Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada – Departmental Plan 2018-2019
Swiss e-Government Standard – Linked Open Data
Public Record Office of Victoria (Australia) – Retention and Disposal Authority for Records of the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme for Health Practitioners
De la communauté / From the community
Educopia Institute – News on the Margins: Surfacing Marginalized Voices in the Newspaper Collections of Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Historic Libraries Forum – Cataloguing Incunabula
http://www.historiclibrariesforum.org.uk/hlf/Guides/Incunabula%20Cataloguing%20Guide.pdf
Unesco’s Geneva Declaration – Human Rights and Culture Heritage: Committed Cities Working Together
Open Standards for Data Guidebook
http://theodi.org/article/announcing-the-open-standards-for-data-guidebook/
Open Science Training Handbook
Article – Managing Copyright in Digital Collections: a Focus on Creative Commons Licences
Article – Lessons from DataRescue: the Limits of Grassroots Climate Change Data Preservation and the Need for Federal Records Law Reform
http://www.pennlawreview.com/online/166-U-Pa-L-Rev-Online-231.pdf
Publications
The Reading Room: a Journal of Special Collections, vol. 3, no. 1 (2018)
Information & Culture: a Journal of History, vol. 53, no. 2 (2018)
Free eBook – Remote Capture: Digitising Documentary Heritage in Challenging Locations
Book – Text, Lies and Cataloging: Ethical Treatment of Deceptive Works in the Library
Book – Letters to the Contrary: a Curated History of the Unesco Human Rights Survey
Book – The Known Citizen: a History of Privacy in Modern America
Book – Reclaiming Fair Use: how to Put Balance Back in Copyright (Second Edition)
Book – Practising Community-Based Participatory Research: Stories of Engagement, Empowerment, and Mobilization
Book – The Monumental Challenge of Preservation: the Past in a Volatile World
Book – Museums and Written Communication: Tradition and Innovation
Book – Performing History: how to Research, Write, Act, and Coach Historical Performances
Livre – En quête d’archives : bricolages méthodologiques en terrain médiatiques
Livre – Le travail invisible des données : éléments pour une sociologie des infrastructures scripturales
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta – Genealogy Workshops
April 29 and May 27, 2018, Calgary
A Century of Ontario Photographs
May 15, 2018, Toronto
Library and Archives Canada – Signatures Series: Tomson Highway
May 15, 2018, Ottawa
Introduction to the British Columbia Archives with the Greater Victoria Public Library Summer Reading Programme
August 15, 2018, Victoria
Library of Congress Webcast – Engaging our Veterans to Preserve their Histories
April 23, 2018
Detecting Semantic Shift in Large Corpora by Exploiting Temporal Random Indexing
April 23, 2018, London (UK)
Thirteenth International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems
April 24-27, 2018, Vienna (Austria)
An Introduction to Moving Image Metadata
May 2, 2018, London (UK)
Is this Permanence: Preservation of Born-digital Artists’ Archives
May 11, 2018, Yale University
Webinar – Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & American Library Association: an Equitable Future for Libraries and the Profession
May 15, 2018
Digitization and Libraries: the Future of the Past
May 30, 2018, Roma (Italy)
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digitization-and-libraries-the-future-of-the-past-tickets-44026509475
Creative Commons Certificate
Starting July 2018
Archives matérielles, traces mémorielles & littératures des Afriques
25-27 septembre 2019, Aix-en-Provence (France)
Archives and Records Professionals for Research Data Interest Group (Presentation Available)
March 23, 2018, Berlin
http://www.rd-alliance.org/archives-and-records-professionals-research-data-ig-rda-plenary-11-berlin
Webinar – Next Generation Repositories: New Functionalities and Technologies for Repositories (Video Available)
April 18, 2018
Sur le web / On the web
La terminologie en science de l’information de l’École de bibliothéconomie et de sciences de l’information (Université de Montréal)
Osgoode Society Oral History now on Twitter
Coquitlam (B.C.) Archives Virtual Exhibit – May Day: the Celebration of Spring
Historical Reminiscents Podcast – Conference Season: Networking as an Introvert
Omeka Everywhere Now Available
Video – Managing Stress in the Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums Sector
British Library – Classical Podcast Number 1 : the First Orchestral Record Made in Britain and the Extraordinary Story of Norfolk Megone, Nelson and Bonaparte
Archifiltre : vos fichiers et dossiers, comme vous ne les avez jamais vus
Slides – University Futures, Library Futures: Aligning Academic Library Services to Emerging Institutional Needs
Slides – The Privileged Link: Open Access, Version of Record, or Let the User Decide?
Slides – Querying on a Decentralized Web
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Federal government should make robust reforms to Access to Information Act: report card
Fair dealing not to blame for publishers’ losses, education groups tells MPs
Canada to Explore Government Service Delivery with Alexa and Other Methods
Digitizing Canadian Collections funding call
This App Can Tell you the Indigenous History of the Land you Live on
There’s a massive free catalogue of Indigenous films online: and we have six picks to get you started
Library and Archives Canada – Introducing Co-Lab: your tool to collaborate on historical records
Library and Archives Canada – 80-year extension on access-to-info request appears to be a record
Stephen Harper: Library and Archives Canada’s million dollar man
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2018/04/stephen-harper-lacs-million-dollar-man.html
CBC says it will carry on with destruction of broadcast archives once digitized
Manitoba government abandons plan to stop putting public notices in papers
Archives of Manitoba – Lieutenant John Boswell of the Winnipeg Rifles gets married during his leave
Nova Scotia – Province was warned about sloppy database security over a year ago
Nova Scotia filled its public Freedom of Information Archive with citizens’ private data, then arrested the teen who discovered it
Nova Scotia – Man accused in privacy breach gets support from lawyer, tech community
Québec : mise en place d’un conseil du numérique
http://www.directioninformatique.com/quebec-mise-en-place-dun-conseil-du-numerique/56218
Québec assure la survie de 32 centres d’archives régionaux
Bonification du programmes d’agrément des services d’archives privées et de traitement des archives privées
Regroupement des services d’archives privées agréés du Québec – Un bel effort pour les archives, mais insuffisant
Société d’histoire de la Rivière-du-Nord – Réaction à la subvention du gouvernement pour les services d’archives agréés
http://www.facebook.com/mobilisationarchives/posts/2126032800975097
BAnQ – Bris de fiançailles : quand une rupture mène en Cour
Une carte manuscrite du fleuve Saint-Laurent refait surface
La cinémathèque québécoise, témoin de l’évolution du cinéma et de la télévision d’ici
Une somme de 500 000 $ pour soutenir le projet de numérisation des archives audiovisuelles de la Cinémathèque québécoise
Digital Trends and Initiatives in Education: the Study the Association of Canadian Publishers Tried To Bury
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2018/04/digital-trends-and-initiativesstudy/
University of British Columbia – Letters from Japanese-Canadian teenagers recount life after being exiled from B.C. coast
Algoma University – Annual Reports of the Shingwauk and Wawanosh Homes
http://kristamccracken.ca/?p=1837
Histoire de la bibliothèque de l’Université Laval : entretien avec Richard Dufour
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2018/04/16/bibliotheque_ulaval/
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto) – Canada in Print exhibition catalogue wins prestigious award
http://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/news/canada-print-exhibition-catalogue-wins-prestigious-award
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Friend of my soul, farewell to thee! The death of Thomas D’Arcy McGee
Les reliques du diocèse de London suscitent une frénésie internationale
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1095403/reliques-diocese-london-demande
Ottawa – City announces shortlist of five teams to design new central library
http://ottawa.ca/en/news/city-announces-shortlist-five-teams-design-new-central-library
Toronto Public Library – Discover Stratford Ontario (Digital Archive Photos)
Edmonton’s new historian laureate wants your grandmother’s shopping list
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-historian-laureate-1.4619611
Found Footage Festival (Calgary) will feature David Letterman’s VHS archives
Un tribunal réussit son virage numérique pour moins de 135 000$
http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2018/04/15/un-tribunal-reussit-son-virage-numerique-pour-moins-de-135-000
The Unrealized Potential of Courthouse Libraries
High River (Alberta) – Volunteer photo archivist receives prestigious award
http://www.highrivertimes.com/2018/04/16/volunteer-photo-archivist-receives-prestigious-award
$1.5M awarded for Delta Cultural Centre (B.C.) renovations
His father brought hundreds of Jewish tailors to Canada now he’s stitching together their stories
Canadian discovers secret about slave roots
http://www.royalgazette.com/news/article/20180411/canadian-discovers-secret-about-slave-roots
Une collection de black metal unique au monde
L’artiste Dominique Beauregard, les archives une source d’inspiration
OpenText may benefit from new data privacy rules: Industrial Alliance
Afrique / Africa
Ethiopia asks for permanent return of looted artifacts from Britain
Kenya’s surveyors back digitization of land records
Kenya – Court suspends digitization of land documents at Ardhi House
South Africa – Declassifying Documents: where Are they, and how Do we Do it?
Amériques / Americas
White House quickly improves email security after report
http://www.axios.com/white-house-quickly-improves-email-security-dbea7906-5170-45d8-801a-7123cf192b43.html
Growing Pentagon Secrecy Draws Questions
John Moss and the Roots of the Freedom of Information Act: Worldwide Implications
NARA – More Philippine war files not yet accessible
NARA – Unidentified Flying Objects: Natural Explanations
http://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2018/04/16/ufos-natural-explanations/
NARA – Eleven Bookmobiles that Make Archivists Want to Hit the Road
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Condolence Mail Project
Newly-discovered Note Reveals Truman’s Fight for Israel Recognition
Clinton Presidential Library Releases New Photos of Harvey Weinstein From the 1990s
Presidential library publishes digital archive of papers from Abraham Lincoln’s first 33 years
Library of Congress to collect every e-book
Library of Congress – Papers of Benjamin Franklin Now Online
Library of Congress Digitizes Unique Japanese Censorship Collection
Library of Congress – New Recordings Online for National Poetry Month
National Library of Medicine – Quality Data, Quality Findings
Government transparency slowly wanes in Nebraska
Over one million digital items from California cultural heritage institutions now available through Calisphere
Preserving Hawaii’s Plantation History
Uncovering Texas History, One Reel at a Time
The Great Society Congress: a Collaborative Approach to Digital Exhibits and Outreach
Indiana University – Trove of author Ray Bradbury’s papers set for preservation
http://apnews.com/994b596034244d80b860e3458294dcda/Trove-of-author-Ray-Bradbury’s-papers-set-for-preservation
University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Pennsylvania – Digital Mappa 1.0 now online: new digital resource for medievalists
http://www.medievalists.net/2018/04/digital-mappa-1-0-now-online-new-digital-resource-for-medievalists/
Rare photos of Depression-era Michigan CCC camps for black workers acquired by University of Michigan
http://www.mlive.com/expo/erry-2018/04/1a8c1edf77968/um_acquires_rare_photos_of_mic.html
New art instillation unveils Tulane University’s archives as latent treasures
University of North Carolina – Ethics in Archives: Blogging for Transparency
Old Dominion University – Web Archives are Used for Link Stability, Censorship Avoidance, and Traffic Siphoning
University of Virginia – What Page Are you on? Making Online Texts More Reliable for Teachers and Students
Texas A&M Libraries obtain rare map of Texas
Four teenagers stole rare books from a university library in 2004, and now their heist is being made into a movie
Project Stand: Documenting Student Activism from the Margins
Archive of Pioneering Comedienne Rose Marie Is Donated to the National Comedy Center
The Hottest Place to Play Retro Handheld Computer Games? Try the Internet Archive
Wikimedia and the Metropolitan Museum of Art: a shared digital vision
Search Continues for Lost Weaver Films: Stories to Preserve Tacoma’s Hollywood by the Sea
Five Years After Attack, Boston Marathon Digital Archivists Find Healing in Storytelling
Here’s how The New York Times is trying to preserve millions of old pages the way they were originally published
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – There’s no App for that: Adventures in Conserving Old Tech
http://www.sfmoma.org/read/theres-no-app-adventures-conserving-old-tech/
The Morgan Library and Museum Acquires Rare Manuscript Illumination by the Master of Catherine of Cleves
The Rise and Demise of Harlingen Historical Preservation Society
Prince’s Paisley Park is Seeking an Archives Supervisor
On working with archives: an interview with writer Saidiya Hartman
Gaps in the Collections
Vinyl records are becoming more popular than digital downloads
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Queensland Government Recordkeeping (Australia) – The cartographic art of mapping a BCS to an RDS
http://grkblog.archives.qld.gov.au/2018/04/16/the-cartographic-art-of-mapping-a-bcs-to-an-rds/
Queensland State Archives – Part three: what Some Land Records may Contain
http://blogs.archives.qld.gov.au/2018/04/17/part-3-what-some-land-records-may-contain/
State Archives and Records of New South Wales (Australia) – Reducing file share dependencies: the Aboriginal Housing Office’s approach
State Archives and Records of New South Wales – Using auto-classification to classify unmanaged records
http://futureproof.records.nsw.gov.au/using-auto-classification-to-classify-unmanaged-records/
Public Record Office of Victoria (Australia) – Are Ministers public officers and do they create public records?
Museums Victoria tries to locate family of WWI soldier Mick Ward after buying his suitcase at auction
Important message for all Christchurch Office of Archives New Zealand customers
National Library of New Zealand – The Evening Post photographic collection
Lauded overseas, Japanese movies should be protected as cultural assets
Names of 3,607 members of Imperial Japanese Army’s notorious Unit 731 released by national archives
South Korea – The City of Seoul Finally Released the Sketch of the Seoul Cinematheque (Tentative Name), the Dream of Chungmuro
South Korea – Collection of handwritten letters from Sewol victims’ families published as a book
How Long-Unpublished Press Photos Bring Life to Chinese History
India – Over 70,000 adult students to join archival survey in Kerala
India – A decaying trove of knowledge
Pakistan – National History Museum to present archival content
Pakistan – Case records destroyed as fire breaks out at Karachi City Courts
Europe / Europa
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance – Safeguarding Access to Archives
Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents – Help us Process Tables in Transkribus
Lithuania’s Polish MP again seeks publishing info on admitted ex-KGB agents
This Secret Archive Documented Life in the Warsaw Ghetto
http://www.history.com/news/holocaust-warsaw-ghetto-uprising-ringelblum-archive
Study of the Holocaust: a Way Out of Data Confusion
http://ontotext.com/holocaust-out-of-data-confusion/
Music of the Holocaust available to watch after 20 years in archive
Holocaust Is Fading from Memory, Survey Finds
Co-operation agreement between Bulgarian State Archives and Yad Vashem extended
Behold the Codex Gigas (aka Devil’s Bible), the Largest Medieval Manuscript in the World
Switzerland – Saving the spirit of communities through cultural heritage
France – Lancement de la consultation Archives pour demain
Évaluation et sélection des archives : ressources en ligne
France – Le ministère de la Culture, les archives et Ubu
Archives de France – Un outil pour traiter les vracs bureautiques : Octave
Institut mémoires de l’édition contemporaine – Une abbaye pour conserver les manuscrits et les notes des auteurs contemporains
Digital Repository of Ireland awarded Core Trust Seal
Ireland – New collection of oral histories illuminates our troubled past
Five things you might not know about the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland
Modernist Periodicals at the National Library of Scotland
Pioneering Scots photographer John Thomson forgotten in home city
UK – Google loses right to be forgotten case
Interview with Jeff James, Chief Executive Officer and Keeper of the National Archives of the United Kingdom
UK National Archives – Digital archiving: context is everything
UK National Archives – Caviar is for battleships: intelligence and the late Victorian Royal Navy
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/caviar-battleships-intelligence-late-victorian-royal-navy/
British Library and Qatar National Library extend partnership to digitise 900,000 more images of Gulf history
http://www.bl.uk/press-releases/2018/april/qatar-project-phase-3-announcement
British Library – The Plans, Maps and Views of Lieutenant-General William Skinner, Chief Engineer of Great Britain
Social Sciences at the British Library
Home Office destroyed Windrush landing cards, says ex-staffer
Windrush: Investigation urged over landing cards
Personal Diaries in the Archive of the Salvation Army International Heritage Centre
Photographs of Derby Cathedral from 1880s found
Royal Air Force Duxford chaplain’s account of Battle of Britain heroism
50 years of British photography: from Twiggy to whaling in pictures
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Emir inaugurates Qatar National Library
Qatar National Library Launches “Information Is Beautiful” Digital Exhibition
Palestinians Uncover History of the Nakba, Even as Israel Cuts them Off from their Sources
Israel – Defense Ministry publishes archive of 1980s Tyre blasts in Lebanon
The Arc/k Project: building a virtual archive to keep the Palmyras of this world alive
International
Comité international de la Croix-rouge – L’expression artistique dans les camps de prisonniers de guerre (2)
International Tracing Service – My father was already dead when he was still alive
OCLC – What’s changed in linked data implementations in the last three years?
How do I ensure my files remain accessible in the future?
How can I store my digital photos for ever?
E-Discovery in the Big Data Era
Big Data Maturity: you’re Not as Mature as you Think
Google’s latest artifical intelligence experiments let you talk to books and test word association skills
Et le web devint sémantique
http://binaire.blog.lemonde.fr/2018/04/17/et-le-web-devint-semantique/
Lac de données (ou data lake) : qu’est-ce que c’est ?
http://www.journaldunet.com/solutions/dsi/1165409-data-lake-ou-lac-de-donnees/