Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada – Proposals for Ensuring Appropriate Regulation of Artificial Intelligence (for Comments)
City of Coquitlam Archives (British Columbia) – Annual Report 2019
Northern Ireland Audit Office – Records Matter: a View from Regulation and Oversight Bodies on the Importance of Good Record Keeping
UK National Archives – A Year in Archives 2019
Institut national du patrimoine (France) – Connaissance et maîtrise des risques pour les oeuvres : les enjeux du climat et de sa gestion en musées : orientation bibliographique
De la communauté / From the community
Burnaby Village Museum (British Columbia) – Indigenous History in Burnaby Resource Guide
Council of State Archivists – Toward a Common Understanding: Insights on Inter-Agency State Electronic Records Transfer
Preserving the Past, Building for the Future: the Working Paper from the 2018 Boston College Archive Conference
National Information Standards Organization – Open Discovery Initiative Recommended Practice (for Comments)
Publications
Comma: International Journal on Archives, vol. 2018, no. 1-2 (2020)
Italian Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science, vol. 11, no. 1 (2020)
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 71, no. 2 (2020)
Burlington Historical Society (Ontario) Gazette, vol. 16, no. 2 (2020)
Ph. D. Thesis (University of British Columbia) – Technological Features of Preservation Systems that Support the Authenticity of Digital Records
Mémoire de bachelor (Haute école de gestion de Genève) – Valorisation des notices de l’inventaire d’une archive audiovisuelle en Linked Open Data : le cas du Montreux Jazz Digital Project
Mémoire de bachelor (Haute école de gestion de Genève) – Analyse de besoins de l’entreprise Tavannes Watch Co. et propositions de valorisations à travers un musée d’archives
Mémoire de bachelor (Haute école de gestion de Genève) – La valorisation dans les archives cantonales et communales de Suisse : pratiques actuelles, enjeux et bénéfices
Mémoire de bachelor (Haute école de gestion de Genève) – Évaluation des documents du service Données et archives de la RTS pour une meilleure gestion de leur cycle de vie
Free eBook – The Future of Information Sciences
Free eBook – Archiving People: a Social History of Dutch Archives
Book – The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue
Book – Bound Together: Leather, Sex, Archives and Contemporary Art
Book – Digital Humanities for Librarians
Book – The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain
Book – Beyond Observation: a History of Authorship in Ethnographic Film
Book – Advances in Data Science: Symbolic, Complex and Network Data
Book – In Pursuit of History: a Lifetime Collecting Colonial American Art and Artifacts
Book – The Ethics of Digital Literacy: Developing Knowledge and Skills Across Grade Levels
Book – Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation, and Accountability
Livre – Dévoiler l’ailleurs : correspondances, carnets et journaux intimes de voyages
Livre – L’archive du réel : essais sur Claude Simon
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Webinar – Scholars Portal 101
February 5, 2020
An Autopsy of an Archive
February 28, 2020, Ottawa
Indigenous Afternoons in the Archive
March 25, 2020, Winnipeg
Indigenous Collections Symposium 2020
March 25-26, 2020, Gatineau
Photography Collections of Financial Companies II
June 12, 2020, Athens (Greece)
Association of Forensic Document Examiners Symposium
October 23-26, Phoenix
Le polyuréthane dans tous ses états (vidéos disponibles)
26 novembre 2019, Paris
Sur le web / On the web
Behind the Bookshelves Podcast – Business of Medieval Manuscripts (with Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia)
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – Online Edition of Early Holocaust Testimony
Society of American Archives New Website – Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Video – What is an API? Take 1: the Fundamentals
D’Archive Podcast – You Better Watch your Speed
Slides – Maximizing Institutional Investment in Print Resources through Controlled Digital Lending
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canada’s national archives hit by major flood, despite denials from staff
Library and Archives Canada – Tommy Burns, Hanover’s Hero
Archives of Manitoba Launches “Your Archives: the Histories we Share”
BAnQ souligne le Mois de l’histoire des Noirs
BAnQ – Bourses de séjour de recherche au Québec
BAnQ – Percé, d’hier à aujourd’hui
University of British Columbia – Explore Open Collections: Interim Forest Cover Series Maps
University of Alberta Archives: Interview with Anna Gibson Hollow, University Archivist
Les enseignants et leurs archives : le projet du Cégep Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
Des défis de la diffusion des connaissances en français
How blockchain could prevent future data breaches
Toronto Public Library – Selections and Full PDFs of “The Jesuit Relations”: Sainte-Marie among the Hurons and Beyond
Archives de la ville de Québec – Les sports au Carnaval de Québec
Whistler Museum and Archives Society 2019: Year in Review
New Westminster (British Columbia) Museum & Archives hosts a 100-year history of the Sikh community
Forgotten family photos found in Burlington (Ontario) attic returned to rightful owner
Nova Scotia – The Age of Sail Museum and Archives
How 3D holograms and artificial intelligence are preserving Holocaust survivors’ stories
Honouring the Arctic’s last known WW II bone collector
Afrique / Africa
Manuscrits anciens du Sahel : vers l’élaboration d’un plan d’action sur la préservation durable
Amériques / Americas
Archives, archivistes et crise au Chili, quelques réflexions
NARA – A New Path for Exploration: Record Group Explorer
NARA – Now Available Online: RG 77, Civil Works Map Files, US File Unit
NARA – Unratified Amendments
NARA – Diplomatic Reporting
Terrible and disgusting: decision to close National Archives at Seattle a blow to tribes, historians in four states
Council of State Archivists and the Society of American Archivists on Proposed Closure of National Archives Facility in Seattle
Responses and Retrospectives: Jeremy Brett of the Concerned Archivists Alliance on the Altered Photo for NARA’s Exhibit Rightfully Hers, and the Subsequent NARA Apologies
US Archives confirms it won’t take steps to certify Equal Rights Amendment
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library – If the $6.5m hat isn’t Lincoln’s, why not ask for a refund?
Library of Congress – Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud Quarterly Update
Library of Congress – Historical Newspapers Edited by Frederick Douglass Now Online
Library of Congress – American Federation of Labor: History Now Digital
Library of Congress – Letters Give an Intimate Look at Classic Hollywood Era
The Engineering Marvel of the Panama Canal and of National Library of Medicine
Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture – Trove of Stunning Dance Photography Now Online
What we Lost in the Museum of Chinese in America Fire
Museum of Chinese in America Archives Very Much Salvageable after Fire
Fourth Spy at Los Alamos Knew A-Bomb’s Inner Secrets
Parsing the State of State Records Report: Summary of Collections Part 2
State Archives of North Carolina – Updates on Local Records Retention Schedules
U.S. government seeks forfeiture of Alan Turing artifacts, including Princeton University diploma
Museums Have Stumbled when it Comes to Curating Indigenous American Art. These Native Students at Yale Are Modeling a New Way Forward
Dusting Off the University of California, Santa Barbara Cylinder Audio Archives
Anne Rice’s archival papers, manuscripts acquired by Tulane University
Using artificial intelligence to enrich digital maps
Digital archive of Hawaii literature goes online
Chicago History Museum Acquires 5 Million Photos from Chicago Sun-Times
Collectors Are Spending Thousands on Video Games they will Never Play
Most Americans support right to have some personal info removed from online searches
I Don’t Love My Job: Millennial Burnout and the Devaluation of Library Labor
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Uncovering hidden treasures: Australian culture goes digital
Australian government secretly releasing sensitive medical records to police
State Library of Queensland (Australia) – Conserving Richard Daintree’s Hand-coloured Photographs
Archivist in New Zealand to help with preserving email challenges
Archival Research in China: where there’s a Will, there’s a Way
India – Fighting to save history on reels
India – Archival of literary works is a critical necessity
Europe / Europa
Archivists are racing to identify every Jewish Holocaust victim
Les solutions pour assurer la pérennité de la mémoire collective de la Shoah
Newly accessible records tell story of Holocaust, journey of survivors
Russia’s Auschwitz Archives: how the Soviet Army Liberated the Nazi Death Factory
Belarus’ National Library to launch online project to celebrate Great Victory
Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute to create database of victims and survivors
Stolen copy of Christopher Columbus letter recovered. It’s worth up to $1.3 million
Sold: Pierre de Coubertin’s Blueprint for the Olympics
National Library of Scotland – The Ordnance Survey’s 1:500 Town Plans
UK National Archives – Baffled by archives: part three
UK National Archives – War behind the wire: the story of allied civilians in occupied Europe during the Second World War
UK National Archives – Resist: Black Power in the courtroom
UK National Archives – What happens when school students take over
British Library – How historians can communicate their research online
George III’s Treasured Collection of Military Maps Is Published Online to Mark the 200th Anniversary of his Death
University of Manchester – Manchester Digital Collections launch
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – Postcards from Auschwitz
National Library of Israel – The Chad Gadya Melody that Survived the Holocaust
United Arab Emirates – Non-Muslim cemetery now has a digital archive
International
Records management before and after the artificial intelligence revolution
A Primer on Archival Project Contracts
The Geocities Archive Is Bringing the Early Internet to Life