Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
U.S. Copyright Office – Mandatory Deposit of Electronic Books and Sound Recordings Available Only Online (for Feedback)
Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Report: Television New Zealand (for Comment)
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Association of Research Libraries – Trends and Innovations in Research Dissemination
International Council on Archives – Digital Preservation Training Modules
Europeana – Media Policy
Déclaration du Réseau francophone numérique
The Governance of Long-Term Digital Information: Information Governance Initiative 2016 Benchmark
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Data on the Web Best Practices, Dataset Usage Vocabulary & Data Quality Vocabulary
National Information Standards Organization – Draft Altmetrics Recommended Practices on Data Metrics, Alternative Outputs, and Persistent Identifiers
Publications
Archival Science, vol. 16, no. 2 (June 2016)
D-Lib Magazine, vol. 22, no. 5-6 (May/June 2016)
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Journal, no. 46 (May 2016)
RBM: a Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, vol. 17, no. 1 (Spring 2016)
Les Cahiers du numérique, vol. 12, no. 1-2 (2016)
Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 1 (2016)
Italian Journal of Library, Archives and Information Sciences, vol. 7, no. 2 (2016)
Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 5, no. 3 (May-June 2016)
Book – Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources
Book – Activist Archives: Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia
Book – In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and its Ironies
Book – Possession: the Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present
Book – Literary Mapping in the Digital Age
Book – Memory, Place and Identity: Commemoration and Remembrance of War and Conflict
Book – Text Mining: a Guidebook for the Social Sciences
Book – Big Data: Storage, Sharing, and Security
Book – Authors in Court: Scenes from the Theater of Copyright
Book – Turing’s Vision: the Birth of Computer Science
Book – Records Management: Making the Transition from Paper to Electronic
Available through ARMA International Bookstore: https://members.arma.org/eweb/home.aspx?site=ARMASTORE
Book – International Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories (2016 Edition)
Livre – Documenter les collections de musées
Livre – Nouvelles tendances de la muséologie
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Free Webinar – Big Data: New Roles and Opportunities for New Librarians
June 15, 2016
Bibliothèques, archives et musées à l’heure de l’open data : bonnes pratiques, normes et retours d’expériences
24 juin 2016, Paris
Digital Infrastructures for Research 2016
September 28-30, 2016, Krakow (Poland)
Penser / classer les collections des sociétés savantes
25 novembre 2016, Genève (Suisse)
FARO and UK National Archives – Winter School 2017
January 31 – February 2, 2017, Ypres (Belgium)
Photo-Objects: on the Materiality of Photographs and Photo-Archives in the Humanities and Sciences
February 15-17, 2017, Florence (Italy)
Documentaires patrimoniaux : de la reproduction des archives photographiques et textuelles d’écrivains au refaçonnement de l’histoire littéraire
10-14 juillet 2017, Lausanne (Suisse)
Interdisciplinary Conference on Digital Cultural Heritage
August 30 – September 01, 2017, Berlin
Sur le web / On the web
Archives Portal Europe – First API
Floppy Disk Format Identifer Tool
Video – Stuart Hamilton, IFLA, at World Intellectual Property Organization
Vidéo – Blockchain : une révolution d’usages, par Alain Borghesi vice-président de la Fédération nationale des tiers de confiance
Video – Transformational Online Reference with a Proactive, Context-sensitive Chat System: Using Triggers to Encourage Patrons to Ask Questions
Video – Smithsonian Digitization: Impact of Digitizing Botany Collection
Video – Text and Data-Mining on Licensed Collections
Slidecast – Introduction to Free and/or Open Source Tools for Digital Preservation
Slidecast – Mediachain: an Open Data Network for Creative Works
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
How open data can change the way we live and learn
The case for open government
Ministerial veto could trump Canada information czar’s planned new powers
Forget about bringing the “right to be forgotten” to Canada
Focus: data doesn’t have borders
How do we apply Canadian content rules to a world in which we’re all creating all the time?
No peeking! Government records censored with Scotch tape, paper
Library and Archives Canada gets two new advisory committees
Mirrors with Memory: Conserving Daguerreotypes in the Library and Archives Canada Collection: Part I
Library and Archives Canada – The real deal vs. the microfilm reel
Canadian Federation of Library Associations Graphic Identity Challenge
Les demandes généalogiques métisses en forte hausse
Avons-nous vraiment accès à l’information au Québec?
BAnQ – Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec : nourrir le Québec et plus encore
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: Letters to Mother and to Dad
University of Western Ontario – Clio and Climate: on Saving and Researching a Climate History Archive
University of Guelph – Engaging the Past through a Community of Transcribers: the Rural Diary Archive
World-renowned concert pianist donates archive to McMaster University
Poursuite du partenariat de gestion documentaire entre la municipalité régionale de Tracadie et l’Université de Moncton
McGill University – Islamic Studies Library digital collection in Internet Archive
Tokyo connection keeps memories of the Vancouver Asahi baseball team alive
Story of Toronto’s 19th-century sex trade uncovered by professor, students
Montréal – La maison-mère des Hospitalières transformée en centre d’archives religieuses?
D’étonnantes archives musicales de Montréal
Archival video clip shows Kamloops (B.C.) residential school in 1937
Gatineau adopte le partage des informations à l’interne
What’s the spin on Thunderbird Records?
2045 : une fiction archivistique
Afrique / Africa
Les Archives du Sénégal : un siècle d’histoire(s) de l’Afrique
Madagascar – Archives de l’armée malgache d’avant la colonisation
Tunisie – Affaire des archives de la présidence de la République: un membre de la sécurité auditionné et laissé en liberté
South Africa – Repatriating the archives of Africa’s musical history
Amériques / Americas
From invisible to digital: digitising endangered historical documents in Brazil
National Archives of Australia staff off to Cuba to restore historic documents
Antigua & Barbuda – Delay in opening date for National Archives
Report on CIA torture won’t be revealed under Freedom of Information Act
CIA mistakes trash can for classified documents folder
US Must Open Its Archives on 1965-1966 Indonesian Massacre: Human Rights Watch
Federal Judge Says Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine a Perfectly Legitimate Source of Evidence
Smithsonian Announces the Cosmetics and Personal Care Collections Digitization Project With Support From Kiehl’s
The Truth Is Out There: Do Area 51 Files Hold Secrets of UFOs?
Researcher receives Federal Aviation Administration’s latest UFO reporting procedures
Society of American Archivists – Does an Undergraduate Degree in History Matter?
California’s Legislature Wants to Copyright All Government Works
Matching Undergrads with Archives: Speed Dating in the University of North Carolina-Asheville Special Collections
University of Minnesota – Introducing the Data Curation Network project
Re-examining Two Newly United Archives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Getty Research Institute – Dozens of Artists’ Oral Histories Now Online
Chicago – The Center for Jewish History Adopts Rosetta for Digital Preservation and Asset Management
Fired Providence City Archivist Paul Campbell to Be Honored
The Hidden History of America’s 19th-Century Mania for Panoramic Prints
What Happens when a Museum Closes?
Am I a Digital Humanist? Confessions of a Neoliberal Tool
The Digital in the Humanities: an Interview with Marisa Parham
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia’s courts to rule on landmark definition of “personal information”
Dangerous books behind lock and key: exploring Australia’s hidden library collections
1663 map of Australia by Dutch master Joan Blaeu arrives in Melbourne for restoration
Australia – National Library secures Patrick White’s first book of poems
New South Wales State Records (Australia) – Q&A with Warwick Hunter on public access to records #iam_2016
New South Wales – Access to restricted state archives
New Zealand – Dunedin Public Library index cards digitised
Taiwan – Executive Yuan Digital Archive opens to public
Korea debates the “right to be forgotten”
Korean Film Archive opens preservation center in Paju
China – Eleventh-century Chinese letter, just 124 characters long, sells for $32m
Report from the IFLA Sri Lanka PAC Centre: Testing Aqua Fumigator (Cyphenothrin 72%) against insect pests of library books in Sri Lanka
Europe / Europa
Looking beyond Google for online access to Europe culture and knowledge
Why Estonia hasn’t built a government digital service
Ukraine – How public should the Soviet KGB archives be?
Ukraine’s first printed book stolen from library
State archives take up a lot of space. Should we digitise the lot, and burn the books? Finland is taking a radical step
Historic 1493 letter by Christopher Columbus announcing the discovery of the New World is returned to Italy
Archival exhibition shows historical ties between Georgia and Lithuania
Belgium – Listening to the Queer Archive: a conversation with Marion Wasserbauer
Google takes right to be forgotten battle to France’s highest court
Données à caractère personnel : un nouveau règlement
France – Dans le secret des archives de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Le crowdfunding au secours des archives militaires françaises
France – Quand l’ouverture des données augmente la commande publique
Inside Yves Saint Laurent’s Studio, Archives
Irish Government to actively pursue access to Dublin-Monaghan bombings files
UK National Archives – New project to launch with the National Maritime Museum and the Crew List Index Project
UK National Archives – Dividing the bear’s skin while the bear is still alive
British Library – Saving BBC Recipes Website
UK’s top-secret UFO X-Files to be released by Ministry of Defence
I know because I was there: Archives, social justice and the Hillsborough Disaster
Bodleain Library – What has web archiving ever done for us? Saving our dinner plans, for example.
Dylan Thomas fans in for treat as poetry manuscripts set to go on public show at Swansea University
Transforming Archives: Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Abuse of tea and love listed in lunatic asylum admissions archive
Rugby rule book from 1851 sells for £13,000 at auction
Copyright, free culture and art
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
United Arab Emirates – The Certification of the International Standard for Service Excellence awarded to the National Archives
Film scanner impresses United Arab Emirates National Archives
Online Historical Resources for the Study of the Modern History of Bahrain and the Persian Gulf
Kuwaiti officials extol visit to Italy’s national library and archives
Iran – Tehran museum’s historic photography collection emerges from the shadows
International
Archiving a Website for Ten Thousand Years
Human Rights and Archival Practice: Equality, Inclusion, Accountability
New transparency rules to help tackle corruption
A de-identification protocol for open data
Tape recording was introduced 70 years ago
Reconciliation after a civil war may come at the expense of mental health
It’s on the Sillybos: the Birth of the Book Title
The Ebola Review Archive Team at Médecins Sans Frontières
Les métadonnées téléphoniques révèlent des informations très privées
Surrender to a Digital Archive of Physical Junk
Comment numériser vos photos avec votre téléphone ?
Google made an insanely high-res camera to preserve great works of art