Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
UK National Archives – Guidance on the Implementation of the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations
European Commission – Data Catalog Vocabulary Application Profile for Data Portals in Europe (Draft for Public Comments)
Ministère des Affaires sociales, de la Santé et des Droits des Femmes (France) – Données de santé : anonymat et risque de ré-identification
De la communauté / From the community
Archives Association of Ontario Strategic Plan 2015-2020
OCLC – The Archival Advantage: Integrating Archival Expertise into Management of Born-digital Library Materials
Ithaka S+R – Taking Stock: Sharing Responsibility for Print Preservation
Open Knowledge – Democratising the Data Revolution
Observatoire des métiers de la fonction Information, no 2: métiers de l’archivage et du records management
Enssib – Les fusions d’université et la documentation
Paper – Digital Memory & Informational Privacy: Reflecting on the European Union’s Right to Be Forgotten
Paper – Unremembering the Forgotten
Publications
Information Management, vol. 49, no. 4 (July-August 2015)
International Journal for Digital Art History, vol. 1, no. 1 (2015)
Scandinavian Library Quaterly, vol. 48, no. 1-2, 2015 (Special Issue on Access and Statistics)
First Monday, vol. 20, no. 7, July 2015 (with an article on the Twitter Archives at the Library of Congress)
Archimag, no. 286 (Dossier : Presse et numérique, des deux côtés de l’écran)
IFLA Metadata Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 1 (2015)
Archives Society of Alberta, vol. 34, no. 3 (Spring 2015)
Trent Valley Archives (Ont.) Newsletter (July 2015)
Association of Research Libraries – SPEC Kit 347: Community-based Collections
Master Thesis – Preserving Social Media: a Case Study at Lulea University of Technology Archives (Sweden)
PhD Findings Report – Design Principles for Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage
Book – An Uncommon Archive
Book – The Cloud Security Ecosystem: Technical, Legal, Business and Management Issues
Book – Technology and Digital Initiatives: Innovative Approaches for Museums
Book – Collections Care and Stewardship: Innovative Approaches for Museums
Book – Engagement and Access: Innovative Approaches for Museums
Book – Fundraising and Strategic Planning: Innovative Approaches for Museums
Book – Australian Intellectual Property (Second Edition)
Book – Information Professionals’ Career Confidential: Straight Talk and Savvy Tips
Book – Library Programs and Services: the Fundamentals (Eight Edition)
Livre – Qu’est-ce que le Digital Labour ?
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Exhibit – Imperial Designs: Samuel Holland’s 1765 Map and the Making of Prince Edward Island
July 5, 2015 – January 3, 2016, Charlottetown
Charlotte County Archives (New Brunswick) – Heritage Tour
August 8, 2015, St. Andrews
Humanités numériques 2015
11 au 13 août 2015, Montréal
Ottawa’s Internet of Things Conference
September 24-25, 2015, Ottawa
Webinar – Email Archiving and Preservation
July 15, 2105
UK National Archives Webinar – Missing from the Census?
August 25, 2015
UK National Archives Webinar – How to Find your First World War Military Ancestors
September 14, 2015
The Daguerreotype Symposium 2015
October 8-9, 2015, Bry-sur-Marne (France)
Conference on Translingual and Transcultural Digital Humanities
October 19-20, 2015, Tartu (Estonia)
Crowdsourcing and the Academy: Exploring Promises and Problems of Collective Intelligence Methods in Humanities and Social Science Research
November 6, 2015, University of California at Berkeley
Leviathan North: Long-term Access to Government Information in the Digital Era (Presentations Available)
May 14-15, 2015, Toronto
Sur le web / On the web
Slidecast – Access for All: Canadian Museum for Human Rights’s Reference Centre & Born Digital Materials (Given at ACA Annual Conference)
Port Hope Archives (Ont.) Newsletter Archives Now Online
Catholic Parish Registers at the National Library of Ireland
Video – An Introduction to HTTPS (Beginner)
Survey – File Formats Factors, Notification and Recommendation
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Ottawa censors majority of Access to Information requests
Canadian activists turn to UN with challenge to controversial anti-terror bill
Commemorative toonie with John McCrae’s likeness to mark war poem’s centenary
Canadiana.org Certified as Trustworthy Digital Repository
UK National Archives – Keeper’s Gallery: Newfoundland: Empire in the First World War
United Church of Canada B.C. Conference Archives submits Residential School records to Truth and Reconciliation Commission
2015 Archives Association of Ontario Conference Survey Results
Council of Archives New Brunswick – New Brunswick Grant Program
New Brunswick lodge guest list report issues warning about changing records
Archives of Manitoba – Political and Social Commentary in Letters from Home
Adoption du projet de loi 47 visant la modernisant la gouvernance de Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
BAnQ – Bonheur d’occasion : le reflet de la vie ouvrière d’autrefois
Ontario Jewish Archives’ vault houses many records and collections of interest to family historians
Ontario Jewish Archives wants to save Toronto’s last Yiddish sign
McGill keeps Dick Pound’s extensive Olympic archive in secret
McGill – Dr. Catherine Guastavino of the School of Information Studies part of team to receive $11M in funding for innovations in music media and technology
Manuscript Traces Simon Fraser University’s Architectural History
Simon Fraser University – Public Knowledge Project Launches New Open Access Publishing Cooperative Study
Two Roman-age Egyptian papyri rediscovered at University of British Columbia
Historic Gerald Bedford records available in University of Winnipeg archives
Have Web Collections? Want Link and Text Analysis? Check out the Warcbase Wiki
Two Steps forward, two steps back: city of Ottawa Archives
Toronto Star’s historical Pan Am Games photos set for display
La Société historique du Saguenay s’inquiète des archives de Rio Tinto Alcan
Oshawa Community Museum and Archives a hidden gem in the city
Artefactual Systems becomes the newest member of the Open Preservation Foundation
Afrique / Africa
Field Notes from Angola: of Archived Archives and Anarchic Archives
Ouvertures des archives au Cameroun: François Hollande a marqué des points
Cameroun – Déclassification des archives sur le massacre des camerounais par la France, vague de satisfactions des politiques, société civile et de l’opinion
Sénégal – Plaidoyer pour la construction de la maison des archives
Congo – Bob Bobutaka: un pays sans archives bien traitées est semblable à un navire sans boussole
Les Archives du Maroc reçoivent en donation les archives privées du professeur Mohamed Guessous
Algérie – Il est temps d’ouvrir les archives de la révolution
Un détournement caractérisé : 53 ans après, les archives algériennes toujours détenues par la France
Installation d’une commission mixte algéro-française pour restituer les archives historiques
UNESCO – Reconstruction of Timbuktu mausoleums nears completion
South Africa – New Centre for Environmental Rights collection promotes access to long-sought environmental records
A Photographer Documents the Highs and Lows of LGBTQ Life in South Africa
Amériques / Americas
Installation d’un Directeur Général Adjoint aux Archives Nationales d’Haïti
Virgin Islands – Denials, but no explanation why records altered in public records request
Hillary Clinton E-Mail Must Be Moved to National Archives, Group Says in Suit
Internal Revenue Service Lois Lerner Emails Impossible to Find or Save
Historians baffled by handprint on Declaration of Independence
National Archives documents show that nation’s problems haven’t changed much over time
Inside the Nuclear Bunker where America Preserves its Movie History
Historians crowdsource key reads about racial violence in America
Never-Before-Seen Photos Bring the Story of the Civil Rights Movement to Life
Every county court clerk in Iowa now able to file court documents online
University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive announces date of opening, inaugural exhibition
MIT – Aga Khan Documentation Center receives noted islamic art and architecture scholar’s archive
Rutgers University – New Leadership Chosen for World’s Largest Jazz Archive
J. Paul Getty Museum acquires rare trove of 19th century photographs from noted collector
DC Comics: Archive Library
New Jersey – Asbury Park: County’s archives document centuries of citizenship
Houston’s history being saved one photo at a time
Schomburg Center for Black Cultural Research Is Helping to Make Black Queer Lives Matter
Jack Kerouac Letter About Never-published Novel up for Auction
How to Build a Rare Book Collection
The entire print run of classic punk Slash magazine is now online
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_entire_print_run_of_classic_punk_slash_magazine_is_now_online
Vinyl records are still riding that big comeback wave, sales up 38% in a year
Where are the books? Libraries under fire as they shift from print to digital
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Library of Australia – Preserving the very recent
Australia – The National Library’s Annual Appeal: Australia’s Pounds and Pennies
State Records of New South Wales – Records management and the cloud: considerations for local government
What will happen to the advice pages and templates on the Archives New Zealand website?
New Zealand – Auckland Museum takes collections online as part of global legacy
China State Archives Administration – Japanese war criminal confessions not forced: archive official
Europe / Europa
Copyright reform: promote cultural diversity and ensure access to it, say members of the European Parliament
Droit au déréférencement : bilan du G29 un an après l’arrêt de la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne
Dr Paul Klimpel, lawyer and cultural heritage activist: the future of Europe’s cultural heritage
Europeana helps us tell a better story: an interview with Koehorst in ‘t Veld (graphic design agency)
Poland – 15 years of the Institute of National Remembrance in numbers
Hungary – Government cracks down on freedom of information
Armenia – Five million documents digitized at National Archives
Armenia – National archives to publish documents of estates of 4 Armenian catholicosates
Previously Unknown Footage of Armenian Genocide Survivors Shown in Italy
New Spain law sets big fines for disseminating police images
Dutch universities start their Elsevier boycott plan
Allemagne – Effondrement des archives de Cologne, l’histoire d’un sauvetage
Nazi telegram that sent Hitler into a rage sells for over £35,600 at auction
Rare vision of ancient documents inside the Vatican Secret Archives
Luxembourg – L’archivage électronique 2.0 devient réalité
France – Le droit de revendication d’archives publiques par l’État
France – La chasse aux manuscrits d’Alexandre Grothendieck a commencé
France – Les Archives départementales de la Côte d’or (Dijon) reçoivent un don de 71 000 clichés
Marie Curie’s Research Papers Are Still Radioactive 100+ Years Later
Ireland – Rare 1880s photo captures Achill Island women breaking stones
The battle to reform 300-year-old copyright law for the digital age
Britain on film: thousands of pieces of archive footage go online for first time
UK National Archives – Foreign and Commonwealth Office files from 1983 released
National Archives reveal lighter banter of Foreign Office over Hong Kong-Northern Ireland
Digitizing the U.K.’s Audio Treasures
British Library – What is a Web Archive? (in less than 3 mins)
British Library – Turning research questions into computational queries: outputs from the Enabling Complex Analysis of Large Scale Digital Collections project
Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities: working with the archive of UK web space, 1996–2013
Not fade away… how robots are preserving our old newspapers
Ministry of Defense to release UK’s top secret UFO X-Files that ‘could prove aliens exist’
Bodleian Libraries invite scholars, teachers and the public to explore its digital collections on new online portal
How a 170-year-old leaf provoked a hunt for the world’s first photographer
Transforming Archives: St George’s Chapel Archives, Windsor
Leeds nostalgia: pictures from the past as war postcards go online
Carmarthenshire Archives: Farce or Greek Tragedy?
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
The stolen library: Syrian artists poetically archive Arab publishing
International
IFLA stresses library position at UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Preservation of, Access to, Documentary Heritage expert meeting
Why PDF/A validation matters, even if you don’t have PDF/A
Why PDF/A validation matters: part 2
Hacking the Humanities
Digitization links with Digital Humanities
Jorge Luis Borges’s infinite ‘Library of Babel’ has been digitized
Creative Reuse, Open Content and the Cultural Sector: a Brief History
How to recreate your childhood game library with the Internet Archive
Enterprises Don’t Have Big Data, they Just Have Bad Data
Days of our Digital Lives