Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada – 2019-2022 Three-Year Plan Progess Report: Second Quarter 2019-2020
National Library of Scotland – Draft 2020-2025 Strategy
Archives New Zealand – Regulatory Statement (Revised and Reissued)
Public Record Office Victoria (Australia) – Retention and Disposal Authority for Records of Major Infrastructure and Development Projects
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Association of Research Libraries – Final Report of the Survey on Digital Preservation Capacity and Needs at Canadian Memory Institutions, 2017-2018
Université de Montréal – Chantier pour une archivistique depuis l’exploitation : notes de recherche 2
Rapport annuel 2019 du Portail international archivistique francophone
Unesco – Steering Artificial Intelligence and Advanced ICTs for Knowledge Societies: a Rights, Openness, Access, and Multi-Stakeholder Perspective
Council of Australasian Archives and Records Authorities – Sustainable Digital File Formats (Draft)
Council of Australasian Archives and Records Authorities – Information Management Requirements for Software as a Service (Draft)
Society of American Archivists Case Study – Seeing Through Risk in the Special Collections Classroom: a Case for Flexibility
AIIM – Accessible and Secure: Best Practices for Automating Information Governance
Communia – Guidelines for the Implementation of the Directive on Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market
Draft Chapter – The Peril and Promise of Historians as Data Creators: Perspective, Structure, and the Problem of Representation
Publications
Information & Culture: a Journal of History, vol. 41, no. 2 (2019)
Libres: Library and Information Science Research e-Journal, vol. 29, no. 1 (2019)
Society of American Archivists – Archivists and Archives of Color Section Newsletter, vol. 34, no. 1 (2019)
Archives Society of Alberta Newsletter, vol. 39, no. 1 (2019)
Telling our Stories: Newsletter of the South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta), vol. 11, no. 1 (2019)
Ph. D. Thesis (Royal College of Arts) – Timeline Design for Visualising Cultural Heritage Data
http://www.oliviavane.co.uk/research/TimelineDesignForVisualisingCulturalHeritageData_OliviaVane.pdf
Book – Digital Asset Management in Theory and Practice
Book – Ethnopornography: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Archival Knowledge
Book – Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory
Book – The Cambridge Handbook of Copyright in Street Art and Graffiti
Book – Development of Linguistic Linked Open Data Resources for Collaborative Data-Intensive Research in the Language Sciences
Book – Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book
Book – Humans at Work in the Digital Age: Forms of Digital Textual Labor
Book – Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage: Past, Present and Future
Book – Daniel Gookin, the Praying Indians, and King Philip’s War: a Short History in Documents
Book – Julia Quick Syntax Reference: a Pocket Guide for Data Science Programming
Book – Creating Heritage: Unrecognised Pasts and Rejected Futures
Livre – 1979, genèse d’une loi sur les archives
Livre – Le juge et l’algorithme : juges augmentés ou justice diminuée ?
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Online Course – Cultural Analytics: Interactive Learning Environment in R
Provoke: the 17th LGBTQ+ History and Archives Conference
December 7, 2019, London (UK)
Using Emulators to Resurrect Recovered Data
January 27, 2020, New York
Cours en ligne massif et ouvert – Intelligence artificielle : mode d’emploi
15 janvier au 15 juin 2020
Stage technique international d’archives STIA2020
25 mai au 26 juin 2020, Paris
Sur le web / On the web
Original Voices: Experience Indigenous Languages in Canada
Myseum Connects: Documenting Diverse Histories
New Core Discovery Browser Extension
Society of American Archivists Native American Section – Protocols Webinar Series: Building Relationships of Mutual Respect
D’archive Podcast – Young Scholars Senior Summit and Social Justice
Cyberlaw Podcast – The Right to be Forgotten Shoots the Shark
Podcast – The Collector and the Dealer
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Highlights of interest to the Canadian library and information management community in the Speech from the Throne
From a Shield to a Sword: how a Federal Court Decision Transformed the Privacy Act into an Instrument Endangering Privacy
Australia, Canada, Copyright, New Zealand, USA – What happens when books enter the public domain?
Some Thoughts While the Suspense Builds re Court & Copyright Board’s Rulings re Access Copyright
Library and Archives Canada – John Colin Forbes and Kenneth Keith Forbes, a lineage of official portraitists
Increasing collaboration: Memorial University, Library and Archives Canada sign agreement
Des livres anciens en langues autochtones (1556-1900) dans les collections de BAnQ
http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/carnetbibliothequenationale/2019/11/28/livres-anciens-langues-autochtones/
Archives nationales du Québec: au coeur de notre histoire
Bas-Saint-Laurent: 170 ans d’archives judiciaires
Michel Roberge – Don de mes archives à Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
Canadian Association of Research Libraries – Collaborating to Support Greater Visibility and Discoverability of Open Scholarship: DSpace 5 & 6 Extension Will Soon Enable Support for new OpenAIRE Guidelines
Head of University of Manitoba Archives leaves a rich legacy
The Grand Reveal: a behind-the-scenes peek at the University of Manitoba Archives
University of British Columbia – Explore Illustrations of Plants in Open Collections
L’Université du Québec à Montréal fait la part belle aux livres anciens
McGill Library – A Mirror of Jane Austen’s Reading Library
McGill University – Out of Harm’s Way : Second World War scrapbooks shine a light on the experience of evacuee children brought to Quebec
Experiments in Decolonizing and Indigenizing a University History Department (University of Victoria)
Dalhousie University – Cassandra Larose Chosen as the 2019 Recipient of the Dalhousie-Horrocks National Leadership Fund
Accio Archives: Unleashing BitCurator
The Imperial Oil Files: New Collection Adds to Climate and Energy Research Archives on Science and Denial
Univers culturel de Saint-Sulpice reçoit le prix Faire connaître
Calgary Bar Association to Fund Legal Archives Society of Alberta Project
Durham Region Area Archives Group (Ontario) – Christmas Wishes From Overseas
First Nations traditional songs an untapped and dwindling source of sustainability knowledge
My internship in the Collections department at Aanischaaukamikw Cree Cultural Institute, 2018
Prince Edward Island – Wonderful memories of the past: St. Peter’s Cathedral completes archive project
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-st-peters-cathedral-online-archives-1.5378863
White Rock (British Columbia) offers apology to Semiahmoo First Nation for lost artifacts
Afrique / Africa
Maroc – Université de Rabat: pleins gaz sur la numérisation des archives
Congo – Le trésor public se dote d’un bâtiment pour ses archives
Tears with truth: the Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission
South Africa – Importance of preserving the archive
Amériques / Americas
Guyana – Artifacts and records at National Archives in need of urgent attention
United States National Archives Awards $2.6 Million for Historical Records Projects
NARA – Spotlight: Photographs Documenting the Civilian Conservation Corps
Library of Congress – Copyright on the Internet
Library of Congress – Thomas Jefferson: a Man of the Pasta
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library director fired for improper loan of priceless handwritten Gettysburg Address to Glenn Beck’s nonprofit
National Library of Medicine – The Pursuit and Power of Alignment
The genealogy boom has hit a roadblock. The Trump administration plans huge fee hikes for immigration records.
Trapped in the Archives: the U.S. Government’s System for Declassifying Historical Documents Is in Crisis
Illinois State Archives – Processing and Preserving Governor’s Office Emails using Predictive Coding Tools
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – From “Unplayable” to Searchable Online: the House Recordings Recovery Project
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – e-Records 2019: Slay the Public Records Request Dragons
University of California at Los Angeles Film & Television Archive Joins UCLA Library
University of California at Los Angeles – Ethnomusicology Archive publishes 58 historical field collections online
University of Texas – Playwright Arthur Miller’s archive opens to researchers
Binghamton University adds centuries-old religious manuscript to their special collections
Greek-Americans look to preserve historic archive
New App Helps Capture Jewish Women’s Daily Lives
Historic New Orleans Collection archives the evolution of its 300-year-old city
Helping Artists and Arts Organizations Preserve and Utilize their Materials
The Lost & Found Archives
The Post-Custodial Method and Community Archives
Responses & Retrospectives: not Just your Problem: Metadata Shame, Imposter Syndrome, and Archivists by Jodi Allison-Bunnell
Influencers: Arthur Jafa, the Archivist of Black Visual Culture
Floppy disk with Steve Jobs’ signature valued at $7,500
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Future of jobs unclear under major restructure for National Library of Australia
Queensland Government Recordkeeping (Australia) – Halt! Stop that disaster and save those vital records
Australia – State Library Victoria’s $88m renovation
Japan – National Diet Library: approximately 1,000 sound recordings of the Historical Recordings Collection (Rekion) are newly available online
Viet Nam, Laos to co-operate in Indochinese archival preservation
There’s a growing appetite for online archives from South Asia
Cambodia – Preserving the ancient craft of making palm leaf manuscripts
Rare Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscripts from Rural Kathmandu and the Hill Areas of Nepal
Singapore launches digital archive of Tamil dance
India – Jammur and Kashmir: declared unsafe heritage building is home to 10 lakh (1 million) historic files
Europe / Europa
Implementing the new European Union exceptions for text and data mining
Ukraine leads in ease of access to special services archives
Vienna’s National Library: the Hidden Gem of Austria
Cyprus – Ministry of Justice to spend €7.7m in 2020 to house National Archives
Amsterdam’s new circular archives building sustainably generates all of its own energy
The Strange Emptiness of Egypt in 19th-Century European Photographs
Archives nationales de Luxembourg – Signature du premier tableau de tri avec le Service information et presse
Suisse – Sion Time Machine: les enjeux éthiques de la numérisation du patrimoine culturel valaisan
Aux Archives nationales de France, des trésors de reliefs et de couleurs à la carte
French playwright Molière did indeed write his own masterpieces, computer science suggests
La vocation des archives privées est-elle de le rester ?
Qu’est-ce que le Patrimoine numérique? Entretien avec Matteo Treleani
The life of an American library in Paris
Ireland – State archives system creaking under pressure of staff and skills shortages
Retrieval of Irish archive lost in 1922 fire astounding, historian says
Scientists hunt for descendants of 48 people who signed 1320 Scottish independence declaration
When thousands of Scotland’s historic records were destroyed in a storm
Scotland – Appeal to preserve Robert the Bruce letter
Rare medieval manuscript fragments discovered in Scotland
UK National Archives – Needs tactful and sympathetic treatment: mental health during the First World War
UK National Archives – Living with leprosy in late medieval England
What is left behind? Exploring the Olympic Games legacies through the UK Web Archive
Victoria & Albert Museum launches world’s largest and most accessible cultural heritage preservation database
Black wall of redacted pages as UK fracking report finally released
University of Oxford – A new project in Archives and Modern Manuscripts: the conversion of the Bodleian Library’s Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts
University of Oxford – Bodleain Library: the Archives and Records of Humanitarian Organisations
Elizabeth I unmasked as author of mysterious manuscript
Thousands of film reels destroyed in Southampton fire
A random box of photographs bought on eBay reveals the fascinating story of a Merseyside family
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
IFLA – Supporting Documentary Heritage Preservation in the Arab Region
National Library of Israel – The Two Pages that Survived the Nazi Book Burnings
National Library of Israel – The Return of the Lost Siddur of the Jews of Catalonia
National Library of Israel – A Murder in Mandatory Tel Aviv: the Orientalist as an Advocate
National Library of Israel, Google to digitize 120k books
International
Archivists: Neutral or Active?
Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a Pirate Bay of Science Never Goes Down
Twelve characteristics of a great data and analytics maturity model
OCR for PDFs: old news?
Rare recovered mega cd game and the challenges of preservation
What Is the Cost of a Data Breach?
Three ways you can stay compliant when it comes to data governance
How blockchain will kill fake news (and four other predictions for 2020)