Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
European Commission – General Data Protection Regulation Guidance
NARA – Electronic Records Modernization Federal Integrated Business Framework and Use Cases for Electronic Messages (for Comments)
UK National Archives – Information Management Assessment – Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Action Plan: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/dcms-ima-action-plan.pdf
UK National Archives – Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: Operational Selection Procedure 1992-2016 (Draft)
UK Information Commissioner Office – Children and the General Data Protection Regulation Guidance (for Comments)
De la communauté / From the community
Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre (B.C.) – New Strategic Plan: 2018-2021
Communia – Policy Paper on the 2017 Review of the Directive on Public Sector Information
Réaliser un plan de gestion de données FAIR : guide de rédaction
The Future of Cataloguing in Egypt: an Action Plan
Publications
Comma: International Journal on Archives, vol. 2016, no. 1-2 (2018)
Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, vol. 13, no. 3 (2017)
Information & Culture: a Journal of History, vol. 53, no. 1 (2018)
San Jose State University School of Information Student Research Journal, vol. 7, no. 2 (2018)
Falkland Islands National Archives Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 5 (2017)
Library Zine: Voices from Across the New York Public Library, vol. 1, no. 2 (2017)
Quarterly Newsletter on Grey Literature, vol. 10, no. 1 (2018)
Ph.D. Thesis (Radboud University) – Access to and Retrievability of Content in Web Archives
Report – Project Management in Libraries, Archives and Museums
Book – U.S. Record Retention Requirements: a Guide to 100 Commonly Encountered Records Series
Book – Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval: Understanding Metadata and its Use (Second Edition)
Book – Language as Hermeneutic: a Primer on the Word and Digitization
Book – Cultural Heritage Care and Management: Theory and Practice
Book – Desperate Victories: Military Despatches from Dunkirk to the Battle of Britain
Book – Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects
Book – User Privacy: a Practical Guide for Librarians
Book – Health Sciences Collection Management for the Twenty-First Century
Livre – Arnold Van Gennep : du folklore à l’ethnographie
Livre – (Ré)aménager une bibliothèque
Livre – Faire son arbre généalogique par Internet
Livre – Qu’est-ce que l’archéologie des média ?
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
The Sinking of the SS Princess Sophia
Until February 28, 2018, Whitehorse
Canada at the Winter Olympics: Library and Archives Canada Is Game
February 7, 2018, Ottawa
Community Oral History Writer’s Workshop: Using Oral Histories to Write Creative Non-Fiction
March 16, 2018, Medicine Hat (Alberta)
A Tour of the Royal Ontario Museum Library and Archives
February 23, 2018, Toronto
Responsible use of Bibliometrics in Practice
January 30, 2018, London (UK)
Association des archivistes suisses – Le Web des données (Linked Data) dans le domaine des archives : entre théorie et pratique
21 février 2018, Berne
Trust Certification for Digital Repositories: the CoreTrustSeal
March 2, 2018, London (UK)
UK National Archives – There will Be Wings: the First World War Origins of the RAF
March 2, 2018, Kew
2018 Western Archives Institute
June 10-22, 2018, San Diego
Current Research in Digital History
March 17, 2018, Arlington (Virginia)
Histoire du son & documents sonores (vidéos disponibles)
24 novembre 2017, Berne
Sur le web / On the web
Podcast – Shout for Libraries: Canadian Copyright
University of Toronto – Discover Archives
Canadian Centre for Architecture Video – Eve Blau, Richard Pare, and Phyllis Lambert on Photographic Evidence
University of British Columbia Video – Records Management 101: Document Naming Conventions
McGill Library – New Website: Women, Work, and Song in Nineteenth-Century France
Historical Reminiscents Podcast: Fostering Meaningful Student Work Experiences
Video – The Bookworms of France’s National Library
Slides – Crafting Resistance: Archiving and Documenting the Art of Chilean Refugees
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Federal petition seeks GST exemption, preferential postal rates, and tax credits for books
Electronic Wills Down Under and Closer to Home
Canada Leverages Ethereum Blockchain for Public Transparency of Government Grants
Canada Border Services Agency struggling under freedom of information backlog
Judge says lawyer slandered court for suggesting it favoured Canada on St. Anne’s case
A new way to search the Library and Archives Canada collections
Library and Archives Canada – What’s new in the collection: the winter 2018 edition is out
Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation – Educational resources put 3D artifacts into the hands of Canadian students
Ontario – Former Dalton McGuinty chief of staff found guilty of deleting documents in wake of power plants cancellation
Archives of Ontario – Digitized Government Publications
B.C. – Time to reform freedom-of-information laws
Prince Edward Island Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act Review – Where the key players stand on releasing information to you
Behind Barb Wire: Newfoundland Prisonners of War’s in the Great War
Alberta – Dark family secrets: Anonymous letter uncovers child welfare records
Saskatchewan’s structural history available for all to see at Government House
Archives of Manitoba – Kiwanis Club Luncheons, January 1918
BAnQ – 50 ans après le décès de Conrad Poirier, des photographies toujours bien vivantes
Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives – Volunteers at the Archives
Access Copyright v. York University, and the Friends of Intellectual Property
University of Alberta – Computer scientist claims clues to deciphering mysterious Voynich manuscript
Memorial University’s Maritime History Archive – Multiple New Collections Available
Blockchain@UBC study analyzes the application of Blockchain technology in Brazil’s land registry
https://medium.com/@nathanwosnack_75360/ubitquity-featured-in-blockchain-ubc-case-study-886af46864a1
Open science: University of Toronto researchers to publish lab notes in real time
https://www.utoronto.ca/news/open-science-university-toronto-researchers-publish-lab-notes-real-time
200 ans sous la coupole : visite en photos de l’Université de Saint-Boniface
Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse – Recherchés : annuaires et journaux étudiants
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Random Finds Are the Best
City of Vancouver – Houses and Schools and Churches: Oh My! Newly digitized Heritage Inventory photographs now available
Seize photos de Montréal il y a 110 ans
Why isn’t Waterloo Region a leader in open government data?
La Société d’histoire du Témiscamingue risque de perdre la subvention de la BAnQ
Uplifting news for Kitimat Museum Archives (B.C.)
Simcoe Archives (Ontario) – Mrs. Malcolm MacLeod and her recipe for butter tart filling
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – Winter Fun, Winter Work
Archives Lanaudière – Les gardiens de notre histoire collective
http://www.larevue.qc.ca/communautaire_a-votre-service-gardiens-notre-histoire-collective-n45372.php
New Brunswick – Briefcase found in attic holds clues to secret society of francophones
Longtime Toronto International Film Festival librarian amassed a collection of film memorabilia
Five Questions with Nathalie Bélanger, Chief of Law library at Université de Montréal
Lost First World War medal to be returned to family of teenage soldier
Afrique / Africa
South African history lies unnoticed at Wits University
http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/south-african-history-lies-unnoticed-at-wits-12837556
Amériques / Americas
Jamaica – Preservation of Culture and Heritage Vital: Minister Grange
Haïti – Politique : 3 millions d’haïtiens ne sont pas inscrit dans les registres nationaux
Partnering on Digital Archives and Human Rights in Guatemala
National Archives Authority of Saint Lucia presents Women in the Art for Nobel Laureate Festival 2018
Photography in Argentina, 1850-2010: Contradiction and Continuity
Presidential Records Act Lawsuit Targets White House’s Disappearing Messaging Apps
National Security Agency deleted surveillance data it pledged to preserve
A huge cache of Rumsfeld memos were just released: here are the best ones
Barack Obama’s archive plan is a model for reform of other presidential libraries
NARA – The Measure of a Screen: Motion Picture Aspect Ratios in the Archives
NARA – Advisory Committee Puts Forward Unanimous Recommendations to Improve Freedom of Information Act
Library of Congress – Virtual Card Catalog Available Online
Library of Congress – Making a Newspaperbot
Library of Congress – Calling All Photo Fans and History Detectives: Flickr Commons, 10th Anniversary
National Library of Medicine – ClinicalTrials.gov Moves Toward Increased Transparency
Smithsonian – Is there a place for paleography in archives?
Documenting History: Georgia Archives celebrating 100 years
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – Federal Record Keeping in a Digital Dark Age, Capture and Protect Social Media from the Wolf
Long lost recording of Martin Luther King Jr. speech in Maine made available online
Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Holocaust Survivor’s Digital Doppelgänger
Documenting the Nuremberg trials: at Harvard Law School, a digital record preserves a million-page legacy
Why a Collection of Simone de Beauvoir’s Love Letters Was Just Sold to Yale University
Rutgers University archivist collecting Women’s March signs and memorabilia
University of Michigan – Disk Imaging for Preservation: Part 1
Metropolitan State University in Denver – Saving Colorado’s creative voices
Arizona State University adds two signed books by Martin Luther King Jr. to archive
University of Notre Dame – Digital archive of historic Father Hesburgh works now available
These Scientists Got to See their Competitors’ Research Through Public Records Requests
Digital archive of signs from last year’s Boston Women’s March now available online
Man who inherits Nat Turner’s Bible feels burden of history
Internet Archives – TV News Record: State of the Union, past and future
Keeping the Art of Silent Film Music Alive
Century-old botany records may hold key to monarch butterfly survival
All Good Magazines Go to Heaven
Exploring handwritten digit classification: a tidy analysis of the Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology dataset
National Digital Stewardship Alliance Member Profile: Sally Vermaaten of the Gates Archive
Society of American Archivists – Amazon HQ2 and the Right-to-Know
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Saving historic Tasmanian documents for future generations becomes retired librarian’s labour of love
Australia – Historian Bruce Smith opens up archives to reveal Cadbury’s delicious secrets
Australia – Disrupting traditional archiving and storage methods
Joining the dots: pathways for sharing information safely across silos
The Mystery Manuscript Found in a Used Copy of Alice in Wonderland
Birth of Digital Humanities: Kansai University, Japan, launches Open Research Center for Asian Studies
Taiwan – Government pushes data act to get papers to archives
Preserving remnants of Malaysia’s historical assets
Kazakhstan – Ministry of Culture proposes to expand the list of paid services of state archives
Archival information on genealogy to be chargeable in Kazakhstan
Bangladesh Film Archive gets a makeover
Mahatma Gandhi assassination case records part of Indian
India – National Archive, London to hand over copies of four files about Udham Singh
India – No documentation of Kashmir’s historic buildings with archives department
India – Padmaavat row sparks interest in Sufi poet’s manuscript in Patna
Europe / Europa
53 % des universités européennes possèdent des archives ouvertes
2017: a Good Year for the Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents Project
The Dreams of an Inventor in 1420
Portuguese Web Archives – We archived the Web Pages of the Portuguese Municipal Elections of 2017
Netherlands – Expatriate Archives Center – Saudade: an Intersection of Archives and Art
Belgium – VRT Preserves its Audio Heritage
France – Hervé Lemoine relève le défi du Mobilier national (et quitte les Archives de France)
L’archivage électronique dans le secteur public en France, des raisons d’être optimiste
The Seine is overflowing, but these archival photos of 1910 Paris show this has happened before
Huge archive documenting Northern Ireland in the 1990s goes online
Ireland – TG4 launches archive of its súil eile on news and current affairs
UK – Government announces anti-fake news unit
UK National Archives – Catalogue as Data: the basics
British Library – Using Transkribus for handwritten text recognition with the India Office Records
British Library – Archiving the UK Copyright Literacy blog
National Health Service Digital approves data off-shoring in new guidance
Royal College of Music launches new database of musical instruments
University of Leeds acquires Dame Fanny Waterman’s archive
100-year story of Westland through oral histories
How Can a Museum Use Kickstarter to Crowdfund?
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Dead Sea Scrolls manuscript pieced together and deciphered
Archival Testimony Reveals how Close Israel Came to Entering First Gulf War
Launching of the Centennial Initiative by the National Archives of United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates – Sheikh Zayed Hall in the National Archives
Newly-leaked documents describe Iranian state-sanctioned persecution of Baha’is
Protests Underscore the Potential Power of Iran’s Access to Information Law
Iraqi-Jewish archive triggers traumatic memories
Islamic State Extremists Are Using the Internet Archive to Deliver Propaganda
International
International Tracing Service – The more you search, the more you find
Vocabulaires dans le web de données : quels outils open-source ?
WWII Games Become a Vital History Lesson as the Greatest Generation Dies Out
Peter Jackson is modernizing World War I footage for new documentary
Did you Know that Deleting your Confidential Data Doesn’t Actually Erase it?
Two research that will change photography forever