Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Government of Canada – Model Science Integrity Policy
Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan – Annual Report 2017-2018
BAnQ – Recueil des délais communs des ministères et des organismes gouvernementaux (nouvelle version)
Archives de France – Synthèse de la consultation “Archives pour demain”
Assessing Freedom of Information Act Compliance through the 2017 NARA’s Records Management Self-Assessment
UK House of Commons – Disinformation and Fake News: Interim Report
UK Copyright Office – Copyright Guidance: Orphan Works (Updated Version)
De la communauté / From the community
Digital Preservation Coalition – Prospectus 2018-2019
Text Encoding Initiative – Guidelines (Version 3.4.0)
Open Government Partnership – The Skeptic’s Guide to Open Government
International Council on Monuments and sites – Conservation of Intagible Heritage: a Bibliography
Paper – Doing Difficult Research 2018
Paper – Archivists as Peers in Digital Public History
Article – Informal Archives: Historical Narratives and the Preservation of Paper in India’s Urban Slums
Publications
RBM: a Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, vol. 19, no. 1 (2018)
Disclosure: a Journal of Social Theory, vol. 27, 2018 (Special Issue: Archives)
Online Audiovisual Catalogers Newsletter, vol. 38, no. 2 (2018)
Society of American Archivists – Archivists and Archives of Color Newsletter, vol. 32, no. 4 (2018)
Book – The International Directory of National Archives
Book – Heritage Preservation: a Computational Approach
Book – After Heritage: Critical Perspectives on Heritage from Below
Book – Handling and Exchanging Electronic Evidence across Europe
Book – Hands-on Incident Response and Digital Forensics
Book – American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle: Art, Protest, and Cultural Transformation
Book – The Transported Imagination: Australian Interwar Magazines and the Geographical Imaginaries of Colonial Modernity
Book – The Art of Curating: Paul J. Sachs and the Museum Course at Harvard
Book – Tourism and Indigenous Heritage in Latin America
Livre – Écrire la biographie d’un soldat de 1914-1918: l’exemple de Jehan de la Croix
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
University of Waterloo Special Collections and Archives – Exhibit : Pulp Fiction
75e anniversaire de l’Association pour l’avancement des sciences et des techniques de la documentation (ASTED)
12 novembre 2018, Montréal
Decolonizing Technologies, Reprogramming Education
May 16-18, 2019, Vancouver
Black Lesbian Archives Workshop
August 4, 2018, Chicago
Preserving the Evidence: the Trials of an Early Modern Map
August 16, 2018, Kew (UK)
Les archives en partage : fusions, associations, mutualisations, gestion mixte
12 octobre 2018, Strasbourg (France)
Taxonomy Boot Camp
October 16-17, 2018, London (UK)
Sur le web / On the web
Podcast – University of Toronto Exhibit Documents Women’s Role in Canadian Food
Historical Reminiscents Podcast: Pay People for their Work
Podcast – The European Union’s Copyright Threat to the Open Internet
UK National Archives Podcast – Big Ideas Series: Entity Disambiguation in Digital Cultural Heritage
UK National Archives Podcast – Big Ideas Series: the Role of Archives in Addressing Refugee Crisis
National Library of New Zealand Podcast – Dr Lydia Wevers: Books and their Readers
Recordkeeping Roundcasts Episode 1: Scale and Complexity, with John Sheridan
Slides – Linked Open Data for Historians: Enriching Narratives with Structured Data
Slides – Invisible in the Archive: Librarians, Archivists, and the Caswell Test
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Some Notes About Recent Developments at the Copyright Board of Canada
Smile, you’re probably on facial recognition software
Canada is Using Ancestry DNA Websites to Help it Deport People
Library and Archives Canada – Designing a Program for Digital Preservation: Building the Momentum for Change
Canada’s Newspaper Heritage at Library and Archives Canada
Showing Library and Archives Canada the way
Library and Archives Canada – Louis St-Laurent, Canada’s foreign policy pioneer
Library and Archives Canada – The mystery of the Franklin expedition
British Library – Canada and its Literature: a Tale of More than Two Cultures 1/2
Big News on #SaveCBCArchive
Canadian War Museum – Map of significant Canadian battle held secret to keep it safe
Courage and passion: twenty female scientists profiled in new Canadian Museum of Nature exhibit
Canadian Association of Research Libraries Digital Preservation Working Group Administers Survey on Building Capacity for Digital Preservation in Canada
10,000 pages of Yukon Indigenous language material published online
Archives Association of Ontario – Two New features in Archeion
The infamous 1980 paper fight in the Manitoba legislature
Archives of Manitoba – Women supporting the war effort with the Imperial Order of Daughters of the Empire
L’accès à l’information: n’importe quoi, selon la Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec
http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/533303/l-acces-a-l-information-n-importe-quoi-selon-la-fpjq
Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives – What’s in the Archives? Gay Bell
York, Ryerson Universities Host Summit on Decolonizing Description in Libraries, Archives
York University researchers launch Syrian refugee archive for scholarly use
Ryerson University Archives and Special Collections – Camera Trends: Seeing in 3D
Ryerson University Archives and Special Collections – Ryerson 7025: Student Government
University of Toronto project brings parliamentary records into the 21st century
Dans les coulisses du nouveau centre d’archives de l’Université de l’Alberta
Reclaiming Shingwauk Hall Exhibition
The Manitoba Food History Project takes a road less travelled
Mountain Legacy Project – Landscape Change in Cadomin, Alberta: 1922 to 2018
Un ambitieux projet de recherche intelligence artificielle et justice est lancé
Plateformes, archives et bibliothèques numériques en libre accès
Indigenous family finds ancestors in spirit in General Anglican Synod archives
Ontario Jewish Archives Exhibit Celebrates the Jewish Wedding
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Record of the Week: Vincere Vel Mori
Fêtes de la Nouvelle-France: sur les traces de leurs ancêtres
Toronto Public Library – Maps: Representing Land, People and Activity
Vancouver Pride Parade marshal chronicled LGBT movement for over 40 years
Islandora Show & Tell: Story City by Vancouver Public Library
Expanded Colonist archive offers 1960s history at your fingertips
It’s ridiculous. It’s Picasso: Facebook reviewing anti-nudity policy after blocking Montreal museum ad
Mapping ancient First Nations settlements around Edmonton
Calgary’s Olympic bid won’t be subject to freedom of information laws
Nanaimo councillor broke privacy rules, commissioner says
Whistler Museum – Working in the Archives
Chilliwack Museum and Archives (B.C.) – Facial Recognition: Archives Style
From Barrie (Ontario) with Love Part II: Wartime Letters from a Briton in Barrie
Hundreds of newly digitized Oakville Beaver (Ontario) issues offer window to the past
Digging through Quidi Vidi (Newfoundland) history taught me a lot about hidden treasures in our archives
Brampton’s (Ontario) police chief was a legend in his time
LG Joins Growing List of Tech Firms Entering Toronto’s Artificial Intelligence Scene
Wounds that won’t heal, cars for the Kaiser and more reader stories from WWI
Call solved mystery of grandfather and a Canadian orphanage
Naming and Renaming: Confronting Canada’s Past
Afrique / Africa
Beijing’s Big Brother Tech Needs African Faces: Zimbabwe is Signing up for China’s Surveillance State, but its Citizens will Pay the Price
Amériques / Americas
Denmark, U.S. National Archives, U.S. Virgin Islands Collaborate to Recover Virgin Islands Legislative Records
British Guiana – When will our history and literature be properly documented and archived?
Sint Maarten – Prime minister: preserving cultural heritage essential to protecting identity
Judge won’t order disclosure of Trump White House visitor logs
Disappeared U.S. Records on Detained Migrant Kids Sparks Probe
Historians Ask National Archives to Preserve Records on Treatment of Immigrants
Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer asks national archivist for sensitive Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh records
National Archives Records Related to Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh
National Archives Recalls Fire that Claimed Millions of Military Personnel Files
NARA – New Entries Released by the National Declassification Center
NARA – Preventing Freedom of Information Act Disputes
My Internship at the National Archives
Library of Congress – Inquiring Minds: Olmsted Holdings Offer Blueprint for Preserving Historical Landscapes
Library of Congress – New Online: Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted
National Library of Medicine – Pearls of Wisdom: Building a Career as a Woman in Biomedicine
Smithsonian – New World’s Fairs Collection in our Digital Library
See thousands of orchids in incredible detail in the Smithsonian’s newly digitized collection
Private world of Franklin D. Roosevelt unveiled in newly found film footage
Friends of Lincoln Collection Launches New Website
Declassified records show extent of CIA’s involvement in efforts to discredit Daniel Ellsberg
Intelligence Community Releases: Newly Declassified Tet Offensive Documents
Society of American Archivists – Update from the Tragedy Response Initiative Task Force
Alaska state archive digitizes Wyatt Earp papers
Digital Library of Georgia – Preserving and Sharing Spelman Archival Treasures
Interview With Mark Myers on the Texas Digital Archive
Harvard University – Born-Digital Blog Post #6: Accessioning Workflow part 1
Princeton University Library partners with historically black colleges and universities in inaugural archiving program
University of Michigan – Digital Preservation Lab: Equipment
New York University – A New Online Project Rethinks how we Learn about Artists and Archive their Life and Work
Vanderbilt University archive founded to hold media accountable turns 50
http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2018/07/30/vanderbilt-archive-founded-to-hold-media-accountable-turns-50/
Vast Rowan University archives are open for exploration
Lost Neil Young and Joni Mitchell concert recordings uncovered by Michigan archivists
Partnering in the Research and Learning Ecosystem: an Interview with Mary Lee Kennedy (executive director of the Association of Research Libraries)
Unpublished chapter of Malcolm X’s autobiography acquired by New York library
Alaska Town dusts off typewriters after cyber-attack
He found 15 books in a Sierra dumpster. Then he found out they belonged to Thomas Jefferson.
The Delicate Art of Dealing with your Archivist
The Delicate Art of Being an Archivist: an Open Letter to Alice Dreger
Seven Additional Types of Archivists: Answer to Alice Dreger
Allies in the Stacks: Answer to Alice Dreger
Archivists on the Issues: Archives as Art, Part 2
De-Mystifying the Archive
Hemingway story from 1956 published for first time
Jehovah’s Witness leader urges elders to destroy sex abuse records
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Evidence of 250 massacres of Indigenous Australians mapped
Queensland Government (Australia) – Unpacking policy requirement 5: agencies must make records discoverable and accessible for use and re-use
Australia – My health record: deleting personal information from databases is harder than it sounds
National Library of New Zealand – Small-Scale Scripts for Large-Scale Analysis: Python at the Alexander Turnbull Library
Vietnam – Chairwoman visits National Archives Centre
Taiwan – Justice commission drafts record-management rules
Seychelles approves first Committee on Truth, Reconciliation and National Unity
India – Surprise: Nehru library also has the best collection of RSS’s Hedgewar, Savarkar papers
India – Film archivist Bhagwan Das Garga’s work is now online
India – Get a glimpse of the world’s longest palm-leaf manuscript
Europe / Europa
The European Commission’s Historical Archives Service celebrates its first 35 years
European Commission – A day in the life of an archivist
Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents – Working with tables in Transkribus? Help has arrived
Sensational archaeological find is likely Germany’s oldest library
Fire Destroys Late Greek Director Theo Angelopoulos’ Archives: Widow
National Library of Spain: my Experience as an Intern at Digital Library Service
Spain – Audiovisual about Camera Lucida from Museu del Cinema Girona
A wartime diary of two Dutch Jews in hiding
Expatriate Archive Centre – Examining History through Travelers’ Memories
Belarus, Oman to discuss cooperation in culture, art, archive keeping
Service interministériel des archives de France – La tarification des recherches dans les services publics d’archives
Ireland – Digital archive of Conradh na Gaeilge’s weekly newspaper goes online
UK National Archives – Using the Discovery API to analyse catalogue data
UK National Archives – The materialities of digitisation
UK National Archives – Cataloguing the Middle East mandates in the 1920s
National Archives Embroiled in Controversy over Bond Commission Scam Report
British Library – Visualising the Endangered Archives Programme project data on Africa, Part 1. The project
Digital transformation at Wellcome Collection
Digital Preservation at Oxford and Cambridge – Electronic lab notebooks and digital preservation: part I
Digital Archiving at the University of York – Checksum or Fixity? Which tool is for me?
Understanding archives from the inside: what books about archives should historians read?
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel to Check Mossad Archives for Material on Missing Children
Efforts Underway to Digitalize Afghan Film Archive’s Archive
International
International Council on Archives – Call for Volunteer Trainers
International Tracing Service – Stigmatized as a Gypsy from an Early Age
International Tracing Service – Overview of Inmate Identification Badges
Modern Retention Using Sharepoint Metadata
Do not Read: Restricted Collections in Remarkable Libraries
Librarian photographs all the beautiful libraries he visits
Online Photo Analysis Tools
Tsundoku: the art of buying books and never reading them