Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board – Legislative Changes to the Certification of Cultural Property
Canadian Conservation Institute – Error Analysis and File Recovery Software for Digital Storage Media
Office of Management and Budget and NARA – Transition to Electronic Records Memorandum
State Records of South Australia – Archive Strategy
Institut national du patrimoine – Comment développer les ressources propres d’une institution patrimoniale ? Orientation bibliographique
De la communauté / From the community
Portage – Dataverse North Metadata Best Practices Guide (Version 1.1)
National Information Standards Organization – Recommended Practice on Improved Access to Institutionally-Provided Information Resources
CESSDA (Consortium of Social Science Data Archives) – Metadata Model
User Guide: https://zenodo.org/record/3236194
Article – Appraisal: a Strategic Tool for Modern Recordkeeping
Publications
Spark: University of the Arts London Creative Teaching and Learning Journal, vol. 4, no. 1, 2019 (Special Issue: Libraries, Archives and Special Collections)
Research Library Issues, no. 298, 2019 (Special Issue: the Data Science Revolution)
The Indexer: The International Journal of Indexing, vol. 37, no.2 (2019)
Grey Litterature Network Services Quarterly Newsletter, vol. 11, no. 3 (2019)
British Columbia Museums Association – Roundup, no. 275, 2019 (Special Issue: British Columbia GLAM sector)
Mennonite Historian: a Publication of the Mennonite Heritage Archives (Manitoba), vol. 45, no. 2 (2019)
Book – Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture
Book – The Global Flows of Early Scottish Photography: Encounters in Scotland, Canada, and China
Book – Tear Gas Epiphanies: Protest, Culture, Museums
Book – The Nuremberg Documents: Some Aspects of German War Policy 1939-45
Book – Historical Atlas of Native Americans: 150 Maps Chronicle the Fascinating and Tragic Story of North America’s Indigenous Peoples
Book – European Heritage, Dialogue and Digital Practices
Book – Object-Oriented Cartography: Maps as Things
Book – Why Don’t we Defend Better?: Data Breaches, Risk Management, and Public Policy
Book – Early Medieval Text and Image: the Codex Amiatinus, the Book of Kells and Anglo-Saxon Art
Book – The Organisation of Tomorrow: how Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Analytics Turn your Business into a Data Organisation
Book – Emerging Technologies in Virtual Learning Environments
Book – Emerging Perspectives in Big Data Warehousing
Book – The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
Livre – Du nouveau en archives : pratiques documentaires et innovations administratives (XIIIe-XVe siècles)
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Webinar – PDFs, Accessibility and Adobe Acrobat
July 11, 2019
Municipal Archives Interest Group Open House
October 18, 2019, Stratford (Ontario)
Webinar – Radical Collaboration in Practice: Data Curation Network Update
July 8, 2019
Keywords: Finding the Right Words to Find the Right Records
September 12, 2019, Leicester (UK)
Using the Freedom of Information Act: Practical Training for Requesters
October 17, 2019, London (UK)
Sorting Libraries out: Decolonizing Classification and Indigenizing Description (Videos Avalaible)
March 11-13, 2019, Vancouver
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Prime Ministers and the Arts
Ottawa Jewish Archives Podcast – The King Edward Shul
Historical Reminiscents Podcast – Open Education Fellows Update
Vidéo – Les scanners, étude comparative : de la capture d’image à son traitement
Baladodiffusion – L’archivage
Quiz – How Well Do you Know Open Archival Information System?
Kickstarter – Preserve & Digitize 30,000 New Orleans Newspapers, 1888-1929
Slides – Bits and Votes: the Role of Libraries and Archives in Open Societies
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Some baloney in claims about new federal access-to-information system
Le manque de transparence du fédéral est là pour rester
Artificial intelligence companies appeal to government for more clarity in Copyright Act
Library and Archives Canada – The beta testing is over; we are officially releasing our Collection Search tool
Library and Archives Canada – A selection of records about D-Day and the Normandy Campaign, June 6 to August 30, 1944
Library and Archives Canada drastically reduces access to restricted documents at 395 Wellington
How an ‘act of neglect’ put national treasures at risk in 1990
Les défis archivistiques de l’Enquête sur les femmes et filles autochtones disparues et assassinées
Behind the scenes: how the Rooms created a history of Newfoundland and Labrador art
Stratégie numérique du gouvernement du Québec : BAnQ accélère sa transformation numérique
BAnQ devient une nouvelle agence ISNI au Québec
Why e-books, e-audiobooks could be harder to snag at your local library
University of British Columbia – Explore Open Collections: Tairiku Nippo (Continental Daily News)
University of British Columbia – Digitizers’ Blog – Fishing in Open Collections
University of British Columbia prof helps create an online database of banned books
Western University – Smoke Signals Radio Archives Project Gets Underway
Diaries of St. John’s physician spanning 87 years digitized in Memorial University library
When it comes to machine translation literacy is key: meet Lynne Bowker, the newest Concordia Library researcher-in-residence
Art Wins the Day: Roussil’s Danse de la Paix at McGill University
Le Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française au congrès de l’Association des archivistes du Québec
Ottawa Jewish Archives – The Duke Abelson Display: Remembering a Local Hero
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Happy Canada Day
Voici 10 photographies de Québec parmi les plus anciennes et les plus belles de l’album Paul Gouin
Vancouver Archives – BC Gay and Lesbian Archives photographs now online
Museum of Broken Relationships (Toronto) – Museum puts heartbreak on display as relatable human experience, curator says
We feel terrible about it: Fredericton museum searches for missing Wolastoqi remains
Barrie Historical Archives (Ontario) – Barrie’s Changing Skyline
Dozens of historic silent movie posters uncovered in Forest, Ontario shed
Centre d’archives régional des Îles-de-la-Madeleine – La première église de Havre-aux-Maisons, vue par le Frère Marie-Victorin
Genealogist Has Photographed 30,000 Gravestones (in the Montreal Area)
Qu’arrivera-t-il avec les archives de Gerry Rochon ?
Internet access key to protecting threatened Indigenous languages
L’exploitation et la diffusion des archives numériques en généalogie: le cas de Jewish Records Indexing – Poland
Afrique / Africa
The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin’s Tyrannical Rule in Uganda
Algérie, la récupération des archives de l’ex DRS
Amériques / Americas
NARA – Apollo 11: the Department of State Prepares for Launch
NARA – Gearing up for Launch: More Scenes from the Apollo 11 Training Program
NARA – Summer Road Trip 2019: Texas
NARA – Summer Road Trip 2019: Memphis and New Orleans
http://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2019/07/01/summer-road-trip-2019-memphis-and-new-orleans/
Library of Congress – Remembering Jazz Legend Billy Strayhorn
Library of Congress – Garfield Shooting: July 2, 1881, and the Medical Disaster that Ensued
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2019/07/garfield-shooting-july-2-1881-and-the-medical-disaster-that-ensued/
National Library of Medicine – Democratizing Information Access
Thinking Outside the Smithsonian Institution Archives
American Archive of Public Broadcasting Launches the To the Moon Special Collection from NOVA
Supreme Court ruling draws criticisms, calls for Congressional protection of Freedom of Information Act
Society of American Archivists Update: Advocating for Archivist Pay
Society of American Archivists – Steering Share: Stability Matters
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – FAQ: Who is the custodian of this record?
Hawaii – Territorial Airwaves radio host on a mission to preserve vintage recordings
State Library of Massachusetts – Bird’s-Eye View Maps Are Now Online
Nevada librarians catalog virtual reality content for worldwide access
New viewer released for image content in the Stanford University Digital Repository
Southeast Missouri State University adds historical flag to Special Collections and Archives
Science History Institute receives rare archive smuggled from Nazi-era Germany
An Exploration of BitCurator NLP: Incorporating New Tools for Born-Digital Collections
Fortune 100 passwords, email archives, and corporate secrets left exposed on unsecured Amazon S3 server
The Secret Tech Problem at Modern Art Museums
You can’t Copyright an Idea: Pirates of the Caribbean Edition
Ohio Lesbian Archive: a Curated Collection
Creating the First Visual History of Queer Life Before Stonewall
The Underrecognized Photographers who Showed Queer Life in the 1960s
The U.S.S. Kidd is finding ways to preserve its archives and attract a new audience
Apollo 11 tapes bought for $218 may sell for millions after nearly being lost
Merger of Major Information Industry Associations Finalized
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – National Film and Sound Archive to receive rare Apollo 11 footage
Victoria University (Australia) – Aboriginal History Archive goes digital
Singapore – Over 10,000 historical materials donated by public to National Library and Archives in past year
India – Soon, first of its kind audio-visual archive on the Northeast
India – Kerala State eyes an archival treasure trove
India – Regional archives office lies in a state of disrepair
Europe / Europa
Visual identities: vintage newspaper mastheads from across Europe
Inside Poland’s cynical plan to kill Article 13 for good
In Hungary, an Online Photo Archive Fights Revisionist History
Stockholm’s international library is moving and not everyone’s pleased
Italian Jewish institutions in search of historical amateur movies
Universalité des archives, universalité de l’archivistique ? Les archives à l’aune des demandes sociétales contemporaines
New National Library of Ireland Book Repository Launched
Tipperary archivists save rare film footage of life in 1930’s Ireland
Worst neighbour ever? Edinburgh Archives unearth complaint about an elephant being kept in a flat
Gibraltar – National Archives to make all Brexit legislation public
UK National Archives – An undiplomatic diplomat: Morton Howell in Cairo
British Library – The Theatre Censors Part 1: George Colman
British Library – Chernobyl: Perspectives from the British Nuclear Industry
British Library – Getting musically inspired at the Business & Intellectual Property Centre
British Library – Even more digitised manuscripts
The Declassified History of Hitler’s British Traitors
Developing a digital preservation service for the British Museum: Part 1
Pilgrimage and Patronage: the Medieval Collections of Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library
Secret Royal Air Force WWII maps unveiled in Buckinghamshire
Unearthed photograph highlights important role of Indian suffragettes
Internet Archive Responds to UK Online Harms White Paper
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Integrating new data from Yad Vashem’s archives into the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure portal: methods and practice
International
A Primer on Archival Project Contracts
Video Game History Is More than Just Software and Hardware
When Tragedy Strikes, Social Media Posts Can Become Invaluable Artifacts
No one cares about 99% of the photos you take. Not even you.