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Documentary Heritage News
July 3, 2026

Vol. 19, no. 44

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State

Library and Archives Canada – Access to Information and Privacy Action Plan Progress Report (June 2026)
http://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/corporate/updates/2026/atip-progress-report-june-2026.html

Arolsen Archives: International Center on Nazi Persecution – 2025 Annual Report
http://arolsen-archives.org/stories/en/annual-report-2025/

National Archives of Australia – Access Examination Framework
http://www.naa.gov.au/about-us/who-we-are/accountability-and-reporting/access-examination-framework

Jeu de données – Portail France Archives : autorités personnes, familles et institutions
http://www.data.gouv.fr/datasets/portail-francearchives-autorites-personnes-familles-et-institutions

De la communauté / From the community

Report of the Archives Canada Working Group on Canada’s National Finding Aid Network
http://archivescanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ArchivesCanadaWorkingGroup_Report_2026_EN.pdf

International Federation of Television Archives – Archives & Ethics: a Summary Report
https://fiatifta.org/archives-ethics-summary-report/

Research Data Alliance – Data Director Agentic AI Blueprint (for Community Review)
http://www.rd-alliance.org/news/the-data-director-agentic-ai-blueprint-is-now-open-for-community-review/

UNESCO – Governing Artificial Intelligence: Nine Emerging Approaches for Lawmakers Worldwide
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000398520

Software Heritage – State of Public Code 2026
https://www.softwareheritage.org/2026/07/01/public_code_2026_launch/

ArchivesSpace Metadata Standards Adoption and Maintenance Principles
http://connect.archivists.org/discussion/archivesspace-metadata-standards-adoption-and-maintenance-principles-2

Article – Can AI Provenance Inform Archival Provenance?
http://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-forum-on-ai-culture-and-society/article/can-ai-provenance-inform-archival-provenance/82BF355A2D0A05D964FBF9A961665CFB

Publications

African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science, vol. 35, no. 2 (2025)
http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajlais/issue/view/27873

Journal of Forensic Document Examination, vol. 33, no. 1 (2026)
http://jfde.org/index.php/jfde/issue/view/1542

Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy, vol. 12, no. 1 (2026)
http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/cupa/12/1

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, vol. 21, no. 5 (2026)
http://academic.oup.com/jiplp/issue/21/6

Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres Review, vol 54, no. 1 (2026)
http://caml.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/caml/issue/view/2334

Open Access Book – Restitution and the Moving Image: Global Film Heritage Between Return, Access, and Archival Reparation
http://routledge.com/product/isbn/9789048558087

Book – Radical Visions: New Perspectives on Special Collections Curatorship
http://mysaa.archivists.org/productdetails?id=a1BUV000002Su7l2AC

Book – Ba’thist Iraq through Archives: Reflections, Explorations, and Opportunities
http://www.sup.org/books/history/bathist-iraq-through-archives

Book – Palestine in Transition: Frank Scholten’s Visual Archive of the British Mandate Period
http://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048562299/palestine-in-transition

Book – Digital Humanities for Arabic and Islamic Studies: a Proposition for the Field
http://brill.com/display/title/74416

Book – Photographic Collections as Visual Method: Innovation and Creativity in Asia
http://routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032895635

Book – Un/seen: Women in Graphic Design up to the Bauhaus
https://www.slanted.de/product/un-seen-women-in-graphic-design-up-to-the-bauhaus/

Book – Francis Lieber and the Nineteenth-Century Copyright Debate: Literature as Transnational Property in the USA
http://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9783112239407/html

Book – Knowledge Management and Leadership in the AI Era: Harnessing Technology for Innovative Organizations
http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/q0512

Livre – Photographes en plein ciel : le service de vol de Swisstopo 1926-2026
http://www.biderundtanner.ch/detail/ISBN-9783039196678/Frey-Felix/Photographes-en-plein-ciel

Livre – Journalistes face à l’épuration (1945-1946) : enquête dans des archives inexplorées
http://www.syllepse.net/journalistes-face-a-l-epuration-1945-1946–_r_65_i_1175.html

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Archives Association of British Columbia – Enhancing Accessibility: AI and Describing Archival Materials
September 17, 2026
https://aaobc.wildapricot.org/event-6752205

De-colonising Maasai History at the Dopoi Center
July 8, 2026
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scolma-2026-ss-de-colonising-maasai-history-at-the-dopoi-center-tickets-1992415333898

Making the Past Present: Strategies for Reporting on History
July 14, 2026
https://annenberg.usc.edu/events/center-health-journalism/making-past-present-strategies-reporting-history

Digital Preservation Southampton – Sustainability and Digital Preservation
July 15, 2026
http://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/89b1f92c-afb7-494b-a009-738c9086bf30@4a5378f9-29f4-4d3e-be89-669d03ada9d8

UK National Archives – Understanding Impact: Using Data to Demonstrate Value
July 15, 2026
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understanding-impact-using-data-to-demonstrate-value-tickets-1991770535288

UK National Archives – Leaving a Mark: 125 Years of Fingerprinting at the Met
July 16, 2026
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/events/leaving-a-mark-125-years-of-fingerprinting-at-the-met/

Intro to Command Line Tools for Digital Preservation
July 16, 2026
http://pratt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0MhPMohBRouAaNRCrBeNTA#/registration

UK National Archives – Inclusive Archival Practice Network: Advocating for Inclusive Practice
July 20, 2026
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inclusive-archival-practice-network-advocating-for-inclusive-practice-tickets-1991778202220

Playable Heritage: Creating a Collaborative Framework for Collecting Video Game Culture
September 16, 2026, Edinburgh
http://my.nms.ac.uk/23690/23691

European Branch of the International Council on Archives – Archives across Borders: Pedagogies, Practices, and Partnerships
November 14, 2026, Bucharest
http://www.ica.org/event/deadline-call-for-papers-eurbica-2026-conference/

Digitise, Transform, Inspire 2026
November 18-20, 2026, Prague
http://digitise-transform-inspire.org/conference-in-prague-2026/

Libraries and Information Institutions in the Digital Age
May 19-21, 2027, Sibenik (Croatia)
http://lida.ffos.hr/data/2027/LIDA_2027_CFP2.pdf

Sur le web / On the web

Baladodiffusion – Les Archives de la Saskatchewan présente une nouvelle exposition en ligne
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere/emissions/tout-compris/segments/rattrapage/2415842/decouvrez-nouvelle-expo-archives-saskatchewan

Video – Challenges and Solutions: the Digital Transformation of the Film Archive at the University of Television and Film Munich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXQiUaqwdSA

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Video – Spellbound in the Archives: the Jigsaw Factory and Troppo Print Studio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umX5643IX8s

Video – Transcription OLLMpics: Testing Large Language Models for Transcription and Translation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsfST0yUCRU

Video – Dorothy Berry on Black Archives and Black Archivists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy1jV6kboj4

Video – Brian Cranston Uncovers a Shocking Family Secret in Canada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYzsjJIR9TE

Dataverse Software (Version 6.11)
http://dataverse.org/news/2026/07/dataverse-software-611-release

Slides – The Future of the Past: GLAM Innovation and the Responsibilities of History
http://slides.com/wragge/glam-labs-2026

Survey – Describing Children’s Marginalia in Archives, Rare Books, and Special Collections Catalogues
http://uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bCyt6brqPraZEou

Survey – Reappraisal and Deaccessioning
http://connect.archivists.org/discussion/reappraisal-and-deaccessioning-survey-invitation-4

Survey – Memorial Abundance? Exploring Archival Tensions in the Preservation of Memory, Commemoration and Bereavement in Digital Memorials
http://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=_oivH5ipW0yTySEKEdmlwiwqAMeqyaBEqmwo8e4gRFBUNjY0MEJDNkpHVVNCT0s5VkY3SEJHNUpYQS4u

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Association of Canadian Archivists – Emerging Voices: Conference Reflections with Emma Hutchinson
https://archivists.ca/Blog/13648384

Canadian library associations advances climate actions: collaboration, learning, and community
http://www.ifla.org/news/canadian-library-associations-advances-climate-actions-collaboration-learning-and-community/

Yukon remains only place in Canada where residents have no legal right to municipal records
https://yukon-news.com/2026/07/02/yukon-remains-only-place-in-canada-where-residents-have-no-legal-right-to-municipal-records/

La gestion de l’information comme espace politique: entre discours et pratiques
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2026/06/29/ministere-transport/

Western University Indigenous Student Fellowship recipients champion representation in library science, archival research
http://news.westernu.ca/2026/06/indigenous-student-fellows-champion-representation/

Carleton University – Life Preserver: how a Legacy Slide Collection Introduced me to the Lives of Artists & the Importance of Knowing them
http://carleton.ca/avrc/2026/life-preserver-how-a-legacy-slide-collection-introduced-me-to-the-lives-of-artists-the-importance-of-knowing-them/

University of Alberta – Mélanie Méthot, a professor of History at Augustana, transforms her students into archival detectives who use the past as a vehicle to develop their academic skills
http://www.ualberta.ca/en/the-quad/2026/06/teaching-and-learning-at-the-u-of-a-m%C3%A9lanie-m%C3%A9thot.html

Découvrir les archives religieuses en balado
http://regroupementarchivistesreligieux.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/decouvrir-les-archives-religieuses-en-balado/

2SLGBTQ+ Community Archives represents Hamilton’s diverse queer past
http://news.mcmaster.ca/2sgltbq-community-archives-represents-hamiltons-diverse-queer-past/

Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Fishing (with) Questions
http://whistlermuseum.org/2026/06/30/fishing-with-questions/

Greater Vernon Museum & Archives (British Columbia) – Early Pharmacies in Vernon
http://vernonmuseum.ca/early-pharmacies-in-vernon/

Pitt Meadows Museum and Archives (British Columbia) – History of the Pitt Meadows Farmers Institute
http://www.pittmeadowsmuseum.com/muse-news/history-of-the-pitt-meadows-farmers-institute

Société historique Pierre-de-Saurel – En voiture ! La Saint-Jean-Baptiste et les chars allégoriques
https://shps.qc.ca/en-voiture-la-saint-jean-baptiste-et-les-chars-allegoriques/

Afrique / Africa

Archives nationales: la Guinée veut s’inspirer du Rwanda pour sauver sa mémoire numérique
http://guineenews.org/2026/06/25/archives-nationales-la-guinee-veut-sinspirer-du-rwanda-pour-sauver-sa-memoire-numerique/

La Guinée célèbre ses archives nationales
http://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20260701-la-guin%C3%A9e-c%C3%A9l%C3%A8bre-ses-archives-nationales

Burkina Faso – Professeur Hamidou Diallo : Les archives sont des preuves pour appuyer des revendications
http://lefaso.net/spip.php?article147468

Maroc – Signature d’une convention-cadre entre la Direction des Archives Royales et l’Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DreSqOuv0Bc

Algérie – Préservation des manuscrits du fiqh malikite : un impératif scientifique et patrimonial
https://www.elmoudjahid.dz/fr/culture/preservation-des-manuscrits-du-fiqh-malikite-un-imperatif-scientifique-et-patrimonial-254722

Amériques / Americas

Building a Shared Caribbean Heritage: the Case for a Caribbean Community Archives
http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-shared-caribbean-heritage-case-community-emerson-jdbie/

Multiple Recoveries of NARA Holdings
http://naraoig.oversight.gov/reports/other/multiple-recoveries-nara-holdings

Planned closure of National Archives could force relocation of historic Bay Area records
https://localnewsmatters.org/2026/07/01/planned-closure-of-national-archives-could-force-relocation-of-historic-bay-area-records/

Trump’s presidential library isn’t for the people. It’s for him
http://observer.co.uk/style/features/article/trumps-presidential-library-isnt-for-the-people-its-for-him

Library of Congress – Vintage Records Meet Novel Technology: Using Artificial Intelligence to Find New Stories for America’s 250th Birthday
http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2026/06/using-artificial-intelligence-to-find-new-stories-for-americas-250th/

Library of Congress – Remembering the Past, Preserving the Present: the America 250 Semiquincentennial Web Archive
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2026/07/remembering-the-past-preserving-the-present/?loclr=eadpb

Ex-CIA head sues Trump administration to preserve records of inquiries into him
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/01/john-brennan-cia-sues-trump-administration

Trump Has Almost Completely Erased LGBTQ+ Data. Is Race Next?
https://www.notus.org/us-news/trump-lgbtq-race-data

Johns Hopkins University archives highlight nearly two centuries of LGBTQ+ history
http://hub.jhu.edu/2026/06/30/lgbtq-history-archives-johns-hopkins/

University of Washington – GovScape lets you easily search millions of government documents
http://www.washington.edu/news/2026/06/24/govscape-lets-you-easily-search-millions-of-government-documents/

How the University of Iowa helps preserve United States founding documents
http://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/nation/2026/06/25/u-of-iowa-center-for-the-book-helps-to-preserve-us-charter-documents/90682076007/

Breaking Away screenwriter’s papers come to Indiana University Archives
http://www.ipm.org/news/2026-06-25/breaking-away-screenwriters-papers-come-to-iu-archives

Rare Books on Sex Have Spiced Things up at a Library Franklin Founded
http://archive.ph/vGCaF#selection-515.0-515.69

Why we’re Building a Black Oral History Archive
http://capitalbnews.org/for-the-record-launch/

New digital tour honors the work of Japanese American artist incarcerated at Minidoka during WWII
http://idahocapitalsun.com/briefs/new-digital-tour-honors-the-work-of-japanese-american-artist-incarcerated-at-minidoka-during-wwii/

Irish Americans invited to share stories for new digital archive ahead of United States semiquincentennial
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/america-eire-irish-america-250

Coca-Cola’s Senior Archivist Chronicles the Beverage’s Pop Culture Influence
https://flickdirect.com/news/8724/coca-colas-senior-archivist-chronicles-the-beverages-pop-culture-influence/article.ashx

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific

After catastrophe in the Himalayas, UNESCO and Thame’s community rebuild resilience through living heritage
http://www.unesco.org/en/articles/after-catastrophe-himalayas-unesco-and-thames-community-rebuild-resilience-through-living-heritage

Azerbaijan – National Academy of Sciences expands partnership with Vatican Apostolic Library and Apostolic Archive
http://www.azernews.az/nation/260335.html

L’ouverture des archives des essais nucléaires en Polynésie française
https://www.ecpad.fr/non-classifiee/louverture-des-archives-des-essais-nucleaires-en-polynesie-francaise/

India gifts books to National Library in Seychelles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaGZgdShT5Q

India – Centuries-old palm-leaf manuscripts go missing from Kerala varsity archives
http://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2026/06/27/kerala-manuscripts-missing-archives-university-heritag.html

Europe / Europa

Historical Archives of the European Union – Archives tell the story of sustainability in new exhibition
https://www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=archives-tell-the-story-of-sustainability-in-new-exhibition

Moscow library archives 18,000 Russophobic books
http://www.dawn.com/news/2010893/moscow-library-archives-18000-russophobic-books

Ukraine has the world’s largest open archive of the KGB
https://odessa-journal.com/ukraine-has-the-worlds-largest-open-archive-of-the-kgb

Archival records name thousands of Moldova’s Soviet deportation victims
http://radiomoldova.md/p/79621/archival-records-name-thousands-of-moldova-s-soviet-deportation-victims

Poland – Two previously unknown sermons by Blessed Augustine identified in medieval manuscript
http://basilica.ro/en/augustine-two-new-sermons-medieval-manuscript/

Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania: its History and Collections
http://cerlblog.wordpress.com/2026/06/29/martynas-mazvydas-national-library-of-lithuania-its-history-and-collections/

Germany – Federal Court of Justice: acquisition in good faith of a family archive where the loss of possession by the rightful owner may have been involuntary
http://www.bundesgerichtshof.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/EN/2026/2026117.html

German legal row over Jehovah’s Witnesses’ archive to be reopened
http://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/german-legal-row-over-jehovah-114645024.html

German political scientist discovers mother’s NSDAP listing as archives go online
http://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/b1118379_german_political_scientist/

Spanish film archive sets out to reconstruct Orson Welles’s lifelong Quixote
http://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/06/29/spanish-film-archive-sets-out-to-reconstruct-orson-welless-lifelong-quixote

Ionian University (Greece) – Renaming of the Department of Archives, Library Science, and Museology to the Department of Information Science
http://ionio.gr/en/news/34933/

Italie – Morbelli à travers ses documents : les archives de Tortona relancent les recherches sur le peintre divisionniste
http://www.finestresullarte.info/fr/focus-sur-l-actualite/morbelli-a-travers-ses-documents-les-archives-de-tortona-relancent-les-recherches-sur-le-peintre-divisionniste

Luxembourg – Moving 50km of documents: the National Archives open in Belval
http://www.luxtimes.lu/culture/moving-50km-of-documents-the-national-archives-open-in-belval/157809626.html

It was like a hallucination: French curator tells how he found Mozart manuscript by chance
http://www.connexionfrance.com/news/it-was-like-a-hallucination-french-curator-tells-how-he-found-mozart-manuscript-by-chance/798666

« Quoi qu’il arrive, le fonds ne sera pas dispersé » : tous les manuscrits d’Albert Camus entrent à la Bibliothèque nationale de France
https://www.lefigaro.fr/livres/quoi-qu-il-arrive-le-fonds-ne-sera-pas-disperse-tous-les-manuscrits-d-albert-camus-entrent-a-la-bnf-20260702

How the Archives of the Polish Government in Exile Ended up in an Irish Monastery
https://historyireland.com/how-the-archives-of-the-polish-government-in-exile-ended-up-in-an-irish-monastery/

Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland – Almost 200,000 Irish historical records released online
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0630/1581016-historical-records-release/

UK National Archives – Unlocking the UK Government Web Archive for Research Users
http://www.dpconline.org/blog/blog-unlocking-uk-government-web-archive-for-research-users-natasha-kitcher

British Library – How many pages make a poet? The notebooks of Michael Hamburger
http://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/how-many-pages-make-a-poet-the-notebooks-of-michael-hamburger

Saxophones, song charts and a rejected Simpsons script: David Bowie archive to tour the UK
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/01/saxophones-song-charts-rejected-simpsons-script-david-bowie-archive-tour-uk

Cambridge University – Inside Darwin’s bookshelves: a project to catalogue his personal library
http://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=32108

University of Nottingham archive tells the story of Clumber House’s lost grandeur in new National Trust exhibition
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/archive-tells-the-story-of-clumber-house-in-new-national-trust-exhibition

University of Exeter – New research project to uncover the historical legacy of UK film societies
http://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-humanities-arts-and-social-sciences/communications-drama-and-film/new-research-project-to-uncover-the-historical-legacy-of-uk-film-societies/

University of Aberdeen – Student teams imagine the past using historic archives to create games
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/25844/

University of Leicester secures funding to preserve the Midlands’ at-risk sound archives
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/july/sound-of-midlands-lottery-funding

Football Ground Stories: the Historic England Archive’s Football Grounds of England Collection
http://www.exploreyourarchive.org/football-ground-stories/

Vale Carl Wilson, Digital Preservation’s Indie Rockstar
http://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/vale-carl-wilson-digital-preservations-indie-rockstar/

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

National Library of Israel – Mel Brooks, the 2,000-year-old Man, Turns 100
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/mel_brooks_100/

The Israel State Archives in the Prime Minister’s Office reveals Operation Entebbe protocols for the first time marking the operation’s 50th anniversary
http://www.gov.il/en/pages/spoke-entebbe260626

Hebrew University of Jerusalem – 1,000 days since October 7: Bringing survivors’ voices to the world through AI-powered living archive
http://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1133971

How Palestinians Are Building a Digital Archive that Can’t Be Erased
https://www.wired.me/story/how-palestinians-are-building-a-digital-archive-that-cant-be-erased

Rewinding Syria’s lost sounds: the remarkable story of the Syrian Cassette Archives
http://www.newarab.com/features/syrian-cassette-archives-preserve-lost-era-music-and-memory

Iran – Experts discuss strategies to protect cultural heritage and historic cities during wartime
http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/527779/Experts-discuss-strategies-to-protect-cultural-heritage-and-historic

International

Artificial Intelligence for Libraries, Archives & Museums and Graphia Announce the Launch of a Strategic Collaboration
http://ai4lam.org/ai4lam-and-graphia-announce-the-launch-of-a-strategic-collaboration/

Association for Intelligent Information Management – Transforming Information Management with AI Copilot Agents
https://info.aiim.org/aiim-blog/transforming-information-management-with-ai-copilot-agents

Breaking the language barrier: three multilingual Transkribus research projects
http://www.transkribus.org/blog/multilingual-ai-text-recognition-model-transkribus

Les archives humanitaires sont, elles aussi, en danger
https://www.alternatives-humanitaires.org/fr/2026/07/01/les-archives-humanitaires-sont-elles-aussi-en-danger/

Intelligence artificielle et patrimoine : l’industrialisation de la valorisation est lancée
http://www.archimag.com/archives-patrimoine/2026/06/25/ia-patrimoine-valorisation-diffusion-archives

Going to the Archives for the first time. Which Alcohol should I bring? (Vintage Story, video game)
http://www.reddit.com/r/VintageStory/comments/1ugshws/going_to_the_archives_for_the_first_time_which/

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