Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Supreme Court of Canada – Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta v. University of Calgary (Production of Solicitor-Client Privilege Documents)
Canadian Senate – Copyright Board: a Rationale for Urgent Review
Alberta Records Management Committee – Administrative Records Disposition Authority Amendment
Framework Document for the UK National Archives
Public Record Office Victoria (Australia) – Case Studies in Government Recordkeeping
Ireland’s Open Government Partnership Draft National Action Plan 2016-2018
De la communauté / From the community
Data Seal of Approval – Core Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements
Sedona Conference – Commentary on Proportionality in Electronic Discovery (for Public Comments)
Paper – Preservation through the Power of Many
Article – A Review of Information Visualization Approaches and Interfaces to Digital Cultural Heritage Collections
Publications
New Review of Information Networking, vol. 21, no. 2 (2016)
D-Lib Magazine, vol. 22, no. 11-12 (November/December 2016)
Journal of the Japan Society for Archival Science, no. 24 (2016)
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 67, no. 12 (2016)
Bibliothèque nationale de France – Bulletin bibliographique de la conservation (Septembre-Novembre 2016)
Book – Digital Preservation Metadata for Practitioners: Implementing PREMIS
Book – Engaging with Archives and Records: Histories and Theories
Book – Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture
Book – The Right to be Forgotten: Privacy and the Media in the Digital Age
Book – Big Data in Complex and Social Networks
Book – Map Librarianship: a Guide to Geoliteracy, Map and GIS Resources and Services
Book – Beyond Mentoring: a Guide for Librarians and Information Professionals
Book – Creating a New Library: Recipes for Transformation
Book – The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage
Book – Christie’s: the Jewellery Archives Revealed
Livre – Fabrique du patrimoine de l’humanité : l’UNESCO et la protection du patrimoine (1945-1992)
Livre – Le document : communication et mémoire
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Posters from the Yukon Archives Collection
November 4, 2016 – February 25, 2017, Whitehorse
Library and Archives Canada – 2016 Holiday Concert
December 14, 2016, Ottawa
Formation du Centre de conservation du Québec sur la congélation des négatifs sur support souple
23 janvier 2017, Saint-Constant
CAPAL17: Foundations & Futures: Critical Reflections on the Pasts, Presents, and Possibilities of Academic Librarianship
May 30 – June 1, 2017, Toronto
History and Identification of Book Illustration
June 5-7, 2017, Toronto
Great Canadian Genealogy Summit 2017
October 13-15, 2017, Halifax
Free Online Course – Small Library Management
Starting January 16, 2017
eCourse – Introduction to Metadata and Linked Data
Starting January 30, 2017
BitCurator User Forum 2017: Digital Forensics: the Academic Library and Beyond
April 27-28, 2017, Evanston (Illinois)
British Library Exhibit – Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Myths
April 28, 2017 – August 29, 2017, London (UK)
Film in the Colony Symposium
July 13-14, 2017, Wellington (New Zealand)
Holocaust Studies after the Spatial Turn
June 14-16, 2017, Bristol and London (UK)
ASEAN Consultation for the Implementation of Unesco Recommendation Concerning the Preservation of, and Access to, Documentary Heritage Including in Digital Form
June 1-30, 2017, Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
Open Repositories 2017 Conference
June 26-30, 2017, Brisbane (Australia)
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Video – The French Experience: Canada’s Contribution to the First World War
Vidéo – Émission L’enquêteur du paranormal (David Rajotte parle des archives de BAC sur les ovnis à partir de -8:27)
Library of Congress Video – Project IRENE: Analyzing Images to Digitize Sound on Historic Audio Recordings
Video – Binary Trees? Automatically Identifying the Links between Born Digital Records
Video – Justice Jennifer Coate: Perspectives on Records and Archives
Archives départementales d’Ille-et-Vilaine (France) – Vidéo : conférence avec Thierry Bourcy et Fred Paulin autour de l’écriture de polars historiques
UK National Archives Podcast – The Life and Death of King John
UK National Archives Podcast – Defeating the Zeppelins
Podcast – Professor Frank Shovlin: Mining the Literary Archive of John McGahern
Slidecast – Entitifying Europeana: Building an Ecosystem of Networked References for Cultural Objects
Slidecast – Seeing the Forest for the Trees: a Look Outside the OAIS Reference Model
Slidecast – The Landscape of Research Data Management
Slidecast – The Human-Computer Interaction Perspective on Information Retrieval
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
More than 200 officials forced to sign lifetime gag order on fighter jets
Access to Information: Strengthening Participatory Democracy
Music Canada Reverses on Years of Copyright Lobbying: Now Says World Intellectual Property Organization Internet Treaties Were Wrong Guess
Transcribing the Coltman Report: Crowdsourcing at Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada – A document of interest: an 1818 letter dealing with the treatment of Irish immigrants suffering from typhoid fever
B.C. – 2017 Cycle for Indigitization Grant Program open
Digital health records are great but patients need to see them, Ontario report says
Art Gallery of Ontario – The world’s biggest small mystery
What we know, and don’t know, about Prince Edward Island’s deleted emails
Quebec Court Awards Damages to Canadian Artist for Wrongful Copyright Takedown Notice by Record Companies
BAnQ – Le traitement de vos versement, deuxième période : l’exécution
BAnQ – Tranches de vie : initiation à la recherche généalogique
BAnQ – Comment faire une demande de rectification au registre de l’état civil du Québec?
BAnQ – L’éclectisme de l’artiste André L’Archevêque
Archives Alberta – Setting Up a Paper Conservation Lab
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: Looking forward to Christmas
Nova Scotia Archives – May you Be as Happy as Kittens
Newfoundland – WWII Dockyard for Bay Bulls
University of Toronto – iSchool’s First Dean, Brian Land, Passes Away
Concordia University ventures into open access book publishing
University of Saskatchewan receives largest donation of Inuit art in its history
Centre d’archives de la Grande zone argileuse – La maison en ruine à Lowther… vous connaissez ?
Internet Archive, Web’s Warehouse, Creating Trump-Era Copy in Canada
Rare video of Halifax harbour explosion depicts fiery aftermath of 1917 blast
The earliest known photographs of Toronto
Bringing the Chinese Canadian Archive into view
A dark chapter: should Edmonton’s KKK history be acknowledged?
Vancouver Archives – The 2016 Vancity Theatre Screening is now on YouTube
Discover Burnaby’s (B.C.) heritage with Story Maps
Montreal – Scottish Diaspora Tapestry tells globe-trotting tale of Scots, on display at Atwater Library
Kitchener – Long-lost photos reveal royal visit from 1939
First World War memorial unearthed in backyard and returned to Guelph
Childhood Memories Project launches at Sechelt library (B.C.)
Les agendas des ministres : la démocratie contre l’histoire
Finding family of the late Allen Ross, a Second World War hero
Interview with an Archivist (Emily Lonie, City of Coquitlam, B.C.)
Conservation dans les arts de la performance : entretien avec Guillaume Boutard
Stephanie Taylor reflects on the recent biennial meeting of Anglican diocesan archivists in Canada
Expatriée à Montréal, une bibliothécaire française partage son expérience
Why we still need public libraries in the digital age
Afrique / Africa
No justice, no peace without local organisations: lessons from the first African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Conference
Morocco – The World’s Oldest Library: Founded by a Woman, Restored by a Woman
South Africa – Home Affairs digitises millions of records
Amériques / Americas
National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago – Engaging with history: 5th Annual Archives Awareness
Fidel Castro Handwritten Bay of Pigs Manuscript Hits the Auction Block
Library of Congress, Digital Public Library of America to Form New Collaboration
Library of Congress – Wisdom is Learned: an Interview with Applications Developer Ashley Blewer
NARA – Top Five Reasons why NA-1005 Forms for Capstone Email Are Rejected for Registration
Freedom of Information Act superhero launches campaign to make Donald Trump’s administration transparent
See the Historic Maps Declassified by the CIA
Word of photographer’s image of suspected UFO reaches president’s desk
New State Archives Exhibit Traces History of Rhode Island’s Indigenous People
Hawaii – Vital state land records now permanently preserved
Mississippi State University Libraries digitize Civil War diaries and letters
South Dakota State University archives capture moment of history
University of Houston-Downtown – Found Buried in the Archives
Internet Archive Successfully Fends off Secret FBI Order
Getty Institute – Metadata Specialists Share their Challenges, Defeats, and Triumphs
Researchers have quantified what makes us love Harry Potter
The keeper of Disney’s legacy, archivist Dave Smith spent 40 years preserving the history of an American icon
A Look Inside the Nike Archives
The hidden politics of digital catalogs
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Here’s how IBM Crashed Australia’s First Online Census
Appointment of the National Library of Australia Director-General
National Library of Australia – Moon Mappers: Scientists & Dreamers
Australia – Historic Hobart letter personally delivered from France to new address at National Library
State Library of Victoria (Australia) – Preservation: caring for our collections
Aboriginal Voices in the Afterlife of Photographs
Hong Kong – Only documents without historical value will be approved for destruction, says Chief Secretary
Taiwan – Committee to examine KMT (Chinese Nationalist Party) archives
Taiwan – Massacre archive founder Juan died at age 90: family
Kyrgyzstan to involve citizens with disabilities for digitization of archive documents
Philippines government launches electronic site for freedom of information
Indonesia – In tune: old hit factory enters 21st century
India – Over 300 ancient manuscripts on yoga yet to be deciphered
Europe / Europa
A behind-the-curtain look at Europeana’s design process and next steps
Oral Histories from Holocaust Survivors Shed Light on Gay History
On the 200th anniversary of the Finnish National Archives Service
http://www.arkisto.fi/news/1838/61/On-the-200th-anniversary-of-the-Finnish-National-Archives-Service
Russia – TASS historic collection of photographs digitized with support from VTB bank
Rare Photos Show World War II From the Soviet Side
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/rare-photos-show-wwii-from-the-soviet-side-faminsky-bondar/
Sweden – Freedom of Information Act 250 years
State Library of Denmark – Prototype demo for OCR postfix in Danish Newspapers
Italy – National Central Library to receive 15 million euro
From the emergency to the restoration of cultural heritage: stories and images from the archives of Venice
7000 Matenadaran manuscripts digitized in Armenia
Belgium – Over 100.000 Hours of Audiovisual Recordings Archived
La France propose un plan Marshall pour la protection du patrimoine en danger
L’archivage du web, futur trésor archéologique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Gallicarte, lauréat du premier hackathon de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
De Duras à Hervé Guibert, les brouillons de grands écrivains s’exposent à l’Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine
La communicabilité des documents électoraux
Electronic Frontier Foundation – We won’t Let you Forget it: why we Oppose French Attempts to Export the Right to be Forgotten Worldwide
Le droit à l’oubli menace la protection du droit au souvenir
Dessins de Van Gogh : des documents caviardés accablants pour le Seuil
We must act as Irish medical heritage is at risk
Ireland – Mayo’s archival resources
National Library of Scotland – Rare antique map used a draught excluder is restored
Scotland – Missing Aberdeen Archives Reveal City’s Clash with King James I
How will Brexit Impact Google’s Right to be Forgotten?
National Army Museum – Newly Digitised Irish Soldiers’ Records
UK National Archives – Discover 100 years of Cabinet Office history
UK National Archives – Unexpected findings: 100 years of cultural exchange
UK National Archives – Two successes in Digital Preservation Awards
UK National Archives – A revolution in treatment: the Thomas splint
PG Wodehouse secures redemption as British Library acquires priceless archive
British Library – Stefan Zweig and the Magic of Manuscripts
Why the Imperial War Museums’ Archive Award Matters
BBC radio archives to be opened up for global audience: broadcaster to launch Netflix-style on-demand service
British Film Institute to save 100,000 classic TV shows as Basil Brush and Tiswas at risk of disappearing forever
Commonwealth War Graves Commission opens archives to the public
The Digital Curation Center and its services
Tech firms seek to frustrate internet history log law
Harris Tweed Authority archive to be housed in Stornoway
Joe Corre, Son of Sex Pistols Manager Malcolm McLaren, Burns $6M Worth of Punk Memorabilia
Photos of historical England challenge Downton Abbey myth
Ken Russell’s post-war London: in pictures
Gustav Mahler £4.5m manuscript breaks record at Sotheby’s
Disputed Beethoven manuscript fails to sell at auction
From me, with love: the lost art of letter writing
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Iraq – Intelligence seize ISIS Mosul archives, group adopts stamped safeguard
United Arab Emirates – National Library in Abu Dhabi’s Al Nahyan Camp area to close
Forget your old iPad: this is the world’s most ancient tablet
International
UNESCO – Traditions from Portugal, Uganda and Ukraine inscribed on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Introduction to using Instagram to promote archive collections
Forgotten audio formats: wire recording
Social Media and the Records Management Professional: part 3: Twitter
http://nextgenrm.com/2016/11/30/social-media-and-the-records-management-professional-part-3-twitter/
2017 Data Storage and Active Archive Predictions
The Big Data rich and the Big Data poor: the new digital divide raises questions about future academic research
OCRing history in the cloud: first impressions, next steps
Error detection of JPEG files with JHOVE and Bad Peggy: so who’s the real Sherlock Holmes here?
Vinyl Etching: a Step-By-Step Guide
Du néolithique au numérique, une histoire de l’information