Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
British Columbia Government – Operational Records Classification Systems (for Comments)
Records of Defunct Programs Special Schedule: http://engage.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads/sites/81/2019/01/Defunct-Programs-schedule-158691.pdf
Oil and Gas Regulation: http://engage.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads/sites/81/2019/01/OGCO-ORCS-AMENDMENT-1-SCHED-163507-AMEND-144019.pdf
Barrister and Solicitor Services: http://engage.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads/sites/81/2019/01/BSSE-ORCS-schedule-164437-public-consultation-package.pdf
European Commission – Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence and Data Protection
Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Report: New Zealand Qualifications Authority (for Comments)
Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Report & Disposal Schedule: Ministry of Justice (for Comments)
UK National Archives – Cabinet Office Information Management Assessment
Statement: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/cabinet-office-statement-on-publication-of-ima.pdf
UK Information Commissioner’s Office – Openness by Design: Draft Access to Information Strategy
Inspection générale des bibliothèques (France) – Le pilotage de la documentation dans la gouvernance des universités
De la communauté / From the community
Society of American Archivists – Guidelines on Access to Research Materials (Revised Edition for Comments)
Ithika S+R – Library Acquisition Patterns
Confederation of Open Access Repositories – Good Practice Principles for Scholarly Communication Services
Article – Transformative Praxis: Building Spaces for Indigenous Self-determination in Libraries and Archives
Article – Archival Airwaves: Recording Ireland for the BBC
Article – Leveraging Concepts in Open Access Publications
Paper – Classification of Knowledge Organization Systems with Wikidata
Publications
Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture, vol. 47, no. 3-4, (2018)
Revue française des sciences de l’information et de la communication, no 18 (2018)
La Pomme : bulletin périodique de la Fondation archives vivantes (Suisse), no 31 (2019)
Grey Litterature Network Services Quarterly Newsletter, vol. 11, no. 1 (2019)
Archives Association of Ontario – Off the Record, vol. 35, no. 1 (2019)
Book – The Right to be Forgotten vs the Right to Remember: Data Protection and Archiving in the Public Interest
Book – Raymond Klibansky and the Warburg Library Network: Intellectual Peregrinations from Hamburg to London and Montreal
Book – Queering Mennonite Literature: Archives, Activism, and the Search for Community
Book – Re-Excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology
Book – The Identity Trade: Selling Privacy and Reputation Online
Book – Digital Humanities and Film Studies: Visualising Dziga Vertov’s Work
Book – Digital Information Ecosystems: Smart Press
Book – Contested City: Art and Public History as Mediation at New York’s Seward Park Urban Renewal Area
Book – Learning Android Forensics (Second Edition)
Book – Transitional and Transformative Justice: Critical and International Perspectives
Book – Creating a Learning Commons: a Practical Guide for Librarians
Livre – Le spécimen et le collecteur : savoirs naturalistes, pouvoirs et altérités (XVIIIe-XXe siècles)
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Nova Scotia Open Data Contest
March 2-3, 2019, Halifax
Course: Photography and its Histories
February 21 – March 21, 2019, London (UK)
Webinar Series – Fair Use Code and Other Legal Tools for Software Preservation
February 25 – April 8, 2019
Archives into the Future: Decolonising the Archive
March 26, 2019, London (UK)
Archives and Place: Thinking through the Connection
March 28, 2019, Invercargill (New Zealand)
Sur le web / On the web
Libraries, Archives and Museums Nova Scotia – GLAM Sector Partnership Survey
Application Vichy 1939-1945
University of Leeds – Belgian Refugees Database
Schoenberg for Manuscript Studies (University of Pennsylvania) Videos – Sacred Texts: Codices Far, Far Away
Video – Closing keynote for The Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain
Podcast – Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Birth of the National Archives
Artist in the Archive Podcast – Thirty-one Cylinders
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
In the dark: the cost of Canada’s data deficit
Flying blind: why does Canada know so little about itself?
In the information age, Canada is falling behind
Library and Archives Canada enters negotiations with preferred proponent for second preservation centre in Gatineau
Library and Archives Canada – Listen, Hear our Voices: Preserving and Valuing Indigenous Languages and Cultures
Frightening thought: local rabbis react to Library and Archives Canada’s Nazi archive
Museum of History to return First Nation skulls
British Columbia government deploys first blockchain tool
http://www.squamishchief.com/news/local-news/b-c-government-deploys-first-blockchain-tool-1.23613493
British Columbia freedom of information law changes suggested as spending scandal unfolds
Ontario Genealogical Society – The Rewards of Genealogical Research Networking Via Facebook
BAnQ et le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec inaugurent une nouvelle œuvre d’art public à BAnQ Vieux-Montréal
BAnQ – Documenter la lutte pour une justice sociale : le fonds Roger Poirier
BAnQ – Une affiche inusitée et un défi de restauration
BAnQ – Arthur Buies : improbable allié du curé Labelle
Association des archivistes du Québec – Découvrez Frédéric Giuliano, trésorier
Want to learn whose Indigenous land you’re on? There’s an app for that
How one cartographer is helping Indigenous communities put themselves on the map
Ontario Council of University Libraries – Dataverse en français, s’il vous plaît! Scholars Portal launches bilingual Dataverse repository platform
University of Alberta Opening Up Copyright Instructional Modules: an Update
Lakehead University – Canadan Suomalainen Järjestö Finding Aid is Complete!
Unesco Project Launch at University of Victoria for Indigenous Language
Preservation of Indigenous languages vital to understanding cultures: University of Victoria prof
Book donated to University of Victoria reveals forgotten letter from Stephen Hawking
University of British Columbia – Enhanced access to our historical photographs
University of British Columbia Digitizers’ Blog – Canadian Pacific Railway hotels in B.C.: Part 2
Western University – Hear Here team turns ear to SoHo memories
McGill University – A family reunion at the Visual Arts Collection
Memories (and memorabilia) for McGill University’s next generation
University of Waterloo – Kitchener seances subject of new audio documentary, archives exhibit
University of Waterloo Special Collections and Archives – All the stamps I loved this month
Prof taking University of Regina to court over denied freedom of information request
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Making a phase box for architectural drawings
Beautiful Found Snaps of a Toronto Photo Show in 1961
Les Archives de Montréal mieux sécurisées
Montrealers mark Holocaust Remembrance Day by creating art inspired by survivor’s tale
The Montreal heist involving guns, stamps and a sledgehammer
Stuart Wood cultural centre could include Kamloops Museum and Archives (British Columbia)
La Sauvegarde des archives du Festival western de Dolbeau-Mistassini
Acclaimed Toronto film archivist faces child porn charges
Afrique / Africa
Ghana seeks Chinese support for public e-records management
Algérie – Restitution des archives de guerre: les négociations sont très sensibles et complexes
Amériques / Americas
Government Restricts Brazil’s Freedom Of Information Law
Library of Congress Needs Volunteers to Digitize its Records
Library of Congress – Omar Ibn Said: Transcribing Documents from the Unique Collection
Library of Congress – Inquiring Minds: Opening a Treasure Chest of Unfinished Stories
Out of the Archives and onto your Screens: Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress
Data Discovery at National Library of Medicine
Society of American Archivists – More skills, less pain with Library Carpentry
Levels of Preservation Reboot Overview and Update
New Mexico attorney general moves to block the auction of historical documents
Utah Division of Archives and Records Service – General Retention Schedules and you
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – Shared Drive Cleanup Success Story
Eastern Orthodox Church asks Duke University to turn over Byzantine-era manuscripts
Princeton University – Photographing Communities of Color
University of Notre Dame – Klau Center announces project to collect and archive narratives on race
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – We analyzed 16,625 papers to figure out where artificial intelligence is headed next
University of Houston – New Digital Collection: Gulf Coast Archive and Museum Archive
New Winston Churchill archive center opens at Birmingham Southern College
Massive New Database Will Finally Allow us to Identify Enslaved Peoples and their Descendants in the Americas
Is it possible to decolonize the Commons? An interview with Jane Anderson of Local Contexts
The Passamaquoddy Reclaim their Culture through Digital Repatriation
Cherokee nation – Tribal Archives should be fast-tracked
Florida Museum Brings Salvador Dali Back to Life with artificial intelligence
New York Public Library Digital Preservation – Sed it and Forget it: Stream Editing and Metadata Repairs
Can scanning books really reveal if the US is becoming more tolerant?
Sylvia Plath’s new short story was never lost: so why is the media saying it was just discovered?
Responses and Retrospectives: Alexandra Bisio on Tidying up with Marie Kondo, Konmari, and Archival Appraisal
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Library of Australia – Shipshape: convict ship surgeons’ journals
Queensland Government (Australia) Recordkeeping – Watching, watching… always watching
New Zealand – New technology helps decipher historic hand-written documents at national archive
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa restructure risks loss of irreplaceable science expertise: critics
Japan’s national archives lets visitors relive announcement of Heisei as era name
Hong Kong – M+ museum acquires Archigram archive for £1.8 million
South Korea – Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive: 1,443 titles including Korean Metal/Stone Rubbings Collection and others newly available
India – Rare footage of Mahatma Gandhi’s last journey now available online
India – Archives to be available on demand
India – Kolkata Municipal Corporation unveils online archive of information about Kolkata & its history
Europe / Europa
Digital Single Market: European Union negotiators agree on new rules for sharing of public sector data
Google Is Fined $57 Million, First Major Penalty Under Europe’s Data Privacy Law
European Union Commission refers Slovenia to Court over violation of European Central Bank’s archives
Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents on the move to READ-COOP
How a Secret Jewish Group Documented Nazi Atrocities in Hopes their Archive Would Scream the Truth at the World
Auschwitz : une lettre écrite en français par un déporté juif chargé de vider les chambres à gaz retrouvée
5,000 Pages of Giuseppe Verdi’s Drafts, Long Hidden, Will Be Made Public
Huge Trove of Leaked Russian Documents Is Published by Transparency Advocates
Illuminated Manuscripts Demonstrate that Medieval Borders Were Regularly Crossed
Suisse – Valais: il faut craquer le code Schiner
France – À quoi mènent les masters en humanités numériques ?
Scotland – University of St Andrews: Student cracks theologian’s baffling religious code
UK National Archives – The Trial of Charles I
British Library – The Favourite and the Marlborough Papers
King’s College London – Digital archival programme wins prestigious Digital Resources Prize
Middle Ages Merlin manuscript found in Bristol University library
Royal College of Physicians of London – These grim documents…: physicians responses to Nazi medical war crimes
Is it possible to solve the email problem?
County council announces U-turn over archive budget cuts as Bishop of Worcester criticises plan
The Oldest Surviving Printed Advertisement in English (London, 1477)
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – In the Shadow of Death: the Revival of the Jerusalem of Lithuania
Lebanon launches pilot project on intangible cultural heritage and education
International
International Organization for Standardization – Better Building with new International Standards for Building Information Modelling
Year in Review: Archival History Books and Articles Published in 2018
Preserving Containers: Introducing CiTAR Part 2
Nine Principles for Records Management Best Practices
Modern vs Classic in Place Records Management in Sharepoint
e-Discovery 101 for Records Managers
Roll the tape: recovering ’90s data tapes in BitCurator
Eleven tips for anyone starting a photo scanning project
Wanted for Artificial Intelligence: Librarians
What is digital forensics? And how to land a job in this hot field
The Rise and Demise of RSS