Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada – Digital Asset Management System Tender Notice
U.S. Council of State Archivists – Digital Best Practices Series: Digitization Projects
NARA – Guidance on Senior Agency Officials for Records Management (for Comments)
Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Report and Disposal Schedule Amendments: Ministry for Primary Industries (for Comments)
State Archives and Records of New South Wales (Australia) – Simplify, Streamline, and Consolidate: the OneTRIM for OneFACS Case Study
De la communauté / From the community
University of Alberta – Environmental Scan of Digital Archiving Activity
Aggregated Scan Results: http://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pawH70iPYFtxD6PIx6oz7FpmjOrK-3K3xoEAjq-8okU/edit?usp=sharing
Aggregated Workflow Summary: http://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EFWdbgDfvfzPlwDqHeyNTy5rRzxn5HHcN91gZP-da6Q/edit?usp=sharing
Canadian Federation of Library Associations – Submission to 2018 Pre-Budget Consultations
Portage Data Discovery Expert Group – Collections Development Working Group: Phase One Report
The Collection Management System Collection: Crowd-sourced List of Digital Repository Options
De-Centering and Recentering Digital Scholarship: a Manifesto
Getty Institute – Epidemiology: Basic Ideas Applied to Museum Collections
Ithaka S+R – Red Light, Green Light: Aligning the Library to Support Licensing
Publications
Archival Science, vol. 17, no. 3 (September 2017)
South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science, vol. 83, no. 1 (2017)
Archives Society of Alberta Newsletter, vol. 36, no. 4 (2017)
Burlington Historical Society Gazette (Ontario), vol. 13, no. 6 (2017)
ISO 28500:2017 – Information and Documentation – WARC File Format
Book – Sustainable Audiovisual Collections through Collaboration: Proceedings of the 2016 Joint Technical Symposium
Book – Putting Descriptive Standards to Work
Book – The Family Tree Cemetery Field Guide: how to Find, Record, and Preserve your Ancestor’s Grave
Book – Bibliomysteries: Stories of Crime in the World of Books and Bookstores
Book – Social Trauma and Telecinematic Memory: Imagining the Turkish Nation since the 1980 Coup
Book – Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the National Security Agency
Book – The Museum Educator’s Manual: Educators Share Successful Techniques (Second Edition)
Book – The Destruction of Cultural Property as a Weapon of War: ISIS in Syria and Iraq
Book – Zotero: a Guide for Librarians, Researchers, and Educators (Second Edition)
Livre – Retrouver un ancêtre franc-maçon
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Webinar – Complying with Canada’s Upcoming Breach Notification Requirements
August 29, 2017
The Hearts and Minds of Data Science
September 21, 2017, Toronto
Windsor Music Archive Presents: Reunions
September 29-30, 2017, Windsor
2017 Association Heritage New Brunswick Conference
November 1-3, 2017, Edmundston
Is it Time to Free the Apartheid Archives?
August 24, 2017, Johannesburg (South Africa)
A Linked Data Workflow with OpenRefine
August 28, 2017, New York
Webcast – Evidence-Based Acquisition: Leveraging Both Usage Data and Librarian Expertise
August 29, 2017
Webinar – Documents that Changed the Way we Live
September 7, 2017
Faceted Classification Today: Theory, Technology and End Users
September 14-15, 2017, London (UK)
International Digital Preservation Day
November 30, 2017
Webinar – Association of Research Libraries: Campus-wide Entrepreneurship (Video Available)
August 9, 2017
IFLA – Digital Humanities Satellite Meeting (Presentations Available)
August 15-17, 2017, Berlin
Sur le web / On the web
Vidéo de Wikimedia Foundation – Frédéric Giuliano & Hélène Laverdure, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
Podcast – The EMI Music Canada Archive: 1990’s (with Archivist Robb Gilberts, University of Calgary)
Digital Public Library of America – Open-Source Spark OAI Harvester
Jisc – Digital Archival Collections Survey
National Digital Stewardship Alliance – Survey on Fixity Practices
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canada Can Stand its Ground on Copyright in NAFTA Renegotiations
Memo raises doubts about who was architect of residential schools
Library and Archives Canada – The Canadian Corps and the Battle of Hill 70
Library and Archives Canada – Private Michael James O’Rourke, VC
Library and Archives Canada – Private Harry W. Brown, VC
Nova Scotia Archives – George Creed: Mi’kmaq Petroglyphs
Archives of Manitoba – Closer to the action: Lt.-Col. R. M. Dennistoun, Deputy Judge Advocate General in France
Québec – Le politique se mêle des demandes d’accès à l’information
50e anniversaire de l’adoption de la loi instituant la Bibliothèque nationale du Québec
BAnQ Gaspé est temporairement fermé
BAnQ – Paul Provencher : ingénieur forestier, explorateur, auteur et photographe
BAnQ – La naissance de la première Armée des États-Unis
Wikipédia engagée dans la pérennité des cultures autochtones
Wikipédia et les bibliothèques, main dans la main
Access Copyright Seeks ~$550,000 in Costs from York University for Phase I of Federal Court Litigation
Université de Montréal – Un projet de mise à jour de la terminologie de base en sciences de l’information
Archives de Montréal – Les archives inédites de Monsieur Montréal, le maire Camillien Houde (1889-1958)
Archive au quotidien : Cité Mémoire, une expérience Montréalaise
Muslim women archive their lives at the Gardiner Museum (Toronto)
These fascinating photos show how Toronto celebrated Canada’s Centennial
City of Vancouver Archives – Vancouver’s unbuilt leisure palace
Master Chef and the 1978 Vancouver Heritage Advisory Committee photos
Historic photo exhibit on display in Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island) window
How more than 100 years of nursing records left a Prince Albert (Saskatchewan) museum
Got old photos? Public invited to help create historical digital archive of Windsor-Essex
Lacombe (Alberta) Memory Project looks to captures images of the community
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – Lost & Found
Lambton (Ontario) – Local Genealogical Society hunting for Petrolia high school yearbooks
Museum Musings: Whistler Question (B.C.) archive photos spur new exhibit
Guardian’s archives plays key role in new history book on Prince Edward Island
He should be as well known as Schindler: documents reveal Canadian citizen Julius Kuhl as Holocaust hero
Mom never threw out her wartime love letters, but it was time to pull them out and reread them one last time
Vancouver man looks to memory of First World War hero grandfather to find peace with self
Les archives d’André Dédé Fortin pourraient être léguées
Monks resurrect lost Oka melons (with the archives of a seed bank)
Archival Description? Leave it to Watson
Transkribus crosses the Atlantic: report from DH 2017 in Montreal
Afrique / Africa
Mali – Sauvegarde et valorisation des manuscrits : le combat sans relâche de l’Ong Savama
South Africa – Declassified: Apartheid profits: the tap root of the National Party
Amériques / Americas
National Library of Jamaica to collaborate with Black Cultural Archives in UK
Federal judge orders State Department to search its archives for Clinton emails referencing Benghazi
Why Government Needs Better Records Management
Information Security Oversight Office chief: Reforming American infrastructure includes the federal classification system
National Security Archives – The Fifty-Year Rule: Its Use and Misuse
Library of Congress – 65th Anniversary of the First Copyrighted Choreography, Although Not Copyrighted As Choreography
Declassified photos show workers preparing the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs
Found: Oldest Known Photo of a U.S. President (Socks and All)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/arts/design/john-quincy-adams-daguerreotype-sothebys-auction.html
University of Wisconsin – Thousands of Ship Documents Archived, Available for Public Research
University of Southern California – From paparazzi shots to fan mags, film-industry archive provides glittering glimpses of Hollywood history
University of Michigan – Personal Digital Archiving Guide Part 2: Media Types and File Formats
Society of American Archivists Council Statement on White Supremacists’ Actions in Charlottesville, Virginia
Campus Reform: Society of American Archivists lose track of own emails, blame media outlet
Hidden No More: Computer History Museum Archives Processing Project Wraps Up
How Web Archives Teach Us that Data Doesn’t Exist in a Vacuum
Step Back in Time with a Tour of Cracker Barrel’s Décor Warehouse
Meet the Archive: Rosa Gaiarsa, University of California Television and Film Arhcives’ Head of Collections
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Digital transformation in New South Wales (Australia) Government: recordkeeping opportunities and risks
The State Library of New South Wales, in partnership with the National Library of Australia, has been working to digitise its newspaper collections with Sydney’s Daily Telegraph (1883-1923)
New Zealand – Our healthcare records outlive us : it’s time to decide what happens to the data once we’re gone
Korea – National Archives Receives 6,000 Records of Colonial Forced Labor by Japan
Singapore – Confessions of a film archivist
Sri Lanka – Ayurveda treatments manuscripts in layman’s language soon
National Archives of India set to get a digital makeover of its vast repository
India – Rare photos of Jawaharlal Nehru from the archives of photojournalist Kulwant Roy
India – We don’t know how to use our archives
How technology and social media help trace Partition memories
Europe / Europa
Norway – Record-sized data centre planned inside Arctic Circle
Transkribus on TV! National Archives of Finland filmed for national news programme
This Enormous 100-Year-Old Map of Rome is Still the City’s Best
Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Notebooks Now Online: Browse 570 Digitized Pages
Decolonizing the history of the Netherlands
Czech National Film Archive Announce First Results on Laterna Magika Multimedia Research Project
Bibliothèque royale de Belgique – Nouveau Système de gestion de Bibliothèque
National Archives of Ireland – Chief Secretary’s Office 1818-1830 now available
Scottish ministers refuse to release Prince Charles lobbying letters
UK – The National Archives commits to apprenticeships as part of plan to ramp up digital headcount
UK National Archives – Joint project with United Arab Emirates to create new website
UK National Archives – Dunkirk on film and in print
UK National Archives – August 14 1967, midnight: showdown for the pop pirates
British Library – A plan for a new Westminster Bridge (1736): report from the conservation studio
Oxford University – Validating half a million TIFF files: Part Two
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Waqf: Israeli forces did not steal historical documents and materials from Al-Aqsa
Editorial – Update Israel’s Archive Law
Hebrew University’s Center for Jewish Art – 260,000 digitized images of Jewish art and artifacts now online
Iranian Azerbaijan in the Former Soviet Archives
Iraq – Citizen returns safekept, priceless manuscripts to Mosul university
Kuwaiti artistic archive rich in works of late celebrities
International
The worldwide standard for electronic documents is evolving
International Tracing Service – Funds Granted for the Preservation of Historical Maps
Almost half of recent research papers now open access
What Happened to Google’s Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?
I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked