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Documentary Heritage News
July 4, 2025

Vol. 18, no. 44

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State

Library and Archives Canada – June 2025: Access to Information and Privacy Action Plan Progress Report
http://library-archives.canada.ca/eng/corporate/transparency/reports-publications/atip-reports/atip-action-plan-progress/pages/june-2025-update.aspx

Canadian Conservation Institute – Paper Decay Simulator (Updated)
http://www.canada.ca/content/dam/cci-icc/documents/services/preventive-conservation/preventive-conservation-tools/paper-decay/paper-decay-model.xlsx

Public Records Office Victoria – Recordkeeping Checklists
http://prov.vic.gov.au/about-us/our-blog/new-checklists

De la communauté / From the community

IFLA – Metadata Statement and Principles (for Comments)
http://www.ifla.org/news/provide-feedback-on-the-ifla-amn-accessibility-metadata-statement-and-principles/

Association for Information Science and Technology – Strategic Plan (Draft for Comments)
http://www.asist.org/2025/07/01/asist-draft-strategic-plan-open-for-comment/

Balkan Investigative Reporting Network – Freedom of Information 2024 Annual Report
http://birn.eu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/2025-FOI-Report_24_FINAL_ENGLISH.pdf

Paper – Digital Collections Explorer: an Open-Source, Multimodal Viewer for Searching Digital Collections
http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00961

Article – Preserving Architectural Heritage: the Transition of Diazo Prints to Digital Archives
http://online.vraweb.org/index.php/vrab/article/view/265

Publications

Journal of Digital Media Management, vol. 13, no. 4 (2025)
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/hsp/jdmm/2025/00000013/00000004

International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 26, no. 2 (2025)
http://link.springer.com/journal/799/volumes-and-issues/26-2

Humanités numériques, no 11 (2025)
http://journals.openedition.org/revuehn/

Review of the National Center for Digitization, no. 46 (2025)
http://elib.mi.sanu.ac.rs/pages/browse_issue.php?db=ncd&rbr=46

Mémoire d’avenir : le journal des Archives nationales de France, no 59 (2025)
https://s3.fr-par.scw.cloud/an-p0-bucket/an-public/files/Publications/M%C3%A9moire%20d%27avenir/ARCHIVES-NAT-mag59_WEB-pages.pdf?VersionId=1751535018880772

Mémoire d’étude (Enssib) – Les réserves mutualisées entre bibliothèques patrimoniales, services d’archives et musées : premier état des lieux et enjeux
http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque-numerique/notices/73413-les-reserves-mutualisees-entre-bibliotheques-patrimoniales-services-d-archives-et-musees-premier-etat-des-lieux-et-enjeux

Book – Pioneering Women Archivists in Early 20th Century England
http://routledge.com/product/isbn/9781041073741

Book – Drawn to the Stacks: Essays on Libraries, Librarians and Archives in Comics and Graphic Novels
http://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/drawn-to-the-stacks/

Book – Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper: how Art and Archives Defined Second World War Reconstructive Surgery in Britain
https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/putting-plastic-surgery-on-paper/

Book – Digital Genealogy as Second-Wave Digital Humanities: Approaching Nineteenth-Century Grampian with Digital Resources
http://routledge.com/product/isbn/9780367560393

Book – Law Librarianship Practice: Challenges and Opportunities in Law Firm, Government, and Academic Law Libraries
http://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/law-librarianship-practice-9781538199749/

Book – Mental Libraries: the Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture
http://routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032852294

Book – Too Good to Get Married: the Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen
http://www.fordhampress.com/9781531509507/too-good-to-get-married/

Book – Publishers’ Rights and Copyright Law: Safeguarding Access to Information and Media Pluralism
http://routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032974712

Book – The Little Book of Data: Understanding the Powerful Analytics that Drive AI, Make or Break Careers, and Could Just End Up Saving the World
http://www.harpercollinsleadership.com/9781400248353/the-little-book-of-data/

Livre – Guide du professeur documentaliste : 40 fiches pour (re)découvrir le métier
http://www.editionsklog.com/product/guide-du-professeur-documentaliste

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Archives & Heritage for Palestine live from Beit Beirut
July 12, 2025
http://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/6lMbxZT2RoijgiOa8nJzAg#/registration

Building Preservation through Library Community and Collaboration: a CLOCKSS and Australian National University Webinar
July 15, 2025
http://www.dpconline.org/news/clockss-and-anu-webinar-july-2025

Society of American Archivists – Dictionary Working Group Annual Meeting
July 17, 2025
http://connect.archivists.org/discussion/dictionary-working-group-annual-meeting-is-717-5

International Federation of Film Archives – Education & Outreach Autumn Lab
October 21-22, 2025, Berlin
https://www.fiafnet.org/pages/Training/2025-fiaf-education-outreach-autum-lab.html

Archiving in Belgium
December 1, 2025, Brussels
http://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=wx9BcbDKCUyavUl_hjGLAu-1VGjajQZGpAYjs681AzBUREcwNUJSVUs2TFBSRDcxVDUxWkpFVjhLVi4u

Sur le web / On the web

Vidéo de l’Association des archivistes du Québec – Entrevue avec Christine Machiels, Archiviste au Pôle culturel du Monastère des Ursulines
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA3H1yRgBCA

Video-Recordings of the International Federation of Film Archives Commission’s Workshops
http://www.fiafnet.org/pages/E-Resources/videos-fiaf-commissions-workshops-montreal-2025.html

NARA – New Records Scheduling and Appraisal Webpages
http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/memos/ac-28-2025

Video – Artificial Intelligence for Transcription and Metadata in Special Collections: Three Projects
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk0aPwV6vZ8

Video – Safeguarding Audiovisual Data
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKlxDCxTlJc

Vidéo – Lutter contre la violence des données issues de la datafication : pour une littératie des données queer
http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque-numerique/notices/73410-lutter-contre-la-violence-des-donnees-issues-de-la-datafication-pour-une-litteratie-des-donnees-queer

Archives in Context Podcast – Ben and Sara Brumfield about the Future of Artificial Intelligence in the Archives
http://archivesincontext.archivists.org/2025/06/27/season-9-episode-3-ben-and-sara-brumfield/

Open Preservation Foundation – JHOVE 1.34
https://openpreservation.org/news/jhove-1-34-out-now/

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

2025 Library and Archives Canada Scholar Awards highlight five remarkable Canadians
http://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/news/2025/06/2025-library-and-archives-canada-scholar-awards-highlight-five-remarkable-canadians.html

Library and Archives Canada – Pineapple-cheese salad from the 1950s
https://thediscoverblog.com/2025/07/03/pineapple-cheese-salad-from-the-1950s/

Canada’s Archives Are in Trouble and so Is its History
http://thewalrus.ca/canada-archives-in-trouble/

National Capital Commission pulls freedom-of-information records from website after language watchdog says they must be in French and English
https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/ncc-freedom-of-information-records-language-commissioner-french-english

Association of Canadian Archivists at 50 – In Conversation with Terry Eastwood
https://archivists.ca/Blog/13517137

What Alberta’s privacy legislative changes mean for municipalities
http://www.mltaikins.com/insights/what-albertas-privacy-legislative-changes-mean-for-municipalities/

Newfoundland – The building is for everyone: organizers reflect on what The Rooms means after 20 years
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nl-rooms-20-years-1.7574093

BAnQ – La Compagnie de la Baie d’Hudson : 350 ans de commerce
http://www.banq.qc.ca/explorer/articles/la-compagnie-de-la-baie-hudson-350-ans-commerce/

BAnQ – Regard sur les Innus à travers l’oeuvre d’Arthur Lamothe
http://www.banq.qc.ca/explorer/articles/regard-innus-oeuvre-arthur-lamothe/

BAnQ – Des cartes anciennes de la région se révèlent
http://www.lhebdomekinacdeschenaux.ca/culture/des-cartes-anciennes-de-la-region-se-revelent/

Relation à la clientèle et outils d’aide à la décision basés sur l’intelligence artificielle
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/revenu-qc_ivado/

There’s an app for that: inside the technological battle to save Indigenous languages
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/small-business/article-theres-an-app-for-that-inside-the-technological-battle-to-save/

University of British Columbia – Snapshots of British Columbia’s Ghost Towns: Part 1: the Corbin Miners’ Strike
https://digitize.library.ubc.ca/carousel/snapshots-of-british-columbias-ghost-towns-part-1-the-corbin-miners-strike/

Message de la présidente du Regroupement des archivistes religieux
http://regroupementarchivistesreligieux.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/message-de-la-presidente-du-rar/

Vancouver Art Gallery to make deep cuts to staff (library and archives will close indefinitely), programming as revenue hits 15-year low
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/article-vancouver-art-gallery-cuts-staff-programming/

Museum of Vancouver Exhibits Its Decolonization Efforts
https://thetyee.ca/Presents/2025/06/17/Museum-Vancouver-Exhibits-Decolonization-Efforts/

Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Building on Film
http://whistlermuseum.org/2025/07/01/building-on-film/

Greater Vernon Museum & Archives (British Columbia) – Community Involvement and the Creation of Kalamalka Lake Provincial Park
http://vernonmuseum.ca/community-involvement-and-the-creation-of-kalamalka-lake-provincial-park/

Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives (British Columbia) – The Howe Sound Cooperative Cannery
http://www.sunshinecoastmuseum.ca/blog/the-howe-sound-cooperative-cannery

South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – The Canadian Compatriot: a Story by Pierre Lozeron Presented at Villiers College
http://www.southpeacearchives.org/blog/the-canadian-compatriot-a-story-by-pierre-lozeron-presented-at-villiers-college/

Napanee (Ontario) to consider storing historical copies of newspapers at North Fred
http://www.thewhig.com/news/napanee-to-consider-storing-historical-copies-of-newspapers-at-north-fred

Stratford-Perth Archives (Ontario) – The First Dominion Day in Perth County
http://www.perthcounty.ca/en/living-here/archives-blog.aspx#Dominion

Prix Léonidas Bélanger : une première pour Histoire et Archives Laurentides
http://journalinfoslaurentides.com/culture/prix-leonidas-belanger-une-premiere-pour-histoire-et-archives-laurentides

Acadian genealogist Stephen White appointed to Order of Canada
http://genealogyalacarte.ca/?p=45762

Afrique / Africa

Nelson Mandela Foundation – Archives: a window into the past, a guide for the future
http://www.nelsonmandela.org/news/entry/archives-a-window-into-the-past-a-guide-for-the-future

Kenya – Government reaffirms commitment to information access as a constitutional right
http://www.kenyanews.go.ke/government-reaffirms-commitment-to-information-access-as-a-constitutional-right/

A New Video Game Allows you to Repatriate African Artifacts by Looting Western Museums
http://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/relooted-video-game-repatriation-african-artifacts-1234746041/

Amériques / Americas

Des visages d’esclaves recréés au Brésil grâce à l’intelligence artificielle et aux archives de 1860
http://lepetitjournal.com/sao-paulo/actualites/des-visages-desclaves-recrees-au-bresil-grace-lia-et-aux-archives-de-1860-417488

Patrick Freeman Appointed New National Archivist of Saint Lucia
http://thevoiceslu.com/2025/07/patrick-freeman-appointed-new-national-archivist-of-saint-lucia/

Nothing is written down: culture of secrecy overtakes Trump’s government
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/29/first-rule-trumps-washington-dont-write-anything-down/

The Paper Trail Matters: what Happens when Government Erases its Memory
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-paper-trail-matters

NARA – Digital Preservation Framework Updates, April-June 2025
http://fixity-check.blogs.archives.gov/2025/06/30/digital-preservation-framework-updates-april-june-2025/

Carla Hayden, former Librarian of Congress, speaks on her dismissal, the future of libraries at Philadelphia event
http://whyy.org/articles/carla-hayden-former-librarian-congress-speaks-dismissal-future-of-libraries-philadelphia/

Library of Congress – Chronicling the Creation, Distribution, and Consumption of Media: Inside the Mass Communications Web Archive
http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/07/chronicling-the-creation-distribution-and-consumption-of-media-inside-the-mass-communications-web-archive/

Innovator in Residence, Vivian Li, Visits the Library of Congress
http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/06/innovator-in-residence-vivian-li-visits-the-library/

Bill Moyers: a Lifetime Preserved at the Library of Congress
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/06/bill-moyers-a-lifetime-preserved-at-the-library-of-congress/

No One Is in Charge at the United States Copyright Office
http://www.wired.com/story/us-copyright-office-chaos-doge/

Il faut sauver le soldat PubMed
http://themeta.news/il-faut-sauver-le-soldat-pubmed/

Use public records to fight government secrecy, experts urge
http://freedom.press/issues/use-public-records-to-fight-government-secrecy-experts-urge/

Delaware State archives shows off unusual treasures in digital exhibit
http://www.delawarepublic.org/education/2025-06-26/state-archives-shows-off-unusual-treasures-in-digital-exhibit

National Security Archive – History of U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy, 1969-1977, Detailed in New Declassified Documents Collection
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2025-06-25/history-us-nuclear-nonproliferation-policy-1969-1977

Universities in every state care for congressional papers that document United States political history, federal cuts put their work at risk
http://theconversation.com/universities-in-every-state-care-for-congressional-papers-that-document-us-political-history-federal-cuts-put-their-work-at-risk-256053

Harvard University – Louis T. Wright Papers digitized and avalible
http://countway.harvard.edu/news/louis-t-wright-papers-digitized-avalible

Colorado State University Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections celebrates 50 years of preserving university history
http://source.colostate.edu/csu-libraries-archives-and-special-collections-celebrates-50-years-of-preserving-university-history/

Within the halls of University of Michigan’s Hatcher Library, a wealth of transgender history
http://michiganadvance.com/2025/06/27/within-the-halls-of-u-of-ms-hatcher-library-a-wealth-of-transgender-history/

Columbus State University archives set to expand with arrival of new archival materials
http://www.wrbl.com/news/csu-archives-set-to-expand-with-arrival-of-new-archival-materials/

University of Chicago professor on repatriation and global significance of the Chu Silk Manuscripts
http://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-06-27/University-of-Chicago-professor-on-return-of-Chu-Silk-Manuscripts-1ExJv5vPOqQ/p.html

Montana State University – Rethinking Wikipedia from a Library Perspective
http://acrlog.org/2025/06/23/rethinking-wikipedia-from-a-library-perspective/

Keepers of history: the Black archivists preserving Hoosier history
http://indianapolisrecorder.com/black-archivists-preserving-hoosier-history/

Hip-Hop Education Center – Lisa Cortés Archiving Fellowship Launches to Preserve the Legacy of Women in Hip-Hop
http://www.globalculturereview.com/article/827063894-lisa-cort-s-archiving-fellowship-launches-to-preserve-the-legacy-of-women-in-hip-hop

Google – We used Veo to animate archive photography from the Harley-Davidson Museum
http://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/arts-culture/moving-archives/

It’s proof of our existence: this lesbian archive is recording history as it’s erased
http://19thnews.org/2025/06/ohio-lesbian-archives-preserving-history-trump/

An Enduring Archive of Queer Writers’ Portraits
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/an-enduring-archive-of-queer-writers-portraits

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific

Australia’s classification system must balance secrecy and usability
http://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australias-classification-system-must-balance-secrecy-and-usability/

Public Record Office Victoria (Australia) – Footscray artist draws inspiration from archived train and tram tickets
http://thewestsider.com.au/footscray-artist-draws-inspiration-from-archived-train-and-tram-tickets/

State Library and Tasmanian Archives (Australia) – New film: Ferry crossing following the Tasman Bridge collapse
https://libraries.tas.gov.au/slat/blog/ferries-tasman-bridge-collapse/

The future of the past… in the present
http://updates.timsherratt.org/2025/07/02/the-future-of-the-past.html

Vietnam – Digital archives: a driving force for two-tier local administration system
http://en.vietnamplus.vn/digital-archives-a-driving-force-for-two-tier-local-administration-system-post321964.vnp

Vietnam – Le Premier ministre a demandé à l’Unesco de continuer à soutenir l’enregistrement et la préservation du patrimoine culturel du Vietnam
http://www.vietnam.vn/fr/thu-tuong-de-nghi-unesco-tiep-tuc-ung-ho-ghi-danh-ho-so-va-bao-ton-cac-di-san-van-hoa-cua-viet-nam

South Korea – National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art newly acquired archives strengthen architectural collection
http://www.koreaherald.com/article/10520929

Philippine – Department of Foreign Affairs Launches Digital Archive with 80 Years of Philippine Speeches at the United Nations General Assembly
http://dfa.gov.ph/dfa-news/dfa-releasesupdate/36815-dfa-launches-digital-archive-with-80-years-of-philippine-speeches-at-the-un-general-assembly

Thailand – How Ayutthaya’s new record repository became a model for South-East Asia’s heritage sites
http://www.unesco.org/en/articles/how-ayutthayas-new-record-repository-became-model-south-east-asias-heritage-sites

Hong Kong – Bruce Lee Club Closes Archive Doors Citing Operating Costs
http://www.ibtimes.com/bruce-lee-club-closes-archive-doors-citing-operating-costs-3777360

Unearthing the Past: How Europe’s Rare Archives Could Help Kazakhstan Reclaim Turkic History
https://dknews.kz/en/articles-in-english/364135-unearthing-the-past-how-europe-s-rare-archives-could

Sri Lanka and Netherlands in talks to return historic manuscripts and artefacts
http://www.onlanka.com/news/sri-lanka-and-netherlands-in-talks-to-return-historic-manuscripts-and-artefacts.html

Europe / Europa

Russia – Preserving history: the documents that can be found in the VDNKh archive
https://www.mos.ru/en/news/item/155990073/

Bosnia and Herzegovina – Srebrenica Memorial Center receives Hague Archival Documents
http://sarajevotimes.com/srebrenica-memorial-center-receives-hague-archival-documents/

Swedish National Archives – From handwriting to searchable text: using artificial intelligence to make millions of historical documents accessible
http://medium.com/@linnea.karlberg.lundin/from-handwriting-to-searchable-text-using-ai-to-make-millions-of-historical-documents-accessible-3431b9c2673c

Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/deepfakes-denmark-copyright-law-artificial-intelligence

Leibniz Institute of European History (Germany) – Forgeries and Networks (ForNet): data transformations
http://dhlab.hypotheses.org/7237

International Internet Preservation Consortium – Preserving Government Social Media in the Netherlands and Luxembourg (Part 2)
http://netpreserveblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/preserving-government-social-media-in-the-netherlands-and-luxembourg-part-2/

Preserving Albania’s cinematic heritage, from archive shelves to cinema halls
http://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/albania/preserving-albania%E2%80%99s-cinematic-heritage-archive-shelves-cinema-halls_en

Les archives de Jean d’Ormesson entrent à la Bibliothèque nationale de France
http://www.bnf.fr/fr/actualites/les-archives-de-jean-dormesson-entrent-la-bibliotheque-nationale-de-france

Pioneering project releases more lost Irish records spanning 700 years
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/30/pioneering-project-releases-more-lost-irish-records-spanning-700-years

UK – The government should act now to stop the police destruction of archived evidence
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/29/the-government-should-act-now-to-stop-the-police-destruction-of-archived-evidence

UK National Archives – How to search for security and intelligence records: where to start
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blogs/the-collection-blog/security-and-intelligence-records-where-to-start/

British Library – UK Web Archive Report on Digital Methodologies for the Study of Religion Symposium
http://blogs.bl.uk/webarchive/2025/06/uk-web-archive-report-on-digital-methodologies-for-the-study-of-religion-symposium-.html

Accessibility and Archives: Preserving History, Shaping the Future: the National Autistic Society in our Words Archive Project
http://www.archives.org.uk/diversity-allies-blog/accessibility-and-archives-preserving-history-shaping-the-future-the-national-autistic-society-in-our-words-archive-project

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

National Library of Israel – Saved From the Rubble: the Story of Israel’s PhotoHouse
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/rudi_weissenstein_photohouse/

National Library of Israel – The German Boy: who Was Karl M. Baer?
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/karlmbaer/

United Arab Emirates – National Archives to launch the region’s breakthrough digital project to archive government websites
http://www.wam.ae/en/article/hszg61ne-national-archives-launch-the-region039s

United Arab Emirates – Sharjah Archives creates records management system at Sharjah City for Humanitarian Services
http://www.wam.ae/en/article/15nbybm-sharjah-archives-creates-records-management-system

International

United Nations – Preserving the Past: Security Council Supplements Online
http://www.un.org/en/library/Preserving_Security_Council_Supplements

Building Digital Preservation Skills Using the Digital Preservation Coalition’s Novice to Know-How (N2KH) Courses
http://saaers.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/building-digital-preservation-skills-using-the-dpcs-novice-to-know-how-n2kh-courses/

Records management in a hyperscale digital world
http://thinkingrecords.co.uk/2025/06/27/records-management-in-a-hyperscale-digital-world/

Ramblings of a File Format researcher – SCP
http://preservation.tylerthorsted.com/2025/06/27/scp/

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