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Documentary Heritage News
May 9, 2025

Vol. 18, no. 36

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State

National Archives of India – Circular for Annual Inspection of Records 2025-2026
http://www.nationalarchives.nic.in/sites/default/files/2025-05/Annual%20Inspection%20%20%282025%29.pdf

National Archives of India – Circular for Downgrading of Files 
http://www.nationalarchives.nic.in/sites/default/files/2025-05/Form%20-4%20%282025%29.pdf

National Archives of India – Circular for Records Due for Appraisal 
http://www.nationalarchives.nic.in/sites/default/files/2025-05/Form%20-1%20%282025%29.pdf

NARA – Recordkeeping Requirements for Records Created on Third-Party Messaging Applications
http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/memos/ac-23-2025

NARA – File Formats Guidance for Email Records (Update)
http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/memos/ac-24-2025

NARA – General Records Schedules (Draft for Agency Review)
http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/memos/ac-25-2025

Public Record Office Victoria (Australia) – Managing Records in Microsoft 365: a Guide for Victorian Public Offices
http://prov.vic.gov.au/recordkeeping-government/document-library/guideline-managing-records-microsoft-365

De la communauté / From the community

Building an Inter-Institutional and Cross-Functional Research Data Management Community: from Strategy to Implementation
http://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/items/58dc9465-5c0f-4a70-9732-1dad7b7fede4

Interpreting UK Research and Innovation Environmental Sustainability Guidance for the Digital Humanities
http://zenodo.org/records/15312177

Participating in a Digital History Project Mobilizes People for Symbolic Justice and Better Intergroup Relations Today
http://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1082683

Automatic Classification of Software Repositories: a Systematic Mapping Study
http://hal.science/hal-05049757v1

Paper – Can Language Models Represent the Past without Anachronism?
http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00030

Publications

University of Toronto – iJournal, vol. 10, no. 2 (2025)
http://theijournal.ca/index.php/ijournal/issue/view/2914

Information & Culture, vol. 60, no. 1 (2025)
http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/54803

Book History, vol. 28, no. 1 (2025)
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/54771

Friends of the Provincial Archives of Alberta Society Newsletter (2025)
http://provincialarchives.alberta.ca/sites/default/files/2025-04/Newletter-Spring2025c.pdf

Acid Free: Biannual Publication of the Los Angeles Archivists Collective, no. 15 (2025)
http://www.laacollective.org/magazine

Richmond (British Columbia) – Archives News, vol. 30, no. 1 (2025)
http://www.richmond.ca/__shared/assets/newsletter30no176802.pdf

Book – Artificial Intelligence in Records and Information Management
http://www.igi-global.com/book/artificial-intelligence-records-information-management/357632

Book – The Enchanting Kinora: Domesticating Moving Images in Edwardian Britain
http://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/enchanting-kinora-9781839026898/

Book – Text Analytics for Corpus Linguistics and Digital Humanities: Simple R Scripts and Tools
http://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/text-analytics-for-corpus-linguistics-and-digital-humanities-9781350370821/

Book – The Legacy of Black Women in Librarianship: when they Dared to Be Powerful
http://alastore.ala.org/lbwl

Book – The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World
http://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.7208/chicago/9780226826226/html

Book – Memory and New Ways of Knowing: Narratives of the Armed Conflict in Colombia
https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/memory-and-new-ways-of-knowing/?SF1=work_id&ST1=CVIEW-671f6179c6dcb

Book – Copyright and Anonymity in the Creative User-Generated World
http://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/copyright-and-anonymity-in-the-creative-usergenerated-world-9781509982325/

Book – Artificial Intelligence & Blockchain in Cyber Physical Systems: Technologies & Applications
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032040370

Book – Data Retention in Europe and Beyond: Law and Policy in the Aftermath of an Invalidated Directive
http://global.oup.com/academic/product/data-retention-in-europe-and-beyond-9780198897736

Livre – Troyes : une ville en ses archives (XIIIe-début XVIe siècle)
http://www.editionsdelasorbonne.fr/fr/livre/?GCOI=28405100394560

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Archives religieuses avec Audrey Lavoie, archiviste de l’Archidiocèse de Montréal
13 mai 2025
http://www.usherbrooke.ca/histoire/actualites/evenements/details/55376

Muslims in Canada Archives – Muslims in the North: in Conversation with Bouchra Mossman
May 29, 2025
http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/muslims-in-the-north-in-conversation-with-bouchra-mossman-tickets-1349481819449

Similar but not the Same: Canadian and US Copyright Law
June 4, 2025
http://www.ala.org/events/similar-not-same-canadian-and-us-copyright-law

Vernissage, Archives des jésuites au Canada
June 5, 2025, Montréal
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScEFboUpDD23zRj8h9YH-K8tWLQySGTtDkQVBY9KXnaWDjv3A/viewform

Developing a Plan: Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness for International Organizations
May 13, 2025
http://www.ica.org/event/ica-sio-workshop-13-may/

Digital Art History and the Web: an Introduction to Web Archive Data Analysis
May 21, 2025
http://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/j6Y4Rp-iR1GPonkZCO4haQ#/registration

20th International Digital Curation Conference
February 16-18, 2026, Zagreb
http://dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc26

Sur le web / On the web

Law Bytes Podcast – What Will Canadian Digital Policy Look Like Under the New Liberal Carney Government?
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/05/the-law-bytes-podcast-episode-232-what-will-canadian-digital-policy-look-like-under-the-new-liberal-carney-government/

International Federation of Television Archives Video – Generative Artificial Intelligence & Audiovisual Archives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUXNMXzyJzU

IFLA Video – Community Cookbooks as Local History and Genealogy Resources
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUbkk8Nlp4A

Video – OAIS Version 3 what Does it Mean for Repositories
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGktxbLHRGM

Video – The First Medieval Manuscript at Harvard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=978J0Ke5Z_Q

Video – My Open Source Archiving Workflow Software
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2EAW-EAZek

Presentation – Using Metrics to Gain Insights into Born-digital Archival Workflows
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/presentations/2025/metrics-insights-born-digital-archival-workflows.pptx

Survey – Dark Archives: an Exploration of Disparate Digital Content within Archives
http://milwaukee.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6ETISsaQLBnrgeq

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Memo to PM Carney: redo, don’t recycle, Canada’s secretive Access to Information Act
https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/05/07/memo-to-pm-carney-redo-dont-recycle-canadas-secretive-access-to-information-act/459132/

Access-to-info fiasco continues as Department of National Defence says memo lost 52 months after request
http://www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/05/07/access-to-info-fiasco-continues-as-dnd-says-memo-lost-52-months-after-request/459176/

Files documenting worst abuses at residential schools to be destroyed unless survivors ask otherwise
http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/iap-residential-school-nctr-1.7528980

Northern Premiers announce joint donation to support National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
http://nationtalk.ca/story/northern-premiers-announce-joint-donation-to-support-national-centre-for-truth-and-reconciliation

How Canadian film archives are fighting to save nearly forgotten culture
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/article-expertise-is-disappearing-how-canadian-film-archives-are-fighting-to/

Canadian Association of Research Libraries Welcomes Sarah Lake as Visiting Program Officer for Digital Preservation
https://www.carl-abrc.ca/news/carl-welcomes-sarah-lake-as-visiting-program-officer-for-digital-preservation/

Indigenous groups launch missing and murdered Indigenous women data project
http://cabinradio.ca/235601/news/indigenous-groups-launch-mmiwg-data-project/

Hudson’s Bay Company records give public chance to reconnect with ancestors
http://www.stalbertgazette.com/national-business/hudsons-bay-company-records-give-public-chance-to-reconnect-with-ancestors-10608221

Legal Archives Society of Alberta – Honouring and Remembering Together
https://legalarchives.ca/honouring-and-remembering-together/

Les exigences du Québec en matière d’anonymisation un an plus tard : leçons et questions en suspens pour les entreprises
https://www.osler.com/fr/articles/mises-%C3%A0-jour/exigences-quebec-anonymisation-lecons-questions-suspens-entreprises/

BAnQ – Notre histoire en archives : un tour sur ma bécane
https://www.estrieplus.com/contenu-histoire_archives_becane_velo-2004-55240.html

BAnQ – Jeanne Corbin, pionnière des droits des travailleurs
http://www.banq.qc.ca/explorer/articles/jeanne-corbin-pionniere-droits-travailleurs/

Les archives à l’honneur
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/les-archives-a-lhonneur/

University of British Columbia – A dying wish, forgotten boxes, and a lost Holocaust archive rediscovered
http://magazine.alumni.ubc.ca/2025/community-humanities/dying-wish-forgotten-boxes-and-lost-holocaust-archive-rediscovered

University of British Columbia – SpokenWeb project breathes new life into Canada’s poetic archives
http://news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/05/07/spokenweb-project-breathes-new-life-into-canadas-poetic-archives/

McGill platform becomes safe space for conserving United States climate research under threat
http://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/mcgill-platform-becomes-safe-space-for-conserving-us-climate-research-under-threat/

Queen’s own Rifles of Canada Regimental Museum and Archive – The Queen’s own Rifles and their Heroic Role in the Liberation of Holland
http://qormuseum.org/2025/05/03/the-qor-and-their-heroic-role-in-the-liberation-of-holland/

Un réseau international d’archives queer
http://histoireengagee.ca/un-reseau-international-darchives-queer/

Gender Diversity, Organizational Obliviousness, and Queering the Archive in Newfoundland and Labrador
http://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/gender-diversity-organizational-obliviousness-and-queering-the-archive-in-newfoundland-and-labrador/

Au service des archives de saint frère André
http://saint-joseph.org/fr/au-service-des-archives-de-saint-frere-andre/

À la découverte d’archives du cinéma torontois
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere/emissions/y-a-pas-deux-matins-pareils/segments/rattrapage/2061741/un-compte-instagram-dedie-a-preservation-cinema-a-toronto

Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Full Moon over Whistler
http://whistlermuseum.org/2025/05/06/full-moon-over-whistler/

Greater Vernon Museum & Archives (British Columbia) – Enterprize Challenge 2015-2025: a Decade of Fueling Entrepreneurial Dreams
http://vernonmuseum.ca/enterprize-challenge-2015-2025-a-decade-of-fueling-entrepreneurial-dreams/

South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – Love Letters: Marriage & the Mail
http://www.southpeacearchives.org/blog/love-letters-marriage-the-mail/

Scugog (Ontario) Shores Museum Village and Archives receives grant funding for environmental programming
http://www.scugog.ca/news/posts/scugog-shores-museum-village-and-archives-receives-grant-funding-for-environmental-programming/

Musée d’histoire de Sherbrooke – Le Bureau de poste a 140 ans (mai 1885)
https://mhist.org/actualites/bureau-poste-140-ans/

Eastern Townships Resource Centre – Eastern Townships Toboggan Clubs
http://www.etrc.ca/eastern-townships-toboggan-clubs/

La Société d’histoire de Drummond lance un parcours de géocaching pour découvrir le patrimoine de la MRC de Drummond
http://histoiredrummond.com/la-shd-lance-un-parcours-de-geocaching-pour-decouvrir-le-patrimoine-de-la-mrc-de-drummond/

Société d’histoire de la Baie-James – La 3e rue: centre des affaires de Chibougamau
https://www.shbj.ca/fr/component/content/article/81-blog/tutorial/158-la-3e-rue-centre-des-affaires-de-chibougamau?Itemid=437

Dutch family’s WWII-era scrapbooks keep the names and exploits of Canadian soldiers fresh on the page
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-zwolle-netherlands-second-world-war-scrapbooks/

Afrique / Africa

Nigeria – Lagos Archives Going Digital: Lagos State Records and Archives Bureau, Wikmedia Nigeria in Talks to Unlock History
https://technologytimes.ng/lasrab-wikimedia-to-digitise-history-of-lagos/

Nigeria – This Artist-Run Archive Preserves Endangered Photographic Negatives in a Celebration of Lagos
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/05/lagos-studio-archives/

Amériques / Americas

Jamaica Archives and Records Department Urges Ministries, Departments and Agencies to Strengthen Electronic Records Management
http://jis.gov.jm/jard-urges-mdas-to-strengthen-electronic-records-management/

NARA’s Digital Preservation Standard Operating Procedure Library
http://fixity-check.blogs.archives.gov/2025/05/06/naras-digital-preservation-standard-operating-procedure-library/

National Archives to Display Many of America’s Most Historic & Iconic Artifacts in New Exhibition Series in Washington, DC
https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2025/nr25-08

NARA – Unconditional Surrender: Commemorating 80 Years Since the End of World War II in the European Theater of Operations
https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2025/05/08/unconditional-surrender-commemorating-80-years-since-the-end-of-world-war-ii-in-the-european-theater-of-operations/

NARA – The War Comes to the Reservation: the Japanese Balloon Bombs of WWII
http://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2025/05/06/the-war-comes-to-the-reservation-the-japanese-balloon-bombs-of-wwii/

Library of Congress – Artificial Intelligence, Art, and Copyright: The Human Element That Makes All the Difference
http://blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2025/05/a-i-art-and-copyright-the-human-element-that-makes-all-the-difference/

National Library of Medicine – Transforming Transparency through Policy
http://nlmdirector.nlm.nih.gov/2025/05/05/transforming-transparency-through-policy/

States win a legal injunction against President Trump, pausing library funding cuts
http://www.npr.org/2025/05/06/nx-s1-5388902/library-funding-cuts-trump-injunction

Federal Court Halts Dismantling of Federal Library Agency in American Library Association Lawsuit
http://www.ala.org/news/2025/05/federal-court-halts-dismantling-federal-library-agency-ala-lawsuit

Everylibrary – Statement: President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Proposal Will Eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services
http://www.everylibrary.org/trumpfy2026budgetimls

National Congress of American Indians Condemns Trump Administration’s Elimination of Boarding School Truth and Preservation Funding
http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/ncai-condemns-trump-administration-s-elimination-of-boarding-school-truth-and-preservation-funding

The Critical Role of United States Federal Funding in Zooniverse
http://blog.zooniverse.org/2025/04/30/the-critical-role-of-u-s-federal-funding-in-zooniverse/

Trump’s War on Information Meets a Dedicated Adversary: University Librarians
http://www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/article/trump-date-purge-20234868.php

Trump Wants to Erase Black History. These Digital Archivists Are Racing to Save it
http://www.wired.com/story/trump-wants-to-erase-black-history-these-digital-archivists-are-racing-to-save-it/

Losing federal funding for emergency heritage conservation in the United States is a disaster
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/05/federal-funding-cuts-emergency-heritage-conservation-leader

Project MUSE and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Launch New Landmark Initiative
https://about.muse.jhu.edu/news/USHMM-Landmark-Initiative-Launch

Old Dominion University – Thank you to NEH, IMLS, DoD Minerva, and NSF
https://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/05/2025-05-08-thank-you-to-neh-imls-dod.html

Brown University – Collaborative project yields new digital archive on hidden history of Indigenous enslavement
http://www.brown.edu/news/2025-05-07/stolen-relations

Hoover Institute – Tranche of 800+ Audio Tapes, Including Conversations with Nazis, Digitized and Available for Research at Hoover
http://www.hoover.org/press/tranche-800-audio-tapes-including-conversations-nazis-digitized-and-available-research-hoover

The Voynich Manuscript revealed: five things you probably did not know about the Medieval masterpiece
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/05/the-voynich-manuscript-revealed-five-things-you-probably-did-not-know-about-the-medieval-masterpiece

Benton Institute for Broadband & Society – The LBTQ+ Archive Launches
https://www.benton.org/headlines/lbtq-archive-launches

Michigan library working to rescue thousands of stories from gathering dust
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2025/04/michigan-library-working-to-rescue-thousands-of-stories-from-gathering-dust.html

Society of American Archivists – Repository Profile: the Center for Cisco Heritage
http://archelements.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/repository-profile-the-center-for-cisco-heritage/

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific

Australia – Farewell Trove
http://updates.timsherratt.org/2025/05/07/farewell-trove.html

Queensland State Archives (Australia) – Secrets of the sea: the fate of the SS Yongala
http://blogs.archives.qld.gov.au/2025/05/06/secrets-of-the-sea-the-fate-of-the-ss-yongala/

From Archives to New Tabs: Surfacing State Library of Victoria’s (Australia) Image Collection
http://lab.slv.vic.gov.au/experiments/maniiifestor-browser-extension/from-archives-to-new-tabs-surfacing-slvs-image-collection

State Library of Victoria – Unlocking the Archives: how Artificial Intelligence is Making Theatre History Accessible
http://lab.slv.vic.gov.au/experiments/theatre-programmes-prototype/unlocking-the-archives-how-ai-is-making-theatre-history-accessible

Europe / Europa

X-ray reveals ancient Greek author of charred first century BC Vesuvius scroll
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/06/x-ray-reveals-ancient-greek-author-of-charred-first-century-bc-vesuvius-scroll

Explore a 108 billion-pixel scan of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring
http://boingboing.net/2025/05/01/explore-a-108-billion-pixel-scan-of-vermeers-girl-with-a-pearl-earring.html

Redonner une forme d’humanité : en Allemagne, des archives avec des millions de documents aident des familles de déportés à retrouver leurs proches disparus dans des camps
http://www.francetvinfo.fr/societe/seconde-guerre-mondiale/reportage-redonner-une-forme-d-humanite-en-allemagne-des-archives-avec-des-millions-de-documents-aident-des-familles-de-deportes-a-retrouver-leurs-proches-disparus-dans-des-camps_7227294.html

The Olympic Museum expands digital archives
http://www.olympics.com/museum/explore/news/the-olympic-museum-expands-digital-archives-to-create-treasure-trove-of-sporting-history

Association des archivistes francophones Belgique – Vers une meilleure transparence des administrations publiques fédérales : quel rôle pour les archives ?
http://www.archivistes.be/vers-une-meilleure-transparence-des-administrations-publiques-federales-quel-role-pour-les-archives/

University of Glasgow Community, Michael Gallagher, Archivist
http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/uofg-community-michael-gallagher-archivist-university-of-glasgow-6ggue/

UK National Archives – Three UK archives engaging new audiences for VE and VJ Day anniversaries
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/three-uk-archives-engaging-new-audiences-for-ve-and-vj-day-anniversaries/

UK National Archives – Happy & Glorious: Coronation art exhibition goes on show
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/happy-glorious-coronation-art-exhibition-goes-on-show/

British Library – Digital Memory and the Militarised Past: Commemorating Britain’s World Wars in the 21st Century
http://blogs.bl.uk/webarchive/2025/05/digital-memory-and-the-militarised-past.html

British Library – Marking 80 Years: Documenting VE and VJ Day Commemoration in the UK Web Archive
http://blogs.bl.uk/webarchive/2025/05/marking-80-years-documenting-ve-and-vj-day-commemoration.html

British Film Institute – All in a Morning’s Accessioning
https://blog.bfi.org.uk/knowledge-and-collections/inside-the-archive/week-23-30-april-6-may-2025/

Unredacted – The Iraq War Crimes Archive
http://unredacted.uk/project-archives/war-crimes-iraq/

Photographic Collections at the National Fairground and Circus Archive
https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/photographic-collections-at-the-national-fairground-and-circus-archive/

The Courtauld completes major project to digitise the Witt Library
http://courtauld.ac.uk/news-blogs/2025/the-courtauld-completes-major-project-to-digitise-the-witt-library/

Yorkshire Miners Association archives now indexed and catalogued online
http://sslh.org.uk/2025/05/04/yorkshire-miners-association-archives-now-indexed-and-catalogued-online/

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

National Library of Israel – The Eichmann Effect
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/the-eichmann-effect/

National Library of Israel – Yesterday’s News: the Story of the Historical Jewish Press Archive
http://blog.nli.org.il/en/yesterdays-news/

Israel – New library, new hope: Scholars, tourists, and refuge at the National Library after October 7
http://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-852178

France hands Lebanon archival border maps to support Syria border demarcation
http://nna-leb.gov.lb/en/politics/778508/france-hands-lebanon-archival-border-maps-to-suppo

International

UNESCO – Preserving the Legacy of Press Freedom through Documentary Heritage
http://www.unesco.org/en/articles/preserving-legacy-press-freedom-through-documentary-heritage

Digital Preservation in 2025: why it Matters More than Ever
http://substack.com/inbox/post/162897558

Building a Digital Asset Management Project with Different Tools
http://gordonmurray.com/2025/05/05/Building-a-Digital-Asset-Management-project-with-different-tools.html

Ramblings of a File Format Researcher – Davinci Resolve
http://preservation.tylerthorsted.com/2025/05/02/davinci-resolve/

Seven Famous Authors who Destroyed their own Manuscripts before Publication
http://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/7-famous-authors-who-destroyed-their-own-manuscripts-before-publication/ss-AA1EfraR

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