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Documentary Heritage News
August 9, 2019May 2, 2021

Vol. 12, no. 49

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State
Government of Canada – Policy on Service and Digital
http://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/news/2019/08/minister-murray-launches-new-policy-on-service-and-digital-strengthening-commitment-to-digital-government.html

Library and Archives Canada – Three-year Plan 2019-2022: Indicators
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/about-us/three-year-plan/Pages/three-year-plan-2019-2022-indicators.aspx

Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Report and Disposal Schedule: Office of the Ombudsman (for Comments)
Appraisal Report : http://assets.ctfassets.net/etfoy87fj9he/3ZJJSRAMNXhJEspjSKrJE9/79ab7dee013635284d6e7ae5b94fd712/APP2018_0013_Ombudsman_Appraisal_Report.pdf
Disposal Schedule: http://assets.ctfassets.net/etfoy87fj9he/1QN5WaUZIRILrLfr3RU2EC/09d4d90a8cc97c48c671c86257520066/APP2018_0013_Ombudsman_Disposal_Schedule.pdf

U.S. Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative – Significant Properties for Digital Video (Draft for Comments)
http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/guidelines/sigpropvideo.html

De la communauté / From the community
California Digital Library – Finding Aid Aggregation at a Crossroads
http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2019/08/02/toward-a-national-archival-finding-aid-network-planning-initiative-update-and-release-of-new-report/

OCLC – Creating Library Linked Data with Wikibase: Lessons Learned from Project Passage
http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2019/oclcresearch-creating-library-linked-data-with-wikibase-project-passage.html

UK National Commission for Unesco – Cultural Heritage Innovation: Opportunities for International Development
http://www.unesco.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Cultural-Heritage-Innovation-2.pdf

Mind the Gap: a Landscape Analysis of Open Source Publishing Tools and Platforms
https://mindthegap.pubpub.org/

Article – Developing and Evaluating Management Services for Collective Memory
http://t.co/9KbUq5yKcM

Article – Provenance in Databases: Principles and Applications
http://pierre.senellart.com/publications/senellart2019provenance.pdf

Paper – Communication, Trust, and Collaboration: Getting Everyone Invested in Acquisitions Work
http://drive.google.com/file/d/1q2LUyF1t1RTNVjUuTho2Xfd6lyre-0ll/view

Publications
Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 1 (2019)
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/13/1/index.html

I2D: Information, données & documents (2019/1) 
https://www.cairn.info/revue-i2d-information-donnees-et-documents-2019-1.htm

Book – Making Archives in Early Modern Europe: Proof, Information and Political Record-keeping, 1400-1700 
http://www.cambridge.org/ca/academic/subjects/history/european-history-after-1450/making-archives-early-modern-europe-proof-information-and-political-record-keeping-14001700   

Book – A Museum in Public: Re-visioning Canada’s Royal Ontario Museum
http://www.routledge.com/A-Museum-in-Public-Re-visioning-Canadas-Royal-Ontario-Museum/Ashley/p/book/9781138579262 

Book – Informed Societies: why Information Literacy Matters for Citizenship, Participation and Democracy
http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=304226

Book – Secrecy and Methods in Security Research: a Guide to Qualitative Fieldwork
http://www.routledge.com/Secrecy-and-Methods-in-Security-Research-A-Guide-to-Qualitative-Fieldwork/Goede-Bosma-Pallister-Wilkins/p/book/9780367027247 

Book – Criminal Records, Privacy and the Criminal Justice System: a Handbook
http://www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/uk/criminal-records-privacy-and-the-criminal-justice-system-a-handbook-9781526506993/ 

Book – Public Rights: Copyright’s Public Domains
http://www.cambridge.org/ca/academic/subjects/law/intellectual-property/public-rights-copyrights-public-domains?format=PB 

Book – Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany
http://www.cambridge.org/ca/academic/subjects/history/twentieth-century-european-history/private-life-and-privacy-nazi-germany?format=HB 

Book – Crypto-Politics: Encryption and Democratic Practices in the Digital Era
http://www.routledge.com/Crypto-Politics-Encryption-and-Democratic-Practices-in-the-Digital-Era/Monsees/p/book/9781138314788  

Livre – Dictionnaire amoureux du patrimoine
http://www.lisez.com/livre-grand-format/dictionnaire-amoureux-du-patrimoine/9782259253222 

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Webinaire – Découvrez le Fonds pour une Bibliothèque Globale
12 septembre 2019
https://fmdoc.org/?tribe_events=formation-webinaire-12-septembre-decouvrez-le-fonds-bibliotheque-globale

Archives Week 2019
October 4-11, 2019, Athabasca (Alberta)
https://www.athabascaarchives.ca/calendars/show_event/54861/Archives-Week-2019

Webinar – STEM in Libraries: in Conversation with Keliann LaConte
August 22, 2019
http://www.alia.org.au/events/19007/free-webinar-stem-libraries-conversation-keliann-laconte

Webinar – Copyright & Creative Commons 101 for eTeachers
September 4 and 19, 2019
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScXWOzLDrGsxwyX3PiW4F_FpgKrpcNvQ4oqraONzG5FaSlcZA/viewform

Developing a Culturally Responsive Literacy Lens
September 16, 2019, New York
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/developing-a-culturally-responsive-literacy-lens-tickets-65107691859

Personal Digital Archiving: Storing, Organising and Protecting your Digital Content for the Future
September 26, 2019, Dublin (Ireland)
http://www.dri.ie/personal-digital-archiving-storing-organising-and-protecting-your-digital-content-future

Digital Archives in the Commonwealth Summit
December 6, 2019, Richmond (Virginia)
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/4420551/digital-archives-commonwealth-summit

Critical Roles for Libraries in Today’s Research Enterprise
December 11, 2019, Washington D.C.
http://library.ucalgary.ca/libraryresearchplatform/symposium

Sur le web / On the web
Inspire555: Online Engagement for the Ottawa Public Library-Library and Archives Canada Joint Facility
https://engage.ottawa.ca/Inspire555

LawBytes Podcast – The World Intellectual Property Organization BRIP Database: Rick Shera on the MEGA Experience and the Dangers of False Intellectual Property Claims 
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2019/08/lawbytes-podcast-episode-23/

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Next Steps in Advancing Changes to Crown Copyright
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/news/next-steps-in-advancing-changes-to-crown-copyright/

Canadian Copyright Mass Litigation: Reasonable Reimbursement for Norwich Order Compliance
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2019/08/canadian-copyright-mass-litigation.html

Alex Benay exits as Canada’s Chief Information Officier, joins Artifical Intelligence startup from Ottawa 
http://www.itworldcanada.com/article/alex-benay-exits-as-canadas-cio-joins-ai-startup-from-ottawa/420700

Library and Archives Canada – What’s new in the collection: the 2019 summer edition is here
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/2019/whats-new-collection-2019-summer.aspx

Library and Archives Canada – So, you’ve Published a Book
https://thediscoverblog.com/2019/08/08/so-youve-published-a-book/

British Library – A Tour of Indigenous London (with Students from the University of British Columbia)
http://blogs.bl.uk/americas/2019/08/a-tour-of-indigenous-london.html

Nova Scotia aims to take historical watercolour paintings into present
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/watercolour-painting-nova-scotia-1.5235152

Alberta government puts funding on hold for public libraries
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/public-library-funding-on-pause-1.5238361

British Columbia – Province called upon to increase library funding
http://www.delta-optimist.com/news/province-called-upon-to-increase-library-funding-1.23904437

University of British Columbia – More than 100 years of BC’s provincial governmental papers now accessible online
http://about.library.ubc.ca/2019/08/01/more-than-100-years-of-bcs-provincial-governmental-papers-now-accessible-online/

University of British Columbia Digitizers’ Blog – The Canadian Rockies
http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/carousel/the-canadian-rockies/

Bibliothèque de l’Université McGill – En quête des oeuvres d’art
http://news.library.mcgill.ca/en-quete-des-oeuvres-dart/

Concordia University’s Wikipedian-in-residence teaching people how to access and assess information
http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/concordia-university-s-wikipedian-in-residence-teaching-people-how-to-access-and-assess-information-1.4537133

Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – The Archdiocese goes to the Ex
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2019/08/the-archdiocese-goes-to-ex.html

Privacy and Freedom of Information: what Are a Municipality’s Obligations?
http://www.mondaq.com/canada/x/832408/Data+Protection+Privacy/Privacy+And+Freedom+Of+Information+What+Are+A+Municipalitys+Obligations

Toronto Archives are a glimpse into the city’s past
http://www.blogto.com/city/2019/08/city-of-toronto-archives/

Archives de Montréal – Perspectives allochtones sur les réalités autochtones : photographies
http://archivesdemontreal.com/2019/08/08/perspectives-allochtones-sur-les-realites-autochtones-photographies/

London Room goes digital with grant to overhaul largest collection
http://lfpress.com/news/local-news/librarys-london-room-goes-digital-with-grant-to-overhaul-largest-collection

Before you toss it, ask an archivist: your records could include valuable pieces of Parksville-Qualicum (British Columbia) history
http://www.pqbnews.com/community/before-you-toss-it-ask-an-archivist/

The Alcuin Society Awards: Creating a Dataset and Looking at Rates of New Winners over Time
http://www.granthurley.ca/blog/the-alcuin-society-awards-creating-a-dataset-and-looking-at-rates-of-new-winners-over-time/

Newfoundland crime thriller pairs police and archivist
http://www.thewesternstar.com/news/local/newfoundland-crime-thriller-pairs-police-and-archivist-339317/

Lucy Maud Montgomery’s original manuscript reveals Prince Edward Island author’s creative process
http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/news/local/lm-montgomerys-original-manuscript-reveals-pei-authors-creative-process-339782/

Newspapers.com is a major resource
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2019/08/newspaperscom-is-major-resource.html

La polémique entourant les saisons de Boles
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2019/08/05/boles/

Afrique / Africa
The Gambia: three former hitmen released after admission at reconciliation commission
http://www.dw.com/en/the-gambia-three-former-hitmen-released-after-admission-at-reconciliation-commission/a-49920372

Amériques / Americas
Break-in at National Archives of Antigua and Barbuda believed to be inside job
http://antiguaobserver.com/break-in-at-national-archives-believed-to-be-inside-job/

NARA – New Records Released: 2019 Third Quarter Release List
http://declassification.blogs.archives.gov/2019/08/05/new-records-released-2019-third-quarter-release-list/

NARA – Comparing Earnings of Presidents and Baseball Players
http://hoover.blogs.archives.gov/2019/07/31/comparing-earnings-of-presidents-and-baseball-players/

Library of Congress – Now Online! The Love Letters of James and Lucretia Garfield
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2019/08/now-online-the-love-letters-of-james-and-lucretia-garfield/

Library of Congress – Looking at Abraham Lincoln: New Guide Available
http://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2019/08/looking-at-abraham-lincoln-new-guide-available/

Library of Congress – Remembering Toni Morrison
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2019/08/remembering-toni-morrison/

How a Historian Uncovered Ronald Reagan’s Racist Remarks to Richard Nixon
http://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-a-historian-uncovered-ronald-reagans-racist-remarks-to-richard-nixon

Navy cracks down on personal email, social media
http://fcw.com/articles/2019/07/30/navy-cracks-down-personal-email.aspx

Department of the Interior took notes from FBI while developing controversial Freedom of Information Act policy
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/456377-interior-took-notes-from-fbi-while-developing-controversial-foia

The National Gallery of Art Presents the First 50 Years of Photography
http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/news/national-gallery-art-presents-first-50-years-photography

Agencies Have a New Tool for Researching Electronic Records Management Services 
http://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2019/07/agencies-have-new-tool-researching-electronic-records-management-services/158535/

Society of American Archivists Council Issues Statement on American Archivist Brown Bag Lunch, Approves Tragedy Response Resources and a New Section on Accessibility and Disability
http://www2.archivists.org/news/2019/saa-council-issues-statement-on-american-archivist-brown-bag-lunch-approves-tragedy-respon

33 Things to Love About Alabama: the Alabama State Archives: the oldest in the country
http://www.rollbamaroll.com/2019/7/22/20703449/33-things-to-love-about-alabama-the-alabama-state-archives-the-oldest-in-the-country

Watchdogs: Massachusetts flunks when it comes to open records 
http://www.bostonherald.com/2019/07/31/watchdogs-massachusetts-flunks-when-it-comes-to-open-records/

Rhode Island archives: historical documents to stay put for another year
http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20190801/ri-archives-historical-documents-to-stay-put-for-another-year

University of Michigan – Deep Blue PDF Health Check
http://www.lib.umich.edu/blogs/bits-and-pieces/deep-blue-pdf-health-check

Texas Tech University – Vietnam Center & Archive Oral Histories will Soon Be More Accessible
http://today.ttu.edu/posts/2019/08/Stories/vietnam-center-archive-oral-histories-more-accessible

An elite D.C. girls’ school thought its founding nuns taught slaves to read. Instead, they sold them off for as much as they could.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/an-elite-dc-girls-school-thought-its-founding-nuns-taught-slaves-to-read-instead-they-sold-them-off-for-as-much-as-they-could/2019/08/02/1b2c44d2-b551-11e9-951e-de024209545d_story.html

Google and NASA Are Leaking Data via Misconfigured Jira Servers
http://fossbytes.com/google-and-nasa-are-leaking-data-via-misconfigured-jira-servers/

Data-mining reveals that 80% of books published 1924-63 never had their copyrights renewed and are now in the public domain
http://boingboing.net/2019/08/01/80pct-pd.html

How Libraries are Embracing Artificial Intelligence
https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2019/08/how-libraries-are-embracing-artificial-intelligence/159035/

After more than a century, recordings from the Passamaquoddy Tribe are being restored and shared
http://bangordailynews.com/2019/08/04/news/down-east/after-more-than-a-century-recordings-from-the-passamaquoddy-tribe-are-being-restored-and-shared/

Inside the Austin History Center’s LGBTQ Collections
http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2019-08-09/inside-the-austin-history-centers-lgbtq-collections/

This Webcomic Librarian Is Protecting LGBTQ Stories
http://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2019/8/04/webcomic-librarian-protecting-lgbtq-stories

There’s an Archivist for that! Interview with Brad San Martin, Digital Archivist, Apollo Theater
http://archivesaware.archivists.org/2019/08/07/theres-an-archivist-for-that-interview-with-brad-san-martin-digital-archivist-apollo-theater/

Social Justice and what it Means to be an Archivist
http://medium.com/@l.m.cahill91/social-justice-and-what-it-means-to-be-an-archivist-9bc01a0667f6

Academic Publishing, Institutional Racism, and #thatdarnarticle
http://hwinefuku.wordpress.com/2019/08/02/academic-publishing-institutional-racism-and-thatdarnarticle/

After Kanders, Decolonization Is the Way Forward
http://hyperallergic.com/511683/decolonize-this-place-after-kanders/

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – A Secret No Longer: Data Anonymization Redux Needed as Industry Learns that Anonymization Not the Same as Erasure
http://idm.net.au/article/0012591-secret-no-longer-data-anonymization-redux-needed-industry-learns

Queensland (Australia) Government Recordkeeping – Conducting an assessment of your recordkeeping
http://grkblog.archives.qld.gov.au/2019/08/05/conducting-an-assessment-of-your-recordkeeping/

National Library of New Zealand – Cataloguing the Marama Warren collection
http://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/cataloguing-the-marama-warren-collection

Japan – University in Tokyo opens web archive for works of music students who died in WWII
http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190804/p2a/00m/0et/002000c

Courtroom records of landmark postwar civil cases binned across Japan
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/05/national/crime-legal/courtroom-records-landmark-postwar-civil-cases-binned-across-japan/

Vietnam et Laos renforcent leur coopération dans les archives militaires
http://www.lecourrier.vn/vietnam-et-laos-renforcent-leur-cooperation-dans-les-archives-militaires/620873.html

South Korea – Seoul approves 640 mln won for digital archiving of inter-Korean relics excavation project
http://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20190805001900325

China’s national library goes digital to preserve ancient books
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-08/04/c_138282219.htm

India – Mahatma Gandhi’s 90-year-old rare hand-written editorial found in Pratapgarh
http://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mahatma-gandhi-s-90-year-old-rare-hand-written-editorial-found-in-pratapgarh/story-fs6mto2XbZ8nfJnwQpHOzM.html

India – Delhi Archives to record oral history of city in two years
http://www.canindia.com/delhi-archives-to-record-oral-history-of-city-in-2-years/

Europe / Europa
Association of European Research Libraries – The Right to Read is the Right to Mine: But Not When Blocked by Technical Protection Measures
http://libereurope.eu/blog/2019/08/01/the-right-to-read-is-the-right-to-mine-but-not-when-blocked-by-technical-protection-measures/

Europeana – What is digital storytelling and what has it got to do with cultural heritage?
https://pro.europeana.eu/post/what-is-digital-storytelling-and-what-has-it-got-to-do-with-cultural-heritage


Sweden – What’s Silver, Purple, and Very Well-Traveled?
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/silver-purple-bible-codex-mysterious-centuries

Embracing the Mysteries of a Trove of Hungarian Photos, Rescued from the Dustbin of History
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hungarian-photos-from-trash

Czech National Library scrambles to save thousands of books at risk of decay
https://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/czech-national-library-scrambles-to-save-thousands-of-books-at-risk-of-decay

National Archives of Armenia State Non-Commercial Organization to be subordinate to Ministry of Justice
https://news.am/eng/news/527720.html

Bilan de l’inondation survenue aux Archives nationales de Luxembourg le 25 juillet 2019
http://anlux.public.lu/fr/actualites/2019/inondation-saint-esprit.html

France – Trésor de la révolution : l’armoire de fer a été restaurée
http://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/archeo-paleo/patrimoine/tresor-de-la-revolution-on-a-repare-la-serrure-de-l-armoire-de-fer_136040

Lost works from French literary giant Marcel Proust to be published in October
https://www.thelocal.fr/20190806/lost-works-from-french-literary-giant-marcel-proust-to-be-published-in-october

National Library of Wales to acquire iconic cartoons
http://www.aberystwyth-today.co.uk/article.cfm?id=129851

Information and Records Management Society – Confirms Strategy and work plan for 2019-2020
http://irms.org.uk/news/464179/IRMS-Confirms-Strategy-and-work-plan-for-2019-20.htm

UK Parliamentary Archives  – The Newport Rising
http://archives.blog.parliament.uk/2019/08/05/the-newport-rising/

UK – National Archives plans website upgrade
http://www.ukauthority.com/articles/national-archives-plans-website-upgrade/

UK National Archives – New learning spaces for the historians of tomorrow
http://livelb.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/new-learning-spaces-for-the-historians-of-tomorrow/

UK National Archives – Peterloo remembered in free online course 
http://livelb.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/peterloo-remembered-in-free-online-course/

UK National Archives – From Peterloo to the Pankhursts: a new way of exploring 19th-century radical history
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/from-peterloo-to-the-pankhursts-a-new-way-of-exploring-19th-century-radical-history/

British Library – The birds and the bees
http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2019/08/the-birds-and-the-bees.html

British Library – Captain Henry Liddell’s recipe for spruce beer
http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2019/08/captain-henry-liddells-recipe-for-spruce-beer.html

Swedish lessons: can data management enable the UK to deliver a net-zero economy?
http://www.edie.net/library/Lessons-from-Sweden–Can-data-management-enable-the-UK-to-deliver-a-net-zero-economy-/6901

University of Aberdeen – New resource brings Alaskan school children face-to-face with their past
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/13234/

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – Kafka’s Rare Manuscripts: from the Vault in Switzerland to the Library in Jerusalem 
http://blog.nli.org.il/en/kafkas-rare-manuscripts/

National Library of Israel – The Fate of Franz Kafka’s Archive 
http://blog.nli.org.il/en/kafka_archive/

National Library of Israel – The Drawings of Franz Kafka 
http://blog.nli.org.il/en/the-drawings-of-franz-kafka/

Who owns Israel’s history? A former state archivist on the dispute over the first draft of the Declaration of Independence
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/288939/who-owns-israels-history

United Arab Emirates – How one intrepid photographer captured the first image of Zayed the Great
http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/art/how-one-intrepid-photographer-captured-the-first-image-of-zayed-the-great-1.894420

Iraq welcomes return of 100s of stolen artifacts from countries
http://www.rudaw.net/english/culture/29072019

Turkish government destroys more than 300,000 books
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/06/turkish-government-destroys-more-than-300000-books

International
What Should an Artist Save?
http://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/t-magazine/artist-archives.html

Data Management in the Humanities: Progress in the Standardisation of Metadata Formats for Language-related Research Data 
http://www.clarin-d.net/en/blog-clarin-d-en/93-data-management-in-the-humanities-progress-in-the-standardisation-of-metadata-formats-for-language-related-research-data

Chief data officers urged to master product management
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/252467568/Chief-Data-Officers-urged-to-master-product-management

How Federated Learning Combined with Gamification could Restore Privacy to Artificial Intelligence Training
http://blog.gdeltproject.org/how-federated-learning-combined-with-gamification-could-restore-privacy-to-ai-training/

Computer Science Could Learn a Lot From Library and Information Science
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/08/05/computer-science-could-learn-a-lot-from-library-and-information-science/

GeoCities’ Afterlife and Web History
http://blog.geocities.institute/archives/6418

Pourquoi les biographies de femmes sont-elles plus souvent remises en question sur Wikipédia ?
http://www.numerama.com/politique/537875-pourquoi-les-biographies-de-femmes-sont-elles-plus-souvent-remises-en-question-sur-wikipedia.html

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