Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
UK National Archives – Guide to Archiving Personal Data (Draft)
Swiss Federal Archives – Archivable File Formats (New Edition)
Archives de France – Guide : les spoliations d’oevres d’art pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Report and Disposal Schedule: Families Commission (for Comments)
De la communauté / From the community
International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property – Sharing Conservation Decisions: Current Issues and Future Strategies
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Library Alliance and Digital Library Federation – Common Mission, Common Ground
Transparency and Accountability Initiative – The Story Behind the Story: Obstacles and Promising Techniques in Storytelling for Transparency and Accountability
European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities – Co-designing the European Open Science Cloud: the Role of Social Sciences and Humanities
Article – Émotions de l’historien.ne et archives de l’intime
Publications
International Journal of Information Management, vol. 41 (2018)
Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography, vol. 70, no. 2 (2018)
Catholic Archives, no. 38 (2018)
Passim : bulletin des Archives littéraires suisses, no 21 (2018)
Archives Society of Alberta Newsletter, vol. 37, no. 3 (2018)
Telling our Stories: Newsletter of the South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta), vol. 9, no. 3 (2018)
Book – Archives and Information in the Early Modern World
Book – Tbilisi: Archive of Transition
Book – Studies in the Chronology of the Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan
Book – Ephemera: the Graphic Design of the MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection
Book – Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International
Book – Reconciling Copyright with Cumulative Creativity: the Third Paradigm
Book – My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File
Book – Mobilizing Heritage: Anthropological Practice and Transnational Prospects
Book – When Artists Curate: Contemporary Art and the Exhibition as Medium
Livre – Le musée participatif : l’ambition des écomusées
Livre – Règlement général sur la protection des données : la protection des données à caractère personnel
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Promiscuous Archiving: the Joys of Curating Queer Black Legacies
June 5, 2018, Toronto
Une histoire d’amitié, d’entraide et d’archives
5 juin 2018, Montréal
Collectionner l’éphémère
7 juin 2018, Montréal
Saving our Stories Workshop: an Introduction to Community Oral History
June 8, 2018, Mount Pearl (Newfoundland)
Jewish Museum & Archives of British Columbia – East End Stories
June 24, 2018, Vancouver
Webinar – Introduction to Web Archiving and Archive-It
June 6, 2018
Launch Ceremony of the Great Source Code Library softwareheritage.org
June 7, 2018, Paris
From Alexander Hamilton to Hamilton at the National Archives
June 7, 2018, Washington D.C.
Archiving the Academies of Early Modern Italy: Critical Methodologies and Digital Tools
June 28, 2018, London (UK)
Research and Preservation of the Secret Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto
December 6, 2018, Warsaw (Poland)
Webinar – Open Access in the Global South: Perspectives from the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network (Video Available)
May 3, 2018
Sur le web / On the web
Vidéo – BAnQ vous informe au Congrès de l’Association des archivistes du Québec 2018
Video – Separating Fact from Fiction: the Reality of Canadian Copyright, Fair Dealing and Education
UK National Archives Podcast – Datafication, Distribution and the Future of Archival Science in the Age of Homo Deus (with Victoria Lemieux, UBC)
Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre Online – Collections Catalogue
Coalition for Networked Information Video – Email Archives: Issues, Tools, and Gaps
Coalition for Networked Information Video – Discuss Data: Open Platform for the Interactive Discussion of Research Data Quality
Software Preservation Network Video – Scaling Software Preservation and Emulation
Openrefine: a Free, Open Source Power Tool for Working with Messy Data and Improving it (Version 3.0)
Slides – Unlocking our Sound Heritage: International Image Interoperability Framework AV at the British Library
Slides – Digital Preservation for Library Publishers: Raising Awareness
Slides – The Future of Semantics on the Web
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canadian Copyright, Fair Dealing and Education, Part Four: Fixing Fair Dealing for the Digital Age
La nouvelle commissaire à l’information dit vouloir trouver ce qui cloche avec le système d’accès au fédéral
Library and Archives Canada – A day in the life of a Reference Archivist
British Columbia’s privacy watchdog wants oversight of government emails
Archives of Manitoba – The impact of the war on Manitoba’s farms, May 1918
Québec – Les retards s’accumulent à la Commission d’accès à l’information
Québec – L’implantation d’un progiciel de gestion intégré est une obligation de moyen
BAnQ – Collectionner l’éphémère
BAnQ – Cérémonies en hommage à Louis Hémon, auteur de Maria Chapdelaine
Announcing the publication of Canadian Law Library Review on CanLII
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council – Changes to the Aid to Scholarly Journals Funding Opportunity
New state-of-the-art University of Alberta archival facility set to open
University of British Columbia – Explore Open Collections: Greater Vancouver Maps
New University of British Columbia Library exhibition explores Shakespeare plays through the lens of 16th century medicine
University of Toronto – New Exhibition Serves up 150 Years of Canadian Culinary History
Ryerson University Archives & Special Collections – Ryerson 7025: Five Pivotal Moments in Ryerson’s History
Brandon University archivist shines spotlight on the work of Brandonites in documentary
Indigenous Resources in the University of Saskatchewan Library
Daniel J. Caron et Martial Pasquier dirigent la collection Gouvernance de l’information aux Presses de l’Université du Québec
Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse – West & Co. : archives d’un magasin général de Hearst
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – A Shepherd Entering the Sheepfold
Ottawa – Super library projected to be done in 2024 at new cost of $174.8 million
New tools to dig digitally into Vancouver Island papers’ past
British Columbia Gay and Lesbian Archives donated to the City of Vancouver Archives
Toronto Public Library – The United Empire Loyalists Come to Upper Canada
App to give glimpse of Winnipeg’s history transforming to the present
Them Days (Newfoundland) – Photo Collections and QSL Cards
The Sisters of St. Ann confront the end with dignity and grace
Montreal WW II hero, largely unknown at home, honoured as Dutch town’s saviour
Les batailles d’internet : entretien avec Philippe de Grosbois
Searching for Answers in Archival Records (you can’t just Google them)
Freshly Minted: Dominique Glassman, Master of Information Student, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
Afrique / Africa
South African History Archives – Winning the fight against corruption through access to information in Africa
South African History Archives – No justice for xenophobic survivors as South African Police Service fails to comply with Promotion of Access to Information Act
South African History Archives – Freedom of Information Program Website Goes Mobile
Amériques / Americas
Saint Kitts and Nevis – National Archives not Only Launches Website, but Launches Lasting Memories and Aspects of History
Saint Kitts and Nevis – Prime Minister makes remarks on occasion of National Archives’ website launch
Guyana – National Archives opens Independence school tours
Declassified US cables link Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe to Medellin Cartel, again
Mapping Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Migration with Mobile Phone Data
NARA – Innovation Hub Celebrates 300,000th Page Uploaded to Catalog
NARA – History Hub: a 21st Century Model for Archival Reference
On a mission to St. Louis: Trip to National Archives reveals trove of family military history
Library of Congress – Receives Donation of Popular Art Valued in the Millions
Copyright Information in Government Printing Office Bibliographic Records: your Feedback
Person Records Linking in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Survivors and Victims Database
Smithsonian Institution Archives – What we Are Working on: Digital Preservation
Construction of FBI records complex moving smoothly
Here’s what government info should be but isn’t currently
Society of American Archivisits Signs on to Joint NGO Letter on Proposed World Intellectual Property Organization Treaty on Broadcasting
Advancing data publishing: California Digital Library & Dryad announce partnership
Vermont archives have more free historic newspapers online
Electronic access to court documents debated in Maine
Hundreds of Illinois prisoners languish behind bars waiting for Dorothy Brown to do her job
Born Digital: how Social Media and Paperless Offices are Reshaping the Princeton University Archives
University of Michigan – Adapting the Disk Imaging Workflow
Fighting to preserve history: the extensive audiovisual archives of University of Washington Libraries
University of Georgia – How to Store Maps
Iowa State University – One Year Later: NHPRC-funded Project to Improve Access to Archival Collections & their Descriptions
Describing web archives: learning from Archive-It partners and friends
A New Era in the Fight to Preserve TV History
Facebook launches searchable archive of US political ads
Dozens of M.C. Escher Prints Now Digitized & Put Online by the Boston Public Library
Philadelphia Historical Society Preserves City’s Greek Musical Heritage
How 1960s Film Pirates Sold Movies Before the FBI Came Knocking
Jason Curtis: a Librarian who Collects Media Formats
The Lesbian Pulp Fiction that Saved Lives
Photographer’s lost trove of Marilyn Monroe photos sees daylight for first time
About those Ancestry dot com commercials
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia – Spy exhibition tells the story of Australian espionage
The violent collectors who gathered Indigenous artefacts for the Queensland Museum (Australia)
Queensland State Archives – Australian South Sea Islanders in Queensland
Archival decolonist – Passion guides me
Archival decolonist – Engaging with the Uncomfortable
Archival decolonist – Your neutral is not our neutral
Archives New Zealand – Taonga Tuku Iho: Maori Knowledge and Information and Maori Metadata
Japan – Government must strive to regain trust in management of public documents
Philippines – Fire hits Land Management Bureau, National Archives in Manila
Philippines – What we could lose in the fire that hit the National Archives
Introducing PARBICA’s first International Council on Archives New Professional: Abilyn Pua’ara Hou from the Solomon Islands
Intangible Cultural Heritage in Vanuatu
China – Archival materials show top Party members as leaders in own homes
India – How Shelley’s Indian disciple changed copyright law
India – Punjab Information Technology Board to digitally preserve 500,000 pages of historic documents
Europe / Europa
European Union Governments Reach Negotiating Stance On Copyright Reform
Historical Archives of European Union – The Official Acts of the European Parliament (1953-2004) now Available for Consultation
Historical Archives of the European Union now part of the European University Institute’s annual report
Study of the Holocaust: a Way Out of Data Confusion
Bayreuth digitizes Richard Wagner National Archive
Autographs, operas and tubas: Richard Wagner on Europeana
National Library of Finland – Ogonek Digital Archive: a Virtual Timeline to Soviet Era
Why Finland is home to the world’s most radical libraries
Tbilisi exhibition presents French archives on Georgia’s First Democratic Republic
Près d’un million de documents d’archives privées de la ville de Paris sont désormais accessibles en ligne
Marcel Proust’s Unpublished Archives Achieve €750,000 at Sotheby’s
Amazing new database with pics of 18th and 19th Century Ireland launched
UK Government’s Digital History Preserved by Manchester Firm
UK National Archives – Allocation of papers accepted in lieu of tax
UK National Archives – Fighting like angry sheep: Wendell Phillips in the Gulf
Windrush: Songs in a Strange Land opens at the British Library
The Guardian view on digitising culture: make manuscripts more illuminating
Jesuits in Britain : From the Archives: Canon Law
Waddingtons board games archive reveals wacky finds
Where are our monuments? The Black Cultural Archives as source for London history
Museum of film history opens in Kent town with no cinema
Alan Rickman’s Archives for Sale, Including Letters from J.K. Rowling & his Frustrations about Snape
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
50 years after enigmatic sinking, Israel releases footage of search for lost sub
National Library of Israel – How a Man Named Saul Became King for a Day in Poland
Looted & hidden documentary brings must-watch Palestinian footage to light
Scientists Use Lasers to Map an Ancient City in Jordan
Oldest manuscript of Mark is nonetheless a disappointment
International
Broadcasting Treaty Moving at World Intellectual Property Organization, Copyright Exceptions for Libraries Not
Towards Action: IFLA Returns to Geneva for the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights
Portail international archivistique francophone – Mise en ligne d’un nouveau module PIAF consacré aux publics des archives
A Study on the Curation, Acquisition, and Preservation of Animated GIFs
This Frida Kahlo Digital Collection Is Massive & Free
Can Community Archives Survive Climate Change?
Effects of copyrights on science