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Documentary Heritage News
June 19, 2015May 2, 2021

Vol. 8, no. 42

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State
Librarian and Archivist of Canada Speech – Access at the Helm: Sailing the Choppy Waters between Rights and Responsibilities (Given at AAO)
http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?mthd=tp&crtr.page=1&nid=988469&crtr.tp1D=970

Librarian and Archivist of Canada Speech – The Horizon from LAC’s Perspective (Given at ACA)
http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?mthd=tp&crtr.page=1&nid=987589&crtr.tp1D=970

BAnQ – Recueil des règles de conservation des documents des établissements de santé et de services sociaux du Québec
Présentation générale : http://www.banq.qc.ca/dotAsset/40dff250-437b-4c59-8046-3b4debe85d36.pdf
Séries de gestion : http://www.banq.qc.ca/dotAsset/6bc555df-6cf8-4112-b794-e9810b047d7c.pdf

Council of the European Union – Central archives of the European Council and the Council of the European Union
http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/central-archives-of-the-european-council-and-the-council-of-the-european-union-pbQC0115245/

NARA – Scheduling Guidance on the Appropriate Age for Legal Transfer of Permanent Records
http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/bulletins/2015/2015-01.html

Irish Film Archive – Digital Preservation & Access Strategy
http://www.ifi.ie/wp-content/uploads/DPAS-V.2.pdf

Bibliothèque nationale suisse – Rapport annuel 2014
http://www.nb.admin.ch/org/01549/04854/index.html?lang=fr

Library of Congress – New Student Discovery Sets for Tablets
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2015/15-101.html

Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France) – Les enjeux éthiques du partage des données scientifiques
http://www.cnrs.fr/comets/IMG/pdf/2015-05_avis-comets-partage-donnees-scientifiques-2.pdf

De la communauté / From the community
Society of American Archivists – Employment Survey Data
http://archivists.org/news/2015/saa-employment-survey-data-now-available

Enhancing the Europeana Data Model
http://pro.europeana.eu/files/Europeana_Professional/Publications/EDM_WhitePaper_17062015.pdf

American Historical Association – Guidelines for the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians
http://www.historians.org/Documents/Guidelines%20for%20the%20Prof%20Eval%20of%20Dig%20Schol%20by%20Historians%20May%202015.pdf

Fédération des tiers de confiance – Guide pour la confidentialité des archives numériques
http://www.fntc.org/fr/publications/func-startdown/475/

Fédération des tiers de confiance – Vade-mecum juridique de la dématérialisation des documents (7e édition)
http://www.fntc.org/fr/publications/func-startdown/474/

Association des professionnels de l’information et de la documentation – Observatoire des métiers de la fonction Information, no 1 
http://www.adbs.fr/vient-de-paraitre-la-1re-etude-adbs-sur-les-tendances-emploi-de-la-fonction-information–148074.htm

Paper – Growing a Web Archiving Program: a Case Study for Evolving an Organization-management Plan (University of Alberta)
http://library.ifla.org/1088/1/090-suomela-en.pdf

Paper – Gardening Communities as Urban Archives and Social Resource in Urban Planning
http://www.nordes.org/opj/index.php/n13/article/download/392/370

Paper – Somatic Archiving
http://mah.app.box.com/s/oo9z1s9f44cro8nnyco9q943lbyqk9i7

Publications
Journal of Library Metadata, vol. 15, no. 2 (2015)
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wjlm20/15/2

The Reference Librarian, vol. 56, no. 3 (2015)
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wref20/56/3

Journal of Electronic Publishing, vol. 15, no. 3 (Summer 2015)
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0018.3*?rgn=main;view=fulltext

Les cahiers du numériques, vol. 11, no. 2, 2015 (numéro spécial : Apport de la gestion documentaire à la gouvernance de l’information)
http://lcn.revuesonline.com/resnum.jsp?editionId=1963

Bibliothèque nationale de France – Actualités de la conservation, no. 33 (2015)
http://www.bnf.fr/fr/professionnels/lettre_conservation_33/x.lettre_conservation_33.html

EuropeanaTech Insight, no. 3, 2015 (Issue: Open Data and Data Re-use)
http://pro.europeana.eu/get-involved/europeana-tech/europeanatech-insight/issue-3-open-data-and-data-re-use

Newsletter of the Collections of Faith Traditions, Australian Society of Archivists, no. 24 (June 2015)
http://www.archivists.org.au/documents/item/586 

Training Module – Becoming a Trusted Digital Repository
http://files.archivists.org/pubs/Module8-PrepublicationSpecial-June2015.pdf

Book – The Archive Thief: the Man who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199380954.do  
See also: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/arts/design/the-man-who-stole-nazi-era-history-from-the-streets.html

Book – The Luck Archive: Exploring Belief, Superstition, and Tradition
http://tupress.org/books/the-luck-archive 

Book – Linked Data and User Interaction
http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/207664  

Book – Using Film as a Source
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9780719090301 

Book – Essential Classification (Second Edition)
http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=300310

Book – Hidden Water: from the Frank Stanford Archives
http://thirdmanbooks.com/book/hidden-water-from-the-frank-stanford-archives 

Book – Breaking the Book: Print Humanities in the Digital Age
http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118274555.html 

Book – Annual Review of Cultural Heritage Informatics: 2014
http://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442250116/Annual-Review-of-Cultural-Heritage-Informatics-2014

Book – Advances in Library Administration and Organization: volume 33
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/book/10.1108/S0732-0671201533

Book – Bitcoin Records Management
http://ow.ly/OpZiX

Book – Heckman’s Canadian Pacific: a Photographic Journey
http://www.cvrco.com/bookdistributing2015.htm

Livre – Questions d’archivage (nouvelle édition)
http://www.politeia.be//fr-be/book/questions-darchivage/QUESTI406C.htm

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Exposition – Entre l’auteur et le lecteur : l’archive
7 au 10 juillet 2015, Longueuil
http://gallery.mailchimp.com/a031f87f42a48b42678801d95/files/Affiche_Expo_Archives_vf.pdf

Archives Association of British Columbia – Describing Archives using RAD
October 15, 2015, Kelowna
http://aabc.ca/education/workshops/describing-archives-using-rad/

The Forensic Turn in Holocaust Studies? (Re-)Thinking the Past Through Materiality
June 25, 2015, Vienna
http://www.vwi.ac.at/index.php/en/events/workshops-conventions/icalrepeat.detail/2015/06/25/142/-/the-forensic-turn-in-holocaust-studies-re-thinking-the-past-through-materiality

Online Course – Introduction to Family History
Starting July 13, 2015
http://www.utas.edu.au/arts/introduction-to-family-history

Webinar – Connecting to Collections: Facebook, and Twitter, and Instagram, oh my! Sharing Museum Collections through Social Media
July 14, 2015
http://www.arcsinfo.org/news-events/event/157/0/connecting-to-collections-facebook-and-twitter-and-instagram-oh-my-sharing-museum-collections-through-social-media

Webinar – Linked Open Data in Libraries and Archives
July 23, 2015
http://metro.org/events/650/

Cours en ligne massif et ouvert – Gérer les documents numériques : maîtriser les risques
7 septembre au 1er novembre 2015
http://www.france-universite-numerique-mooc.fr/courses/CNAM/01014/session01/about

Online Conference – Open Source Software and Tools for the Library and Archive
September 17, 2015
http://www.amigos.org/node/3282

Oral History and Heritage: National and International Identities
September 17-18, 2015, Nelspruit, Mpumalanga (South Africa)
http://www.archivalplatform.org/conferences/entry/ohasa_2015_oral_history_and_heritage_national_and_international_identities/

English Literary Heritage Conference
September 18, 2015, London (UK)
http://literaryartisticarchives-ica.org/2015/06/17/english-literary-heritage-conference-registration-open/

2015 Annual International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Conference
September 27 – October 1, 2015, Paris
http://www.iasa-web.org/notice_board/2015-annual-iasa-conference-registration-now-open

Données et sciences historiques
16 octobre 2015, Berne (Suisse)
http://www.infoclio.ch/fr/node/138080

Conférence de Daniel J. Caron – Enjeux et opportunités de l’ère numérique : transparence et exploitation des ressources informationnelles (vidéo disponible)
17 mars 2015, Gatineau
http://www.canalsavoir.tv/videos_sur_demande/180

Courriel express: après-midi d’étude interdisciplinaire (certains vidéos disponibles)
7 mai 2015, Montréal
http://lccjti.ca/2015/06/10/videos-du-seminaire-courriel-express/

Web Archiving Collaboration: New Tools and Models (Slides Available)
June 4, 2015, New York
https://library.columbia.edu/bts/web_resources_collection/Conferences/program.html

Sur le web / On the web
Video – Read the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxPr_RIsvg9JJWoiRx2kl2v24r_pu7JbR

Archives Association of Ontario – Video: Introduction to Wikipedia for Archivists
http://youtu.be/aQWsOZ8w-DU

Association des archivistes du Québec – Vidéo: Florence Ott, formation et archives privées
http://youtu.be/h83SaQm7Cno

Slidecast – Archivematica Hosting in the Cloud (Given at ACA)
http://www.slideshare.net/Archivematica/report-archivematica-hosting-in-the-cloud

Slidecast – Veille informationnelle et veille stratégique dans un contexte d’organisation durable
http://www.slideshare.net/drevonelsa/cossi-2015-veille-informationnelle-et-veille-stratgique-dans-un-contexte-dorganisation-durable

Video – International Committee of the Red Cross Opens its Archives from 1966 to 1975 
http://youtu.be/aOrqOFROLGg

Archives du Sénégal – Journée internationale des archives 2015 (avec trois vidéos)
http://www.archivesdusenegal.gouv.sn/journ%C3%A9e-internationale-des-archives-2015

Video – Integrating Digital Epigraphies
http://www.cni.org/news/video-integrating-digital-epigraphies/

Video – Introducing the International Librarians Network
http://youtu.be/-iGMQoLd8pE

Vidéo – Comment les métadonnées permettent de vous surveiller
http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/video/2015/06/15/comment-les-metadonnees-permettent-de-vous-surveiller-explique-en-patates_4654461_4408996.html

Palladio 1.0 (Humanities Thinking about Data Visualization)
http://hdlab.stanford.edu/projects/palladio/

MDQC (Metadata Quality Control) Version 0.3
http://www.avpreserve.com/news/avpreserve-releases-mdqc-version-0-3-update/

UK National Archives Podcast – Fanny and Stella: the Young Men who Shocked Victorian England
http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/fanny-stella-young-men-shocked-victorian-england/
Slidecast – Sustainable Queryable Access to Linked Data
http://www.slideshare.net/RubenVerborgh/sustainable-queryable-access-to-linked-data

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
The Role of Canada’s Museums and Archives in Reconciliation
http://activehistory.ca/2015/06/the-role-of-canadas-museums-and-archives-in-reconciliation/

Indian residential school survivors continue battling Ottawa in the courts to prove abuse cases
http://aptn.ca/news/2015/06/17/indian-residential-school-survivors-continue-battling-ottawa-courts-prove-abuse-cases/

Opinion Column – Residential school stories must be saved
http://www.lfpress.com/2015/06/12/baranyai-residential-school-stories-must-be-saved

Stephen Harper says his government encouraged RCMP to destroy disputed long-gun data
http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/harper-says-his-government-encouraged-rcmp-to-destroy-disputed-long-gun-data-1.2425510

How the Budget Bill Quietly Reshapes Canadian Privacy Law
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/06/how-the-budget-bill-quietly-reshapes-canadian-privacy-law/

Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 – Canada’s history told through immigrants’ voices
http://thechronicleherald.ca/roadtrip/nova-scotia/1292553-canada%E2%80%99s-history-told-through-immigrants%E2%80%99-voices

Access Canadian WW2 Military Service Files in a Few Easy Steps
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2015/06/acess-canadian-ww2-military-service.html

Canadian Community of Practice for Research Data Management in Libraries – Bilingual tool for data management plans (DMPs)
http://data-carl-abrc.ca/2015/06/17/bilingual-tool-for-data-management-plans-dmps-le-point-sur-le-reseau-portage-de-labrc-outil-bilingue-pour-les-plans-de-gestion-des-donnees-pgd/

La censure européenne des moteurs de recherche pourrait s’étendre au Canada
http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2015/06/12/la–censure-europeenne-des-moteurs-de-recherche-pourrait-setendre-au-canada

B.C. Court of Appeal Upholds Global Deletion Order Against Google
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/06/b-c-court-of-appeal-upholds-global-deletion-order-against-google/

Picking up the pieces: paperwork tells story of Halifax Explosion survivors
http://thechronicleherald.ca/thenovascotian/1293139-picking-up-the-pieces-paperwork-tells-story-of-halifax-explosion-survivors

Nova Scotia – Mother Canada elevates bombastic heritage over subtlety of history
http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1291322-%E2%80%98mother-canada%E2%80%99-elevates-bombastic-heritage-over-subtlety-of-history

Newfoundland nurse: letter from the trenches
http://archivalmoments.ca/2015/06/newfoundland-nurse-letter-from-the-trenches/

Aboriginals push to save former Ontario residential school known as mush hole
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/06/13/aboriginals-push-to-save-former-ontario-residential-school-known-as-mush-hole.html

Dossiers des patients du Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec: numérisation terminée, budget respecté
http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/actualites/sante/201506/11/01-4877391-dossiers-des-patients-du-chu-numerisation-terminee-budget-respecte.php

University of Saskatchewan houses one of the largest LGBT archives in the country
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/u-of-s-houses-one-of-the-largest-lgbt-archives-in-the-country-1.3113095

Dr. Victoria Lemieux (UBC) Wins the Prestigious Emmett Leahy Award
http://slais.ubc.ca/dr-victoria-lemieux-wins-the-prestigious-emmett-leahy-award/

Paige Hohmann (UBC) Receives Theodore Calvin Pease Award (Society of American Archivists)
http://slais.ubc.ca/paige-hohmann-receives-theodore-calvin-pease-award/

Université de Montréal – La Division de la gestion de documents et des archives et l’Institut de recherche en biologie végétale  mettent en ligne plus de 3500 documents iconographiques de Marie-Victorin
http://www.archiv.umontreal.ca/pdf/Recolter_pour_la_science_communique.pdf

Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Visit to lovely London, Ontario 
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2015/06/visit-to-lovely-london-ontario.html

Movie Monday film collection will go to Greater Victoria library
http://www.timescolonist.com/movie-monday-film-collection-will-go-to-greater-victoria-library-1.1968028

Victoria man in charge of bringing Grateful Dead’s music to life (David Lemieux, the Grateful Dead’s official archivist)
http://www.timescolonist.com/life/islander/victoria-man-in-charge-of-bringing-grateful-dead-s-music-to-life-1.1968094

City of Vancouver Archives – Microfilm Scanners
http://www.vancouverarchives.ca/2015/06/18/microfilm-scanners/

Hidden history of African American settlers in Wellington, B.C. uncovered: archivist Christine Meutzner found at least 70 black settlers 
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/hidden-history-of-african-american-settlers-in-wellington-b-c-uncovered-1.3114170

Kingston nurse finds story of grandmother’s old flame who died on D-Day
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/06/06/kingston-nurse-finds-story-of-grandmothers-old-flame-who-died-on-d-day.html

Statford-Perth (Ont.) – A new chapter begins at county archives
http://www.mitchelladvocate.com/2015/06/08/a-new-chapter-begins-at-county-archives

Historic Pelly (Saskatchewan) museum destroyed in fire
http://globalnews.ca/news/2053458/pelly-museum-destroyed-in-fire/

Storage being reorganized at Lambton Heritage Museum (Ont.)
http://www.theobserver.ca/2015/06/12/storage-being-reorganized-at-lambton-heritage-museum

Le Centre d’archives de Charlevoix fera tirer une toile de Tex Lecor
http://www.cihofm.com/nouvelles/Le-Centre-d-archives-fera-tirer-une-toile-de-Tex-Lecor-2015-06-11-20-49

Ontario Library Association Interview: Dan Cohen, Executive Director, Digital Public Library of America
http://www.open-shelf.ca/150615-dan-cohen/

Interview with Daniel J. Caron: information transparency in the digital age
http://www.noslangues-ourlanguages.gc.ca/collaborateurs-contributors/articles/20150608-daniel-j-caron-eng.html

Afrique / Africa
Sierra Leone – Public Archives Office claim being marginalized by Education Minister
http://awoko.org/2015/06/11/sierra-leone-news-public-archives-office-claim-being-marginalized-by-education-minister/

Zimbabwe: Government Repatriates Colonial Documents from South Africa
http://allafrica.com/stories/201506110244.html

Côte d’Ivoire – Fonction publique : le ministre lance la numérisation des archives 
http://www.rti.ci/replay.php?page=replay&chaine=emirti1&genre=elmtjtrti1&id=453075171&titre=fonction-publique-le-ministre-lance-la-numerisation-des-archives%22

Côte d’Ivoire – Visibilité sur les actions du gouvernement : la Commission d’accès à l’information d’intérêt public et aux documents publics installée
http://news.abidjan.net/h/555235.html

Burkina Faso – Mort de Thomas Sankara : sa femme demande la levée du secret défense à la France
http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20150617-mort-sankara-femme-demande-levee-secret-defense-france/
Maroc – Mahdi Elmandjra et d’Abraham Serfaty donnent leurs livres à Bibliothèque du Maroc
http://www.lavieeco.com/news/actualites/mahdi-elmandjra-et-d-abraham-serfaty-donnent-leurs-livres-a-bibliotheque-du-maroc-34304.html

National Archives crisis: records of democratic South Africa could be lost, probably forever
http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2015-06-15-national-archives-crisis-records-of-democratic-south-africa-could-be-lost-probably-forever/

South Africa – University of the Witwatersrand: the power of archives
http://www.wits.ac.za/newsroom/newsitems/201506/26659/news_item_26659.html

Amériques / Americas
Barbados National Archive partnership with University of the West Indies urged
http://www.barbadosadvocate.com/newsitem.asp?more=local&NewsID=44051

The Price of Reading Hillary Clinton’s Emails
http://www.nationaljournal.com/2016-elections/the-price-of-reading-hillary-clinton-s-emails-20150610

CIA Releases Declassified Documents Related to 9/11 Attacks
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/press-releases-statements/2015-press-releases-statements/cia-releases-declassified-documents-related-to-9-11-attacks.html

FBI to return stolen books to Sweden’s National Library
http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=6191290

Senators Attempt to Protect Stolen Jewish Artifacts in Iraq From ISIS
http://jpupdates.com/2015/06/10/senators-attempt-to-protect-stolen-jewish-artifacts-in-iraq-from-isis/

Federal records hack underscores overconfidence in records management policies
http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com/story/federal-records-hack-underscores-overconfidence-records-management-policies/2015-06-17

Can an algorithm do the job of a historian? the Declassification Engine attempts to determine the most important events in American foreign policy
http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/can-a-computer-algorithm-do-the-job-of-a-historian


What’s New in the National Archives Catalog: British Photographs of World War I
http://aotus.blogs.archives.gov/2015/06/17/whats-new-in-the-national-archives-catalog-british-photographs-of-world-war-i/

Library of Congress – Inquiring Minds: Music Scholar Uncovers Forgotten Songs from My Fair Lady
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2015/06/inquiring-minds-music-scholar-uncovers-forgotten-songs-from-my-fair-lady/

Large Hadron Collider Technology Is Rescuing Historic Audio
http://mentalfloss.com/article/65067/large-hadron-collider-technology-rescuing-historic-audio

National Library of Medicine – Oil on Paper: a Collaborative Conservation Challenge
http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2015/06/16/oil-on-paper-a-collaborative-conservation-challenge/

After serious lab mishaps, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it needs 3 years to release records
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/06/16/cdc-lab-incident-reports-foia/28806263/
The National Digital Platform for Libraries and Museums: Collaborating on Tools and Services across Organizations
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2015/06/11/the-national-digital-platform-for-libraries-and-museums/

Arizona – State Archivist receives lifetime achievement award
http://www.eacourier.com/news/state-archivist-receives-lifetime-achievement-award/article_f9972860-0eff-11e5-a4c3-f32ea69572e1.html

Mystery solved: Ancient skeleton (Kennewick Man) is native American 
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2015/06/18/mystery-solved-ancient-skeleton-is-native-american.html

Hidden secrets of Yale’s 1491 world map revealed via multispectral imaging
http://news.yale.edu/2015/06/11/hidden-secrets-yale-s-1491-world-map-revealed-multispectral-imaging

University of Texas – Estate donates archive of Watergate editor Ben Bradlee to Ransom Center
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2015/06/17/estate-donates-archive-of-watergate-editor-ben-bradlee-to-ransom-center

Museum of Modern Art Is Archiving its Exhibition Websites Before they Expire
http://hyperallergic.com/211250/moma-is-archiving-its-exhibition-websites-before-they-expire/

Boeing, Aviation Week Network team on history to create a digital, searchable, living archive
http://aviationweek.com/paris-air-show-2015/boeing-aviation-week-network-team-history-0

Fairfax Media reaches agreement over photo archive dispute
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/69460354/fairfax-media-reaches-agreement-over-photo-archive-dispute


Sites of Resistance: Mapping LGBTQ History with New York City Preservationists
http://blog.historians.org/2015/06/sites-resistance-mapping-lgbtq-history-new-york-city-preservationists/

City of Oakland to Launch an Innovative Open Social Media Archive With ArchiveSocial
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/city-oakland-launch-innovative-open-110000797.html

Why Cincinnati’s Library Once Collected Snails
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-rosen/why-cincinnatis-library-once-collected-snails_b_7585606.html

How Satan went viral: Interactive map shows where the Salem witch trials spread – and pinpoints the source of hysteria to a local reverend
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3119165/How-Satan-went-viral-Map-reveals-Salem-witch-trials-spread-pinpoints-source-hysteria-local-reverend.html

Maximum Rocknroll: punk magazine, radio show, record label, and vinyl archive since 1977
http://kalw.org/post/maximum-rocknroll-punk-magazine-radio-show-record-label-and-vinyl-archive-1977

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Gang-gang: National Archives’ initiative a godsend to Anzac family researchers
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/act-news/ganggang-national-archives-initiative-a-godsend-to-anzac-family-researchers-20150615-ghnwz2.html

Australia – Stolen Boer War veteran’s diaries prompt State Library security upgrade in Adelaide, as police investigate theft
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-12/stolen-war-veteran-diaries-prompt-state-library-security-upgrade/6541126
Antarctica New Zealand photo archive goes online
http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/69468086/antarctica-nz-photo-archive-goes-online.html

Vietnam – Quang Tri: Un vétéran détient plus de 3.000 archives sur Hô Chi Minh
http://fr.vietnamplus.vn/Home/Quang-Tri-Un-veteran-detient-plus-de-3000-archives-sur-Ho-Chi-Minh/20156/53772.vnplus

China – Comfort women files unearthed by archivists
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/926815.shtml

National Archives of Bangladesh observed International Archives Day 
http://www.nanl.gov.bd/index.php?option=%20com_content&view=article&id=68

Europe / Europa
European Commission proposal on new data protection rules to boost EU Digital Single Market supported by Justice Ministers
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-5176_en.htm

Paolo Ponzano transfers his collection of files to the Historical Archives of the European Union
http://www.eui.eu/Research/HistoricalArchivesOfEU/News/2015/06-04-PaoloPonzanotransfershiscollectionoffilestotheHAEU.aspx

Russia is getting its own right to be forgotten
http://qz.com/423455/russia-is-getting-its-own-right-to-be-forgotten/

US President Woodrow Wilson’s handwritten note on independent Poland handed over to State Archives
http://www.thenews.pl/1/6/Artykul/209754,Wilson%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98note%E2%80%99-handed-over-to-State-Archives

Auschwitz museum brings in technology to enhance the past
http://www.euronews.com/2015/06/17/auschwitz-museum-brings-in-technology-to-enhance-the-past/

Portugal to introduce tax on digital storage media
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/portugal-to-introduce-tax-on-digital-storage-media–1086365

Denmark – The Inuit children taken from home for a social experiment
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33060450

Hidden stories about sex and gender in the new Norwegian Queer Archive
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=153636&CultureCode=en

Germany – Günter Grass archive opens in Göttingen
http://www.dw.de/g%C3%BCnter-grass-archive-opens-in-g%C3%B6ttingen/a-18514841

The composer who’s still under a German state ban
http://slippedisc.com/2015/06/the-composer-whos-still-under-a-german-state-ban/

How libraries in Germany are fighting extinction and winning
http://www.dw.de/how-libraries-in-germany-are-fighting-extinction-and-winning/a-18478412

Digital Humanities at the National Library of the Netherlands
http://blog.kbresearch.nl/2015/06/18/digital-humanities-at-the-kb/

Netherlands – Leiden University Libraries donates 2400 historical photos of Asia to Wikipedia
http://www.library.leiden.edu/news/wikimedia-commons-english.html

Suisse – Canton de Genève : les Archives d’État vont quitter la Vieille-Ville
http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu-genevoise/Les-Archives-dEtat-vont-quitter-la-Vieille-Ville/story/29062892

France – La CNIL met en demeure Google de procéder aux déréférencements sur toutes les extensions du moteur de recherche
http://www.cnil.fr/linstitution/actualite/article/article/la-cnil-met-en-demeure-google-de-proceder-aux-dereferencements-sur-toutes-les-extensions-du-mote/

Archives nationales de France – Fontainebleau: alerte rouge sur les archives
http://www.larepublique77.fr/2015/06/18/alerte-rouge-sur-les-archives/

France – Les notes manuscrites d’Alexander Grothendieck seront archivées à Montpellier
http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/languedoc-roussillon/2015/06/17/les-notes-manuscrites-d-alexander-grothendieck-seront-archivees-montpellier-750077.html

Ireland – Story of mission to return remains of William Butler Yeats revealed by military archive
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/story-of-mission-to-return-remains-of-wb-yeats-revealed-by-military-archive-1.2247588

Irish WWI soldier’s diary posted online by Maynooth University
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/life/2015/06/11/irish-wwi-soldiers-diary-posted-online-by-maynooth-university

The Scottish Farmer opens its archives
http://www.thescottishfarmer.co.uk/news/the-scottish-farmer-opens-its-archives.27172101

Downing Street accused of deliberate attempt to avoid freedom of information requests as ex-staff reveal ‘dysfunctional’ automated deletion system
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/downing-st-accused-of-deliberate-attempts-to-avoid-freedom-of-information-requests-as-exstaff-reveal-automated-deletion-system-10325231.html

Government departments routinely deleting emails despite freedom of information laws
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11682359/Government-departments-routinely-deleting-emails-despite-freedom-of-information-laws.html

Margaret Thatcher’s family donates former PM’s personal papers in return for a lower tax bill
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/margaret-thatchers-family-donates-former-pms-personal-papers-in-return-for-a-lower-tax-bill

Magna Carta scribes identified ahead of 800th anniversary
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33122722

British Library publishes Digital Magna Carta written-by-web-vote because it’s 2015
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/17/british_library_publishes_digital_magna_carta/

British Library – Beginner’s Guide to Web Archives Part 2
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/webarchive/2015/06/beginners-guide-to-web-archives-part-2.html

British Library Labs Competition 2015: Winners Announced
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2015/06/bl-labs-competition-winners-for-2015.html

BBC chooses Vizrt for digital archive
http://advanced-television.com/2015/06/16/bbc-chooses-vizrt-for-digital-archive/

Moving the Wellcome Library to the cloud
http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2015/06/moving-the-wellcome-library-to-the-cloud/

Sussex – Missing link for family history could be provided by new online county archive
http://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/county-news/missing-link-for-family-history-could-be-provided-by-new-online-county-archive-1-6793326

Birmingham – A city with no memory?
http://mbsbham.wordpress.com/2015/06/11/a-city-with-no-memory/

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Egypt – Porn on an Ancient Papyrus
http://www.bricecjones.com/blog/porn-on-an-ancient-papyrus

The world may be ignoring the destruction of cultural treasures in Yemen
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/06/05/the-world-may-be-ignoring-the-destruction-of-cultural-treasures-in-yemen/

The Director General of UNESCO condemns the destruction of historic buildings in the Old City of Sana’a, Yemen
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/the_director_general_of_unesco_condemns_the_destruction_of_historic_buildings_in_the_old_city_of_sanaa_yemen/

International
Digital Public Library of America, Europeana, Creative Commons Collaborate on International Rights Statements
http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2015/06/digital-content/dpla-europeana-creative-commons-collaborate-on-international-rights-statements/

Active or archived: what does the future hold for records and information management professionals?
http://www.itproportal.com/2015/06/14/active-or-archived-what-does-the-future-hold-for-records-and-information-management-professionals/

Does the rise of ephemeral content spell the death of archives?
http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/351053/does-the-rise-of-ephemeral-content-spell-the-death-of-archives/

Archival Description for Web Archives
http://icantiemyownshoes.wordpress.com/2015/06/12/archival-description-for-web-archives/

Billions of records at risk from mobile app data flaw
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/tech-news/billions-of-records-at-risk-from-mobile-app-data-flaw/article24996043/

A Brief History of Big Data Everyone Should Read
http://smartdatacollective.com/bernardmarr/323216/brief-history-big-data-everyone-should-read

Sur le bureau de l’historien
http://www.boiteaoutils.info/2015/06/sur-le-bureau-de-lhistorien/

Le déclin du stockage optique s’accentue de plus en plus
http://www.bhmag.fr/actualites/le-declin-du-stockage-optique-saccentue-de-plus-en-plus-27784

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