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Documentary Heritage News
July 18, 2025

Vol. 18, no. 46

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State

BAnQ – Recueil des délais de conservation des centres de services scolaires (Version 2025)
https://www.banq.qc.ca/sites/default/files/2025-07/CSS_recueil_version2025_VF.pdf

Graph-Based Archival Description: the Archives of Ontario’s Experience with Records in Contexts and Linked Open Data
http://ischool.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GBAD-Toolkit-April-22-Acrobat-Links.pdf

UK National Archives – Photographing Documents in the Reading Rooms (Updated)
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/visit-us/researching-here/photographing-documents-in-the-reading-rooms/

National Library of Scotland – Annual Review 2023 to 2024
https://www.nls.uk/about-us/plans-and-policies/annual-review-and-financial-statements/annual-review-2023-to-2024/

Library of Congress – Recommended Formats Statement: Updates for 2025-2026
http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/07/rfs-updates-2025-2026/

NARA – Electronic Records Management Federal Integrated Business Framework (for Comments)
https://records-express.blogs.archives.gov/2025/07/09/request-for-feedback-on-the-erm-federal-integrated-business-framework-2/

State Records of New South Wales (Australia) – General Retention and Disposal Authority: Taking or Sending Records Out of New South Wales
https://www.nsw.gov.au/nsw-government/recordkeeping/records-retention-and-disposal-authorities/transferring-records-out-of-nsw-for-storage-ga50

Public Records Office Victoria (Australia) – Information Management Maturity Assessment Program Results from 2023-2024
https://prov.vic.gov.au/about-us/our-blog/2023-24-immap-results-released

De la communauté / From the community

Borealis and Digital Research Alliance of Canada’s Preservation Expert Group – CoreTrustSeal Documentation Suite
https://nextcloud.scholarsportal.info/s/AAfH2FH4Wa96PBW

Revised First Edition of the Canadian Open Access Legal Citation Guide
https://www.callacbd.ca/CALL-Blog/13521958

Preserving Access to Records of Temporary UN International Criminal Courts and Investigative Bodies
https://www.swisspeace.ch/articles/preserving-access-to-records-of-temporary-un-international-criminal-courts-and-investigative-bodies

Council on Library and Information Resources – An Overview of Emulation as a Preservation Method
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/an-overview-of-emulation-as-a-preservation-method/

Society of American Archivists – Re-Envisioning Metadata and Digital Object Section, 2022-2025
https://www2.archivists.org/groups/metadata-and-digital-object-section/re-envisioning-mdos-2022-2025

Publications

Fontes Artis Musicae: the Journal of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres, vol. 42, no. 5 (2025)
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55211

Cri du Portail international archivistique francophone, no 30 (2025)
https://www.piaf-archives.org/actualites/cri-du-piaf-ndeg30-les-nouvelles-du-piaf

Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 15, no. 6 (2025)
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/June_2025

The Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta Newsletter, vol. 28, no. 2 (2025)
https://mennonitehistory.org/wp-content/uploads/Chronicle-No.-2-June-2024.pdf

Book – The Future of Memory: a History of Lossless Format Standards in the Moving Image Archive
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088759

Book – Letters from the Afterlife: the Post-Holocaust Correspondence of Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson
http://www.mqup.ca/letters-from-the-afterlife-products-9780228024668.php

Book – Translating the Ketubah: the Jewish Marriage Contract in America and England
http://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817362058/translating-the-ketubah/

Book – Digital Literary Redlining: African American Anthologies, Digital Humanities, and the Canon
http://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/digital-literary-redlining

Book – Understanding Social Images: Essays on Visual Methods and Teaching Visual Anthropology
http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BanksUnderstanding

Book – Displays of Belonging: Polish Jewish Collecting and Museums, 1891-1941
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501781544/displays-of-belonging/

Book – The Routledge Handbook of Museum and Heritage Education
http://routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032480985

Book – Everyone Breaks these Laws: how Copyrights Made the Online World
http://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251265/everyone-breaks-these-laws/

Book – AI for Knowledge
http://routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032874241

Livre – Le patrimoine séquestré : (dé)possessions des biens culturels dans les révolutions et les conflits
http://www.mareetmartin.com/livre/le-patrimoine-sequestre

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives – Archiving our Stories
July 19, 2025
https://arquives.ca/event/archiving-our-stories/2025-07-19/

The Data Platform Handbook
July 30, 2025
https://irmac.wildapricot.org/event-6264149

Lunch & Learn: The Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films
July 23, 2025
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BIC34iG5RDSZ9BAh_kJrNw#/registration

Using Time: An Invitation for Creative Connections Between Communities and Archival Materials
July 23, 2025
https://www.amphilsoc.org/events/using-time-invitation-creative-connections-between-communities-and-archival-materials

Archives and Records Association of New Zealand – Fundamentals of Public Records Act compliance
Juyly 25, 2025
https://www.aranz.org.nz/blog/post/149005/webinar-fundamentals-of-public-records-act-compliance/

Artificial Intelligence and Archives
July 29, 2025
https://icasuvblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/next-session-of-community-coffee-cultures-ccc-ai-archives/

Heritage Week 2025: Preserving Irish Online Cultural Heritage through Web Archiving
August 19, 2025, Dublin
https://dri.ie/events/heritage-week-2025-preserving-irish-online-cultural-heritage-through-web-archiving/

Religious Archives Group Conference
October 2, 2025, London
https://ticketlab.app/event/31944-Religious-Archives-Group-Conference-2025-tickets#/

Black Heritage Voices 2025
November 11, 2025, Leicester
http://www.serendipity-uk.com/event/black-heritage-voices/

40 + 40 = 80 Years of Images about the Shoah (1945-1985-2025)
November 17-18, 2025, Rome
https://www.ehri-project.eu/call-for-papers-40-40-80-years-of-images-about-the-shoah-1945-1985-2025/

Sur le web / On the web

Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan Videos – Thrill of Discovery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35fkuv83tbM&list=PLwAW98LNmBXcIEVmA8XQVi8z8g7snyrgN&index=1

Law Bytes Podcast – Dean Beeby on Why Canada’s Language Laws May Stop Government From Posting Access to Information Records Online
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/07/law-bytes-podcast-episode-240/

Muslim in Canada Archives Video – Arctic Muslims: Lived Islam and Community in Northern Canada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkMbeZZhlEE

Video – Research Tips: Collections Handling at the National Archives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlJ1OKfXWOg

Vidéo de l’École nationale des chartes – La trajectoire atypique du fonds de l’Afrique occidentale française
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcY9T1NCGeQ

Video – Information Literacy Mailbag: Edi and Neal’s Book Club July 2025 event
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbshBHTxY-4

Baladodiffusion de l’Institut national du patrimoine – Carte blanche à Pierre Lemarquis, neurologue
https://podcast.ausha.co/les-cartes-blanches-de-l-inp/nouvel-episode-du-11-12-10-43-2

Take Action for the National Endowment for the Humanities
https://p2a.co/qyrPh2k

Archives Association of Ontario – Updating the Directory of Municipal Archives in Ontario
https://aao-archivists.ca/News/13521519

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Library and Archives Canada – The Kapuskasing Internment Camp
http://thediscoverblog.com/2025/07/17/the-kapuskasing-internment-camp/

BAnQ – Le Québec et ses ciné-parcs
https://www.banq.qc.ca/explorer/articles/le-quebec-et-ses-cine-parcs/

Questionner le Réseau canadien d’information archivistique afin de le redéfinir
https://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/archives-canada/

Mapping Ontario Black Archives – Interview: Carolyn Whitzman on the archival story behind novel Clara at the Door
https://mobaprojects.ca/whitzman/

Toronto Metropolitan University Archives & Special Collections – A Few of our Favourite Things
https://library.torontomu.ca/asc/2025/07/a-few-of-our-favourite-things/

University of British Columbia – Snapshots of British Columbia’s Ghost Towns: Part 2—Barkerville’s Chinatown
https://digitize.library.ubc.ca/carousel/snapshots-of-british-columbias-ghost-towns-part-2-barkervilles-chinatown/

University of Winnipeg – Archives on STEM Day
https://shekonneechie.ca/2025/07/17/archives-on-stem-day/

Queen’s University – Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fandom in the Norman V. Lamb Gothic Fantasy Collection
http://internetarchivecanada.org/2025/07/15/science-fiction-fantasy-and-fandom-in-the-norman-v-lamb-gothic-fantasy-collection/

Muslim in Canada Archives – Our Voices, Our Stories: Oral Histories of Hazara Canadians ​
https://www.muslimsincanadaarchives.ca/en/posts/oral-histories-of-hazara-canadians-/

Halifax Explosion artifacts were pulled from the harbour last year. So, now what?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/mont-blanc-artifacts-halifax-explosion-halifax-shipyard-1.7578434

Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Building a Fortress: Part I
http://whistlermuseum.org/2025/07/15/building-a-fortress-part-i/

Greater Vernon Museum & Archives (British Columbia) – The Vernon Girls Trumpet Band: a Legacy of Music and Determination
https://vernonmuseum.ca/the-vernon-girls-trumpet-band-a-legacy-of-music-and-determination/

Summerland Museum & Archives Society (British Columbia) dives into local ranching history and cattle research
http://www.castanet.net/news/Summerland/560895/Summerland-museum-dives-into-local-ranching-history-and-cattle-research

South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – Trumpeter Swan Trailer Association
https://www.southpeacearchives.org/blog/trumpeter-swan-trailer-association/

Library in race against the clock to scan Niagara Falls Review negatives
http://www.niagarathisweek.com/life/niagara-region/library-in-race-against-the-clock-to-scan-niagara-falls-review-negatives/article_3aeae218-85af-5110-b21d-b3c32e8b6901.html

Arnprior & McNab/Braeside Archives (Ontario) – Behind the Vault: History Through Archival Discoveries
https://www.adarchives.org/blog/behind-the-vault-history-through-archival-discoveries/

Stratford-Perth Archives (Ontario) – Copies Available While Supply Lasts: Andrew Malcolm Furniture Company Staff Photograph
https://www.perthcounty.ca/en/living-here/archives-blog.aspx#Malcolm

Saint-Eustache – Quand les archives parlent : trésors et histoires du patrimoine local
http://leveil.com/culture/quand-les-archives-parlent-tresors-et-histoires-du-patrimoine-local

Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu – Immersion dans les coulisses des archives municipales
https://www.canadafrancais.com/actualite/immersion-dans-les-coulisses-des-archives-municipales/

Eastern Townships Resource Centre – Moving Season
https://www.etrc.ca/moving-season/

Afrique / Africa

Vers une gouvernance inclusive de l’information en Afrique de l’Ouest et au Sahel
https://www.unesco.org/fr/articles/vers-une-gouvernance-inclusive-de-linformation-en-afrique-de-louest-et-au-sahel

Why arson attempt on Kenya National Archives should trigger relocation debate
http://nation.africa/kenya/weekly-review/why-arson-attempt-on-kenya-national-archives-should-trigger-relocation-debate-5115736

Uganda – Lost archives of Idi Amin preserved and protected
http://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2025/july/lost-archives-of-idi-amin-preserved-and-protected

Sénégal: la présidente du Réseau des femmes bibliothécaires, archivistes et documentalistes évoque les responsabilités nouvelles des spécialistes de l’information documentaire
http://fr.allafrica.com/stories/202507120023.html

Amériques / Americas

Margot Thomas retires after 33 years as Saint Lucia’s first national archivist
http://stluciatimes.com/171695/2025/07/margot-thomas-retires-after-33-years-as-saint-lucias-first-national-archivist/

Latin America – These LGBTQ+ Archives Defy Erasure, One Memory at a Time
http://www.wired.com/story/lgbtq-archives-defy-erasure-one-memory-at-a-time/

A Nazi document trove raises questions for Argentina
http://www.reuters.com/world/americas/nazi-document-trove-raises-questions-argentina-2025-07-15/

Signature d’un accord de coopération entre la France et les Archives générales de la Nation de République dominicaine
http://do.ambafrance.org/Signature-d-un-accord-de-cooperation-avec-les-Archives-generales-de-la-Nation

Colombia – Universidad de Santo Tomas Archives goes digital with new website
https://varsitarian.net/news/20250716/ust-archives-goes-digital-with-new-website

The Salesians in Peru open the new headquarters of their Historical Archives in the presence of Rector Major Emeritus, Fr Pascual Chávez Villanueva
https://www.infoans.org/en/sections/news/item/24854-peru-the-salesians-in-peru-open-the-new-headquarters-of-their-historical-archives-in-the-presence-of-rector-major-emeritus-fr-pascual-chavez-villanueva

There is no political power without power over the archive
http://observer.co.uk/news/international/article/there-is-no-political-power-without-power-over-the-archive

Whistleblower turned records director Philip Droege still on team as Trump allies blast White House for fueling Mar‑a‑Lago scandal
http://www.brigadanews.ph/whistleblower-turned-records-director-philip-droege-still-on-team-as-trump-allies-blast-white-house-for-fueling-mar%E2%80%91a%E2%80%91lago-scandal/

Democrats to Introduce Bill to Restrict Contributions to Presidential Libraries; Legislation Follows Trump Settlements with Paramount, Disney
https://deadline.com/2025/07/elizabeth-warren-bill-paramount-settlement-trump-1236459477/

For the Record: Colleen Shogan on what’s at stake in the fight to protect the National Archives
http://www.aacu.org/liberaleducation/articles/for-the-record

Rehousing the Library of Congress’ Rare Globes
http://blogs.loc.gov/preservation/2025/07/rehousing-rare-globes/

The CIA Reveals more of its Connection to Lee Harvey Oswald
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/14/cia-oswald-jfk-assassination-joannides/

It’s not just the Epstein files. The Trump administration is withholding all kinds of public records.
http://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-epstein-files-public-records-project-47-newsletter-rcna218273

American Oversight Sues More than 20 Federal Agencies for Withholding Records on Secretive Department of Government Efficiency Teams
https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-sues-more-than-20-federal-agencies-for-withholding-records-on-secretive-doge-teams/

Department of Government Efficiency Smoke and Mirrors: How the Agency Deliberately Avoids Transparency
https://americanoversight.org/doges-smoke-and-mirrors-how-the-agency-deliberately-avoids-transparency/

Delaware Public Archives – Kenton, DE: A Town of Three Names
https://archives.delaware.gov/2025/06/21/kenton-de-a-town-of-three-names/

American Institute of Physics – The Emilio Segrè Visual Archives: Preserving the Personal Side of Physics
http://www.aip.org/foundation/the-emilio-segre-visual-archives-preserving-the-personal-side-of-physics

University of Connecticut – Archiving for Justice, Truth, and Memory: Unpacking the Baggage of What Went Before
https://today.uconn.edu/2025/07/archiving-for-justice-truth-and-memory-unpacking-the-baggage-of-what-went-before/

Iowa State University Archives – A Retrospective on Retroactive Accessioning
https://isuspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2025/07/17/a-retrospective-on-retroactive-accessioning/

The postcard craze of historic Michigan: more than 60K postcards digitized at University of Michigan Clements Library
http://news.umich.edu/the-postcard-craze-of-historic-michigan-more-than-60k-postcards-digitized-at-u-m-clements-library/

Tampa International Airport – to unveil historic archive collection in special exhibit Thursday evening
http://news.tampaairport.com/tpa-to-unveil-historic-archive-collection-in-special-exhibit-thursday-evening/

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific

Children’s embroidery reveals lost voices from Australia’s early colonial history
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-10/children-embroidery-early-colonial-history/105502034

Millions of New Zealand’s most precious historic documents to be moved
http://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018995700/millions-of-nz-s-most-precious-historic-documents-to-be-moved

Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Resource Centre Transforms into a Popular Library (and Archives)
http://www.cambodianess.com/article/eccc-resource-centre-transforms-into-a-popular-library

South Korea – Unesco recognition for Ulsan petroglyphs rekindles preservation, water supply dilemma
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/lifestyle/koreanheritage/20250714/unesco-recognition-for-ulsan-petroglyphs-rekindles-preservation-water-supply-dilemma

Europe / Europa

Inside the ghost museums of Ukraine: exhibits replaced by fragments of war and occupation
http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/jul/13/ukraine-in-depth-war-culture-museums-curators-historical-buildings-eastern-frontline-ilium-sviatohirsk

Century-old scripture found during preservation work on Siberian synagogue
https://www.jns.org/ancient-scripture-found-at-siberian-synagogue-with-dark-past/

Hungary’s oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/hungarys-oldest-library-is-fighting-to-save-100000-books-from-a-beetle-infestation/

Archives nationales de France : les projets de Marie-Françoise Limon-Bonnet
http://www.rfgenealogie.com/infos/archives-nationales-les-projets-de-marie-francoise-limon-bonnet

France – Ministère de la justice : 40 ans d’archives audiovisuelles de la Justice
http://www.justice.gouv.fr/actualites/actualite/40-ans-darchives-audiovisuelles-justice

Génocide au Rwanda : empêcher l’accès aux archives alimente les soupçons sur le rôle de la France
http://www.liberation.fr/international/afrique/genocide-au-rwanda-empecher-lacces-aux-archives-alimente-les-soupcons-sur-le-role-de-la-france-20250711_FVXVMRGZDFDHZIBMVWKLQH3UEQ/

Belgium – Anonymous German returns stolen medieval document to Bruges archives
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2025/07/17/anonymous-german-returns-stolen-medieval-document-to-bruges-arch/

Step Back to 1985: National Library of Ireland Live Aid Archive Goes Digital
https://www.nli.ie/news-stories/news/step-back-1985-nli-live-aid-archive-goes-digital

Ireland – Researchers note substantial recovery of lost Donegal Census records from 1800s
http://www.donegaldaily.com/2025/07/09/researchers-note-substantial-recovery-of-lost-donegal-census-records-from-1800s-1/

Archiving a Pixelated Pandemic: Part 2: Minecraft at Cambridge University Libraries
http://digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/archiving-a-pixelated-pandemic-part-2-minecraft-at-cambridge-university-libraries-147998c12ce9

Archive to give African American veterans a voice
http://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gd5ypj3jjo

Accessibility and Archives: the fool delivers the madman
https://www.archives.org.uk/diversity-allies-blog/accessibility-and-archives-the-fool-delivers-the-madman

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

National Library of Israel – Between Tehran and Tel Aviv: the Diaspora Caught in the Middle
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/iranian_american_jewish_diaspora/

National Library of Israel – When Meyer Lansky Walked his Dog in Tel Aviv
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/meyer_lansky_tel-aviv/

Saudi Arabia – Prophet’s Mosque Library Offers Expansive Access to Manuscripts, Digital Resources
http://iqna.ir/en/news/3493795/prophet%E2%80%99s-mosque-library-offers-expansive-access-to-manuscripts-digital-resources

International

Inside the International Atomic Energy Agency Archives Unit
http://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/inside-the-international-atomic-energy-agency-archives-unit

Confederation of Open Access Repositories Launches AI Bots and Repositories Task Force
https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/coar-launches-ai-bots-and-repositories-task-force/

Le petit artisan de la préservation numérique – Haro sur OAIS
http://digipres.fr/archives/213

Le petit artisan de la préservation numérique – Aurais-je fait une boulette ?
http://digipres.fr/archives/94

Ramblings of a File Format researcher – Microsite
https://preservation.tylerthorsted.com/2025/07/11/microstation/

Looking up DOI metadata
https://inkdroid.org/2025/07/16/crossref/

An engineer’s path from data loss to software preservation
https://www.softwareheritage.org/2025/07/16/simon_delamare_ambassador/

Final Fantasy XI’s producer discusses archival and preservation for the classic massively multiplayer online role-playing game
http://massivelyop.com/2025/07/10/final-fantasy-xis-producer-discusses-archival-and-preservation-for-the-classic-mmorpg/

L’intelligence artificielle au service de la découvrabilité
http://vousneregardezpasassezlesimages.fr/2025/07/11/lintelligence-artificielle-au-service-de-la-decouvrabilite/

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