Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Manitoba – National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation Act
Archives de France – Qui sont les publics des archives
Archives de France – Étude des publics des activités culturelles dans le réseau des archives départementales et municipales
Library of Congress – Recommended Formats Statement 2015-2016
National Archives of Australia – Australian Government Recordkeeping Metadata Standard (Version 2.2)
Archives New Zealand – Amending a Disposal Authority
De la communauté / From the community
Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists – Constitution and Bylaws (Amended June 2015)
National Information Standards Organization – SUSHI-Lite: Deploying SUSHI as a Lightweight Protocol for Exchanging Usage via Web Services (Draft)
University of York and University of Hull – Filling the Digital Preservation Gap: a Jisc Research Data Spring project: Phase One Report
Lancaster University – Data Management Administration Online: Phase 1 Report
Big UK Domain Data for the Arts and Humanities – Project Case Studies
Article – The Colonial Continuum: Archives, Access, and Power
Publications
The American Archivist, no. 78, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2015)
D-Lib Magazine, vol. 21, no. 7-8 (July/August 2015)
Code4lib Journal, no. 29 (2015)
Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, vol. 10, no. 1 (2015)
Archives, vol. 45, no. 2 (2013-2014)
Journal of the Japan Society for Archival Science, no. 22 (June 2015)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 6 (June 2015)
The Halcyon: the Newsletter of the Friend of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto), no. 55 (June 2015)
Book – Archival Research and Education: Selected Papers from the 2014 Archival Education and Research Institute Conference
Book – Canadian Integrated Dance Database: Standards Manual and Collier Descriptor Thesaurus
Book – Data as a Service: a Framework for Providing Re-Usable Enterprise Data Services
Book – A Librarian’s Guide to Graphs, Data and the Semantic Web
eBook – The Internet of Garbage
Book – Historical Justice and Memory
Book – Engineering the Web in the Big Data Era
Book – Deep Mapping the Media City
Book – Discover Irish Land Records
Livre – Les vocabulaires locaux du patrimoine : traductions, négociations et transformations
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Congrès des milieux documentaires du Québec
18 au 20 novembre, 2015, Montréal
Webinar – Preservation in Practice: Too Broken to be Archived?
July 20, 2015
Webinar – Reporting on Research Data Alliance Digital Humanities Outreach Efforts
July 29, 2015
Webinar – Introduction to ALIADA, Automatic publication under Linked Data Paradigm of Library Data
July 29, 2015
Webinar – Archival Advantage to Improve Management of Born-digital Materials with Archival Expertise
August 11, 2015
Archiving 2016
April 19-22, 2016, Washington D.C.
International Council on Archives – Creating the Best Business Archive (Presentations Available)
June 15-16, 2015, Milan (Italy)
Sur le web / On the web
Legal Archives Society of Alberta – New Website
http://archivesalberta.wordpress.com/2015/07/13/legal-archives-society-of-alberta-has-a-new-website/
International Council on Archives President’s Intervention at the 9th International Seminar of Archives of Iberian Tradition
U.S. Federal Deposit Library Program – Digitization Projects Registry Now Available
VeraPDF Validation Library v0.2.0
Slidecast – Enabling Complex Analysis of Large Scale Digital Collections: Phase II Pitch
Slidecast – A Bilingual Repository for Bilingual Content: a Case Study involving Digital Repository of Ireland and RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta
Slidecast – Research Data for the Arts and Humanities: What? Why? How?
Slidecast – PDF: Myths vs Facts
Catholic Archives Society now on Twitter
@CatholicArcSoc
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
RCMP quietly stops naming victims, citing Privacy Act
Reopening of Library and Archives Canada’s preservation collection
For Better or For Worse: Library and Archives Canada’s collection of Lynn Johnston’s iconic comic strips
Library and Archives Canada Focus Groups
British Library – Canada in the UK: waiting and training in WW1
Canadiana – Early women’s magazines, 2015
Alberta – Shredding ban lifted after internal government review finds full compliance
Provincial Archives of Alberta – Judicial District of Red Deer Sous-fonds now Described
Archives of Manitoba – First World War Letters Online
Samuel Holland map of Prince Edward Island on display in Charlottetown
A digitized copy of Samuel Holland’s 1765 map of Prince Edward Island is now available at the Prince Edward Island Archives
New Brunswick – Grand Manan Museum brings historic journal to the island
Accès du ministre de la Santé et des Services sociaux au Dossier Santé Québec : la Commission d’accès à l’information effectue les vérifications qui s’imposent
La Cinémathèque québécoise se refait une beauté
BAnQ – Pauline Julien, de comédienne à chanteuse
University of Victoria picture likely connected to Pamplona Bibles
Simon Fraser University digitizes a world-class selection of Aldines
University of British Columbia – Discover Lost Ancient Egyptian Papyri
University of British Columbia – Rare Books and Special Collections mentioned on CBC’s Windsor Morning (papyri from Roman-age Egypt)
Prime ministers statues have no place at Wilfrid Laurier University
Musée de la civilisation excavates the stories behind aboriginal artifacts
Here are immigration statistics Vancouver isn’t supposed to see. Why the secrecy?
Esquimalt (B.C.) shelves heritage body
Cambridge (Ont.) – City looks to relocate archives in Galt core
Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (Ont.) – What Do Archivists Do All Day?
De 30 000 à 50 000 clichés du photojournaliste Jacques Nadeau emportés dans un cambriolage
Association des archivistes du Québec – L’archiviste Sisyphe, ou le mythe de l’éternel recommencement
E-book sales are flattening, but does that mean the technology is dying as consumers unplug?
Afrique / Africa
Cameroun – Le professeur Achille Mbembe: à quand l’ouverture de nos archives à nous?
Cameroun : lutte pour l’indépendance : comprendre la déclassification des archives
Congo – Commission électorale nationale indépendante : lancement de la formation des formateurs des archivistes
Sénégal : la négligence des archives dans l’administration freine le développement
Rarely Seen Photos of the Historic Fifth Pan-African Congress to Go on Display in London
Nigeria – Access to information citizens’ right: vice-presidential candidate Yemi Osinbajo
South Africa – Memory loss hobbles democracy (by Verne Harris)
Amériques / Americas
White House to make public records more public
Library of Congress’ Twitter archive is a huge #FAIL
Exploring Web Archiving at the Library of Congress
http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2015/07/exploring-web-archiving-at-the-library-of-congress/
NARA – New Releases from the National Declassification Center
National Archives to Open Additional Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Grand Jury Transcripts
NARA – Building Bridges between the Worlds of the Deaf and Hearing, Archives and Knowledge
National Library of Medicine Digitizes Unique Early English Books, Allowing Free Online Access
Filmmaker Laura Poitras Sues U.S. Government For Ignored Freedom of Information Act Request
Struggling to Preserve: Washington DC’s Archives and Public Records Office
Yale University – Beinecke Library digitizing 2,000 largely undiscovered videocassettes
http://news.yale.edu/2015/07/14/beinecke-library-digitizing-2000-largely-undiscovered-videocassettes
Harvard Art Museums join Google Cultural Institute; digital initiative allows increased accessibility
Iowa State University Library Special Collections – Cutting and pasting: alumni scrapbooks
Visions of the Past: Texas Tech to house collection of historic manuscripts
St. Lawrence University to digitally archive large collection of street art
The delights of encountering the original manuscript for Alice in Wonderland
Seventh-day Adventist Church cofounder Ellen White Letters and Manuscripts to Be Released
Judge to city of Sacramento: don’t delete emails
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
The National Library of Australia and the Australian National University have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding
Australia – New South Wales: public losing faith in laws meant to ensure access to government information
Australia – Strangest items lost and found at Queensland State Library
Archives New Zealand finishes the first cycle of Public Records Act 2005 audits
Japan – Nagoya war archives enable viewers to look inward
Japan – Tokyo printing firm to digitize 55 historic globes for viewing online
Pakistan – National Museum Has World’s Rarest Manuscripts of Holy Quran
Europe / Europa
Google accidentally reveals data on right to be forgotten requests
Interview with Isabella van Elferen, member of the User Advisory Panel in Europeana Sounds
Russian Archives Cast Doubt on Legends of Soviet War Heroes
Moscow creates taskforce to identify suspected remains of tsar’s children
10 years anniversary of the Netarchive (Netarkivet), the Danish national web archive
German police confiscate Kafka and Brod manuscripts suspected to smuggled from Israel
Planned German Cultural Protection Law Stirs Controversy
Netherlands – Henrik Willem Mesdag watercolour unearthed by National Archives
In Italy Now we Have the First LGBTQ Audiovisual Archive
Go to the source: Vatican archives help scholars make sense of history
A Conversation With the Keeper of the Picasso Archives
Cyprus – Bill coming to boost public’s access to information
Luxembourg – The National Archives have put 6,500 pictures of Luxembourg online
France – Quels seront les nouveaux profils de l’administration numérique de demain ?
France – Données publiques : l’échelle des priorités
Un site américain pillait les archives de l’Institut national de l’audiovisuel
The Osmothèque: France’s library of smells is a breath of fresh air
Découvrez les aérodromes de la Grande guerre avec atlas et smartphone
Ireland – Gerry Adams will not face prosecution in McConville case (reopened using Boston College Oral History tapes)
Ireland – We must fight watering down of Freedom of Information Act
The history of British slave ownership has been buried: now its scale can be revealed
UK National Archives – More Cabinet Office files from 1986 released
British Library – One million Twitter followers
British Library – Web Archive Legal Deposit: a Double-Edged Sword
British Stand Up Comedy Archive’s audiovisual collections
Charles Dickens’ notes solve the mystery of unidentified Victorian authors
Gossiping into the Archive: Authority and Speech in the Colonial Archive
Carmarthenshire Archives: an Update
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Egypt – Parchment Manuscripts Discovered at Oxyrhynchus
Turkey – Archives relating to corruption investigations destroyed, news portal claims
Stolen Seljuk manuscripts returned to Turkey from U.S.
ISIS-Looted Art Is Finding its Way Into the British Antiquities Market
International
International copyright reform for libraries and archives held back by European Union
Comité international Olympique: sept ans pour restaurer un siècle d’histoire des jeux Olympiques
Guidance for the Digitisation of Audio Archives
Archiving Anarchy: No One Will Save your Film But you
Audiovisual Archives and the Context Conundrum
Major repository networks agree to collaborate on data exchange, technological development, and metadata
How Do you Preserve your Personal Data Forever? We Ask an Expert
Data archives: potential revenue stream or cause for chaos?
Using Twitter as a data source: an overview of current social media research tools
Museums are using virtual reality to preserve the past: before it’s too late
Wisdom of the Crowd: Digital Collections
Quip Is Trying to Kill the File, and it’s Both Intriguing and Kind of Frightening
Where is the pedagogy in digital art history?
Digital Government Is the New Social Network