Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Government of Canada – End-of-term Self-assessment on Action Plan on Open Government 2014-2016 (Draft for Consultation)
Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner – Improving Access and Privacy with Records and Information Management
https://www.ipc.on.ca/resource/improving-access-and-privacy-with-records-and-information-management/
UK National Archives – Guidance Principles on the Auto-Deletion of Email
Archives de l’État de Genève (Suisse) – Directive sur la dématérialisation des documents à valeur probante
Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Report: Archives New Zealand National Office
U.S. Federal Trade Commission – Protecting Personal Information: a Guide for Business
http://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/plain-language/pdf-0136_proteting-personal-information.pdf
De la communauté / From the community
Digital Public Library of America – Archival Description Working Group Whitepaper
Handwritten Text Recognition: Transkribus: a User Report
Communia and European Digital Rights – The Copyright Reform: a Guide for the Perplexed
Institute of Museum and Library Services – State Library Administrative Agencies Survey: Fiscal Year 2014
Association of European Research Libraries – New Library Buildings in Europe: Documentation 2016
World Wide Web Consortium – Linked Data Notifications Candidate Recommendation
Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives – Annual Report 2015
Paper – Collections as Data: Conditions of Possibility
Paper – Invisible Defaults and Perceived Limitations: Processing the Juan Gelman Files
Publications
Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction, vol. 4, no. 1 (November 2016)
International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 17, no. 4 (November 2016)
International Journal of Information Management, vol. 36, no. 6 (December 2016)
DHCommons Journal (October 2016)
National Archives of Australia – Government Agencies Information Network, no. 10 (2016)
Trent University Archives News, no. 59 (October 2016)
Saanich Archives (B.C.) News & Events (October 2016)
The Chronicle: Newsletter of the Qualicum Beach (B.C.) Historical and Museum Society (2016)
Association of Research Libraries – SPEC Kit 353: Funding Article Processing Charges
Ph.D. Dissertation – Composing Digital Community Spaces: Design and Literacy Practices in/of the Archive
Book – Global Mobilities: Refugees, Exiles and Immigrants in Museums and Archives
Book – The Voynich Manuscript
Book – Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
Book – The Big Humanities: Digital Humanities/Digital Laboratories
Book – Interpreting Anniversaries and Milestones at Museums and Historic Sites
Book – Landscape, Memory, and Post-Violence in Cambodia
Book – Truth and History in the Ancient World: Pluralising the Past
Book – Tracing your Boer War Ancestors: Soldiers of a Forgotten War
Book – The Paper Office for the Digital Age: Forms, Guidelines, and Resources to Make your Practice Work Ethically, Legally, and Profitably (Fifth Edition)
Book – Armoured Warfare in the First World War: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Book – Early Modern Merchants as Collectors
Book – The Face that Launched a Thousand Lawsuits: the American Women who Forged a Right to Privacy
Book – Secure Data Deletion
Livre – Le droit à l’oubli : du devoir de mémoire au droit à l’oubli
Livre – Qu’est-ce que l’accès ouvert ?
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Provincial Archives of Alberta – Indigenous Filmmaking in Alberta
November 9, 2016, Edmonton
Digital Preservation Management… Best Practices vs. Reality
November 17, 2016, Vancouver
The Rooms Provincial Archives Open House
November 19, 2016, St John’s (Newfoundland)
Vancouver Archives – Vancouver: Exponential Change
November 20 and 27, 2016, Vancouver
L’accès à l’information : pilier de la transparence et de la démocratie au Canada
30 novembre 2016, Montréal et webdiffusion
Transforming your Organization through Information Governance
December 6 and 8, 2016, Kanata (Ontario)
British Library Exhibit – Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line Opens
November 4, 2016 – March 1, 2017, London (UK)
UK Information Commissioner Office Webinar – Can you Afford a Data Breach?
November 16, 2016
Jour et nuit aux Archives : les Archives littéraires suisses en fête
18 novembre 2016, Berne
Free Webinar – Preparing to Digitise your Archives: Metadata
November 24, 2016
Fragile Memories: Doing Oral History with Vulnerable Narrators
November 24-25, Helsinki
Open Cultural Data Symposium
November 25, 2016, London (UK)
Sur le web / On the web
Slidecast – Digitization of Legacy Records at Privy Council Office
Video – Edward Snowden Interviewed at McGill University
Library of Congress – Redesigned Website
Ancestry.ca on Twitter
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
In scathing ruling, Federal Court says CSIS bulk data collection illegal
Ottawa may review parties’ use of Canadians’ private data
Library and Archives Canada announces the digitization of over 600 documents from the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Library and Archives Canada – Voices of the Past
Federal Science Library Recognized as a GTEC Distinction Award Medalist
Canadian Museum of History acquires William James Roué Collection
Héritage Project activates subscriptions to key genealogy dataset
The 2016 sitrep on Canada and reconciliation
Background on Canada’s Imperial War Service Gratuity
Ring the alarm: legendary bell precious to Métis nation is missing again
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: One quick letter to Mother
Ontario Provincial Police plan to text 7,500 cellphones in homicide probe raises privacy concerns
Archives Alberta – History of Halloween in Canada
BAnQ – Municipalités : les documents déposés au conseil municipal
http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/interactions/2016/11/01/municipalites-documents-deposes-conseil-municipal/
BAnQ – La petite histoire du quartier chinois de Montréal
Nova Scotia – Full disclosure ordered on Irving Shipbuilding deal
A Guide to Online Resources for Teaching and Learning about WW1 in Canada
KindredSpaces: University of Prince Edward Island’s Lucy Maud Montgomery collection goes online
From the archives: witch history takes flight in rare manuscript at University of Alberta
Canadian celebrities read war letters for Vancouver Island University’s national online archive project
Project at Brandon University’s S.J. McKee Archives will shine new light on major Manitoba agricultural collection
University of Toronto – Web Archiving: Past, Present and Future
Data centre coming to University of Northern British Columbia
Acadia University pop-up museum provides new view of WWI
Memorial University – Bearing Witness: TransStories: Selections from the Transgender Archives on display
L’affaire Maillé, ou l’avenir de la confidentialité dans la recherche scientifique
Big Debate over Big Data in Museums
Open data: why the City of Edmonton is getting out of the app-making business
Vancouver – Historical exhibition explores Canada’s response to the Holocaust
La retraite de Raymond Ouimet, président du Centre régional d’archives de l’Outaouais, soulignée à l’Assemblée nationale
Kitchener – Schneiders’ union archives need a home
Quand les archives dévoilent la ville de Rimouski
Parcelles de patrimoine : la version restaurée du film de 1949 Le gros Bill a été dévoilée
Centre d’histoire et d’archives du travail – Deux nouveaux fonds d’archives
Fonds Syndicat des employé(e)s de magasins et de bureaux de la SAQ : http://www.archivesquebecoisesdutravail.org/CHAT/PDF/semb_saq.instr-rech.pdf
Fonds Syndicat des employé(e)s de techniques professionnelles et de bureau d’Hydro-Québec : http://www.archivesquebecoisesdutravail.org/CHAT/PDF/instr_recher_scfp2000.pdf
Archives de la ville de Québec – Octobre 1866 : Saint-Sauveur brûle
Manitoba – Preserving the past (by Norma Forsman, archivist, Beautiful Plains Archives)
Peace River Museum, Archives (Alberta) – Women in the Archives
Historical royal document finds new home in Bracebridge library archives (Ontario)
Un prix en sécurité pour les archives de Mont-Saint-Hilaire
Monument honours 700 children buried in unmarked graves in Newfoundland cemetery
Toronto Public Library – Researching British Military Ancestors
La colonie de Sheptetski en Abitibi : un village ukrainien disparu
Accès à l’information : Entrevue avec Basma Makhlouf Shabou
Michel Lévesque (archiviste) : un des diplômés d’honneur 2016 de l’Université de Montréal
Les archives et la société : c’est votre affaire
Digital Preservation: Choose your own Adventure
Afrique / Africa
La Chine financera la construction d’une bibliothèque nationale et d’un centre national des archives à Djibouti
South Sudan – Can Archivists Save the World’s Newest Nation?
Réponse-contribution à l’appel du président Macky Sall à la renaissance au Sénégal des archives et des métiers associés
Côte d’Ivoire – Audiovisuel : bientôt un conservatoire pour la sauvegarde des archives
http://www.fratmat.info/culture/audiovisuel-bientot-un-conservatoire-pour-la-sauvegarde-des-archives
Les archives algériennes transférées par la France déplacées vers plusieurs endroits inconnus
Rwanda – Rwf5 billion to complete Gacaca digital archiving
South African History Archive – Testing the right to know through the courts
Amériques / Americas
Important Archives for Dealing with the Past in Colombia
White House starts moving Obama’s records to Chicago
The Digital Transition: how the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age
CIA to put millions of declassified documents online
CIA Releases Controversial Bay of Pigs History
Government alleges former NSA contractor stole astonishing quantity of classified data over 20 years
FBI releases 17-year old archive from Clinton pardon case
Nobody Knows if these Nazi Home Movies Were Lost, Stolen or Destroyed at the National Archives
NARA – Social Media Guidance now in Documenting your Public Service
Bibliothèque George W. Bush: l’héritage d’un président
America’s Librarian: Carla Hayden plans to continue her career-long focus on access and technology as Librarian of Congress
Smithsonian – How Experts Are Digitizing Ancient Manuscripts
Open house at Hawaii state archives celebrates 110th anniversary
Mysterious Voynich Manuscript reborn in facsimile edition
National Grant Funds Digital Access to Archives on Kent State University May 4 Shootings
University of Maine – Acadian Archives exhibit features more than 40 maps of Acadian heritage
Brandeis University Opens Lenny Bruce Archive
Rare 9th Century New Testament Manuscript to be Taken back to Greece by Archbishop Demetrios of America
Q&A: Association of Moving Image Archivists President Andrea Kalas on the Future of Preservation
A Lost Snippet of Film History, Found in a Home Movie Shot in 1964
None Shall Escape, Hollywood’s First Holocaust Film, Was All but Unknown for 70 Years. Now it’s Been Rediscovered.
World-Renowned George Eastman Museum Collections Now Accessible Online
Emojis before the smiling poop: New York museum acquires world’s first set
Philadelphia – When Telling the Story of Changing Neighborhoods Becomes Part of the Story
An Attempt to 3D Model Jorge Luis Borges Library of Babel
Meet the man in charge of Bob Dylan treasure trove
Married father who disappeared 23 years ago is found living 1,000 miles away with a new family after relatives of dead fisherman whose identity he stole track him down on ancestry.com
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Royal visitors meet Dutch migrants at National Archives of Australia
Australia – University of Sydney newspaper launches digital archive
New South Wales (Australia) – Text messages are State records
Japan – Lower court rejects Japanese ex-convict’s demand to delete criminal record from Google search results
Confronting the Cambodian Genocide through Oral History
Malaysia – National Archive wants schools with historical background to have them recorded
Indonesia – Right to be forgotten to be upheld: Government
Kashmir to digitize rare manuscripts to preserve cultural heritage
India – Government starts digitising Delhi’s land records
India – RBU plans archive on forgotten composer
Europe / Europa
The Right to Link is Challenged Under European Union Law
International Tracing Service Online Finding Aid on Nazi Camp History Published on European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Portal
Library Voices at the European Parliament: IFLA Supports Generation Code: Born at the Library
Precious Italian manuscripts moved to avoid earthquake damage
Italy police recover stolen manuscript after 30 years
The Codex Purpureus: the first Illustrated book comes from Italy
Polish Ministry of Culture to Merge the National Film Archive and National Audiovisual Institute
Wikipedian in residence at the Austrian Constitutional Court
Spain – Archive of Tom Sharpe in Girona
Bank of Cyprus opens its historical archive
Le Ciné-Journal suisse (1940-1975) disponible sur la Toile
France accused of hiding its archive smuggled during colonial era
Louvre to offer shelter for world treasures rescued from war zones
Scottish witchcraft book published online
Scotland – New digital chapter for 800-year-old book revealed
The Queen and the dismissal: the palace letters are not ‘personal’ and must be released
UK Parliamentary Archives – Photographing Stone, digitising the Benjamin Stone photographs
UK National Archives – The future for archives on a global scale
UK National Archives – Elizabeth I’s monarchy: rule of a weak and feeble woman?
Datamining for verse in eighteenth-century newspapers: British Library Labs Project
British Library – Development: Digitising Two Centuries of Indian Print
Police forces overwhelmed by digital evidence, watchdog finds
Public Asked to Help Hunt for Witches’ Marks
University of Southampton – Did your ancestor fight in the Hundred Years War?
Early edition of Frankenstein in University of Leicester archives gives rise to chilling story around its creation
Groundbreaking project uses archive footage to reignite Second World War memories
Forgotten Lancashire dialects revealed in poetry research
London Library books taken in 1950s found in locked wardrobe
The long-lost original designs for Manchester Town Hall have been unearthed
Photo archive reveals hidden history of Rodin’s The Kiss
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israeli Minister Recommends Declassifying Files on Yemenite Children’s Disappearances in 1950s
National Library of Israel – The Secret Drafts of the Balfour Declaration
National Library of Israel – Harry Houdini: the Skeptical Son of a Rabbi
United Arab Emirates launches new law to make reading a daily habit
International
Internet Archive celebrates 20 years of wayback web and a new mission
L’UNESCO appelle à préserver le patrimoine audiovisuel
Where in the World Must Films Be Preserved?
Untangling the Mess: Researchers’ Photo Practices
What does an Archivist add to the DAM conversation?
Talking to ourselves: Crowdsourcing, Boaty McBoatface and Brexit
The fascinating and frightening future of the Internet of Things
It’s not too late to save the stacks: why we still need to keep books in our campus libraries