Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Features of Effective Applications to the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board
Alberta Records Management Committee – Application of Justice Records Schedules to Justice Lawyers’ Records at Seconded Offices
State of Alaska – Records and Information Management Service Manual
De la communauté / From the community
Our Digital World – Digitization in Ontario Public Libraries: a Fresh Look
Brief to the House of Commons Standing Industry, Science and Technology Committee on Copyright Revision & Section 92 Review
Centre d’histoire et d’archives du travail – Raconter l’histoire de notre syndicat
Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents – How to Use the Structural Tagging Feature
Digitial Science – The Ascent of Open Access
Article – L’évaluation monétaire dans le tournant du numérique : perception et évolution selon Marcel Caya
Lesson – Extracting Illustrated Pages from Digital Libraries with Python
Publications
The iJournal: Graduate Student Journal of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information, vol. 4, no. 1 (2018)
La mémoire du travail : bulletin du Centre d’histoire et d’archives du travail, vol. 5, no 4 (2018)
Antigonish Heritage Museum (Nova Scotia) – The Old Train Station News, no. 109 (2019)
Livre gratuit – 50 ans d’histoire du livre : 1958-2008
Free eBook – Recordkeeping Informatics for a Networked Age
Book – Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland (Third Edition)
Book – 100 ideas for Primary Teachers: History (Each idea in the book is based on an original historical source from the UK National Archives)
Book – Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities
Book – Who Owns the News? A History of Copyright
Book – Systematic Searching
Book – Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces
Book – WikiLeaking: the Ethics of Secrecy and Exposure
Book – Graphic Design: a Practical Guide for Librarians
Book – Haunted Data: Affect, Transmedia, Weird Science
Livre – Guide de recherche dans les archives du Conseil d’État
Livre – Le droit à la vie privée en droit québécois et canadien
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Mapping Metadata
January 30, 2019, Ottawa
Film Screening & Discussion: Data Mining the Deceased
February 3, 2019, Halifax
Saskatchewan Archives Week
February 3-9, 2019, Saskatchewan
Association of Moving Image Archivists at University of Toronto – Film Cataloguing Workshop
February 5 and 12, 2019, Toronto
Library and Archives Canada – Prime Ministers and the Arts: Creators, Collectors and Muses
Starting February 7, 2019, Ottawa
Tour d’horizon sur les projets numériques du Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française
3 avril, 2019, Ottawa
Saskatchewan Indigenous Cultural Centre – Museums, Cultural Centres, Archives, Interpretive Centres & Libraries Gathering
May 2-3, 2019, Saskatoon
53rd Annual Carto Conference of the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives
June 11-14, 2019, Hamilton
Webinar – Practices and Patterns in Research Information Management: Findings from a Global Survey
January 30, 2019
What Wikipedia Means for Libraries and Archives
January 31, 2019, Wellington (New Zealand)
eCourse – Music Collection Development for Every Librarian
Starting February 4, 2019
Gerald Aylmer Seminar: Digital and the Archive
February 22, 2019, Richmond (UK)
Biennal Audiovisual Archiving Summer School
May 13-26, Bloomington (United States)
Sur le web / On the web
Canadian Centre for Architecture Video – Coping with Complex Digital Objects: from Acquisition to Access
Chilliwack Museum and Archives (British Columbia) Virtual Exhibit – Chilliwack’s Chinatowns: a story of Diversity, Racism, and Arson
Video Art Installation at Queensland State Archives
Video – Blockchain: What’s not to Like?
Video – Can I Trust this Data? Selecting Data for Reuse and Other Dilemmas of the Research Scientist
Video – From Talking to Action: Fostering Deep Collaboration Between University Libraries, Museums, and IT
Podcast – The Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Federal Court of Appeal Sheds Light on Crown Prerogative and Copyright
The Updated Canada Food Guide: New Advice, Old Restrictive Copyright Rules
Big day for automation as Canada launches artificial intelligence supplier framework
Library and Archives Canada acquires rare book once belonging to Adolf Hitler
Library and Archives Canada Co-Lab Update
Preserving the past at the national library
Over 60 million pages of digitized Canadian heritage documents now accessible
Alberta government buys 1,600 Indigenous atlases for junior and senior high students
Alberta – Province pledges $1 million for new Indigenous languages library program
New Brunswick – Long overdue electronic records system will track vaccine data
De nouveaux rapports se dessinent entre les établissements québécois et Wikipédia
BAnQ – Faux ou fac-similé? Tout est dans l’intention
Association des archivistes du Québec – Rabais Via Rail
Big plans for priceless Indigenous audio and video archive purchased for $1 in Edmonton
Giant Indigenous Peoples Atlas floor map will change the way you see Canada
McGill University – Celebrating three years of the Michele Larose-Osler Library Artist-in-Residence Programme
University of British Columbia Digitizers’ Blog – Canadian Pacific Railway hotels in B.C.: Part 1
Mohawk speakers work to preserve endangered language at University of Waterloo
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/endangered-languages-mohawk-class-renison-1.4988302
L’Université Laval innove en muséologie et mise en public
Centre d’archives de la grande zonde argileuse – Collection Eveline Coulombe-Touchette
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Party Like it’s 1947
Toronto Public Library – Ontario’s Defunct Railways of the Past
Winnipeg – Bring city history out of exile: archives building deserves to be restored, records made more accessible
Centre d’histoire et d’archives du travail – Fonds Syndicat des employé-e-s de métiers d’Hydro-Québec, section locale 1500, SCFP-FTQ
La Société d’histoire de Matane met ses archives en valeur après un travail titanesque de numérisation
Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (Ontario) – How can you help an archivist to help you? Reference service from our side of the desk
Lambton County Archives (Ontario) – Archives X-Files solving photographic mysteries
Digital archive of community newspaper pages pitched to Stormont Dundas and Glengarry (Ontario) council
Intern gives Port Alberni’s (British Columbia) museum artifacts an update
The Banner Waves Calmly / Pores : réveiller les archives
Grandmother Mary Crabb hoping to find World War II heroes who saved her life
Twins get some mystifying results when they put five DNA ancestry kits to the test
Afrique / Africa
Ghana seeks support for e-management of public and archival records
Comoros strives to strengthen its legislative framework for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage
Amériques / Americas
White House emails highly vulnerable to hackers and spammers, new data show
The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson’s Archives: on a Presidential Paper Trail
Declassified Documents: Iraq War Study Volumes 1 & 2
Library of Congress – Crowdsourcing Helps to Unlock the Mystery of Cursive
Library of Congress – Autobiography from 1831 provides rare, firsthand account of a Muslim slave in America
Library of Congress – Creative Technologist and 2018 Papamarkou Chair Tahir Hemphill Looks Back on his Year in the Archives
Inquiring Minds: Author Takes a Deep Dive into the Library of Congress
National Library of Medicine – Data curation in medical science and healthcare
Revving Up National Library of Medicine Research
Society of American Archivists – Government Shutdown Compromises the Work of Federal Archivists
California Digital Library – Collaborate to develop web archive collections with Cobweb
Statement on Statewide Services from the New Jersey State Library
Princeton University – Recovering Lost Manuscript Evidence
University of Texas – Harry Ransom Center Acquires Archive Exploring Photographers’ Creative Process
University of California at Santa Barbara – Library Digitizes Works by Renowned Chinese Author Kenneth Pai
University of Virginia Plans New School of Data Science; $120 Million Gift is Largest in University History
Maine artist Ashley Bryan’s extensive archive begins move to University of Pennsylvania
Digital Collections and Archives brings rich, complex history of Tufts University to life
Democratizing data science: tool for nonstatisticians automatically generates models that glean insights from complex datasets
Feeling Grief: on Emotions in the Archive of Enslavement
Authors Guild and Society of Authors Allege Copyright Infringement by the Internet Archive
The Cleveland Museum of Art Advances Open Access Movement
http://www.clevelandart.org/about/press/media-kit/cleveland-museum-art-advances-open-access-movement
Chicago – Preservationists Continue Fight with City Over Obama Presidential Library
Vincent Cerf: Father of the Internet Looking for Ways to Preserve His Work
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Eleven new inscriptions added to Unesco Australian Memory of the World Register
Vietnam – Localities told to collect data for national digital map
Myanmar – Work to preserve historic glass negatives under way
Protecting Cultural Property in Fiji
Former Taiwan president Ma Ying-jeou appears in video as shopkeeper for a day in bookstore
India – Palm-leaf manuscripts at Andhra University to be digitised
India – Home Is Where the Heart Is: Remembering Kolkata’s Jewish Community
Pakistan – President orders to complete digitalisation of National Archives data
Europe / Europa
European Union copyright laws face uncertain fate after eleven countries reject proposal
European Union project aims to preserve cultural opposition to communism
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – Messages from the Ghetto: Viennese transports to the General Government in early 1941
Rudolf Hess: DNA test disproves Spandau prison conspiracy theory
Iceland – Majority of Regional Archives not Prepared for Disaster
Poland recovers historical archive in Turkey
A new digital archive of the Roma reflects diverse cultures
Projet Soda : bientôt une véritable archive de données en Belgique
Belgique – L’archivage électronique au coeur de la transformation numérique des organisations
Bibliothèque nationale suisse – Cinq millions d’ouvrages bien gardés sous terre
France – Au musée virtuel de la Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique, 4 500 documents inédits à découvrir à travers dix expositions
Ireland – Stolen historic records returned to Fermanagh church
The Keeper of the Records of Scotland Launches Public Records Consultation
Church of Scotland minister fears Royal Air Force Chinook disaster records will be destroyed by Ministry of Defence
Scotland – Update on Archivematica and data preservation at University of Strathclyde
Scotland – Dundee woman without family leaves note to ensure possessions get donated to city archives
Britain’s Foreign Office admits to destroying hundreds of files regarding start of LTTE uprising in Sri Lanka
UK National Archives – Seal moulds: opening up the collection as never before
UK National Archives – Trade marks: making their mark
British Library – Can you help us with user experience testing for books designed for mobile devices?
British Library – African newspapers
British Library – Lab notebooks: handwriting at the core of science
Researching the Asian and African Collections at the British Library
Remains of six holocaust victims are given burial in Britain after 20 years in museum archives
The University of Sussex extends its use of Arkivum Perpetua to deliver digital preservation
University of Warwick – Artificial intelligence can dramatically cut time needed to process abnormal chest X-rays
Bodleian Digital Library (University of Oxford) – Making Wikidata visible
Medieval book coffer shows appetite for mobile reading is nothing new
Sketch Artist Creates Incredibly Detailed Depictions of United Kingdom’s 69 Cities
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel – A New Generation Takes up the Hunt for Dead Sea Scrolls
Islamic Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization Condemns Houthi Pillage of Valuable Manuscripts in Yemen’s Zabid
Afghanistan – Forty Million Documents to Be Digitalized in Presidential Palace Archive
International
United Nations – Dag Hammarskjöld Library by the Numbers
Digital Preservation Coalition – A blog on good practice and standards
Google Gives Wikimedia Millions plus Machine Learning Tools
Trends in Copyright for Libraries: what’s Coming up this Year? (Part 2)
Records as Opposed to Archives as Opposed to Records
Comment présenter une source audiovisuelle?
Why you Should Switch from Microfiche and Microfilm to Digital
Blockchain-Based Data Security Taking Over Key Industries
Artificial intelligence’s answer to Indiana Jones can reassemble broken treasures