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Documentary Heritage News
December 15, 2017May 2, 2021

Vol. 11, no. 15

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State
Librarian and Archivist of Canada Speech – Don’t Know much about Geography: Perspectives on Local, Regional and Territorial Archives 
https://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/news/2017/12/don_t_know_much_aboutgeographyperspectivesonlocalregionalandterr.html

U.S. Council of State Archivists – Attracting and Retaining Great Talent: Government Records Archives and Records Management as a Career
http://www.statearchivists.org/download_file/view/678/2123/

State Archives of North Carolina – Functional Schedule for State Agencies
http://archives.ncdcr.gov/documents/functional-schedule-state-agencies

Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Australia) – Final Report: Volume 8: Recordkeeping and Information Sharing
https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/final_report_-_volume_8_recordkeeping_and_information_sharing.pdf

National Library of Scotland – Annual Report and Financial Statements 2016-2017
http://www.nls.uk/media/1548710/2016-2017-annual-accounts.pdf

Archives’ Call to Digital Humanities: a Case Study of Portuguese Municipal Archives
http://www.academia.edu/35345533/Archives_call_to_Digital_Humanities_a_case_study_of_Portuguese_Municipal_Archives

De la communauté / From the community
Royal Society of Archivists in the Netherlands – Archives in Liquid Times
http://kvan.nl/images/SAP/Archives_in_Liquid_Times.pdf

Digital Preservation Declaration of Shared Values (for Community Feedback)
http://educopia.org/announcements/digital-preservation-declaration-shared-values-call-community-feedback

University of California Guidelines for Born-Digital Archival Description
http://saaers.wordpress.com/2017/12/12/introducing-the-uc-guidelines-for-born-digital-archival-description/

Ontario Council of University Libraries – Open Educational Resources White Paper
https://ocul.on.ca/node/6828

OCLC – Convenience and Compliance: Case Studies on Persistent Identifiers in European Research Information Management
http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2017/oclcresearch-convenience-compliance-rim-europe.html

OECD – Reports: Sustainable Research Data Repositories & International Research Nets
http://www.cni.org/news/two-new-oecd-reports-sustainable-research-data-repositories-international-research-nets

The Evolving Landscape of Federated Research Data Infrastructures 
http://www.rd-alliance.org/evolving-landscape-federated-research-data-infrastructures-knowledge-exchange-new-report

Paper – Archives without Archives: a Window of Opportunity to Build an Inclusive Archives in South Africa 
http://www.unisa.ac.za/sites/corporate/default/Colleges/Human-Sciences/News-&-events/Articles/SA-archives-are-without-archives

Article – Difficulties of Timestamping Archived Web Pages
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.03140.pdf

Publications
Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture, vol. 46, no. 4 (2017)
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/pdtc.2017.46.issue-4/issue-files/pdtc.2017.46.issue-4.xml

Library Hi Tech, vol. 35, no. 4 (2017)
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/lht/35/4

Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Studies, vol. 67, no. 4 (2017)
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/libr.2017.67.issue-4/issue-files/libr.2017.67.issue-4.xml

Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 7, no. 11 (2017)
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/November_2017

National Library of Scotland Discover Magazine, no. 36 (2017)
http://www.nls.uk/about-us/publications/discover

Cathedral Archives, Libraries & Collections Association Newsletter (Winter 2017)
http://cathedrallibrariesandarchives.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/calca-newsletter-winter-2017.pdf

London Metropolitan Archives Quarterly Newsletter, no. 31 (2017)
http://mailchi.mp/cityoflondon/fw4uu4pbje-812997

Silhouettes: the Associates of the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Newsletter, no. 43 and 44 (2017)
No. 43: http://archives.gnb.ca/Associates/Newsletters/2016-43-Fall-e.pdf
No. 44: http://archives.gnb.ca/Associates/Newsletters/2017-44-Spring-e.pdf

The Halcyon: the Newsletter of the Friends of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto), no. 60 (2017)
http://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/sites/fisher.library.utoronto.ca/files/halcyon_dec_2017_web.pdf

ISO 18626:2017 – Information and Documentation – Interlibrary Loan Transactions
http://www.iso.org/standard/73679.html

Livrel – Livre d’or : 50 ans de l’Association des archivistes du Québec
http://50ans.archivistes.qc.ca/livre-or-compilation/

Book – Lost and Living (in) Archives: Collectively Shaping New Memories
http://www.artbook.com/9789492095268.html 

Book – Defining Documents in World History: Women’s History (1791-2017)
http://www.salempress.com/press_titles.html?book=542 

Book – Rare Treasures from the Library of the Natural History Museum
http://www.nhmshop.co.uk/rare-treasures-from-the-library-of-the-natural-history-museum.html 

Book – The Museum in the Digital Age: New Media and Novel Methods of Mediation
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/the-museum-in-the-digital-age 

Book – Reference and Information Services: an Introduction (Fourth Edition)
http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=12009 

Book – Performing the Remembered Present: the Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music 
http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/performing-the-remembered-present-9781474284714/ 

Book – The Practicalities of Performance: Manuscripts, Records, and Staging: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies
http://www.routledge.com/The-Practicalities-of-Early-English-Performance-Manuscripts-Records/Meredith-Marshall/p/book/9781472486288 

Book – The U.S. Freedom of Information Act at 50
http://www.routledge.com/The-US-Freedom-of-Information-Act-at-50/Hopkins/p/book/9781138576087 

Livre – Historien à l’âge numérique
http://www.enssib.fr/presses/catalogue/historien-lage-numerique

Livre – Mémoire d’une élite : histoire de la bibliothèque du Collège classique de Thetford
https://www.courrierfrontenac.qc.ca/publication-dun-volume-lhistoire-de-bibliotheque-college-classique/

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Massive Open Online Course – Research Data Management and Sharing
Starting January 1, 2018
http://www.coursera.org/learn/data-management

Library 2.018: Design Thinking
March 8, 2018, San Jose
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/library-2018-design-thinking-how-librarians-are-incorporating-it-into-their-practice-registration-41114249828

International Internet Preservation Consortium – Web Archiving Histories and Futures
November 13-15, 2018, Wellington (New Zealand)
http://netpreserve.org/ga2018/call-for-papers/

Library Associations: a Call to Action: National Advocacy and the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (Recording Available)
December 4, 2017
http://www.itu.int/webcast/archive/library/

Les archives : quoi de neuf ? (vidéo disponible)
12 décembre 2017, Paris
http://youtu.be/fay54KsLj0w

Sur le web / On the web
Jewish Museum & Archives of B.C. Podcast – What is Hanukkah?
http://jewishmuseum.ca/what-is-hanukkah/

Ligne du temps – 50 ans de l’Association des archivistes du Québec
http://50ans.archivistes.qc.ca/ligne-temps-vie-association/

South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – Peace River Country Land Settlement Database
http://southpeacearchives.org/land-settlement-information/

Historical Reminiscents Podcast – Demystifying Archival Labour: Preservation
http://kristamccracken.ca/?p=1560

Library of Congress Video – Concert: Archives Challenge 
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=8130

UK National Archives – Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of the Empire
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/sylvia-pankhurst-suffragette-socialist-scourge-of-the-empire.mp3

Baladodiffusion – La Fabrique de l’histoire : série sur les archives
Le métier d’archiviste, les archives départementales : http://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-fabrique-de-lhistoire/archive-14-le-metier-darchiviste-les-archives-departementales
Les archives de la recherche, des associations et des partis politiques : http://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-fabrique-de-lhistoire/archive-24-les-archives-de-la-recherche-des-associations-et-des-partis-politiques
Les archives audiovisuelles : http://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-fabrique-de-lhistoire/archive-34-les-archives-audiovisuelles
L’État et les archives : https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-fabrique-de-lhistoire/archive-44-letat-et-les-archives

Video – Indigenous Recording Project Symposium
http://youtu.be/xt2UVPWbnNA

Video – AV Archiving in the Cultural Heritage Sector
http://youtu.be/rGbB7HQIcb0

Slides – Supporting Data Literacy 
http://www.slideshare.net/libereurope/liber-webinar-supporting-data-literacy

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
The Supreme Court says your text messages could be considered private even after you send them
http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/text-messages-can-be-considered-private-even-once-received-supreme-court-says

The Fight for Fair Copyright Returns: Canadian Government Launches Major Copyright Review
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2017/12/faircopyrightreturns/

Comments Regarding the Response to the e-Petition on Crown Copyright 
http://sites.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/wakaruk/fixcrowncopyright

Open data standards will improve public information
http://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/december-2017/open-data-standards-will-improve-public-information/

Residential-school survivor gets permission from government to donate documents
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/residential-school-survivor-gets-permission-from-government-to-donate-documents/article37323211/

Don’t destroy gay-sex records, historians urge as bill moves through Commons
http://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/dont-destroy-gay-sex-records-historians-urge-as-feds-move-bill-through-commons

Canadian media organizations grapple with requests to unpublish articles
http://www.nsnews.com/cmlink/gmg-glacier-media-group/2.2062/canadian-media-organizations-grapple-with-requests-to-unpublish-articles-1.23117227

Library and Archives Canada wins innovation award at Francophone libraries’ Livres Hebdo
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/2017/Project-Naming.aspx

Library and Archives Canada – Portraits on Metal: Tintypes from Library and Archives Canada, an exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada
http://thediscoverblog.com/2017/12/13/portraits-on-metal-tintypes-from-library-and-archives-canada-an-exhibition-at-the-national-gallery-of-canada/

Library and Archives Canada – Guest curator: Katie Cholette
https://thediscoverblog.com/2017/12/14/guest-curator-katie-cholette/

Sir John Thompson’s Hollywood moment
http://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/milnes-sir-john-thompsons-hollywood-moment

British Library – The 1867 British North America Act
http://blogs.bl.uk/americas/2017/12/the-1867-british-north-america-act.html

Radio-Canada recherche des partenaires pour assurer la pérénnité de son patrimoine
http://www.cbc.radio-canada.ca/fr/centre-de-presse/2017/12/12/

Modernizing the Canada Science and Technology Museum through Open Heritage
http://blogs.opentext.com/modernizing-canada-science-technology-museum-open-heritage/

Cold vault included in Yukon Archives $6M expansion
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-archives-expansion-1.4444287

Saskatchewan – Amendments to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act Proclaimed
https://oipc.sk.ca/amendments-to-the-freedom-of-information-and-protection-of-privacy-act-and-the-local-authority-freedom-of-information-and-protection-of-privacy-act-proclaimed/

Prince Edward Island – Preserving government text messages is easy, Green MLA tells legislature
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-government-text-messages-1.4447936

Friends of the B.C. Archives – Christmas in the Archives
http://friendsofbcarchives.wordpress.com/2016/12/23/christmas-in-the-archives/

Archives of Manitoba – First World War postcards
http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/ww1blog/#dec11

Québec : lancement d’une base de données des avis de décès
http://www.rfgenealogie.com/s-informer/infos/medias-web/quebec-lancement-d-une-base-de-donnees-des-avis-de-deces

BAnQ – Pas besoin d’être détective pour construire son arbre généalogique
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/les-malins/segments/chronique/50635/genealogie-banq-gatineau

BAnQ – Noël, de Sept-Îles à Schefferville
http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/instantanes/2017/12/13/noel-de-sept-iles-a-schefferville/

Les 202 numéros de la revue les herbes rouges désormais en ligne sur le site de Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
http://www.lesherbesrouges.com/mars-2017/2017/12/11/les-202-numros-de-la-revue-les-herbes-rouges-dsormais-en-ligne-sur-le-site-de-banq

Hundreds of Indigenous human remains at Canadian universities
http://aptnnews.ca/2017/12/12/hundreds-of-indigenous-human-remains-at-canadian-universities/

Saint Mary’s University historian creating Halifax Explosion database
http://www.halifaxtoday.ca/local-news/saint-marys-university-historian-creating-halifax-explosion-database-779347

University of Northern British Columbia – Northern BC Rail Transportation: from Backlog to Foreground
http://bcstudies.com/?q=blog/archive-matters-northern-bc-rail-transportation-backlog-foreground

Decolonizing the museum: University of Toronto graduate student looks at ways of honouring Indigenous artifacts
http://www.utoronto.ca/news/decolonizing-museum-u-t-graduate-student-looks-ways-honouring-indigenous-artifacts

Out of the dark, into the light: McGill University to get visible storage gallery
http://news.library.mcgill.ca/out-of-the-dark-into-the-light-mcgill-to-get-visible-storage-gallery/

McGill University – Open data: more standards, more useful
http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2017/12/open-data-more-standards-more-useful/

McGill University – Borrowing a leaf from biology to preserve threatened languages
http://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/borrowing-leaf-biology-preserve-threatened-languages-283334

University of Victoria – Historic photos show how Canada’s mountains have changed in 150 years
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/mountain-legacy-project-website-climate-change-1.4443322

University of Saskatchewan – Open Access is just the Beginning
https://words.usask.ca/ceblipblog/2017/12/12/open-access-is-just-the-beginning/

Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse – À l’approche de Nöel
http://www.uhearst.ca/archives/index.php/2017/12/12/a-lapproche-de-noel/

Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – The Hand of God Has Been Laid Heavily Upon Us: 100 Years Since the Halifax Explosion
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2017/12/the-hand-of-god-has-been-laid-heavily.html

Toronto home to largest independent LGBTQ2 archive in world
https://www.insidetoronto.com/community-story/7985625-toronto-home-to-largest-independent-lgbtq2-archive-in-world/

Archives de la ville de Québec – La Collection Beauregard
http://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/culture_patrimoine/archives/blogue/billet-collection-beauregard.aspx

Region of Waterloo refuses records to lawyer
http://www.lawtimesnews.com/author/alex-robinson/region-of-waterloo-refuses-records-to-lawyer-15074/

Dufferin County Museum & Archives (Ontario) to close its doors during renovations
http://citizen.on.ca/?p=10526

Arrow Lakes Historical Society (B.C.) – Nakusp’s history being perserved in digital form
http://www.nelsonstar.com/community/nakusps-history-being-perserved-in-digital-form/

B.C. – Local historian Greg Scott awarded Nelson’s Heritage Award
http://thenelsondaily.com/news/local-historian-greg-scott-awarded-nelsons-heritage-award-46195

Exploration Place (Prince George, B.C.) – Ben Ginter a big part of B.C. brewing history
http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/news/local-news/ben-ginter-a-big-part-of-b-c-brewing-history-1.23117240

10 millions de négatifs à vendre
http://www.journaldequebec.com/2017/12/10/10-millions-de-negatifs-a-vendre

La mémoire en photos
http://www.lapresse.ca/vivre/societe/201712/08/01-5146420-la-memoire-en-photos.php

Insertion sociale en contexte d’archives : une expérience gratifiante
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2017/12/11/insertion_sociale/

Re-imagining Archival Exhibit II
http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/re-imagining-archival-exhibit-ii-andrew-chernevych/

From poutine to windchill: which Canadian cultural intangibles are worthy of UNESCO’s recognition?
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-december-08-2017-the-current-1.4437902/from-poutine-to-windchill-which-canadian-cultural-intangibles-are-worthy-of-unesco-s-recognition-1.4437951

Afrique / Africa
Kenya – Access to information blocked
http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2017/12/08/access-to-information-blocked_c1681256

Burundi: Truth and Reconciliation Commission Faces Several Problems
http://allafrica.com/stories/201712130408.html

Les détails de la remise du patrimoine de l’Instance équité et réconciliation aux Archives du Maroc
http://m.le360.ma/societe/les-details-de-la-remise-du-patrimoine-de-lier-aux-archives-du-maroc-146387

La bibliothèque et les archives nationales de Tunisie présentent un fonds numérique et documentaire consacré à la révolution tunisienne
http://www.huffpostmaghreb.com/2017/12/13/archives-revolution-tunis_n_18807672.html

Amériques / Americas
Developing a low-cost, fast book digitization workflow for use in Michoacán, Mexico
http://davidallynbliss.com/projects/hijuelas-digitization-workflow/

Next Generation Records Management Comes to the US Federal Government
http://nextgenrm.com/2017/12/11/next-generation-records-management-comes-to-the-us-federal-government/

The U.S. Has Way Too Many Secrets: a Q&A with Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive
http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-09/the-u-s-has-way-too-many-secrets

Keeping public information public: an introduction to federal records laws
http://www.districtdispatch.org/2017/12/keeping-public-info-public/

NARA – Memorandum: Unauthorized Disposition Web Pages
https://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/memos/ac08-2018

Library of Congress – 2017 National Film Registry Is More than a Field of Dreams
http://www.loc.gov/item/prn-17-178/

Library of Congress – Select National Film Registry Titles Now Available Free Online
http://www.loc.gov/item/prn-17-179/

Library of Congress – Memory Lab Network: an interview with Project Manager Lorena Ramirez-Lopez
http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2017/12/memory-lab-network-an-interview-with-project-manager-lorena-ramirez-lopez/

Department of Justice on the hunt for ancient artifacts now in the hands of ISIS
http://nypost.com/2017/12/07/doj-on-the-hunt-for-ancient-artifacts-now-in-the-hands-of-isis/

National Library of Medicine – Models: the Third Leg in Data-Driven Discovery
http://nlmdirector.nlm.nih.gov/2017/12/12/models-the-third-leg-in-data-driven-discovery/

Archivists on the issues: net freedom and the Federal Communication Commission
http://issuesandadvocacy.wordpress.com/2017/12/12/archivists-on-the-issues-net-freedom-and-the-federal-communication-commission/

Are text messages among government officials public records? Missouri’s top lawyer says yes 
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/are-text-messages-among-government-officials-public-records-missouri-s/article_93f3e678-def4-5742-be3e-9c88f38e2ccb.html

Tennessee – State Breaks Ground on $120M Library And Archives Along Bicentennial Mall
http://nashvillepublicradio.org/post/state-breaks-ground-120m-library-and-archives-along-bicentennial-mall

Florida – Criminal charges rare in public records violations
http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/weather/criminal-charges-rare-public-records-violations/v7LaOJrQGZy6DOZAsOHs4O/

University of Texas – Gabriel García Márquez’s Archive Freely Available Online
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/arts/gabriel-garcia-marquez-archive-online.html

University of Texas – Harry Ransom Center acquires Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry collection
http://sites.utexas.edu/ransomcentermagazine/2017/10/23/harry-ransom-center-acquires-dean-f-echenberg-war-poetry-collection/

Stanford University – Bizarre, Enormous 16th-Century Map Assembled for First Time
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/cartography-gigantic-ancient-map-urbano-monte/

Tulane University adds digital archives to document LGBTQ+ history
http://tulanehullabaloo.com/34874/showcase/newcomb-adds-digital-archives-document-lgbtq-history/

The Kamil and Rifat Chadirji Photographic Archive comes to Aga Khan Documentation Center at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://networks.h-net.org/node/7636/discussions/1045321/announcement-kamil-and-rifat-chadirji-photographic-archive-comes

University of Houston launches oral history project to chronicle human impact of Hurricane Harvey
http://m.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/UH-launches-oral-history-project-to-chronicle-12425082.php

Fil-Am activists, scholars, artists start Philippine’s Marcos Martial Law era archive
http://usa.inquirer.net/8591/fil-activists-scholars-artists-start-marcos-martial-law-era-archive

Henry Jenkins interviews Abigail De Kosnik on Rogue Archives
http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/news-research/1430/henry-jenkins-interviews-gail-de-kosnik-on-rogue-archives

How a New York museum inadvertently built one of the largest archives of Indian cinema
http://qz.com/1149722/how-new-yorks-george-eastman-museum-inadvertently-built-one-of-the-largest-archives-of-indian-cinema/

Digital Archives and Historic Broadcasts Released to Celebrate New York Philharmonic’s 175th Birthday
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Digital-Archives-And-Historic-Broadcasts-Released-to-Celebrate-New-York-Philharmonics-175th-Birthday-20171207

Why Experts Don’t Believe this Is a Rare First Map of America
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/10/arts/design/why-experts-dont-believe-this-is-a-rare-first-map-of-america.html

Take a behind-the-scenes look at Hallmark’s archives, including two of the first mass-produced Christmas cards
http://fox4kc.com/2017/12/08/take-a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-hallmarks-archives-including-two-of-the-first-mass-produced-christmas-cards/

Inside Herman Miller’s Vast Archives
http://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/inside-herman-miller-vast-archives-midcentury-modern-design

Judge denies heirs request to move Prince’s archive amid California wildfires
http://www.valleynewslive.com/content/news/Judge-denies-heirs-request-to-move-Princes-archive-amid-California-wildfires-463459773.html

Baseball Hall of Fame’s digital strategist lands at HistoryIT as chief tech officer
http://www.mainebiz.biz/article/20171207/NEWS01/171209962/baseball-hall-of-fame’s-digital-strategist-lands-at-historyit-as-chief-tech-officer

Being a Black Archivist: Six Years in the Profession
http://www.ashleydstevens.com/blog/2017/12/13/being-a-black-archivist-six-years-in-the-profession

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia – Notice of intention to issue a records disposal freeze in relation to the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry
http://www.naa.gov.au/about-us/20171214-RDF-banking.aspx

National Library of Australia embraces digital future
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/631141/national-library-embraces-digital-future/

State Archives and Records of New South Wales (Australia) looks to machine learning
http://www.itnews.com.au/news/nsw-govt-records-overseer-looks-to-machine-learning-473380

Queensland State Archives (Australia) – Annual records round-up: disposal
http://grkblog.archives.qld.gov.au/2017/12/14/annual-records-round-up-disposal/

Archives New Zealand and National Library bursting at the seams
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/99634425/archives-nz-and-national-library-bursting-at-the-seams

Taiwan’s Transitional Justice: Reconciliation and forgiveness ought to be the guiding principles
http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/talkingturkey/taiwans-transitional-justice-reconciliation-and-forgiveness-ought-to-be-the-guiding-principles/

Vietnam – Colonial records on display
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/art-entertainment/191681/colonial-records-on-display.html

Emergence of modern, democratic Thailand displayed in Memory of the World collection
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30333577

Malaysia: new silver coin celebrates National Archives anniversary
http://news.coinupdate.com/malaysia-new-silver-coin-celebrates-national-archives-anniversary/

Nepal – Old ways working well for National Archive
http://thehimalayantimes.com/kathmandu/old-ways-working-well-national-archive/

Three Indonesian Archives Recognized as Collective Memory of the World
http://www.en.netralnews.com/news/culture/read/16127/three.indonesian.archives.recognized.as.collective.memory.of.the.world

India – Captured in 2 petabytes, 23,000 hours of beloved music, dance and cultural pieces
http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/captured-in-2-petabytes-23000-hours-of-beloved-music-dance-and-cultural-pieces-4980319/

Europe / Europa
Dive into Europeana to listen to the sea
http://blog.europeana.eu/2017/12/dive-into-europeana-to-listen-to-the-sea/

Unique archive of secret Yiddish books return to Lithuanian library
http://www.thejc.com/news/world/unique-archive-of-secret-yiddish-books-return-to-lithuanian-library-1.449914

Italie – Venice Time Machine, un canal à remonter le temps
http://www.lemonde.fr/tant-de-temps/article/2017/12/13/venice-time-machine-un-canal-a-remonter-le-temps_5229068_4598196.html

Suisse – Vers une numérisation accélérée des actes authentiques électroniques
http://www.admin.ch/gov/fr/accueil/documentation/communiques.msg-id-69137.html

Suisse – Lire d’anciens documents scellés sans les ouvrir
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/lire-d-anciens-documents-scelles-sans-les-ouvrir/

L’interminable et coûteux chantier du site Richelieu de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
http://www.actualitte.com/article/monde-edition/l-interminable-et-couteux-chantier-du-site-richelieu-de-la-bnf/86043

France  – Un chercheur réclame l’ouverture du verrou des archives de l’Elysée sur le génocide rwandais 
https://www.voaafrique.com/a/un-chercheur-reclame-l-ouverture-du-verrou-des-archives-de-l-elysee-sur-le-genocide-rwandais/4162134.html

Marquis de Sade erotic novel, or some quantum theory? You choose
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-manuscripts/marquis-de-sade-erotic-novel-or-some-quantum-theory-you-choose-idUSKBN1E61JQ

Ireland – Military Archives unveil remarkable new collection 
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2017/1214/927242-archives/

The Origins of Scottish Copperplate Engraving 
http://claimedfromstationershall.wordpress.com/2017/12/05/the-origins-of-scottish-copperplate-engraving-musical-and-otherwise/

UK National Archives – Citation Capture research project announced
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/citation-capture-research-project-announced/

UK National Archives – Disabled British Army Great War veterans, 1918-1939 
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/disabled-british-army-great-war-veterans-1918-1939-2/

UK National Archives – Deaf and dumb: disabled Victorian civil servants
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/deaf-dumb-victorian-disabled-civil-servants/

UK National Archives – Post-war Thailand and the onset of the Cold War in Southeast Asia 
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/post-war-thailand-onset-cold-war-southeast-asia/

UK National Archives – The battle for heavy water 
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/battle-heavy-water/

British Library – Hostess with the mostest… and so much more: introducing the Ishbel MacDonald Archive
http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/12/hostess-with-the-most-ess-and-so-much-more-introducing-the-ishbel-macdonald-archive.html

An Introduction to the Peking Gazette at the British Library
http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2017/12/an-introduction-to-the-peking-gazette-at-the-british-library.html

Advocating for digital preservation
http://www.dpoc.ac.uk/2017/12/08/advocating-for-digital-preservation/

Digitisation, Contract Negotiation, Rights Management and you
http://www.townswebarchiving.com/2017/12/digitisation-contract-negotiation-rights-management/

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Emptying Libraries Weakens Democracy: IFLA Statement on the Destruction of Library Books in Turkey
http://www.ifla.org/node/18602

Names Written in Blood and Rust: Documenting Syria’s Disappeared
http://ijpr.org/post/names-written-blood-and-rust-documenting-syrias-disappeared

Push Underway to Keep Jewish Artifacts From Returning to Iraq
http://jewishjournal.com/news/nation/228342/push-underway-keep-jewish-artifacts-returning-iraq/

Now-dispersed Iraqi Jewish community fights for access to its legacy
https://www.timesofisrael.com/now-dispersed-iraqi-jewish-community-fights-for-access-to-its-legacy/

United Arab Emirates – The National Archives trains government entities employees on files inventory
http://www.na.ae/en/mediacenter/news/news.aspx?ID=11050

International
League of Nations archives being digitised
http://swopforum.wordpress.com/2017/12/13/league-of-nations-archives-being-digitised/

Wikidata in Collections: Building a Universal Language for Connecting GLAM Catalogs
https://medium.com/@alexstinson/wikidata-in-collections-building-a-universal-language-for-connecting-glam-catalogs-59b14aa3214c

Archiving my Archives: Removing Ancient Emails from Google
http://terenz.io/blog/20171208_archiving_my_archives.html

Archaeologists Are Only Just Beginning to Reveal the Secrets Hidden in these Ancient Manuscripts
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/archaeologoists-only-just-beginning-reveal-secrets-hidden-ancient-manuscripts-180967455/

The Time and Place for PDF: an Interview with Duff Johnson of the PDF Association
http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2017/12/the-time-and-place-for-pdf-an-interview-with-duff-johnson-of-the-pdf-association/

Knowledge management : de quoi parle-t-on ?
http://www.cellie.fr/2017/11/29/knowledge-management-de-quoi-parle-t-on/

Thirteen Wonderfully Specific Libraries Reveal their Oldest Treasures
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/oldest-library-books-small-specific-libraries-manuscripts

The Death of Storify, Difficult Alternatives, and the Need to Steward our Data Responsibly
http://ianmilligan.ca/2017/12/13/the-death-of-storify-difficult-alternatives-and-the-need-to-steward-our-data-responsibly/

Enriching Book Metadata is Marketing in the Digital Age 
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2017/12/07/enriching-metadata-is-marketing/

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