Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec – Avis sur le projet de loi 164
European Commission – Final report of the High Level Expert Group on Fake News and Online Disinformation
Open the Government – Closing Democracy’s Window: the Growing Culture of Secrecy in Washington and the Erosion of the Public’s Right to Know
De la communauté / From the community
Le goût de l’archive à l’ère numérique (pour commentaires)
International Alliance of Research Library Associations – Research Library Values Statement
Record: the University of Sydney (Australia) Archives 2017
Preprint – Open Metadata for Research Data Discovery in Canada
Book Chapter – Indigenous Information Literacy: Nêhiyaw Kinship Enabling Self-Care in Research
Préface – Qu’est-ce que l’archéologie des média ?
Paper – Defining the Role of Libraries in the Open Science Landscape: a Reflection on Current European Practice
Paper – Knowledge Graphs in the Libraries and Digital Humanities Domain
Publications
Information Research: an International Electronic Journal, vol. 23, no. 1 (2018)
The Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction, vol. 5, no. 1 (2018)
Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Studies, vol. 68, no. 1 (2018)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 8, no. 2 (2018)
Society of American Archivists – Archival Outlook (March-April 2018)
Mémoire de maîtrise (Université Paris Nanterre) – La généalogie à l’ère numérique : nouvelles approches, nouveaux défis
ARMA International TR 31-2018 – Implementing Electronic Messaging Policies
Book – Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices
Book – The Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Property Law
Book – Scientific Knowledge Communication in Museums
Book – Museums in a Time of Migration: Rethinking Museums’ Roles, Representations, Collections, and Collaborations
Book – Digital Humanities, Libraries, and Partnerships: a Critical Examination of Labor, Networks, and Community
Book – Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts
Book – The GDPR Handbook: a Guide to Implementing the EU General Data Protection Regulation
Graphic Novel – Archival Quality
Livre – L’ADN, un outil généalogique
Livre – Nouvelles générations du patrimoine en Afrique
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Beyond Borges: Telling Tales of Future Libraries
March 22, 2018, Vancouver
Indigenous Writers’ Gathering
March 28, 2018, Ottawa
Legal Issues for Archives
March 29, 2018, St. John’s (Newfoundland)
Genealogy Day at the Archives of Ontario
April 5, 2018, Toronto
Workshop on Digital Archives
March 21, 2018, London (UK)
The Role of Archives in Addressing Refugee Crises
March 29, 2018, Richmond (UK)
Memory, Identity and Trust 2018
April 25-27, 2018, Dundee (Scotland)
Second Workshop on Scientific Archives
August 13-14, 2018, Washington D.C.
15th Image and Research International Conference
November 21-24, 2018, Girona (Spain)
Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (Videos Available)
February 23-24, 2018, New York
Sur le web / On the web
Historical Reminiscents Podcast: Open Source Public History
Video – Sunshine Week 2018 at the U.S. National Archives
Library of Congress Video – The Share-VdeE Project: Fulfilling the Potential of Bibframe
UK National Archives Podcast – The Archives of the Future
An Archivist’s Tale Podcast – From Latent Data to Active Knowledge Making (Brenda Scruggs Gunn)
Archivist’s Alley Podcast – Community, Culture & Creativity
Baladodiffusion – Auguste Prudhomme, archiviste de renom
Libraries, Archives, Museums with Open Data Policies
Documenting the Now Slack
Présentation – Europeana et IIIF
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Let Canada Be First to Turn an Open Access Research Policy Into a Legal Right to Know
Information governance: we have a lot of catching up to do in Canada
Former Information Commissioner Legault rules Harper Conservatives violated policy by muzzling government scientists, and Trudeau Liberals ignoring recommendations needed to stop muzzling
Section 68 of the Access to Information Act: published materials
Fight over secret residential school documents back in court
Google Is Back In Canadian Court to Fight Global Search Censorship
National Association for Information Destruction-Canada Testimony Leads to Government Action
Library and Archives Canada Mismanaged, Court Told: it Was Craziness…
Library and Archives Canada – No Favouritism, Court Told
Bibliothèque et Archives Canada et bibliothèque centrale d’Ottawa : un mariage qui profite aux deux
Library and Archives Canada – New Rare Book: Tupper Family Bible
Statistics Canada loses, mishandles hundreds of sensitive census, employment files
Correctional Service to hire its own IT after being drastically hit by Shared Services’s data centre outage
The Politics of the Archive: new work explores the National Film Board Still Photograph Division
National Heritage Digitization Strategy: Update (March 2018)
B.C. Archives hold rulings that shaped our history
Mystery portrait of Capt. George Vancouver revealed at Royal B.C. Museum
Meet Serge, a Customer Service Reference Archivist at the Archives of Ontario
Royal Ontario Museum – The Rules of Taxonomy: how Species Are Named
Archives of Manitoba – An Officer’s View of the Great War: Francis Collinson’s Scrapbook
Archives of Manitoba – Cecil Bradbury: from First World War veteran to HBC employee in the Eastern Arctic
From arugula to zucchini: Yukoners swapping seeds and advice at seed library
La Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec demande à Québec de renoncer à amender la loi sur l’accès à l’information
Québec – 100 ans, c’est trop long, affirment les généalogistes
BAnQ – Les Canadiens de Montréal et Joe Malone en séries éliminatoires
Glenbow Museum explores the art of the self-portrait with the Artist’s Mirror
Canadian Centre for Architecture – The Quest for a Universal Translator for Old, Obsolete Computer Files
Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives – What’s in the Archives? LGBTQ2+ Kids’ Lit
Announcing the inaugural Canadian Web Archiving Coalition Coordinating Committee membership
Sifting through University of British Columbia’s rare books and special collections section
Looking back on seven years at the University of British Columbia Digitization Centre
University of British Columbia – Meet Ashlynn Prasad: emerging archivist and Association of Research Libraries Mosaic Fellow
University of Waterloo Special Collections and Archives – Fine art and Archive
Algoma University – Delving in to the History of Residential Schools
Algoma University – Crystal Shawanda’s Wikipedia article just grew a little
McGill University library offers peek inside Jean Drapeau’s mind
University of Victoria – Beyond text: the book as art
Dalhousie University Welcomes Master in Information Management Grad as New Records Manager
Archives de la ville de Québec – Cartes postales de France
https://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/citoyens/patrimoine/archives/blogue/billet-carte-postales-france.aspx
Red Deer (Alberta) – Recreation archives available to public thanks to grant
New archivist finding treasures at the Colchester Historeum (Nova Scotia)
Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (Ontario) – Recent Acquisition Highlight: Peel Railway Records
Kleinburg (Ontario) – McMichael gallery showcases archive of Canadian hip-hop culture
Peterborough Museum and Archives (Ontario) readies the city’s future protectors
Drummondville – Le Musée national de la photographie, vaste et lumineux
A grateful nation’s gift of a gun recalls a painful episode from Canada’s military past
Anglo-Celtic Connections – Celebrating 12 Years Blogging
L’EDC du parfait archiviste!
Afrique / Africa
African Development Bank Board Approves Records Management Policy
Nigeria’s security: military reveals strategy to improve on information management
South Africa – Oral history aims to heal
Amériques / Americas
U.S. Department of Justice Announces Launch of National Freedom of Information Act Portal
U.S. Sets New Record for Censoring, Withholding Government Files
Agencies Struggling to Respond to Freedom of Information Act Requests for Email
NARA – Roles and Responsibilities for Records Management Programs
National Archives Microfilm Duplication Goes Fully Digital
Law Library of Congress digitally releases U.S. Reports from 1791 to 2004
Library of Congress saves the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus and other online web cultures
National Library of Medicine – The Research Ecosystem: on the Future of Scientific Communication
Department of Defense – Suppressed Afghanistan War Data Now Published
Could the open government movement shut the door on Freedom of Information?
A big part of a journalist’s value comes from the fight to uncover public records
How public records requests helped teens, but still so much to do
Society of American Archivists – Capitol: Capturing Common Ground
Society of American Archivists – Impressions on Collection Development Policies and Practice
State Archives of North Carolina – Interactive Record Type Guides
State Archives of North Carolina – Administrative Office of the Courts’ Electronic Records and Imaging Policy: Part 1
Q&A: Oregon’s new public records advocate talks transparency
Data collection bill will make Florida the most transparent state in the nation
Hawaii Declines Requests for Records on False Missile Alert
Federal Funding Impact Story #9: Mississippi University for Women
Yale University – Beinecke Library acquires Clumber Park Chartier; digital version online
The Historian’s Laboratory: the Beckman Legacy in the Caltech Archives
Largest Witchcraft Collection in North America Opens at Cornell University
Carnegie Mellon University Acquires William H. Putch Archives
How the photographers behind the Women’s March are capturing and archiving history
How a Rare Book Appraiser Passes Judgment in 30 Seconds or Less
This Guy Is Trying to Archive Random Early Video Games Before they’re Lost to History
Parsimony and Elegance as Objectives for Digital Curation Processes
Lost for decades, the Alcoholics Anonymous original manuscript will be auctioned for millions
Karl Marx Letter Sold for More than $53,000 at RR Auction
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Uniting Church tackles email retention in response to Royal Commission
State Archives and Records of New South Wales (Australia) – Top digital trends affecting records, information and content management
Playing Sherlock: how a chair unlocked the story behind a portrait of a New Zealand wars soldier
Japan – Alteration of documents shakes trust in public papers
First Electronic Reading Room Has Been Opened in Kazakhstan
Film preservationists suggest regional archives because of India’s diversity
Pakistan – Punjab: government to start digitising archival material
Europe / Europa
European Union – Global digital archive provides accessible link to the past
Share your migration story with Europeana Migration
Picture of girl in Auschwitz is even more haunting transformed with colour
Germany – Files record Stasi scorn for Labour in the 70s
Transkribus volunteer tackles Danish handwriting
Manuscripts believed to be of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt presented in Budapest
Slovakia – The Bratislava city’s memory is not only about kings but also ordinary people
Malta – Minister admits he has granted discretionary power to remove court documents online
France – Secret-défense ou l’État de non-droit
France – Politique des archives publiques : les femmes ordinaires seront les premières sacrifiée
French village finds messages from WWI-era US soldiers
The IFI Irish Film Archive at Maynooth University opens
National Museum of Scotland goes virtual in online first
Erskine Hospital – First World War hospital admissions data goes online
UK National Archives – Digital archiving: the seven pillars of metadata
UK National Archives – Manage your collections: new version now live
UK National Archives – Surveying our transparent papers: volunteers in Collection Care
UK National Archives – Suffragettes, 1912: rather broken windows than broken promises
UK National Archives – Surveying our transparent papers: volunteers in Collection Care
Top 10 UFO documents at the National Archives
British Library – Memories of Stephen Hawking in An Oral History of British Science
British Library – Working with BL Labs in search of Sir Jagadis Chandra Bose
British Library – Mozart’s Diary where he Composed his Final Masterpieces Is Now Digitized and Available Online
The UK Web Archive: Mental Health, Social Media and the Internet Collection
UK – Second businessman begins right to be forgotten fight with Google
Cambridge University – Most extensive Royal Commonwealth Society photograph release yet
The Sainsbury Archive Chooses Preservica to Create New Cloud-Based Digital Archive
Rare collection of Royal Charters to be preserved by Lincoln project
Tens of thousands of unseen post-war images of Manchester unveiled online for first time
Secrets over Patrick “Guiseppe” Conlon’s pub bomb prison death
How a Trove of Lost Jane Goodall Footage Became One of the Best Documentaries of the Year
Teenager’s rare Beatles photos of first US tour expected to sell for £250,000
Re-discovering a piece of history: Roger Bannister negs
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Palestinian Museum’s digital archive project to preserve heritage
Israel May Declassify Jewish Agency Archives Dealing with Racist Absorption of North African Jews
Missing Files on Israeli Yemenite Children Who Disappeared in the 1950s Made Public
Saudi Crown Prince, Archbishop view fragments of one of oldest Qur’an manuscripts
Ancient manuscripts in Iraq saved from ISIL
International
Unesco Persist Joins Forces with Digital Preservation Coalition
http://unescopersist.org/2018/03/09/unesco-persist-joins-forces-with-digital-preservation-coalition/
Crunch Time: the revised ISO 15489 and the future of recordkeeping
International Tracing Service – I have to search name by name
The Libraries that Preserve the History of Small Islands
Managing Static and Active Metadata in Support of Content Preservation
A Pragmatist’s Guide to Developing Corporate Archive Policy
The government’s role in constructing the data-driven economy