Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Saskatchewan – The Archives and Public Records Management Act
Press Release: http://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/news-and-media/2015/august/26/archives-celebrates-70-years
New Brunswick – Review of the Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act
Australian Department of Finance – Guidance for Commonwealth Entities on the Requirements to Keep Nonfinancial Records
Library of Congress – Migration Checklist (Draft for Comment)
De la communauté / From the community
Centre du Patrimoine de Saint-Boniface – Écoles francophones du Manitoba
Response of the Australian Society of Archivists to the Review of the Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986
Australian Society of Archivists – Joint response to the National Arts and Culture Accord: Digital Technology Survey
Society of American Archivist’s Criteria for Advocacy Statements
Center for Law and Democracy – Submission on Access to Information Reform in Quebec
The UNESCO/Persist Draft Guidelines for the Selection of Digital Content for Long-term Digital Preservation
Queens Library – Preserving your Digital Memories
American Library Association – The 2014 Preservation Statistics Report
Computer & Communications Industry Association – Copyright Reform for a Digital Economy
Research Data Management: a Primer Publication of the National Information Standards Organization
Open Science, Open Issues
Article – Archival Science, Digital Forensics, and New Media Art
Publications
Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, vol. 39, no. 2, June 2015 (Special Issue on Data, Records, and Archives in the Cloud)
Arbido: périodique de l’Association des archivistes suisses et de Bibliothèque information suisse, 3/2015 (Numéro spécial sur Wikimedia)
Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, vol. 1, no. 1 (2015)
National Archives of Australia – Government Agencies Information Network Newsletter, no. 7 (2015)
Online Audiovisual Catalogers Newsletter, vol. 35, no. 3 (September 2015)
Surrey’s Stories: Surrey (B.C.) Archives Newsletter (Summer/Fall 2015)
Association des archivistes français – Gestion des messages électroniques : quelle politique mettre en oeuvre et webographie/bibliographie sélective.
http://www.archivistes.org/Publication-d-une-fiche-pratique-par-la-Commission-archives-electroniques
Free ebook – The History of Cartography
Book – Digitizing Audiovisual and Nonprint Materials: the Innovative Librarian’s Guide
Book – The Audacious Ascetic: what Osama Bin Laden’s Sound Archive Reveals about al-Qa’ida
Book – Creative Library Marketing and Publicity: Best Practices
Book – Critical Gaming: Interactive History and Virtual Heritage
Book – UNESCO on the Ground: Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage
Book – Film Distribution in the Digital Age: Pirates and Professionals
Book – Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries
Book – Using Google Earth in Libraries: a Practical Guide for Librarians
Book – The National Archives: the Great Fire of London Unclassified
Book – Information Governance Professional Certification: Study Guide and Exam Workbook
Available through the ARMA International Bookstore: https://members.arma.org/eweb/browse.aspx?site=ARMASTORE&type=Publication
Book – Rights & Reproductions: the Handbook for Cultural Institutions
Livre – Dictionnaire de l’historien
Livre – Le droit à l’oubli numérique : données nominatives, approche comparée
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Lancement de Nommer les documents et les dossiers numériques
16 septembre 2015, Québec
Une approche intelligente à la gestion de contenu d’entreprise
29 septembre 2015, Montréal
La sémiotique: analyse de valeur de l’information: cadre d’analyse de la valeur de l’information archivistique dans les organisations
19 octobre 2015, Ottawa
American Library Association Webcast – Digitization and Libraries
September 10, 2015
Sharing is Caring: Right to Remix?
October 2, 2015, Copenhagen
Saving America’s Radio Heritage: Radio Preservation, Access, and Education
February 25-27, 2016, Washington D.C.
Sur le web / On the web
Council of Archives New Brunswick now on Facebook
Video – Keeping our Stories Alive: Canadian Lesbian + Gay Archives
Vidéo – Certificat en archivistique et microprogramme en gestion des documents numériques : Université Laval
Society of American Archivists Video – Archives Change Lives
tranScriptorium – Handwritten Text Recognition Crowdsourcing Platform Launched
Tate Museum – AnnoTate: Crowdsourcing to Transcribe the Archives (Source Code Available)
Artstor – New Crowdsourcing Software (Beta Release)
EpubCheck 4.0
Video – Policies for Long-term Curation and Preservation within Digital Repositories
Europeana – Recording and Playing Machines through Time: a Virtual Exhibition
Bibliographie – Humanités numériques francophones
Slidecast – Approaching Archival Authenticity: when Records become Data
Slidecast – Measure All the (Web Archiving) Things
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canadian Music Industry Hit with Competition Complaint over Public Domain Recordings
Federal Court says open courts principle overrides Privacy Act
Nouvelle entente AAQ-ACA
Archives of Manitoba – Back to School, 1915
Le réaménagement des salles au pavillon Casault à BAnQ Québec
UK National Archives – Transatlantic journey: transporting the Holland Map back to Prince Edward Island
Ian Milligan (University of Waterloo): Five things I’ve learned from combing an archive of old and deleted political websites
Royal Winnipeg Ballet hopes to salvage archives damaged in flood
Sharon Shorty is Aboriginal storyteller in residence at Vancouver library
North Vancouver – Archivist helps history live forever
Montreal – This mansion is central to the story of how Canada became a democracy. It’s probably going to be turned into condos
Archives de Montréal – Le voyage d’un Montréalais dans l’Ouest canadien en 1913
Niagara Falls painting (believed to be the first eyewitness painting of the falls) prompts British brouhaha
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto Blog – 100th post
Des millions de dossiers à numériser au CHU de Québec
Le déménagement des Archives du Séminaire de Nicolet se prépare
While ISIS destroys, Hamilton man battles to preserve historic texts
The solar-powered box that could save world heritage
Canadian Heritage Information Network – Not Getting Much Engagement on Social Media: Don’t Despair
Canadian Heritage Information Network – How Museums can Encourage Crowdsourcing
Afrique / Africa
The world’s largest African poetry archive is coming to an Internet near you
Mali – Atelier de validation de l’étude de numérisation des archives coloniales
Discours du directeur national des Archives du Mali : http://www.archivesdumali.org/2015/08/discours-du-directeur-national-des-archives-du-mali/
Discours du Secrétaire général du gouvernement : http://www.archivesdumali.org/2015/08/discours-du-representant-de-madame-la-secretaire-generale-du-gouvernement/
Sénégal – Modernisation de l’assemblée nationale : des archives centenaires numérisées
Algérie – Mouzaïa : le musée du Moudjahid (et ses archives) abandonné
Rare portraits reveal Nigeria’s young and fashionable elite on the rise in the 20th century
Amériques / Americas
Inventorying of living heritage rolls on in Ecuador
http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/en/news/Inventorying-of-living-heritage-rolls-on-in-Ecuador!-00150
White House – Standardizing and Simplifying the Government’s Data on Federal Spending
NARA re-evaluating deadline for agency email records management systems, official says
Federal agencies show progress on records management
A rare detailed look inside the IRS’s massive data breach, via a security expert who was a victim
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency provides unclassified geospatial intelligence for the Arctic
Wills of millions of Americans now available online
NARA – The Tale of the Forgotten Films: an Archival Rescue
1 in 3 federal government employees use personal e-mail for work, survey finds
Washington State Supreme Court – Texts on public employee’s cellphone public records
Photographing public records to save time a big no-no in Tennessee
Kentucky – State archivist and records administrator retires after 32 years
California – Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Launches First of-its-Kind Criminal Justice Open Data Initiative
Landmarks and Vestiges: Unearthing Stanford University’s Maps and Architectural Drawings
University of Minnesota – Program helps scholars gain access to Libraries’ vast archives
LGBT archive at University of Southern California preserves personal stories from a hidden past
Lousiana State University – Cleaning up after Katrina: a Special Collections Perspective
National treasure found: early version of Happy Birthday song discovered at University of Louisville
Rare photos of 19th-century blacks speak to modern Americans
Introducing the Archive Corps: meet the man behind a new effort to save documents and other artifacts before they disappear
Meet the City Staff: John H. Slate, City of Dallas Archivist
North Dakota man inspires preservation of home movies
Unseen Ezra Pound poem sold at auction
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Help Choose what Music Goes into Australia’s Sound Archive
Data retention and the end of Australians’ digital privacy
State Archives of New South Wales – Records and information management FAQs: deciding why, when and how to capture the content of links
Archives New Zealand – What do you do with the hardcopies of records that have been digitised?
Japan Offers Archival Evidence in Island Territorial Disputes
Taiwan – Electronic records of court cases to be made available
National Archives of Thailand: going digital with online search
TK Park launches Thailand’s first online library
Malaysia’s Historical Records Still Remain in the Hands of Other Nations
How Google Cultural Institute wants to help digitise India’s cultural heritage
India – Digitalise record-keeping to root out corruption in land offices
India – Jawaharlal Nehru University Goes Paperless, Adopts E-Governance
10 000 partition stories to be added to the 1947 India-Pakistan Partition Archives
Digital preservation to the rescue of Pakistan’s crumbling monuments
Europe / Europa
Brussels launches public consultation on geo-blocking
7th century BC inscription in Georgia may rewrite history of written language
Swiss archive provides film of Chinese history
Traces, la plateforme d’échange de l’association des archivistes suisses
Belgique – Namur: 13 siècles de trésors dévoilés
Belgique – Paul Otlet, l’homme qui inventa le Google de papier
Luxembourg – Généalogie : un million d’actes de naissance sur luxroots.com
Luxembourg – Mise en ligne d’un inventaire des documents d’archives de la période de l’occupation allemande (1940-1944)
Service interministériel des archives de France – Pré-versement : le calcul d’empreintes
France – Transfert des archives de l‘Académie Julian aux Archives nationales
France – Reconstituer un puzzle grâce aux archives du Service historique de la défense : le parcours d’un officier
France – Comment le gouvernement a reculé sur la mise en Open Data des données de transport
France – La collection d’autochromes de l’Établissement de communication et de production audiovisuelle de la Défense
France – Rare manuscripts to be sold as world’s largest private collection is liquidated
Archive lifts the lid on life for school starters in 19th century Wales
Isle of Man – Will Freedom of Information really shed more light on government?
UK Government – Registers: authoritative lists you can trust
Terror law prompts British Library to reject unique Taliban archive
British Library statement regarding the Taliban Sources Project
British Library Web Archive – 2015 UK Domain Crawl has started
The oldest fragment of the Quran found in Birmingham University: radiocarbon dating suggests it could have been older than the Prophet himself
Transforming Archives: Vivacity Peterborough Archives
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Palestinian archives remain scattered
West Bank – Nablus library seeks to catch up with modern times
Saudi Arabia – 500-year-old miniature document top attraction at Madinah exhibition
International
Open letter by International Internet Preservation Consortium Chair (Paul Wagner from LAC)
Alliance for Open Media – New open standard for Ultra High Definition video will enable enhanced video playback
Twitter Strategies for Historians
Enhancing Archivematica for Research Data Management
Secret d’archives #1 : les Archives, c’est comics
The challenge of data in digital musicology
The Photo as Weapon
La recherche d’information stratégique en six principes