Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Government of Canada – Digital Principles (for Comments)
Brainstorming Report: Towards an Integrated Approach to Cultural Heritage for Europe
Association des archivistes suisses – 240 décisions d’évaluation d’archives publiques en ligne
De la communauté / From the community
International Council on Archives – Long Term Preservation of Digital Media Files: Guide Lines and Best Practices (for Members)
Réseau des services d’archives du Québec – Rapport annuel 2016-2017
OCLC – Research and Learning Agenda for Archives, Special, and Distinctive Collections in Research Libraries
OCLC – Research Information Management: Defining RIM and the Library’s Role
The User Rights Database: Measuring the Impact of Copyright Balance
Deloitte – Blockchain Control Principles in Financial Services
Article – Library of Congress Subject Headings Related to Indigenous Peoples: Changing LCSH for Use in a Canadian Archival Context
Publications
Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 45, no. 3 (2017)
Collection Management, vol. 42, no. 3-4 (2017)
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, vol. 55, no. 1 (2017)
Solo: the Lone Arrangers Quarterly Newsletter, vol. 2, no. 4 (2017)
Archives Association of Ontario – Off the Record (Fall 2017)
ISO 23081-1:2017 – Information and Documentation – Records Management Processes – Metadata for Records: Part 1: Principles
ISO 17068:2017 – Information and Documentation – Trusted Third Party Repository for Digital Records
Mémoire de maîtrise (Université de Montréal) – Application de la sémantique intertextuelle à la modélisation de constats d’infraction de la ville de Québec
Book – The Strehlow Archive: Explorations in Old and New Media
Book – Academic Crowdsourcing in the Humanities
Book – The Chief Butlers of Ireland and the House of Ormond: an Illustrated Genealogical Guide
Book – How to Think Like a Coder without Even Trying
Book – The Literary Culture of Early Modern Scotland: Manuscript Production and Transmission, 1560-1625
Book – Systems Thinking in Museums: Theory and Practice
Book – Handbook of Research and Practice in Heritage Language Education
Book – Telling our Stories: Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum
Book – The Evaluation and Measurement of Library Services (Second Edition)
Livre РLes humanit̩s num̩riques : une histoire critique
Livre РBiblioth̬ques qu̩b̩coises remarquables
Livre РM̩moire : h̩ritages et ruptures
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Ryerson University’s Archives and Special Collections Exhibit – Projecting Magic
Toronto
Canadian Photography Institute – Gold and Silver: Images and Illusions of the Gold Rush
November 3, 2017 – April 2, 2018, Ottawa
Diefenbaker Canada Center – Great War Family Activity
November 5, 12 and 13, Saskatoon
Formation sur la conservation des collections et les soins aux objets
24 novembre et 1er décembre 2017, Québec et Montréal
Archives Association of Ontario – Research Methods for Genealogy and Local History
January 22, 2018, North York
Library of Congress – Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists
November 18, 2017 – October 20, 2018, Washington D.C.
Archives in a Blade Runner age: Identity & Memory, Evidence & Accountability
September 24-28, 2018, Perth (Australia)
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Flickr Album – Handle with Care, Fragile: a Guide to the Preservation of Archival Materials
Note: Special greetings to the archivist still at LAC…
BAnQ РLigne du temps du Qu̩bec
Podcast – Heritage & Human Remains (with City of Ottawa archivist Paul Henry)
Video – Why the Open Access Road Still Leads Back to Copyright
Video – Jarrett Drake on Diversity’s Discontents: in Search of an Archive of the Oppressed
Video – Wikidata as Universal (Library) Thesaurus
Baladodiffusion – Arlette Farge, une historienne des vies ordinaires dans ses archives
Bibliography Collection about Photography Technique: Online Database with over 120 Digitised Books
Slides – Image this! a Voyage through Software Preservation
Slides – A Distributed Network of Digital Heritage Information
Slides – Digital Preservation Presentation for the Australian Society of Archivists
Pr̩sentation РArchives visuelles et politique
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Proposed access-to-information changes could hinder Indigenous land claim efforts: watchdog
Access bill not law yet, but feds already using it to deny info requests: Suzanne Legault
Liberals open to amending Access to Information bill’s refusal clause
Submissions Posted on Canada’s Copyright Board the Consultation Process
Canada’s top cop said it would be reckless to keep using federal government’s IT service
State-sponsored cyberattacks on Canada successful about once a week
The use of predictive coding in Canada
Library and Archives Canada – On the Leading Edge of Technology: Second Preservation Centre will Be Built in Gatineau
Library and Archives Canada, University of Toronto Libraries, and Canadian Commission for UNESCO applaud addition of Marshall McLuhan documents to Memory of the World Register
Library and Archives Canada – A rare medical book from 1785 was just added to our collection
Library and Archives Canada – Private Kinross, Lieutenant McKenzie and Sergeant Mullin, VCs
Library and Archives Canada – Major-General George Randolph Pearkes, Victoria Cross recipient
Radio-Canada РIci les archives : les trouvailles de nos m̩diath̩caires
Déportation des Acadiens : des documents inédits trouvés en France
Ontario – Sweeping access to computers in premier’s office was unprecedented, gas plant trial told
Royal Ontario Museum – A new social media direction
Newfoundland – Access to information requests overwhelming staff, says privacy commissioner
Alberta privacy commissioner investigates 800,000 deleted government emails
Qu̩bec РLe Dossier Sant̩ Qu̩bec et la responsabilit̩ des ̩tablissements
BAnQ – Quand la curiosité mène à un métier
Archives of Manitoba – Passchendaele: a big jelly pot of wet mud and water… quivering under the fire of the guns
Help save the University of Manitoba’s Archival Studies Program
York University Libraries to digitize, archive home movies of Indigenous and visible minorities
Western University unveiling rare 1685 Shakespeare tome
Dalhousie University – What is it that Information Managers Do?
University of Calgary – Transforming the role of academic libraries in the research enterprise
Centre d’archives de la grande zone argileuse – Femmes et histoire du nord de l’Ontario
First World War action frozen in time in archives, photos
Canada Wide Wikipedia Edit-A-thon Reflection
Archives de Montr̩al РAppel aux photographes : r̩sidence in-situ Plateau 2017
Who are these Port Hope (Ontario) soldiers? Archives team asks public for help
How a 100-year-old legacy is revitalizing a Prince Edward Island community
Windsor – Une impressionnante collection d’archives sur l’automobile au bout des doigts
La Société d’histoire du Lac-Saint-Jean reçoit la Médaille de l’Assemblée nationale
Vélo Québec ouvre ses archives sur 50 ans de vélo
Meet Genevieve Weber, archivist at the Royal BC Museum & Archives
La blogosphère archivistique : Documentary Heritage News
Afrique / Africa
Preserving musical heritage in South Sudan
Nigeria – Culture Archivist Wants Dancers to Include Content in Dance Performances
Preserving South Africa’s Queer Archive
Amériques / Americas
Guyana – Walter Rodney Archives pays tribute to Indian indentured labourers
Library of Congress – October Innovator-in-Residence Update
CIA releases more files it says came from bin Laden raid, including his journal
Here’s why there’s a flyer for a creepy wax museum in the CIA archives
National Library of Medicine – Mining for Treasure, Discovering Medline
Army records management moves to 21st century
Park Service cancels Black Panther legacy project at Cal amid conservative outcry
University of Texas – Preservation for the (Digital) Ages
Emory University’s Rose Library awarded archival grant to foster collaborative AIDS education
Unlocked: 1967 survey of 140,000 US sisters now accessible to all
Reading by the Numbers: when Big Data Meets Literature
Collection of portraits of African American families in the early 1900s revealed
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5003687/Portraits-African-American-families-early-1900s.html
Hewlett-Packard historical archives destroyed in Santa Rosa fires
Loss of Hewlett-Packard Archive a Wake-Up Call for Computer Historians
The devolution will be televised: preserving the public record on television is becoming an ever-more-urgent task and critical challenge for the country and the world
US libraries will continue to preserve old games
Colourful lives: salvaged snapshots from the Kodachrome era in pictures
An Archival Processing Project for a Famous Author
There’s an Archivist for that! Interview with Anne L. Foster, Yellowstone National Park Archivist
With death of Stephen Parr, science fiction mission loses the archivist behind Oddball films
Rediscovering History’s Lost First Female Video Game Designer
EADitor now supports EAD and MODS to IIIF manifest generation
Landing a Job in a Business Archives
Can Better Data Make Zero Traffic Deaths a Reality?
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Linguists digitise 1970s children’s storybooks to help preserve Indigenous languages
State Archives and Records of New South Wales (Australia) – Digital records need good storage conditions too
Australia – Archives, knowledge management and Capability
Crowdsourcing transcriptions of open archives
Digital preservation at Archives New Zealand: the tools
UNESCO postpones listing of comfort women documents for archive preservation
Indonesia – Treasures from the 17th and 18th VOC Archive
Europe / Europa
Discovering the audio-visual heritage on the history of the European Union at the Historical Archives of the European Union
Auschwitz trial documents and recordings awarded special UNESCO status
Archives of first Dutch woman graduate included in Unesco heritage list
How the tech workers of WWII thwarted the Nazis with high-tech sabotage
The Hyena of Auschwitz: photographs discovered of sadistic nymphomaniac who slept with SS guards, hand-picked Jews to be sent to the gas chambers and carried out horrific punishment beatings
Italy – How Wikimedia helped authors make over 3000 articles green open access via Dissemin
Verdi’s letters going home after overtures from Italy
Malta – Reconciling Blockchain and data protection
Ireland – Special Report: Complexities of revolutionary past can be better understood by opening of files
Ireland – From historic to plain silly: RTÉ’s news archive now online for all
Halloween in the National Library of Scotland
UK National Archives – Discover the Women’s Suffrage movement through our records
UK National Archives – Anglo-Papal relations and Henry VIII’s break with Rome
UK National Archives – England’s freedom, soldier’s rights: civil War army disputes
UK National Archives – The civil servant’s tale: Geoffrey Chaucer in the archives
UK National Archives – Ramsay MacDonald’s holiday snaps and other photographs
Victoria & Alberts Museum – rescues treasures from historic Wilton’s Music Hall archive
See inside the Museum of London’s secret bone archive
http://www.timeout.com/london/blog/video-see-inside-the-museum-of-londons-secret-bone-archive-102717
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Oman receives first part of United Nations digitalised audio-visual archive
One of world’s oldest Islamic manuscripts coming to the United Arab Emirates
Afghanistan – MPs Accuse Colleagues of Using Force to Enter Archives
Israel State Archives Suffering Mountain of Unreleased Documents
Israel Urges Top Court to Halt Sale of Declaration of Independence Drafts
International
Digitization of International Federation of Film Archives’s Collection of Audio Tapes
The end of paper: the leveraging of PDF in government
Archival collections in digital asset management systems: preservation
OAIS: a cage or a guide?
A new Metadata Application Profile for Literature Repositories is approaching
Your Data Are Probably Biased and that’s Becoming a Massive Problem
How Scientists Use Old Museum Specimens to Make New Findings