Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Provincial Archives of Alberta – Your Archives, your Project
National Archives of Ireland – Guidance Note on the Compatibility of the National Archives Act and the General Data Protection Regulation
European Commission – Recommendation on Access to and Preservation of Scientific Information
De la communauté / From the community
Archives Association of Ontario – Annual Report 2017-2018
Conseil du patrimoine religieux du Québec – Guide d’accès aux archives des communautés religieuses
Windermere Valley Museum (British Columbia) – Windermere Cemetery
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Data Catalog Vocabulary Revised Edition (Draft)
Force11 – New Standard for the Citation of Research Data
Tape vs Object Storage: Learn the Economic Advantages of Object Storage vs. LTO for Media Active Archives
Article – dhSegment: a Generic Deep-learning Approach for Document Segmentation
Article – Exploring the American Archivist: Corpus Analysis Tools and the Professional Literature
Publications
Archivaria, no. 85 (2018)
Code4lib Journal, no. 40 (2018)
Information Management, vol. 52, no. 3 (2018)
Journal of Documentation, vol. 74, no. 4 (2018)
Manuscript Studies: a Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, vol. 3, no. 1 (2018)
Society of American Archivists – Solo: Lone Arrangers Quarterly Newsletter, vol. 3, no. 2 (2018)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 8, no. 4 (2018)
Library and Archives Canada – The Governance and Recordkeeping around the World Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 11 (2018)
Book – Ethical Data and Information Management: Concepts, Tools and Methods
Book – Scientific Examination of Documents: Methods and Techniques (Fourth Edition)
Book – The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
Book – The Gay Heritage Project
Book – Annie Leibovitz, Archive Project: the Early Years
Book – Metadata Essentials: Proven Techniques for Book Marketing and Discovery
Book – Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age
Livre – Architectures et espaces de la conservation (1959-2015) : archives, bibliothèques, musées
Livre – L’édition à l’ère du numérique
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Blockchain@UBC – The Future of Blockchain Technology
May 25, 2018, Vancouver
ARMA Toronto Annual General Meeting
June 25, 2018, Toronto
Document and Records Management as Privacy Solutions
June 25, 2018, Toronto
Webinar – Preserving Born Digital Information
May 14, 2018
Women and Power: London History Day
May 31, 2018, London (UK)
Sur le web / On the web
Petition – Save the CBC Archive
Archivist’s Alley Podcast – Rachel E. Beattie: Canada, Community and Cinema
Historical Reminiscents Podcast: Spring Cleaning Your Work Life
Princeton University – Derrida’s Margins: Inside the Personal Library of Jacques Derrida
Centre d’art de Porte-au-Prince (Haïti) – Vidéo : Conférence sur la documentation des collections
http://www.lecentredart.org/actu/conference-de-francoise-dalex-sur-la-documentation-des-collections/
Video – Software Collection Development
Polyphony Project: the Living Tradition of Ukrainian Vocal Music
Historical Archives of the European Union – Online Exhibition: 60 years of the European Investment Bank
Slides – Make it Walk (Presented at Archives Association of Ontario Annual Conference)
Slides – Performance Testing for ADCs: New Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative Guidelines & ADCTest Software
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canadian copyright consultations
St. Anne’s residential school survivors lose what could be final battle with Ottawa over documents
Feds expect to brand less than 1 per cent of Access to Information requests as vexatious
Library and Archives Canada – Documentary Heritage Communities Program: Funding history 2018-2019
Library and Archives Canada to safeguard all future Death Star plans in their new Preservation facility
The Indigenous Archival Photo Project is an exercise in visual repatriation
Dalhousie University Lecturer Appointed Nova Scotia Provincial Archivist & Director
Halifax police won’t charge teen arrested in Nova Scotia privacy breach
Ontario – Reconsidering the Digital Historian Project
Archives of Manitoba – Remember us Over Here: Augusta Boulton, the Russell Red Cross Society, and the First World War
Québec – Évitons que les archives ne partent en fumée
BAnQ – Yvette Mercier-Gouin, populaire dramaturge des années 1930 et 1940
Indigenizing Canadian academia and the insidious problem of white possessiveness
Carleton’s Library Archive to Preserve Radio-Canada’s Commercial Music Scores
York professor and alumna contributes to world’s largest LGBTQ+ archive
University of Calgary – Nursing researcher’s storytelling tool brings together small stories and big data
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Yes, you are the one I am calling
Des ouvrages rares à l’Évêché de Chicoutimi
Old photographs of the Toronto waterfront from the archives
Vancouver Archives – More Legacy Open Data Sets Now Available
Montréal – Un voyage dans le temps en 9000 cartes postales
Ottawa – The grave hunter: local amateur genealogist takes thousands of photos of graves
Archives : la Société du Patrimoine des Beaucerons en mode relance
Archives Lanaudière, les gardiens de l’histoire régionale
County of Wetaskiwin (Alberta) wants to discuss archives with city, town
City of Wetaskiwin vows to preserve archives despite sale of civic building
Centre d’archives régionales du Séminaire de Nicolet – Pour éviter que les archives s’envolent
Le Musée national de la photographie de Drummondville, loin du simple cliché
Why this Calgary man made his front lawn into a community library
L’écrit comme meilleure preuve : toujours une vérité à l’ère numérique?
Krista McCracken – Building Bridges and Reading Across Disciplines
120-year-old Yukon Gold Rush sourdough heads to Belgian sourdough library
Freshly Minted: Abby Marteja, LIT Student, Algonquin College
A GLAMorous Day: British Columbia’s First GLAM Symposium
Retour sur la 5e Journée des archives du Conseil du patrimoine religieux du Québec
Les archives complètes du forum privé du groupe Alt Right Montreal maintenant publiques
Afrique / Africa
South Africa – How can I copyright my idea?
Namibia: Ministry Pushes for Access to Information Legislation to Better Media Freedom
Amériques / Americas
St Kitts Parliament passes Freedom of Information Bill
Hundreds of CIA Email Accounts Deemed Permanent Records
NARA – What is Federal Electronic Records Modernization Initiative?
NARA – Volunteer to Improve the Administration of Freedom of Information Act
NARA – One Click or Less: Redesigning the National Archives Museum Website to Better Meet Visitor Needs
International Image Interoperability Framework at the Library of Congress
National Library of Medicine – Medical Services and Warfare Digitization Project Completed in Partnership with Adam Matthew Digital
National Library of Medicine – Health and the Economy: Insights from the Surgeon General
National Security Archive – Fact-Checking Haspel’s Nomination Hearing Against the Declassified Record
Society of American Archivists – Legis Research Team: Updates Regarding Legislation and Legislator Actions
National Information Standards Organization Launches New Project to Facilitate Manuscript Exchange Across Systems
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – Emoji Records Management
Emory University acquires archive of dancers Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder
University of California San Diego to salvage the lost audio recordings of polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk
Diving into Computational Archival Science
The Newberry Provides Digital Access to Over 200,000 Images Documenting History of Early America and U.S. Westward Expansion
A Rare Collection of 19th-Century Photographs of Native Americans Goes Online
She spent her life archiving African-Americans’ story. Now a rare photo is telling hers.
A slave taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey. She’s made telling his story her life’s work
Intimate Portraits Capture a Look at New York’s Last Indie Booksellers
Santa Barbara Library contacted during the Golden State Killer Investigation
Inspiring the future: why Apple should establish an official public archive
Bold and bored: the 1960s American dream in pictures
How Photography Defined the Great Depression
Solved: a Decades-Old Ansel Adams Mystery
Archivists on the Issues: Access and Inclusion in the Reading Room
Grappling with our Difficult Past: how Can Archivists Help?
Community Rules as Documents
Societal Logic from Archives, a Dying Concept
Resourceful Records Managers: Eira Tansey, University of Cincinnati
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives scholarships help researchers unlock Australia’s history
Australia – Parking fees jacked up as jobs slashed from National Archives, National Library
Queensland (Australia) Government Recordkeeping – The last hiccup to going digital: signatures
Archives New Zealand – Why records are restricted, and how you can see them
Singapore – 18,000 historical documents donated by community to National Library and National Archives
Sri Lanka – The National Archives
India – How digital tools can help in the preservation of our languages
State of right to information in Pakistan
Europe / Europa
Will blockchain run afoul of General Data Protection Regulation? (Yes and no)
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – Lotte Porges: the Story Behind the Photograph
The King and the Crown Princess attend 400th anniversary of the Swedish National Archives
The Hitler diaries: how hoax documents became the most infamous fake news ever
The Special Archive Moscow: in Search of Lost Judaica
From Russia’s Secret Espionage Archives: the Art of the Dangle
Inside the ambitious plan to decode and digitize the Vatican Secret Archives
Archives de l’État en Belgique – Dossiers de dommages de guerre : un million de fiches consultables en ligne
Sémantisation et visualisation de métadonnées archivistiques : mise en ligne du prototype français Pilote d’interopérabilité pour les autorités archivistiques françaises
Ireland – Digital film archive gives life to fight for independence
Ireland – Half a million books to be moved and €10m spent to preserve National Library collections
Ireland – Secret files reveal how deeply the Easter Rising affected Irishmen serving in first World War
UK National Archives – Playing Pilgrim: significance and fun in historical games
UK National Archives – Announcing a royal birth
It’s now easier than ever to browse the online archives of the UK government
British Library – The race to save history’s sounds
British Library – Star Wars in the Web Archive
British Library – What do deep learning, community archives, Livy and the politics of artefacts have in common?
British Library – Over 2,000 pages in gold: Sultan Baybars’ Qur’an now online
The UK Web Archive: Online Enthusiast Communities in the UK
Sir Paul donates dozens of Linda McCartney photos to Victoria and Albert Museum
Digital Preservation at Oxford and Cambridge – Closing the digitization gap
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
eBay, Organized Crime, and Evangelical Christians: the Ethical Minefield of Studying Ancient Civilizations
Oman – Heritage Minister reviews archives, records work progress
Turkey – Beyoğlu exhibition showcases Ottoman financial archives
International
International Council on Archives Executive Board 2018 in Vincennes: Summary
La Croix-rouge au service des disparus de la Seconde guerre mondiale
Survivor visits International Tracing Service
Is Linked Data an Appropriate Technology for Implementing an Archive’s Catalogue?
Flashpoint is archiving Flash games before they disappear forever
Why analogue design still endures
How to recover your precious data from a seemingly-dead computer
Gmail update sparks public records concern