Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
On Online Platforms and the European Commission’s New Proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market
De la communauté / From the community
Europeana – Business plan 2017
IFLA – Statement of International Cataloguing Principles 2016
Pericles Digital Preservation – An Overview of Semantic Change: Understanding the Phenomenon, Current Trends and Future Research Roadmap
Pericles Digital Preservation – A Language for Change Management
Association of College & Research Libraries – Environmental Scan 2017
Harvard University – Open Data Privacy Playbook
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Security Disclosures Best Practice
Geographical Indications as Cultural Property
Article – If these Canadians Lived in the United States, how would they Protect their Privacy?
Publications
Archival Science, vol. 17, no. 1 (2017)
Library Hi Tech, vol. 35, no. 1 (2017)
International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 18, no. 1 (2017)
Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 1 (2017)
Liwa: Journal of the United Arab Emirates National Archives, vol. 7, no. 16 (2016)
In situ : revue des patrimoines, no. 31 (2017)
Historic Libraries Forum Bulletin, no. 36 (February 2017)
Telling our Stories: Newsletter of the South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta), vol. 8, no. 2 (March 2017)
Transitus Domini: Bulletin des Archives de l’Archidiocèse de Québec, vol. 3, no. 1 (2017)
Free eBook – The Datafied Society : Studying Culture through Data
Free eBook – Curating Research Data
Practical Strategies for your Digital Repository: http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/publications/booksanddigitalresources/digital/9780838988596_crd_v1_OA.pdf
Handbook of Current Practice: http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/publications/booksanddigitalresources/digital/9780838988633_crd_v2_OA.pdf
Book – Fans and Videogames: Histories, Fandom, Archives
Book – Oral History in Latin America: Unlocking the Spoken Archive
Book – The Data Science Handbook
Book – Community-Based Heritage in Africa: Unveiling Research and Development Initiatives
Book – Heritage and the Legacy of the Past in Contemporary British Literature and Culture
Book – Think Like a Data Scientist: Tackle the Data Science Process Step-by-Step
Book – Encyclopedia of Local History (Third Edition)
Book – Principles of Information Security (Sixth Edition)
Book – Curationism: how Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else
Book – Information Architecture: the Design and Integration of Information Spaces (Second Edition)
Livre – Les humanités numériques : une histoire critique
Livre – L’incorporation des ancêtres : généalogie, construction du présent
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Citation Analysis as a Tool for Collection Management and Development
March 6, 2017, Halifax
4e conférence conjointe AAQ-ARMA Montréal : gouvernance de l’information et infonuagique
20 mars 2017, Montréal
Le web sémantique au Québec
9 mai 2017, Montréal
Webinar – From Shelf to Online Repository: Creating a Collaborative Teaching and Research Collection
March 16, 2017
The Legal Records at Risk Project
March 23, 2017, London (UK)
Archiving 2017
May 15-18, 2017, Riga (Latvia)
Catholic Records Society – 60th Annual Conference and General Meeting
July 24-26, 2017, Cambridge (UK)
Deuxième congrès international d’archives numériques
8-10 novembre 2017, Morelia (Mexique)
13th International Conference on Semantic Systems
September 11-14, 2017, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
11th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research
November 28 – December 1, 2017, Tallinn (Estonia)
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada – Project Naming Now on Facebook
Canadiana Online Launch
Société historique acadienne – Nouveau site Internet
Podcast – UBC Arts on Air: the Past, Present and Future of Information Studies
Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta Video – Sacred Service: the History of Calgary’s Chevra Kadisha
Parthenos – Training in Digital Research Infrastructures
European Data Portal – Version 2.0 Now Live
Videos: Digitized Manuscripts & Digital Repositories w/ Computation
Podcast – Internet Archive Chairman Brewster Kahle: the Web is Not Fun and Games any More
Slidecast – Users and Uses of a Digital Data Archive: a Case Study of Data Archiving and Networked Services of the Netherlands
Slidecast – How do we Embed the Production of Usable Collections Data into Library Work?
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Classified documents reveal Canada’s planned response to 9/11-style attack
Forget the right to be forgotten in Canada (for now)
CSIS saw no high privacy risks with keeping personal data on Canadians
RCMP commissioner warns continued IT failures will have catastrophic consequences
Go Fund Me account set up to raise funds to bring Lester B. Pearson collection to museum
Récemment retrouvé à Paris : l’acte de mariage des premiers colons de la Nouvelle-France
Federal government agrees to return Métis artifacts
The white frontier: Inuit life in 1900s Canada in pictures
An apology to British Home Children in Canada initiated by a bloke from the Bloc
Nova Scotia – Historic Book of Negroes gets fresh look through online portal
Celebrate 150 Years of Remarkable Nova Scotians
Why Nova Scotia museums are turning down most artifact donation offers
Information commissioner slams Alberta government for poor state of freedom of information
Government of BC ordered to give tobacco companies access to medicare information
BAnQ – Le traitement de vos versements, troisième période : finalisation et retour à l’organisme
BAnQ – Inauguration d’une oeuvre du génie québécois : le pont-tunnel Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine
BAnQ – Chagall, chanson de Marcel Cabay et Herbert Ruff
Royal Ontario Museum – Illustrations that Bring the Past Back to Life
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: Letters to Siblings
A promise to a ghost fulfilled: Acadia University archivist shares stories of war dead
University of Ottawa – The Archives turns 50
University of British Columbia – The ABCs of Rare Books and Special Collections
École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information (Université de Montréal) – La saison des stages : le savoir-être
Teaching the Legacy of the Sixties Scoop and Addressing Ongoing Child Welfare Inequality in the Classroom
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – The Quest for the Map of Canada
Toronto’s official costume technician works with the threads of history
Old City Hall perfect home for new Toronto museum
Strike against hitlerism: thousands of Torontonians join a protest against fascism in July 1933
Vancouver racial history served up at Unwelcome Dinner
Vancouver’s last typewriter repairman too busy to retire
Regina – City launches new open government portal
Charlottetown – Local author Scott MacDonald donates historical photo to city exhibit
Okotoks (Alberta) Goes to the Archives for Canada 150
Canadian pioneer family played key role in Saanich’s (B.C.) founding
Soeurs des Saints Noms de Jésus et de Marie – Le coup de coeur de l’archiviste
Ruth Houck: an Important Part of Peel’s (Ontario) History
Ontario – Historical societies facing many challenges
It’s entertaining to spend time buried in archives
La mise en valeur d’archives historiques sur le Web
Meet the historian behind HockeyDB, the vast stats web archive
Afrique / Africa
Presenting the value of open data to non-governmental organizations: a gentle introduction to open data for Oxfam in Kenya
Cameroun: les Allemands veulent préserver leurs reliques coloniales
Un nouveau document en faveur de la marocanité saharienne
Amériques / Americas
CIA on deadline to argue for interrogation documents secrecy
Dr. Bill Raymond receives honor after visiting all Presidential Libraries
Library of Congress – Open Science Framework: Meeting Researchers Where they Are
What’s Changed in the 30 Years Since the Smithsonian Opened an Exhibition on Japanese Internment
During 100th Anniversary of World War I, Tennessee Archivists Work to Digitize Remaining Artifacts
Filmmaker Robert Altman’s Awards Collection Added to University of Michigan Screen Arts Archive
University of Michigan – The Pioneers of Chinese Dance Digital Archive
University of Houston – Preservation and Access Can Coexist: Implementing Archivematica with Collaborative Working Groups
University of Southern California – The Digital Library Work Behind An Other War Memorial
The past and future of the Kettering University archives
Vassar College – Oral Histories Project archives voices of refugee crisis
Researchers Bury their Noses in Books to Sniff out the Morgan Library’s Original Smell
Getty Museum and National Gallery of Art Acquire Major Gifts of Photographs
Shared Practices in Museum Open Collections Data
Archivists Launch the Video Game History Foundation
Group’s rescue of old films preserves glimpse into past
Watch the Oldest-Known Surviving Film by an African-American Director
This company still painstakingly edits film by hand
Revealed: Ireland’s 19th-century US emigrants in their own words
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Acquires Lou Reed’s Archives
New York – Remembering a City where the Smog Could Kill
Archives Alive: Democratizing Public Library Archives through Oral History
The Pioneer of Graphic Adventure Games Was a Woman
A Look Inside the Nike Archives
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Robur Tea billboard poster from 19th century found and restored at National Archives of Australia
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia – Archive skills bring film to life
National Library of Australia building two libraries to capture past, present and future
Australia – Inside the Brisbane City Archives: Revealing the city’s hidden treasures
New Zealand – Invercargill City Library launches World War I letters website
Japan – Can music lesson schools be called sanctuaries from Copyright Law?
Papua New Guinea – National Library and Archives Agency Launch 10-year Development Plan
A new Seoul: Han Youngsoo’s reborn Korea in pictures
National Archives of India – New Director General of Archives
India – Historian ready to sell manuscripts on eBay, courtesy government apathy
Europe / Europa
Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents – Coming soon: new DocScan app to help users digitise historical documents
Belarus’ National Library, British Library sign long-term cooperation agreement
Bosnian library to restore and digitize Ottoman manuscripts
Hitler’s plans to destroy London: Rare mare map revealing Germany’s WWII bombing targets is discovered after 75 years in an attic
National Archives of Georgia to unveil cinema theatre for screenings
Vatican library plans to digitise 82,000 of its most valuable manuscripts
Vatican moves to copyright Pope’s face
Conflit basque : les archives d’ETA remises à l’Espagne
Ainsi soient-elles : visite au coeur du Centre des Archives du Féminisme
La carte de L’Île mystérieuse de Jules Verne aux enchères
Wales – Important archive of the Somerset family, Barons Raglan accepted for the nation
Rare Coal Mining Archive Donated to National University of Ireland Galway
Lusitania telegraph machine lost in botched recovery
National Health Service accused of covering up huge data loss that put thousands at risk
UK Parliamentary Archives – My favourite (?) archive: Nulla unquam de morte hominis cunctatio longa est
UK National Archives – Queer City project exploring LGBTQ+ heritage now open
UK National Archives – Records of the revolution: what did the 1960s do for us?
UK National Archives – My Tommy’s War: Herbert Randolph Elvin
UK National Archives – The loss of HMS Ghurka
UK National Archives – A Graphic War: a Curator’s View
British Library – 20th Century Maps: Everything Changes, Nothing Changes
http://blogs.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/2017/02/20th-century-maps-everything-changes-nothing-changes.html
British Library – Rescuing precious recordings of Nepal’s folk music heritage
British Library – An irony-free zone: early French translations of Jane Austen
http://blogs.bl.uk/european/2017/02/an-irony-free-zone-early-french-translations-of-jane-austen.html
Imperial War Museums Digitally Preserve Wartime Data with Spectra Logic Archive Solution
Introducing the BBC Reminiscence Archive
Recipe found in medieval mystic’s writings was probably for medicinal sweets
Victoria and Albert Museum to offer theatre archive research course
University of Manchester – 10 steps to binding a book: a lesson in conservation
Picturesque and prosaic launch to Cambridge University Archives collection in the Digital Library
Jesuits in Britain – From the Archives: Celebrating our Library Collections for World Book Day
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
The Monk who Saves Manuscripts from ISIS: why a Christian wants to rescue Islamic artifacts
United Arab Emirates – Mohammed Bin Sultan Bin Khalifa Applauds the National Archives’ national role
Copyright Law: how Does the United Arab Emirates Compare with Common Law Jurisdictions?
Egypt – Mostafa el-Abbadi, Champion of Alexandria’s Resurrected Library, Dies at 88
International
Data on tap: Interview with Mark Parsons, Research Data Alliance Secretary General
La gestion électronique des documents, c’est fini
Ce que l’archivistique peut apporter au monde professionnel contemporain (et vice versa)
Are Web Archives Failing the Modern Web: Video, Social Media, Dynamic Pages and the Mobile Web
Saving at-risk audiovisual materials: tips and resources for rehousing and reformatting old media
Information Management: the Critical Thing you’re Overlooking in the Digital Workplace
Trusted Sources: why Museums and Libraries Are More Relevant than Ever
Historian Abby Smith Rumsey on how digital memory shapes the future
Danger: your Photo Archive May Kill you
Le papier pierre, une alternative écologique au papier traditionnel
How can we motivate researchers to learn about Open Data and start implementing Open Data Policies
Nous sommes tous folksonomes
The masterpieces hiding in old master paintings in pictures
Four Things that Happen when a Language Dies