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Documentary Heritage News
February 7, 2025

Vol. 18, no. 23

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State

BAnQ – Identification des archives prioritaires à sauvegarder en cas de catastrophe
http://www.banq.qc.ca/sites/default/files/2025-02/Elements_identification_archives_prioritaires_2025-01-29_VF_0.pdf

UK National Archives – Collecting Students’ Union Archives
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/networks-and-collaboration/the-higher-education-archive-programme/students-union-archives/

Service interministériel des archives de France – Note relative au régime juridique et aux modalités de conservation de la documentation archéologique
http://francearchives.gouv.fr/fr/circulaire/DGPA_SIAF_2025_002

Netherlands – National Digital Heritage Strategy (now in English)
http://zenodo.org/records/14760720

De la communauté / From the community

Jisc – Open Data about Research Management: a Landscape Review
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/all/open-data-has-potential-to-transform-research-management-and-sector-efficiency-says-new-jisc-report

Article – De-Google-ing our Students: a User Approach to Understanding Archival Media Discovery in the Classroom
http://viewjournal.eu/articles/10.18146/view.329

Paper – Research Data Management and Crowdsourcing Personal Histories
http://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.265

Publications

Archival Science, vol. 25, no. 1 (2025)
http://link.springer.com/journal/10502/volumes-and-issues/25-1

Library Hi Tech, vol. 43, no. 1 (2025)
http://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/0737-8831/vol/43/iss/1

Cathedral Archives, Libraries and Collections Association Newsletter (2024)
http://cathedrallibrariesandarchives.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/calca-newsletter-winter-2024.pdf

San Jose State University Society of American Archivists Student Chapter – Archeota, vol. 10, no. 2 (2024)
http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/saasc_archeota/21/

Book – Archival Research in Historical Organisation Studies: Theorising Silences
http://bookstore.emerald.com/archival-research-in-historical-organisation-studies-hb-9781803821344.html

Book – The Paris Manuscript: the Early Draft Rediscovered
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/paris-manuscript-9781350437371/

Book – Production and Provenance: Copy-Specific Features of Incunabula
http://brill.com/display/title/69596

Book – The Art of Witnessing: Documentary Art, Literature, Film and Theatre in Eastern Europe and the Baltics
http://ceupress.com/book/art-witnessing

Book – Amending our Pasts and Futures: Observing Media and Place as Means to Memory
http://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666964257/

Book – Advances in Techno-Humanities: Case Studies from Culture, Philosophy and the Arts
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032453323

Book – Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade: Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures
http://brill.com/edcollbook/title/71252

Book – Copyright and Cartography: History, Law, and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge
http://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/copyright-and-cartography-9781509958375/

Livre – Les sauveurs culturels : anthropologie des activistes patrimoniaux
http://cths.fr/ed/edition.php?id=8621

Livre – Iconothèques : collecte, stockage et transmission d’images chez les écrivains et les artistes (XIXe-XXIe siècle)
http://pur-editions.fr/product/10180/iconotheques

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Friends of the British Columbia Archives – Sign of the Times: Nɬʔkepmx Resistance through Rock Art
February 9, 2025
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/3Wzm3nD5TIav6PTRwqhi_A#/registration

Entre conservation et accès : la conservation des films dans une cinémathèque
10 février 2025
http://www.facebook.com/events/1559586518765257?active_tab=about

Archival Tips for Family Records
February 25, 2025, Sault Ste. Marie
http://www.saultstar.com/news/local-news/sault-library-shares-archival-tips-for-family-records

Building History: the Archives of the Manitoba Eastern European Heritage Society
February 27, 2025, Winnipeg
http://lib-umanitoba.libcal.com/calendar/archives_events/MEEHS

McMaster University – Usurpers of the Delphic Name: Dolphin Imposters in the Long Eighteenth Century
February 27, 2025
http://zoom.us/webinar/register/8017380031200/WN_SDub1TQkSGyy9tQr_k8paA#/registration

Archives Association of Ontario – Video Digitization Fundamentals
March 10, 2025
https://www.aao-archivists.ca/event-6062789

ALEPH a quinze ans : une soirée-célébration du don officiel de ses archives à la Bibliothèque publique juive
25 mars 2025, Montréal
https://jlive.app/fr/events/9696

Love for Lone Archivists: Archival Accessioning Best Practices for One
February 12, 2025
https://utexas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlduyqqzMiHN0i6ILPGMLrU8FO_0R3ReGR#/registration

Library of Congress – Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon
February 14, 2025
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/02/douglass-day-2025/

La dématérialisation des archives en Afrique : entre projets et espoirs
18 février – 7 mai 2025
http://www.chartes.psl.eu/gazette-chartiste/agenda/la-dematerialisation-des-archives-en-afrique-entre-projets-et-espoirs

Information & Records Management Society – The Basics of Artificial Intelligence Governance
February 27, 2025
http://irms.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1935282

Conseil international des archives – La collecte des archives du sport en France : bilan et perspectives
27 février 2025
https://www.ica.org/fr/event/table-ronde-virtuelle-ica-spo-la-collecte-des-archives-du-sport-en-france-bilan-et-perspectives/

Society of American Archivists – ChatGPT as Curator: Exploring Generative Artificial Intelligence in an Archival Exhibit
March 4, 2025
http://connect.archivists.org/discussion/e2-hour-save-the-date-chatgpt-as-curator-exploring-generative-ai-in-an-archival-exhibit-2

Archiving in Times of Data
March 6, 2025, Brussels
http://www.arch.be/index.php?l=en&m=news&r=agenda&e=archiving-in-times-of-data

Towards a National Collection Conference (Videos Available)
November 21-22, 2024, Manchester
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRIxrpy54RHZKdgYBunkcZh8Pff3Mwto8

Sur le web / On the web

Law Bytes Podcast – How Canada Can Leverage Digital Policy to Retaliate against Trump’s Tariffs
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/02/the-law-bytes-podcast-episode-225-how-canada-can-leverage-digital-policy-to-retaliate-against-trumps-tariffs/

Yale History PhD Student Vlog: Day in the London Archives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR3zMF0lE7o

Bibliothèque Nationale de France – Jeu vidéo pour l’exposition “Apocalypse : hier et demain”
https://www.gamekult.com/actualite/la-bibliotheque-nationale-de-france-devoile-son-second-jeu-video-3050862057.html

Reclaim the Records – Act Now to Preserve Access to New York State Vital Records
http://www.nysvitalrecords.org/

Digital Preservation Coalition Competency Framework Feedback
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfuPmAME1-Dj_CZaEJmMXxqTHpnF79ha9KCGDtIjNyXcvCbbQ/viewform

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Library and Archives Canada – Black Porter Perspectives: Bringing Thomas Nash, a Canadian National Railway Porter, Back to Life
https://thediscoverblog.com/2025/02/06/black-porter-perspectives-bringing-thomas-nash-a-canadian-national-railway-porter-back-to-life/

Among Parliament’s eclectic collection of artworks, Roaring Lion portrait of Churchill has a special place
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-among-parliaments-hidden-artworks-roaring-lion-portrait-of-churchill/

Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives – Confederation 75
http://anla.nf.ca/confederation-75

BAnQ – Revisiter La Terra de Hochelaga
http://www.banq.qc.ca/explorer/articles/revisiter-la-terra-de-hochelaga/

BAnQ – Petite-Bourgogne : histoire du quartier sur fond de jazz
http://www.banq.qc.ca/explorer/articles/petite-bourgogne-histoire-du-quartier-sur-fond-de-jazz/

York University – Professor Jennifer Fisher Launches ‘Portraits as Portals’ at the Archives of Ontario
https://ampd.yorku.ca/professor-jennifer-fisher-launches-portraits-as-portals-at-the-archives-of-ontario/

University of New Brunswick card game provides a window into the past
http://tj.news/fredericton-west/unb-card-game-provides-a-window-into-the-past

Centre d’archives de la Grande zone argileuse (Université de Hearst) – Préservation des archives vivantes grâce au Thé des pionniers de chez-vous
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere/emissions/le-matin-du-nord/segments/rattrapage/1978693/archives-vivantes-au-the-pionniers-chez-nous

McGill University – An Archive of Dissent: Documenting Black student protests in Montreal
http://www.mcgilldaily.com/2025/02/an-archive-of-dissent/

University of Ottawa – Making Lesbian Money at the Archives and Special Collections
http://www.uottawa.ca/en/news-all/making-lesbian-money

University of Alberta School of Library and Information Studies student awarded Price McIntosh bursary
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/school-of-library-and-information-studies/slis-news/2024/post.html

Canada Black Music Archives Announces Black History Month Programming
http://tinnitist.com/2025/02/03/canada-black-music-archives-announces-black-history-month-programming/

Jewish Public Library – How to build a Rare Book Box
https://jpl-curates.org/blog/feb2025

Toronto Public Library – Before the Flag: 10 Maple Leaf Items from our Archives
http://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/local-history-genealogy/2025/02/before-the-flag-10-maple-leaf-items-from-our-archives.html

Winnipeg – This was his legacy: the work to preserve this massive piece of art with virtual reality
http://www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/article/this-was-his-legacy-the-work-to-preserve-this-massive-piece-of-art-with-virtual-reality/

La Société historique de Saint-Boniface joue un rôle central dans les recherches sur le cimetière de l’Asile Ritchot
http://shsb.mb.ca/communique-de-presse-la-shsb-joue-un-role-central-dans-les-recherches-sur-le-cimetiere-de-lasile-ritchot/

Saskatoon residents get rare look at city archives during grand opening
http://www.ctvnews.ca/saskatoon/article/saskatoon-residents-get-rare-look-at-city-archives-during-grand-opening/

Jeff O’Brien continues to guard Saskatoon’s history
https://www.sasktoday.ca/north/saskatoon/obrien-guarding-saskatoons-history-10189452

Whistler Museum and Archives Society – A Family Business
http://whistlermuseum.org/2025/02/04/a-family-business/

Greater Vernon Museum & Archives (British Columbia) – Back to the ’80s
https://vernonmuseum.ca/back-to-the-80s/

South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – Healthy as a Horse: Medical Care for Animals
http://www.southpeacearchives.org/blog/healthy-as-a-horse-medical-care-for-animals/

Trent Valley Archives (Ontario) Theatre gearing up for spring premiere of historical play Crossing Over
http://kawarthanow.com/2025/02/02/trent-valley-archives-theatre-gearing-up-for-spring-premiere-of-historical-play-crossing-over/

Musée d’histoire de Sherbrooke – Trésors préservés, histoire révélée : Fonds Sherbrooke Total Abstinence Society
http://mhist.org/actualites/tresors-preserves-histoire-revelee-fonds-sherbrooke-total-abstinence-society/

Eastern Townships Resource Centre – Eastern Townships voices: the Ian Tait collection
http://www.etrc.ca/eastern-townships-voices-the-ian-tait-collection/

Société d’histoire de la Baie-James – Les Fermières mettent la main à la pâte
http://www.shbj.ca/fr/component/content/article/80-blog/news/156-les-fermi%C3%A8res-mettent-la-main-%C3%A0-la-p%C3%A2te

Centre d’archives du Séminaire de Nicolet – Super Bowl
http://archivesseminairenicolet.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/super-bowl/

Dans la caverne d’Ali Baba de Bell Canada
http://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/techno/2025-02-01/le-telephone-a-150-ans/dans-la-caverne-d-ali-baba-de-bell-canada.php

Finding my village: How I retraced my ancestors’ journey from Canada to China and back
http://nationalpost.com/feature/from-ottawa-to-china/wcm/3d043357-a539-4d62-bc5c-938c7cd6e200

Afrique / Africa

Tunisia reclaims lost voices of WWI riflemen from German archives
http://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20250201-tunisia-reclaims-lost-voices-of-wwi-riflemen-from-german-archives

Algérie – Le rôle des archives nationales dans la protection de la mémoire
http://www.horizons.dz/?p=229280

Burkina : Appel à la collecte des archives de Thomas Sankara
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WyuBJlJqhA

Ma minute de plaidoyer : témoignage d’un vieil archiviste (par Adama Aly Pam, Sénégal, chef archiviste de l’Unesco)
http://www.pressafrik.com/Ma-minute-de-plaidoyer-temoignage-d-un-vieil-archiviste-Par-Adama-Aly-Pam_a284293.html

Amériques / Americas

Statement from International Council on Archives and Association of Latin American Archivists on the Headquarters of the Archivo General de la Nación of Peru
http://www.ica.org/statement-from-ica-and-ala-on-the-headquarters-of-the-archivo-general-de-la-nacion-of-peru/

The eArchiving Initiative presented at the Day of the Peruvian Archivist
http://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/earchiving-initiative-presented-day-peruvian-archivist

Argentine Navy ordered to preserve dictatorship archive
http://buenosairesherald.com/human-rights/argentine-navy-ordered-to-preserve-potential-evidence-of-dictatorship-crimes

Haïti – Vers la numérisation des archives de l’Institut de sauvegarde du patrimoine national
https://www.lenational.org/post_article.php?pol=6005

NARA – Swing into the Bureau of Indian Affairs Decimal Filing System
http://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2025/02/04/swing-into-the-bureau-of-indian-affairs-decimal-filing-system/

National Archives Workers Unsure if Marco Rubio Has Secretly Been their Boss for Weeks
https://www.404media.co/national-archives-workers-unsure-if-marco-rubio-has-secretly-been-their-boss-for-weeks/

Library of Congress – Playing Ketchup: a Condiment and the Pure Food Movement
http://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2025/01/ketchup/

The Hawai’i State Archives Is Home to the Largest Vintage Ukulele Collection in the World
http://www.honolulumagazine.com/hawaii-state-archives-ukulele-collection/

National Security Archive – The Panama Canal Treaty Declassified
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/2025-02-03/panama-canal-treaty-declassified

Harvard University – Preserving Public U.S. Federal Data
http://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01/30/preserving-public-u-s-federal-data/

At Princeton, I Learned About the Deceptiveness of Archives
http://paw.princeton.edu/article/princeton-i-learned-about-deceptiveness-archives

University of California Riverside Project helps preserve architectural photographs
http://news.ucr.edu/articles/2025/01/29/project-helps-preserve-architectural-photographs

University of Maryland Awarded $3.6M Mellon Foundation Grant to Advance Indigenous Archives
http://today.umd.edu/umd-awarded-3-6m-mellon-foundation-grant-to-advance-indigenous-archives

Their Copyrights Expired. The Legal Threats Keep Coming.
http://copyrightlately.com/public-domain-copyright-threats/

Internet Archives – Vanishing Culture: what Early Internet Era GIFs Show us about Preserving Digital Culture
http://blog.archive.org/2025/02/05/vanishing-culture-what-early-internet-era-gifs-show-us-about-preserving-digital-culture/

Ancient manuscript: Newberry Library discovers it holds the largest example in existence of an extremely rare paper type
http://www.timesdaily.com/ancient-manuscript-newberry-library-discovers-it-holds-the-largest-example-in-existence-of-an-extremely/article_34e69b2c-cd18-11ef-b2f5-c771fcf05b9a.html

New York Botanical Garden – Updates from the Archives: Making Institutional Records More Accessible
http://www.nybg.org/planttalk/updates-from-the-archives-making-institutional-records-more-accessible/

Pennsylvania flood museum temporarily closed due to flooding
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/28/johnstown-flood-museum-closed

Scholars grapple with loss of Chicano studies giant Juan Gómez-Quiñones’ archives in Palisades fire
http://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2025-01-31/gomez-quinones-records

Artists help fellow creators who lost works, archives in Los Angeles fires
http://www.voanews.com/a/artists-help-fellow-creators-who-lost-works-archives-in-l-a-fires/7957921.html

The Heart of Lincoln: Long-lost early 1900s silent film found on Long Island
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/long-island/long-lost-silent-film-thought-lost-forever-found-long-island/6136458/

Auction of Leonard Cohen’s personal items is cynical, yet poetic
https://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment-life/article722849.html

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific

University of Melbourne – How we’re recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes
http://theconversation.com/how-were-recovering-priceless-audio-and-lost-languages-from-old-decaying-tapes-248116

Mongolia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archive to Be Digitized with TİKA’s Support
http://tika.gov.tr/en/mongolias-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-archive-to-be-digitized-with-tikas-support/

Europe / Europa

Netherlands – Scientists review Arabic manuscript containing lost works of Apollonius and shed light on Islamic scientific tradition
http://phys.org/news/2025-02-scientists-arabic-manuscript-lost-apollonius.html

Unique 1,500-year-old hidden Bible chapter unearthed in Vatican manuscript
http://www.gbnews.com/science/archaeology-breakthrough-bible-mystery-vatican-syriac

Monaco – La mission de préfiguration des Archives nationales reçoit des archives du Conseil national
http://lagazettedemonaco.com/actualites/art-culture/la-mission-de-prefiguration-des-archives-nationales-recoit-des-archives-du-conseil-national

France – Des écrits du général de Gaulle présentés à la suite d’une préemption par l’État
http://information.tv5monde.com/international/des-ecrits-du-general-de-gaulle-presentes-la-suite-dune-preemption-par-letat-2761476

Ireland bids to woo heritage hunters with US and UK launch events for release of 1926 census records
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ireland-bids-to-woo-heritage-hunters-with-us-and-uk-launch-events-for-release-of-1926-census-records/a1065028916.html

World’s largest archive of street newspapers gifted to Glasgow University
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24914895.worlds-largest-archive-street-newspapers-gifted-glasgow-uni/

The invaluable century-old First World War archive from young Edinburgh soldier up for auction
http://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/scotland-poetry-first-world-war-4969646

A decade of collaboration between Wikimedia UK and the National Library of Wales: Building a sustainable future for Welsh culture online
https://wikimedia.org.uk/2025/01/decade-nlw-wmuk-welsh-culture-online/

UK National Archives – Seeking permanent home for John le Carré literary archive
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/seeking-permanent-home-for-john-le-carre-literary-archive/

UK National Archives explores artificial intelligence for sensitivity review and historical transcription
https://www.publictechnology.net/2025/02/06/culture-media-and-sport/national-archives-explores-ai-for-sensitivity-review-and-historical-transcription/

Canvas Conversations Episode Three: A written interview with Mark Wiltshire, Rare Books and Manuscripts Specialist at Christie’s, London
https://nouse.co.uk/articles/2025/02/06/canvas-conversations-episode-4–a-written-interview-with-mark-wiltshire-rare-books-and-manuscripts-specialist-at-christies-london

Rare letter to Queen Elizabeth from love interest fetches £32,000 at auction
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/rare-letter-queen-elizabeth-love-103121956.html

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

National Library of Israel – Did it Exist or Not? The Missing Order of the Jerusalem Talmud
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/lost_kodashim_jerusalem-talmud/

National Library of Israel – Walter Trier: the Jewish Illustrator who Depicted Germany at its Best
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/walter-trier/

Iraq launches Cinematheque project to digitize and restore film archives
https://www.iraqinews.com/lifestyle/iraq-cinematheque-film-archive-digitization/

International

International Council on Archives – Fund for the International Development of Archives 2025 Selected Projects: Supporting Archival Development Across the Globe
http://www.ica.org/fida-2025-selected-projects-supporting-archival-development-across-the-globe/

Books, Bandages & Breakthroughs: Weapon-Wounded Care in the International Committee of the Red Cross Library’s Heritage Collection
http://blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/books-bandages-breakthroughs/

Exploring artificial intelligence’s Role in Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage
https://itmunch.com/ais-role-in-digital-preservation-of-cultural-heritage/

A dossier container dossier: how we got Manila folders and envelopes, and what Manila means in the context of said folder
http://tedium.co/2025/02/03/manila-folder-envelope-history/

Archiving your Meta accounts
http://phiffer.org/archiving-your-meta-accounts/

How Open Source will Save the Future of History
http://anjackson.net/2025/02/01/how-open-source-will-save-the-future-of-history/

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