Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Librarian and Archivist of Canada Speech – TRY Saving the World One Library at a Time
UK National Archives – Information Management Assessment: Home Office
Home Office Statement: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/mark-sedwill-statement-on-publication-of-home-office-ima-report.pdf
U.S. Federal Agencies Still Image Digitization Working Group – Program: Impacts and Benefits
U.S. Department of State – Office of the Secretary: Evaluation of Email Records Management and Cybersecurity Requirements
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner – Guide to Big Data and the Australian Privacy Principles (for Comment)
U.S. – Federal Big Data Research and Development Strategic Plan
École nationale d’administration publique – Réponse à une demande d’accès à l’information pour des documents concernant la chaire de Daniel J. Caron
De la communauté / From the community
Centre d’archives régionales Séminaire de Nicolet – Politique d’acquisition
Memoriav – Digital Archiving of Film and Video: Principles and Guidance
Terra Cognita: Graduate Students in the Archives, a Retrospective on the CLIR Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources
UNESCO – Keeping History Alive: Safeguarding Cultural Heritage in Post-Conflict Afghanistan
Training for Research Data Management: Comparative European Approaches
Article – Web Infrastructure to Support e-Journal Preservation (and More)
Publications
Comma: International Journal on Archives, vol. 2015, no. 1 (2016)
Archivaria, no. 81 (Spring 2016)
IFLA Journal, vol. 42, no. 2 (June 2016)
Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, vol. 9, no. 2 (May 2016)
Program, vol. 50, no. 3 (2016)
Journal of Documentation, vol. 72, no. 4 (2016)
Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography, vol. 68, no. 2 (2016)
National Archives of Australia – Government Agencies Information Network e-Bulletin, no. 5 (2016)
Silhouettes: the Associates of the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Newsletter, no. 41 (Autumn 2015)
Bulletin d’information du Centre d’histoire et d’archives du travail, vol. 3, no. 2 (Printemps 2016)
Quarterly Newsletter on Grey Literature, vol. 8, no. 2 (2016)
M.A. Thesis – The Lamppost: a Metaphorical Reflection on Archival Absences and Presences
Free eBook – Cultural Heritage in a Changing World
Book – Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives: a How-to-Do-it Manual for Librarians (Third Edition)
Book – On Record: Files and Dossiers in American Life
Book – Metadata (Second Edition)
Book – Theatre, Exhibition, and Curation: Displayed and Performed
Book – The End of Wisdom?: the Future of Libraries in a Digital Age
Book – Infocrime: Protecting Information through Criminal Law
Book – Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Volume 3: Databases for Public Engagement
Book – User Experience in Libraries: Applying Ethnography and Human-Centred Design
Book – International Survey of Academic & Research Library Data Curation Practices (2016-2017 Edition)
Book – Museums of the World 2016
Livre – L’art de recevoir et la cuisine à la fin du 19e siècle : à travers les archives du Petit Écho de la mode
Livre – La numérisation d’archives : des fondamentaux techniques aux programmes de numérisation
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Webcast – Library and Archives Canada and the Digital Age
May 30, 2016
Truth, Reconciliation and the Future
June 2, 2016, Calgary
New Brunswick Museum Archives Talk: the Tourist’s and Sportsman’s Paradise
June 4, 2016, Saint John
Creating an Archival Sketching Diary
June 11, 2016, Edmonton
Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists 2016 Annual General Meeting
June 24, 2016, Saskatoon
Barbados 1966-2016: Years of Transition through the Photographer’s Lens
June 1, 2016, Barbados (West Indies Federal Archives Centre)
Webinar – Pre Commercial Procurement for the Long-Term Preservation of Digital Cultural Heritage
June 14, 2016
International and Interdisciplinary Workshop on Active Data Management Plans
June 28-30, 2016, Zurich (Switzerland)
Archives Vice Versa: Preservation and Rot
July 7, 2016, University of Sheffield (UK)
No Time to Wait! Standardizing FFV1 & Mastroska for Preservation
July 18-20, 2016, Berlin
Webinar – Preparing to Digitise your Archives: Conservation
July 21, 2016
Qu’est qu’une salle de lecture virtuelle en archives ?
3 octobre 2016, Paris
International Council on Archives Section on Business Archives 2016 Conference (Presentations Available)
April 4-5, 2016, Atlanta (United States)
Preserve Better: Accreditation and Certification for Digital Archives and Digital Repositories (Presentations Available)
May 25, 2016, London (UK)
Sur le web / On the web
New Blog – Adventures in the Archive: Exploring the History behind Canadian History
UK National Archives Podcast – Shell-Shocked Britain: Understanding the Lasting Trauma of the First World War
Vidéo – Qui a volé le Boléro de Ravel ?
Podcast – Renegade Librarian Jessamyn West on Information, Access and Democracy
Slidecast – Challenging Classification Bias with Linked Data
Slidecast – Challenges on Modeling Annotations in the Europeana Sounds Project
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Senator worried about destruction of residential school abuse evidence
Library and Archives Canada – New acquisitions: archives: highlights (spring 2016)
Letters of a passionate politician: Library and Archives Canada’s collection of Wilfrid Laurier’s correspondence
Mirrors with Memory: Conserving Daguerreotypes from the Library and Archives Canada Collection: part II
New at Library and Archives Canada
Author did not infringe copyright by writing a fictionalized book based on holocaust documentary
App uses Gwich’in elder’s recordings to teach language
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/app-uses-gwich-in-elder-s-recordings-to-teach-language-1.3597675
Missing for seven decades, Canadian soldier Donald Duncanson set to receive proper burial
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: more from Shorncliffe
Archives Alberta – The lead team’s flood recovery work
Centre for Law and Democracy – B.C. Should Reconsider Disclosure of Active Information Requests
Canadian Historical Association – A Conversation about History Blogging in Canada
Western University – Scientists Are Digitizing Ancient Monk Chants into a Massive Searchable Database
Retro video games invade space at University of Calgary libraries
University of Alberta MLIS Student Wins 2016 IFLA LIS Student Paper Award
University of Toronto – iSchool Launches Canada’s First UNESCO Global Student Internships
Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives – Rebecka Sheffield Steps Down
Le déluge du Saguenay entre au musée
Trent Valley Archives (Ont.) offers murder tours and more
150 years of Prince Albert (Saskatchewan)
City of Fort Saskatchewan Chooses Infolinx Web for Managing Physical Records
Archivist Interview: Meet Rodney Carter, Archivist for the St. Joseph Region (Ont.) of the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph
Afrique / Africa
Morocco – The Delicate Task of Restoring One of the World’s Oldest Libraries
L’état des structures culturelles en Algérie : des musées vides, des bibliothèques en ruine
Amériques / Americas
Trinidad – Caribbean Launches Digital Archive Project for Preserving Memories, Cultural Heritage Research
Chile’s New Copyright Legislation would Make Creative Commons Licensing Impossible for Audiovisual Works
The U.S. is still using floppy disks to run its nuclear program
I’m suing the US government for its data on who’s entering the country
Pentagon Department Offers Clues about the Contents of Classified Film Archive
NARA preps for presidential transition
NARA – Letters to the President
National Archives Awards $3.2 Million in Grants for Documentary Editing and Archival Projects
Library of Congress wants to drop “illegal alien” subject heading, the House pushes back
The Library of Congress Is Uploading 75 Years of Poetry and Literature Recordings
Declassification Technology Update from the Center for Content Understanding
Dozens of Rare Documents from American History Just Sold at Auction
Here’s the Problem With the Feds Profiting from Court Filings
Tennessee State Library & Archives Launches Digital Collection Honoring World War I Soldiers
California – Consumer group builds Public Utilities Commission email database
Boston College seeks to quash application for Anthony McIntyre interviews
University of California – Using Natural Language Processing to Support Dynamic Arrangement, Description, and Discovery of Born Digital Collections: the ArchExtract Experiment
Princeton University – Rediscovering Lost Mayan Text
Yale University – Yale to Preserve Master Documentarian Nick Doob
University of Southern Mississippi Libraries’ Special Collections Completes Evelyn Gandy Archive
New York University – Researcher Interactions with Born-Digital: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Reading Room
Rock in the vault: university libraries become go-to institution for music archives
Institutional Silences and the Digital Dark Age
As Libraries and Archives Digitize, Implications for Maintaining Individual Privacy
Judge: Taking your Facebook Account Private During Litigation Isn’t Exactly Preserving Evidence
The Oracle-Google Case will Decide the Future of Software
Chicago Public Library to house archival theater productions
The real story behind the long-lost, drug-fuelled “Holy Grail” letter that inspired On The Road
Solving a Century-Old Typographical Mystery
How Archival Fiction Upends our View of History
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australian three-strikes put on hold as government denies plans to cut copyright term
Australia – National Library seeking election ephemera in lead up to July vote
A new generation of fashionistas at the National Archives of Australia
Australia – Civil servant arrested for publishing book of already-public information
Island Culture Archival Support’ Next Project: Fiji
Preserving Culture and History in Samoa
Taiwan – President vows to complete report on transitional justice
Nepal – 101 complaints registered at Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons in Ilam
Singapore – Storage vendor taps blockchain technology for data protection
Capacity-building efforts continue in Mongolia for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage
China – Cask from the past: archaeologists discover 5,000-year-old beer recipe
China adds ancient manuscripts to state protection catalogue
Bejing Silvermine, la Chine faste vue de l’intérieur
India – National Digital Library up in pilot stage
India possesses an estimate of five million manuscripts
India – Documenting fading cultures and traditions
India – Sanskrit not a taboo, ancient manuscripts in Sanskrit are a treasure trove, says expert
Europe / Europa
New Information Security Rules to be Implemented Across the European Union
Live music from the Internet Archive now on Europeana
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – Experimenting with digital content
European Union historical archives now available for download as MARC records
Italian Council Ratifies Transparency Decree
German archivists discover 1844 recipe for “love sorbet”
How to navigate the Comintern archives online: a guide for the non-Russian speaker
A history of snowfall on Greenland, hidden in ancient leaf waxes
The coronation of the last Emperor of Russia in rare archive photos
National Library of the Netherlands – Dataset KBK-1M containing 1.6 Million Newspaper Images available for researchers
Belgium – “Right to be forgotten” extends to newspaper archives
Suisse – Pour des actes authentiques sous forme électronique
France – Fontainebleau : le site des Archives nationales occupé jour et nuit
Association des archivistes français – Réforme de l’état civil : quelles garanties pour le citoyen ?
Archivistes et les informaticiens doivent travailler ensemble
Archivage en Cloud : les points à considérer avant de se lancer
Archives de tempêtes et réassurance
Arlette Farge, historienne des vies minuscules
Snapshots from the Somme show fascinating glimpse of WW1 soldiers before big battle
Ireland – Net results: lax archival law allows digital black hole
Digitized Irish Music Project
Revealed: how copyright law is being misused to remove material from the internet
The changing face of the Information and Records Management Society
All is ephemera: will the information produced during the EU referendum last beyond 2016?
UK National Archives – The changing face of fashion
British Library puts literary treasures from 20th century writers including Virginia Woolf, Ted Hughes, Angela Carter and Hanif Kureishi online for free
Punk fanzine Oh Cardiff… up yours! donated to the British Library
British Film Institute releases online film collection documenting British rural life
Video Arts’ corporate films placed in British Film Institute National archive
Brand Archives making the most of their digitised heritage
Poignant photos and never-before-seen diaries reveal everyday struggle of hidden army of women volunteers who kept Britain on its feet through WWII
Photographs of black Britons in 1800s unearthed after 125 years reveal rich and diverse black presence
Archives delve into Yorkshire’s hidden history
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel State Archives buries history to save government from shame
The National Library of Israel Tracks Down Hebrew Manuscripts
National Library of Israel – Medical Treatment of Jewish Moroccan Children in the 50’s
For photogenic Jerusalem, a look at how locals first captured their city
Museum aims to preserve Palestinian history
Kuwait National Library Arabic Manuscripts Exhbition: Gateway into Islamic History
Dubai debuts world’s first fully 3D-printed building
Iran – Cooperation memorandum signed with National Archives of India
Books Museum informs Iranian young generation of their origins
International
Unesco Persist: a Global Exchange on Digital Preservation
Bringing New Skills into Research Data Alliance: the Archives and Records Professionals for Research Data Interest Group
IFLA – Keeping up the Pressure in Geneva: a Report from World Intellectual Property Organisation
Virtual memory: the race to save the information age
Who will Own your Data if the Tech Bubble Bursts?
Archiving Our Online Communities: on the Closing and Archiving of Hi.co
The long legacy of the floppy disk
Scientists Are Just as Confused about the Ethics of Big-Data Research as you