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Documentary Heritage News
May 16, 2025

Vol. 18, no. 37

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State

European Union Intellectual Property Office – The Development of Generative Artificial Intelligence from a Copyright Perspective
http://www.euipo.europa.eu/da/news/euipo-releases-study-on-generative-artificial-intelligence-and-copyright

European Commission – European Curriculum for Data Stewards
http://zenodo.org/records/15298181

Finnish National Digital Preservation Services – Quality Report 2024
http://digitalpreservation.fi/en/2025-quality-report-2024-published-english

De la communauté / From the community

International Federation of Film Archives – Code of Ethics (Revised)
http://www.fiafnet.org/pages/Community/fiaf-code-of-ethics-revised-2025-en.html

Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future
http://freegovinfo.info/pgi

ARMA – Information Governance Maturity Index Report
https://www.pathlms.com/arma-international/courses/57547

W3C – Privacy Principles
https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/STMT-privacy-principles-20250515/

Communia – Unfair Licensing Practices: the Library Experience
http://communia-association.org/2025/05/13/new-report-unfair-licensing-practices-the-library-experience-is-out/

IFLA – State of Library Engagement in Climate Communication and Education
http://www.ifla.org/news/new-research-to-accelerate-library-climate-advocacy/

Article – Assessing Advanced Handwritten Text Recognition Engines for Digitizing Historical Documents
https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s42803-025-00100-0?sharing_token=eYW_hLF8L-UlXKhozNpXT_e4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY5JFJt14uNvOP4B__Sc_FIQ9sBhHaossB5tIaTAQhfs7U8lBDFgopqeqhy3cdcDVR_WBg1do4mSW-yvFC00xdzmGcwHPOqEI0jzTI-SslnJ8EcuQvyi5f9m9DDNcj8aPgI%3D

Publications

Archivaria, no. 99 (2025)
https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/issue/view/499

Collections: a Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, vol. 21, no. 2 (2025)
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/cjxa/21/2

Italian journal of Library Science, Archival Science and Information Science, vol. 16, no. 2 (2025)
https://jlis.it/index.php/jlis/issue/view/45

Archives Association of Ontario – Off the Record, vol. 41, no. 2 (2025)
https://aao-archivists.ca/News/13499188

Arabesques, no 117, 2025 (numéro spécial : normes en information et documentation)
https://abes.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/revue-arabesques-117.pdf

Dttp: Documents to the People, vol. 53, no. 1 (2025)
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/dttp/issue/view/887

San Jose State University – School of Information Student Research Journal, vol. 15, no. 1 (2025)
http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/ischoolsrj/vol15/iss1/

Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 15, no. 4 (2025)
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2025

European Committee for Standardization – CEN/TS 18170:2025 – Functional Requirements for the Electronic Archiving Services
https://standards.cencenelec.eu/dyn/www/f?p=CEN:110:0::::FSP_PROJECT,FSP_ORG_ID:80628,2878378&cs=12AAB2A3346BD810E45E38CA3FFB8D3E1

Book – Shakespeare and Scale: the Archive of Early Printed English
http://www.cambridge.org/ca/universitypress/subjects/literature/renaissance-and-early-modern-literature/shakespeare-and-scale-archive-early-printed-english

Book – Tracing your Staffordshire Ancestors: a Guide for Family Historians
http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Tracing-your-Staffordshire-Ancestors-A-Guide-for-Family-Historians-Paperback/p/52665

Book – Teaching Text Technologies and Critical Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Objects of Study
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032856346

Book – The Library Leader’s Guide to Human Resources: Keeping it Real, Legal, and Ethical
http://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538193761/

Book – Colonial Ambitions and Collecting Anxieties: Aboriginal Objects and Western Australian Frontiers, 1828-1914
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032695600

Book – So Many Stars: an Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color
http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/caro-de-robertis/so-many-stars/9781643756875/

Book – Audience Data and Research: Perspectives from Cultural Policy, Arts Management and Practice
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032632445

Book – Interception: State Surveillance from Postal Systems to Global Networks
http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262552578/interception/

Book – (In)visible European Government: Critical Approaches to Transparency as an Ideal and a Practice
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032191539

Livre – Archives de la danse
https://www.cnd.fr/fr/products/4898-archives-de-la-danse

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Toward a National Policy Action Plan for Marginalized and Vulnerable Audiovisual Archives
May 26, 2025, Halifax
http://cais2025.ca/aligned-events/

Copyright and Generative Artificial Intelligence: where are we Going?
May 30, 2025
http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/copyright-and-generative-ai-where-are-we-going-tickets-1355341606229

Artificial Intelligence Starts with Data: why Strong Data Governance Is a Must-Have
June 3, 2025
https://www.irmac.ca/event-6192610

Fighting Erasure Project: Archiving Against the Gaza Genocide and the War on Lebanon
May 19, 2025
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeck_kmBt2v4xRL1JMfaMO2oDBaNkVJnKlfV9KpYoMRLJZwzQ/viewform?pli=1

NARA – Online Genealogy Series
May 21 – June 13, 2025
http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2025/nr25-006

Preserving the Past and Sustaining the Future amid Environmental Change: Cross-cutting Approaches in Cultural Heritage
May 22, 2025
http://calma.ischool.uw.edu/uw-event/preserving-the-past-and-sustaining-the-future-amid-environmental-change-cross-cutting-approaches-in-cultural-heritage/

OCLC – Leadership in Times of Uncertainty and Change
June 2, 2025
http://www.oclc.org/research/events/2025/rlp-leadership-roundtables/research-support-leadership-uncertainty-change.html

Introduction à RiC-CM : l’évolution des standards XML de description
5 juin 2025
http://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4f0616d7-7ed0-401a-bb60-90f6497cd771@5d0b42b2-7ba0-42b9-bd88-2dd1558bd190

Les archives sonores du Conseil communal de Lugano (1962-2003)
9 septembre 2025
http://memoriav.ch/fr/archives-sonores/

Fedora Camp 2025
September 10-12, 2025
http://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScZOet8mKKfVgiRF0jE-nryIR-VjkeITRxGOp0RuY8Mpl42rQ/viewform

GovInfo Day(s) Spring 2025 (Presentations Available)
April 24-25, 2025
http://osf.io/2tx6r/files/osfstorage

ABC Copyright 2025 (Presentations Available)
April 29-30, 2025
http://dalspace.library.dal.ca/collections/241d04d2-aa6d-4618-86cc-df08b1221741

Sur le web / On the web

Archives de France – SimplEAD (service en ligne de conversion en EAD)
https://francearchives.gouv.fr/fr/article/1033756044

Podcast – The National Archives and the Trump Administration
https://the1a.org/segments/the-national-archives-and-the-trump-administration-2/

Baladodiffusion – Histoire et numérique, les images du passé au défi du présent
http://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/le-cours-de-l-histoire/histoire-et-numerique-les-images-du-passe-au-defi-du-present-7907085

The ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives National Survey
http://www.jotform.com/form/250896546702061

Survey – Impacts of the Trump Administration on Archives and Archival Workers
http://connect.archivists.org/discussion/survey-launch-impacts-of-the-trump-administration-on-archives-and-archival-workers-12

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Local artist explores Chinese-Canadian immigration as Library and Archives Canada’s new creator in residence
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/local-artist-explores-chinese-canadian-immigration-as-lac-s-new-creator-in-residence-1.4961697

Hudson Bay Company’s artworks and collections help us understand Canada’s origins and can be auctioned off
http://theconversation.com/hbcs-artworks-and-collections-help-us-understand-canadas-origins-and-can-be-auctioned-off-256044

Association of Canadian Archivists – Letter of concern for the Historical Material of the Hudson’s Bay Company
https://archivists.ca/Latest-News-Announcements/13499600

Canadian Historical Society Letter Concerning the Hudson’s Bay Company
http://cha-shc.ca/advocacy/cha-letter-concerning-the-hudsons-bay-company/

Investigation finds Alberta government broke its own freedom of information rules
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-government-freedom-of-information-1.7531634

Legal Archives Society of Alberta – For the Defence: John McKinley Cameron, K.C.
http://legalarchives.ca/for-the-defence-john-mckinley-cameron-k-c/

Notman Photographic Archives added to UNESCO Memory of the World International Register
http://en.ccunesco.ca/about-ccunesco/press/2025/05/notman-photographic-archives

BAnQ – 100 ans de coupes Longueuil
http://www.banq.qc.ca/explorer/articles/100-ans-de-coupes-longueuil/

Digital Self-Determination: Data Sovereignty in Inuvialuit Communities of Canada’s Western Arctic
http://informationmatters.org/2025/04/digital-self-determination-data-sovereignty-in-inuvialuit-communities-of-canadas-western-arctic/

Deepfakes in Courtrooms: how Judges Are Adapting to a New Reality
http://www.cyberjustice.ca/2025/05/12/deepfakes-in-courtrooms-how-judges-are-adapting-to-a-new-reality/

University of British Columbia – You Got to Speak Your Mind: the 1960’s Berkeley Protests
http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/carousel/you-got-to-speak-your-mind-the-1960s-berkeley-protests/

University of British Columbia Library supports Canadian research data discovery in European open scholarship platform
https://about.library.ubc.ca/2025/05/12/ubc-library-supports-canadian-research-data-discovery-in-european-open-scholarship-platform/

Centre d’archives de la Grande zone argileuse – Deux pionnières francophones donnent leurs témoignages pour l’histoire
http://levoyageur.ca/actualites/francophonie/2025/05/12/deux-pionnieres-francophones-donnent-leurs-temoignages-pour-lhistoire/

City of Vancouver Archives – An Album of Fronds, not fonds
https://www.vancouverarchives.ca/2025/05/15/an-album-of-fronds-not-fonds/

Edmonton – Artists explore what isn’t in city archives
http://edmonton.taproot.news/briefs/2025/05/14/artists-explore-what-isnt-in-city-archives

Whistler Museum and Archives Society – When Wylie Came to Whistler
http://whistlermuseum.org/2025/05/13/when-wylie-came-to-whistler/

Revelstoke Museum and Archives celebrated with three British Columbia history awards
http://www.revelstokereview.com/local-news/revelstoke-museum-and-archives-celebrated-with-3-bc-history-awards-8002547

Rebuilding Lytton (British Columbia) Area History: an update from Lytton Museum & Archives
http://www.lytton.ca/sites/23/files/2025-04/Museum%20Space%20Update_0.pdf

Stratford-Perth Archives (Ontario) – Queen Victoria’s Jubilee, 1897
https://www.perthcounty.ca/en/living-here/archives-blog.aspx#Queen

Stratford-Perth Archives – The Atwood Bakery
https://www.perthcounty.ca/en/living-here/archives-blog.aspx#The

Afrique / Africa

UNESCO strengthens the protection of African World Heritage
http://www.unesco.org/en/articles/unesco-strengthens-protection-african-world-heritage

South Africa – Interview with Ilse Assmann by Lerato Tshabalala
http://www.ica.org/interview-with-ilse-assmann-by-lerato-tshabalala/

Amériques / Americas

Argentina’s top court finds 80 boxes of Nazi materials in its basement
http://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentinas-top-court-finds-80-boxes-nazi-materials-its-basement-2025-05-12/

Dutch-led Suriname team digitizes 100,000 documents to preserve Jewish history in the Caribbean
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/europe/dutch-led-suriname-team-digitizes-100-000-documents-to-preserve-jewish-history-in-the-caribbean/article_50b73f4a-c4c2-56b6-a786-5482466ab4bd.html

NARA – Restoring U.S. Citizenship: Tadayasu Abo et al. v Tom Clark et al., Northern District of California (San Francisco), Civil no. 25294
http://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2025/05/13/restoring-u-s-citizenship-tadayasu-abo-et-al-v-tom-clark-et-al-northern-district-of-california-san-francisco-civil-no-25294/

NARA – The Federal Theatre Project Presents: “Voodoo Macbeth”
https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2025/05/15/the-federal-theatre-project-presents-voodoo-macbeth/

Trump abruptly fires librarian of Congress in latest purge of government
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/09/trump-congress-librarian-fired

In her own words: fired Librarian of Congress speaks with GBH in last week on the job
http://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-05-09/in-her-own-words-fired-librarian-of-congress-speaks-with-gbh-in-last-week-on-the-job

American Library Association praises service of Dr. Carla Hayden, decries unjust dismissal of Librarian of Congress
http://www.ala.org/news/2025/05/ALA-praises-service-dr-carla-hayden-decries-dismissal

Association of Research Libraries Comments on the Dismissal of Dr. Carla Hayden from the Library of Congress
https://www.arl.org/news/arl-comments-on-the-dismissal-of-dr-carla-hayden-from-the-library-of-congress/

Association for Information Science and Technology – Position Statement on the Termination of Dr. Carla Hayden as Librarian of Congress
http://www.asist.org/2025/05/14/position-statement-on-the-termination-of-dr-carla-hayden-as-librarian-of-congress/

In Rare Move, Congress pushes back on Trump over Library of Congress
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/13/trump-library-of-congress-power-struggle/

Deputy attorney general who defended Trump in hush money trial is named acting librarian of Congress
http://apnews.com/article/trump-library-congress-todd-blanche-carla-hayden-cc2154fa8644a5c29d196e505e4faa51

Library of Congress – Raúl Ruiz, La Raza Collection Lands at the Library
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/05/raul-ruiz-la-raza-collection-lands-at-the-library/

Trump fires top United States copyright official
http://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/10/trump-u-s-copyright-official-00340306

Trump sacked Copyright Office director a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Musk’s plan to train artificial inteligence models, top Dem says
http://fortune.com/2025/05/12/donald-trump-copyright-director-ai-companies-training-elon-musk-shira-perlmutter/

Elon Musk’s apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired
http://www.theverge.com/politics/666179/maga-elon-musk-sacks-copyright-office-perlmutter

United States Department of Agriculture Reverses Course, Commits to Restore Purged Climate Webpages in Response to Farmers’ Lawsuit
http://knightcolumbia.org/content/usda-reverses-course-commits-to-restore-purged-climate-webpages-in-response-to-farmers-lawsuit

Orwellian: planetary scientists outraged over deletion of research records
http://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01438-9

American Oversight Expands Lawsuit Against USAID for Unlawful Document Destruction
http://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-expands-lawsuit-against-usaid-for-unlawful-document-destruction/

There’s a Solution for the Trump Administration’s Record-Keeping Failures — and it’s not TeleMessage
https://americanoversight.org/theres-a-solution-for-the-trump-administrations-record-keeping-failures-and-its-not-telemessage/

Hawaii State Archives are using new tech to save old records
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a37Y9GtjCdk

In Harvard’s archives, British scholars find a lost Magna Carta
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/15/magna-carta-harvard-great-charter/

Princeton University Library Launches the José Donoso Digital Archive
http://library.princeton.edu/about/library-news/2025/princeton-university-library-launches-jos%C3%A9-donoso-digital-archive

University of California Santa Barbara – Opera archive honoring famed Italian tenor donated to library
http://news.ucsb.edu/2025/021870/opera-archive-honoring-famed-italian-tenor-donated-library

Tips for spring cleaning from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts Archives
http://www.uncsa.edu/announcements/20250512-spring-cleaning.aspx

The Georgetown Law Center Audio-Visual Collection: Challenges and Opportunities
https://saadescription.wordpress.com/2025/05/15/the-georgetown-law-center-audio-visual-collection-challenges-and-opportunities/

These Irreplaceable Yiddish Artifacts Would Have Been Lost to History If they Weren’t Evacuated to New York after World War II
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/these-irreplaceable-yiddish-artifacts-would-have-been-lost-to-history-if-they-werent-evacuated-to-new-york-after-world-war-ii-180986596/

Black Heritage Library & Multicultural Center launches public digital archive of historical artifacts
http://www.hometownstations.com/news/hancock_county/black-heritage-library-multicultural-center-launches-public-digital-archive-of-historical-artifacts/article_5d301aed-25bd-4678-acb2-5c4e1bee1290.html

The Keeper. The Preserver. The Archivist.
http://www.3blmedia.com/news/keeper-preserver-archivist

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific

Japan’s washi paper used to mend historical documents at United States National Archives, overseas museums
http://asianews.network/japans-washi-paper-used-to-mend-historical-documents-at-u-s-national-archives-overseas-museums/

Vietnam – Projet de loi sur les archives (modifié) : Quelle est l’autorité de gestion des documents d’archives pour le ministère de la Défense nationale et le ministère de la Sécurité publique ?
http://www.vietnam.vn/fr/du-thao-luat-luu-tru-sua-doi-tham-quyen-quan-ly-tai-lieu-luu-tru-doi-voi-bo-quoc-phong-bo-cong-an-nhu-the-nao-bao-lang-son-dien-tu

India – Digital archive to connect Bengali writer Samaresh Basu to future generations of readers
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/digital-archive-to-connect-writer-samaresh-basu-to-future-generations-of-readers/article69574611.ece

Europe / Europa

Historical Archives of the European Union – Pre-Life environmental programmes archives open for research
http://www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=pre-life-environmental-programmes-archives-open-for-research

Historical Archives of the European Union – The Western Balkans: hostage to its past? An interview with Klodiana Beshku
http://www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=the-western-balkans-hostage-to-its-past-an-interview-with-klodiana-beshku

European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – The Lost Voices of the Lityn Ghetto
http://blog.ehri-project.eu/2025/05/13/the-lost-voices-of-the-lityn-ghetto/

Polish museum launches app for youth to record untold WWII stories
http://notesfrompoland.com/2025/05/13/polish-museum-launches-app-for-youth-to-record-untold-wwii-stories/

Denmark’s museum objects at risk from extreme new mould, say conservators
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/06/denmarks-museum-objects-at-risk-from-extreme-new-mould-say-conservators

Netherlands museum rethinks lending works to United States amid Trump arts cuts
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/08/netherlands-museum-mauritshuis-rethinks-lending-works-us-amid-trump-arts-cuts

Armenia – Senior National Archives Official Prosecuted for Spying for Azerbaijan
https://asbarez.com/senior-national-archives-official-prosecuted-for-spying-for-azerbaijan/

Secret trove of UFO evidence hidden in Vatican archives revealed
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14671587/UFO-evidence-Vatican-archives-american-cosmic.html

Archives et infrastructures: il faut que tout bouge pour que rien ne change
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/archives-et-infrastructures/

UK – Ministers block Lords bid to make artificial intelligence firms declare use of copyrighted content
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/14/uk-ministers-to-block-amendment-requiring-ai-firms-to-declare-use-of-copyrighted-content

University College London – About 160 historic George Orwell papers saved for nation after outcry
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/09/about-160-historic-george-orwell-papers-saved-for-nation-after-outcry-gollancz-university-college-london

Sign language histories in University College London’s Special Collections
http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-collections/2025/05/09/sign-language-histories-in-ucls-special-collections/

Born-Digital Collections, Archives & Memory Reflections
http://www.flickr.org/born-digital-collections-archives-memory-reflections/

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

National Library of Israel – Baby No. 000001: Meet the State of Israel’s First Official Newborn
http://blog.nli.org.il/en/baby_no_000001/

National Library of Israel – Rabbi Shimon Agassi: the Boy who Dared to Study Kabbalah
http://blog.nli.org.il/en/rabbi_shimon_agassi/

My family’s archive shows why Palestinians are owed reparations
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-05-13/palestinian-nakba-compensation

Liban – L’Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik rend hommage à Edmond Rizk qui lui offre ses archives
http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1460039/lusek-rend-hommage-a-edmond-rizk-qui-lui-offre-ses-archives.html

Turkey – Exhibition of Palestinian Family Archives held in Istanbul’s Ibn Haldun University
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hugq-YXdLmQ

International

Funds and Medals of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Movement: documents from the ICRC Library
https://blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/funds-and-medals/

Working together towards global responsible data sharing: the Ethical Data Initiative and the Research Data Alliance
http://www.rd-alliance.org/news/working-together-towards-global-responsible-data-sharing-the-ethical-data-initiative-edi-and-the-rda/

Building Sustainable Digital Repositories: how Fedora, OCFL, and OAIS Work Together
http://fedorarepository.org/sustainable-digital-repositories/

Wikipedia as a cultural lifeline: how museums are using the free online encyclopedia to archive marginalized art
http://prismreports.org/2025/05/12/wikipedia-art-archiving-pamm/

The Database Row that Did and Didn’t Exist
http://www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2025/05/13/the-database-row-that-did-and-didnt-exist/

Digitising, and thus (re)shaping, collective memory
https://blogs.idos-research.de/2025/05/15/digitising-and-thus-reshaping-collective-memory/

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