Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Information and Privacy Commissioners across Canada – Call on Governments to Safeguard Independent Review of Solicitor-client Privilege Claims
Observatoire de la culture et des communications du Québec – État des lieux sur les métadonnées relatives aux contenus culturels
National Library of Scotland – Annual Review 2016-2017
European Commission – Analysis of the Data Catalog Vocabulary Application Profile Extensions
De la communauté / From the community
Europeana – Impact Playbook for Museums, Libraries and Archives
National Digital Stewardship Alliance – Results of the 2017 Digital Preservation Staffing Survey
Institute of Museum and Library Services – Open Digital Preservation Training and Professional Development Opportunities
Institute of Museum and Library Services – National Digital Platform at Three
University of London – Is your Organisation Using its Storage Wisely?
Publications
Journal of Documentation, vol. 73, no. 6 (2017)
Code4lib Journal, no. 38 (2017)
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 32, no. sup. 2 (2017)
The Electronic Library, vol. 35, no. 5 (2017)
Les Cahiers du numérique, vol. 13, no. 2 (2017)
Information & Culture: a Journal of History, vol. 52, no. 4 (2017)
Mémoire de maîtrise (Université de Montréal) – Comprendre et manipuler les données ouvertes de l’administration publique : la situation au Gouvernement du Québec et à la Ville de Montréal
Master Thesis (New York University) – More Than Digital Dirt: Preserving Malware in Archives, Museums, and Libraries
Book – Uruguayan Cinema, 1960-2010: Text, Materiality, Archive
Book – Discarded, Discovered, Collected: the University of Michigan Papyrus Collection
Book – Defining Documents in American History: Native Americans
Book – Early Modern Marginalia
Book – Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America’s Changing Communities (Second Edition)
Book – Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe: the Clandestine Trade in Illegal Book Collections
Book – Manchester: the Postcard Collection
Book – Technotopia: a Media Genealogy of Net Cultures
Livre – Dans les archives secrètes du Quai d’Orsay
Livre – Le goulag : témoignages et archives
Livre – Trésors des bibliothèques et archives d’Alsace
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Indigenous Women
October 21, 2017, Waterloo
Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon & Discussion with Gaetan Landry
October 24, 2017, Halifax
Les entretiens de la confiance numérique
25 octobre 2017, Montréal
Provincial Archives of Alberta – Home Movie Day
October 28, 2017, Edmonton
Decanting Memory: a Celebration of 500 years of Jewish Printing
November 1, 2017, Ottawa
Les archives parlent, 150 ans d’histoire
16 novembre 2017, Étang-du-Nord (Îles-de-la-Madeleine)
Webinar – Engaging with Research Data Alliance to Improve Data Management and Sharing Practices in the Humanities
November 27, 2017
Webinar – Advocating for Digital Preservation
December 4, 2017
Digital Initiative Symposium 2018
April 24, 2018, San Diego
Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences
May 9-10, 2018, Los Angeles
Adding Value Preserving Data
May 15-17, 2018, Didcot (UK)
Sur le web / On the web
Toronto Worker History Project – Video: Gabriel Allahdua on Migrant Farm Workers in Canada
Vidéo – Sauvons notre héritage : l’abbé Laurent Tailleur, directeur des archives du Séminaire de Québec 1984-1999
NARA – Citizen Archivist Dashboard New Resources Page
Open Science, Open Data, Open Source
Baladodiffusion – De la grotte au cloud : comment l’homme transmet son histoire
Vidéo – Données numériques : peut on tout conserver
Slides – Linked Data for Audiovisual Archives
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Residential School Survivors Can Choose to Preserve Documents: Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett
Treasury Board President willing to amend access to information bill in response to First Nation concerns
Canada’s most secretive federal department: the Treasury Board of Canada
Pre-Confederation St. Lawrence maritime pilot certificates at Library and Archives Canada
Some Progress at Library and Archives Canada on Newspaper Digitization
War flowers: letters home from WWI on display at Canadian War Museum
British Columbia Archives – Electronic records a new world for archivists
Prince Edward Island government takes privacy commissioner to court again
“I’m still kind of in limbo” Ontario angler says as Freedom of Information fight continues over secret fishing spot
Archives of Manitoba – Minnie Campbell’s military war album
Québec – De l’utilité des archives, qui s’en soucie?
BAnQ – Un legs d’archives nous fait découvrir l’histoire d’une vie peu banale
http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/instantanes/2017/10/18/legs-darchives-decouvrir-lhistoire-dune-vie-banale/
BAnQ – Marion Deichmann et Hélène Stevens : émouvante première rencontre de deux amies de longue date
University of Manitoba’s head archivist helps preserve and protect collection of 500,000 photographs, 4,000 films, 15,000 maps and more than 14,000 feet of documents
Three generations of chief librarians toast University of Toronto Libraries’ 125th anniversary
http://www.utoronto.ca/news/three-generations-chief-librarians-toast-u-t-libraries-125th-anniversary
Mackenzie King preferred the name Berlin, and other finds in Laurier University’s new online collection
Ryerson University – New York Times Canadian Photo Archive a Rich Resource for Journalism Researchers
York University’s Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections – Our Top 5 Responses from #AskAnArchivist Day
University of Victoria – Challenge for libraries: adapting to the digital age
Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse – Collection Brisson/Girard : nouvellement classifiée
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Archives Roadshow
Archives important for Anglicans today
A walk back in time: researchers launch new Halifax Explosion app
Vancouver property tax records to 2005 now available at the Vancouver Archives
Toronto – A fresh spin on library’s vinyl stash
Montréal – Édifice Saint-Sulpice: le projet de bibliothèque fait du surplace
She didn’t find much multiculturalism in Canada’s official archives so she made her own
Windsor – Préserver la mémoire de l’industrie automobile dans une bibliothèque
Trail B.C.’s Italian community celebrates decades of memories through photo project
Show me the money at Voices from the Engraver exhibit at the Peterborough Museum and Archives (Ontario)
8000$ amassés par le Centre d’archives régionales de Charlevoix
Centre d’archives de Vaudreuil-Soulanges – La mémoire de la région en danger
Vers un vrai centre d’archives dans Bellechasse ?
Museum lives on as Norfolk archive (Ontario)
Pontiac Archives (Quebec) – Nancy Mayhew Edey Family tree
Un archiviste d’Outremont en mission en Haïti
Preservica Launches Cloud Hosted Digital Preservation in Canada
Krista Mccracken – Outreach, Performance, and Introversion
Can Volunteers Arrange and Describe?
Afrique / Africa
Après 50 ans d’attente Tunis aura sa cinémathèque
Une loi au Sénégal pour garantir l’accès à l’information
Algérie – Coup de gueule du directeur des Archives nationales, Abdelmadjid Chikhi : les archives filmiques sont dans un état catastrophique
Amériques / Americas
Antigua & Barbuda – National Archives continues to function despite deplorable conditions
Documenting U.S. Role in Democracy’s Fall and Dictator’s Rise in Chile
CIA archives offer a look into the history of terrorism in Somalia
CIA says mistakenly shredded Senate torture report then did not
Files reveal US had detailed knowledge of Indonesia’s anti-communist purge
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/17/indonesia-anti-communist-killings-us-declassified-files
National Archives warned Trump White House to preserve documents
Tom Hanks to Receive National Archives Foundation’s Records of Achievement Award
Announcing the Library of Congress Congressional Data Challenge
Can the Library of Congress Save Gawker’s Website From Extinction?
Archives of American Art acquires the extensive audio and video recordings and records of Artists Talk on Art
Historic Panorama Archive of Pacific Northwest Used to Suppress Forest Fires
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – To Bucket or Not to Bucket…?
New research center houses decades of Texas State archives
What if the Government Fails to Preserve, or Destroys, Digital Evidence During an Investigation?
Stanford University – Archives launches transcription crowdsourcing project
Stanford University preserves legacy of late social justice activist Sal Alvarez
University of California Berkeley Uses Optical Scanning to Recover Indigenous Voices from Wax Cylinders
Barack Obama Letters from 1980s Are Obtained by Emory University
Handwriting of Martin Luther discovered in Emory University’s Pitts Library
An archival transcription project from the University of Iowa invites us to explore the history of science fiction
Q&A: Matthew Lyons, Drexel University’s Newest University Archivist
Resourceful Records Managers: George Despres, the Program Director for University Records Management at Brandeis University
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives – You Work where? Combining a love of music with some great LIS skills at an awesome workplace
Association of Research Libraries – Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Software Preservation
How Police Surveillance Units Became Unlikely Historians
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/arts/how-police-surveillance-units-became-unlikely-historians.html
The Dirty Secrets Saved in Dead Birds’ Feathers
Archivists Roundtable of Metropolitan New York Statement on Immigration and Customs Enforcement Retention Schedules
Lights! Camera! Memories! A D.C. film archivist is donating his collection
Meet Guadalupe Rosales, Archivist of Los Angeles’ ’90s Latinx Youth and Rave Cultures
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Albert Namatjira’s family regains copyright of his artwork after Dick Smith intervenes
Integrated approach to archive management, digital preservation and user discovery: State Archives and Records New South Wales selects new software solutions
How Archival Practitioners can do Research¸
Archives New Zealand – Who holds the keys to your Content Management System?
Keeping up with the Librarians! New Zealand library causes a stir on social media by recreating iconic Kardashian-inspired snap
New Zealand – Rare Handel manuscript to be used for performance in Katikati
Japan – National Diet Library to Implement a New Search System in January 2018
Saving Japan’s Games
Hong Kong government urged to enact freedom of information law after 20 years of delays
China Focus: Digital archiving preserves Tibetan Buddhist artwork
Mongolia-Russia Archival Documents Exhibition Opens
Indonesia – Researchers Rue on the Difficulty of Accessing Sources from National Archives
India – Film archiving is not a hobby or just a job; it’s a passion: Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
India – Bring back the past
Pakistan – Over 1,000 precious old manuscripts gathering dust at Pashto Academy
http://www.dawn.com/news/1363712/over-1000-precious-old-manuscripts-gathering-dust-at-pashto-academy
Europe / Europa
Europeana – Playing with colours: make your first GIF IT UP entry
Historical Archives of the European Union – Digital Preservation System Launch
Exciting new partnerships for Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents
Digitized Works of Croatian Greats Now Accessible Online
Swedish university launches digital archive of Nazi concentration camp survivor testimonies
Hungary – Ask an Archivist: Blinken Open Society Archives offers help to Central European University students with their research
Pie XII : les archives pourraient être ouvertes d’ici un an
France – L’extrême-droite ouvre un centre de documentation dans l’Indre
France – L’accès croissant à des données d’archives permet de revisiter des questions historiques avec les outils de l’économétrie
Euchronie : un projet collaboratif francophone inscrit dans les humanités numériques
Victor Hugo’s Unpublished Autograph Book of Love Letters Sells for $250,000+
A love letter fell out of an old Paris guidebook: and set a filmmaker on an obsessive quest
Ireland – State’s approach to data privacy is a national scandal
Ireland – Staying off the record on access to archives
National Museum of Scotland – None is clean: conserving the Prestonpans bible
We should promote the concept of Archive as part of the Scottish experience
UK government considers classifying Google and Facebook as publishers
UK National Archives – Anglo-French squabbles in Afghanistan in the 1920s
UK National Archives – Banishing the bulk! Conserving a 17th century volume
UK National Archives – The black man and his party: William Cuffey, Chartist leader
UK National Archives – Having fear of death before me: life before the 1967 Abortion Act
UK National Archives – Bunga bunga! The great Edwardian Dreadnought hoax
British Library – Newspaper data and news identity
Hidden film treasures brought to life in British vault
University of Oxford – Dancing all night with Aphra Behn: a recently acquired diary of Jeffrey Boys of Betteshanger, 1667
University of Oxford – Digitized Photos by Julia Margaret Cameron, 19th-Century Pioneer of the Soft Focus
Armada portrait of Elizabeth I returns after spectacular restoration
Worcester Living: Rediscovered glass-plate negatives reveal a vibrant community of color in Worcester at turn of 19th century
Call goes out for records of UK worker co-ops for new archive of the movement
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Albert Einstein Museum with Personal Archives to Open in Jerusalem
Voyages of the Palestinian Archive: an Interview with Hana Sleiman and Ahmad Barclay
International
IFLA Statement on UNESCO: Education, Science and Culture: Shared Objectives Need Shared Efforts
New Lost Images Site Explores the Internet’s Artist-Driven Photo Archives
Records management: planning for disaster
Records management and email: theory and practice
How to keep your old videos, music, and photos safe forever
A quick showdown of three automatic transcription tools
The Absurdly Underestimated Dangers of CSV Injection
The people saving lost words
An indie game that aims to preserve an indigenous culture and its mythology
Wikipedia’s Fate Shows how the Web Endangers Knowledge
Has the open access movement delayed the revolution?