Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
NARA – Blockchain White Paper
Les entrées d’archives aux Archives nationales de France
Historical Archives of the European Union – New Research Guides
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Internet Registration Authority – Canadians Deserve a Better Internet
Friends of the Saskatchewan Archives – 2017 Annual Report
UNESCO – Paris Call: Software Source Code as Heritage for Sustainable Development
Society of American Archivists – Case Study: Archival Initiatives for the Indigenous Collections at the American Philosophical Society
Institute of Museum and Library Services – Protecting America’s Collections: Results from the Heritage Health Information Survey
Architecting Sustainable Futures: Exploring Funding Models in Community-Based Archives
Moving Beyond Colonial Models of Digital Memory: Exploring the Dynamic Role of Tribal Libraries, Archives and Museums in Bridging Community Values and Digital Strategy
2019 Australasia Preserves Briefing Pack
Council on Library and Information Resources – 3D/VR in the Academic Library: Emerging Practices and Trends
OCLC and Linked Data
Publications
Journal of Western Archives, vol. 10, no. 1 (2019)
Journal of Web Librarianship, vol. 12, no. 4 (2018)
IFLA – Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments Newsletter (2019)
La Pomme : bulletin périodique de la Fondation archives vivantes (Suisse), no 32 (2019)
Telling our Stories: Newsletter of the South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta), vol. 10, no. 2 (2019)
Book – Digital Libraries: Supporting Open Science
Book – A History of Place in the Digital Age
Book – Getting Resource Discovery Right for your Community
Book – Tech for All: Moving beyond the Digital Divide
Book – Introduction to Information Visualization: Transforming Data into Meaningful Information
Book – Digital Innovation: Harnessing the Value of Open Data
Book – Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers
Book – Pedagogy and Practice in Heritage Studies
Book – Online Searching: a Guide to Finding Quality Information Efficiently and Effectively (Second Edition)
Book – From Gutenberg to Google: the History of our Future
Livre – Trésors de procédure : les dossiers du Tribunal de la Chambre impériale conservés aux Archives de l’État en Belgique (1495-1806)
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Big Data & Analytics Summit Canada
March 5-6, 2019, Toronto
How to Memory Archive: Revisiting and Remixing Etobicoke’s Past
March 6-26, 2019, Toronto
From Access to Use: the Quality of Human-archives Interactions as a Research Question
March 14, 2019, Vancouver
Assemblée générale annuelle 2019 du Centre régional d’archives de l’Outaouais
27 mars 2019, Gatineau
Digital Humanities Summer Institute: Technologies East 2019
May 13-17, 2019, Ottawa
Webinar – Future Tech Trends in Libraries
March 7, 2019
Memory, Identity and Rights in Child Social Care Records
March 14, 2019, Richmond (UK)
History as a Data Science
January 6-17, 2020, New York
Stardom and the Archive: an International Symposium
February 8, 2020, Devon (UK)
Sur le web / On the web
Historical Reminiscents Podcast – Board Diversity and Participation Cost
Video – Developing Library Strategy for 3D and Virtual Reality Collection Development and Reuse
Video – Introduction to Library Carpentry
Podcast – Willing to Die for the Truth: Lessons of Hidden Jewish Archive
Podcast – Kyle Courtney: Copyright & Fair Use in Early America
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Piracy v. Privacy: the Federal Court Significantly Restores the Balance in Canadian Mass Copyright Litigation by Insisting on Best Available Evidence
The innovation paradox: an interview with Canada’s digital chief Alex Benay
Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s Negative Behavior in a Risk Database
Engagement series launched for the design of the Ottawa Public Library and Library and Archives Canada joint facility
Library and Archives Canada – The Arctic Inuit Ulu: Diverse, Strong, Spiritual
Library and Archives Canada – The 1926 Census of the Prairie Provinces database is now available
The British Columbia Archives celebrates 125 years
Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan Moving to Regina CBC Building
In Ford’s Own Image: Re-shaping Ontario’s Government Web
New Ontario Digital Collections
BAnQ – Visages de la Palestine: 1923
BAnQ – Georges-Henri Lévesque, le père fondateur de l’École des sciences sociales, politiques et économiques de l’Université Laval
BAnQ – Le charme désuet des cartes picturales
You’re Invited! Brunch at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives
Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives – Dis/patches from the Foreign Office: the Uganda File (Part 2)
Who’s New in the Archives? A Spotlight on New Collections Volunteers
Pröspect: a Bot* that reassembles images from the McCord Museum’s Photography Collection
McMaster University – Preserving the legacy of a Jamaican cultural icon
University of Victoria – Family donates archives of acclaimed writer Edith Iglauer
Maritime History Archive (Memorial University) – Keith Matthews Name Files
University of British Columbia – How We Digitize: Microfilm
Influential QS World University Rankings put University of British Columbia in top 10 for four subject areas (including Library and Information Management)
Association of Canadian Archivists @ University of British Columbia 2019: Policy Matters
Copyright Management: Copibec Adopts Blockchain Technology
Jewish Museum & Archives of BC – Heritage Week explores Vancouver’s Jewish community in Oakridge
Books Saved from the Holocaust Enlighten Montrealers
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – Making History Accessible, One VCR at a Time
L’histoire des Quatre lieux en quelques clics
Do you know this boy? Curators of Alberta exhibit search for identity of Indigenous child
Of course you know why I’m writing: war letter from 1917 a tale of friendship and sacrifice
Montreal duo cataloguing and preserving Quebec’s kitsch heritage
Joseph Bouchette, copiste
Marius Barbeau, gardien de mémoires
Freshly Minted: Rachael Bennett, Library and Information Technician Student, Algonquin College
Afrique / Africa
Safeguarding of transboundary heritage sites for sustainable development and peace in Africa
Cameroun – Archives nationales : le ministère des Arts et de la Culture examine le projet de budget
République démocratique du Congo – Le président Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi, un espoir pour les secteurs des archives et de la documentation
Namibia – National Archives to receive late Kaptein Hendrik Witbooi’s whip and Bible
Amériques / Americas
The Vice File: Dick Cheney Declassified
Teens successfully tweet Trump for support of civil rights archives bill
Society of American Archivists Statement on Obama Presidential Library
NARA – Information About New Model for Obama Presidential Library
NARA Film Preservation Unit Serves State and City Level Colleagues
National Library of Medicine – On Becoming
Restrictions on Deployed U.S. Troop Data Could Put 2020 Census at Risk
South Dakota – State Historical Society makes more issues of historical newspapers available online
Vermont Folklife Center’s New Podcast Brings its Archives Right to Your Ears
Summer Internship at California Digital Library: Machine Learning Techniques Applied to Calisphere
Princeton University denies allegations of Eastern Orthodox manuscript theft, requests legal compensation
Just do it: Building technical capacity among Princeton University’s Archival Description and Processing Team
Harvard – Documenting Diversity: Countway archivist Joan Ilacqua on expanding diversity of representation in the library’s collections
Historical Letters in University of Michigan Zoology Museum Archive Highlight Links Between Specimen Collection, Conservation
University of Maryland – Offensive content in our collections
University of Maryland – Interview with Holly McIntyre, Archivist at NASA Goddard and MLIS Program Alumnus
http://ischool.umd.edu/news/interview-holly-mcintyre-archivist-nasa-goddard-and-mlis-program-alumnus
Has the Voynich Manuscript Finally Been Decoded?: Researchers Claim That the Mysterious Text Was Written in Phonetic Old Turkish
New York Public Library offers public viewing of its 800,000 maps
A History of the American Public Library
History librarian shares tips on dating, preserving old photos
Say Everything out Loud: a Conversation with Davia Nelson of the Kitchen Sisters (Part 2)
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia – Million-dollar challenge for small and medium enterprises
The Australian Television Archive Preserves Iconic British TV Chef (Keith Floyd’s) Australian TV Series “Floyd on Oz”
http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/australian-television-archive-preserves-iconic-british-james-paterson/
Archives New Zealand – The Monitoring Framework: what’s coming up?
South Korea – BTS enlists army of fans to compile digital archive of all things BTS
India – The unexplored treasures of old Bengali manuscripts
India – Sanskrit holds key to Indian history, heritage, says expert
India – Sanskrit varsity on a mission to preserve palm leaf manuscripts
Europe / Europa
Public sector information directive compromise agrees to make publicly-funded research data open by default
Bosnia and Herzegovina to develop a digital archive of evidence presented in war crimes cases
Japan donated Money for Repair of the Archives of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Des jeux vidéo vont faire leur entrée aux Archives littéraires allemandes
Berlin’s Pergamonmuseum reveals the crowdsourced archive preserving Syria’s war-torn heritage
L’archivistique dans l’Empire romain
Belgique – Les archivistes francophones adressent un mémorandum (pro-numérique) aux futurs élus
Inside the Belgian Library that Tore Itself Apart
Le Conseil fédéral nomme Philippe Künzler à la tête des Archives fédérales suisses
France – Réaliser son premier versement dans Vitam
La France déclasse des archives secrètes sur Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Ireland – Government has no plans to release treasure trove of historic document
Archive of Northern Ireland Troubles to close
UK National Archives – A lot to be excited about: Admiralty Allotment Registers
UK National Archives – Reading about the Great Escape
UK National Archives – LGBTQ+ history: the red rose of Colonel Barker
UK National Archives – Contract awarded to publish the 1921 Census online
http://livelb.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/contract-awarded-to-publish-the-1921-census-online/
UK National Archives – Guerrilla cataloguing with Manage Your Collections
British Library – Competition to automate text recognition for printed Bangla books
A very different war: the photographs changing our notions of history
University of Cambridge – Archiving apartheid: the process of preserving images for future use
Row over access and copyright of more than 1,000 historic Norfolk and Suffolk photographs
Cardiff Rugby Museum – The Earliest Photograph of a Women’s Team?
Shorthand diary from 1915 transcribed after Twitter appeal
Are you being scanned? How facial recognition technology follows you, even as you shop
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – How the Anti-Semitic Dreyfus Affair Led to the Creation of the Tour de France
After Uploading 28,000 Historical Images, Wikimedia Signs Deal With National Library of Israel
Wikimedia Israel reaches deal with photo archives after feud
Israel hiding 300,000 documents about massacres carried out against Palestinians
More than 100 files from the 1800s are still classified in Israel’s archives
Head of Yad Vashem’s archives helps survivors unearth their own buried histories
Israel – A 30-Million-Page Archive of Humanity’s Achievements (and Failures) Is Headed to the Moon
Police seize ancient handwritten Hebrew manuscripts in anti-smuggling op in southern Turkey
International
Computational Archival Science International Network to be Launched
Association of Research Libraries – Celebrating Fair Use in Films
Some Reasons why the Collecting Social Photo Project is Building a Prototype for Collecting Social Digital Photography
Information Management Remains a Problem for Many Enterprises
How Film Restoration Preserves Access to Classic Cinema
Predictions for the application of machine learning to the management of email
Répertoires d’outils et données en humanités numériques
Can Blockchain Finally Give us the Digital Privacy we Deserve?
Rising Adoption of Digital Forensics Market to Fuel Revenue Growth Through 2025
Have printed auction catalogues had their day?
Saved, but not forgotten: the evolution of saving in video games, from the password to the cloud, and nearly every obscure memory card format in-between