Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Librarian and Archivist of Canada Speech – The Future Lasts Forever, Memory Institutions: Not a Thing of the Past
Librarian and Archivist of Canada Speech – Doing More with More: the Real Value of Memory Organizations
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick – New Genealogy Guides
British Columbia – Operational Records Classification System (for Review)
Information and Privacy ORCS: http://engage.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads/sites/81/2017/12/INFP-Public-Consultation-Binder.pdf
Cultural Services ORCS: http://engage.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads/sites/81/2017/12/CULT-ORCS-Schedule-143933-Amendment-1-No-144037-public-consultation-….pdf
Regulation of Private Training Institutions ORCS: http://engage.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads/sites/81/2017/12/RPTI-ORCS-Schedule-170464-public-consultation-binder.pdf
Library of Congress – PREMIS OWL Draft Ontology for Version Three
NARA – General Records Schedule Transmittal 29
NARA – Records Management Inspection Report: Defense Logistics Agency
Archives New Zealand – Factsheet on Checksums and Digital Transfer Case Study
Archives fédérales suisses – Inventaire des données de la Confédération
De la communauté / From the community
Association vaudoise des archivistes – Recommandations sur la gestion électronique des documents
Institut national du patrimoine – L’inventaire et le récolement des collections publiques
IFLA – Trend Report 2017 Update
Open Knowledge International – Avoiding Data Use Silos: how Governments Can Simplify the Open Licensing Landscape
Publications
The American Archivist, vol. 80, no. 2 (2017)
Restaurator: International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material, vol. 38, no. 4 (2017)
Journal of Web Librarianship, vol. 11, no. 3-4 (2017)
Information Research: an International Electronic Journal, vol. 22, no. 4 (December 2017)
Éthique publique, vol. 19, no. 2 (numéro spécial : éthique et patrimoine)
Revue électronique suisse de science de l’information, no. 18 (2017)
International Federation of Film Archives, no. 14 (2017)
California Originals: a Quarterly Newsletter of the California State Archives, vol. 6, no. 2 (2018)
Saskatchewan History Magazine, Winter 2017 (Final Issue)
Archives Society of Alberta Newsletter, vol. 37, no. 1 (2017)
The Abstract: Collections Updates from York University Libraries, vol. 1, no. 1 (2017)
ISO 2108:2017 – Information and Documentation – International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
Book – Recordkeeping Informatics for a Networked Age
Book – Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania
Book – Process and Information Practice for Information Systems
Book – Knowledge Management in Theory and Practice (Third Edition)
Book – Words and the First World War: Language, Memory, Vocabulary
Book – Measurable and Composable Security, Privacy, and Dependability: the SHIELD Methodology
Book – Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools
Book – America’s Greatest Library: an Illustrated History of the Library of Congress
Book – Satire and Politics: the Interplay of Heritage and Practice
Livre – Des bibliothèques gay friendly : conférences sur les questions de genre en bibliothèque
Livre – Trouver ses ancêtres sur Internet : Filae.com
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
University of Waterloo Special Collections & Archives New exhibit – Books as Muse
Until March 2018, Waterloo
Frida Kahlo: her Photos
February 3 – May 20, 2018, Calgary
Politics of Libraries Conference
April 23, 2018, University of Alberta
New York City Department of Records and Information Services – Documenting Activism
January 4, 2018, New York
Insurgency in the Archives – The Politics and Aesthetics of Sedition in Colonial India
January 12-13, 2018, London (UK)
Email Preservation: how Hard Can it Be?
January 24, 2018, London (UK)
Archives that Matter: Digital Infrastructures for Sharing Unshared Histories in the Colonial Archives
January 30-31, Copenhagen
Global Encounters and the Archives : Britain’s Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century
February 9-10, 2018, New Haven (Connecticut)
Is this Permanence: Preservation of Born-digital Artists’ Archives
May 11, 2018, Yale University
iPRES 2018: Where Art and Science Meet: the Art in the Science & the Science in the Art of Digital Preservation
September 24-27, 2018, Boston
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – A Look inside the Preservation Centre
Historical Reminiscents Podcast – Demystifying Archival Labour Access
ARMA International – New Website
Video – United States Archivist Ferriero on Preserving our Nation’s History
Vidéo – Voeux de Nouvel An des Archives de l’État en Belgique
New App – AR Globe: David Rumsey Maps
ARMA National Capital Region Slides – What to Expect When you’re Expecting a Validation: an Overview of the Transportation Safety Board Validation Pilot Project
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Library and Archives Canada – The beginning of Canada: through the eyes of Lady Susan Macdonald
CBC Museum in Toronto shutting its doors
Freedom of Information review launched by Prince Edward Island government
Ontario’s First Online Tribunal
Archives of Ontario – How this woman reacted to finding a letter she wrote to Santa 50 years ago
Le Manitoba vient en aide au patrimoine de la province
Archives of Manitoba – Christmas menu for Canadian troops training in England
Faire une recherche dans les journaux historiques de la BANQ
BAnQ – La vie au front : un legs photographique d’Eugène Mackay-Papineau
Canadian Federation of Library Associations Update
Historians move to strip Sir John A. Macdonald’s name from prestigious book prize
Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections (York University) – Singing the Toronto Subway Song
Plus de contenu LGBTQ québécois sur Wikipédia
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Noël à Montréal
Voeux de Noël du président du Regroupement des archivistes religieux
Soeurs des Saints Noms de Jésus et de Marie – La préservation des documents
Toronto-York subway extension is now officially open (Archives of Ontario now easier to access)
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/12/17/toronto-york-subway-extension-is-now-officially-open.html
The State of Artificial Intelligence in Montreal: Startups, Investment, and What it Means for the City
Archives de Montréal – Montréal sous la tempête du verglas, janvier 1998
Ottawa – City risks closing book on 2017 with a stalled library project
North York-based Archives of Ontario highlights Santa letters
Cobourg (Ontario) to pen letter asking Torstar to make Northumberland Today archives available to public
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – Special Delivery from Norway
Cascades s’associe avec Archives Bois-Francs
La lignée Tremblay, ou l’aventure nord-américaine d’une signature ADN
Afrique / Africa
Patrimoine documentaire: la Côte d’Ivoire dans la vision de l’Unesco
Côte d’Ivoire – Vers l’adoption d’une méthode commune de gestion des archives publiques
Amériques / Americas
New JFK files reveal Oswald was on CIA’s mail watch list, FBI misplaced his fingerprints
Unisys books $10M National Archives Google cloud project
Q&A with Trevor Owens, Library of Congress Head of Digital Content Management
National Library of Medicine – Happy One Billion, PubMed Central
Declassified nuclear detonation films released to the public for the first time
Speech recognition technology used to analyze Apollo mission tapes
California State Archives Releases Nearly 3,000 Newly Digitized Photos of Early 20th Century Life and Landmarks
Arizona – Court rules private cell phones can contain public records
Researchers use stains to explore the history of centuries-old University of Iowa manuscripts
University of Pennsylvania – Archival Collections as Data for Digital Scholarship
Indiana University is putting 1970s beer and ice cream commercials online, and they’re hilarious
The College Student who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots
African-American History Seen Through an African-American Lens
Who Are the Users of the Met’s Online Collection?
An Important Archive of New York Quilt History Is Being Digitized
There’s an archivist for that! Interview with Samantha Bradbeer, Hallmark archivist
The Father of Modern Libraries was a Serial Sexual Harasser
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia – Advice of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on the importance of records
State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales (Australia) – Recordkeeping FAQs: using third party software for business transactions
Queensland State Archives (Australia) – Annual records round-up: sentencing
Windradyne and problem with reconciliation
Suspension of Physical Transfers to the Wellington Office of Archives New Zealand
New Zealand – Outdated tech trove keeps digital archives alive
New Zealand – Ngāi Tahu mapping project reveals original Māori placenames in Southland
Malaysia Records Management Society – Recent Projects of a Preservation Framework for Digital Preservation
Indonesia – Files show birth of Papua independence struggle
Unexplored Indonesian island is covered in tiny 2,500-year-old cave paintings
Bangladesh – Rare documents on Liberation War go online
The Central Information Commission tells National Archives of India to ease access to records on Mahatma Gandhi assassination
Europe / Europa
Finnish National Bibliography Released as Open Data
Sweden criticized for classifying almost 900 pages about its United Nations campaign
Estonia, the digital republic
Eleven unique Georgian film rolls return home from Russian archive
Portraits de bibliothécaires de la Biblioteca nacional de España
Belgium ends 19th-Century telegram service
Suisse – Le délai de protection des documents du Conseil fédéral versés aux archives réduit à 30 ans
France – Guerre d’Algérie, Thomas Sankara… Quels choix politiques pour les archives françaises ?
Halting Auction, France Designates Marquis de Sade Manuscript a National Treasure
Balzac manuscript top seller at sale of vast French collection
Bob Geldof to donate highly sought after documents from Band Aid to the National Library of Ireland
Irish Film Institute announces Local Films for Local People 2018
Scotland – Dumfries asylum patient artworks put online
UK National Archives – Closure of the Information Fair Trader Scheme announced
UK National Archives – How to read 43,000 cabinet papers
UK National Archives – Strange meeting: from Voysey’s heresy to Aldred’s anarchism
Queen Elizabeth I Letters donation announced by British Library
British Library – A medieval recipe for gingerbread
A Festive Free-for-all: British Film Institute Releases Silent Orphans on Youtube
The Natural History Museum is going high tech to save its archive
Victoria and Albert Museum unveils digital reproduction declaration
The Tories are savaging libraries and closing the book on social mobility
University of Oxford – New Conservative Party Archive releases under the 30 year rule
University of York – How would you change Archivematica’s Format Policy Registry?
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Les archives sauvages de la musique arabe : un patrimoine exceptionnel à l’abandon
De vieux films palestiniens retrouvés dans les archives de l’armée israélienne
How girls built a library in the Gaza Strip
Egypt reopens ancient monastery containing thousands of rare manuscripts
United Arab Emirates – Sharjah Ruler donates Fifth batch of rare manuscripts to Al Qasimia University
International
Reforming UNESCO’s action on Memory of the World
The Most Amazing Archival Treasures that Were Digitized this Year
Ce qu’il ne fallait pas rater en 2017 autour des projets en humanités numériques & GLAM
Collaboration and Digital Preservation
The Librarians Saving the Internet
JHOVE: the one and only PDF validator
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