online Video Archive
Fairfax Media’s valuable photo archives under threat after Rogers Photo Archive goes into receivership
Arrest warrant issued for alleged Fairfax Media photo fraudster John Rogers
Developer Maps New York Library Photo Archives
Discovery of Missing Prints Fails to Save Boston Library Leader’s Job
LA Confidential author James Ellroy is given access to 12 months of grisly police archives to portray the city’s chilling past
Haunting chalkboard drawings, frozen in time for 100 years, discovered in Oklahoma school
Data Reinvents Libraries for the 21st Century
Climate change destroying Natives’ relics
Lost Documentary about Gay People Unearthed by Television Archive to Air
Engineered to perfection: the General Electric Company Traction Archives cataloguing project
Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Interview with Jim Corridan
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia exposes the ongoing impact of war
Australia – Queensland State Archives: how recordkeeping has changed since 1908 (or has it…?)
Archives New Zealand – Sentencing your records
Palau Humanities recognizes Micronesia’s best archivists
http://www.mvariety.com/regional-news/77516-palau-humanities-recognizes-micronesia-s-best-archivists
Cambodge – Les archives de l’horreur
Solomon Islands – Work of archive acknowledged
China – Anti-Japanese War archives cover defense of Nanking
Pakistan – Well kept: a man’s cricket memorabilia
National Film Archive of India – Film heritage mission sets the reel rolling
India – Odisha State Archives poised for complete image makeover
India – Digitisation of Kuchipudi photos to begin in July
Europe / Europa
Hidden treasures and iconic masterpieces: the Europeana 280 campaign
http://pro.europeana.eu/blogpost/hidden-treasures-and-iconic-masterpieces-the-europeana-280-campaign
Rest of Czechoslovak Independent Literature Documentation Centre archive sent to Prague
Lithuania – Jewish archives from Vilnius to be restored in New York
Portrait of a Forgotten Hungary: Legendary Photographer’s 1500 Turn-of-the-century Pictures Made Public
Georgia – Online archive helps people learn more about Abkhazia
Journalist travels to Spain hoping to trace his ancestry back to the 15th century
Pays-Bas – Moulinsart perd le procès Tintin à La Haye
Switzerland – Ancient papyrus texts found in Basel University library
Suisse – Yverdon: les archives de Canal NV sont disponibles sur le Net
Suisse – Les archéologues du numérique
Belgique – Saint-Hubert: le dépôt des archives de l’État va-t-il devoir fermer?
Association des archivistes français – Pourquoi la France a besoin d’une nouvelle loi sur les archives
France – Le ministère de la Culture supprime les archives du projet de loi Patrimoines
France – Mobilisation générale chez les archivistes
France – Devant l’inacceptable, les conservateurs du Louvre sortent de leurs réserves
France – Un chronomégaphone adjugé plus d’un million d’euros
France – Une enveloppe timbrée d’Hawaï en vente à 125000 euros
National Library of Ireland celebrates 150th Anniversary of William Butler Yeats
British Library – Magna Carta: my Digital Rights: the Public can now Help Build a Magna Carta for the Digital Age
Listening Project booth comes to the British Library
British Library – Selling archives by the pound
Waterloo heroes’ records published including 19th Century Hercules who hacked off Frenchman’s head
New online memorial and archive for fallen Black Country WW1 heroes
A photographer documented the building of London’s 100km Crossrail Project
Transforming archives: Norfolk Record Office
Memories of Cadets at Dartmouth Naval College to be preserved
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Crown Prince of Bahrain meets United Arab Emirates National Archives Director General
Bahrain – Preserving archives highlighted
Blue Shield Statement on Yemen
Digital Monuments Men Wage Online War against Islamic State Looting
Well-read and well dead: the Islamic State archaeology book club
International
Public archives of the International Committee for the Red Cross for the period 1966-1975 to be opened
The Utopia of Records: why Sound Archiving Is Important
Digital Underground: who will Make Sure the Internet’s Vast Musical Archive doesn’t Disappear?
De la GED à la transformation numérique
Open Letter on the Digital Economy: a group of leading technologists, economists, and investors propose a new approach to help us adapt to new technologies
Transforming Text and Data Into a True Knowledge Base
Preservation Tips and Tools: the First Step for Putting Women Back in History
International Archives Day: Expats and Democracy
How the compact disc lost its shine
The Internet of Things: Totally New and a Hundred Years Old
Twitter’s CEO is stepping down. Here’s why the company’s in trouble.