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Documentary Heritage News
October 28, 2016May 2, 2021

Vol. 10, no. 9

Annonce spéciale / Special announcement
Paul Marsden, archiviste militaire principal à BAC, a pris sa retraite cette semaine. Au cours de sa carrière, Paul a aussi été l’archiviste de l’OTAN et a travaillé à des projets spéciaux au ministère de la Défense nationale. Je tiens par la présente à lui rendre hommage.
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Paul Marsden, senior military archivist at LAC, retired this week. During his career, Paul has also been the NATO archivist and has worked on special projects at the Department of National Defence. I would hereby like to pay him tribute.   


Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada – Remembrance Day: an Essential Media Guide 2016
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/Documents/media-kit-2016.pdf

National Archives of Ireland – Statement of Services to Departments of State
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Statement-of-Services.pdf

Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Report & Disposal Schedule: Veterans’ Affairs New Zealand
http://archives.govt.nz/advice/intentions-dispose/veterans-affairs-new-zealand

British Library – Annual Report and Accounts 2015-2016
http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/annrep/2015to2016/annual-report2015-16.pdf

De la communauté / From the community
Option consommateurs – Payer pour disparaître : aspects juridiques et commerciaux du droit à l’oubli au Canada
http://www.option-consommateurs.org/salle_presse/communiques/517/

E-Ark General Model
http://www.eark-project.com/resources/general-model

Association des archivistes français – Guide méthodologique Fonds Européens
http://www.archivistes.org/Guide-methodologique-Fonds-Europeens

PrestoCentre – Audiovisual Digitisation and Digital Preservation TechWatch Report Four
https://www.prestocentre.org/library/resources/av-digitisation-and-digital-preservation-techwatch-report-04

Une journée dans la vie de Lili Eting (et son chat) : petit précis de diplomatique souriante
http://www.marieannechabin.fr/2016/10/petit-manuel-de-diplomatique-numerique-pour-les-nuls/

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Preliminary Future of Libraries Report
http://news.mit.edu/2016/mit-task-force-releases-preliminary-future-libraries-report-1024

The State of Open Data: a Selection of Analyses and Articles about Open Data
http://www.digital-science.com/blog/news/state-open-data-report-provides-new-insights-global-state-open-data-stateofopendata/

Ithaka S+R – Finding the Public Domain: the Copyright Review Management System
http://www.sr.ithaka.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/SR_Issue-Brief_Finding_Public_Domain_CRMS_102616.pdf

Paper – Liberatory Archives: Towards Belonging and Believing 
Part 1: http://medium.com/on-archivy/liberatory-archives-towards-belonging-and-believing-part-1-d26aaeb0edd1
Part 2: http://medium.com/on-archivy/liberatory-archives-towards-belonging-and-believing-part-2-6f56c754eb17

Paper – Digital Preservation of Law Reviews: Two Ways
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2847909

Paper – Exploring Audiovisual Archives through Aligned Thesauri
http://www.victordeboer.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Exploring-deBoer-30-MTSR2016.pdf

Publications
Code4lib Journal, no. 34 (2016)
http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issues/issue34

Past & Present’s 2016 Supplement: the Social History of the Archive: Record-Keeping in Early Modern Europe
http://pastandpresent.org.uk/introducing-social-history-archive/

Journal of Film Preservation, no. 95 (October 2016)
http://www.fiafnet.org/pages/Publications/Latest-Issue.html?PHPSESSID=rupf4kmb632bqjov7rig2ar393

Strenae : recherches sur les livres et objets culturels de l’enfance, no. 11, 2016 (numéro spécial : l’apport des archives)
http://magasindesenfants.hypotheses.org/5675

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 67, no. 11 (November 2016)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.2016.67.issue-11/issuetoc

Off the Record, vol. 32, no. 4 (Fall 2016)
http://aao-archivists.ca/otr/4318901

Friends of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Archives (Toronto) Newsletter, vol. 24, no. 3 (Autumn 2016)
http://www.camh.ca/en/education/about/services/camh_library/Documents/foanewsletter_autumn2016.pdf

Book – The Science of Managing our Digital Stuff
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/science-managing-our-digital-stuff 

Book – The Grand Ducal Medici and their Archive (1537-1743) 
http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9781909400344-1

Book – Collecting Historical Autographs: what to Buy, what to Pay, and how to Spot Fakes
http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-1-4766-6415-6

Book – Minor Knowledge and Microhistory: Manuscript Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century
http://www.routledge.com/products/9781138812079  

Book – It’s All One Case: the Illustrated Ross Macdonald Archives
http://www.fantagraphics.com/itsallonecase/

Book – Bat Books: a Catalogue of Folded Manuscripts Containing Almanacs or Other Texts
http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503568096-1 

Book – The Language of Museum Communication: a Diachronic Perspective
http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137571489

Book – Micro-blogging Memories: Weibo and Collective Remembering in Contemporary China
http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137598806 

Book – Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography
http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/reparative-aesthetics-9781472529862/

Book – Fundamentals of Information Systems Security (Third Edition)
http://www.jblearning.com/catalog/Details.aspx?isbn13=9781284116458

Book – Remembering the Falklands War: Media, Memory and Identity
http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137556592

Book – Plotting the Reading Experience: Theory, Practice, Politics
http://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/P/Plotting-the-Reading-Experience

Book – Contemporary Digital Forensic Investigations of Cloud and Mobile Applications
http://store.elsevier.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780128053034

Book – The Internet of Risky Things: Trusting the Devices that Surround Us
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920052784.do 

Book – From a Photograph: Authenticity, Science and the Periodical Press, 1870-1890
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/from-a-photograph-9781474266727/

Book – eAccess to Justice
http://press.uottawa.ca/eaccess-to-justice-3374.html

Livre – Les Montréalais : portraits d’une histoire
http://www.editions-homme.com/montrealais/jean-francois-nadeau/livre/9782761946285

Livre – Utile, utilisable, désirable : redessiner les bibliothèques pour leurs utilisateurs
http://www.enssib.fr/presses/catalogue/utile-utilisable-desirable

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Achieving Recordkeeping Compliance with Microsoft SharePoint
November 2, 2016, Toronto
http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/achieving-recordkeeping-compliance-with-microsoft-sharepoint-tickets-28760823397

Exhibition – Notman, a Visionary Photographer
November 4, 2016 – March 26, 2017, Montreal
http://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/notman/

Conférence de presse du Centre Virtuel de la Mémoire Historique Missionnaire de l’Immaculée-Conception
8 novembre 2016, Laval
http://archivistes.qc.ca/2016/10/23/memoire-historique-missionnaire/
Aux sources du théâtre en Outaouais : entre cercles et transformations (1884-1950)
10 novembre 2016, Gatineau
http://craoutaouais.ca/les-belles-soirees-du-crao-3/

Library and Archives Canada hosts the Right Honourable Joe Clark
November 24, 2016, Ottawa
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/2016/17-992-Joe-Clark.aspx 

Taking it to the Streets: Summit on the Value of Libraries, Archives and Museums in a Changing World
December 5-6, 2016, Ottawa
http://librarianship.ca/news/lac-summit-value/

Government Information Day
December 9, 2016, Toronto
http://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/government-information-day-2016

Webinar – Aggregating and Mapping Metadata
October 31, 2016
http://www.rd-alliance.org/group/empirical-humanities-metadata-working-group/post/aggregating-and-mapping-metadata-hands

Webinar – Introducing E-ARK Specifications and the E-ARK Web Platform
November 2, 2016
http://openpreservation.org/event/introducing-e-ark-specifications-and-the-e-ark-web-platform/

Making your Digital Collections Easier to Discover
November 15 and 22, 2016, London (UK)
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/advice/training/making-your-digital-collections-easier-to-discover

Corporate Archives and the Production of History in a Global Perspective
November 24-25, 2016, Gothenburg (Sweden)
http://es.handels.gu.se/avdelningar/avdelningen-for-ekonomisk-historia/workshop-in-economic-history–private-interests-or-national-heritage–

National Archives of Ireland – Records Management Symposium (Presentations Available)
October 21, 2016, Dublin
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/digital-resources/records-management-symposium-21-october-2016/

Sur le web / On the web
On the Road to 2017 with Library and Archives Canada Video – Samuel de Champlain in Huronia: 400th Anniversary
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/2016/champlain-400-anniversary.aspx

Archives Council of Prince Edward Island –  New Atom Website
http://www.archives.pe.ca/atom/index.php/

Podcast – Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault
http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2696562978/

Podcast – Archives, Memory & Reconciliation (with Theodore Fontaine and Greg Bak)
http://www.umfm.com/programming/shows/episode/39391/

Vidéo du Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (France) – La Grande collecte : vos archives appartiennent à l’histoire 
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4wcanz_la-grande-collecte-vos-archives-appartiennent-a-l-histoire_creation

Podcast – Preserving the Internet of the Past, Building the Internet of the Future
http://capeandislands.org/post/preserving-internet-past-building-internet-future

Slidecast – Why we Share more than Ever: the Potential of Open and Reusable Collection Data
http://www.slideshare.net/AntjeSchmidt/why-we-share-more-than-ever-the-potential-of-open-and-reusable-collection-data

Slidecast – Binary Trees? Automatically Identifying the Links between Born-Digital Records
http://www.slideshare.net/RossSpencer/binary-trees-automatically-identifying-the-links-between-borndigital-records

Slidecast – Well Preserved with the Digital Archives of New South Wales
http://t.co/4bnbnmZJKB

Slidecast – Avoiding the 927 Problem: Standards, Digital Preservation, and Communities of Practice 
http://www.slideshare.net/Archivematica/avoiding-the-927-problem-standards-digital-preservation-and-communities-of-practice

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Top court to rule on fate of personal accounts of residential schools
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/top-court-to-rule-on-destruction-of-personal-accounts-of-residential-schools/article32543495/

Liberals’ slow movement on Access to Information reform concerns commissioner
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/suzanne-legault-access-to-information-timeline-liberals-1.3812208

Suzanne Legault calls for tougher rules around deleting, preserving emails
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/suzanne-legault-deleting-emails-1.3431936

Liberals should keep promise on access law: Editorial
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2016/10/23/liberals-should-keep-promise-on-access-law-editorial.html

Because it’s 2016: Let’s Drag our Access-to-Info Process Out of the Stone Age
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2016/10/26/Stone-Age-Access-to-Info-Process/

Older government systems showing age, revealing the price of email delay
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/bagnall-older-government-systems-showing-age-revealing-the-price-of-email-delay

Library and Archives Canada – What’s new in the collection: the fall 2016 edition is out
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/2016/collection-fall-2016-edition.aspx

Library and Archives Canada – Launch of First World War personnel records database
http://thediscoverblog.com/2016/10/24/launch-of-first-world-war-personnel-records-database/

Library and Archives Canada – From the Lowy Room: the brightly illuminated manuscript of the Altona Haggadah
http://thediscoverblog.com/2016/10/27/from-the-lowy-room-the-brightly-illuminated-manuscript-of-the-altona-haggadah/

Linked Parliamentary Data – Dataset Updates October 2016
http://www.lipad.ca/blog/dataset-updates-october-2016/

Canadian Photography Institute director Luce Lebart fascinated by moments stopped
http://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/local-arts/canadian-photography-institute-director-luce-lebart-fascinated-by-moments-stopped

Canadian Photography Institute director Luce Lebart’s love affair with the medium 
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/canadian-photography-institute-director-luce-lebarts-love-affair-with-the-medium/article32516880/

Become a Martian with new app: Canada Aviation and Space Museum launches new science game
http://www.ottawacommunitynews.com/news-story/6922908-become-a-martian-with-new-app/
Video in the Classroom: Exploring the CBC Digital Archives
http://activehistory.ca/2016/10/exploring-and-teaching-with-the-cbc-digital-archives/

British Library – Canada and slavery in literature
http://blogs.bl.uk/americas/2016/10/canada-and-slavery-in-literature.html

British Library – The private life of the Canadian beaver
http://blogs.bl.uk/americas/2016/10/the-private-life-of-the-canadian-beaver.html

Newly discovered letters show darkness of WWI POW camp
http://www.macleans.ca/society/newly-discovered-letters-show-darkness-of-wwi-pow-camp/

B.C. Archives the place to go in search for family history 
http://www.timescolonist.com/b-c-archives-the-place-to-go-in-search-for-family-history-1.2372543

B.C. – Friends of the Archives let history be their guide
http://www.timescolonist.com/friends-of-the-archives-let-history-be-their-guide-1.2372550

B.C. Archives – A history of the Emily Carr Collection and vision for a new gallery
http://www.timescolonist.com/a-history-of-the-emily-carr-collection-and-vision-for-a-new-gallery-1.2372542

B.C. – World traveller finds a treasure trove of print and digital maps
http://www.timescolonist.com/world-traveller-finds-a-treasure-trove-of-print-and-digital-maps-1.2372548

B.C. – Family stories live on through our museums
http://www.timescolonist.com/family-stories-live-on-through-our-museums-1.2372544

BAnQ et le Service interministériel des Archives de France signent une entente-cadre de coopération
http://www.banq.qc.ca/a_propos_banq/salle_de_presse/communiques_de_presse/communique.html?c_id=e9227a0f-8d72-450b-85dd-dab6e17c6020&an=2017

BAnQ – Philippe Gaultier de Comporté et le développement des connaissances sur la Nouvelle-France
http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/instantanes/2016/10/26/philippe-gaultier-de-comporte-developpement-connaissances-nouvelle-france/

La Bibliothèque de l’Assemblée nationale du Québec dévoile ses trésors
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/quebec/2016/10/25/001-exposition-assemblee-nationale-histoire-duplessis-laporte.shtml

Freedom of information and protection of privacy inquiry adjudicator calls for investigation of Alberta Justice
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/foip-inquiry-adjudicator-calls-for-investigation-of-alberta-justice-1.3821631

Archives Alberta – Let us remember
http://archivesalberta.wordpress.com/2016/10/24/let-us-remember/

Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: Tanks!
http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/ww1blog/index.html#oct24

Does art offer the best path to heal historical wrongs?
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/does-art-offer-the-best-path-to-heal-historical-wrongs-1.3815817

University of Victoria purchases rare volume of Plath novel, plus doodles for $8,500 US
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/uvic-purchases-rare-volume-of-plath-novel-plus-doodles-for-8-500-us-1.2374834

McGill University – 135 years of theses available online
http://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/135-years-theses-available-online-263602

UBC Library’s Open Collections front-end code selected as the basis for the National Federated Research Data Repository discovery platform
http://about.library.ubc.ca/2016/10/24/ubc-librarys-open-collections-front-end-code-selected-as-the-basis-for-the-national-federated-research-data-repository-discovery-platform/

University of Ottawa puts thousands of journals on the chopping block
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/university-ottawa-library-budget-journal-cuts-1.3815030

UQAM – Hommage à Marcel Barbeau : le Service des archives collabore à une exposition au Musée d’art de Joliette
http://www.actualites.uqam.ca/2016/service-archives-collabore-exposition-musee-art-joliette

Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Sweet Smell of Success: Senator Frank P. O’Connor
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2016/10/sweet-smell-of-success-senator-frank-p.html

Vancouver City Archives – 100,000 digital objects now online
http://www.vancouverarchives.ca/2016/10/25/100000-digital-objects-now-online/

Drop the needle: Halifax library’s vinyl club brings together generations of music lovers
http://www.metronews.ca/news/halifax/2016/10/25/halifax-library-vinyl-listening-club-draws-people-together.html

Old Jewish beer gets new life in Quebec
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-jewish-beer-hart-family-1.3821868

Kitchener library launches digital media studio
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/6924356-kitchener-library-launches-digital-media-studio/

Brantford (Ontario) – New online portal opens city data
http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/2016/10/21/new-online-portal-opens-city-data

Strathcona County’s (Ontario) Open Data receives award
http://www.sherwoodparknews.com/2016/10/24/countys-open-data-receives-award

Corner Brook Museum and Archives (Newfoundland) looking for an artist-in-residence
http://www.thewesternstar.com/Living/2016-10-27/article-4672618/Corner-Brook-Museum-and-Archives-looking-for-an-artist-in-residence/1

La Société d’histoire de Lévis fête ses 40 ans
http://www.journaldelevis.com/1120/16513/La_Societe_d_histoire_de_Levis_fete_ses_40_ans.journaldelevis

Une aide financière de 40 028$ est accordée à la Société d’histoire de Drummond par Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
http://histoiredrummond.com/Nouvelles/une-aide-financiere-de-40-028-est-accordee-a-la-societe-dhistoire-de-drummond-par-bibliotheque-et-archives-canada/

The Struggles of Searching for Loyalist Records
http://britishandirishhistory.wordpress.com/2016/10/24/the-struggles-of-searching-for-loyalist-records/

David Goudie’s descendants meet for the first time thanks to a 100-year-old photograph 
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/6926247-david-goudie-s-descendants-meet-for-the-first-time-thanks-to-a-100-year-old-photograph/

Des médailles de la Première Guerre mondiale vendues sur Internet retournent à Pubnico (Nouvelle-Écosse)
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/atlantique/2016/10/20/021-acadie-pubnico-medailles-guerre-lucien-eldridge-dentremont.shtml

Culture organisationnelle : l’humour pour améliorer la cohésion des employés envers votre projet de gestion documentaire
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2016/10/24/archives-archivistes-culture-organisationnelle-gestion-humour-au-travail/

Afrique / Africa
Morocco – Ninth century library goes digital to reach wider audience
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-morocco-qarawiyyin-library-idUSKCN12O20C

Comment le Maroc veut récupérer les archives coloniales
http://www.huffpostmaghreb.com/2016/10/27/maroc-archives_n_12673760.html

At first glance transparent but in fact a little opaque: looking at South African Police Service’s Promotion of Access to Informaction Act compliance
http://www.saha.org.za/news/2016/October/at_first_glance_transparent_but_in_fact_a_little_opaque_looking_at_saps_paia_compliance.htm

South African History Archive – Opportunity lost: an intern reflects on a submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on the accountably of the judiciary during apartheid
http://www.saha.org.za/news/2016/October/opportunity_lost_an_intern_reflects_on_a_submission_to_the_trc_on_the_accountably_of_the_judiciary_during_apartheid.htm

Amériques / Americas
National Library of Jamaica to be Upgraded
http://jis.gov.jm/national-library-jamaica-upgraded/

Miss Lou Archives Launched at National Library of Jamaica to Promote her Great Legacy
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20161021/miss-lou-archives-launched-national-library-jamaica-promote-her-great-legacy

Vatican, Argentine church to open dirty war archives
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/vatican-argentine-church-to-open-dirty-war-archives-1.3130349

IFLA Calls for Copyright Reforms to Support Libraries in Colombia
http://www.ifla.org/node/10951

Peru’s royal pedigree: direct descendants trace roots to Incan emperor and kin
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/25/peru-royal-pedigree-inca-empire-history

From Belém to a new Brasília: Brazil’s cities in the 1950s: in pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/oct/20/brazilian-cities-1950s-brasilia-marcel-gautherot-in-pictures

CIA Refuses to Release Reports on Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser
http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/cia-refuses-to-release-reports-on-former-australian-pri-1788285396

John Kerry and National Archives Sued for Colin Powell’s Emails
http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/26/john-kerry-and-national-archives-sued-for-colin-powells-emails/

Historic recordings from National Press Club now online
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/historic-recordings-from-national-press-club-now-online/

Was the Declaration of Independence defaced? Experts say yes
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-declaration-of-independence-defaced-20161021-story.html

Helping the Public Use Electronic Records at the National Archives
http://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2016/10/17/helping-the-public-use-electronic-records-at-the-national-archives/

NASA – Team Braves Wildlife, Dust and Darkness to Find Safe Home for Abandoned Records
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/langley/team-braves-wildlife-dust-and-darkness-to-find-safe-home-for-abandoned-records

Oregon aims to preserve original constitution, warts and all
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3865868/Oregon-aims-preserve-original-constitution-warts-all.html

Delaware launches Open Data Portal
http://www.delawarebusinesstimes.com/delaware-launches-open-data-portal/

Society of American Archivists – Comments on Copyright Office’s Section 1201 Study
http://archivists.org/news/2016/saa-comments-on-copyright-offices-section-1201-study

Pathways to Automated Appraisal for Born-Digital Records: a Society of American Archivists 2016 ERS Breakout Discussion Recap
http://saaers.wordpress.com/2016/10/21/pathways-to-automated-appraisal-for-born-digital-records-an-saa-2016-ers-breakout-discussion-recap/

Devils in the details: for Harvard Law School team digitizing Nuremberg documents, a haunting effect
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/10/devils-in-the-details/

University of Chicago – An online trove of Biblical manuscripts
http://news.lib.uchicago.edu/blog/2016/10/25/an-online-trove-of-biblical-manuscripts/

Bucknell University Team Works to Revitalize Lakota Language and Culture
http://www.bucknell.edu/news-and-media/2016/october/bucknell-team-works-to-revitalize-lakota-language-and-culture.html

The Copyright Review Management System and HathiTrust 
http://www.sr.ithaka.org/blog/opening-access/

Open Data Projects Are Fueling the Fight Against Police Misconduct
http://theintercept.com/2016/10/25/open-data-projects-are-fueling-the-fight-against-police-misconduct/

Culture in Transit Toolkit (Digitizing and Democratizing Metropolitan New York’s Cultural Heritage) Now Available
http://www.mnylc.org/cit/?p=34

Take a tour of Alexander Hamilton’s archives at the Bank of New York Mellon
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/take-a-tour-of-alexander-hamiltons-archives-at-the-bank-of-new-york-mellon-2016-10-21

What Houdini ate: an Austin archive reveals foodie facts about the magician
http://arts.blog.austin360.com/2016/10/20/what-houdini-ate/

Skittles Photographer Actually Sues Trump Campaign Over Infringement
http://abovethelaw.com/2016/10/skittles-photographer-actually-sues-trump-campaign-over-infringement/

Gett off! Why Prince’s archive is an act of defiance against pop industry capitalism 
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/24/gett-off-why-princes-archive-is-an-act-of-defiance-against-pop-industry-capitalism

A Film Technician Who Discovers Gems in the Outtakes
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/jobs/a-film-technician-who-discovers-gems-in-the-outtakes.html

The Weird Familiarity of 100-Year-Old Feminism Memes
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/10/pepe-the-anti-suffrage-frog/505406/

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia – Wanted: chief information governance officers
http://www.naa.gov.au/about-us/media/media-releases/2016/20.aspx

Australia – $3 million to preserve important national memories
https://www.attorneygeneral.gov.au/Mediareleases/Pages/2016/FourthQuarter/$3-million-to-preserve-important-national-memories.aspx

Archives New Zealand – Digitisation guidance: what’s current and what’s happening?
http://www.records.archives.govt.nz/toolkit-blog/digitisation-guidance-whats-happening/

New Zealand – Rediscovering Te Papa’s film archives
http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2016/10/27/rediscovering-te-papas-film-archives/

Mauritius – China donates restoration equipment to National Archives Department
http://www.govmu.org/English/News/Pages/China-donates-restoration-equipment-to-National-Archives-Department.aspx

Singapore National Library Board – New library app, book downloads to encourage reading on the go 
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/new-library-app-book-downloads-to-encourage-reading-on-the-go/3231202.html

Indonésie – L’ancienne présidente Megawati Sukarno appelle au classement des archives du Mouvement des non-alignés, Mémoire universelle par l’Unesco
http://www.aps.dz/algerie/47985-megawati-appelle-au-classement-des-archives-du-mna,-m%C3%A9moire-universelle-par-l-unesco

Europe / Europa
Prehistoric cave paintings help solve the mystery of how bison ended up in Europe
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bison-cave-paintings-prehistoric-art-france-lascaux-chauvet-pont-darc-marsoulas-a7367626.html

Artificial intelligence predicts outcome of human rights cases
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37727387

Bulgaria, Russia in Spat over Seized Archives
http://www.novinite.com/articles/177036/Bulgaria,+Russia+in+Spat+over+Seized+Archives

Long-gone Russian Empire: small towns in colorful archive photos
https://rbth.com/multimedia/pictures/2016/10/27/prokudin-gorsky-villages_642723

German historian reveals documents of 1100 pages in Vatican archives linked with Armenian genocide
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/864825/german-historian-reveals-documents-of-1100-pages-in-vatican-archives-linked-with-armenian-genocide.html

When Cultural Heritage Is at Risk, Italy’s Art Police Come to the Rescue
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/10/22/498293234/when-cultural-heritage-is-at-risk-italys-art-police-come-to-the-rescue

Italy – WW2 POW’s postcard returned to family by teacher
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37761256

Sketch-leaf by Beethoven for his Emperor Concerto sells in London for £377,000
http://artdaily.com/news/90988/Sketch-leaf-by-Beethoven-for-his–Emperor–Concerto-sells-in-London-for–pound-377-000

National Archives maps Gibraltar’s past
http://chronicle.gi/2016/10/national-archives-maps-gibraltars-past/

Belgique – Serons-nous encore en démocratie quand les documents classifiés seront détruits sans aucun contrôle par la sûreté de l’Etat?
http://www.lesoir.be/1352325/article/debats/cartes-blanches/2016-10-26/serons-nous-encore-en-democratie-quand-documents-classifies-seront-detruits-sa

France – Vingt ans d’archivage du Web : les coulisses d’un projet titanesque
http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2016/10/26/vingt-ans-d-archivage-du-web-un-projet-titanesque_5020433_4408996.html

French national library is putting lamps, desks and columns up for adoption in drive to raise funds for dramatic renovation
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3870292/French-national-library-putting-lamps-desk-columns-ADOPTION-drive-raise-funds-dramatic-renovation.html

The First Known Depiction of a Witch on a Broomstick
http://hyperallergic.com/332222/first-known-depiction-witch-broomstick/

Ireland – UFOs, magic priests, and the gems of the RTÉ archive
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/ufos-magic-priests-and-the-gems-of-the-rt%C3%A9-archive-1.2843121

Ireland – The new Townland Valuation Translator breaks the code used by Griffith’s surveyors (1824–1856)
http://www.irishgenealogynews.com/2016/10/the-new-townland-valuation-translator.html

Early maps of Scotland showed hundreds of fantasy islands
http://www.scotsman.com/news/early-maps-of-scotland-showed-hundreds-of-fantasy-islands-1-4263842

New documents reveal full extent of witchcraft persecutions in Scotland 350 years ago
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14825331.Forgotten_book_of_Scotland__39_s_witchcraft_trials_goes_online/

UK National Archives – Archives: seeking memories, making meaning, creative practice 
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/archives-seeking-memories-making-meaning-creative-practice/

UK National Archives – Connecting collections: tell us your research story
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/connecting-collections-tell-us-research-story/

UK National Archives – Is this the face of William Shakespeare? 
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/face-william-shakespeare/

Exploring Treasures of the British Library on TV
http://blogs.bl.uk/living-knowledge/2016/10/exploring-treasures-of-the-british-library-on-tv.html

British Library – Studying migration and diaspora through Russian language publishing
http://blogs.bl.uk/european/2016/10/studying-migration-and-diaspora-through-russian-language-publishing.html

First catalogue of the Bodleian Library’s own historic archive now online
http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/2016/10/24/first-catalogue-of-the-bodleians-own-historic-archive-now-online/

Browsing the shelves of Britain’s oldest public library
http://inews.co.uk/essentials/culture/books/chethams-britains-oldest-public-library/

How to Digitise… Large format Maps, Plans and more
http://www.townswebarchiving.com/2016/10/digitise-large-format-maps-plans-more/

New JRR Tolkien book to be published next year, painstakingly restored from original manuscripts
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/85616289/New-JRR-Tolkien-book-to-be-published-next-year-painstakingly-restored-from-original-manuscripts

Poem by A.A. Milne discovered in the archives of the Tank Museum
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/14823519.Discovered__the_long_forgotten_poem_by_AA_Milne_about___39_wonderful_tanks__39_/

Christine Mccafferty, Diageo Archive
http://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/five-minutes-with/11310/christine-mccafferty-diageo-archive/

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel’s effort to get a gadget-obsessed generation to look at old stuff
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israels-effort-to-get-a-gadget-obsessed-generation-to-look-at-old-stuff/2016/10/25/aa85c324-9a29-11e6-b3c9-f662adaa0048_story.html

Soviet records show a number of agents in high Israeli places, including lawmakers, military engineers and a senior general
http://www.timesofisrael.com/top-israeli-officials-were-part-of-kgb-spy-ring-report/

Jérusalem 1900: archives d’une ville avant l’orage
http://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/2105/files/2016/10/sciencesetvie.pdf

Are My Favorite Arabic Websites Archived?
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2016/10/2016-10-24-are-my-favorite-arabic.html

Samsung Electronics Turkey Presents the Digital Library
http://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-electronics-turkey-presents-the-digital-library

International
David I. Franch is President of the International Council on Archives Photographic & Audiovisual Working Group
http://www.photoconsortium.net/david-i-franch-nominated-president-of-paag-icas-photographic-and-audiovisual-working-group/

Applying the Right to Be Forgotten: IFLA Publishes Open Letter
http://www.ifla.org/node/10950

Wikimedia Foundation files petition against decision to extend the “right to be forgotten” globally
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/10/19/petition-right-to-be-forgotten/

Wikipedia community and Internet Archive partner to fix one million broken links on Wikipedia
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/10/26/internet-archive-broken-links/

Introduction to the Semantic Web and Linked Data
http://dlis.hypotheses.org/788

The Mission to Save Vanishing Internet Art
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/arts/design/the-mission-to-save-vanishing-internet-art.html

Big-Data Algorithms Are Manipulating Us All
http://www.wired.com/2016/10/big-data-algorithms-manipulating-us/

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