Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada – Mind Shift: Digital Strategy 2015 and Beyond (for Feedback)
Privacy Commissioners of Canada, British Columbia and Alberta – Is a Bring your Own Device (BYOD) Program the Right Choice for your Organization?
NARA – The General Records Schedules: Transmittal 24
Queensland State Archives (Australia) – Small Business Development Retention and Disposal Schedule
Bibliothèque nationale de France – L’Observatoire du dépôt légal : reflet de l’édition contemporaine 2014
De la communauté / From the community
Europeana Newspapers Final Report
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Task Group on RDF Application Profiles – Report on Validation Requirements
Digital Curation Center Case Study – Reviewing Research Data Platform Capabilities at Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research
Born-Digital Access in Archival Repositories: Mapping the Current Landscape
New Media Consortium Horizon Report 2015 Library Edition
IFLA – Guidelines for Parliamentary Research Services
IFLA – Cape Town Declaration (on African Libraries)
Publications
Archival Science, vol. 15, no. 3 (September 2015)
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, vol. 53, no. 5-6, 2015 (Special Issue: Indigenous Knowledge Organization)
Arbido: périodique de l’Association des archivistes suisses et de Bibliothèque information suisse (2/2015)
Comma: International Journal on Archives, vol. 2012, no. 2: Supplement (August 2015)
Journal of Information Science, vol. 41, no. 4 (August 2015)
Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, vol. 8, no. 4 (August 2015)
Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, vol. 27, no. 3 (2015)
Saskatchewan History Magazine, vol. 67, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2015)
Port Hope (Ontario) Archives Newsletter (Summer 2015)
Book – Historical Archives and the Historians’ Commission to Investigate the Armenian Events of 1915
Book – Family Ties: Living History in Canadian House Museums
Book – Regulating the Cloud: Policy for Computing Infrastructure
Book – An Emergent Theory of Digital Library Metadata: Enrich then Filter
Book – Practical Copyright for Library and Information Professionals
Book – Big Data Benchmarking
Book – Law and the Philosophy of Privacy
Book – Libraries Canada 2015-2016 (30th Edition)
Livre – Le droit de la biométrie au Québec : sécurité et vie privée
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Ontario Museum Association Webinar – Your Storage RE-ORG Project: Planning for it and Funding it
August 25, 2015
La numérisation : les meilleures pratiques
2 octobre 2015, Montréal
White Rock (B.C.) Museum & Archives Annual Book Sale
October 17, 2015, White Rock
Trust Networks and Tigers: New Models for Journalism and Archives
August 26, 2015, Wellington (New Zealand)
Assemblée générale de l’Association internationale des archives francophones
27 septembre 2015, Reykjavik (Islande)
eCourse – Introduction to Metadata and Linked Data
Starting October 5, 2015
Harvard Purdue Data Management Symposium (Presentations Available)
June 16-17, 2015, Harvard University
Records Managers Forum (Recordings Available)
August 11, 2015, Kingswood (Australia)
Sur le web / On the web
Commonwealth War Graves Commission – New Online Resources to Commemorate VJ Day
Art Gallery of Ontario – Interactive Digital Archive of more than 4,000 Rarely Seen Holocaust Images
Podcast – Commemorations in the National Capital Region (Ottawa): Evolution and Findings
EAD3 (Encoded Archival Description 3) Version 1.0.0
See also 2015 EAD Annual Report: http://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/TS-EAD_Report_2015.pdf
PBCore (Public Broadcasting Core Metadata Dictionary) 2.1
PREFORMA (PREservation FORMAts for Culture Information/e-Archives) Open Source Portal Launched
Directory of Archives Australia Data Structure
Video – The British Library: our Digital Strategy
IFLA Risk Register for Documentary Heritage
Slidecast – Introducing the UK National Archives Digital Records Metadata Vocabulary
Slidecast – Europeana Sounds in a Nutshell
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Meet the Government of Canada’s new Chief Information Officer: John Messina replaces Corinne Charette
Data on Canada Is Drying up Since the Nation Scrapped its Mandatory Long-Form Census
The Closing of the Canadian Mind
Ninety-eight years later, historian finds missing soldiers from the Battle of Vimy Ridge
Ontario – Hundreds of Huronia claims downgraded without notice
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/08/14/hundreds-of-huronia-claims-downgraded-without-notice.html
Québec – Les bibliothèques des ministères écopent
Le ministère de la Santé défend la fermeture de sa bibliothèque
Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta refusal to hand over documents stalls political interference investigation
Expert says dangerous Alberta Court of Appeal precedent will promote government secrecy
Archives Alberta – Cellulose Nitrate Negatives
Creating the first cultural digital library in Canada’s North
History of LGBT community in New Brunswick being compiled
Archives of Manitoba – Intelligence-Gathering at Sea
Lasting lines on Prince Edward Island
Québec – Admissibilité d’une preuve tirée d’un compte Facebook
BAnQ – Drummondville sous la plume d’Everett C. Hugues
University of Toronto – Audio files: LGBTQ+ oral histories live on in new digital archive
University of Toronto – iSchool Doctoral Candidate Wins Best Paper Award at Archival Education and Research Institute
University of British Columbia – Peek Behind the Scenes: the Tokyo War Crimes Trials & the Conde Fonds
Ryerson University Archives and Special Collections – Points of Interest from the Collections: the Creation of the Archives Part Deux
University of Waterloo Special Collections and Archives – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Vancouver Public Library – Aboriginal storyteller keeps a tradition alive
Vancouver Public Library Unveils New Recording Studios
Civic Museum of Regina to be dissolved
Medicine Hat (Alb.) Public Library’s 100 years is about more than just literature
Small town newspapers are a boon for family historian
Norfolk County (Ont.) – Documenting the world wars
Arnprior & McNab-Braeside (Ont.) – Township residents eager to accept archives at new township office
Peterborough (Ont.) – Exploring Champlain’s city portage routes
Rivière-du-Loup – Le Centre d’archives vogue sur deux volets
UK National Archives – How three men (including a Canadian) saved countless lives: blood transfusion in the First World War
Afrique / Africa
Mali – Le Ministère de la Culture contre l’Emploi : Situation des postes vacants à la Direction Nationale des Bibliothèques et de la Documentation
Amériques / Americas
Trinidad and Tobago – National Archives gets permanent home
Learning from peers: implementing the Access to Information law in Paraguay
Library of Congress – Cooking Up a Solution to Link Rot
Issues Related to Digitizing Arizona’s Historic Records
Rare find in Longwood University library archives unearths buried treasure: Robert E. Lee letters
Harvard student loses Facebook internship after pointing out privacy flaws
St. Louis – New museum of manuscripts offers a chance to relate to history
Minneapolis Releases Archive of Historic Images Online
FBI collects over 100 boxes of records abandoned by Tampa-area e-recycling service
What do the New York Times, Organizational Change, and Web Archiving all have in common?
Treasures of the World’s Largest Private Collection of Original Manuscripts
Doing archives: open global learning + teaching, data and rankings about archives + their communities
GM to convert 135-year-old factory into archives, research center
In 1975, this Kodak employee invented the digital camera. His bosses made him hide it.
This DSLR Spent 2 Years in a Lake… and the Memory Card Survived
Beyond the Archives: an Interview with Rebecca Onion (Historian)
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
State Records of Western Australia – From AEON to AtoM: New in the Catalogue
Tasmania (Australia) – New online records reveal Tassie’s convict secrets
Logo for 20th South East Asia Pacific Audiovisual Archive Association Anniversary
Japan – Rare photos of wartime underground factory found in U.S. archives
Japanese troops used Chinese civilians for bayonet practice: archives
National Library of the Philippines embracing the Web, bracing for quake
Archive Preserves People’s Memories of South Asia’s Partition
India – Can’t disclose if any KGB records on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose were searched: government
India – 400-year-old Quran recovered by Mysuru cops
India – National Film Archives of India acquires rare 1935 Devdas film
Europe / Europa
Navigating the Maze: the Difficulty of Accessing European Union Documents
Finnish parliamentary elections online materials into an online archive
Spain – Hidden dimensions: 3D scanner reveals the inner secrets of artworks
Czech researchers use Ukrainian secret services archive
Italian missionary’s sketches of 17th Century Georgia displayed in Tbilisi
World’s oldest message in a bottle washes up in Germany after 108 years at sea
Destruction of the Irish Public Records Office 1922
Europeana – Field recording Irish traditional music
Pitlochry dam archive opens up rich history of the coming of hydro-electricity to Scotland
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh – The Cullen Project: Digitising Medical History
Fascinating photo archive provides snapshot of Wales dating back to the 1890s
UK National Archives – Latest top secret MI5 files released
Archives reveal UK concern over Spanish Civil War fighters
Archive of Britain’s top screenwriter, Andrew Davies, is gifted to De Montfort University Leicester
Mapping London’s great plague of 1665
World War One soldier recognised as casualty of war following amateur historian’s campaign
Transforming archives: nationalist narratives and community history, working with the multiple frames of heritage
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
United Arab Emirates – National Archive signs agreement to renovate Napoleon Museum’s library in Italy
United Arab Emirates – Libraries Becoming Feature of Abu Dhabi Landscape Due to Public Demand
Turkey to examine Birmingham’s oldest copy of the Qur’an
Syrian Expert who Shielded Palmyra Antiquities Meets a Grisly Death at ISIS’ Hands
International
So You Want to Get Started in Web Archiving?
Archive data to stop research fraud
Digital armageddon: how photographers are gearing up to avert disaster
An information goldmine: the World Bank Group Archives goes online
Wikipedia is corrupting science with blowjobs and elves, scientists warn
La wikification de la Science comme nouvel horizon pour l’Open Access ?
Defensible Disposition: the IT Challenge of our Time
DNA could be used to preserve digital data: researchers
The historian’s altmetrics: how can we measure the impact of people in the past?
Open Data: where to start, what to keep close
Why we should create a code of ethics for analyzing digital evidence
Responsable des archives et de l’information, une fonction en pleine mutation
For God’s Sake, Stop Digitizing Paper