Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
NARA – Records Management Guidance for Agencies Implementing Executive Order 13875, Evaluating and Improving the Utility of Federal Advisory Committees
State Archives and Records of New South Wales (Australia) – Sustainable File Formats
De la communauté / From the community
Society of American Archivists Native American Archives Section – Annual Report 2018-2019
Sustainability for Digital Community Archives
Sparc Europe – An Analysis of Open Science Policies in Europe (Version 4)
Article – Wikidata from a Research Perspective: a Systematic Mapping Study of Wikidata
Article – The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era
Article – Archives as a Service: from Archivist as Producer and Provider to Archivist as Facilitator and Enabler
Paper – Lost or Found? Discovering Data Needed for Research
Publications
Journal of Civic Information, vol. 1, no. 1 (2019)
Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, vol. 3, no. 2 (2019)
MAIGazine: the Newsletter of the Archives Association of Ontario’s Municipal Archives Interest Group, no. 15 (2019)
Master Thesis (Western University) – Abolishing Canadian Crown Copyright: why Government Documents Should not be Subject to Copyright
Livre numérique gratuit – Écritures digitales: Digital Writing, Digital Scriptures
Book – Afterlives of Indigenous Archives
Book – The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in their Efforts for Freedom
Book – The Battleships Yamato and Musashi: Selected Photos from the Archives of the Kure Maritime Museum
Book – Techniques for Electronic Resource Management: TERMS and the Transition to Open
Book – Transforming Acquisitions and Collection Services: Perspectives on Collaboration within and across Libraries
Book – Women War Photographers: from Lee Miller to Anja Niedringhaus
Book – The Emoji Revolution: how Technology is Shaping the Future of Communication
Book – Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World through Illuminated Manuscripts
Book – London and the Politics of Memory: in the Shadow of Big Ben
Book – The Digital Interface and New Media Art Installations
Livre – Images et patrimoine numerisé : enjeux et nouveaux usages
Livre – Promenade en Enfer : les livres à l’index de la bibliothèque historique du Séminaire de Québec
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Digital Humanities Toolbox Workshops
September 11 – November 20, 2019, Ottawa
Data and the Lack of Data in the Politics of the Platform Economy
September 12, 2019, Toronto
Michael Bidner out of the Archives
September 14, 2019, Toronto
Archives Matter: Three Nights of Speakers
September 16-18, 2019, Toronto
Nelson Webinar Series on Truth and Reconciliation in K-12 and Post-Secondary Education
September 23 – November 20, 2019
Archives Association of Ontario – Emergency Planning and Salvage Workshop
September 26, 2019, Peterborough
Canadian Research Knowledge Network – Access to Knowledge Conference
October 16-18, 2019, Ottawa
Navigating the Reorganization: Librarians’ and Archivists’ Conference
October 25-26, 2019, Ottawa
Archives Association of Ontario 2020 Conference
May 13-15, 2020, Thunder Bay
Online Course – Digital Curation and Contemporary Art: Curating in Contemporary Contexts
Starting October 2019
Webinar – Taking Altmetrics to the Next Level in your Library’s Systems and Services
October 3, 2019
Remote Access to the Arolsen Archives from Vienna: Researching Nazi Persecution, Forced Labour and Displaced Persons
November 6-8, 2019, Vienna
Nydia A. Swaby on Black Feminist Archives
November 9, 2019, London (UK)
Virtual Research Environments and Ancient Manuscripts
September 10-11, 2020, Lausanne (Switzerland)
Sur le web / On the web
Podcast – We Meet the Incoming Leader at National Library and Archives (Canada)
UK National Archives Podcast – Culture Clash? Pop in a Royal Park
Podcast – Burning Man: Archiving the Ephemeral
Society of American Archivists – International Archival Affairs Group Bibliography on Zotero
Slides – Intersectional GLAM: Empowered Collaboration Authentic Co-Production
Slides – Hopes, Dreams and Reality: Crowdsourcing and the Democratisation of Knowledge in Cultural Heritage
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Update on Canadian Copyright Mass Litigation: September Snapshot
No more free rides for Big Tech, heritage minister says
Surprise (or Not): Patient Records Are Confidential
Digitizing Canada’s heritage Job one for new chief librarian
The new National Library of Greece is an excellent example, Leslie Weir says
Library and Archives Canada – The prime minister as reader
Library and Archives Canada – A novel with soul (or at least half!)
Cold War memo predicted fallout of Soviet attack on Canada
Summary of how Ontario ministry works is a government secret
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick – Rescuing the past: Student spends her summer bringing old photos back to life
University of Calgary Library – Digitization
A bookish tribute to honorary degree recipients: a unique endowment at the University of Alberta funds rare book acquisitions
McGill University Library – Sir John Franklin held here
University of British Columbia Digitizer’s Blog – Women’s Education and One Hundred Poets Books
The Programming Historian
Le Greffe électronique de Decisia et du Laboratoire de Cyberjustice sont maintenant connectés
Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives – Summer 2019 News
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Canon Law: Freedom and Authority in the Catholic Church
Filmmaker hopes to find more lost film reels buried in Dawson City
Québec – Voici 15 photographies anciennes du quartier Saint-Roch
London – Banting House gifted with a treasure trove of additional archives
Oak Bay Archives (British Columbia) – University student’s summer dedicated to Uplands’ research
Century-old pictures offer glimpse of Abbotsford (British Columbia) schools and students
Drummondville – Une exposition de photographies au CHSLD Frederick George Heriot
Ontario museum offers 3D tour of large Indigenous archeological site
Closure of Canada’s only design museum shows “lack of support for design” says V&A curator
https://www.dezeen.com/2019/08/29/design-exchange-museum-deaccession-canada-toronto-brendan-cormier/
Final Archival Moments Pays Tribute to Larry Dohey
Editorial: Larry Dohey, what a loss
How a young Quebec soldier found confidential D-Day invasion plans and kept it a secret
After a long journey, Quebec soldier’s Second World War backpack returns home for good
Dématique et SAE (22) : la Fonction conservation sécurisée des données (2) : processus de gestion des durées de communicabilité
Decolonizing the public library
Afrique / Africa
Archives nationales : une mission de sauvegarde du patrimoine mémoriel de la République du Congo séjourne à Pointe-Noire
Madagascar – Musée de la photographie: environ 22 000 clichés numerisés
Mauritania – This Saharan Village Is Home to Thousands of Ancient Texts Preserved in Desert Libraries
Nigeria – Historians seek revival of National Archives
Nigeria – Preserving matters of historical value
Namibia – Managing Records for the Adjudication of justice
Kenyan museum builds 3D digital reconstructions to bring dark side of British colonial past to life
Truth and Reconciliation Hearings Underway in the Gambia
South Africa – The Copyright Amendment Bill is a recipe for recolonising education
Amériques / Americas
Caribbean Literary Heritage
NARA – New Search Feature: Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
NARA – Road Trip Wrap-up and the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway
The National Archives Needs you to Watch a Ton of Vintage NASA Footage Online
Library of Congress – The Notebooks Behind Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood
Library of Congress – Crowdsourcing Challenge: the Man Who Recorded the World
Taking Flight: National Library of Medicine’s Data Science Journey
This is when the National Museum of the US Army is scheduled to open
Lonnie Bunch, the Smithsonian’s first black leader, on the challenge of making it a place that matters
Courts Can Force Agencies to Post Records in Freedom of Information Act Reading Rooms
State Archives of North Carolina – New Digital Collection: Future Homemakers of America Association
Yale University Presents an Archive of 170,000 Photographs Documenting the Great Depression
Behind the Scenes: Enslaved Lives in the Archives at Florida State University
Utah State University is building a massive outdoor archive
Unknown John Locke Manuscript Found at a College in Maryland
ml4arc: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Natural Language Processing Applications in Archives
After Katrina, a priceless musical archive was thought lost. It showed up in Torrance
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Advancing the respect and recognition of Indigenous Knowledge and Peoples of Asia
First photo of Madame Brussels, the red light queen of 1880s Melbourne
National Libray of New Zealand – Is your Facebook account an archive of the future?
New Zealand – Mystery of 110-year-old photo negatives anonymously given to Auckland Museum
Vietnam – Exhibition portrays Uncle Ho through international archives
160,000 government records publicly accessible on National Archives of Singapore online archives portal
Minister of State for Communications and Information Sim Ann on public access to National Archives of Singapore’s Government records
Parliament: Only 8% of 2 million public government records searchable on National Archives of Singapore online portal
Inner Mongolia preserves archives of Ulan Muqir art troupes
Thailand’s museum houses Indonesia’s oldest Quran in pristine state
India – Digitisation of rare books on at library
Europe / Europa
Expatriate Archive Centre – From Ink to Link: Memory and the Archive
Minister of Culture Aims to Repatriate Icelandic Manuscripts
National Archives of Finland – Letter from Deputy Director General Päivi Happonen to Memorial society: Access to the World War II materials in the Finnish archives
National Library of Finland – Three Cantatas by Jean Sibelius Published in First Editions
National Gallery of Denmark’s collection search levels up or why they put art in artificial intelligence
Natasha Khramtsovsky (Russia) – Future of the archives and archivists is terrifying and exciting
Turkish, Greek Cypriots restores media files, paintings
Pope names 13 new cardinals, including Canadian Jesuit (and Vatican’s Archivist and Librarian)
Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland – Statement from the Chair of the Board
Note: This is a Reaction Notably to: http://twitter.com/ARAPubAffairs/status/1167735056888213509 and http://twitter.com/ARAPubAffairs/status/1167750908752670720
Scotland – The challenges of recording our past through digitisation
http://www.scotsman.com/business/the-challenges-of-recording-our-past-through-digitisation-1-4994001
Scotland – Jarmo Eskelinen: untangling data’s ethical dilemmas
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh – New Donation: WW2 Internment Camp Records
University of St Andrews – Electrifying Daguerreotypes
UK National Archives – Peterloo: Whatever Happened to Henry Hunt?
UK National Archives – Supporting students with early documents
British Library – The Great Fire of London and the East India Company
British Library – A Colonial Anecdote in Translation: Jean-Baptiste Picquenard’s Adonis in Swedish
British Library – Sir Isaac Pitman: phonography and the phonograph
Bodleain Library – An Intern and the Third Inkling: cataloguing the Charles Williams collection
Archive of one of the North East’s most famous politicians saved but at a cost
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Jerusalems archives: a tantalising glimpse of a lost world
Police seize Ottoman-era manuscripts and historical artifacts in central Turkey
International
Ten things I’ve learned about using OAIS from a sprawling twitter convo
Motivation to Undertake File Format Identification Research for Plain Text Files
Beyond data recovery: a chief information officier’s perspective on digital preservation
What do we lose when records are digitised?
Three Key Data Privacy Considerations for Records & Information Management
The Margins of Archivy: Archival Description of Visual Materials
We’re in a Data Literacy Crisis. Could Librarians Be the Superheroes we Need?
Using artificial intelligence to preserve cultural heritages
Please, my Digital Archive. It’s Very Sick.
The Internet is Rotting: Let’s Embrace it
Internet et la mémoire du futur
What is the cost of a data breach?
The privacy paradigm shift: huge fines show privacy issues can no longer be ignored
Could footnotes be the key to winning the disinformation wars?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/29/could-footnotes-be-key-winning-disinformation-wars/
Analysis: the use of open-source software by terrorists and violent extremists