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Documentary Heritage News
May 8, 2026

Vol. 19, no. 36

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State

UK National Archives – M365 KIM Maturity Self-Assessment Tool
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/manage-information/ima/m365-kim-maturity-self-assessment-tool/

UK National Archives – Digital Record Keeping in the Voluntary Sector
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/advice-and-guidance/resources-by-archive-type/charity-archives-development-plan/outputs/digital-record-keeping-in-the-voluntary-sector/

Library of Congress – Collection Emergency Management for Preservation
http://guides.loc.gov/collection_emergency_management/

University of California – Federal Data Field Guide
http://www.federaldatafieldguide.us/

De la communauté / From the community

Canadian Association of Research Libraries – Artificial Intelligence in Discovery Layers
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CARL-AI-Digest-7a-Bulletin-IA-7a.pdf

CAN/DGSI 100-7 Data Governance – Part 7: Operating Model for Responsible Data Stewardship
https://dgc-cgn.org/revised-national-standard-strengthens-guidance-for-responsible-data-stewardship-in-canada/

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

Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland – Resilience Indicators (Updated)
http://www.archives.org.uk/resilience-indicators

Access Rules for UNESCO Archives (Updated)
https://www.unesco.org/en/archives/contact/accessrules

National Digital Stewardship Alliance – 2025 Fixity Survey Report
http://www.ndsa.org/2026/04/30/2025-ndsa-fixity-survey-report-published.html

Academic Preservation Trust – Digital Archivist’s Resource Tool 3
http://aptrust.org/2026/05/06/dart-3-is-here/

Speaking Notes – Artificial Intelligence and Privacy Regulation: Global Trends, Developments, and Impacts on Innovation
http://www.eloisegratton.com/blog/2026/05/05/my-speaking-notes-for-the-iapp-2026-panel-on-ai-and-privacy-regulation-global-trends-developments-and-impacts-on-innovation/

Publications

Archival Science, vol. 26, no. 2 (2026)
http://link.springer.com/journal/10502/volumes-and-issues/26-2

Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material, vol. 47, no. 1 (2026)
http://www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/rest/47/1/html

Digital Library Perspectives, vol. 42, no. 2 (2026)
http://www.emerald.com/dlp/issue/42/2

Information and Culture, vol. 61, no. 1 (2026)
http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/56853

Public Record Office Victoria (Australia) – Provenance, no. 23 (2026)
http://prov.vic.gov.au/explore-collection/provenance-journal/provenance-2026

University of Toronto, School of Information – iJournal, vol. 11, no. 2 (2026)
http://theijournal.ca/index.php/ijournal/issue/view/3029

Archives Society of Alberta Newsletter, vol. 45, no. 2 (2026)
http://archivesalberta.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Spring-Summer-2026-newsletter-FINAL-1.pdf

City of Richmond Archives – Archives News, vol. 31, no. 1 (2026)
http://www.richmond.ca/__shared/assets/spring2026archivesnews78877.pdf

Honor Thesis (University of Southern Mississippi) – Digital Preservation Policies in University Libraries: a Content Analysis
http://aquila.usm.edu/honors_theses/1095/

Open Access Book – Introduction to Grant Writing for Libraries and Archives : a Handbook of the Digital Library of the Caribbean
https://dloc.com/AA00115422/00001/citation

Book – Archival Pedagogies
http://litwinbooks.com/books/archival-pedagogies/

Book – Five Nights at Freddy’s Secret Artifacts: Confidential Evidence from the Archives of Fazbear Entertainment, Inc.
http://www.downboundbooks.com/item/sHLPL3DeHtXckhZDfKUHXg

Book – Heritage and Human Rights: Laws, Institutions, Actions
http://link.springer.com/book/9783032167538

Book – Building and Unbuilding the City Museum: from Le Corbusier to Ahmedabad
http://routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032973586

Book – Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Acquisition and Management: 11th IFIP WG 12.6 International Workshop, AI4KAM 2025, Held at IJCAI 2025
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-18920-2

Book – Knowledge Management in the AI Era: Evolution, Challenges, and Strategic Adaptation
http://www.emerald.com/books/monograph/21059/Knowledge-Management-in-the-AI-EraEvolution

Book – Public Intimacy: the Dissolution of the Private in Liquid Society
http://routledge.com/product/isbn/9781041238607

Book – Data Privacy and Data Governance: Concepts and Techniques
http://link.springer.com/book/9789819557868

Book – Personal Data Architectures in the BRICS Countries
http://global.oup.com/academic/product/personal-data-architectures-in-the-brics-countries-9780198974482

Livre – Afrique, musées et restitutions : le temps du retour
http://www.vie-publique.fr/catalogue/302211-afrique-musees-restitutions

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Doors Open at the Archives of Ontario 2026
May 23, 2026, Toronto
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/doors-open-at-the-archives-of-ontario-2026/

Access 2026
October 14-16, 2026, Hamilton
https://accessconference.ca/call-for-proposals/

Guerrilla Public History: Applying a Radical Methodology of Reclaiming History(ies), Stripped Away through Violence
May 13, 2026
http://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/qsg8Dd47SEKYdYkJ8BN8YA#

Adapting to Change: How Libraries, Museums, and Archives are Approaching the Climate Crisis and Artificial Intelligence
May 15, 2026
http://calma.ischool.uw.edu/uw-event/adapting-to-change-how-libraries-museums-and-archives-are-approaching-the-climate-crisis-and-artificial-intelligence/

Research Data Alliance – Creating Datasheets for Cultural Heritage Datasets
May 18, 2026
http://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.124

Nommer, décrire, rendre visible : indexation, métadonnées et politiques documentaires LGBTQIA+
18 mai 2026, Paris
http://www.bnf.fr/fr/agenda/nommer-decrire-rendre-visible-indexation-metadonnees-et-politiques-documentaires-lgbtqia

National Summit on Local News Preservation
June 17, 2026, National Harbor (Maryland)
http://archive-it.org/programs/the-national-summit-on-local-news-preservation/

BitCurator Consortium: Forum 2026
June 17, 2026
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bitcurator-consortium-forum-2026-tickets-1986204793003

Photography, Archive, and Political Imagination
September 23–25, 2026
http://arthist.net/archive/52401

International Digital Curation Conference
February 9-12, 2027, Lisbon
http://www.dpconline.org/news/call-for-submissions-open-international-digital-curation-conference

Government Records and Artificial Intelligence (Recordings Available)
April 20-21, 2026
http://lustre-network.net/event/lustre-glow-workshop-6-government-records-and-ai/

Sur le web / On the web

International Council on Archives Video – Promoting European Joint Nominations to the UNESCO Memory of the World International Register
http://www.ica.org/eurbica-icdh-workshop-on-joint-nominations-to-the-unesco-memory-of-the-world-register-now-available-online/

Open Preservation Foundation Video – Introduction to the ODF Validator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yjq0tUAV28

Video – Directory Pipeline: a Tool for Turning Historical Digital Collections into Structured Data
http://www.cni.org/topics/special-collections/directory-pipeline-a-tool-for-turning-historical-digital-collections-into-structured-data

Video – Archives in Dialogue: the Gendered Lives of Photographic Archives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLYhFAzZVVw

Présentation – Archives et données ouvertes liées : exemple de la Fondation SAPA (Suisse)
http://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zipKuHXap-vhXPxSSZL_KwLI5gip72-BDciOGlNvbKI/edit?slide=id.g3793d379e22_0_7#slide=id.g3793d379e22_0_7

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Leslie Weir in the Hot Seat
http://www.anglocelticconnections.ca/2026/05/02/leslie-weir-in-the-hot-seat/

Archives see surge in Americans requesting family records to access Canadian citizenship
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/archives-seeing-requests-surge-birth-records-9.7180282

Mapping Ontario Black Archives – Ottawa’s Lukasa Library and its African Diasporic Collections
http://mobaprojects.ca/lukasa-library/

A new chapter for University of Saskatchewan’s cultural heritage: Libraries, museums, galleries, and the Diefenbaker Canada Centre come together
http://news.usask.ca/articles/general/2026/a-new-chapter-for-usasks-cultural-heritage-libraries-museums-galleries-and-the-diefenbaker-canada-centre-come-together.php

Du parchemin à l’imprimé: de nouveaux trésors à l’Université de Montréal
http://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2026/05/06/du-parchemin-a-l-imprime-de-nouveaux-tresors-a-l-udem

University of Toronto – Preserving a true record of the internet
http://ischool.utoronto.ca/news/preserving-a-true-record-of-the-internet/

University of Toronto Archives & Records Management Services Digitization Request Process 2026-2027
http://utarms.library.utoronto.ca/news/digitization-request-process

Into gaming? This Montreal research group wants to hear from you
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7189806

Greater Vernon Museum & Archives (British Columbia) – Windmill Johnson’s: a Commonage Place Name
http://vernonmuseum.ca/windmill-johnsons-a-commonage-place-name/

Lake Country Museum and Archives (British Columbia) – Loyalty Under Fire: the Military Service of Jack Niihara: Part 1
http://lakecountrymuseum.com/20337-2/

Pitt Meadows Museum and Archives (British Columbia) – 75 years of the Pitt Meadows Lions Club
https://www.pittmeadowsmuseum.com/muse-news/75-years-of-the-pitt-meadows-lions-club

Hastings County Historical Society (Ontario) – 100 years ago: Wellington Jeffers Diamond’s home at 239 Charles Street
http://hastingshistory.ca/100-years-ago-wellington-jeffers-diamonds-home-at-239-charles-street/

What do you do with the family archives?
http://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-102-radio-noon-quebec/clip/16211914-what-family-archives

Afrique / Africa

Nigeria honours pioneer arctic world archive depositors, signals broader push for cultural preservation
http://businessday.ng/bd-weekender/article/nigeria-honours-pioneer-arctic-world-archive-depositors-signals-broader-push-for-cultural-preservation/

La Tunisie numérise des millions d’archives historiques
http://afriqueitnews.com/tech-media/tunisie-numerise-millions-archives-historiques/

French Historian Criticizes the Programmed Closure of Colonial Archives Pertaining to Algeria
http://www.echoroukonline.com/french-historian-criticizes-the-programmed-closure-of-colonial-archives-pertaining-to-algeria

L’ouverture des archives françaises aux chercheurs algériens ne doit être ni retardée, ni sélective
http://www.aps.dz/fr/algerie/actualite-nationale/mokl3wet-l-ouverture-des-archives-francaises-aux-chercheurs-algeriens-ne-doit-etre-ni-retardee-ni-selective

Unlocking the past: how archives empower families in South Africa
http://iol.co.za/weekend-argus/2026-04-30-unlocking-the-past-how-archives-empower-families-in-south-africa/

Amériques / Americas

There’s a real and immediate threat Trump will destroy or sell documents from his presidency after returning the country to pre-Watergate status: lawsuit
http://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/theres-a-real-and-immediate-threat-trump-will-destroy-or-sell-documents-from-his-presidency-after-returning-the-country-to-pre-watergate-status-lawsuit/

Trump is determined to erase LGBTQ+ history. But the National Archives still tell our stories.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/is-determined-to-erase-lgbtq-history-but-the-national-archives-still-tell-our-stories/

Library of Congress – Preserving the 175,000 Farm Security Administration photographs, one at a time
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/05/preserving-the-175000-fsa-photographs-one-at-a-time/

Library of Congress – Paul Otlet: Classifying Information, Counting Books, and the Internet
http://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2026/05/paul-otlet/

Library of Congress – 1776: Jews and the American Revolution
http://blogs.loc.gov/international-collections/2026/05/1776-jews-and-the-american-revolution/

Everyone Remembers Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride. But His Forgotten Race to Secure a Trove of Documents Reveals how Government Records Helped Win the War
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/everyone-remembers-paul-reveres-midnight-ride-but-his-forgotten-race-to-secure-a-trove-of-documents-reveals-how-government-records-helped-win-the-war-180988648/

‘Things were going dark left and right’: the race to save US government datasets before they’re deleted
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/07/save-government-datasets-deleted

Delaware Public Archives – 2026 Q2 Accessions
http://archives.delaware.gov/2026/05/01/2026-q2-accessions/

CLOCKSS – Making Digital Preservation Accessible to All
https://clockss.org/making-digital-preservation-accessible-to-all/

Cornell University – Exhibit Highlight: Mental Hygiene and Immigration: te Thomas W. Salmon MD Papers
https://archelements.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/exhibit-highlight-mental-hygiene-and-immigration-the-thomas-w-salmon-md-papers/

University of California at Los Angeles – Vast collection of landmark legal history
http://www.library.ucla.edu/about/news/vast-collection-of-landmark-legal-history

Historic Partners: University of South Carolina Libraries and the Center for Civil Rights History and Research work together to make history accessible
https://www.sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/exhibits_events_news/news/2026/historic_partners.php

Nine miles of archives: New York City Jewish history documents come to life in City University of New York trove
http://www.timesofisrael.com/9-miles-of-archives-nyc-jewish-history-documents-come-to-life-in-cuny-trove/

Northwestern University – Digital Archive Reveals how Research Agencies Fund Scientific Projects
http://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2026/05/04/digital-archive-reveals-how-research-agencies-fund-scientific-projects/

Bowdoin College – A New Archive Tells the Human Stories Behind Maine’s Land Claims Settlement
http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/2026/04/the-stories-of-the-people-and-land-that-the-settlement-act-left-out.html

In the 60s and 70s, Black students demanded a voice on radio. A new project ensures that history isn’t lost
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/may/06/hbcu-radio-preservation-project

Diet Pepsi, Snickers, and Ntozake Shange’s Altar: Barnard College Archivists on a Feminist Archival Practice
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/the-eye/2026/04/29/diet-pepsi-snickers-and-ntozake-shanges-altar-barnard-archivists-on-a-feminist-archival-practice/

Coca-Cola historian and archivist explains bottling evolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpBZwLFl-mw

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific

Queensland States Archives (Australia) – Anatomy of a digital record
http://grkblog.archives.qld.gov.au/2026/05/06/anatomy-of-a-digital-record/

Frenchman donates archives documenting Japan’s invasion of China
http://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-05-04/Frenchman-donates-archives-documenting-Japan-s-invasion-of-China-1MSo4YBH128/p.html

What is Indian Government doing to preserve old manuscripts?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2nnX8HVGNc

Europe / Europa

From Schuman’s post‑war declaration to the EU today, the Historical Archives of the European Union unpack how Europe came together
http://theconversation.com/from-schumans-post-war-declaration-to-the-eu-today-the-historical-archives-unpack-how-europe-came-together-281599

Mykolaiv launches digital archive of Southern Ukraine’s industrial heritage
http://odessa-journal.com/mykolaiv-launches-digital-archive-of-southern-ukraines-industrial-heritage

Holocaust Studies in Ukraine: a Scholar’s Path through Fragmentation
http://blog.ehri-project.eu/2026/04/30/scholars-path-through-fragmentation/

National Archives of Iceland – The Reykholt inventory listed on the national Memory of the World register
https://island.is/en/o/national-archives/news/reykholtsmaldagi-a-landsskra-um-minni-heimsins

Armenia – French President Macron Visits World-Famous Manuscript Museum in Yerevan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVwBv8NQPKg

Artificial Intelligence Made for German: Unlocking German-language archives with Transkribus
http://www.transkribus.org/blog/ai-made-for-german-unlocking-german-language-archives-with-transkribus

Swiss intelligence service opens access to Mengele file
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/the-swiss-intelligence-service-opens-access-to-the-mengele-file/91359522

A Maltese space research company wants to put a digital archive on the Moon
http://timesofmalta.com/article/maltese-space-research-company-wants-put-digital-archive-moon.1127887

National Library of Ireland – Hugh Lane, the Municipal Gallery & Provenance
http://www.nli.ie/news-stories/stories/hugh-lane-municipal-gallery-provenance

British Library – The General Strike at 100: spreading the news in May 1926
http://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/the-general-strike-at-100-spreading-the-news-in-may-1926

British Library – The wonder of books
http://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/the-wonder-of-books

British Library – VE Day in the news
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/ve-day-in-the-news

British Library – The Otto Haas Archive: Haas during and after World War II
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/the-otto-haas-archive-haas-during-and-after-world-war-ii

British Library – Fashioning the feminine: Wilde’s editorial vision and the New Woman
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/fashioning-the-feminine-wildes-editorial-vision-and-the-new-woman

Guillermo del Toro pledges a third of his personal archive to the British Film Institute
https://www.screendaily.com/news/guillermo-del-toro-pledges-a-third-of-his-personal-archive-to-the-bfi/5216362.article

‘Rare’ WW1 ledger found miles away returns home
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c936kpe77e5o

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

National Library of Israel – From the Tiberias Massacre to October 7: The Origins of Israel’s Civilian Defense Units
http://blog.nli.org.il/en/civilian-defense/

National Library of Israel – A Photo Album From a Lost World: the Uzan Family of Tunisia
http://blog.nli.org.il/en/tunisia_uzan_aiu/

National Library of Israel – They Called him “Mr. Warmth”: Remembering Don Rickles
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/don_rickles/

National Library of Israel – Grandfather Mehdi’s Camera: a Rare Glimpse into Jewish Life in Iran
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/jewish_life_in_iran/

International

Association for Intelligent Information Management – Why Cultural Context Matters in Information Management
https://info.aiim.org/aiim-blog/why-cultural-context-matters-in-information-management

Entre Marseille et Tunis : quand la création interroge les archives du passé colonial
http://www.lequotidien.com.tn/fr/culture/10360-entre-marseille-et-tunis-quand-la-creation-interroge-les-archives-du-passe-colonial

The Artificial Intelligence Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the Internet
http://www.404media.co/the-ai-hard-drive-shortage-is-making-it-more-expensive-and-harder-to-archive-the-internet/

You Can Have your Ashes Turned Into a Playable Vinyl Record, when your Day Comes
http://www.openculture.com/2026/05/you-can-have-your-ashes-turned-into-a-playable-vinyl-record-when-your-day-comes.html

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