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Documentary Heritage News
April 28, 2017May 2, 2021

Vol. 10, no. 35

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State
Ireland – Consultation on the Legal Deposit of Published Digital Material in the 21st Century in the Context of Copyright Legislation
http://www.ahrrga.gov.ie/consultation-on-the-legal-deposit-of-published-digital-material-in-the-21st-century-in-the-context-of-copyright-legislation/

National Archives of Australia – Information Management Standard: Australian Government 
http://www.naa.gov.au/Images/Information%20Management%20Standard_17%20April%202017_tcm16-99205.pdf


Sustaining the Value: the British Library Digital Preservation Strategy 2017-2020
http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/collectioncare/digitalpreservation/strategy/BL_DigitalPreservationStrategy_2017-2020.pdf

Addressing Myopia: Transition to Functional Scheduling at the State Archives of North Carolina
http://files.archivists.org/pubs/GovtRecordsCaseStudies/CASE-2-Addressing_Myopia.pdf

De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Federation of Library Associations – Truth and Reconciliation Committee Report & Recommendations
http://librarianship.ca/news/cfla-trc-report/

Archives Association of B.C., B.C. Museums Association, B.C. Library Association – Memorandum of Understanding
http://drive.google.com/file/d/0BytTa421S1YmenkwYTB3YTItQ0xVemhzX2M1MTJTdnFfdDU0/view

UNESCO – Education about the Holocaust and Preventing Genocide: a Policy Guide
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002480/248071E.pdf

OCLC – Demystifying IT: a Framework for Shared Understanding between Archivists and IT Professionals
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/2017/oclcresearch-demystifying-it-shared-understanding-2017.pdf

Society of American Archivists – Describing Archives: a Content Standard: Statement of Principles (for Review)
http://docs.google.com/document/d/1ylCCzWh5yWNuIvakme3kKTJzFaWwjA1XMKLFRQvNhtk/edit

Society of American Archivists – Archival Continuing Education Guidelines (for Comments)
http://www2.archivists.org/news/2017/comments-sought-on-archival-continuing-education-ace-guidelines

National Information Standards Organization – Standards Tag Suite (for Comments)
http://www.niso.org/news/pr/view?item_key=f74de7db56828abfd977e90c2546babc91fdf27d

Purdue University Data Reuse Checklist: an Archival Approach for Data Producers
http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=lib_fscm

Publications
Comma: International Journal on Archives, vol. 2015, no. 2 (2017)
http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/coma/2015/2

La Gazette des archives, no 245 (2017)
http://www.archivistes.org/Meta-morphoses-Les-archives-bouillons-de-culture-numerique

Code4lib Journal, no. 36 (2017)
http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issues/issue36

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 68, no. 5 (2017)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.2017.68.issue-5/issuetoc

Archives Association of Ontario – Off the Record (Spring 2017)
http://aao-archivists.ca/otr/4768239

It’s About Time… The Newsletter of the Port Hope (Ontario) Archives (Spring 2017)
http://www.porthopearchives.com/uploads/8/6/4/5/8645435/pha_newsletter_spring2017.pdf

Master’s Thesis (Archival Studies, University of Manitoba) – Of Space, Time, and the Archives between: the Life of Hugh A. Taylor and the Redefinition of the Archival Cosmos
https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/xmlui/handle/1993/31725

Free eBook – Information Professionals: where we Came from and where we’re Going
http://info.aiim.org/what-is-the-new-role-of-an-information-professional

Book – Archives of Labor: Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States
http://www.dukeupress.edu/archives-of-labor 
Book – Stealing History: Art Theft, Looting, and Other Crimes against our Cultural Heritage 
http://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442260801/

Book – Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge 
http://fordhampress.com/index.php/cruising-the-library-paperback.html 

Book – The Library Book
http://aperture.org/shop/the-library-book
Book – Palgrave Handbook of Research in Historical Culture and Education
http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137529077  

Book – Sensing the Past: from Artifact to Historical Site
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319505169 

Book – Successful Enquiry Answering Every Time: Thinking your Way from Problem to Solution (Seventh Edition)
http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=301935 

Book – Remembering Reconstruction: Struggles over the Meaning of America’s Most Turbulent Era
http://lsupress.org/books/detail/remembering-reconstruction/ 

Livre – Jean-Luc Godard dans la relève des archives du mal
http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&no=53114

Livre – Réinformatiser une bibliothèque 
http://www.enssib.fr/presses/catalogue/reinformatiser-une-bibliotheque-39

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Canadian Privacy Summit 2017
May 2-3, 2017, Toronto
http://www.conferenceboard.ca/conf/privacy/agenda.aspx

Ugandan Asian Archives Collection Exhibition 
May 6, 2017, Calgary
http://events.carleton.ca/ugandan-asian-archives-collection-in-calgary/

Library and Archives Canada – Signatures Series: Interview with Raymond Chrétien
May 16, 2017, Ottawa
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/about-us/events/Pages/2017/interview-with-raymond-chretien.aspx

Kensington Market Sites of the Early Jewish Left in Canada
May 29, 2017, Toronto
http://www.kmhs.ca/event/sites-of-the-early-jewish-left-in-canada/kmhs-flyer-apr2017-revisedbb/

British Library Exhibit – Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Myths
April 28 – August 29, 2017, London (UK)
http://www.bl.uk/press-releases/2017/april/russian-revolution-hope-tragedy-myths-opens-at-the-british-library


Data Governance Conference Europe 
May 15-18, 2017, London (UK)
http://irmuk.co.uk/events/data-governance-conference-europe/

Webinar – From Digital Library to Digital Archive: Implementing Digital Preservation Efforts
May 18, 2017
http://www.asist.org/events/webinars/webinar-from-digital-library-to-digital-archive-implementing-digital-preservation-efforts/

Webinar – Me4MAP: a Method for the Development of Metadata Application Profiles
May 24, 2017
http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2017Malta

Free Webinars – Photographic Process Identification 
September 13, 2017 – February 14, 2018
http://www.imagepermanenceinstitute.org/process-id-webinars 

Sur le web / On the web
Department of Justice Canada – A Day to Remember: the Untold Story of the Charter (with Andrew Ross, Library and Archives Canada)
http://youtu.be/BIKxfAAnIdQ

Bibliothèque de l’Assemblée nationale du Québec – Nouveau site web
http://www.bibliotheque.assnat.qc.ca/fr/

UK National Archives Podcast – From the Somme to Arras
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/from-the-somme-to-arras.mp3

UK National Archives Podcast – Black British Politics and the Anti-apartheid Struggle
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/black-british-politics-and-the-anti-apartheid-struggle.mp3

Video – Three Keys to Digital Preservation: Management, Technology, and Content
http://www.vbds.nl/2017/04/25/three-keys-to-digital-preservation-management-technology-and-content/

Association for Information and Image Management Video – A History of Information Management
http://youtu.be/Nv40H63sYEs

Video – Why Data Sharing & Reuse Are Hard to Do? 
http://youtu.be/Can1NYEhThQ

App – Lieux de mémoire de la Résistance et de la Libération (1939-1945)
http://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/lieux-de-m%C3%A9moire/id1076508873?l=en&mt=8

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Keeping or Destroying Truth and Reconciliation Commission Records?: a Case to Watch
http://reconciliationsyllabus.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/keeping-or-destroying-trc-records-a-case-to-watch/

Thanks for the memories: Library and Archives Canada moving on an agenda of collaboration
http://artsfile.ca/guy-berthiaume/

Library and Archives Canada – Project Naming: celebrating the past and looking to the future
http://thediscoverblog.com/2017/04/26/project-naming-celebrating-the-past-and-looking-to-the-future/

Library and Archives Canada – The Battle of Vimy Ridge: War Art
http://thediscoverblog.com/2017/04/21/the-battle-of-vimy-ridge-war-art/

Bibliothèque et Archives Canada – La vie quotidienne, il y a 150 ans
http://www.lapresse.ca/le-droit/arts-et-spectacles/arts-visuels/201704/21/01-5090645-la-vie-quotidienne-il-y-a-150-ans.php

Library and Archives Canada – New acquisitions: archives
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/about-us/about-collection/what-is-new/Pages/new-acquisitions-archives.aspx

Library and Archives Canada – Who knew making a legal deposit could be so much fun
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/photo-gallery/Pages/2017/legal-deposit-music.aspx

Library and Archives Canada – Guest curators: J. Andrew Ross and Michael Smith
https://thediscoverblog.com/2017/04/27/guest-curators-j-andrew-ross-and-michael-smith/

International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance – Enemy Aliens in Canada
https://holocaustremembrance.blog/2017/04/26/enemy-alien-in-canada/

UK National Archives – Expo 67 has opened and is a wow!
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/expo-67-opened-wow/

The Audacity of Canada 150: a Lie Designed to Erase our Legacy of Genocide
http://torontoist.com/2017/04/audacity-canada-150-lie-designed-erase-legacy-genocide/

Saskatchewan – Government Restores Funding for Libraries
http://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/news-and-media/2017/april/24/funding-for-libraries

Manitoba – Public reports should be made public
http://www.winnipegsun.com/2017/04/21/public-reports-should-be-made-public

Archives of Manitoba – The 44th Battalion Memorial at Vimy Ridge Memorial Park
http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/ww1blog/#apr24

Tough penalty for deleting Prince Edward Island emails not tough enough: Opposition
http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/news/local/2017/4/21/tough-penalty-for-deleting-p-e-i–emails-not-tough-enough–oppos.html

BAnQ – Monde et merveilles : l’ouverture d’Expo 67 a eu lieu il y a 50 ans 
http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/instantanes/2017/04/27/monde-merveilles-louverture-dexpo-67-a-lieu-y-a-50-ans-aujourdhui/

BAnQ – Olivar Asselin : un témoignage de la Première Guerre mondiale à travers ses lettres et ses croquis
http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/instantanes/2017/04/24/olivar-asselin-temoignage-de-premiere-guerre-mondiale-a-travers-lettres-croquis/

BAnQ – Jean-Paul Mousseau : du Refus global à l’intégration des arts urbains au Québec
http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/instantanes/2017/04/25/jean-paul-mousseau-du-refus-global-a-lintegration-des-arts-urbains-au-quebec-2/

Planned Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum of Fame expansion addresses immediate needs for archive storage
http://www.ourperth.ca/news-story/7253189-planned-baseball-hall-of-fame-expansion-addresses-immediate-needs-for-archive-storage/

Sharing our Stories: the Coptic Canadian History Project
http://thecchp.com/2017/04/23/sharing-our-stories/

University of British Columbia – iSchool, the School of Journalism and the Bachelor of Media Studies Integration Plans Halted
http://slais.ubc.ca/integration-plans-halted/

University of British Columbia – Preserving information in the digital age
http://about.library.ubc.ca/2017/04/26/preserving-information-in-the-digital-age/

Lakehead University Library and Scholars Portal collaborate on digital preservation pilot
http://www.lakeheadu.ca/about/news-and-events/news/archive/2017/node/42045

Kudos to Brock University Archivist
http://brocku.ca/news/32530

La bibliothèque de l’Université du Québec à Rimouski au coeur d’une controverse
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1029302/elagage-livre-bibliotheque-universite-rimouski

Droit d’auteur : l’Université Laval persiste et justement, ne signe pas
http://www.actualitte.com/article/monde-edition/droit-d-auteur-laval-l-universite-persiste-et-justement-ne-signe-pas/70837

Ottawa’s past in pictures: a fledgling capital comes alive
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-s-past-in-pictures-a-fledgling-capital-comes-alive-1.4076228

Toronto – Library Union Prepares to Fight Staffless Pilot Project
http://torontoist.com/2017/04/library-union-prepares-fight-staffless-library-pilot-project/

The French connection: Halifax library display celebrates Acadian and francophone roots
http://www.metronews.ca/news/halifax/2017/04/20/halifax-library-display-acadian-and-francophone-roots.html

Archives de Montréal – Expo 67 au jour le jour : du 27 au 29 avril
http://archivesdemontreal.com/2017/04/27/expo-67-au-jour-le-jour-du-27-au-29-avril/

Le cinquantenaire Expo 67 : album photos d’un été mémorable
http://www.journaldequebec.com/2017/04/22/le-cinquantenaire-expo-67-album-photos-dun-ete-memorable

Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (Ontario) – The creation of the County of Peel, 1851-1867
http://peelarchivesblog.com/2017/04/25/the-creation-of-the-county-of-peel-1851-1867/

Flamborough (Ontario) Archives committed to bringing the past to the people
https://www.flamboroughreview.com/news-story/7263322-flamborough-archives-committed-to-bringing-the-past-to-the-people/

Lambton County Archives Capital Project (Ontario) – New Shelving Units
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2017/04/lambton-county-archives-capital-project.html

Library displays celebrate Conestoga’s (Ontario) 50th anniversary
http://www.exchangemagazine.com/2017/week17/Tuesday/17042534.htm

Province commits up to $1.5 million to save Liverpool (Nova Scotia) museum
http://www.theadvance.ca/news/local/2017/4/23/province-commits-up-to–1-5-million-to-save-liverpool-museum.html

Que reste-t-il de Jeanne Mance?
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/gravel-le-matin/segments/entrevue/21535/jeanne-mance-documents-ossements-montreal

Profession : archi-quoi? Réflexion sur la visibilité de l’archiviste dans le débat public
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/visibilite_archiviste/

Do it yourself Archival Boxes
http://www.thingsimfondsof.com/diy-archival-boxes/

Flippant : cet algorithme recrée la voix de quelqu’un à partir d’une minute d’enregistrement
http://www.numerama.com/tech/251861-cet-algorithme-peut-recreer-la-voix-de-quelquun-a-partir-dun-enregistrement-audio.html

Column: Libraries obsolete? Not a chance
http://www.bclocalnews.com/opinion/420304503.html

Afrique / Africa
Archiving Africa for the future
http://guardian.ng/art/archiving-africa-for-the-future/

On the hunt for Somalia’s forgotten music treasures
http://musicinafrica.net/hunt-somalias-forgotten-music-treasures?language=en

A nation that doesn’t officially exist: on Somaliland’s campaign to build a national library in Hargeisa
http://www.citymetric.com/politics/nation-doesn-t-officially-exist-somaliland-s-campaign-build-national-library-hargeisa-2979

Djibouti : pose de la première pierre d’une bibliothèque et des archives nationales financées par la Chine
http://french.china.org.cn/foreign/txt/2017-04/23/content_40676702.htm

Burkina Faso : le journal d’État va numériser ses archives grâce à la coopération avec la Chine
http://www.agenceecofin.com/presse-ecrite/2504-46835-burkina-faso-le-journal-d-etat-va-numeriser-ses-archives-grace-a-la-cooperation-avec-la-chine

Gabon – Patrimoine numérique : vers un cadre juridique
http://gabonreview.com/blog/patrimoine-numerique-vers-cadre-juridique/

Togo – Retour aux archives au nom de la réconciliation nationale
http://www.togosite.com/index.php/togo/6439-togo-retour-aux-archives-au-nom-de-la-reconciliation-nationale

Rwanda: Belgian Church’s Call to Open Archives Should Be Commended and Emulated
http://allafrica.com/stories/201704270034.html

Rwanda / génocide : vers la lumière sur le rôle de la France ? 
http://beninmondeinfos.com/index.php/monde/33-afrique/6824-rwanda-genocide-vers-la-lumiere-sur-le-role-de-la-france

Amériques / Americas
Mexico’s rich history preserved at newly dedicated records center
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865678264/Mexicos-rich-history-preserved-at-newly-dedicated-records-center.html

Guadeloupe – Appel pour la Vérité, la Justice, la Réparation et la Réhabilitation pour les victimes des massacres des 26 et 27 Mai 1967 à Pointe à Pitre 
http://www.caraibcreolenews.com/index.php/service-presse/item/9109-guadeloupe-appel-pour-la-verite-la-justice-la-reparation-et-la-rehabilitation-pour-les-victimes-des-massacres-des-26-et-27-mai-1967-a-pointe-a-pitre

U.S. Government Publishing Office – Digitized Bound Congressional Record 1961-1970 Now Available
http://www.govinfo.gov/features/crecb-1961-1970-now-available

NARA – Metadata and Open Data
http://records-express.blogs.archives.gov/2017/04/26/metadata-and-open-data/

NARA – Tape is Evil
http://preservearchives.tumblr.com/post/160012392520/preservation-through-poetry-tape-is-evil-tape-is

Franklin D. Roosevelt library in New York to launch Holocaust collections project
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/04/23/fdr-library-holocaust-collections-project/100820142/

Funny papers, please: a sampling of comic strips in the CIA’s archives
http://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/apr/24/comics-cias-archives/

No the Environmental Protection Agency’s Open Data Website Is Not Going Away: the Future of Open Science Data
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2017/04/24/no-the-epas-open-data-website-is-not-going-away-the-future-of-open-science-data/

My NASA Friend Found a Box of Film from Apollo 15 in his Desk Drawer
http://petapixel.com/2017/04/25/nasa-friend-found-box-film-apollo-15-desk-drawer/

Society of American Archivists – Federal Funding Impact Story #3
http://archivesaware.archivists.org/2017/04/25/federal-funding-impact-story-3/

Vermont Court Ruling Leaves Gaping Loophole in Public Records Act
http://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2017/04/18/vermont-court-ruling-leaves-gaping-loophole-in-public-records-act

Digital Preservation in North Carolina
http://www.statearchivists.org/connect/blog/2017/04/digital-preservation-north-carolina/

Florida – New digital archive to put worldwide focus on the state’s early history
http://staugustine.com/news/local-news/2017-04-20/new-digital-archive-put-worldwide-focus-state-s-early-history

South Dakota – Newspaper digitization advisory board selects newspapers to digitize for federal grant
http://news.sd.gov/newsitem.aspx?id=21795

One of the Finest Collections Ever Assembled of Early Virginia-Related Maps Acquired by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
http://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/974-one-of-the-finest-collections-ever-assembled-of-early-virginia-rel

Archiving tips for public sector agencies
http://gcn.com/articles/2017/04/17/archiving-tips-compliance.aspx

Harvard Researchers Discover Second Declaration of Independence Manuscript
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/4/21/declaration-of-independence-discovered/

Harvard – Who Does What? Defining the Roles & Responsibilities for Digital Preservation
http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2017/04/who-does-what-defining-the-roles-responsibilities-for-digital-preservation/

Yale University – Voynich Symphony to premiere May 4 at Woolsey Hall
http://news.yale.edu/2017/04/24/voynich-symphony-premiere-may-4-woolsey-hall

Peter O’Toole personal archive heads to University of Texas 
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/apr/21/peter-otoole-personal-archive-heads-to-university-of-texas

University of California Berkeley – C. V. Starr East Asian Library acquires the largest Chinese film studies collection in North America
http://news.lib.berkeley.edu/2017/04/21/fonoroff/

University of Michigan’s new Orson Welles acquisition from his daughter reveals never-before-seen work
http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/24782-u-m-s-new-orson-welles-acquisition-from-his-daughter-reveals-never-before-seen-work

University of Michigan – Personal Digital Archiving Guide Part 1: Preservation Planning
http://www.lib.umich.edu/blogs/bits-and-pieces/personal-digital-archiving-guide-part-1-preservation-planning

University of New Mexico – Archives Unexpected! Surprises from the Library’s Special Collections
http://news.unm.edu/news/archives-unexpected-surprises-from-the-library-s-special-collections

Inside Prince’s Paisley Park Archives: 7,000 Artifacts Cataloged, Many More to Go
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/arts/music/prince-paisley-park-archives.html

Rochester (New York) – Holocaust survivors testimony lives and breathes in local archive
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2017/04/19/holocaust-survivors-testimony-lives-and-breathes-local-archive/100341870/

Dava Sobel: if you enjoy detective mysteries, you would love rummaging through archives
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/22/my-writing-day-dava-sobel

Nation of Islam Archive, Elijah Muhammad Personal Items Offered at Heritage Auctions
http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/press/2017/04/nation-of-islam-archive-elijah-muhammad-personal-items-offered-at-heritage-auctions.phtml

The Hubris of Neutrality in Archives
http://medium.com/on-archivy/the-hubris-of-neutrality-in-archives-8df6b523fe9f

Identity Crisis: the Reality of Preparing MLS Students for a Competitive and Increasingly Digital World
http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2017/04/identity-crisis-the-reality-of-preparing-mls-students-for-a-competitive-and-increasingly-digital-world/

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Indigenous Anzacs: letters home from Aboriginal WWI diggers reveal humour, sadness
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-24/revealing-letters-home-from-aboriginal-diggers-sent-during-wwi/8466938

Australian Copyright Scandal Points to the Need for Greater Oversight of Copyright Collectives 
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2017/04/australian-copyright-scandal-points-need-greater-oversight-copyright-collectives/

Australia – On Germaine Greer and her Archive
https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/contemporary-history-studies/2017/04/27/contemporary-histories-blog-dr-sarah-pinto-on-greer-and-her-archive/

State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales (Australia) – Mobile apps and patient records
http://futureproof.records.nsw.gov.au/mobile-apps-and-patient-records/

New Zealand – Treaty of Waitangi moves to National Library
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/329192/treaty-of-waitangi-moves-to-national-library

These are living documents for all New Zealanders
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/329274/’these-are-living-documents-for-all-new-zealanders

New Zealand – War archivist continues search for fate of Napier school’s old boy
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503462&objectid=11841921

From a Malay anti-Hitler song to Chinese opera tunes, Singapore’s pre-war records go online
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/lifestyle/malay-anti-hitler-song-chinese-opera-tunes-singapore-online-8720426

Philippines – Dumaguete Diocese undertakes archives project
http://www.visayandailystar.com/2017/April/22/negor4.htm

Retired U.S. soldiers donate photos of South Korea decades ago
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2017/04/24/0200000000AEN20170424008100315.html

Cambodia – Genocide’s Legacy: a Museum in a Khmer Rouge Prison
http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000005033256/cambodian-genocide-khmer-rouge.html

China – Palace Museum to digitalize its entire collection
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/nation/Palace-Museum-to-digitalize-its-entire-collection/shdaily.shtml

India – Decolonising the mind
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/decolonising-the-mind/article18209676.ece

Europe / Europa
Vast German archive holds the secret to combating Holocaust denial
http://www.timesofisrael.com/vast-german-archive-holds-the-secret-to-combatting-holocaust-denial/

One million Jews killed in Holocaust still unidentified and researchers warn they’re at risk of being forgotten
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/the-holocausts-missing-million-yad-vashem-desperate-to-find-names-of-dead-before-survivors-die-out

Poutine s’est prononcé pour un large accès aux archives militaires
http://www.cielfm.be/poutine-sest-prononce-pour-un-large-acces-aux-archives-militaires/

Two Years on, no Second Thoughts on Opening Ukraine’s KGB Archives to Everyone
http://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-kgb-archives-secret-police-archives-opened-anniversary/28445724.html

Poland – Institute of National Remembrance – Further victims of totalitarianism regain their names
http://ipn.gov.pl/en/news/934,Further-victims-of-totalitarianism-regain-their-names.html


Two New Greek New Testament Papyri from Oxyrhynchus
http://www.bricecjones.com/blog/two-new-greek-new-testament-papyri-from-oxyrhynchus

Computers don’t even understand it: Icelandic people worrying their language is facing extinction
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/computers-dont-even-understand-it-icelandic-people-worrying-their-language-is-facing-extinction

Georgia – History of Georgian book printing on display at Tbilisi archive
http://agenda.ge/news/78176/eng

Secret archives show Vatican tried to stop Armenian Genocide
http://aleteia.org/2017/04/24/secret-archives-show-vatican-tried-to-stop-armenian-genocide-2/

Vatican Begins Declassifying Documents on Uruguay Dictatorship
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Vatican-Begins-Declassifying-Documents-on-Uruguay-Dictatorship–20170424-0016.html

Suisse – Archives du Service de renseignement scellées 30 ans de plus
http://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/archives-du-service-de-renseignement-scell%C3%A9es-30-ans-de-plus/43122720

Suisse – Avoirs en déshérence : documents disponibles aux Archives fédérales suisses 
http://www.admin.ch/gov/fr/accueil/documentation/communiques.msg-id-66437.html

France – Pourquoi archiver le web électoral ?
http://archiveweb.hypotheses.org/230

National Archives of Ireland – Beautiful Bubbling Dublin
http://www.dublinscultureconnects.ie/beautiful-bubbling-dublin/

Irish Film Institute adverts archive a treasure trove of nostalgia
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/ifi-adverts-archive-a-treasure-trove-of-nostalgia-1.3061942

Scotland – HarperCollins archive: chronicling the past, and the future
http://www.thebookseller.com/blogs/chronicling-past-and-future-540131

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Archives – The Science behind Murder: the Sydney Smith Collection
http://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/science-behind-murder-sydney-smith-collection

UK National Archives – Strongroom to Seminar: archives and teaching in higher education 
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/strongroom-seminar-archives-teaching-higher-education/

UK National Archives – Uncovering evidence of the Black Prince’s Spanish gamble: Najera 
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/uncovering-evidence-black-princes-spanish-gamble-najera/

British Library – Raising Kurdish Armenia: Kurdish Children’s Books from Soviet Armenia
http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2017/04/raising-kurdish-armenia-kurdish-childrens-books-from-soviet-armenia.html

Shakespeare died 401 years ago, but original scripts from his era live on in a new digital archive
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-folger-library-digital-archive-20170422-htmlstory.html

Rare photos from the Second World War spotlight the history of women in service
http://qz.com/965749/rare-photos-of-uk-women-at-war-spotlight-the-history-of-women-in-service/

Digitisation, Orphan Works & Copyright: New Resource for the Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums Sector
http://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2017/04/25/morgan-resource/

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Jerusalem archive yields Armenian genocide smoking gun
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-archive-yields-armenian-genocide-smoking-gun/

Jerusalem’s forgotten literary treasures revived online
http://aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/jerusalems-forgotten-literary-treasures-revived-online/806713

Israel Releases Trump File: the U.S. President’s Little-known 1989 Visit to the Jewish State
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.786075

United Arab Emirates – National Archive Supports the Archives of Dibba Al Hisn Municipality with Advanced Professional Consultations
http://www.na.ae/en/mediacenter/news/news.aspx?ID=10424

United Arab Emirates – National Archives Completes its Preparations to Evaluate the Projects of the Student Historians Club 2017
http://www.na.ae/en/mediacenter/news/news.aspx?ID=10422

At SALT Galata, a Turkish artist imagines how archives dream
http://www.dailysabah.com/arts-culture/2017/04/22/at-salt-galata-a-turkish-artist-imagines-how-archives-dream

International
Signature de l’acte notarié constitutif du Réseau francophone numérique : association internationale sans but lucratif
http://www.rfnum.org/pages/a_propos/salle_de_presse/nouvelle.html?id=9c009971-dd67-4887-b08e-296ee52c710b

Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/

Hey, Computer Scientists! Stop Hating on the Humanities
http://www.wired.com/2017/04/hey-computer-scientists-stop-hating-humanities/

Introduction to archival selection and narrative in digital collections
http://www.townswebarchiving.com/2017/04/introduction-archival-selection-narrative-digital-collections/

The Future of the Commons is an Open Planet
http://creativecommons.org/2017/04/07/future-of-commons/

The three Ds of disciplining your e-mail inbox
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/management/the-three-ds-of-disciplining-your-e-mail-inbox/article34780101/

Vinyl music gives record stores a boost in a digital world
http://www.wxyz.com/news/national/vinyl-music-gives-record-stores-a-boost-in-a-digital-world_55391917

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