Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
British Library – Preservation Assessment: eBook
Centre de coordination pour l’archivage à long terme de documents électroniques (Suisse) – Modèle conceptuel pour logiciels de gestion d’archives
Comité interministériel aux Archives de France – Vade-mecum: la revendication des archives publiques
Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek – Strategy 2020
Ouverture des données de recherche : guide d’analyse du cadre juridique en France
De la communauté / From the community
Dalhousie University – Digital Archives Collection Assessment
Canadian Federation of Library Associations – 2016 Annual Report
Society of American Archivists – Issue Brief: Confidentiality of Private Information Held in Records of the Federal Government’s Executive Agencies
Island Culture Archival Support – Annual Report 2016
Confederation of Open Access Repositories – Next Generation Repositories (for Public Comments)
Appraising Digital Archives with Archivematica
Publications
Records Management Journal, vol. 27, no. 1 (March 2017)
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Journal, no. 47 (2017)
Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture, vol. 45, no. 4 (February 2017)
International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 18, no. 1 (March 2017)
Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, vol. 29, no. 1 (2017)
Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, vol. 1 (2017)
Review of the National Center for Digitization, no. 29 (2016)
Transbordeur : photographie, histoire, société, no 1 (2017)
Ride: a Review Journal for Digital Editions and Resources, no. 5 (2017)
Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 43, no. 3 (February – March 2017)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 7, no. 1 (2017)
Surrey’s (B.C.) Stories: Sharing Community Stories of Surrey’s Past, Present and Future (Winter/Spring 2017)
Master Thesis – Early American Cookbooks: Creating and Analyzing a Digital Collection Using the HathiTrust Research Center Portal
Book – The Book Thieves: the Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance
Book – Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures
Book – Privacy and Power: a Transatlantic Dialogue in the Shadow of the NSA-Affair
Book – Archaeologies of us and them: Debating the Ethics and Politics of Indigeneity in Archaeology and Heritage Discourse
Book – Teaching History with Newsreels and Public Service Shorts
Book – Teaching History with Musicals
Book – Teaching History with Science Fiction Films
Book – Desegregating the Past: the Public Life of Memory in the United States and South Africa
Book – Creating Digital Faces for Law Enforcement
Livre – Les archives administratives dans les états africains : instruments de gouvernance et de souveraineté
Livre – La photographie : histoire et contre-histoire
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
A Shot in the Dark : Ghosts of University Military Training in Canada
February 15, 2017, Ottawa
Dialogues sur le droit d’auteur et le libre accès en arts visuels
16 février 2017, Montréal
Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse – Lancement d’une exposition virtuelle : de villages disparus
16 février 2017, Hearst
Family History Day: Accessing Vital Statistics
February 20, 2017, Edmonton
5 à 7 : vie d’archiviste
20 février 2017, Montréal
Lecture by Dr. Greg Bak – Understanding Media(tion): Descriptive Standards, Mediating Technologies and Archival Decolonization
February 27, 2017, Toronto
Photographs, Generations and Inuit Cultural Memory: Assessing 15 Years of Project Naming
March 1-3, 2017, Ottawa
The Bigger they Are, the Harder they Fall: Assessing and Managing Privacy Risks in a Big Data World
March 15, 2017, Toronto
University of Alberta Bruce Peel Special Collections – Exhibit: Mounties on the Cover
March 20 – July 21, 2017, Edmonton
UNESCO Persist Content and Best Practice Working Group Mandate Scoping Workshop
February 23-24, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Preserving E-mails: which? Why? How long?
March 2, 2017, London (UK)
Online Course – The Holocaust through the Perspective of Primary Sources
Deadline for applications is 10 March 2017
UK National Archives Webinar – Hidden treasures
March 20, 2017
Literary Archives in the Digital Age
July 7-8, 2017, Dublin (Ireland)
XVe journée d’archivistique d’Angers (vidéos disponibles)
3 février 2017, Angers
Sur le web / On the web
Dalhousie University Video – Master of Information Management Student Raed Abdel Sater, Information Management Officer at UNICEF
Simon Fraser University Archives and Records Management – MoveIt Transfer Tool
Association of Parliamentary Libraries in Canada – New Website
Open and Collaborative Archives World Map
Australian Society of Archivists – New eLearning Courses
Vidéo – Stratégie numérique à la Bibliothèque nationale de France : tour d’horizon
Video – Migrating Library Collections and Operations to Linked Data
Online Exhibit – Home Front: California During World War II
New Website – Prague Spring
Comparatif de logiciels de veille
Présentation – Les réseaux sociaux numériques comme sources primaires de l’historien.ne
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Did a Canadian court just establish a new right to be forgotten online?
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale orders review into illegal CSIS metadata program
Canadian Privacy in the Age of Trump
Ottawa Public Library and Library and Archives Canada: decision expected in spring
Library and Archives Canada – New releases to the Open Data Portal
Library and Archives Canada – Expansion of the Montreal Rolling Mills Co.
Library and Archives Canada – Guest curator: Sara Chatfield
Wolfe’s Battle Orders (and the state of newspapers digitization at Library and Archives Canada)
Radio-Canada : nouvel appel pour un meilleur accès aux archives
DVD with tax information of 28,000 Yukoners lost, says Canada Revenue Agency
Nova Scotia – Province marks one year of open data
Nova Scotia Archives wants you to search your attic for a historic black newspaper
It’s like hunger games for librarians: how government is slowly killing public libraries in rural Nova Scotia
Le temps presse pour un archiviste bilingue, dit la Société historique de la Saskatchewan
Toronto Star launches legal challenge to end secrecy in Ontario tribunals
Ontario – Digital History Project an exemplary model for learning
BAnQ – Un village, un moulin et du hockey
Archives Alberta – What’s in the Mud?
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: Charles’s Letters Home
Community Archives Open Up a Global Past: Concordia University History Class Sifts through Negro Community Centre Archives
How 18-year-old engineering students saved University of Toronto’s rarest books
York University – Historians’ global research project reconstructs slavery’s stolen lives
University of Waterloo Archives and Special Collections – Negatives to Nuremberg
Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française – Michel Lalonde, finaliste au Prix du patrimoine Huguette-Parent 2017
Federation CJA pays tribute to Quebec’s Jewish community
What Toronto Can Learn from Other Cities Tapping Into the Power of Data
Rediscovered family movies show Toronto before the boom
Ten fascinating snapshots of Toronto in the 1970s
Immersion dans les plus vieilles archives de Montréal
Les familles montréalaises sont à l’honneur au Musée McCord grâce à un projet de numérisation parrainé par la Financière Sun Life
Hidden treasures: a plastic martini glass and the Harlem of the North
Hidden treasures: the punch bowl that tells the story of Montreal’s first department store
Hidden treasures: a stoneware jug, St. Anne’s market and pre-confederation parliament
Vancouver Women’s Library opens amid anti-feminist backlash
Les archives numérisées en parfaite sécurité : une première canadienne pour le Centre du patrimoine de Saint-Boniface
Fredericton – Scanning pictures for clues at antique photo road show
Bowen Island Museum and Archives (B.C.) welcomes new curator
Eva Brook Donly museum (Ontario) closes: cash-strapped Norfolk Historical Society plans to reopen county archives inside Simcoe historic house
Manitoba museum using social media to solve history mystery: Pioneer Village Museum posting black and white photos on Facebook
The Thunder Bay (Ontario) Public Library is trying to acquire some of the personal archives of Sheila Burnford
Barrie (Ontario) – Bridge to nowhere story shows how to build community: archive chairman
St. Albert (Alberta) – Finding romance in the archives
Museum Musings: Whistler Museum (B.C.) celebrates 30 years
Société d’histoire de Magog – Lancement campagne de collecte de témoignages
A glimpse of what life was like: man shares 50-year-old film of Prince Edward Island road trip
Trent Valley Archives series in Peterborough (Ontario) marks Canada 150
Les archives de l’Eau vive (journal fransaskois) maintenant sur le Web
Matthew Hollett Sheds Light On 100 Years of Newfoundland Quarterly Archives
The Financial Health of Canadian Genealogical Societies 2015
The 15 coolest libraries in Canada
Legal Society Archives of Alberta – Violet King: Canada’s First Black Lawyer
Artists and the Archives
Libraries in the age of fascism
Lives Lived: Pat Rogal, 81 (Archivist, Collector, Ephemerist)
Afrique / Africa
Le Commissaire fédéral des archives de la STASI recommande l’ouverture des archives tunisiennes
Tunisie – Qu’en est-il des archives de la police politique ?
Nigeria – Fed Government to amend copyright law
Amériques / Americas
National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago – In memory of beloved historian and friend of the archives, Angelo Bissessarsingh
U.S. House approves new privacy protections for email and the cloud
Donald Trump and the Uses of the Past
Secret Docs Reveal: President Donald Trump Has Inherited an FBI with Vast Hidden Powers
Donald Trump’s fleeting tweets alarm archivists
Federal workers turn to encryption to thwart Donald Trump
Archivists urge formal process for preserving data
FBI will revert to using fax machines, snail mail for Freedom of Information Act requests
Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative’s 10th Anniversary: Adapting to Meet the Community’s Needs
National Archives History Hub Recognized as 2017 Harvard Ash Center Bright Idea in Government
NARA – The Dissent Channel of the Department of State
NARA – Teaching from the Archives
National Museum of Natural History – This is how you photograph a million dead plants without losing your mind
Texas Archive of Moving Image receives national recognition
California’s top court to decide whether emails and texts sent on personal devices are public record
University of California – Scientists have invented paper that you can print with light, erase with heat, and reuse 80 times
Princeton University launches online archive of American photographer Minor White
University of Michigan’s collection is heaven for video game lovers
Cornell University – Online photo collection documents African-American life
University of Arkansas Libraries Spotlight: Katrina Windon, Accessioning and Processing Archivist
Digitization project preserving century of Catholic newspapers, newsfeeds
Consortial Certification Processes: the Goportis Digital Archive: a Case Study
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art releases 375,000 digital works for remix and re-use online via CC0
Net nostalgia: the online museums preserving dolphin gifs and spinning Comic Sans
Google must turn over foreign-stored emails pursuant to a warrant, court rules
Lawyers are being replaced by machines that read
With Thousands of Artifacts Threatened, Mark Twain House Begins Mold Removal Project
Albany Archives: New York’s Beginnings, Now in Albany, Shine Light on American Legends
To the Archives! How a group of French refugees shaped Charleston, South Carolina
Rare Images Shed Light on a Century of African-American Life
There’s a Long, Ignominious Trail of Bans, Registries and Forced Relocation
Why Genealogists Should Care About Trump’s Agenda
440 Historical Documents Including a Recently Discovered Letter of George Washington Selling Off 90 Slaves to Be Auctioned in New York
Le Super Bowl et ses archives
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australian Information and Privacy Commissioner – Privacy performance goes public online
State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales (Australia) – Tweets, Facebook posts, and other social media information are State records
Max Dupain’s Sunbaker: Australian artists respond to celebrated photograph in pictures
Fanny Cochrane Smith’s Tasmanian Aboriginal songs and language preserved forever
New Zealand – Historic Kapa Haka Recordings to be Broadcast at Te Matatini Festival
Canon lawyers: Guam clergy abuse trials could rip open secret archives
Traditional Knowledge Copyright Rules in Cook Islands
Right to Information act becomes law in Vanuatu
Using Stealth, and Drones, to Document a Fading Hong Kong
Images of Gauguin in Tahiti discovered in photo album
India – Sanskrit manuscripts should be declared national asset
India – Haryana government digitises land records of 94% villages
Europe / Europa
Wiki loves GLAMS! Announcing the Europeana 1914-1918 Wikimedia competition
Data: consent, privacy and the right to be forgotten
The Romanian Historical Archives Available for Online Research
Poland – Film archive receives gift from Polish émigrés in London
One Polish Man’s Fight to Save Soviet War Memorials
Dutch Jewish wedding film from 1939 shines light on doomed community
Russia – Stalin’s secret police finally named but killings still not seen as crimes
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/06/stalin-secret-police-killings-crimes-russia-terror-nkvd
Russia – Hermitage storage centre searched by Federal Security Service agents
Five million for a book: Russia’s most expensive library opens in St. Petersburg
Russia unveils world’s first ice library
Hungary – Murdered on the Verge of Survival: Massacres in the Last Days of the Siege of Budapest, 1945
Sweden – ArkivDigital acquires millions of aerial photographs
Denmark to appoint ambassador to Google, Apple and Microsoft
Corpus of Florentine Painting, a digitization project about Art History on a fond of ca. 70.000 photographs of Florentine painting
Jusqu’où les musées peuvent-ils accroître leurs collections?
Bibliothèque de Genève – La peur règne, on se sent abandonnés
France – Des avancées statutaires très attendues sont enfin annoncées pour les archivistes territoriaux
France – La conservation des archives rapatriés d’Algérie en 1962 est défaillante
France – Les tweets de Manuels Valls aux Archives nationales
Check out the Gorgeous Restoration of France’s Old National Library
Archivage de l’internet et enquête sur nos traces numériques
Ireland – Millions more Irish birth, marriage and death records free online
Ireland – Private storage of government files cost €9m in past three years
UK National Archives – Lesney toys: they fit inside a matchbox
UK National Archives – Antiquity versus modernity? Philae and the Aswan Dam
British Library – Value in unexpected places: the sole surviving copy of The Grounds of Learning, a seventeenth-century schoolbook
British Library – Tracking the past: the preservation of the railway archives of Sierra Leone
National History Museum – Automating mass-digitisation with Inselect
Case study: creating an accessible virtual archive for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Bodleain Library – William Henry Fox Talbot catalogue raisonné beta available
University of Reading – Launch of the Woolworths Archive
Do Charles Darwin’s private letters contradict his public sexism?
Lost Bob Marley Tapes Are Restored After 40 Years in a Basement
Secret hoard of 1,000 letters uncovered in an attic reveal the heartwarming story of how two sweethearts kept their love alive despite him being sent to serve in WWII
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Archaeologists might Have Found Another Dead Sea Scroll Cave
600,000 Manuscripts in Iran
Photographs in Crisis
United Arab Emirates – World eagerly awaits the Louvre Abu Dhabi
International
UNESCO Thesaurus published with Semantic Web standards and Open-Source software
IFLA – Digital unification: libraries working together to unite documentary heritage
Digital collections offer researchers opportunities to develop new skills and scholarly communications networks
Digitisation: can you trust your camera?
Metadata: the essential gateway to discoverability and traceability
Personal Digital Preservation: Photographs and Video
Disc Rot: the Silent Killer Curbing Video Game Preservation
Disc Rot: what Happens when Discs Die
Setting the Standards for Saving Email
Records Management: Understanding Record Categories and Types
Keep Only what you Need: Information Management in the Digital Age
Top Algorithms and Methods Used by Data Scientists
How historical games integrate or ignore slavery
How Google Docs Became a Key Tool for Social Justice
ForWeavers : un projet de préservation du patrimoine culturel immatériel
#DeleteAcademiaEdu: un plaidoyer pour les archives ouvertes à but non lucratif