Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
State Records of New South Wales – Minimum Requirements for Metadata for Authoritative Records and Information
National Archives of India – Report on Colonial Archiving Policy 1858-1947
UK – Department for Culture Media & Sport – Leadership for Libraries Taskforce: Six Month Progress Report (April – September 2015)
De la communauté / From the community
Archives Association of Ontario – Response to the Development of Ontario’s Culture Strategy
Vancouver Independent Archives Week 2015 Booklet
29 organisations – Open Letter to the European Commission on Copyright Consultation
Europeana – Report on Enrichment and Evaluation
Archivistes sans frontière France – Rapport de la mission en Haïti 2014
Article – Mémoires communistes, mémoires du communisme en Roumanie
Publications
African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science, vol. 25 no. 2 (2015)
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 30, no. 4 (December 2015)
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, supplement 1, December 2015 (Special Issue: Digital Humanities 2014)
Newspaper Research Journal, vol. 36, no. 3, 2015 (Special Issue: Capturing and Preserving the First Draft of History in the Digital Environment)
Advances in Library Administration and Organization, vol. 34 (2015)
Mémoire d’avenir : le journal des Archives nationales de France, no. 21 (décembre 2015-mars 2016)
Princeton & District (B.C.) Museum & Archives Newsletter (November-December 2015)
University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library – New Holiday Cards on Sale
Book – Archives of the Insensible: of War, Photopolitics, and Dead Memory
Book – Shakespeare, Performance and the Archive
Book – Making Institutional Repositories Work
Book – Big Data and the Internet of Things: Technology, Business, and Social Impacts
Book – The Meaning of the Library: a Cultural History
Book – Imprinting Britain: Newspapers, Sociability, and the Shaping of British North America
Book Review: http://activehistory.ca/2015/11/being-part-of-something-larger-a-review-of-imprinting-britain/
Book – Building for Justice: the Historic Courthouses of the Maritimes
Livre – Communisme : la guerre des mémoires
Livre – Manuel de paléographie alsacienne XVIIe-XXe siècles
Livre – Marguerite Yourcenar: archives d’une vie d’écrivain
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Years of Years: Artists in the Crista Dahl Media Library and Archive
November 26 – December 4, 2015, Vancouver
Comment penser le document aujourd’hui?
4 décembre 2015, Montréal
Livestream – Investigating Research Data Management & Scholarly Communication
December 11, 2015
University of Toronto iSchool’s 10th Annual Employer Showcase
January 15, 2016, Toronto
Le livre de photographie et ses auteurs
28 novembre 2015 au 13 février 2015, Bibliothèque nationale suisse
Maroc – Archives privées : patrimoine national ?
30 novembre 2015, Rabat
Reading Between the Lines: Translators in the Derrida Archives
December 7, 2015, University of California (Irvine)
Cours en ligne massif et ouvert – Architecture de l’information (2e session)
13 janvier 2016 – 11 mars 2016
The Production of the Archive
January 29, 2016, London (UK)
First International Community as Opportunity: the Creative Archives’ and Users’ Network Convention
January 19-21, 2016, Marbug (Germany)
5th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development
July 12-15, 2016, Lisbon (Portugal)
New Directions in the Use of Oral Testimonies: Soviet Experiences of the Holocaust
August 1-12, 2016, Washington D.C.
Le plaisir de l’archive inédite (vidéo disponible)
9 novembre 2015, Paris
http://plus.franceculture.fr/partenaires/ecole-nationale-des-chartes/le-plaisir-de-l-archive-inedite
École nationale des chartes – Cours Histoire du livre, histoires de livres (vidéo disponible)
16 novembre 2015, Paris
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada – Launch of Carleton Paper, Loyalists and British Soldiers, 1772-1784 Database
Library and Archives Canada – Carleton Papers-Book of Negroes, 1783 Database
Petition – Save Ashgate Publishing (Published Many Books about Archives over the Years)
Météo-France – Exposition numérique : à la découverte de 150 ans d’archives météorologiques
Video – Afrocrowd Works with Libraries and Museums to Improve Representation on Wikipedia
Vidéo – Estampes et numérique, même combat (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
Video – CENDARI Archival Research Guide: Role of Women in the First World War
World Wide Consortium (W3C) Data Now Available through a Web API
Slidecast – How to Develop a Digital Preservation Strategy
Slidecast – The Digital Cavemen of Linked Lascaux
Slidecast – Le web 2.0, un web participatif et collaboratif : définition, panorama d’usages par les services d’archives en France et dans le monde
Slidecast – Linked Data for Libraries: Experiments between Cornell, Harvard and Stanford
Slidecast – Data Designed for Discovery
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canada’s new census needs to capture nuances of fast-evolving economy
Civil society groups call on Trudeau to launch full public consultation before introducing C-51 reforms
Canadiana – Héritage Project tackles missing reels
Canadian Heritage Information Network – Crowdsourcing Tools
How to find Privy Council Orders at Library and Archives Canada
Publications numériques : nouveau partenariat entre BAnQ et BAC
Assessing the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
Ruling in Newfoundland residential schools says Canada abused process
Découverte importante d’une nouvelle liste d’Acadiens de 1763
B.C. information watchdog says probe of Vancouver city hall will delve deeper than investigation of B.C. government
Committee to toughen B.C. record rules
Cour du Québec – Un fichier Excel et un témoignage crédible suffisent à démontrer un fait
Visite à Honfleur pour le 400e anniversaire de la présence francophone en Ontario
(Re)découvrir l’Université d’Ottawa (avec l’archiviste Michel Prévost)
McGill University – New Master of Arts in Digital Humanities
McGill – SIS PhD student Fei Shu and co-authors receive awards for exceptional papers at ASIS&T 2015
Announcing McMaster University’s Wikipedia Visiting Scholar: Archivist Danielle Robichaud
York University Librarian Nick Ruest on research team awarded with SSHRC Insight grant
Institutional vs. Twitter Seed Lists for Web Archives (Canadian Political Parties and Political Interest Groups collection)
Look back at Vancouver’s past with Archives Week
Archaeologists uncover artifacts from early Halifax beneath Lower Water Street construction site
A history of comics at the Toronto Star
Nouveau piratage sur le site des Archives de la Ville de Montréal
British Columbia – Ktunaxa Nation Council Archives acquire valuable historical records
South Peace Regional Archives (Alb.) – New Collections on our Website
Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives (Ont.) – Canadian and English archives go head-to-head with their records: the Cumbrian Connection Part 2
Brighton’s (Ont.) history moving to digital
Drummondville – Les archives en peinture par Gail
Les archives à coeur : Mario Béliveau cumule 35 ans d’ancienneté à l’UQAM, dont 28 au Service des archives et de gestion des documents
Découvrabilité : nos contenus culturels sont-ils visibles?
Afrique / Africa
Nigeria Prepares to Revamp its Copyright System for the Digital Age
Burkina Faso – Premières journées portes ouvertes des Archives nationales
Gabon – Archives et documentation : formation des formateurs à la Bibliothèque universitaire centrale
Algérie – Les pouvoirs publics doivent instaurer une stratégie de sauvegarde des manuscrits du Tassili
Projet d’appui à la modernisation de l’état civil : le Sénégal appelé à mieux faire
Amériques / Americas
NARA – An Update on Kodacolor Decoded
NARA Displays the Refugee Act of 1980
This app preserves your grandparents’ memories in the Library of Congress
JFK Assassination Records and the Enduring Lessons from the Assassination Records Review Board
Get Reintroduced to Rosa Parks as a New Archive Reveals the Woman Behind the Boycott
Surveyor Digitization Project Hints at Long-Lost Lunar Treasures
New Search Options for the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania Library and Archives
Long-lost William Faulkner comedy discovered in the University of Virginia archives is published for the first time
University of Southern California – Shoah worker indexes Armenian testimonies
Florida State University – Accessioning a Rare Book Collection: Part I
Preserving Social Media Records of Activism
Inside Pixar’s Living Archives
New York Review of Books archive acquired by New York Public Library
New York Philharmonic’s Archives Strike the Right Note
A Lakota Sioux Warrior’s Eyewitness Drawings of Little Bighorn
Massive, 4,000-page Infocom design and biz archive posted online
Acid Bodhisattva: the history of the Timothy Leary archives during his prison and exile years, 1970-1976 (part one)
Photographic metadata helps convict officer over arrest of journalist
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – New National Art Archive brings past alive
Preserving the country’s history at the Australian War Memorial
Fiji – University of the South Pacific students praise National Archives services
Records and Archives Management Standards in China
Samoa pursues its march towards safeguarding intangible heritage
Sri Lanka – Ancient Tamil manuscripts to be restored through US grant
Europe / Europa
Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland urge Reiss Engelhorn Museum to reconsider suit over public domain works of art
Why is a museum suing Wikipedia for sharing?
Spain Ministry of Finance and Public Administration Announces ARCHIVE a New Web Application that will be Offered under the European Union Public Licence
Greek New Testament Papyrus Is Discovered on eBay
New copyright law in Poland heralds new era for libraries
Documents on Armenian Genocide from Vatican Archive Published in 7-Volume Set
Sweden Expresses Strong Support for UNESCO’s role in Protecting Heritage in Conflict
France – Partenariat entre le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, le Mémorial de la Shoah et le Musée de l’Holocauste
La bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica, fait peau neuve
France – Charente-Maritime : bataille juridique autour de l’héritage d’un général d’Empire
France – L’École de bibliothécaires documentalistes fête ses 80 ans
France – Saint-Étienne : les messages aux victimes des attentats de Paris ne seront pas perdus
France – Toulouse : des centaines de messages de soutien aux victimes des attentats s’affichent place du Capitole
National Library of Ireland welcomes Government’s announcement of capital investment
Scotland – War pleas against conscription go on web 99 years on
Scotland – Rare wartime military archive found at Erskine Hospital
Scotland – Experts find manuscript similar to Book of Kells
Quiet, please… In praise of the British Library
British Library – The Provenance of Web Archives
British Library – Japanese Nara ehon manuscripts digitised
National Railway Museum – Discovering the First World War through our archive
Oxford University – Web Archiving at the Bodleian
University of Aberdeen Archives Reveal Rules of Student Life in 1600s
Titanic inquiry influenced by Freemasons to protect culpable members, archives suggest
Digital archive of Cornish life opens online
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Oman to fund US$4.5mn UN project for preserving audio-visual archives
Iran – Russian President Gifts Ancient Quran Manuscript to Ayatollah Khamenei
Deux tablettes cunéiformes remises à l’Irak par la Suisse
International
UNESCO General Conference adopts unanimously a new normative instrument on the preservation of documentary heritage
Meeting between John Chambers, Chief Executive of the Archives and Records Association and David Leitch, International Council on Archives Secretary General
The Irony of Writing Online about Digital Preservation
Why it’s so Important to Understand what’s in our Web Archives
Folders uninterrupted: the enduring problem of folders
http://andrewwarland.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/folders-uninterrupted-the-enduring-problem-of-folders/
Are we Doomed to a World of PDFs?
The Stakeholders & Structure of your Information Governance Team
An army of history nerds is turning archival material into beautiful gifs
Five tips for digitizing photos
Re-using bad data in the humanities
My Lab Is in the Cloud
A Practical Guide to the Encryption Debate: a Failure of Analysis not Encryption
20 years of Data Science: from Music to Genomics