Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan – Annual Report 2018-2019
Revenue Services British Columbia Operational Records Classification System (for Comments)
Records of the British Columbia Commission of Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls Special Schedule (for Comments)
Ontario Public Library Statistics (with 2018 Update)
European Union – Illicit Trade in Cultural Goods in Europe
Library of Congress – Recommended Formats Statement 2019-2020
De la communauté / From the community
Research Data Management in Canada: a Backgrounder
Association of Research Libraries – Annual Salary Survey 2018-2019
IFLA – Educational Technologies and Student Data: Briefing for Libraries
Active Archive Alliance – State of the Industry 2019 Report
Article – Reflections on the Development of the Movement and International Humanitarian Law through the Lens of the International Committee of the Red Cros Library’s Heritage Collection
Article – Copyright’s Role in Preserving and Ensuring Access to Culture: the Way Forward
Paper – Mapping Canada’s Indigenous Digital Collections
Publications
Journal of Digital Media Management, vol. 7, no. 4 (2019)
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 70, no. 8 (2019)
Bulletin of the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives, no. 162 (2019)
Historic Libraries Forum Bulletin, no. 45 (2019)
ISO 21110:2019 – Information and Documentation: Emergency Preparedness and Response
PhD Thesis (University of Glasgow) – A Framework for Technology-Assisted Sensitivity Review: Using Sensitivity Classification to Prioritise Documents for Review
Free eBook – Demystifying Archival Projects: Five Essentials for Success
Book – A Matter of Facts: the Value of Evidence in an Information Age
Book – Plans and Images: an Archive of Projects on Typology in Architecture 2013-2018
Book – Digital Storytelling in Indigenous Education: a Decolonizing Journey for a Métis Community
Book – The Museum as a Cinematic Space: the Display of Moving Images in Exhibitions
Book – Photo Hacks: Simple Solutions for Better Photos
Book – Trafficking Culture: New Directions in Researching the Global Market in Illicit Antiquities
Book – All Roads Lead to Rome. the Creation, Context & Transmission of the Codex Amiatinus
Book – The Trust Revolution: how the Digitization of Trust will Revolutionize Business and Government
Book – German Post-Socialist Memory Culture: Epistemic Nostalgia
Book – After the Carolingians: Re-defining Manuscript Illumination in the 10th and 11th Centuries
Livre – La numérisation info-documentaire
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Provincial Archives of Alberta – Harvesting and Preserving your Garden’s Bounty
August 28, 2019, Edmonton
Energy Sustainability for Heritage Institutions
November 18-21, 2019, Ottawa
Online Course – Social Relevance: Environmental Sustainability in Museums
August 5-31, 2019
Webinar – From Physical to Digital: Make your Paperless Office Dream a Reality
August 7, 2019
Webinar – Introduction to Interpol Global Guidelines for Digital Forensics Laboratories
August 28, 2019
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Conference
September 23-26, 2019, Seoul (South Korea)
Canadian Association for Information Science Annual Conference (Proceedings Available)
June 3-5, 2019, Vancouver
Humanities, Arts and Culture Data Summit (Videos Available)
March 27-29, 2019, Canberra (Australia)
Sur le web / On the web
Vidéo de BAnQ – Intelligence artificielle et culture : l’avenir de la mémoire
Canadian Association of Law Libraries Conference Podcast Series
LawBytes Podcast – Navigating Intermediary Liability for the Internet: a Conversation with Daphne Keller
International Council on Archives – Twelve finalists for the Section of Professional Associations Film Festival Awards 2019
ePADD (a Software Package that Supports Archival processes around the Appraisal, Ingest, Processing, Discovery, and Delivery of eMail Archives) Version 7.1
Australian Research Council Discovery Project – Forging Antiquity: Authenticity, Forgery and Fake Papyri
Video – The Path Toward Conserving Net Art
Sacred Texts: Codices Far, Far Away Podcast – Coptic Church Bifolium
Slides – GLAM Collections as Data
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
What’s in your file? Federal political parties don’t have to tell you
That’s Why it’s Important to Confirm you Own Copyright in your Logo
Exploring Facebook’s Ad Transparency Tools in Canada (Part 1)
Hacker obtained personal information of six million people in Canada
Library and Archives Canada – The 50th anniversary of Canada’s Official Languages Act
Library and Archives Canada – Chief Poundmaker: Revisiting the legacy of a peacemaker
Parks Canada’s move to transfer jobs to Quebec criticized
Ruling allows Yukon government to disregard repetitious access to information requests
BAnQ – Les registres de l’État civil : le cas de la grippe espagnole de 1918
BAnQ – Journée internationale des peuples autochtones : un panorama d’initiatives pour diffuser et célébrer les cultures autochtones
Québec – Et si vos archives municipales donnaient accès à des renseignements de nature confidentielle fournis par vos contractants?
Une bibliothèque nationale de l’Acadie ?
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network Investigating National Solution for Minting DOIs with Datacite
University of British Columbia – Explore Open Collections: British Columbia Historical Documents
Art collector donates 2,500 B.C. photos to University of British Columbia archives
Nipissing University – Finding Commonality in the Archives
McGill University Archives’ Spatial Artifacts
Memorial University – Ancient mystery: earth scientist tracing origins of Maritime Archaic copper artifacts
Congratulations to Karen Munro (Simon Fraser University) on her appointment as President of the Association of College & Research Libraries
Using Historical Photographs to Map Landscape Change
Ontario Jewish Archives – Practicum Experience: Ndali Maureen Ugboma
Archives de Montréal – Perspectives allochtones sur les réalités autochtones : estampes, peintures, cartes et plans
Archives de la ville de Québec – La cale du port : Québec 84
App encourages Edmontonians to learn their local history
A passing of the torch for Victoria’s rock music history archives
Pahkisimon Nuye?áh Library System (Saskatchewan) – Archivist protecting northern history for all to see
Queer histories exhibition planned at Galt Museum and Archives (Alberta)
Sault Ste. Marie (Ontario) – Library calls for artists to design work for new archives
Cooperation Makes it Happen
Secret compartment in antique box creates 121-year-old mystery
74 years after WW II Italian campaign, Quebecer’s lost backpack to come home
An interview with Laura A. Millar: truth matters. Facts matter. Evidence matters more
Meet Jennifer Abel, Student Librarian at University of British Columbia Library and Jeopardy Contestant
Archivists in the Movies: Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones
Afrique / Africa
The Gambia’s truth commission continues to confront abuses under past president’s regime
The Gambia: Progress on Access to Information
Security and Freedom of Association in Uganda and Nigeria
Gabon – Un module de formation sur le patrimoine documentaire pour des spécialistes plus aguerris
Maroc – Droit d’accès à l’information: pourquoi la loi est un marqueur historique
South Africa – Decolonising Copyright, Building our Creative & Information Economy
Amériques / Americas
Guatemala Declares War on History
The Bolsonaro Government’s Aggressive Response Shows Why our Reporting on the Secret Brazil Archive Is So Vital
Tobago Archives re-opens
NARA – New Records Released: 2019 Second Quarter Release List
NARA – Refine Your Search by Record Group or Collection
NARA – Apollo 11: The Foreign Reaction
NARA – Celebrating Apollo 11 Around the World
NARA – Summer Road Trip: Los Angeles
NARA – Summer Road Trip 2019: San Francisco and Yosemite National Park
NARA – Summer Road Trip: Olympic Peninsula
National Archives releases Reagan’s racist call with then-President Nixon, ex-Nixon library director says
All the Presidents’ Librarians
Dwight D. Eisenhower Museum Opens After Extensive Renovations
Library of Congress – Now Online! The Gandhara Scroll, a Rare 2,000-Year-Old Text of Early Buddhism
Library of Congress – Artists, Scholars Take Copyright Office on a Creative Adventure
National Library of Medicine – Accelerating Innovation in Science
Foundations donate historic Jet/Ebony archive to African American Museum
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch Weighs in on Legendary Photo Archive of African-American Life
The National Hellenic Museum Launches Free Online Collections & Archives Portal
Society of American Archivists – Student Impressions of Tech Skills for the Field
University of California at Los Angeles – Search: Missing Sherlock Holmes films sought
Become a language warrior: efforts to revive Lakota Language flourish in Dakotas
Museum wants to reunite these gay men with their wedding photographs that were confiscated in 1957
Explore history of urban Native Americans through collaborative project “A Living Archive of Urban Indians”
Behold Color Photographs Taken During the Aftermath of San Francisco’s Devastating 1906 Earthquake
Almost Every Bob Ross Painting in Existence Lives in a Virginia Office Park
Lost book of exquisite scientific drawings rediscovered after 190 years
Meet the person responsible for organizing the Warhol’s objects
Peer review for archivists (or, WTF is going on with this Society of American Archvists pre-print)
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Information Governance in Australia and New Zealand in 2019
Australia – Paper tsunami: how the move to digital medical records is leaving us drowning in old paper files
Archives New Zealand – Temporary restrictions on access to archives
Whistleblower: they knew agencies knew about Archives New Zealand privacy breach for years but did nothing
Criminal prosecution against Armenia National Archives director terminated
Arménie – Les archives des oeuvres de l’écrivain Kostan Zarian (1885-1969) remises par sa famille au Maténadaran d’Erévan
Vanuatu’s Right to Information Law Update
Island Culture Archival Support – New Samoan Language App
Inner Mongolia restores Mongolian archives
Malaysia – Late governor-general’s manuscripts being digitised
Not just Modi’s museum for Prime Ministers, Indian MPs need archives and oral histories too
India – Rare manuscripts languish in cash-strapped Sampurnanand Sanskrit University library
How archaeology in Pakistan is forced to deny the nation’s Hindu past
http://scroll.in/article/670462/how-archaeology-in-pakistan-is-forced-to-deny-the-nations-hindu-past
Europe / Europa
Use your voice to boost cultural heritage in Horizon Europe online consultation
European Court Rules in Favor of Kraftwerk in 20 Year-Long Copyright Dispute
Ancestry Digitizes Millions of Holocaust and Nazi Persecution Related Archives Making them Searchable Online for the First Time Ever
Hitler Looted the Art, then they Looted Hitler
Austria – Medievalists excited at parchment fragment of vagina monologue
The largest online archive of traditional Ukrainian songs
Accessing Archives in a Post-Soviet World: the Georgian Experience
Professionals in Focus: Tamara Butigan, Head of the Digital Library Department at the National Library of Serbia
Netherlands – Transkribus HTR competing in OCR-test of the Utrecht University
Welcome to Pieve Santo Stefano, Italy’s City of Diaries
6th-century inscriptions near Galilee may show Christians’ fading Greek literacy
Using artificial intelligence to fill in gaps in ancient texts
National Archives of Luxembourg – Blocked pipeline causes flooding damaging archival documents
Luxembourg – La nouvelle bibliothèque nationale ouvrira ses portes dans deux mois
Association des archivistes suisses – Le crowdsourcing du point de vue des archives
Leaking dome at National Records of Scotland causes massive damage to precious historical documents
National Library of Scotland – Setting up a web-mapping interface for the Stevenson Collection
University of Edinburgh – Open repositories: or how I learned to start worrying and hate jingoism
UK National Archives – Network analysis of the UK Government Web Archive
UK National Archives – Seeking lessons from public history: the story so far
UK National Archives – Collaborate and Innovate archive fund launched
British Library – Celebrating 100,000 digitised recordings with Nigerian hammer and anvil music
University of Huddersfield devises new tool to help journalists searching Hansard
Slave ship model brings a harrowing story to life in 3-D
Guy is booted out of IT amid outsourcing, wipes databases, deletes emails… goes straight to jail for two-plus years
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Inventorying intangible cultural heritage practices in Lebanon
International Directory of National Archives – A Visit to a World Heritage Site: Yazd, Iran
International
Contes d’un soir : le nouveau projet de l’Organisation international de la francophonie pour valoriser le patrimoine oral
Designing the archives in the 21st Century
Reappraisal and Deaccessioning
Understanding the Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Document Management
Implementing a data policy: a how-to guide for publishers
The Christie’s Affair: the Looting and Sale of Indigenous Artifacts
Academic Librarians’ C-Word Problem
I’m a data scientist who is skeptical about data
Retrotechtacular: the Floppy Disk Orphaned by Linux
You can probably be identified from your anonymized data
Le numérique, une notion qui ne veut rien dire
How to create a 3D web map of contour lines
From Bag End to Babel: Top 10 Libraries in Fiction