Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Government of Canada – Interim Directive on the Administration of the Access to Information Act
Alberta Records Management Committee – Circulars
Documenting Concurrence Conditions: http://www.im.gov.ab.ca/documents/publications-circulars/ARMC_Circular_2016-001_Documenting_Concurrence_Conditions.pdf
Secretary Delegation of Responsibility: http://www.im.gov.ab.ca/documents/publications-circulars/ARMC_Circular_2016-003_-_Delegation-Secretary.pdf
Senior Records Officer Signing Authority for Records Retention and Disposition Schedules: http://www.im.gov.ab.ca/documents/publications-circulars/ARMC_Circular_2016-002_SRO_Signing_Authority.pdf
European Union – General Data Protection Regulation
Archives de France – Données statistiques 2015
NARA – Representing Congress: Clifford K. Berryman’s Political Cartoons
Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Report and Disposal Schedule: Ministry of Māori Development (for Comments)
Protocole d’entente entre la ville de Gatineau et l’ÉNAP pour financer la chaire de Daniel J. Caron
De la communauté / From the community
International Federation of Film Archives – Moving Image Cataloguing Manual
E-Ark – Pilot DIP Specification
Memoriav – Rapport d’activité 2015
Open Forum Europe – An Analytical Review of Text and Data Mining Practices and Approaches in Europe
http://www.openforumeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/TDM-Paper-Diana-Cocoru-and-Mirko-Boehm.pdf
OCLC – Addressing the Challenges with Organizational Identifiers and ISNI
American Library Association – Progress in the Making: Librarians’ Practical 3D Printing Questions Answered
Article – Reconstructing a Website’s Lost Past: Methodological Issues Concerning the History of www.unibo.it
Publications
International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 17, no. 2 (June 2016)
African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science, vol. 26, no. 1 (2016)
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 67, no. 5 (May 2016)
Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres Review, vol. 44, no. 1 (2016)
Off the Record: the Newsletter of the Archives Association of Ontario, vol. 27, no. 2 (Spring 2016)
It’s About Time: the Newsletter of Port Hope (Ont.) Archives (Spring 2016)
Book – Privacy and the Past: Research, Law, Archives, Ethics
Book – The Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force
Book – Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016
Book – Hacked: the Inside Story of America’s Struggle to Secure Cyberspace
Book – Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections: a Practical Guide for Museums
Book – Collaborative Grant-Seeking: a Practical Guide for Librarians
Book – Imprints of Revolution: Visual Representations of Resistance
Book – Marketing and Outreach for the Academic Library: New Approaches and Initiatives
Book – Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War
Book – Track Changes: a Literary History of Word Processing
Livre – Patrimoines du Maghreb et inventaires
Livre – Patrimoine contemporain des sciences et techniques
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Opening Reception: the Yukon & the First World War Display
May 10, 2016, Whitehorse
Indigitization Futures Forum
June 10-12, 2016, Vancouver
Webinar – FIDO for Format Identification, and why It Matters
May 10, 2016
Online Workshop – RightsStatements.org: Why we Need It, What it Is (and Isn’t) and What Does it Mean for the Digital Public Librayr of America Network and Beyond?
May 10 and 17, 2016
Webinar – The Sustainability of Born Digital Art
May 18, 2016
Massive Open Online Course – Deciphering Secrets: Unlocking the Manuscripts of Medieval Burgos (Spain)
Starting June 14, 2016
Imaging the Past Collecting the Future: Archive, Photography, Cinema, Museums
June 22-25, 2016, Lucca (Italy)
eCourse – How to Implement a Digitization Program
Starting July 11, 2016
Photography and Britishness
November 4, 2016, Yale University
Webinar – Hitting Pay Dirt: Text Mining Government Sources (Recording Available)
April 26, 2016
Sur le web / On the web
Podcast – Guy Berthiaume and the Head of British Library
Council of Archives New Brunswick – New Website
NARA – Online Catalog API
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
The Auditor General of Canada on Data in Government
Open data: why it’s making waves across Canada
Information Commissioner of Canada – A New (Old) Wave of Transparency?
Information Commissioner of Canada Suzanne Legault: how the government tried to keep its secrets
Canada’s spies in spat over privacy breach reporting
Online privacy: we shouldn’t have a right to be forgotten
On World Press Freedom Day, here are 10 ideas for improving Canada’s Access to Information law
Roll out of new federal-government-wide email system halted, again
Library and Archives Canada – Living Knowledge: the value of national libraries
Library and Archives Canada – More than just books
Library and Archives Canada – Journey to Red River 1821: Peter Rindisbacher
Library and Archives Canada – Drawn from Real Life: Hillborough Studio’s First Canadian Comic Book Heroes
Update on the Dissolution of the Canadian Library Association
Newfoundland – Library closures not imminent, towns could take some over, says Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Dale Kirby
Newfoundland – Save the libraries campaign
Provincial Police investigating allegations that Ontario government officials illegally destroyed wind farm documents
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: Back from London and on to Shorncliffe
Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame and Museum moving archives online
http://www.metronews.ca/news/winnipeg/2016/05/03/manitoba-curling-museum-moving-archives-online.html
Royal B.C. Museum administrator has 30,000 books and reads in six languages
BAnQ – Saint-Jean-Vianney, chronologie d’une catastrophe
Carleton University project plans to record oral histories of Holocaust survivors
UBC Press and University of Washington Press to develop digital publishing platform in Indigenous studies with grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
UBC iSchool faculty awarded Knowledge Synthesis Grant (for Blockchain Technology for Recordkeeping: Help or Hype?)
UBC – Dr. Lisa Nathan to collaborate on Knowledge Synthesis Grant (for Ethnoscape: Digital Heritage Access for Language and Culture in First Nations Communities)
Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française – La politique d’acquisition d’archives refondue et mise à jour
University of Western Ontario – Environment Canada Climate History Collection: an Update
University of Lethbridge’s Centre for Oral History and Tradition to offer public workshops
University of Waterloo Special Collections and Archives – Book traces
McGill – School of Information Studies PhD student Fei Shu awarded FRQSC Doctoral Fellowship for research on bibliometric database comparison
Preserving Canada’s first LGBT TV show
A welcome home for the Museum of Jewish Montreal: online venture gets a physical space
Montreal – A trip back in time at La Fontaine Park
Westmount (Quebec) – Labor of Love: Opening up Archival Gems for Community Engagement
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – The Humidification Chamber: conserving photographs and and documents
Toronto – El Mocambo Set to Preserve its Rich History
Letters to Danforth Tech (Toronto) students tell the story of war
History comes back to Brooklin (Ont.)
Dundas Museum and Archives (Ont.) celebrates its treasures
Kamouraska – Le tourisme généalogique prend de l’ampleur
The Librarian’s Guide to Surviving (and thriving) During Conference Season
Afrique / Africa
African countries come together to address gaps in managing digital information for open government
Mali – Numérisés et classés, les manuscrits de Tombouctou vont dévoiler leurs mystères
Cameroun – Nominations : de nouveaux responsables aux ministère des Arts et de la Culture (dont les Archives nationales)
Signature d’un accord de coopération entre l’Institut arabe des droits de l’homme et les Archives nationales de Tunisie
Anonymous Hackers Leak 1TB of Documents from Kenya’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Tanzania – Government to Act on Freedom of Information Bill
Nigeria committed to upholding Freedom of Information Act
Amériques / Americas
Haïti – Remise d’une proposition de loi pour faciliter l’accès à l’information
Venezuelan journalists create open data project to combat lack of access to information in the country
CIA director says secret 9/11 report pages full of hearsay, inaccurate info
In National Archives thefts, a radio detective gets his man
National Archives Urged to Preserve Torture Report
Smithsonian – Collecting archival treasures from America’s top Latino visual artists
Society of American Archivists – 2016 Bylaw Revision
Maine – Move to stop recording, archiving Legislature’s activities stalled for now
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – A History of Records Management in Texas
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – Records Custodians: why it’s a Great Idea to Appoint Them
Harvard University – Guarding the dazzle of the past
The Harvard Library Digital Repository Service
Stanford University – Let the Entities Describe Themselves
University of Notre Dame and Vatican Library to celebrate new collaboration
It’s a gold mine: Vincennes University’s Lewis Library historical records digitized
University of Illinois project maps out social movements on campus throughout history
Public relations and marketing for archives: an interview with Peter Wosh (Director of the Archives/Public History Program at New York University)
Documenting the Now Builds Social Media Archive
The HathiTrust Research Center: Exploring the Full-Text Frontier
Atomic memory could store US Library of Congress in a dust speck
Paramount Copyright Claim on Klingon Language Challenged in Klingon Language
Microsoft Acquires 10 Million Strands of DNA for Digital Storage Experiment
Iron Mountain Opens Near-Infinite-Capacity Cloud Archive
Ask an Archivist: Interview with Joan Gundersen, Archivist for the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh
Los Angeles Archives Have their own TV Show
How the city of Boston is making its data accessible to everyone
Boston has one man in charge of overseeing all of the city’s most precious artifacts
Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): a Political History of Digital Humanities
Download 6600 Free Films from the Prelinger Archives and Use them However you Like
Isaac Newton Manuscript on Faith to Be Auctioned
Claude Shannon, the Father of the Information Age, Turns 1100100
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull abandons Abbott-era plan to abolish privacy watchdog
Australia – Budget 2016: cuts force online archive Trove to stop adding to collection
Priceless 17th century map of Australia heads to Melbourne for expert conservation analysis
Historical records of Australian patrol officers in Papua New Guinea documented online
Aboriginal family trees: Setting the record straight and rebuilding lost connections
New South Wales (Australia) – Rare State Library manuscript shows dramatic hand of Shakespeare
Q&A with Elizabeth Coombs on privacy, New South Wales Privacy Commissioner
Introducing Northern Territory Archives Service
Archives of New Zealand – The Appraisal Process: Part Five: Formal Review to Intention to Dispose
Cannes First, then Thailand for Restored “Lost” Classic
National Archives of India – Brief note on records accessioned during the months of February and March 2016
India – Government declassifies 25 more Netaji files, announces to build a memorial soon
Europe / Europa
The Lonely Pirate Party Member of European Parliament’s Holocaust copyright stunt backfires
Poland – Historic constitution in historical archives
Netherlands – Lawsuit Demands National Archives Open up to Hunt Dutch War Criminals
Germany – Cautious Reactions to Revision of Archives Colonia Dignidad in Chile
Open access to research data : a pilot project in Sweden
Open Government Owes a Lot to a Couple of 18th-Century Finns
This face recognition company is causing havoc in Russia and could come to the U.S. soon
Exposition inédite à Rome des bulles papales conservées aux Archives secrètes du Vatican
France – Fontainebleau : les syndicats mobilisés pour sauver le site des Archives nationales
Des archives de Marcel Proust aux enchères à Paris
Le tout premier roman de Georges Perec a été retrouvé
La blockchain, amie ou ennemie des tiers des confiance ?
Coup de coeur : #ArchivesRock
Cinquante lettres en basque retrouvées à Londres datent de… 1757
Ireland – Patrick Pearse surrender letter set to fetch €1.5m at auction
Ireland – Archives reveal secret plans for wartime carrier pigeon unit
Scotland – Cloudy Culture: preserving digital culture in the cloud
National library of Scotland – The Making of a Manuscript
More cuts will threaten National Library of Wales
UK National Archives – Fastolf not Falstaff: the soldier behind Shakespeare’s myth
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/sir-john-fastolf-falstaff-soldier-behind-shakespeares-myth/
William Shakespeare goes digital as British Library allows public to download first editions
British Library – The challenge of translating Cervantes’s Don Quixote
Alan Whicker papers donated to British Film Institute National Archive
Oxford University – Macro Photographs Composed of Nearly Ten Thousand Images Show the Incredible Detail of Insect Specimens
Into the archive at the Royal School for the Blind
Diary of a somebody: could I solve the mystery of 148 lost notebooks?
Tolkien annotated map of Middle-earth acquired by Bodleian library
Jazzwise Magazine launches digital archive
Google given access to London patient records for research
Unseen Beatles footage released
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel – Yad Vashem: documenting the Nazi Transports to the Death Camps
United Arab Emirates Digital Library to facilitate electronic books
International
Research Library Associations Endorse Open Data Accord
How UNESCO Is Crowdsourcing the Preservation of World Heritage
The lost art of reading other people’s handwriting
Old ice records from citizen scientists provide context for history of global warming
Data Scientists Spend Most of their Time Cleaning Data
From Amazon to Google Books: how the Internet Is Changing how we Read
Who’s to blame for Sci-Hub? Librarians, of course!
Wikipedia Is Basically a Corporate Bureaucracy, According to a New Study
Paper vs Electronic in the digital age
Defending Differences from Duplicate Detection
This Ancient Laptop Is the Only Key to the Most Valuable Supercars on the Planet
The Oldest Libraries Around the World
The Secrets of Medieval Fonts