Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Government of Canada – Report to the Clerk of the Privy Council: a Data Strategy Roadmap for the Federal Public Service
BAnQ – Guide d’initiatives de médiation numérique en bibliothèque au Québec et ailleurs
Des Archives en France : l’activité des services d’archives en 2017
National Archives of Australia – Preservation Digitisation Standards
Digital Repository of Ireland – Format Watch Report & Factsheet on File Formats
European Commission – Turning FAIR (Findable, Reusable, Interoperable, Reusable) Data into Reality
State Records of South Australia – A Strategy for the Archive 2019-2022 (for Comments)
Archives du Canton de Genève (Suisse) – Rapport annuel 2017
De la communauté / From the community
Speaking Notes for Appearances before House of Commons Committees were Copyright was Discussed
Howard Knopf 1: https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2018/11/my-speaking-notes-for-chpc-committee.html
Howard Knopf 2: https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2018/11/my-speaking-notes-for-my-presentation.html
University of Ottawa – Summary of Student Achievement: Master of Information Studies 2013-2018
Cambridge University Libraries – Digital Preservation Policy
Overview of Algorithms for Media Feature Extraction
Ithaka S+R – Scholars Are Collectors: a Proposal for Re-thinking Research Support
Article – Wages for Intern Work: Denormalizing Unpaid Positions in Archive and Libraries
Publications
Archivaria, no. 86 (2018)
Records Management Journal, vol. 28, no. 3 (2018)
Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography, vol. 71, no. 1 (2019)
KULA: knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation studies, vol. 2, no. 1 (2018)
National Archives of Australia – Government Agencies Information Network Newsletter, no. 7 (2018)
La Pomme : bulletin périodique de la Fondation archives vivantes (Suisse), no 30 (2018)
Bulletin of the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives, no. 160 (2018)
Telling our Stories: Newsletter of the South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta), vol. 10, no. 1 (December 2018)
Mémoire de maîtrise (Enssib) – L’archivage de la littérature numérique en ligne
Mémoire de maîtrise (Enssib) – Créer, préserver, communiquer : une étude comparative du records management et des plans de gestion des données
Mémoire de maîtrise (Enssib) – Archives numériques et bande dessinée : un état des lieux
Mémoire de maîtrise (Enssib) – L’archivage des jeux vidéo, de la fin des années 1990 à aujourd’hui
Report – Libraries and Archives Market 2025 by Products, Competitive Situation, Expansion, Manufacturers and Trends
Book – Using Twitter to Build Communities: a Primer for Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Book – Friending the Past: the Sense of History in the Digital Age
Book – A Very Correct Idea of our School: a Photographic History of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Book – New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy
Book – Rights and Reproductions: the Handbook for Cultural Institutions (Second Edition)
Book – Practical Text Analytics: Maximizing the Value of Text Data
Book – Photography, Migration and Identity: a German-Jewish-American Story
Book – Islands of Heritage: Conservation and Transformation in Yemen
Book – Library Service and Learning: Empowering Students, Inspiring Social Responsibility, and Building Community Connections
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
University of Calgary – A Taste of the Archives and Special Collections
December 5, 2018, Calgary
Keep or Shred? How to get Businesses to Start Valuing their Archives
December 5, 2018, Montreal
Association for Manitoba Archives – Christmas Gathering
December 7, 2018, Winnipeg
Information and Records Management Society – Email Management / Risk Management / Records Management and Social Media
December 7, 2018, London (UK)
The Electronic Document Conference
June 17-18, 2019, Seattle
International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (Proceedings Available)
September 10-13, 2018, Porto (Portugal)
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Video – In Conversation with Denys Arcand
Vidéo – Julie Anne Richardson et Sylvain Bélanger de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Vidéo de l’Association des archivistes du Québec – Conseil d’administration 2018-2019: Julien Bréard, vice-président
Podcast – A Digital Archive of Feminist Struggle in Canada
Historical Reminiscents Podcast – Celebrating Milestones
Archives fédérales suisses – Modules thématiques : gestion de l’information
Indiana Archives and Records Administration Video – Evansville KKK Charter
Digital Preservation Song
Slides – Enhancing Exploration of Audiovisual Collections with Computer-based Annotation Techniques
Présentation – Compétences connues et mal connues en Humanités numériques
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Highlights from the 2017-2018 Departmental Results Reports
Canada Treasury Board’s Directive on Automated Decision-Making
Canada Returns Heritage Objects to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Library and Archives Canada’s journey of discovery: modernising our digital preservation infrastructure using Preservica
Current State of Digital Preservation at Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada – 1918 Spanish flu epidemic
Library and Archives Canada – Maritime voices: Alistair MacLeod
Canadian Museum of History – William Notman: Witness and Photographer of the Victorian era
Radio-Canada conserve les titres uniques de sa collection de disques vinyle
British Columbia – Decolonizing information and preserving knowledge with the Indigitization program
Royal B.C. Museum refreshing its brand, looks to future
Saskatchewan – Provincial Archives to close in Saskatoon Dec. 21 ; collection to move to Regina
Archives of Manitoba – Hurrah for the Allies: HBC post journals and the end of the war
Carol Couture nommé ami du Conseil international des archives
BAnQ – La préservation numérique, un enjeu majeur pour les institutions de mémoire
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec met la généalogie à l’honneur
Québec – Un financement inadéquat et injuste pour les services d’archives privées agréés
Bonnes pratiques archivistiques : le Québec partage son expérience avec la Côte d’Ivoire
How did the Bertrand Russell Archives end up at McMaster University?
Opinion piece – Glenbow a careful caretaker of amazing collection: University of Calgary moves Glenbow archives
University of Calgary – Expansion of High Density Library enhances support for campus community
Digital Preservation: How University of Manitoba Libraries are Confronting the Challenges of Record Keeping in a Digital World
Exploring the Herball in University of British Columbia Library’s Open Collections
University of British Columbia – Hotel Vancouver
Queen’s University – Presumed Heterosexuality in the Archives
McGill University – Small wonders tell big stories at Rare Books & Special Collections
McGill University – A Hyakumanto Dharani among the earliest surviving examples of printed text
A rainbow of microscopic specimens in McGill University Archives
McGill University – Pretty in Pink: Montreal’s role in the history of reproductive health
Archives Unleashed – A New AUK Derivative: Text by Domain
Meaning Making in the Digital Age
Rates de bibliothèque : un colloque sur l’histoire des femmes bibliothécaires au Québec
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Today’s Breakfast: Surreal
Greater Victoria School District holds thousands of archival items in temporary site
Les Archives de Montréal déménagent pour une première fois en 100 ans
Archives de la ville de Québec – L’armistice à Québec
Un engouement marqué pour la généalogie à Rimouski
http://www.lavantage.qc.ca/article/2018/11/22/un-engouement-marque-pour-la-genealogie-dans-la-region
350 years of Waskaganish: yearlong celebration highlights Cree community’s rich history
Archives Latest Online Exhibit Shows Coquitlam (B.C.) from Above
White Rock (B.C.) must respond faster to information requests
Archives Bellechasse – Les fermières : épanouissement et émancipation des femmes de Bellechasse
Barrie Historical Archives (Ontario) – Barrie Says Goodbye to Two Role Models
Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (Ontario) – Malton in the news: the day the world turned upside down
La généalogie acadienne : retracez vos ancêtres acadiens
1858 There’s gold in this collection of early B.C. ephemera
German researchers looking for family of Alberta man linked to Second World War crash site
The Bank of Upper Canada Story in Two Letters
Archives Révolutionnaires
Afrique / Africa
Cameroon: the Informative, Connective Role of Archives
Cameroun – Narcisse Mouelle Kombi, ministre des Arts et de la Culture : Les archives de contribuent à la construction cohérente de la mémoire collective
Cameroun – Conférence internationale des archives: Yaoundé, mémoire du monde
Cameroun : 397 archivistes prêtent serment devant la Cour d’appel du centre
Zimbabwe – Access to information key to country’s transformation
Amériques / Americas
Flooding in British Virgin Islands destroyed files on Indian tax dodgers
Updates on open government from the U.S. National Archives
NARA – Inside the Seas of Knowledge Digitization Project
NARA – Efforts Begin to Digitize 377 Native Treaties
NARA building in, not bolting on e-records standards
National Archives Urged to Reject Trump Administration Plan to Destroy Key Records on Endangered Species, Public Lands
Scarborough-Brzezinski Wedding at the National Archives
Library of Congress Acquires Archive of Jazz Great Billy Strayhorn
Library of Congress – My Job at the Library: a Folklife Cataloger Reflects on her Career
ISS astronaut finds NASA floppy disks in space
Museum in Arkansas searches for elusive film, archivists piece together first movie filmed entirely in state
University of Miami – The Women Behind the Cuban Archives
Northwestern University – Survival of a folk revival: Digitizing a vast music archive
University of Washington, Tableau create interactive tool to explore more than a century of Pacific Northwest weather observations
Remembering the Howard University Librarian who Decolonized the Way Books Were Catalogued
Museums are curating an era of social movements in real time
New York Times – Experiments with Link Previews to Help Guide Readers
Aiming to Preserve Artists’ Legacies, Hauser & Wirth Founds Nonprofit Institute for Archival Projects
San Jose Man Uses Old Pictures to Create New Views of Early San Francisco
Archives uncover story of Hemingway’s forgotten girlfriend
Archival Innovators: Doug Boyd, Director of the University of Kentucky’s Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History
Carleton Watkins and Photography’s Romance with the American West
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australian Parliament Moves Copyright Amendment Out of Committee and into Law
National Archives of Australia issues mandatory instructions for Ministers’ records
Monash University – Monash University
Vintage camera enthusiast hopes to share vast archive of notes and illustrations
Making Australia’s biodiversity literature openly accessible and discoverable online
Digitising the Dorothy Hill collection at the University of Queensland Library
It’s not all technical, digital preservation at State Library of New South Wales
State Library of New South Wales – Digital photography: asking the right questions
Archival Decolonist – Diversity means Disruption
Archives New Zealand – Archives digipres team and World Digital Preservation Day
National Library of New Zealand – What Do we Need & what Can we Do without for Digital Preservation Storage?
National Library of New Zealand – The history of you and me
University of Auckland – The closure of a specialist architecture library reminds us of its great impact
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino to create digital archive for Philippine languages
Thailand – Preserving digital anthropology resources at the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
China – 1,800-year-old spirit recipe recognised as world’s oldest
India – Nagpur University to digitize academic records since 1950
Europe / Europa
European Commission launches European Open Science Cloud
European Union Copyright Proposals Put Digital Humanities at Risk
Discovering Europeana’s first world war objects in a game: 11-11 Memories retold
Return of African Artifacts Sets a Tricky Precedent for Europe’s Museums
Musical Arrangements Made at Auschwitz Have Been Uncovered in an Archive
First Database of Slovenia’s WWI Military Dead now Online
Bulgarian Archives Commemorate WWI Centenary with New Exhibition
Kyiv Archivist Discovers Ersatz Bread Samples from Ukraine’s 1932-33 Famine
10 Years of Digital Preservation Collaboration in Finland
Technische Informationsbibliothek (Germany) – Let’s be honest … a honey we need to talk with digital preservation
Spain legislates for out-of-court copyright enforcement
Searching the Spanish Golden Age with Keyword Spotting
What, who, where, how? Persistent Identifiers at the National Library of Luxembourg
Swiss Federal Railway will be implementing blockchain technology to optimise record-keeping procedures
Cern (Suisse) – Des cerises sur le gateau de la préservation digitale
Will Belgium Hear the Call for Restitution of Looted African Artefacts? Are Western Museums the Last Bastions of Colonialism and Imperialism?
How a small French privacy ruling could remake adtech for good
France – Les Archives nationales misent sur le numérique pour valoriser leurs fonds
Launch of the New Digital Archiving Platform at the National Archives of France: Act I
France – Preserving and providing access to digitally-born documentation
L’archiviste, entre respect du secret professionnel et conscience citoyenne
Ireland – Who owns your data and who decides on access to it?
Ireland – Door shut for Troubles victims after Freedom of Information answers halted
Scotland, a leading Nation in Digital Preservation.
UK National Archives – Professional Fellows in 2018-2019
UK National Archives – Digital storytelling, outreach and archives
UK National Archives – What is a seal mould? Introducing record series PRO 23
British Library – Dealing with computer viruses in digital collections
https://blogs.bl.uk/collectioncare/2018/11/dealing-with-computer-viruses-in-digital-collections.html
National BBC broadcast archive in Aberystwyth in doubt
University of Liverpool – Member stories: using digital archives to inspire students
Digital Archiving at the University of York – To reorganise or to not reorganise?
Recognising eighteenth-century legal records at Middle Temple
Why western museums should keep their treasures
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
In First, Woman Nominated to Head Israel’s State Archives
Le sionisme : la déclassification progressive des archives change le regard des historiens sur les processus associés à sa mise en oeuvre
Turkey – Authenticity of the Electronic Records: Presenting the Context
International
The International Committee of the Red Cross during World War II
Persist: Unesco’s Commitment to Digital Heritage
Unesco – Normalising digital preservation
CIE TC8-15: Colour Imaging for Digital Preservation
Inside the cloak-and-dagger search for sacred texts
The supermassive black hole in the middle of our current digital preservation strategies
Amazing new digital archive of political maps for imperial and global historians
La déontologie dans les revues d’archivistique : une approche internationale
Comment les historiens du futur écriront-ils notre histoire ?
Data scientists : ces experts des données que les entreprises s’arrachent
The Power of Uniform Resource Identifier or why Odysseus Called Himself Nobody
Introducing Amazon Textract: easily extract text and data from virtually any document
175 Zettabytes by 2025