Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada – 2018/013 Destruction of Source Records Following Digitization
NARA – Additions to Four General Records Schedules (for Comments)
France – Loi n° 2018-493 relative à la protection des données personnelles
Research England – Monitoring Sector Progress towards Compliance with Funder Open Access Policies
Australian National Audit Office – Management of the National Collection
De la communauté / From the community
Educopia Institute – As-Is Workflow: Case Studies
Data Mining Research Using In-copyright and Limited-access Text Datasets Participant Forum Statements and SWOT Analyses
CILIP – A Report on Research to Support the Development of a Sector-wide Research Portal/Evidence-base
OCLC – US Public Libraries: Marketing and Communications Landscape
Article – Beyond Documentation: the Digital Philology of Interaction Heritage
Paper – Archival Options Appraisal: an Examination of Data Preservation Methods and Repositories
Paper – Visualization of Audio Data Using Stacked Graphs
Publications
Information Technology and Libraries, vol. 37, no. 2 (2018)
Journal of the Institute of Conservation, vol. 41, no. 2 (2018)
Research Library Issues, no. 294 (2018)
World Heritage, no 88, 2018 (Special Issue: World Heritage in Bahrain)
Bulletin de l’Association française des archives orales sonores et audiovisuelles, no 44 (2018)
San Jose State University School of Information Student Research Journal, vol. 8, no. 1 (2018)
Society of American Archivists – Congressional Papers Section Newsletter (Summer 2018)
Mémoires d’avenir : le journal des Archives nationales, no 31 (2018)
La Pomme : bulletin périodique de la Fondation archives vivantes (Suisse), no 27 (2018)
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec – À rayons ouverts, no 102 (2018)
La mémoire du travail : bulletin du Centre d’histoire et d’archives du travail, vol. 5, no. 2 (2018)
Master Thesis (Georgia Institute of Technology) – Digital Ethics Framework Recommendations for Social Media Archiving Applications
Ph. D Thesis (University of Sheffield) – Using Twitter Data to Provide Qualitative Insights into Pandemics and Epidemics
Report – Profiles of Research University Institutional Digital Repositories
Book – Canada in the Frame: Copyright, Collections and the Images of Canada, 1895-1924
Book – The Family Tree Toolkit: a Comprehensive Guide to Uncovering your Ancestry and Researching Genealogy
Book – The Open Revolution: Rewriting the Rules of the Information Age
Book – The Right of Access to Public Information: an International Comparative Legal Survey
Book – Data-Driven Policy Impact Evaluation: how Access to Microdata is Transforming Policy Design
Book – Historic England: Durham: Unique Images from the Archives of Historic England
Book – Searching the Grey Literature: a Handbook for Searching Reports, Working Papers, and Other Unpublished Research
Book – The Printed and the Built: Architecture, Print Culture, and Public Debate in the Nineteenth Century
Livre – Le knowledge management : un levier de transformation à intégrer
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Exhibit – Form & Function: the Genius of the Book
Until September 23, 2018, Toronto
Blockchain 101: Fundamentals, Applications and Opportunities
July 11, 2018, Vancouver
Making Meaning Symposium
March 11-12, 2019, Vancouver
Bridging Worlds, Illumining the Archives
July 31, 2018, Quezon City (Philippines)
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Silence in the Archive
August 5 and 22, 2018, Edinburgh (Scotland)
Archiving Intangible Cultural Heritage: Symposium & Summer School
August 6-7, 2018, Lausanne (Switzerland)
Webinar – Answers to Common Questions Associated with Starting an Environmental Monitoring Program
August 7, 2018
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure and Masaryk Institute Workshop: Exploring Refugee Data
November 12-13, 2018, Prague (Czech Republik)
e-Records Conference 2018
November 16, 2018, Austin (Texas)
Peace making after the First World War
June 27-28, 2019, Kew (UK)
Getting Started with Web Archives: 2018 Beginners’ Workshop (Presentations Available)
May 30, 2018, New York
Sur le web / On the web
Shekon Neechie: an Indigenous History Site
Government of Canada – National Digital and Data Consultations
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Get your Summer Read on, Part 2
Historical Reminiscents Podcast – Spaces for Slow Scholarship
Austrian Social Science Data Archive Video – Surrounded by Data
Digital Tools and Such Like: a Strongly Opinionated List for Australian Historians
Kickstarter – Priya Ramrakha: a Photo Book from a Forgotten Archive
Slides – Ten Top Tips for Making Government Data More Accessible
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
House committee says privacy laws should apply to political parties
A team of Toronto Star reporters put MPs under the microscope, fact-checking every query and answer during five days of question period
Off the Rails: how the Canadian Heritage Copyright Hearings Have Veered Badly Off-Track
Canadians at risk of being data cows absent big data strategy, documents show
Canadian government’s plans to study digital age better late than never, expert says
In spite of past warnings, CSIS continues to harvest troves of data on ordinary Canadians, watchdog reveals
Canadian Catholics grapple with a history of whitewashing indigenous children
Was there a residential school near you? Find out with our interactive map
Indigenous People, Archives and History
Turning the Lens: Indigenous Archival Photo Project
Cheers erupt as Federal Court judge approves historic gay purge settlement
Partnership enables Library and Archives Canada to digitize Indigenous publications
Ha-Shilth-Sa, le plus vieux journal des Premières Nations au pays disponible sur Internet
Library and Archives Canada – Nursing Sisters of the Canadian Army Medical Corps in the First World War, Part I
Judge acquits former Library and Archives Canada manager in alleged bid-rigging scheme
Parliament’s chief librarian ends chapter in emotional place
Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 – Signs of Agency in Refugee Narratives
Alberta archiving project works to digitize collection of Indigenous recordings
How provincial archives staff are saving New Brunswickers’ photos from a watery grave
Prince Edward Island’s LGBT history shared for national museum
Archives of Manitoba – Canukeenas let us holler: the Canukeena Club of Winnipeg
BAnQ – Reconstituer l’histoire du Québec grâce aux documents d’époque
Bibliothèque électronique du Québec : décès de Jean-Yves Dupuis
University of British Columbia iSchool has a new name
University of Ottawa – Back to the future: new web portal celebrates Canadian women’s contributions to science, technology, engineering, and math
University of Victoria digital humanities lab expert on the privatization of knowledge
Dalhousie University’s Norman Horrocks a strong advocate for the accessibility of information
Copibec et l’Université Laval concluent une entente hors cour en matière de droits d’auteurs
Access Copyright statement on Copibec/Laval University Settlement Agreement
Memorial University of Newfoundland – Maritime History Archive: Keith Matthews Name Files
Lancement d’un important projet de recherche international en intelligence artificielle et justice à l’Université de Montréal
La mort des livres dans les sciences humaines et sociales, et en arts et lettres?
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Tell Me, where Do the Children Play?
Risotto, robotics and virtual reality: how Canada created the world’s best libraries
Dans la chambre forte des archives de Montréal
Montreal – Still no solution for McCord Museum complex nixed by city
Ottawa – Charting Local Love Stories with Maps and Sounds
Toronto – Why I revived the Bureau of Municipal Research
Toronto’s archeological treasures still buried (in bankers’ boxes, garages, basements and lockers)
Archives de la ville de Québec – Chronique toponymique : La Cité–Limoilou
Sarnia (Ontario) – Local Italian immigrant experience to be permanently archived
Changing of the Guard at the Arnprior and McNab/Braeside Archives (Ontario)
Historic Photos of Summer in Mississauga (Ontario)
Cambridge’s (Ontario) new digital library launch set for July 6
Belleville (Ontario) – Family claims photo
Revelstoke Museum and Archives (B.C.) host special presentation on Sinixt Nation
Them Days (Labrador) – Afternoon Tea and Photo Identification
Part II: https://themdays.wordpress.com/2018/06/21/afternoon-tea-and-photo-identification-session-part-2/
Institute of National Remembrance (Poland) – The screening of The Unconquered in Canada: project summary
Krista McCracken – Project Funding News
Reporting back from the Canada Archivists Conference
La diffusion des archives des Augustines sur le web, ou comment un portail numérique peut améliorer l’efficacité d’un centre d’archives
Les archives au coeur des relations internationales
Afrique / Africa
Journée internationale des archives: la République démocratique du Congo en marge de l’événement
Les archivistes congolais invités à s’inscrire dans les organisations internationales militant pour la valorisation de métiers des documents
Anthony Bourdain and the Yangambi Research Library on the Congo River
Teaching Decolonization Resources: Women and the Algerian War of Independence
http://blog.historians.org/2018/06/women-algerian-war-independence-teaching-decolonization-resource/
Kenya – Presidential library shouldn’t blur rich history
Nigeria – Our Archives, our Future: our Archives Must Live
South Africa – How do you trace email threats? A digital forensic expert explains how it’s done
Amériques / Americas
British Virgin Islands – Archives in jeopardy as law remains in limbo
Haïti – Les archives nationales, une institution incontournable
Les documents s’empilent, cri d’alarme des responsables des Archives nationales d’Haïti
They gave us Scotch Tape: former White House archivist had to reassemble documents ripped up by Trump
NARA – Making Access Happen through the Digital Public Library of America
NARA – Improving the Administration of Freedom of Information Act
NARA – Updated Lists of Records Eligible for Indexing on Demand (IOD)
NARA – Workshop Participants Enjoy National Archives Escape Room Experience
Library of Congress – Pride in the Library: LGBTQ+ Specialist Shares her Story
National Library of Medicine – From Collection to Commitment
National Sporting Library & Museum to Digitize its Rare Book Collection
Environmental Protection Agency Under Fire for Slow Rolling Release of Public Records
http://www.govexec.com/management/2018/06/epa-under-fire-slow-rolling-release-public-records/148979/
Digital Public Library of America launches Open Bookshelf, a Collection of Free Ebooks
Society of American Archivists – Call for Contributions: Script It
Washington State Archivists working in Tumwater to save Damaged Aberdeen Museum of History Records
Digital Library of Georgia launches new web site
Hawaii State Archives, Japanese Cultural Center Unveil Exhibit of First Japanese Immigrants to Arrive in Hawaii
Hawaii – Volcanoes park museum artifacts, archives moved to safety
Utah – Toward Better Access: Court Index Digitization
Update on the District of Columbia’s Archives and Public Records Office
Harvard University – From Analog to Bytes: the Transformation of the Murray Research Archive
Cornell University – Library receives collection on Jewish fables around the world
University of California – Project Irene: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Library unite to save Native American voices
Indiana University – Voices from the past protected for the future
University of Pennsylvania – Reclaiming a fragmented history
Optical Scanning Technology Lets Researchers Recover Lost Indigenous Languages from Old Wax Cylinder Recordings
From Doctoral Study to … Digital Humanities
The Voynich manuscript: will this medieval mystery ever be solved?
Enter a Digitized Collection of 38,000 Pamphlets & Periodicals From the French Revolution
Archiving While Black
Archive vs. Archive: the Disney and Pixar Collections
Envision Having the Country’s Largest Collection of Vintage Hollywood Photos and a Massive Historical Archive with More than 4.5 Million Pieces
Distinguishing Between Factual and Opinion Statements in the News
The Disappearing Digital Archive
The evisceration of storytelling
Pittsburgh’s recordkeeping system is a mess, but 2 bills, and 1 man, aim to fix that
Reclaim the Records – Index to New York City Marriage Licenses, 1996-2017
Architecting Sustainable Futures: Exploring Funding Models in Community-Based Archives
How to spot a perfect fake: the world’s top art forgery detective
The journey of a stolen Christopher Columbus letter recounting his voyage to the Americas
The forgotten black pioneers: extraordinary images of the freed slaves who trekked west in the 1800s
Einstein the Anti-Racist? Not in His Travel Diaries
Confessions of a Disk Cracker: the secrets of 4am
William Reese, Leading Seller of Rare Books, Is Dead at 62
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Facelift for National Film and Sound Archive building
Australia’s largest record collection is looking for a new home
State Library of New South Wales (Australia) – BagIt File Packaging Format: File Transfer and Fixity
State Archives and Records of New South Wales – So you’ve got a job in Records…
The Repatriation of Ancestral Remains
Japan – Defense Ministry refused to disclose documents whose retention periods ended
Taiwan – Academia Historica prints Yen Chia-kan’s archives
Declassified archives show Taiwan’s missile project in the ’70s
At the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala over 10 000 manu
Bhutan – International archives day observed
Philippines – Sandiganbayan launches digital calendar and archives, aims for one-year disposition of cases
Europe / Europa
European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs – Disastrous copyright bill vote approved
Protests greet Brussels copyright reform plan
Greece – Campaign launched for return of stolen Byzantine manuscripts
The big picture: childish defiance in Soviet-era Czechoslovakia
Iron Mountain Enters Croatian Market with Acquisition of Arhiv Trezor
What is an Illuminated Manuscript? A Painstaking Process, Explained
France – Le Règlement général sur la protection des données et les archives
Archives de France : à quand un pilote dans l’avion ?
Archives de France – Les dons et legs de documents d’archives
France – Grande Collecte d’archives nationales : trois destins de femmes
Disparition du sous-marin Minerve : les archives enfin déclassifiées
France – Medieval manuscript fetches over €4 million
Deal secures UTV’s archive for the people of Northern Ireland
Young Scientist Co-Founder, Philanthropist and Irish Archivist Among Latest Honorary Degree Recipients
UK Parliamentary Archives – Representing the people before the vote: petitions to parliament in the eighteenth century
UK National Archives – Manorial records come home to Lincolnshire
UK National Archives – That Point of Land Opposite: Kowloon and the founding of Hong Kong
UK National Archives – Empire Windrush: 70 years on
Museums in the digital age: unlocking the British Library’s treasures now online
British Library – Gulliver, Crusoe and Tristram Shandy: 17th and 18th century manuscripts now available online
British Library – International research collaboration on South Asian audiovisual heritage
British Library – Javanese manuscripts in the Sloane collection
British Exhibitions of Ethiopian Manuscripts Prompt Questions About Repatriation
Digitization does not equal Repatriation: when Digital Humanities Provides Access But Not Restitution
Empire Windrush: forgotten archive material reveals who was on its outward voyage to the Caribbean
Eighty librarians condemn deal between Home Office and the Society of Chief Librarians
Outside in: the role of the university library in open science
Birmingham – Windrush Pioneers: learning more about the experiences of Caribbean migrants
Guardian archive artefacts: from orchestral triangles to smashed up hard drives
Doctor Who archivist says there is hope for the 97 lost episodes
Law enforcers struggle with electronic evidence challenges
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Lebanon – Wiping off the dust for International Archives Day
International
Innovative Projects and Apps with International Tracing Service Data
International Monetary Fund – The Long and Short of the Digital Revolution
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations launches Open Access for all publications
L’Organisation des nations unies rêve d’un caveau de la mémoire
Artificial Intelligence for Records Management
Is it useful to know who is using which preservation system?
Will Losing Net Neutrality Kill the Digital Museum?
Software Heritage, le défi d’une archive mondiale du code source
Adobe plonge dans les archives du Bauhaus en achevant des polices esquissées il y a plus de 80 ans
Preserving Old Black Paper Photo Albums
Inside Amazon’s Painstaking Pursuit to Teach Alexa French