Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
National Records of Scotland – Annual Reports & Accounts 2015-2016
European Commission – Realising the European Open Science Cloud
De la communauté / From the community
InterPARES Trust – Managing Records of Citizen Engagement Initiatives: a Primer
Centre for Law and Democracy – The Right to Information and Intergovernmental Organisations
Canada’s Favourites: Book Recommendations from Coast to Coast
UNESCO – Culture Urban Future: Global Report on Culture for Sustainable Urban Development
University of York (UK) – Filling the Digital Preservation Gap: Final Report
Information Theory for Intelligent People
Paper – User-driven Ontology Population from Linked Data Sources
Paper – Crowdsourcing in the Digital Humanities
Publications
Archival Science, vol. 16, no. 4 (December 2016)
Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 3 (2016)
Information & Culture: a Journal of History, vol. 51, no. 4 (2016)
Broadsheet: Magazine of the Scottish Council on Archives, no. 39 (2016)
Historic Libraries Forum Bulletin, no. 35 (October 2016)
Bulletin Memoriav: préserver le patrimoine audiovisuel, no. 23 (Octobre 2016)
Book – In their own Words: a History in Letters
Book – Metadata: Shaping Knowledge from Antiquity to the Semantic Web
Book – Glossary of Records and Information Management Terms (Fifth Edition)
Available through the ARMA International Bookstore: http://members.arma.org/eweb/browse.aspx?Site=ARMASTORE&webcode=Home
Book – Columbus and his First Voyage: a History in Documents
Book – Letters from Beauly: Pat Hennessy and the Canadian Forestry Corps in Scotland, 1940-1945
Book – Successful Fundraising for the Academic Library: Philanthropy in Higher Education
Book – Computation and the Humanities: Towards an Oral History of Digital Humanities
Book – Hijacked Justice: Dealing with the Past in the Balkans
Book – Cybercrime, Digital Forensics and Jurisdiction
Book – Healthcare and Big Data: Digital Specters and Phantom Objects
Book – School Memories: New Trends in the History of Education
Book – Gender and Memory in the Globital Age
Book – Digital Contagions: a Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses (Second Edition)
Livre – Poilus : les lettres interdites
Livre – Comme un Allemand en France : lettres inédites sous l’Occupation (1940-1944)
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
City of Burnaby Archives (B.C.) Open to the Public
October 22, 2016, Burnaby
Archive in your Attic: Discovering your Family Treasures
October 22, 2016, Toronto
Library and Archives Canada – Let’s Share a Coffee! Come and Discuss your Experience with us
October 25, 2016, Ottawa
Archives Association of Ontario – 2016 Institutional Issues Forum
October 27, 2016, Toronto
The Art of Letter-Writing Before, During, and After the Digital Age
November 2, 2016, Victoria
Friends of the City of Ottawa Archives Annual General Meeting 2016
November 13, 2016, Ottawa
Canadian Association of Law Libraries – Webinar: Uncovering the United Nations Documentation System
November 17, 2016
Méthodes et stratégies de gestion de l’information par les organisations : des big data aux thick data
11-12 mai 2017, Montréal
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
June 19-23, 2017, Toronto
Information Management Standards Seminar
November 11, 2016, Brisbane (Australia)
Introduction to Digital Preservation Planning for Research Managers
November 16, 2016, London (UK)
Personal Digital Archiving 2017
March 29-31, 2017, Stanford University
Documenting Cinema: Film Librarianship in the 21st Century
April 26-28, 2017, Los Angeles
International Federation of Film Archives 2017 Congress
April 28 – May 3, 2017, Los Angeles
Digital Preservation for Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities 2017
June 14-15, 2017, Brighton (UK)
Australian Society of Archivists 2017 Conference
September 25-28, 2017, University of Melbourne
Right to be Forgotten Versus Right to Remember (Presentations Available)
October 10, 2016, Brussels
Sur le web / On the web
Registry of Canadian Government Information Digitization Projects – New Website
National Archives of France – Website now Available in English and Spanish
Université de Technologie de Compiègne (France) – Ressource pédagogique libre sur le droit d’auteur
Vidéo – Thomas Piketty: histoire des inégalités : la preuve par les archives
Video – How to Use Archives
Baladodiffusion – Pérenniser l’éphémère : archivage et médias sociaux dans les bibliothèques de recherche nord-américaines
UK National Archives Podcast – Blindness in Victorian Britain
Slidecast – Discarding Audiovisual Carriers after Digitisation: a Five-Step Decision Framework
Slidecast – Summarizing Archival Collections Using Storytelling Techniques
Slidecast – Digital Collections and Empathetic Outreach: Engaging the Remote User
Slidecast – Europeana: 53 million objects! Now what?
Slidecast – Free for All: Open Licensing at National Library of Scotland
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Liberals after year one: not much transparency despite the talk
Canadian Copyright Modernization Act: Chronicle of a Disaster Foretold
Why New Digital Taxes Could Play a Starring Role in the Government’s CanCon Policy
Canada: Linking and Copyright Infringement
After years of austerity, Library and Archives Canada is ready to (re)meet its public
Library and Archives Canada Revitalization
Library and Archives Canada – Agreement signed with the Service interministériel des Archives de France
Library and Archives Canada – Open datasets: update
B.C.’s auditor general says government info at risk due to lack of security
Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists – Call for 2017-2018 Project Proposals
La Déclaration des bibliothèques québécoises déposée à l’Assemblée nationale
La danse et les archives : une chorégraphie de la mémoire inscrite dans mon parcours à BAnQ
Archives Alberta – The Exhibit Series: Put a Label on it
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba soldier: too many letters to answer
Saint Mary’s University home to 50 years of newspaper clippings
Ten Books to Contextualize Reconciliation in Archives, Museums, and Public History
Ontario Jewish Archives House Valuable Artifacts of Canada’s Jewish Left
Winnipeg – Photos capture pain and strength of families of missing, murdered indigenous women
Ottawa – Central library project cloaked in secrecy
Archives de Montréal – Bonne fête au métro de Montréal
Digital archives expanded in Richmond (B.C.)
Société d’histoire de Drummond – Décontaminer les archives de la Celanese
L’Institut Généalogique Drouin met fin à l’impression de ses collections papier et procède à la liquidation de ses inventaires
1914 Nova Scotia political propaganda pamphlet a puzzle
An Archival Girl in an Artifact World
The Periodic Table of Genealogy Technology
Zotero, entre l’ordinateur et la tablette
Afrique / Africa
Protocol on Cooperation Between Sudan and China in Archive Field Approved
Kenya National Library wins top award
Les archives de Moulay Ahmen Loukili confiées aux Archives du Maroc
Amériques / Americas
Found in Ecuador: a Time Capsule for the Ears
State Department official sought FBI declassification of Clinton email
Whoever Wins the White House, this Year’s Big Loser Is Email
The Government’s Addiction to Secret Law
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Reopens After $15 Million Makeover
Hawaii Marks Digital Records Day, Makes First Deposit into Digital Archive
Notes from the Florida State Archives
Library of Virginia layoffs will hinder open government, preservation of historical record
University of Maryland – Early gay radio group donates collection to public broadcasting archives
http://current.org/2016/10/early-gay-radio-group-donates-collection-to-public-broadcasting-archives/
University in Springfield to archive political memorabilia
University of Colorado Library Signs First Preservation Steward Agreement with Government Publishing Office
Immigrant Story Archiving Project to Expand Internationally
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts launches digital Fabergé archive
Virginia – 200 years of criminal records detail offenses that might seem quirky today
A Visit to the Digitization Lab at Philadelphia Museum of Art
Providence Public Library digitizes thousands of historical photos
Central Library to Become Archival Home of St. Louis Blues
The New York Public Library has adopted a very unusual sorting system
These archivists are posting the entire O.J. Simpson trial to YouTube
Creepy Message from Kids Discovered in 1968 Time Capsule: I Am Dead
The Secret to Collecting Presidential Autographs
From the Oval office to the auction block: rare presidential manuscript collection
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – National Archives move to $64m Mitchell facility will be its last until 2030
National Library of Australia – Collecting, managing and describing content: new challenges for a digital age library
Foundation launches million-dollar plan to record Australia’s songlines
New South Wales State Records (Australia) – Game, Set and Match! Gamifying Records Management eLearning
What a nation chooses to remember and forget: the war for New Zealand’s history
University of Canterbury (New Zealand) – Students explore 30 years of Homosexual Law Reform
Singapore – Memories, Official Secrets, and the National Archives: a Matter of Governmental Judgment or Archival Discretion?
Reel struggle: unearthing Thai cinema’s lost classics
Historic Map of Vanuatu Finds Home in Vanuatu National Archive
Indonesia – Culture of secrecy persists 18 years after democratic reforms
Indonesia – Government could remove online stories
Nepal – Eighteen types of reparation schemes proposed for war-era crimes
The absurd face of China’s censorship: bookstore tears out Taiwan page from Webster’s dictionary
Europe / Europa
Archives Portal Europe Starts on Implementing EAD3
Europeana and the International Image Interoperability Framework: an update
European countries are reaping the benefits of Open Data
Austria – The world’s knowledge is being buried in a salt mine
Our Story: the National Archives of Hungary
Our Story: the National Archives of Norway
Our Story: the National Archives of Estonia
Making history: Russia to return Georgian film archives
The Soviet InterNyet
Rare Collection of Over 40 Shipwrecks Revealed in Mapping of Black Sea Landscape
Portuguese Web Archive – Is my web archive usable?
Netherlands – Historical memoir signed after Nazi papers discovered hidden in armchair
Cyprus – Former president donates his personal digital archives to the University of Cyprus
L’histoire du transport aérien belge se redécouvre à travers ses archives
Archivists digitize Paris attack tributes to preserve memories
Ireland – National Archives progresses new public service records management plan
Ireland – Fears allayed over future of UTV’s precious film archive
National Library of Scotland – Scottish Catholic records
National Library of Wales – Building the Theatre of Memory: Digitising the Welsh Print Collection
It makes a good story, but the cover-up of Britain’s savage treatment of the Mau Mau was exaggerated
How will Brexit affect copyright legislation?
Call for police forces across the country to open up Orgreave files
UK National Archives – Eight million photographs: where to begin?
UK National Archives – Records management under the microscope
UK National Archives – King John and recordkeeping
UK National Archives – Sir Maurice Hankey and the birth of modern government
UK National Archives – Spies in the Baltic: the unknown scandal
British Library – From West to East: Conservation of the Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber
Black Cultural Archives launches online exhibItions with Google Cultural Institute
London Mayor praises the work of the Black Cultural Archives
Newly uncovered photographs show London’s disappearing working class housing
Mysterious Great Fire manuscript goes on show at Museum of London
Forget Jack the Ripper! These grisly real-life Victorian crimes including female executions and child murder are spine-chillingly gruesome
Fops and flappers: wild fashions of the 1920s: in pictures
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
25 Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Translated and Published
United Arab Emirates – Bodies sign MoU to preserve audio records of history
The United Arab Emirates National Archives received a delegation from the British National Archives
Syria TV archives lose treasure chest of history
Statement by the Director-General of UNESCO on the Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls, a UNESCO World Heritage site
The Apps they Carried: Software, Big Data, and the Fight for Mosul
International
Archives Fever
Dirty Books: a Hypochondriac’s Guide to Archival Donations
Web traffic analytics as a historical source
How the social sciences can embrace the big data revolution
Google News launches fact check label