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Documentary Heritage News
May 23, 2025

Vol. 18, no. 38

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State

Service interministériel des Archives de France – Délivrance du visa d’élimination des documents d’origine papier transférés sur support numérique
http://francearchives.gouv.fr/fr/circulaire/DGPA_SIAF_2025_005

Service interministériel des archives de France – Autorisation unique d’élimination des pièces papier numérisées du dossier de retraite
https://francearchives.gouv.fr/fr/circulaire/DGPA_SIAF_2025_007

Truth Recovery Independent Panel (Northern Ireland) – Permanent Archive Consultation Results: Summary Report
http://www.independentpanel.truthrecoveryni.co.uk/publications/permanent-archive-consultation-results-summary-report-may-2025

Archives nationales de Luxembourg – Tableau de tri : Ministère de la Fonction publique
http://anlux.public.lu/dam-assets/pdf-statiques/mfp-convention-tableau-de-tri-v101.pdf

De la communauté / From the community

Scholaris Metadata and Discovery Expert Group – Recommendations
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/news/scholaris-expert-group-recommendations-now-available/

Archives and Traces of Migration: a Handbook of Best Practices
http://drive.google.com/file/d/1zjsipN4IJyMJ9XmCRsLY9lWNo1O0U_1C/view

Information & Records Management Society – Information Governance Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 (Revamped)
http://irms.org.uk/news/701333/Best-practices-in-Microsoft-365.htm

Memoriav : association pour la sauvegarde de la mémoire audiovisuelle suisse – Rapport d’activité 2024
http://memoriav.ch/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Memoriav_Geschaeftsbericht_2024_FR.pdf

Article – Historians Use Data Science to Mine the Past
http://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2508428122

Nuremberg Letterbooks: a Multi-Transcriptional Dataset of Early 15th Century Manuscripts for Document Analysis
http://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05144-z

Publications

Archival Science, vol. 25, no. 2 (2025)
http://link.springer.com/journal/10502/volumes-and-issues/25-2

Archives and Records, vol. 46, no. 1 (2025)
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjsa21/46/1

Archives, vol. 52 (2025)
http://www.archivistes.qc.ca/fr/news/le-nouveau-numero-de-la-revue-archives-est-maintenant-disponible-123

Library Hi Tech, vol. 42, no. 2-3 (2025)
http://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/0737-8831/vol/43/iss/2/3

The Electronic Library, vol. 43, no. 3 (2025)
http://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/0264-0473/vol/43/iss/3

Archives Society of Alberta Newsletter, vol. 44, no. 2 (2025)
https://archivesalberta.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Spring-2025.pdf

Livre en libre accès – Publier, partager, réutiliser les données de la recherche : les data papers et leurs enjeux
http://www.septentrion.com/fr/book/?gcoi=27574100316700

Book – June Givanni: the Making of a Pan-African Cinema Archive
http://lwbooks.co.uk/product/the-making-of-a-pan-african-cinema-archive

Book – On Collecting Japanese Colour-Prints: Being an Introduction to the Study and Collection of the Colour-prints of the Ukiyoye School of Japan
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032504964

Book – The Culture Box: Museums as Media
http://ualbertapress.ca/9781772127942/the-culture-box/

Book – Memory and the Holocaust: Descendants of Survivors and Family History
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032791210

Book – The Heritage State: Religion and Preservation in Contemporary Qatar
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501781216/the-heritage-state/

Book – Art and Copyright Law: an Interdisciplinary Study on Interpictoriality
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032974484

Book – Open Secrecy: how Technology Empowers the Digital Underworld
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/open-secrecy/paper

Book – Data Sharing Regulation in Europe
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032163710

Book – Our Little Life: a Novel with other Archival Texts
http://services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/O/Our-Little-Life

Livre – Du “prince des bibliothécaires” au “modèle des archivistes” : lettres de Léopold Delisle à Charles de Beaurepaire (1851-1908)
http://www.droz.org/suisse/product/9782600066105

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Archives of Ontario Door Open
May 24, 2025
https://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/events/DoorsOpen2025.aspx

Muslims in Canada Archives Open House
May 24-25, 2025, Toronto
http://www.muslimsincanadaarchives.ca/en/posts/doors-open-2025/

Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives – Reconciliation through Terminology Virtual Lunch
July 2, 2025
http://anla.nf.ca/reconciliation-through-terminology-virtual-lunch-learn-with-jared-hogan-and-michaela-doucette

NeuroGLAM 2025
August 22, 2025
http://librarianship.ca/news/neuroglam-2025-cfp/

Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives – Scanning Parties & Digital Preservation Virtual Lunch and Learn
October 8, 2025
http://anla.nf.ca/scanning-parties-digital-preservation-virtual-lunch-and-learn-with-juliet-lanphear

Global Archivists Sharing: why Archiving Matters to Diaspora Communities?
May 24, 2025
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-archivists-sharing-why-archiving-matters-to-diaspora-communities-tickets-1349778125709

Photography and Archives: Discovery, Technology and Innovation
May 29, 2025, Florence
https://www.ica.org/event/photography-and-archives-discovery-technology-and-innovation/

Health New Zealand Information Management Journey: Building a Future amid Largescale Change
May 30, 2025
http://www.aranz.org.nz/blog/post/145425/webinar-health-nz-im-journey-building-a-future-amid-largescale-change/

Webinar on Discovery of Mobile Device Data
June 3, 2025
https://thesedonaconference.org/Webinar_on_Discovery_of_Mobile_Device_Data

Generative Artificial Intelligence in Libraries Virtual Conference
June 9-11, 2025
http://shsulibraryguides.org/genailibraries

Documentaire et archives : problématiques croisées
10-11 juin 2025
http://calenda.org/1263144

UK National Archives – Archives Fest
June 15, 2025, Kew
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archives-fest-tickets-1359101873289

Providing Access to Digital Records
June 19, 2025
http://www.dpconline.org/events/eventdetail/504/-/providing-access-to-digital-records

Towards Equity & Inclusion through Collections and Archives
June 24, 2025
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rluk-icil-towards-equity-inclusion-through-collections-and-archives-tickets-1372546606849

Gathering the Red Record: Linking Racial Violence Archives
July 24-25. Boston
http://law.northeastern.edu/event/gathering-the-red-record/

Digital Library Federation Forum 2025
November 16-19, Denver
http://forum2025.diglib.org/

Sur le web / On the web

Baladodiffusion Archivistica – Santé mentale : forces et faiblesses du métier d’archiviste : Dominique Lhuilier
https://shows.acast.com/archivistica/episodes/680a37c86f5bfb044f5b2d87

Enhancing Digital Preservation Strategies at European and National Level – Survey on Identification, Appraisal and Selection of Digital Data for Long-term Digital Preservation
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/EOSC-EDEN-T1survey2025

Petition – Stop Trump’s Attack on the Library of Congress
http://action.everylibrary.org/congresshayden

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Cercle Molière: a century-old Franco-Manitoban institution to discover in Library and Archives Canada’s archives
https://thediscoverblog.com/2025/05/22/cercle-moliere-a-century-old-franco-manitoban-institution-to-discover-in-lacs-archives/

BAnQ – L’histoire des patriotes racontée par la presse écrite
http://www.banq.qc.ca/explorer/articles/lhistoire-des-patriotes-racontee-par-la-presse-ecrite/

BAnQ – La pêche sportive en images
https://www.banq.qc.ca/explorer/articles/peche-sportive/

Archivistes comme agents de changement: réflexion sur l’accès aux lieux physiques et virtuels de consultation
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/diffusion-reutilisation/

University of Saskatchewan Archives and Special Collections – Presentation Room
http://library.usask.ca/uasc/news/2025/presentation-room.php

University of British Columbia – Indigenous Stories of the Klondike Gold Rush: Part 1: the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in
https://digitize.library.ubc.ca/carousel/indigenous-stories-of-the-klondike-gold-rush-part-1-the-trondek-hwechin/

Honneur provincial pour le Centre d’archives de la Grande Zone argileuse
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2165968/hearst-journaux-archives-laurent-vaillancourt-joel-lauzon

Muslims in Canada Archives – From the Archives: Honouring Malcolm X’s Legacy in Canada
http://www.muslimsincanadaarchives.ca/en/posts/honouring-malcolm-x-in-canada/

United Farmers Historical Society – University Week for Young Farm People / Farm Young People’s Week
https://unitedfarmershistoricalsociety.wordpress.com/2025/05/22/university-week-for-young-farm-people-farm-young-peoples-week/

Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Moving up to Whistler
http://whistlermuseum.org/2025/05/20/moving-up-to-whistler/

Greater Vernon Museum & Archives (British Columbia) – Wedded Bliss in the Pages of the Vernon News
http://vernonmuseum.ca/wedded-bliss-in-the-pages-of-the-vernon-news/

Golden Museum and Archives (British Columbia) honoured with provincial advocacy award
http://thegoldenstar.net/local-news/provincial-advocacy-award/

Agassiz-Harrison Museum (British Columbia) honoured with accessibility award
http://www.agassizharrisonobserver.com/community/agassiz-harrison-museum-honoured-with-accessibility-award-8011445

Simcoe County Archives (Ontario) – Scrapbook of Helen L. Lane
http://simcoe.ca/simcoe-county-archives-blog/helen-lane-scrapbook/

Le Centre d’archives régional de Charlevoix lance sa campagne annuelle
http://cihofm.com/news/le-centre-darchive-regional-de-charlevoix-lance-sa-campagne-annuelle/

Voyage dans le temps à Caplan
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2166326/histoire-patrimoine-caplan-150

Afrique / Africa

Rwanda – Digitization of Gacaca court archives to be completed by 2026: Minister Bizimana
http://www.newtimes.co.rw/article/26530/news/rwanda/digitization-of-gacaca-court-archives-to-be-completed-by-2026-minister-bizimana

Délimitation des frontières Gabon-Guinée Équatoriale : l’absence d’archives fiables fait défaut au Gabon
http://www.union.sonapresse.com/fr/delimitation-des-frontieres-gabon-guinee-equatoriale-labsence-darchives-fiables-fait-defaut-au

Liberian Massacre Sites Documented in New Database
http://www.liberianobserver.com/news/liberian-massacre-sites-documented-in-new-database/article_caa32833-a979-427d-a15e-d3c6d91f402a.html

Amériques / Americas

How Indigenous groups in Brazil are using virtual reality to reclaim their stories
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2025/0520/brazil-indigenous-virtual-reality-tradition

The future of history: Trump could leave less documentation behind than any previous US president
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/future-history-trump-leave-documentation-previous-us-president-121922016

Why Trump is making an unprecedented effort to scrub the historical record
http://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-lowest-historical-documentation-records-president-rcna207710

Impacts of the Trump Administration on Archives and Archival Workers: Fortepan US
http://awefund.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/impacts-of-the-trump-administration-on-archives-and-archival-workers-fortepan-us/

NARA – Jewish American Heritage sites in the National Register of Historic Places
http://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2025/05/20/jewish-american-heritage-sites-in-the-national-register-of-historic-places/

NARA – The Era of False Teeth for the Masses
https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2025/05/22/the-era-of-false-teeth-for-the-masses/

Firing, hiring and a mystery: the 225-year-old Library of Congress has never had a moment like this
http://apnews.com/article/library-of-congress-card-history-librarian-firings-83d9e862a68832d8076773a7eb16114f

Association of Southeastern Research Libraries honors Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress
http://www.aserl.org/2025/05/aserl-honors-dr-carla-hayden-librarian-of-congress/

Volunteers Leverage OCR to Transcribe Library of Congress Digital Collections
http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/05/volunteers-ocr/

Preservation in Motion: Moving the Library of Congress Card Catalog
http://blogs.loc.gov/preservation/2025/05/moving-the-card-catalog/

Federal Judge Says Trump Officials’ Conduct Is Certainly Concerning as Court Weighs Public Records Case
http://americanoversight.org/federal-judge-says-trump-officials-conduct-is-certainly-concerning-as-court-weighs-public-records-case/

Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Shield Department of Government Efficiency from Releasing Records
http://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/politics/supreme-court-doge-foia.html

Society of American Archivists Statement on the Firing of the Register of Copyrights
http://connect.archivists.org/discussion/saa-statement-on-the-firing-of-the-register-of-copyrights-1

Society of American Archivists Letter on Historical Advisory Committee Representative Dismissal
http://www2.archivists.org/news/2025/saa-letter-on-historical-advisory-committee-representative-dismissal

American Historical Association Statement on Military Libraries, Censorship, and History
http://www.historians.org/news/aha-statement-on-military-libraries-censorship-and-history/

Understanding the Freedom of Information Act
http://thefulcrum.us/rule-of-law/freedom-of-information-act

Staying on the right side of record retention laws
http://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2025/05/staying-on-the-right-side-of-records-retention-laws/

Texas State Library and Archives – The State Records Center: then and Now
http://www.tsl.texas.gov/slrm/blog/2025/05/src-then-and-now/

Bill to give politicians appointments to Alabama Archives’ governing board fails
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/may/17/bill-to-give-politicians-appointments-to-alabama/

Hawaiʻi State Archives – Images of late 1800s Hawaiʻi preserved in photographer’s glass plate negatives
http://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2025-05-20/hawaii-photographer-19th-century-glass-plate-negatives

Structural analysis of Voynich Manuscript reveals features of natural language
http://boingboing.net/2025/05/19/structural-analysis-of-voynich-manuscript-reveals-features-of-natural-language.html

Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library launches first publicly available archives catalog
http://connect.archivists.org/discussion/scottish-rite-masonic-museum-library-launches-first-publicly-available-archives-catalog

SFJazz Unveils Public Access to Historical Archive
http://www.broadwayworld.com/san-francisco/article/SFJAZZ-Unveils-Public-Access-to-Historical-Archive-20250512

Saving the past for the future: how local Jewish orgs are preserving their history
http://jweekly.com/2025/05/19/saving-the-past-for-the-future-how-local-jewish-orgs-are-preserving-their-history/

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific

National Archives of Australia – This Day Tonight: Australian Current Affairs Television Comes of Age
http://www.naa.gov.au/blog/day-tonight-australian-current-affairs-television-comes-age

No more harvesting data from the National Archives of Australia
http://updates.timsherratt.org/2025/05/19/no-more-harvesting-data-from.html

Every election, Australia archives campaign materials. Why don’t we save social media posts?
http://www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/16/national-library-archive-social-media-election-content/

Nitrate tapes, VHS, and streaming. Behind the looming world of Australia’s lost media
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-17/vhs-dvds-streaming-and-the-rise-of-lost-media/104674526

Archives New Zealand – Message to customers from Poumanaaki Chief Archivist: the construction of the new archival building in Wellington is complete
http://www.archives.govt.nz/about-us/whats-new/message-to-customers-from-poumanaaki-chief-archivist

Japan’s Game Preservation Society Is Safe For Now, and it’s All Thanks to You
http://www.timeextension.com/features/japans-game-preservation-society-is-safe-for-now-and-its-all-thanks-to-you

Vietnam – Rare archived photos reveal intimate glimpses into Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh’s daily life
http://e.vnexpress.net/photo/news/rare-archived-photos-reveal-intimate-glimpses-into-vietnamese-president-ho-chi-minhs-daily-life-4887321.html

Vietnam – Présentant près de 200 images et archives d’artistes typiques
https://www.vietnam.vn/fr/trung-bay-gan-200-hinh-anh-tai-lieu-luu-tru-cua-cac-van-nghe-si-tieu-bieu

Parts of looted Chu Silk Manuscripts handed back to China
http://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-05-17/Parts-of-looted-Chu-Silk-Manuscripts-handed-back-to-China-1DopSKwPa0M/p.html

Indonesia – National Archives Strengthens Commitment to Electronic Archival Governance
http://www.rri.co.id/nasional/1526576/national-archives-strengthens-commitment-to-electronic-archival-governance

India – Digitisation begins at Prayagraj regional archives with rare Duncan documents
http://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/digitisation-begins-at-prayagraj-regional-archives-with-rare-duncan-documents-101747408314474.html

Europe / Europa

European Union Court Rules Commission in Violation of Transparency Law Over von der Leyen–Pfizer Texts
http://www.access-info.org/2025-05-14/pfizergate-eu-court-rules-commission-in-violation-of-transparency-law-over-von-der-leyen-pfizer-texts/

Attack claimed by pro-Ukraine hackers reportedly erases a third of Russian court case archive
http://therecord.media/russia-court-system-hack-third-of-case-files-deleted

New historically accurate digital replica will allow films to be set within Auschwitz
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/may/16/new-historically-accurate-digital-replica-will-allow-films-to-be-set-within-auschwitz

University of Gothenburg (Sweden) – Award for paper on archival practices and the right to be forgotten
http://www.gu.se/en/news/ratten-att-bli-glomd

Portuguese Web Archives – Massive open online course on Arquivo.pt and web archives launched and open to the community
http://sobre.arquivo.pt/en/mooc-on-arquivo-pt-and-web-archives-launched-and-open-to-the-community/

Italy – Auto & Design Collection, the New Digital Archive Is Online
http://autodesignmagazine.com/en/2025/05/ad-collection-the-new-digital-archive-is-online/

4 000 plaques de verre de l’École française d’Athènes numérisées et mises en ligne
https://www.archimag.com/archives-patrimoine/2025/05/21/4000-plaques-verre-ecole-francaise-athenes-numerisees-mises-en-ligne

France – Retrouvé par hasard, un manuscrit de Jean Giono remis à sa fille
http://actualitte.com/article/123907/livres-anciens/retrouve-par-hasard-un-manuscrit-de-jean-giono-remis-a-sa-fille

Gibraltar National Archives seeks volunteers to help preserve local history
http://www.chronicle.gi/gibraltar-national-archives-seeks-volunteers-to-help-preserve-local-history/

Ireland – 1926 census to be available online after digitisation
http://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2025/0520/1513773-ireland-politics/

Irish Military Archives – Aerial Photography Project
http://www.militaryarchives.ie/en/news-and-events/military-archives-aerial-photographs-project

Energy expert says Ireland currently doesn’t have enough resources to power data centres
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/energy-expert-says-ireland-currently-doesnt-have-enough-resources-to-power-data-centres/a1429126181.html

The ‘Wikipedia of the age’: Restored 900-year-old Book of Leinster manuscript goes on first public display in Dublin
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2025/05/21/the-wikipedia-of-the-age-myths-legends-and-seating-arrangements-at-the-hill-of-tara-in-900-year-old-manuscript-on-public-display/

National Library of Wales partners with Radio Wales to present Rewind Archive Special
http://nation.cymru/culture/national-library-of-wales-partners-with-radio-wales-to-present-rewind-archive-special/

Zombie spider’ fungi among Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew archive specimens
http://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c861wn2e296o

University of York in final push to save archive on the inventors of the British sitcom for the nation
http://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2025/campus/galton-simpson-archive/

University of Manchester – John Rylands Library receives historic archive of Sir Harold Evans
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/john-rylands-library-receives-historic-archive-of-sir-harold-evans/

The University of Manchester launches groundbreaking ‘Digital Dante Library’
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/groundbreaking-digital-dante-library/

Alan Turing papers saved from shredder could fetch £150,000
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/21/alan-turing-papers-saved-from-shredder-could-fetch-150000

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

National Library of Israel – Maimonides’ Halakhic Revolution (and why it Almost Worked)
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/maimonides_revolution/

National Library of Israel – A “Pillbox” Tour of Jerusalem with the British Mandate Police
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/british_police_jerusalem/

Israel says retrieved official Syrian archive on executed spy Eli Cohen
http://www.arabnews.com/node/2601221/amp

Eli Cohen’s secret archive found near Assad’s palace: Turkey possibly involved
http://www.ynetnews.com/article/ryk311jyzeg

Liban – Ce que racontent les archives photographiques des pères jésuites exposées à l’Institut du monde arabe, un siècle plus tard
http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1460861/ce-que-racontent-les-archives-photographiques-des-peres-jesuites-exposees-a-lima-un-siecle-plus-tard.html

International

Sharjah (United Arab Emirates) Ruler signs $6M agreement to digitise UNESCO global archive
https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/sharjah-ruler-signs-6m-agreement-to-digitise-unesco-global-archive-806165042.html

“Validation OK” They Said: Fixing the Rendering of a So-Called Valid PDF
https://openpreservation.org/blogs/validation-ok-they-said-fixing-the-rendering-of-a-so-called-valid-pdf

The floppygeddon cometh: time’s running out for businesses to ditch the floppy disk
http://www.raconteur.net/technology/the-floppygeddon-cometh

Emulating Microsoft Multiplan spreadsheets in DOSBox-X
http://bitsgalore.org/2025/05/19/emulating-microsoft-multiplan-spreadsheets-in-dosbox-x.html

Building a personal archive of the web, the slow way
http://alexwlchan.net/2025/personal-archive-of-the-web/?ref=mastodon

How Should Choreographers Document and Archive their Work?
http://dancemagazine.com/archive-choreography/

How to Disappear: Inside the World of Extreme-privacy Consultants
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/extreme-personal-data-privacy-protection/682867/

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