Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Industry Canada – Developing a Digital Research Infrastructure Strategy (for Consultation)
BAnQ – Gestion de l’application de la Loi sur les archive (GALA): capsules explicatives
France – Plan d’action pour un gouvernement ouvert
France – Avis sur la protection des biens culturels en période de conflit armé
UK – Legacy Records Management: Department of Health Records Office
De la communauté / From the community
International Records Management Trust – Managing Records and Information for Transparent, Accountable, and Inclusive Governance in the Digital Environment: Lessons from Nordic Countries
Society of American Archivists – Comments on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization
Paper – Mitigation of Light-Induced Damage on Modern Digital Prints: Photographs and Documents
Article – Discourse, Memory, and Post-Apartheid South African Archives
Article – The Digital Humanities Imperative: an Archival Response
Article – Herstory Belongs to Everybody or the Miracle: a Queer Mobile Memory Project
Publications
Comma: International Journal on Archives, vol. 2014, no. 1-2 (2015)
RBM: a Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, vol. 16, no. 1 (Summer 2015)
Collection Management, vol. 40, no. 3 (2015)
Information & Culture: a Journal of History, vol. 50, no. 3 (2015)
The Electronic Library, vol. 33, no. 4 (2015)
Revue Critique, no 819-820, 2015 (Numéro spécial : Des chiffres et des lettres : les humanités numériques)
Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 4, no. 4 (July-August 2015)
Silhouettes: the Associates of the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Newsletter, no. 40 (Spring 2015)
Trent University Archives News, no. 54 (July 2015)
Book – Beyond the Archive: Memory, Narrative, and the Autobiographical Process
Book – The SAGE Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America
Book – Big Data and the Internet of Things: Enterprise Information Architecture for a New Age
Book – Managing Scientific Information and Research Data
Book – Picturing England: the Photographic Collections of Historic England
Book – Creating Online Tutorials: a Practical Guide for Librarians
Book – Information Communication
Book – Stolen, Smuggled, Sold: on the Hunt for Cultural Treasures
Livre – Classer les archives et les bibliothèques: mise en ordre et raisons classificatoires
Livre – Conduire le changement en bibliothèque : vers des organisations apprenantes
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Copyright in Canada Conference 2015
October 2, 2015, Toronto
Islandora Webinar: Research Data Repositories
July 29, 2015
Webcast – SPEC Survey on Community-based Collections
August 12, 2015
Massive Open Online Course – The History of the Book in 17th and 18th Century Europe
Starting September 1, 2015
WikiConference USA 2015
October 9-11, 2015, Washington D.C. (National Archives Building)
The Holocaust in the 21st Century: Relevance and Challenges in the Digital Age
November 3-6, 2016, Claremont (California)
The National Digital Platform for Libraries, Archives and Museums (Report Available)
April 28, 2015, Washington D.C.
DLM Forum (Presentations Available)
June 16-17, 2015, Riga (Latvia)
La Transition bibliographique aujourd’hui : la préparer et la mettre en oeuvre dans les bibliothèques, les archives, les musées (vidéos disponibles)
26 juin 2015, Paris
Sur le web / On the web
Old Maps Online Mobile App
OCLC – New Community Center
SEAD (Sustainable Environment Actionable Data) – Version 1.5.2
Video – South Africa Broadcasting Company Makes Nelson Mandela’s Video Material Available on Digital Platforms
Video – Ancient Hebrew Scroll Discovered in 1970 Read for First Time with High-Resolution 3D Images
Vidéo – MOOC Gérer les documents numériques : Hangout no 0 : quelques informations
Video – Sharing Images of Global Cultural Heritage: the Indigenous Digital Archive
British Library Video – CT Scan of the St Cuthbert Gospel (Oldest Intact European Book)
British Library – Curators on Camera: Jonnie Robinson: Lead Curator Spoken English Collection
UK National Archives Podcast – Big Ideas: the Women’s War in the Middle East: Women’s First World War Service in Egypt, Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and Palestine
Slidecast – The Future is Open: an Overview of Open Cultural Content for American Alliance of Museums
Slidecast – Open Data: Trends and Practice within Cultural Heritage
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
IFLA concerned by extension of copyright terms (in Jamaica and Canada)
RCMP schooner St. Roch (the first vessel to sail the Northwest Passage from west to east) to be scanned with lasers and digitally preserved
Library and Archives Canada – Shaping our national winter sport: hockey innovations
Library and Archives Canada – The watercolour paintings of Edith Fanny Kirk
Lettre – Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec mérite un soutien accru
Archives of Manitoba – Postcards sent during the First World War
Saskatchewan – Sealed record mistakenly released
New McGill University Student Publications collection up at the Internet Archive
Bibliothèque, open science, open data et données de la recherche au Canada : quels enjeux ?
Centre du patrimoine du Saint-Boniface – Claire Paetkau, des droits de la personne aux archives
Ottawa Jewish Archives uses social media to share its collection
Corrie photos revealed from City of Toronto Archives
Baffin Island – Kenojuak Cultural Centre Gains Momentum
Trois-Rivières: des documents confidentiels à la poubelle
Windsor Public Library inherits large bequest from avid learner (will help create a local history auto archives)
This beautiful map shows what Canada’s future looked like in 1955
Association des archivistes du Québec – Vie d’archiviste : Karine Boisvert
Afrique / Africa
Uganda begins to archive its oil history
Tchad: plongée dans les archives de la Direction de la documentation et de la sécurité d’Hissène Habré
Algérie – Des historiens plaident pour l’ouverture des archives de la révolution du 1er novembre
Amériques / Americas
Brazil’s only slave memoir gets first Portuguese edition amid hopes to revisit murky past
Orphan Works Copyright Law Being Considered Again in the U.S.
Making the most of agency email scandals
NARA Participation in New Freedom of Information Act Pilot
Oldest Freedom of Information Act requests: 20 years, and still waiting
Butt dials are not private, U.S. court rules
Society of American Archivists – Archives Short Fiction Contest
The History of Email at the Smithsonian
Jewish Museum’s Television Project Series to Showcase the Largest Archive of Jewish Media Culture in the U.S.
Massachusetts – State panel advances public records bill
Texas Library and Archives Commission Receives $7.6 Million Funding Increase
California Historical Society and Historypin Launch Online Exhibit Inviting the Public to Showcase Rare, Never Before Seen Photos that Celebrate the Memories and Personal Stories From the 1915 World’s Fair
Previously unknown Amelia Earhart footage donated to Purdue University archives
50th anniversary of the Stanford University Archives
Archive specialist Janet Roberts to run University of Southern Maine-Lewiston-Auburn College’s Franco-American collection
Yale Library Is Putting Thousands of Mystery VHS Tapes Online
Emory University’s literary archives inspire next generation of poets
Major Collection Documenting US Civil Rights Announced from the Amistad Research Center
New York University Library Acquires Archive of the Digital Art Journal Triple Canopy
University of Iowa Libraries Begin to Digitize Decades of Fan Fiction
The Georgia Folklore Collection
Harlem Archive Collects Past Stories of Those who Wrestled with their Sexuality
The 10 Most Important Maps in U.S. History
Let’s Get Digital: Levi Strauss & Co.’s Archive Goes High-Tech
Radical Politics and Everyday Struggles: Using Archives and Oral History to Explain the Past
Library of Congress – Interview with Danielle Spalenka of the Digital POWRR Project
Reporter Jason Leopold: a Wizard at Prying Government Secrets from the Government
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Immigration records so poorly kept that International Health and Medical Services could not locate asylum seekers
Artist John Olsen donates precious journals to National Library of Australia
New South Wales State Archives (Australia) – Records and information management FAQs: keeping metadata after destroying digital records
Queensland State Archives (Australia) – The grey area of recordkeeping
Deferring your transfer of records to Archives New Zealand
China’s Interional Monetary Fund ambitions revealed in new archive report
Chinese librarian replaced 140 masters paintings with works he painted himself
India – Adhyatma Ramayanam manuscript could be an epic find
Europe / Europa
Europeana – Meet the Members Council: Olivier Schulbaum
Non-print Legal Deposit Law approved in Spain
Inside the Secret World of Russia’s Cold War Mapmakers
Russia’s Top Internet Censor Threatens YouTube Block Over Copyright Violations
Austria – Teen Mozart manuscript returns to Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation for 237,000 euros
Droit à l’oubli : la France en tête des demandes
The French want to BAN .doc and .xls files from Le Gouvernement
France – Un civil va prendre la tête du Service historique de la Défense
France – Les bibliothèques et les archives, grandes perdantes des lois création et numérique ?
Vol massif d’estampes de Pieter Bruegel à la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Archives de France – PROV, un modèle pour la provenance des données numériques
L’invention de la carte moderne, la saga des Cassini
Great Response to New Website, Catholic Parish Registers at the National Library of Ireland
Home Office admits Northern Ireland safeguarding records destroyed
Wales’ National Librarian resigns days after report criticises handling of disciplinary action against two senior managers
UK High Court strikes down British data retention law
Freedom of Information Act review may curb access to government papers
Buckingham Palace disappointed after archive footage shows the Queen giving Nazi salute
Queen Nazi salute: British Film Institute works with Buckingham Palace to find source of leak
Royals told: open archives on family ties to Nazi regime
British archives hiding royal family’s rife anti-Semitism in 1930s, says historian
British Library – Curating the Election: Archiving the most Complex General Election yet…
Archiving World of Music, Arts and Dance Festival: 30 years of British Library Recordings
British Library – Letters from the Siege of Lucknow
Long-Lost WW1 Nursing Record Collection is Rediscovered at the Army Medical Services Museum
Sherlock author’s bitter letters to police go on display
University of Leeds – Digitizing the Monastic Past
Oldest Koran fragments found in Birmingham University
University of Manchester – Rare Elizabeth Gaskell manuscripts go digital for the first time
Manchester Pride explores the hidden history of a rainbow city
Transforming archives: Rambert (Britain’s oldest dance company)
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
New system to guard United Arab Emirate’s historical materials
International Digital Library of Hebrew Manuscripts: the British Library partners with the National Library of Israel
Why owning Franz Kafka means so much to Israel
Cultural heritage a casualty of war in Syria and Iraq
UNESCO – Emergency Action Plan for the Safeguarding of Yemen’s Cultural Heritage announced
International
Associated Press releases a million minutes of filmed history to YouTube
Rare footage found in Olympic archive facelift
ALIADA (Automatic Publication under Linked Data Paradigm of Library Data): Untangling the web
Thoughts on Geospatial Metadata
Cooking in the Archives: Bringing Early Modern Manuscript Recipes into a Twenty-First-Century Kitchen
The world’s first hack: the telegraph and the invention of privacy
Les bibliothécaires et les archivistes bientôt remplacés par des robots ?
Emerald Announce Library and Information Science Journals Green Open Access Trial