Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Archives nationales de France – Registre des entrées d’archives 2017
British Library – Format Preservation Assessments
Swisspeace – Guiding Principles for Safe Havens for Archives at Risk (Draft for Comments)
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology – Blockchain Technology Overview (Draft)
Australian Digital Transformation Agency – Secure Cloud Strategy
De la communauté / From the community
UNESCO – Reshaping Cultural Policies: Advancing Creativity for Development
American Art Collaborative Linked Open Data Initiative – Overview and Recommendations for Good Practices
OCLC – Descriptive Metadata for Web Archiving Reports
Literature Review of User Needs: https://www.oclc.org/content/research/publications/2018/oclcresearch-descriptive-metadata-literature-review.html
Recommendations of the OCLC Research Library Partnership Web Archiving Metadata Working Group:https://www.oclc.org/content/research/publications/2018/oclcresearch-descriptive-metadata-recommendations.html
Review of Harvesting Tools: https://www.oclc.org/content/research/publications/2018/oclcresearch-descriptive-metadata-harvesting-tools.html
Delft University of Technology – Views on Data Stewardship: Report of Preliminary Findings at Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management
Historic England – 3D Laser Scanning for Heritage
Laboratoire de cyberjustice (Université de Montréal) – Cas d’usages ou de test de la blockchain par les institutions
IFLA – Survey on Preservation Standards, Guidelines, and Best Practices
IFLA – Response on European Union Consultation on Fake News
Towards an Open Research Knowledge Graph
Publications
Code4lib Journal, no. 39 (2018)
Journal of Documentation, vol. 74, no. 2 (2018)
Library Hi Tech, vol. 36, no. 1 (2018)
Café Dissensus, no. 42, 2018 (Special Issue: Digital Archiving in the 21st Century)
Them Days: Stories of Early Labrador, vol. 41, no. 4 (2017)
La mémoire du travail : bulletin du Centre d’histoire et d’archives du travail, vol. 4, no 4 (2017)
International Council on Archives – Guide to Image Archive Management Solutions (for ICA Members)
Book – The Birth of the Archive: a History of Knowledge
Book – Activating the Heart: Storytelling, Knowledge Sharing, and Relationship
Book – Technological Innovations in Knowledge Management and Decision Support
Book – Academic Librarianship (Second Edition)
Book – Surveillance Valley: the Secret Military History of the Internet
Book – Dissensual Subjects: Memory, Human Rights, and Postdictatorship in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay
Book – Propertizing European Copyright: History, Challenges and Opportunities
Book – Hacking and Freedom of Information (Opposing Viewpoints)
Book – Salerno to the Gustav Line 1943-1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Book – Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management (Fourth Edition)
Livre – Frère Marie-Victorin : lettres biologiques
Livre – 68: les archives du pouvoir: chroniques inédites d’un état face à la crise
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
University of British Columbia Rare Books and Special Collections – What’s Old Is New Again
Until February 13, 2018, Vancouver
University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library – Ginsberg Photo Exhibition
Until April 27, 2018, Toronto
University of British Columbia iSchool – Research Day
March 9, 2018, Vancouver
Records and Information from the Ground Up: Managing the Forest from the Weeds
March 15, 2018, Winnipeg
Archives Society of Alberta – Archives Institute
April 16-21, 2018, Edmonton
Historiographical Innovations: a Conference on Emerging Historical Practices
November 1-2, 2018, McMaster University
État, conditions et diffusion de la recherche en archivistique : colloque du Groupe interdisciplinaire de recherche en archivistique
30 novembre 2018, Montréal
Webinar – How to Work Together Successfully with E-Humanities and E-Heritage Research Infrastructures
February 13, 2018
OCLC Webinar – Mitigating Microaggressions in Virtual Reference
February 21, 2018
Using Blockchain to Create Trust in Digital Archives
March 8, 2018, Surrey (UK)
Shared Service and Common Purpose: Digital Preservation as Infrastructure
March 20, 2018, London (UK)
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative 2018
September 10-13, 2018, University of Porto (Portugal)
Association for Library and Information Science Education Annual Conference (Proceedings Available)
February 6-9, 2018, Denver
Sur le web / On the web
Video – Time Capsule: Step Inside City of Saskatoon Archives
Historical Reminiscents Podcast: Ableism and Accessibility in Public History
U.S. Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative – New Audio Digitization Performance Testing Guidelines and Software
Vidéos – Barcamp des Archives nationales de France
Vidéo des Archives de l’État en Belgique – Thesaurus of Early Modern Archival Sources
UK National Archives – Suffrage 100 Web Portal
Podcast – Rebecca Hankins, Archivist, Diversity and my Career
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canadian CEOs and academics push Ottawa for national big-data strategy
Many Canadian organizations unprepared for the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation compliance deadline
RCMP backlogged with access-to-information requests from its own staff
Solicitor-client info must be kept from information commissioner’s prying eyes, say lawyers
Voilà: Canada’s new union catalogue is anti-discovery
Library and Archives Canada – John Armstrong Howard, Canada’s first Black Olympian
Library and Archives Canada – New Princes’ Toronto Band
Crowdfunding Campaign Launched for Archives Association of Ontario Organizational History Book
Ontario Genealogical Society – Ontario Church Photo Collection
Museum Mystery Suitcase: how the Royal BC Museum is boosting socialization among seniors
B.C. Court of Appeal rules that production orders can be issued to persons with only virtual presence in Canada
Archives of Manitoba – Winnipeg Will Suffer Heavily: Charles A.R. Gordon’s 1916 War Diary
BAnQ – Revendications territoriales : d’hier à aujourd’hui
New in University of Saskatchewan’s Archives and Special Collections: 2017 edition
Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française – Nomination de Geneviève Piché à titre de responsable des archives
Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse – Belle découverte
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Groundhogs, mind your own beeswax
Vingt photos de Montréal il y a 120 ans
Dix secrets sur l’hôtel de ville de Montréal
Archives de la ville de Québec – Exposition Vie de quartier
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority closes libraries in favour of web resources
The Regina that could have been: talk focused on influential architect looks at early plans for city
Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery introduces Métis liaison
Canadians would be shocked: survivors, lawyers describe treatment at Nanaimo Indian Hospital
Les sociétés historiques sur le qui-vive
Paradise (Newfoundland) destruction of records careless and negligent: information commissioner
Coquitlam Archives (B.C.) is outgrowing its space
Burglars steal Bowden (Alberta) museum artifacts
City hires Collections Coordinator for the Trail Museum and Archives (B.C.)
Un bâtiment avant-gardiste pourrait héberger les archives régionales de Saint-Claude (Manitoba)
Chambly – Archives inédites de la maison René-Boileau
Rossland Historical Museum (B.C.) – Upcoming Ski Exhibitions: Call for Objects, Stories, and Photographs
Dans les archives du Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse : des instants volés à l’oubli
École nationale des chartes – Thomas Chauveau effectue son stage de 4e année à Bibliothèque-Archives du Canada (2e partie)
Indigenous or a French colonist? How the fight over this 17th-century woman’s identity could affect tens of thousands of her descendants
Sir John A., revisited: a look at Canada’s first prime minister and his views on Indigenous people (by Elwood H. Jones, archivist, Trent Valley Archives)
Dématique et système d’archivage électronique (20): Tiers-hébergement vs. Tiers-archivage
Afrique / Africa
African Studies Centre Leiden awarded funding for new research project: Digitizing Dogon (Mali) heritage
Amériques / Americas
Technologie : inauguration de l’annexe 3 des Archives Nationales d’Haïti
Nobody Knows How Many Barack Obama-Era Presidential Records Are Missing
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/nobody-knows-how-many-obama-era-presidential-records-are-missing/
She Was Assaulted by the Head of the National Archives. Then the Bush White House Helped Cover it up
National Archives Does Not Tolerate Harassment
Society of American Archivists Statement on Sexual Assault and Harassment
Library of Congress – Digital Scholarship Resource Guide: Tools for Spatial Analysis (part 5 of 7)
National Library of Medicine – Reflections on Patient, and Family, Centered Care
Mass Surveillance and the Memory Hole
A state secret or a secret from the state: technology as an obstacle to the public’s right to know
State Archives of North Carolina – FAQ: Records Destruction Logs and Defensible Destruction
Librarians Harness the Potential of Blockchain Technology: Get Involved
Yale University – History comes alive at renovated Manuscripts and Archives Department
Pratt University School of Information Students to Partner with New York Times for Digital Archive Project
A huge trove of vintage movie posters from the University of Texas’s Ransom Center archive
A library without books? Universities purging dusty volumes
The NYPD spent decades spying on New Yorkers: now you can see what they collected
A Peek at Famous Readers’ Borrowing Records from a Private New York Library
Black photographers and the civil rights struggle
E. Leigh Bonds, Digital Humanities Librarian, Ohio State University – First Things First: Conducting an Environmental Scan
Gerry Canavan on the Octavia E. Butler Collection
Digital History Station at the Capital Area District Libraries
How a Radiologist’s 45 Years of Collecting American Manuscripts Fed a Museum Display about the Bible
Unearthing the original: Authentic photo proves Buffalo Bill is pictured
Considering Labor Models in Archives Work
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – The cabinet files show that we need to change the nature of record-keeping
Whitheld pending advice: three snapshots of Australia’s national archives reveal delays and anomalies in public access
Records and Information Management is everybody’s responsibility
Archival decolonist – Your neutral is not our neutral
Archival Decolonist – You should be grateful
Japan – Land ministry suspends plan to implement auto-delete rule for official emails
Taiwan – Council expands, finalizes draft bill on political data
Hong Kong democracy activists urge UK to release unseen files
Chinese invited to spend holiday with great ancient encyclopedia
India – Project to digitise old film reels sees priceless footage pour out of closet
India – Mughal, Nizam era documents could turn into ashes in State Archives
India – Government misses deadline for digitization of land records in Jammu, Srinagar distts
Europe / Europa
European consultation on implementing UNESCO’s 2015 Recommendation concerning the preservation of, and access to, documentary heritage including in digital form
Historical Archives of the European Union – You2TellEU presents its Archive to the public
Historical Archives of the European Union – European Science Foundation Archives now available for consultation
Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents – Teach yourself to read historical handwriting with Transkribus Learn
Will other countries follow Germany into battle with Elsevier?
Croatia – Heated Parliamentary Debate about Yogoslav Secret Service Archives
All Digital Collections at the Swedish National Archives are now Free to Search and View
1940-1941 letters describe destruction of Polish jewry
National Library of Poland acquires composer Henryk Mikolaj Górecki’s archives
L’usage du data mining pour améliorer le service public : étude expérimentale à la Bibliothèque de Turku, Finlande
Spain cracks King Ferdinand’s 500-year-old secret code
After 400 years lost, cursed novel of Spain’s imperial age is finally published
Where are the missing files on Switzerland’s top secret Cold War army?
Pasquale Orsini on Palaeographic Method
France – Archives essentielles : Françoise Nyssen ouvre le débat et donne rendez-vous en 2019
Ouverture d’un portail d’accès aux archives de l’Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides
Ireland – Digital project to recreate public record office destroyed by fire
What the National Library of Ireland archives tell us about the incredibly dramatic year of 1918
Ireland – Past and present combine for images from Troubles
Book of Kells: history of world’s most famous medieval manuscript rewritten after dramatic new research
Scottish Government’s handling of Freedom of Information under scrutiny
Preserving the Welsh Record: a bit at a time
Welsh librarian jailed after theft of Aberfan disaster files
Famed photography album at risk of leaving the UK: Arts minister steps in to prevent extraordinary collection from export
UK National Archives – Journey’s End: the trenches’ impact on mental health
UK National Archives – The Representation of the People Act 1918: votes for (some) women, finally
UK National Archives – Archaeological business as usual? Digging in the Hatay in the 1930s
British Library – Partition Voices wins Public History Prize
British Records Association – Launch of Janette Harley Prize
Research Councils UK sign up to Responsible Research Metrics Declaration
Fascinating insight into history revealed as centuries-old document is uncovered in archives
The 100-year-old protest posters that show women’s outrage
Guide: Sources of Funding for heritage digitisation projects
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
An archive of resistance: documenting Egypt’s revolution
Syrian archive: salvaging online videos as proof of war crimes in Syria
International
Rationalizing the Convergence of Records Information Management and Archiving Strategies
Trois enjeux communs pour les métadonnées en culture
The End of Data without Borders
Why Do People Still Think Data Is the New Oil?
Could Blockchain revolutionize government record keeping?
Can Blockchain Technology Solve Copyright Attribution Challenges of Digital Work?
Tell Us about the Most Amazing Things you’ve Found in Old Books
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