Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board – Practice Notice: Determination of National Importance Pursuant to Paragraph 11(1)(b) Following the Federal Court of Canada Decision in Heffel Gallery Limited v. the Attorney General of Canada
Canadian Conservation Institute and ICCROM – Survey of Preventive Conservation Tool and Resource Users: Summary of Findings
British Columbia – Services Card Program Operational Records Classification System (for Comments)
British Columbia – Youth Justice, Forensic and Specialized Intervention Services Operational Records Classification System (for Comments)
UK National Archives – Statement of Public Task (Updated)
NARA – Compliance with Binding Compliance Directive 18-01 on Web and E-Mail Security
De la communauté / From the community
IFLA – Background Paper on Extended Collective Licensing
Open Access in the European Research Area through Schorlarly Communication – White Papers
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Open Science by Design: Realizing a Vision for 21st Century Research
OECD – Blockchains Unchained: Blockchain Technology and its Use in the Public Sector
Article – Recordkeeping and Research Data Management: a Review of Perspectives
Paper – What is a Data Librarian?: A Content Analysis of Job Advertisements for Data Librarians in the United States Academic Libraries
Publications
Records Management Journal, vol. 28, no. 2 (2018)
Code4lib Journal, no. 41 (2018)
Journal of Documentation, vol. 74, no. 4 (2018)
Document numérique, vol. 20, no. 2-3 (2017)
Library Trends, vol. 66, no. 4 (2018)
Caribbean Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives Newsletter (2018)
Broadsheet: Magazine of the Scottish Council on Archives (Summer 2018)
Society of American Archivists – Business Archives Section Newsletter (2018)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 8, no. 8 (2018)
Pemberton Museum & Archives Society (British Columbia) Newsletter, no. 114 (2018)
Book – Records and Information Management (Second Edition)
Book – Copyright and Class Struggle: the Ownership of Ideas in the Social Media Age
Book – Sculpture and Film
Book – After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century
Book – Emerging Library Technologies: it’s Not Just for Geeks
Book – The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe
Book – Historicising Heritage and Emotions: the Affective Histories of Blood, Stone and Land
Book – Where Duty Lies: a New Brunswick Soldier in the Trenches of World War I
Livre – Le règlement général sur la protection des données: analyse approfondie
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Pathways: Following traces of Indigenous routes across Ontario
August 18 – October 28, 2018, Toronto
Ottawa Art Gallery – De-layering the City: Curator Tour with Jim Burant (worked at Library and Archives Canada from 1972 until 2011)
August 21, 2018, Ottawa
@Risk North 2: Digital Collections
November 9, 2018, Montreal
General Data Protection Regulation Challenges and a Driver of Change
August 30, 2018, London (UK)
Archives and Artificial Intelligence
September 4, 2018, Richmond (UK)
Works in Progress Webinar: the OCLC Research Library Partnership Special Collections and Archives Work Agenda
September 5, 2018
Beyond the Number: the Economic Data Ecosystem
November 7-9, 2018, St. Louis
Libraries, Archives, Museums and Digital Humanities
February 20-23, 2019, Albuquerque (New Mexico)
International Conference on Archives & Human Rights: : an Agenda to Strengthen Democracy (Proceedings Available)
March 14-16, 2018, Buenos Aires
Atrocity’s Archives: the Role of Archives in Transitional Justice (Proceedings Available)
March 27, 2018, Oxford (UK)
Sur le web / On the web
Podcast – Nathan Sentance on Faulty Memories and Cultural Institutions
Recordkeeping Roundcasts Episode 2: Project Archangel and Distributed Ledger Experimentation
Textricator: a Tool for Extracting Text from Computer-Generated PDFs and Generating Structured Data (CSV or JSON)
Social Feed Manager: Define and Collect Datasets from Social Media Services (Version 2)
Présentations – Bibliothèques du 21e siècle, Wikipédia et post-vérité
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Five things you should be doing to prepare for Canada’s new privacy rules
Privacy Commissioner of Canada launches investigation into Cadillac Fairview over use of facial recognition technology in malls
Canadian patients should have online access to their medical records, some doctors say
Library and Archives Canada – Database of 620,000 First World War personnel files completed to mark anniversary of Canada’s 100 Days
Library of Archives Canada – The road to peace: Canada’s Hundred Days
Library and Archives Canada – Lieutenant Jean Brillant, Corporal Herman James Good, Corporal Harry Garnet Bedford Miner
Library and Archives Canada – Victoria Cross Recipients Alexander Picton Brereton, Frederick George Coppins, John Bernard Croak, Raphael Louis Zengel
Canada Science and Technology Museum – Tiny vial holds last link to deadly outbreak
Visible Minority Librarians of Canada (ViMLoC) Network Mentorship Program: Call for Mentors and Mentees
Ontario Court of Appeal says doctor gross revenue information is not personal information
Alberta Privacy commissioner’s investigation brings us face-to-face with our technology fears
Vintage tourism images offer glimpse into New Brunswick’s past
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick – Embodying Anti-German Sentiment during the Great War: an Archival Moment
Nova Scotia – Report highlights risks with software used to operate freedom of information website
Archives of Manitoba – The view from London, August 1918
BAnQ – Marcel Chabrier (1891-1946) : hommage à un artiste apprécié et respecté
Redécouverte du plus ancien manuscrit jamais retrouvé de Samuel de Champlain
Homosexualité, une histoire vieille comme le monde : les archives gaies du Québec
Why Deaccessioning Is Never a Straight Story
National Unity through History: the Canadian Archives and the Development of a Unifying National Narrative
Retired archivist in legal battle with University of Saskatchewan
McGill University – Processing the archive of Casey Wood, McGill’s Birdman
Indigenizing Cape Breton University
Exploring the smutty archives: University of Toronto’s Sexual Representation Collection
University of British Columbia – Web Archiving
Reclaiming Shingwauk Hall Exhibition Opens at Algoma University
Mountain Legacy Project – Field Notes: Stepping Off the Beaten Path
Rare Canadian Artifacts from the Early Web
History is Always about Context (or why a history degree equips you to understand the context of a tweet)
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Happy Sisters’ Day
Toronto Public Library – Introducing the Sarah Hall Archives
Toronto Public Library – Remembering the 1918 Anti-Greek Riot: August 2-5: Snapshots in History
Return to Analog: Film photography is making a comeback in Toronto
La Société d’histoire de la Haute-Gaspésie s’enrichit de précieux documents sonores et visuels
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – Introduction to the Hundred Days Offensive
South Peace Regional Archives – The Battle of Amiens
Funding approved for retrofit at Simcoe County Archives (Ontario)
What’s inside the metal box hidden in a cavity of Brampton’s (Ontario) Cenotaph?
Big disappointment as Saskatchewan village digs up 50-year-old time capsule
Finding Freddy Lee: search continues for Chinese-Canadian WW1 veteran from Kamloops
A century after they died, how four soldiers’ remains were identified
You just lived for the moment: meet one of the last surviving female pilots who served in Second World War
Soldiers’ relatives mark centenary of first world war’s forgotten battle
L’art de José Manuel Fors
Afrique / Africa
Algérie – Centre des Archives nationales: une exposition sur l’offensive du nord constantinois
Namibia – Securing well-equipped librarians, archivists a challenge to accessible information
How digitisation helps preserve Tanzania’s rich heritage
Amériques / Americas
E-Mail Preservation Bill Clears House
Historians call on Congress to monitor record keeping related to immigration
National Archives rejects Democrats’ request on Kavanaugh records
Did the National Archives throw a wrench into McConnell’s confirmation plan for Brett Kavanaugh?
NARA – Learn about Using Freedom of Information Act to Access Immigration Records
The National Archives Hosts Industry Day Focused on Electronic Messages: the Next Phase of the Federal Electronic Records Modernization Initiative (FERMI)
Law Library of Congress and Peace Palace Library of the Hague Agree to Form Information-Sharing Relationship
Library of Congress – More Web Archives, Less Process
Library of Congress – Inquiring Minds: Bringing the Music Back to Silent Films
Library of Congress – The Secret Maps of World War II Admiral Morton L. Deyo
Library of Congress – My Job at the Library: Helping Researchers Uncover New Narratives in Manuscripts
Smithsonian Institution – Slide Digitization Goes Stereo
The CIA’s dogs of war: after nearly 70 years, the Agency has declassified its OSS-era records on a program to train military dogs in China
New Tet Offensive Documents? Not So Much.
Pentagon puts new restrictions on U.S. troops using fitness trackers while deployed
Society of American Archivists – What about Invisible Labor?
Risks of Long-term Digital Government Records Access is Focus of New Preservica-Council of State Archivists Collaboration
State Archives of North Carolina – Archival University Records
The Birth of Hawaii’s Native-Language Newspaper Archive
Washington State University – Introduction to a Find Loop in Bash
University of California, Riverside – Historian’s Database Offers New View of Colonial California
University of Michigan gets Jonathan Demme’s archive
Pennsylvania State University brings Philadelphia’s rare manuscripts to the world
University of North Carolina – Meet your Archives Month Chair: Colin Reeve
Rice University – An Online Archive will Preserve Digital Artifacts of the Storm and Help Texas Heal
Historic Photographs Donated to Tuskegee University
75 Global Rave Flyers from the Largest Flyer Archive in the World
The Principles of Recordkeeping Primer: Accountability
Repository Spotlight: National Association of Realtors Library & Archives: at Home with History
Museum at Bethel Woods Launches Online Woodstock Archive
South Asian American Digital Archive – Against Precarity: Towards a Community-Based Notion of Fiscal Sustainability
Sustainability at Interference Archive
Public gets digital access to Little Bighorn Battlefield collections
These are a Boston archivist’s 10 favorite old photos of the city
Historians Just Don’t Get Archivists. Here’s Why.
Archivists on the Issues: Intellectual Access to Archives
They wanted to jail us all: Black Panthers photographer Neil Kenlock looks back
Fourteen Black Photographers Vogue Ignored over the Last 126 Years
Tears of America: the Riots of 1968
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
New South Wales (Australia) Government launch archive audit after confidential medical records found in abandoned building
New Zealand – Nga Taonga Sound and Vision’s Archives Create a Glimpse into Filmmaker’s Life
Deliberately’ obscure government file names leave Japan’s National Archives at a loss
Papua New Guinea – Lae archive building slowly rotting away
National Digital Library of India to Collaborate with Top Digital Libraries of World
Opinion: the need for digitizing land records in India
India – Out of National Register of Citizens, but clearing cobwebs of ancestry in Kolkata’s archives
India – Historical survey identifies thousands of manuscripts in Wayanad
Europe / Europa
Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents – Reading admiral de Ruyter’s journal: using existing transcripts to train Automated Text Recognition
Poland Obtains Archive of Diplomats’ Efforts to Rescue Jews
Center for preservation of Serbian language, culture opens
Greece – On Athos was found an ancient Cossack manuscript
Pope Leo XIII Opens the Vatican Secret Archives
Using artificial intelligence, researchers are teaching a computer to read the Vatican’s secret archives
Libre accès aux travaux scientifiques : la Suisse numéro un
Police swamped by 45 Northern Ireland million legacy papers
Neil Jordan donates his archive to the National Library of Ireland
UK Parliamentary Archives – New Plays, New Players: the End of Theatre Censorship in the UK
UK National Archives – Testing new digitisation on demand tools
UK National Archives – Archives Revealed awards first Scoping Grants
UK National Archives – The Battle of Amiens: the groundwork for victory
UK National Archives – The Battle of Amiens: the beginning of the end
Saint Etienne, Studs Terkel and a silent disco at the British Library: the second Season of Sound offers a feast for the senses
British Library – Building collections on Gender Equality at the UK Web Archive
British Library – Work Experience at the UK Web Archive
British Library – Digitisation of the Barbados Mercury Gazette
British Library – Handle Books with Care
Digital Preservation at Oxford and Cambridge – How I got JHOVE running in a debugger
Monty Python sketches found in Michael Palin’s archives
Treasure trove of forgotten archive uncovered
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
The InterPARES Trust European in Israel
Tapping Blockchain Technology, Iran National Library Archives to Go Online
Saudi Arabia – Rare Qur’an manuscripts a major attraction in Madinah
Egypt retrieves ancient Islamic manuscript
Looted Iraqi antiquities return home after UK experts crack cold case
International
International Tracing Service – Her Grandfather’s Watch
Intelligent Records Management Requires a New Way of Thinking
Metadata Best Practices
Artificial intelligence spots 40,000 prominent scientists overlooked by Wikipedia
P is for Polaroid. L is for Lost.
The Deaccessioning Debate in Museums
Acknowledging the Intellectual Labor of Curators in a Museum
The History of Kobo and how they changed the e-reader market
Deepfakes are coming. Is Big Tech ready?