Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Resolution of the Federal, Provincial and Territorial Information and Privacy Commissioners (Canada) – Effective Privacy and Access to Information Legislation in a Data Driven Society
U.S. Department of Justice – Step-by-Step Guide for Determining if Commercial or Financial Information Obtained from a Person is Confidential under Exemption 4 of the Freedom of Information Act
Institut national du patrimoine (France) – Réputées détruites : sur la piste des oeuvres disparues pendant la guerre : de l’identification à la restitution : orientation bibliographique
De la communauté / From the community
Digital Preservation Coalition – Technology Watch Report: Preserving Email (Second Edition)
Memoriav: Association for the Safeguarding of the Swiss Audiovisual Heritage – Recommendations: Digital Archiving of Film and Video (version 1.2)
California Digital Library – Toward a National Archival Finding Aid Network: from Planning Initiative to Project and Program: an Action Plan
Programming Historian – Beginner’s Guide to Twitter Data
Research Data Alliance – Engaging Researchers with Data Management: the Cookbook
Article – Coaching Copyright: Rules and Strategies for the Game
Publications
New Review of Information Networking, vol. 24, no. 2 (2019)
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 70, no. 12 (2019)
Free eBook – Among Digitized Manuscripts: Philology, Codicology, Paleography in a Digital World
Book – Information Governance: Concepts, Strategies and Best Practices (Second Edition)
Book – Creating Family Archives: a Step-by-Step Guide to Saving your Memories for Future Generations
Book – Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Aesthetics of Power
Book – More than One Picture: an Art History of the Hyperimage
http://shop.getty.edu/products/more-than-one-picture-an-art-history-of-the-hyperimage-978-1606066256
Book – Data Science and Machine Learning: Mathematical and Statistical Methods
Book – Tracing your Scottish Ancestry through Church and State Records
Book – Allied Communication to the Public During the Second World War: National and Transnational Networks
Book – Sandworm: a New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers
Book – Text Mining with Machine Learning: Principles and Techniques
Book – Geospatial Health Data: Modeling and Visualization with R-INLA and Shiny
Book – Hands-On Machine Learning with R
Book – E-documentation and E-commerce Solutions for Business
Book – You Look Like a Thing and I Love you: how Artificial Intelligence Works and why it’s Making the World a Weirder Place
Livre – Dans les archives inédites du ministère de l’Intérieur : un siècle de secrets d’État (1870-1945)
Livre – La Bibliothèque monde : la Vaticane et les Archives secrètes
Livre – Patrimoine culturel de l’Unesco : les plus beaux sites du monde
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Uncatalogued: a Porn Archive’s Risky Arrangements
November 11, 2019, Montreal
Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Sector
November 13, 2019, Montreal
Object Biographies: Artist’s Lives through their Archives
Until November 30, 2019, University of Victoria
Datathon d’Archives Unleashed #Montréal
14-15 mai 2020, Montréal
Free Online Course – The History of the Book in the Early Modern Period: 1450 to 1800
Webinar – Review, Appraisal and Triage of Mail
November 13, 2019
UK National Archives – Wine tasting: South Africa: from Huguenots to Hemel-en Aarde
November 13, 2019, Kew (UK)
Championing Diversity and Inclusion in Irish Archives and Records
November 21, 2019, Dublin
International Conference: Technical and Field Related Problems of Traditional and Electronic Archiving
April 8-10, 2020, Radenci (Slovenia)
Digital Initiatives Symposium 2020
April 28, 2020, San Diego
Sur le web / On the web
Scholars Portal – Upgraded Dataverse Platform and Data Curation Tool
Lawbytes Podcast – It’s Only Going to Get More Important: Amanda Wakaruk and Jeremy deBeer on Crown Copyright in Canada
Historical Reminiscents Podcast – The Abstract Writing Slog
Video – The Knowledge School of Thought, David Lankes
BitList 2019: the Global List of Digitally Endangered Species
Video – Wikipedia Loves Archives
Slides – Preserving your Digital Memories
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Crown copyright, facts, Keatley, land surveys, Teranet: the hill to die on
Gun serial numbers are not personal information, judge tells RCMP
Library and Archives Canadas Gatineau 2 Project Wins Silver in CCPPPs 2019 National Awards for Innovation and Excellence in P3s
Library and Archives Canada signs collaborative agreement with Memorial University of Newfoundland
Canada’s archives kept in freezers and damaged by water, report finds
Guy Berthiaume : une carrière prolifique
Righting a historical wrong for Japanese Canadians: association asks British Columbia government to acknowledge responsibility in 1940s dispossession of Japanese Canadians
Bursting at the seams: Prince Edward Island archives begin move to Atlantic Technology Centre
Attending the 2019 Saskatchewan Indigenous Cultural Centre e-miciminayakik Gathering
Province folds up Alberta historical preservation body in bid to save money
L’utilisation des Rights Statements et des licences Creative Commons dans BAnQ numérique
http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/carnetbibliothequenationale/2019/11/07/rights-statements-creative-commons/
BAnQ – Ces 200 000 documents patrimoniaux sont à vous
Preserving Research Data: Finding our Legs at Scholars Portal
Luciana Duranti awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Mid-Sweden University
http://slais.ubc.ca/2019/11/luciana-duranti-awarded-an-honorary-degree-by-the-mid-sweden-university/
University of British Columbia – They also serve: Honouring Alexis Alvey
Western University’s librarians and archivists vote in favour new deal
University of Winnipeg – Photographing ghosts on the prairies
Concordia Students Research War Orphans Project Archives
Student Spotlight: Nikolas Lamarre at the McGill University Archives
Researcher threatened over access to information wins full costs
Researchers searching for child graves near abandoned Saskatchewan residential school
Vancouver Archives – Digitized photographs from the Hugh Pickett fonds now online
City archivist gives a look into Saskatoon of 100 years ago
Memories of Eaton’s on display at Galt Museum and Archives (Alberta)
Thunder Bay – City archives honours four pioneering women
The history of the Sault Ste. Marie’s Croatian community
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – Soldier Spotlight: Douglas Blackie
South Peace Regional Archives – Finding Memory: Highlights from the Indigenous Reference Files
Oshawa Museum – Jack Humphreys: the Story of a Veteran of Two Wars
The Race to Find Scientific Secrets Encoded in Indigenous Songs
Elvis impersonator delves into haunting songs from New Brunswick’s past
Calgary – Second World War medals returned to family after they were donated to Goodwill
Six trucs pour mettre en oeuvre votre projet de numérisation
Freshly Minted: Hridi Das, MLIS Candidate, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western University
Afrique / Africa
Une démarche commune des pays africains pour restituer leurs archives coloniales
Les archives du Maroc … l’institution qui sauve la mémoire
Maroc – Jamaa Baïda… le gardien des archives
Congo-Brazzaville – Archives nationales : le personnel à l’école du savoir
Nigeria – Foundation decries loss of historical facts from archives
The Liberian Archivist, Archie Williams, Recycles History One Newspaper at a Time
Kenya – National Museum collections to be digitized
Access information regulations validated Sierra Leone
South Africa – Approaching digital preservation at scale: a pilot programme at University of Cape Town Libraries
Ottoman Manuscripts Written in Afrikaans Donated to Cape Town University
Amériques / Americas
National Library of Mexico – Perspective in Digital Preservation
She Couldn’t Find Dominican Women in the Official Archives. So she Started her Own.
U.S. Government Publishing Office Completes Digitization of 1,300 Congressional Hearings
NARA – The Berlin Wall: 30 Years After the Fall
NARA – On a Transparent Process for Digital Preservation
Library of Congress – Newly Digitized Collections Now Online Include History of Women’s Suffrage, Civil War, Landscape Architecture and Monetary Policy
Inquiring Minds: Family Surprised to Discover Civil War Veteran’s Ordeal on Library of Congress Blog
Library of Congress – Decreased Processing Times for Copyright Registrations
Five hundred goats save the Ronald Reagan library from wildfires
Revamped Obama Center tower design: more windows, trimmed profile
Supreme Court hears case involving pirate Blackbeard’s ship
Republican senator seeks Obama-Clinton emails from National Archives
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gop-senator-seeks-obama-clinton-emails-from-national-archives
Historic recordings of Maine’s Passamaquoddy Tribe restored more than a century later
Illinois Archivist Restores Pieces of History After Devastating Airport Fire
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Digital Preservation and Games
Yale University Library – What if online services had a time dimension?
University of Notre Dame – It Takes a Village… to Manage Digital Assets
A history of photography at the University of Notre Dame in pictures
John Hopkins University Press releases free digitized manuscripts
Villanova University – When the Stars Are Right: H. P. Lovecraft’s Astronomical Manuscript Added to Distinctive Collections
Boxes, Boxes, Everywhere: Centralizing Acquisitions at Northwestern University Libraries
University of Illinois – 100 years of architecture student design work to be preserved, archived
Recap – Email Archiving: Strategies, Tools, Techniques Workshop
Preserving work in a time of vanishing archives
Hyperreal Intangible Cultural Heritage: Digital Preservation of Dance
Comic strips, goofy snaps and mirror selfies: inside Prince’s private archive
Critical Cataloging and the Serials Archive: the Digital Making of Mill Girls in Nineteenth-Century Print
The first map of America’s food supply chain is mind-boggling
There’s an Archivist for that Interview with Jacqueline Seargeant, Global Archive Manager, John Dewar & Sons Ltd.
A transgender man’s diaries can help us learn what San Francisco was like decades ago
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia ineffective in overseeing government-wide digital record policy
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia – Collecting the history of video games
State Library of New South Wales (Australia) – Long-term preservation of digital photographs
You put WHAT in the repository??? State Library of Queensland’s (Australia) project to audit the repository for obsolete physical carriers
State Library Victoria (Australia) – Ubiquity and the Floppy Disk: Challenges with Obsolete Carriers
Museums Victoria – Digital preservation & digital asset management in the real world no mere matter of magic
Archival decolonist – Anniversaries need to be uncomfortable
Digital Preservation – A Couple of Views from New Zealand
Asian Film Archives – A Reflection: Outreach about digital preservation
China – Working together to reduce digital information at risk
Chulalongkorn University (Thailand) -From “research output” to “research data”: a willingness to move forward?
India – Tamil University to digitize manuscripts with funds from British Library
Europe / Europa
Power to whom? Privacy in a post-General Data Protection Regulation world
The European Union Publications Office based its long-term preservation service on international archiving standards
IFLA – Keeping Cultural Heritage at the Heart of Europe
National Archives of Estonia – Public records: what will be preserved about 2019?
Sweden – When digital preservation is turned into a municipality organisation
Royal Danish Library – One Size Fits All?
Thirty years after the Berlin Wall fell, a Stasi spy puzzle remains unsolved
Technische Informationsbibliothek (Germany) – For you, for me, for everyone? The risk of discrimination in digital preservation practice
An invaluable resource for provenance research: German pre-1945 auction catalogues are published online
Netherlands – Leaked document on Elsevier negotiations sparks controversy
Memorandum signed between Matenadaran, Georgian National Center of Manuscripts
Digitisation and long-term preservation of sound and audiovisual materials at the National Library of Spain
University of Basel (Switzerland) – Starting with complexity: Archiving digital-born music compositions from Mac systems of the 80s/90s
Belgium – It’s just not always a clear cut: Digital, analog and everything in between
National Library of France – JPEG Got the Blues
Irish Newspaper Archives – Irish Radical & Political Archives
Why a 1972 Northern Ireland murder matters so much to historians
Teaching a Young Dog Old Tricks: Emulation Research at the National Library of Scotland
Extracting Information from 5.25” Floppy Disks: Historic Environment Scotland
Scotland – Decolonising the Hunterian: how museum will confront its dark imperial legacy and links with the slave trade
UK National Archives – Project Alpha: Building an Archive for Everyone
UK National Archives – Online research project announced to mark World Digital Preservation Day
UK National Archives – Fall of the Wall
Preserving stories of Black History in the UK and beyond
Royal Institute for British Architects – Digitally Designed: Digital Preservation of Architectural records
University of Westminster – From starting digital preservation to business as usual
Digital Archiving at the University of York – Preserving emails. How hard can it be?
From new media to Guardian Unlimited: records of the Guardian’s first years online
The Brontë Parsonage Museum’s Urgent Appeal for Charlotte’s Little Book
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Microsoft implementing artificial intelligence in creating archive of Ben-Gurion’s handwritten works
Towards Making Palestinian Research Preserved and Accessible
Film Archivists as Freedom Fighters: Restoring Afghan Films Destroyed by the Taliban
Al-Ahram, Egypt’s Newspaper of Record, Now Available Online
Bursa Uludag University (Turkey) – Influence of Blockchain Technology on Protecting Trustworthiness of Electronic Records
International
UNESCO – The Pre-Digital Preservation Black Hole
World Bank – Charting the Landscape: a digital content review for effective long-term preservation planning
Community Standards for 3D Data Preservation
PREMIS News & Highlights for 2019
Creating SIPs without Breaking a Sweat: the Pre-ingest Tool and File Scraper
The long WARC to freedom
PDF: you know she’s a little bit dangerous
What can our memory institutions teach us about fake news?
Wikidata va-t-elle libérer les archives de l’autorité des archivistes ?
Making Emulation Accessible
Following the Critical Path for Archival Projects
Archival Collection Policies: Writing the Best One for your Needs
Monetizing digital asset management: the power of metadata management
Microsoft’s Project Silica targets glass as the archival storage medium of the future
Strongly typed documents, move aside: Microsoft Fluid is coming
Andreessen Horowitz leads $5M round in blockchain-based internet archive
Women and ethnic minorities in data science probably won’t get promoted over white men
Microsoft Access: the Database Software that won’t Die