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Documentary Heritage News
May 30, 2025

Vol. 18, no. 39

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State

Toronto Metropolitan University – The State of Social Media in Canada 2025
http://socialmedialab.ca/2025/05/05/new-report-the-state-of-generative-ai-use-in-canada-2025-exploring-public-attitudes-and-adoption-trends-2/

Audit of NARA’s Compliance with the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 in Fiscal Year 2024
http://naraoig.oversight.gov/reports/audit/audit-naras-compliance-payment-integrity-information-act-2019-fiscal-year-2024

De la communauté / From the community

Coalition for Canadian Digital Heritage – Year in Review 2024
http://ccdh-cnpc.ca/2025/05/28/2024-year-in-review/

International Council on Archives – Records in Contexts Ontology (Version 1.1)
http://www.ica.org/standards/RiC/RiC-O_1-1.html

IFLA – Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development: Principles and Best Practices (Updated)
http://www.ifla.org/news/empowering-library-workers-in-the-digital-age-revised-ifla-cpd-guidelines/

Sedona Conference – Commentary, Principles, and Best Practices for Addressing Data Risks Associated with Dawn Raids in Cross-Border Investigations
http://thesedonaconference.org/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=3121&cid=242263&cs=752270060483e2ab4b04d5776e1d6670_1747788629_168

Publications

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, vol. 28, no. (2025)
http://link.springer.com/journal/10032/volumes-and-issues/28-2

The Indexer, vol. 43, no. 2 (2025)
http://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/index/43/2

Public Record Office Victoria (Australia) – Provenance (2025)
http://prov.vic.gov.au/explore-collection/provenance-journal/provenance-2025

ISO 9706:2025 – Information and Documentation – Paper for Documents – Requirements for Permanence
https://www.iso.org/standard/88908.html

ISO 11108:2025 – Information and Documentation – Archival Paper – Requirements for Permanence and Durability
https://www.iso.org/standard/88909.html

Livre en libre accès – Des paléographes aux archivistes : l’Association des archivistes français au cœur des réseaux professionnels (1970-2010)
http://books.openedition.org/pur/268776

Association des archivistes du Québec – Comment gérer et classer les documents numériques et papier de mon association
http://www.archivistes.qc.ca/fr/news/l-aaq-publie-son-nouveau-guide-comment-gerer-et-classer-les-documents-numeriques-et-papier-de-mon-association-127

Book – The Library of Congress: from Jefferson’s Vision to the Digital Age
http://press.georgetown.edu/Book/The-Library-of-Congress

Book – The Outdoor Archive: the Ultimate Collection of Adventure & Sporting Graphics, Illustrations and Gear
http://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/the-outdoor-archive-the-ultimate-collection-of-adventure-and-sporting-graphics-illustrations-and-gear-hardcover

Book – Library Catalogues as Data: Research, Practice and Usage
http://facetpublishing.co.uk/page/detail/library-catalogues-as-data/?k=9781783306589

Book – The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Gender
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032192086

Book – Living with the Dead: Memories, Histories, and the Stories Families Tell in Modern Britain
http://global.oup.com/academic/product/living-with-the-dead-9780192894830

Book – Guardians of Data: a Comprehensive Guide to Digital Data Protection
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032995298

Book – Backroom Deals in our Backyards: how Government Secrecy Harms our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back
http://thenewpress.org/books/backroom-deals-in-our-backyards/

Book – The Organization Gap: Designing Practical Organization Structures and Management Information Systems by the Use of Decision Centre Analysis
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781041024422

Livre – Archives judiciaires et généalogie (XIXe-XXe siècles)
http://www.archivesetculture.org/product-page/archives-judiciaires-et-g%C3%A9n%C3%A9alogie

Livre – Que veut dire mon nom de famille ?
http://www.archivesetculture.org/product-page/que-veut-dire-mon-nom-de-famille

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Archives Association of British Columbia – Archives Potluck: Crowdsourcing the Digitization Workflow
June 3, 2025
http://aaobc.wildapricot.org/event-6167473

Preservation and Access to Records of Temporary Courts and Invetigative Bodies
June 3, 2025
http://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iufE7kW5RxmWq0RAa10CBw#/registration

Introduction of the Transparent Trustworthy Repository Attributes Matrix
June 17, 2025
http://eden-fidelis.eu/events/introduction-ttram-matrix-webinar-0

Public History for Contested and Conflicting Past(s)
June 19, 2025
http://www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/events/public-history-for-contested-and-conflicting-pasts/

Toxicity in 3-D: Arsenic and Old Lace
June 20, 2025
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/toxicity-in-3-d-arsenic-and-old-lace-tickets-1376306131689

Sur le web / On the web

Baladodiffusion – Archives de La Baie d’Hudson : Hélène Laverdure, Directrice générale des Archives, BAnQ
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere/emissions/le-15-18/segments/rattrapage/2078494/archives-baie-helene-laverdure

Australian Queer Archives – Now on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWZodwo-ZJllKP-bWN0vqyA

Video – Amanda Regan: Mapping the Gay Guides: Using Digital History to Explore LGBTQ Travel Guides
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySOb6vOk87g

Video – Using the Wiki List Tool to Create List from Wikipedia and Wikidata in Google Sheets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHhvcvvFPsA

University of British Columbia – Archives and Records Management Policy Survey
https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_023TzA21jFjGUf4

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Civil society calls for overhaul of Canada’s approach to digital policy
http://openmedia.org/press/item/civil-society-calls-for-overhaul-of-canadas-digital-policy-approach

Théâtre Cercle Molière celebrates its 100th anniversary: A legacy preserved in the collections of Library and Archives Canada
https://thediscoverblog.com/2025/05/29/theatre-cercle-moliere-celebrates-its-100th-anniversary-a-legacy-preserved-in-the-collections-of-library-and-archives-canada/

Library and Archives Canada Co-Lab Update
http://www.anglocelticconnections.ca/2025/05/23/lac-co-lab-update-2/

New study examines archived letters that show how early feds, mine officials knew of Giant’s arsenic problem
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/archived-letters-giant-arsenic-1.7545301

Educating with Archives: Nova Scotia Archives Launches Public Teaching Tools
https://cha-shc.ca/teachers-learning-bl/educating-with-archives-nova-scotia-archives-launches-public-teaching-tools/

Manitoba Museum apologizes for keeping Indigenous ancestral remains in collections
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-museum-apology-indigenous-ancestral-remains-1.7541400

Legal Archives Society of Alberta – Honouring and Remembering Together
http://legalarchives.ca/honouring-and-remembering-together-2/

Les archives privées d’importance patrimoniale, un legs pour l’avenir à protéger
http://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/libre-opinion/882982/libre-opinion-archives-privees-importance-patrimoniale-legs-avenir-proteger

Association des archivistes du Québec – Disposition d’information non-conforme : Commission d’enquête sur SAAQclic
https://www.archivistes.qc.ca/fr/news/disposition-d-information-non-conforme-commission-d-enquete-sur-saaqclic-132

Intelligence artificielle et référentiel de compétences informationnelles en enseignement supérieur
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/ia_enseignement/

Mapping Ontario Black Archives – Furnace Slaps: Listening to the Black Sonic Past
http://mobaprojects.ca/furnace-slaps-listening-to-the-black-sonic-past/

McMaster University – Special conference and online archive commemorate 40th anniversary of Air India bombing
http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/articles/conference-40th-anniversary-of-air-india-bombing/

University of Alberta – Embracing orature to Indigenize research and revitalize language
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/the-quad/2025/05/embracing-orature-to-indigenize-research-and-revitalize-language.html

University of Ottawa – Women Working with Immigrant Women: Catalysts for Change in Canada’s Women’s Movement
https://www.uottawa.ca/library/women-working-with-immigrant-women-catalysts-for-change

Mennonite Heritage Archives launches Takes from the Mennonite Heritage Archives show
http://www.emcmessenger.ca/article/mha-launches-takes-from-the-mennonite-heritage-archives-show

Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Planning for Adventures on Alta Lake
https://whistlermuseum.org/2025/05/27/planning-for-adventures-on-alta-lake/

75 Years of Stories: the History of the Museum & Archives of Vernon (British Columbia)
http://vernonmuseum.ca/75-years-of-stories-the-history-of-the-museum-archives-of-vernon/

Société d’histoire de la Baie-James – Leo Springer : la découverte d’un gisement
http://www.shbj.ca/fr/component/content/article/81-blog/tutorial/161-leo-springer-la-d%C3%A9couverte-d-un-gisement

Second World War scrapbooks bring memories back to life for Globe readers
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-second-world-war-scrapbooks-bring-memories-back-to-life-for-globe/

Death of Ed Atkinson
https://archivists.ca/Latest-News-Announcements/13504518

Afrique / Africa

Sénégal – Archives nationales : la construction d’une Maison moderne et la digitalisation principaux défis, selon le directeur Mohamed Lat Sack Diop
http://fr.allafrica.com/stories/202505250056.html

Tunisie – Statistiques sur le nombre de visites du portail des Archives nationales
https://www.archives.nat.tn/fr/statistiques-sur-le-nombre-de-visites-du-portail-des-archives-nationales/

Mauritania – Preserving Oualata’s fragile manuscript legacy amid desert threats
http://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/5/28/preserving-oualatas-fragile-manuscript-legacy-amid-desert-threats

Morocco seeks to preserve traditional cooking and recipes through UNESCO project
http://www.africanews.com/2025/05/25/morocco-seeks-to-preserve-traditional-cooking-and-recipes-through-unesco-project/

Amériques / Americas

Trump White House Removes Media Transcript Archive, Drawing Transparency Criticism
http://www.benzinga.com/markets/equities/25/05/45600662/trump-white-house-removes-media-transcript-archive-drawing-transparency-criticism

NARA – Highlights from the Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1824–1880 (Microfilm M234)
http://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2025/05/27/highlights-from-the-letters-received-by-the-office-of-indian-affairs-1824-1880-microfilm-m234/

Safeguarding our History: the Vital Role of the National Archives in Preserving Military Records
http://medium.com/everylibrary/safeguarding-our-history-the-vital-role-of-the-national-archives-in-preserving-military-records-c49cabece089

What’s New Online at the Library of Congress: May 2025
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/05/new-loc-may-2025/

Library of Congress – A One-Handed Marvel: Erich Korngold’s Left Hand Piano Concerto
https://blogs.loc.gov/music/2025/05/a-one-handed-marvel-erich-korngolds-left-hand-piano-concerto/

National Museum of the American Indian – See the Stunning Archival Photographs that Tell the Stories of Everyday Native Life and Communities
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/see-the-stunning-archival-photographs-that-tell-the-stories-of-everyday-native-life-and-communities-180986683/

Community Stories: the Impact of the Institute of Museum and Library Services
https://archivesaware.archivists.org/2025/05/29/community-stories-the-impact-of-the-imls/

A Timeline and Update on the Institute for Museum and Library Services
https://buttondown.com/wellsourced/archive/imls-timeline/

Chief Justice agrees to pause court orders requiring Department of Government Efficiency to turn over records about its operation
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/chief-justice-agrees-pause-court-orders-requiring-doge-122129714

American Oversight Reacts to Supreme Court Shielding Department of Government Efficiency and Musk from Transparency
http://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-reacts-to-scotus-shielding-doge-and-musk-from-transparency/

As Trump’s White House Purges Public Records, these Independent Databases Are Keeping their own Archives
http://time.com/7288311/trump-transparency-white-house-transcripts-public-records-independent-databases-archives/

Society of American Archivists – Council Ratifies Standards Recommendations, Approves Increasing the Size of Membership Committee
http://www2.archivists.org/news/2025/saa-council-ratifies-standards-recommendations-approves-increasing-the-size-of-membership-

Maine State Library partially reopens after layoffs
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/05/27/maine-state-library-partially-reopens-after-layoffs/

Harvard agrees to relinquish early photos of slaves, ending a long legal battle
http://apnews.com/article/harvard-university-slave-photos-d9c01b7926bba2a686ff325617e93ce9

Stanford University acquires Filipina American artist Pacita Abad’s archive
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/29/stanford-university-acquires-pacita-abad-archives

Northwestern University – Decoding the Past: Professor Emily Kadens uses Artificial Intelligence to bring 16th-Century Law to Life
http://news.law.northwestern.edu/decoding-the-past-professor-emily-kadens-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-bring-16th-century-law-to-life/

Inside the Performing Arts Archives at the University of Minnesota
http://mspmag.com/arts-and-culture/performing-arts-archive-umn/

University of Texas at El Paso library’s Special Collections is a treasure trove of history
http://elpasomatters.org/2025/05/25/utep-special-collections-library-claudia-rivers-yolanda-leyva/

Researchers Vow to Continue Preserving Indian Boarding School History Despite Federal Funding Cuts
https://imprintnews.org/indigenous-youth-and-families/researchers-vow-to-continue-preserving-indian-boarding-school-history-despite-federal-funding-cuts/261454

Erasing history: California’s digital news archive is at risk of going dark
https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article307008171.html

He Documented the History of New York’s Lower East Side. Where Will His Archives Go?
http://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/style/clayon-patterson-nyc-photography-history.html

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific

National Archives of Australia – Colonial Victoria’s unsung defender
http://www.naa.gov.au/blog/colonial-victorias-unsung-defender

Australia – Departments set new record for denying access to public documents
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8976315/freedom-of-information-requests-soaring-and-refusals-rise/

New Zealand government agencies urged to adopt artificial intelligence to fix records gap
http://itbrief.co.nz/story/nz-government-agencies-urged-to-adopt-ai-to-fix-records-gap

Le Vietnam et la France signent un accord de coopération dans le domaine des archives
http://www.vietnam.vn/fr/viet-nam-va-phap-ky-hop-tac-trong-linh-vuc-luu-tru

Au Japon, des archives révèlent l’ampleur d’expérimentations sur des humains entre 1938 et 1945
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/05/29/au-japon-des-archives-revelent-l-ampleur-d-experimentations-sur-des-humains-entre-1938-et-1945_6609041_3210.html

Philippines – Why preservation isn’t just the work of historians, archivists
http://www.rappler.com/life-and-style/arts-culture/why-preservation-not-just-work-historians-archivists/

Europe / Europa

GDPR is cracking: Brussels rewrites its prized privacy law
https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-gdpr-technology-rewrites-prized-loathed-privacy-law/

Historical Archives of the European Union – Ivor Richard Cabinet archives available for research
http://www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=richard-cabinet-archives-available-for-research

Netherlands – Journalists ask parliamentiarians not to restrict access to government documents
http://nltimes.nl/2025/05/26/journalists-ask-parliamentiarians-restrict-access-government-documents

Sharjah (United Arab Emirates) Ruler presents rare historical manuscripts to Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan
https://gulfnews.com/uae/government/sharjah-ruler-presents-rare-historical-manuscripts-to-catholic-university-of-the-sacred-heart-in-milan-1.500144916

Ancient relic of early martyr found in Dublin school sparks Vatican investigation
https://thecatholicherald.com/effort-to-identify-saints-relic-discovered-in-dublin-school-moves-to-vatican-archives/

Gibraltar National Archives looking for volunteer
http://www.gbc.gi/news/gibraltar-national-archives-looking-for-volunteers

Le Mundanéum accueillera la Nuit des Archives, un événement organisé pour la toute première fois en Belgique
https://www.dhnet.be/regions/mons/2025/05/25/le-mundaneum-accueillera-la-nuit-des-archives-un-evenement-organise-pour-la-toute-premiere-fois-en-belgique-QTLUFATW3FCUZGJBBWHCL2BH54/

C’est magnifique: seven reasons why you need to visit Peugeot’s historic archives
https://www.carwow.co.uk/news/8857/secret-peugeot-museum-visited#gref

National Archives of Ireland – New Acquisition: Signed Agreement by De Valera, Stack, Griffith and Collins, 22 February 1922
http://nationalarchives.ie/news-and-events/new-acquisition-signed-agreement-by-de-valera-stack-griffith-and-collins-22-february-1922/

Royal Irish Academy – Launch of the Ussher Bird Notes Digital Archive
http://www.ria.ie/2025/05/21/launch-of-the-ussher-bird-notes-digital-archive/

British Library – Discover Digital Sustainability
https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2025/05/discover-digital-sustainability.html

Black Cultural Archives – A Most Significant Archive
http://blackculturalarchives.org/blog/a-most-significant-archive

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

National Library of Israel – Shavuot: the Biblical Festivus
http://blog.nli.org.il/en/shavuot_festivus/

National Library of Israel – Recalling Operation Solomon: when 14,000 Jews Left Ethiopia for Israel
http://blog.nli.org.il/en/recalling_operation_solomon/

National Library of Israel – When Jerusalem Day Was a Day of Mourning
http://blog.nli.org.il/en/jerusalem_day_mourning/

National Library of Israel – Smuggled secrets and sacred scripts from Syria
http://www.jns.org/smuggled-secrets-and-sacred-scripts-from-syria/

Rare aerial archive images of United Arab Emirates capture nation’s transformation
http://www.thenationalnews.com/news/uae/2025/05/23/uae-historical-aerial-images/

Saudi Arabia – Darah, National Archive of Kazakhstan Sign Cooperation Agreement
http://www.spa.gov.sa/en/N2324142

Syrians Rush to Preserve Remembrances of a Painful Revolution
http://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/world/middleeast/syrians-preserve-revolution-artifacts.html

International

IFLA and International Council on Archives Highlight Theft and Trafficking of Documentary Heritage at Unesco
http://www.ifla.org/news/ifla-and-ica-highlight-theft-and-trafficking-of-documentary-heritage-at-unesco/

H.E. Amb. Simona-Mirela Miculescu, President of the General Conference of Unesco, Highlights Historic Day for Arabic Language and Unesco Archives
http://www.unesco.org/en/articles/he-amb-simona-mirela-miculescu-president-general-conference-unesco-highlights-historic-day-arabic

Adventures in transcribing a will with artificial intelligence
http://writingmypast.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/adventures-in-transcribing-a-will-with-ai/

Quattro Pro for DOS revisited: an obsolete format no more?
https://bitsgalore.org/2025/05/28/quattro-pro-for-dos-revisited-an-obsolete-format-no-more.html

Looking after your URLs: tikalinkextract in 2025
http://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/looking-after-your-urls-tikalinkextract-in-2025/

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