Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Law Library of Congress – Fiscal Year 2018 Annual Report
U.S. Department of Interior – Freedom of Information Act Regulations (for Comments)
De la communauté / From the community
Society of American Archivists – Case Study: What Is your Title Today? The Challenges and Rewards of Implementing an Internship/Independent Study Hybrid Course at the Valparaiso University Archives and Special Collections
Privacy International – How Apps on Android Share Data with Facebook
OpenCitations Enhancement Project – Final report
Article – Archives of the Future: Issues for the Custody of Recent Documentation Concerning Indigenous Peoples in Brazil
Publications
International Journal of Digital Curation, vol. 13, no. 1 (2018)
Review of the National Center for Digitization, no. 33 (2018)
Fontes Artis Musicae: the Journal of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres, vol. 65, no. 4 (2018)
South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science, vol. 84, no. 2 (2018)
Revue Communication, Organisation, Société du Savoir et Information, no 5 (2018)
Cahiers de la documentation, no 4 (2018)
Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 8, no. 1 (2019)
PhD Thesis (University of Melbourne) – Documenting Artefacts and Archives in the Relational Museum
Report – International Survey of Academic Library Data Curation Practices (2019 Edition)
Free eBook – Canada in the Frame: Copyright, Collections and the Image of Canada, 1895-1924
Book – Seeing the Past with Computers: Experiments with Augmented Reality and Computer Vision for History
Book – Stock Footage + Everything Under the Sun: Using Archival Material to Make your Good Film Great
Book – Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy: from Practice to Discipline
Book – Applying Indigenous Research Methods: Storying with Peoples and Communities
Book – Crimes against History
Book – Early Modern Marginalia
Book – Mobile Forensic Investigations: a Guide to Evidence Collection, Analysis, and Presentation (Second Edition)
Book – Museum and Gallery Publishing: from Theory to Case Study
Livre – Touchez pas au patrimoine ! on le partage tous
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Take a Longer Look: Panoramic Photographs from the Provincial Archives of Alberta
January 17 – April 20, 2019, Edmonton
Webinar – The Evolution of Open Data in Canada
January 24, 2018
National Indigenous Knowledge and Language Alliance Inaugural Meeting
January 29, 2019, Toronto
A Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain
January 25, 2019, San Francisco
Archive Visit: the Public Records Office of the Government Records Service
January 25, 2019, Hong Kong
Webinar – Protecting Data Privacy in a Machine Learning World
January 31, 2019
Webinar – Developing a Data Science Project: Three Key Phases to Successful Data Products
Febrary 11, 2019
Holocaust Studies in the Digital Age. What’s New?
July 2, 2019, Amsterdam
Sur le web / On the web
CTV Video – Visits the Library of Parliament
Video – PROMISE: Preserving Online Multiple Information: Towards a Belgian Strategy
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Will Library and Archives Canada be SMART again in 2019?
British Library – Extracting Place Names from Web Archives at Archives Unleashed Vancouver
Digitization project aims to preserve Indigenous voices
British Columbia – Alma Russell, Provincial Librarian and Archivist
Archives of Manitoba – At Home and Away: the end of our First World War blog
Story behind mysterious butterfly collection still baffling for Manitoba Museum
Prince Edward Island libraries see increase in demand for Indigenous books
Prince Edward Island digital archive funded for major upgrade
University of British Columbia – iSchool alum Elizabeth Denham awarded a Commander of the British Empire for services to protecting information
University of British Columbia – Explore Open Collections: Prism international
Rare addition to Wilfrid Laurier University archives offers glimpse of what might have been
University of Saskatchewan – 12 Days of Archives 2018
More than a century later, Sherlock Holmes lives on at the Toronto Reference Library
A peek inside Edmonton’s artifact centre
Winnipeg – Art City recovers backup drive filled with memories
Fini les copies papier de dossiers médicaux au Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Sherbrooke
Burnaby Historical Society disbands after 61 years of preserving the past
Alligators and royal wedding cake: things hiding in the Osoyoos Museum’s archives (British Columbia)
Nouvelle directrice générale du Centre d’archives du Témiscouata
Cochrane foundation preserves histories of Alberta, one brand at a time
Deseronto Archives (Ontario) – First World War: Last posts
Inuit art curator wants to bring traditional art back to Nunavut
Them Days – Frobisher Bay (now Iqaluit) Photos
It can get a little crazy sometimes: Nova Scotia history buffs summing up 400 years, in tweets
Big dreams from small places: a photographer’s love letter to rural Alberta
2018: a year of Canadian genealogy in review
Forever on guard: a story that began nearly 70 years ago with a military plane crash in Canada’s
Afrique / Africa
Tunisie – Hedi Jallab : l’Instance vérité et dignité doit remettre ses archives aux archives nationales
Amériques / Americas
Museum of Memory and Human Rights of Chile advises creation of a virtual museum for El Salvador
Donald Trump Mocks Indian PM for Library in Afghanistan
U.S. Government Publishing Office receives ISO 16363 certification
War on transparency: US agency plans crackdown on information requests
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/29/trump-administration-interior-department-foia-changes
US spies want to know how to identify compromised artificial intelligence
New Life for Old Classics, as their Copyrights Run out
Robert Frost wrote this masterpiece in about 20 minutes. It belongs to all of us now
How to Download the Books that Just Entered the Public Domain
Library of Congress – New Online: Congressional Web Archive Adds Content
Library of Congress – Letters about Literature: Aiming for the Sweet Spot
The challenges of analog records management
New Year, New Directions for National Library of Medicine
Huge number of Maine public records have likely been destroyed
Hawaii Supreme Court Overturns 30 Years of Government Secrecy
News from the North Carolina State Archives Special Collections Section
Digital Library of Georgia – Georgia antebellum newspapers now freely available online
Louisiana records law only for state citizens, Attorney General Jeff Landry says
Facing a Ticking Clock, Missourians Seek to Preserve Black History
University of Texas – Papers of LGBT pioneers to be digitized
Governor-elect Jared Polis to archive congressional papers at University of Colorado Boulder
Former U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda donates archival collection to George Fox University
Digital Trove of Typographical Artifacts Set to Launch in 2019
Interview: New York Public Library’s chief digital officer says public is better off when libraries are risk averse about tech
Tech Historian Flips Activision the Bird, Exposes Leisure Suit Larry Source Code on Twitch
Over the Dinner Table: an Interview with Immigrant Archive Project’s Tony Hernandez
All the Dead we Cannot See : how a Tech Geek Is Using Machine Learning to Hold Human Rights Abusers Accountable
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
2019 Australia’s Year of the Public Domain
How a flawed freedom-of-information regime keeps Australians in the dark
National Archives of Australia – New and improved online shop
Public Record Office Victoria (Australia) – Chilling capital cases among newly opened Section nine records
http://prov.vic.gov.au/about-us/our-blog/chilling-capital-cases-among-newly-opened-section-9-records
Data breach sees Victorian Government employees’ details stolen
Archival Decolonist – What is our Purpose?
Japan Extends its Copyright Protection to 70 Years
Vietnam – Pour une meilleure promotion des archives nationales
Taiwan – Declassification slowing justice process: source
Top Chinese court’s archive failure dents private-sector confidence in Beijing’s promises
Hackers steal data on 1,000 North Korean defectors in South
The Personal Data Protection Bill 2018: an Answer to India’s Data Protection Issues?
Europe / Europa
Surprise over names found inside and missing from the Latvian KGB archives
People in Latvian KGB files want to clear their names
Thousands download newly-published list of Danish WWII Nazis
Spanish academic gets €1.5m EU grant to rescue women’s writing
Manuscripts of German writer Theodor Fontane restored
How Ancient Religious Texts Went Digital
France – 3 janvier 1979 : promulgation de la loi sur les archives
Ireland – Move to begin in 2019 to release State papers after 20 years
Declassified files: Dublin now lagging six years behind UK in revealing state papers
Ireland – Fancy researching your family history from the revolutionary period? This is a good place to start
Ireland – 1938 file reveals Kavanagh demanded book in shop windows
Anonymous letter claimed British knew of Enniskillen bomb plans
On this day 1661: Thousands of Scotland’s historic records destroyed
Government broke freedom of information laws over access to 10 Downing Street
UK National Archives – Prime Minister’s Papers from 1994 released
National Archives: how Downing Street embraced the internet to keep up with the White House and Tony Blair
Declassified files help to correct distorting narrative of Margaret Thatcher’s memoirs
As always, the National Archives has revealed nothing of substance, the truly juicy stuff will always remain covered up
National Archives release protects state secrets and shows up the ruling class
Download Hebrew Manuscripts for free, in partnership with British Library Labs
Exploring and Recording Textiles in the British Library Collections
British Library – Two Distinguished Women and a Seasonal Greetings Card Mystery
We Were there Too project to immortalise contribution of region’s Jewish community to WWI
Historical documents at the Cambridgeshire Archives are being packaged up ready for the big move
Sainsbury Archive goes digital to mark 150 years
The booming trade in second-hand books
Information sought: Ian Smith, British photographer for Life magazine
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Petition Demands Release of Classified Israeli Documents on 1950s Immigrant Transit Camps
Alice Shalvi, Legendary Activist, Donates Archive to National Library of Israel
Oman – Special Economic Zone Authority in Duqm Adopts Official Documents Management System
International
International Tracing Service Changing Name to Arolsen Archives – International Center on Nazi Persecution
Wikimedia to the Rescue? How Wikipedia’s Crowdsourcing Model Could Catalyze the Field of Oral History
Welcome 2019: digital preservation promises
Trust In Digital Content
A TEI XML Version of the Historical Thesaurus of English Database
How Zine Libraries Are Highlighting Marginalized Voices
Using Defensible Deletion and Auto-classification to Control the Data Explosion
200 Years of Typography and Letters Found Online
Digital Storage Projections for 2019
Part 1: http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2018/12/21/digital-storage-projections-for-2019-part-1/
Part 2: http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2018/12/24/digital-storage-projections-for-2019-part-2/
Part 3: http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2018/12/27/digital-storage-projections-for-2019-part-3/
How our data got hacked, scandalized, and abused in 2018
Unlocking the Value of Augmented Reality Data
The Most Amazing Artificial Intelligence Milestones so Far
Here’s why More Enterprises Are Considering Blockchain as Data Privacy Solution
The reign of social media influencers may be coming to an end