Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Saskatchewan Archives Board – 2014-2015 Annual Report
National Archives of India – Interim Guidelines for Digitization 2015-2016
National Archives of Australia – Legislation, Policies, Standards and Advice and your Agency’s Accountability
NARA – Ancestry.com Partnership Agreement (for Public Comment)
De la communauté / From the community
Society of American Archivists – Comments on Copyright Protection for Certain Visual Works
Digital Curation Centre – Case Study: Using ePrints to Build a Research Data Repository for University of East London
Confederation of Open Access Repositories – Draft Resource Type Vocabulary for Open Access Repositories
American Library Association – Library Privacy Guidelines for E-book Lending and Digital Content Vendors
Council on Library and Information Resources – The Once and Future Publishing Library
Paper – How to Destroy Special Collections with Social Media in 3 Easy Steps: a Guide for Researchers and Librarians
Paper – Working in and with African Photo Archives
Publications
European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 18, no. 4-5, August-October 2015 (Special Issue on Data Mining)
Archives Society of Alberta Newsletter, vol. 34, no. 4 (Summer 2015)
Book – Stirrings in the Archives: Order from Disorder
Book – My Digital Photography for Seniors
Book – Game it Up! Using Gamification to Incentivize your Library
Book – The Rise of the Modernist Bookshop: Books and the Commerce of Culture in the Twentieth Century
Book – Copyrighting Creativity: Creative Values, Cultural Heritage Institutions and Systems of Intellectual Property
Book – Palimpsest: a History of the Written Word
Book – Library: an Unquiet History
Book – The Complete Guide to Acquisitions Management (Second Edition)
Book – Digital Collections and Exhibits
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Genealogy 101
August 20, 2015, Guelph (Ont.)
Going Paper-Free: Automate and Simplify your Business Processes
September 22 and 24, Calgary and Toronto
Regroupement des archivistes religieux – Formation sur la gestion des documents électroniques
25 septembre et 2 octobre, Québec et Montréal
Research Data Sharing Sixth Plenary Meeting
September 23-25, 2015, Paris
Digital Heritage
September 28 – October 2, 2015, Granada (Spain)
XXIIIe Congrès national de Généalogie
2 au 4 octobre 2015, Poitiers (France)
9th International Indigenous Librarian’s Forum (Videos Available)
August 4 -7, 2015, Winnipeg
1st Annual Conference on Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (Videos Available)
June 25-26, 2015, Dublin
Association of Southeastern Research Libraries Webinar – Overview of BitCurator (Video Available)
July 16, 2015
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada now on Pinterest
Archives de Montréal – Vidéo : Mémoires asynchrones : une création audiovisuelle
Edmonton Public Library – Capital City Records: a Digital Platform for Streaming and Downloading Edmonton’s Local Music
Ryerson University – Social Media Research Toolkit
National Library of Scotland Video – How to Safely Handle our Collections
Digital Public Library of America – In Focus: The Evolution of the Personal Camera
Video – Go Behind the Scenes as Findmypast Digitise the 1939 UK Register
UK National Archives Podcast – Dunkirk: from Disaster to Deliverance
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Open Government: Toward a Pan-Canadian Vision?
New Trans-Pacific Partnership leak shows Canada would be required to massively overhaul copyright, damaging free expression and censoring Internet
Election could shine spotlight on digital issues
Royal archives: what Canadian secrets might they reveal?
The first letter from North America
Library and Archives Canada – Propaganda: Second World War Approach
Returning Nazi-looted art in Canada
Archives of Manitoba – A Day in the Conservation Lab: Stabilizing Brittle Papers from 100 Years Ago
Institut de la statistique du Québec : la banque de données est maintenue
BAnQ – Archives du mois: un mystérieux carnet de voyage
Simon Fraser University – Early University News Publications Now Digitally Available
Ryerson University Archives and Special Collections – Points of Interest from the Collections: the Creation of the Archives
University of Regina – Uplifting research into English manuscript sermons
University of Northern British Columbia – David Davies Photograph Digitization Project
British Columbia – How an escape from Nazis led to new world of First Nations songs
An Archive of Our Own: Preserving Canada’s Multicultural Past
Windsor – Veterans Memories Project producing documentary on First and Second World Wars
Ontario – Local History: Peterborough’s French Connection
Gabor Szilasi : archiviste du quotidien
Centre du patrimoine de Saint-Boniface – Alexandra Lemieux, étudiante en technique de documentation
Archive to Arctic: a Fulbright Award will support Professor Andrew Stuhl’s (Bucknell University) research on the history of the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic
Afrique / Africa
The World’s Largest African Poetry Archive Is Coming to an Internet Near You
Kenya – Opinion: Why Governments Don’t Like Access to Information
Algérie – Ould Kablia, ancien ministre de l’intérieur, plaide pour l’ouverture des archives
Amériques / Americas
Chile – Declassified Documents Could Provide Evidence in long-awaited Prosecution for Los Quemados (Pinochet Covered up Human Rights Atrocity)
Peru – Here’s where police can now spy on cellphones without a warrant
America classifies way too much information and we are all less safe for it
FBI investigating Hillary Clinton’s server
Five Questions with Meg McAleer, Senior Archives Specialist, Library of Congress Manuscript Division
NARA – Recipes in the Archives: Records of the Food Administration during World War I
Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition Calls on White House to Open Up Access to Federally Funded Educational
http://sparc.arl.org/news/sparc-calls-white-house-open-access-federally-funded-educational-resources
National Information Standards Organization Launches New Project to Develop XML Standard for Producing Standards Documents
State of Alabama Archives preserve scores of Confederate flags
North Carolina – More than 35,000 state Confederate pension applications now online
Texas Moving Image Archive Seeks your Astrodome Memories
Yale University’s Beinecke Library Digitizing Sesame Street Videocassettes
Milner Library digitizing Illinois State University presidential portraits
Rare images reveal early women’s Mount Holyoke College life
Online Synagogue Archives: the Future of American Judaism’s Past
Recording History, One Jewish Refugee at a Time
Biodiversity Heritage Library Launches Crowdsourcing Games
Never-displayed photos, letters from New York museum tell of Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans life
San Antonio garage a treasure trove of Hispanic music history
Salt Lake City – Recounting the preservation of the printer’s manuscript of the Book of Mormon
What Kind of Paper Trail Is Inside your Computer? Deleting it Is Not as Simple as Pressing Delete
Silent Movie Buffs Search the Screen for Clues to Origins of Mostly Lost Films
Wolfe Video Donates 100 Lesbian Films to June Mazer Lesbian Archives
US photographer’s quest to solve vintage photo mystery
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia – Discovering family origins
Australia – National Archives exhibition explores Gallipoli through soldiers’ own words
How the National Library of Australia is working to preserve our digital present
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia has launched a new Ambassador Program to raise awareness
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia – Training Australia’s remote archivists
Australia – Department of Defence begins battle with information management
Australia – Librarians stir the pot for copyright reform
State Government moves towards Queensland’s first digital archive
New South Wales State Records – The new Standard on Records Management: what it means for digital business
New South Wales government to set up world-first dedicated data analytics office
New Zealand – Thousands of years’ history kept in Wellington archives
Original sound of Japan emperor’s war-end speech released
Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivors Pass Their Stories to a New Generation
Japan – Nonprofit organization launches digital archives on Fukushima nuclear disaster
Kanji scratched into clay tiles in Nara some of oldest writing found in Japan
Preserving Historic Thai Films
Sri Lanka – New Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Centre for tropical climates and pest control
India’s first Architectural Archives Centre
Most of India’s Execution Records Have Been Lost or Destroyed by Termites
India – Rare medieval medical texts to be translated into English
India – Odisha State archives to publish book on Odisha famine
Europe / Europa
Defining a public domain for copyright and data legislation at the European Parliament
Discover the Italian contribution to Europeana Sounds
Ahead of patriotic film release, Russian Culture Minister tells archival workers to pipe down
Two-thirds of document copies requested from Russian did not arrive to Latvia
La Bibliothèque nationale de Grèce prépare sa renaissance
This is what a 16th century e-reader looked like
National Archives of Malta announce completion of the digitisation of the magnia curia castellaniae
New study reveals decline in the use of Open Government services in Germany
Mission impossible: German libraries try to return Nazi-looted books
Netherlands – A digital vision for government
National Archives of Azerbaijan meets inquiries by 92%
La Suisse mise sur un accès décentralisé aux données
La numérisation des films suisses stoppée par Berne
Bicentenaire: l’acte qui fait des Valaisans de vrais Suisses exposé à Sion
Archives de France – La nouvelle organisation territoriale de l’État
France – Fontainebleau: les Archives Nationales inondées
Fontainebleau : les agents des Archives nationales inquiets après l’inondation
La Fédération Française de Généalogie décrypte le projet de loi numérique
Drame de Mayerling: les lettres d’adieu de Mary Vetsera retrouvées après 126 ans
Ireland – Documenting Destruction: the Westropp Photographic Collection and the 1916 Rising
House of Lords records to be made available to public by National Library of Scotland
UK Cabinet Office delays over freedom of information
UK – Man loses right to be forgotten Google court bid
British Library becomes Grade I listed building
British Library – The French Language Runs Throughout The World
Discovering the hidden gems of the Britain on Film archive
British Museum uses virtual reality to transport visitors to the bronze age
Cambridge museum rediscovers Magna Carta of geology
Let’s get digital: Cambridge University releases divine oracle bones, prints worth millions and beheading banknote online
University of East Anglia launches the British Archive for Contemporary Writing
Louis le Prince shot the first film but did he invent movies?
Transforming archives: Archives+, Manchester
Jack the Ripper: how the new theory came to light
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Facing Islamic State threat, Iraq digitizes national library
Israel – Yad Vashem Shares Story of Holocaust Victim’s Buried Will
The Use of Papyrus Sheets in Ancient Letter Writing
Kuwaiti heritage should be preserved for future generations
Turkey – 55-year old İFSAK photograph archive unveiled
International
Google Fights Effort to Apply Right to Be Forgotten Ruling Worldwide
Right to Be Forgotten Online Could Spread
You must remember: an archive isn’t a thing, it’s a strategy
Project_ARCC (Archivists Responding to Climate Change) – Scope & Content: Recognizing the Many Climate Change Narratives
The Impact of Object Storage on Active Archiving and on Tape Usage
The Archivist as part of the data-information system
Metadata’s gift to historians
Space Age Philosophy: Wonder in the Archives
How to archive your way out of zombie data nightmare
Using Mathematica to Plot Locations Mentioned in Web Archives
Using Extracted Names to Explore Web Archives
Face à l’infobésité, une nouvelle génération de sites internet tente le pari du long-format
Comment Twitter est devenu la boule de cristal des marchés financiers