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Documentary Heritage News
July 25, 2025

Vol. 18, no. 47

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State

UK National Archives – Annual Report and Accounts 2024-2025
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/annual-report-and-accounts-2024-25/

Service historique de la Défense (France) – Rapport annuel d’activité 2024
http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/actualites/rapport-annuel-dactivite-2024

Grand-Duché de Luxembourg – Tableau de tri des archives de la Chambre des députés
http://anlux.public.lu/dam-assets/pdf-statiques/chd-notice-expl-tableau-de-tri.pdf

Archives nationales de Luxembourg – Convention tableau de tri des documents et des archives du Digital learning hub
http://anlux.public.lu/dam-assets/pdf-statiques/dlh-convention-tableau-de-tri-v101.pdf

République du Bénin – Décret fixant les conditions d’exercice de l’activité de prestataire de service d’archivage électronique
http://archivesnationales.gouv.bj/fichiers_opportunites/dan_687a249ab6464.pdf

NARA – 2024 Federal Electronic Records and Email Management Results
https://www.archives.gov/files/records-mgmt/email-management/2024-ferem-results-data-7-24-2025.xlsx

De la communauté / From the community

Europeana – Regenerative Digital Transformation: Sustainable Pathways for Cultural Heritage
http://pro.europeana.eu/post/regenerative-digital-transformation-sustainable-pathways-for-cultural-heritage

Sedona Conference – Primer on the Electronic Discovery Implications of the Internet of Things (Public Comment Version)
http://thesedonaconference.org/publication/Primer_on_Electronic_Discovery_Implications_of_Internet_of_Things

American Library Association – Strategic Plan 2025
http://www.ala.org/news/2025/07/ala-launches-new-strategic-plan

Research Data Alliance and Microsoft – White Papers on Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Technologies in Research
https://www.rd-alliance.org/news/rda-and-microsoft-release-white-papers-on-ai-and-quantum-technologies-in-research/

The Hunt for Research Data: Development of an Open-source Workflow for Tracking Institutionally-Affiliated Research Data Publications
http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01228

Article – Occupational Hazard Exposures among Archivists
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1631626/full

Publications

Archival History Newsletter (Summer 2025)
https://archivalhistorynews.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/archival-history-newsletter-summer-2025/

The Halcyon: the Newsletter of the Friends of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto), no. 75 (2025)
https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/news/summer-issue-halycon-now-available

City of Richmond (British Columbia) Archives – Archives News, vol. 30, no. 1 (2025)
http://www.richmond.ca/__shared/assets/newsletter30no176802.pdf

Burlington Historical Society (Ontario) Gazette, vol. 21, no. 6 (2025)
http://burlingtonhistorical.ca/summer-2025-gazette/

Mémoire de maîtrise (UQAM) – Conserver et transmettre les mémoires : l’histoire des Archives Traces lesbiennes de Montréal (1983-1994)
https://archipel.uqam.ca/18928/

Open Access Book – Digitising Cultural Heritage: Clashes with Copyright Law
https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/digitising-cultural-heritage-9781509959280/

Book – Feminist Art Education Archival Research: C.H.U.T.N.E.Y. Power
http://routledge.com/product/isbn/9781032714769

Book – The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive
http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/719891/the-trembling-hand-by-mathelinda-nabugodi/

Book – Tracing your Surrey Ancestors: a Guide for Family Historians
http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Tracing-your-Surrey-Ancestors-A-Guide-for-Family-Historians-Paperback/p/52776

Book – AI-Powered Cataloguing: a Practical Guide to Building a Cataloguing Application with Power Apps
http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/page/detail/ai-powered-cataloguing/?k=9781783308071

Book – Minority Memory, Identity, and Reconciliation: the Turkish Muslim Minority of Greece and the Greek Orthodox Minority of Türkiye
http://press.umich.edu/Books/M/Minority-Memory-Identity-and-Reconciliation3

Book – The Limiting Principle: how Privacy Became a Public Issue
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-limiting-principle/9780231218887

Book – The Secret Life of Copyright: Intellectual Property and Inequality in the Age of AI
http://www.cambridge.org/core/books/secret-life-of-copyright/50192204B876C84102D1BC9D5A346C53

Book – Memories from the Archive: a Life
http://atmospherepress.com/books/memories-from-the-archive-a-life-by-roberto-gonzalez-echevarria-translated-by-jonathan-tittler/

Book – Archive of Unknown Universes: a Novel
http://www.harpercollins.com/products/archive-of-unknown-universes-ruben-reyes-jr?variant=43182607237154

Livre – Mémoires de passés antiques : une élaboration continue (XIVe-XIXe siècle)
http://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503606835-1

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Causerie sur l’histoire de la photo et photobooth d’antan
26 juillet 2025, Matane
http://shgmatane.org/466/invitation-causerie-sur-l-histoire-de-la-photo-et-photobooth-d-antan/nouvelle.html

Lunch and Learn: Archival Description (Canada)
August 7, 2025
http://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/hXiP8orpTd-6mXKRQxh1qQ#/registration

Reframing Culture: Creative Reuse of Cultural Heritage
July 30, 2025
https://pro.europeana.eu/event/reframing-culture-creative-reuse-of-cultural-heritage

Data Rescue Hackathon for USAID Education Data
August 7, 2025
https://rdapassociation.org/event-6266055

National Library of Scotland – Beyond the Archives with Jo Clifford and Jen Hadfield
August 18, 2025
http://www.nls.uk/whats-on/beyond-the-archives-monday/

Silence, Power, and Making Do: Keywords for Philippine Cinema’s Archival Afterlives
August 21, 2025
http://www.archivists.org.au/events/event/silence-power-and-making-do-keywords-for-philippine-cinemas-archival-afterlives

Information & Records Management Society – What Does Good Records Management Look Like?
September 17, 2025
http://irms.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1927465

Sur le web / On the web

American Library Association – Learning Library
https://www.ala.org/news/2025/07/ala-launches-ala-learning-library-free-resource-members

Dataverse Software – 6.7 Release
http://dataverse.org/blog/dataverse-software-67-release

Presentation – The Paradoxes of Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums
http://zenodo.org/records/16149689

Presentation – The Universal Viewer: Radically Inclusive Software Development for Digital Cultural Heritage
http://zenodo.org/records/16040931

Presentation – Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards
https://github.com/SAA-SDT/TS-EAS-subteam-notes/blob/master/TS-EAS-Notes/2025/TS%20EAS%202025-07-22.pdf

National Digital Stewardship Alliance – 2025 Fixity Survey
https://umn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eKgYInZMlI2mk8m

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Ottawa weighing plans on artificial intelligence and copyright as OpenAI fights Ontario court jurisdiction
http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/ottawa-weighing-plans-on-ai-and-copyright-as-openai-fights-ontario-court-jurisdiction/

Library and Archives Canada – Vimy Memorial visit: fact or fiction (now a trilogy)
https://thediscoverblog.com/2025/07/24/vimy-memorial-visit-fact-or-fiction-now-a-trilogy/

Québec court issues key decision on public access to… access to information requests
http://www.osler.com/en/insights/updates/quebec-court-public-access-access-to-information-requests/

BAnQ – À la découverte des ponts couverts du Québec
http://www.banq.qc.ca/explorer/articles/la-decouverte-des-ponts-couverts-du-quebec/

Diagnostics, plans d’action et tableaux de bord en gestion de l’information: un projet d’évolution des services de BAnQ
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/banq-diagnostics/

A Gold Mine for Genealogists: University of British Columbia Library Students Digital Projects
http://ukcdngenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-gold-mine-for-genealogists-ubc.html

McMaster University Libraries’ archives continues to expand contemporary chapbooks collection
http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/articles/libraries-expands-contemporary-chapbooks-collection/

Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Building a Fortress: Part II
http://whistlermuseum.org/2025/07/22/building-a-fortress-part-ii/

Greater Vernon Museum & Archives (British Columbia) – A Taste of Summer Past and Present
http://vernonmuseum.ca/a-taste-of-summer-past-and-present/

Stratford-Perth Archives (Ontario) – Hibbert Township Farms in 1889
https://www.perthcounty.ca/en/living-here/archives-blog.aspx#Hibbert

Musée d’histoire de Sherbrooke – Un zoo au parc Victoria
http://mhist.org/actualites/zoovictoria/

Société d’histoire et de généalogie Maria-Chapdelaine – Le Festival du Bleuet de Dolbeau-Mistassini : 63 ans d’histoire
https://histoiregenealogie.ca/le-festival-du-bleuet-de-dolbeau-mistassini-63-ans-dhistoire/

Afrique / Africa

RADAR: Réseau africain de documentation et des archives des parlements
http://www.ifla.org/news/radar-reseau-africain-de-documentation-et-des-archives-des-parlements/

Lat Sakhewar Diop : sa vision pour moderniser les Archives nationales du Sénégal et bâtir une mémoire souveraine
http://archivinfos.com/lat-sakhewar-diop-vision-moderniser-archives-nationales-du-senegal/

Nigeria – Importance of Okigbo’s nomination into Unesco memory of world register
http://guardian.ng/art/importance-of-okigbos-nomination-into-unesco-memory-of-world-register/

Nigeria – Lagos State Records and Archives Bureau trains Archivists on managing Public Sector Records for sustainability
http://www.tvcnews.tv/lasrab-trains-archivists-on-managing-public-sector-records-for-sustainability/

Amériques / Americas

National Archives Works with Federal Partners to Release more than 230,000 Pages of Martin Luther King Assassination Records
https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/nara-releases-230k-mlk-assassination-files

Legacy at Risk? Martin Luther King Jr.’s Family Slams Trump Admin’s Release of MLK Files
http://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/legacy-at-risk-martin-luther-king-jr-s-family-slams-trump-admins-release-of-mlkfiles-article-152321128

NARA – If you Ever Plan to Motor West: Route 66 in the National Register of Historic Places
http://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2025/07/22/if-you-ever-plan-to-motor-west-route-66-in-the-national-register-of-historic-places/

NARA – Special Delivery! 250 Years of the United States Postal Service
http://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2025/07/23/special-delivery-250-years-of-the-united-states-postal-service/

Critics of Trump’s presidential library fundraising say “there are no rules”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-presidential-library-fundraising/

Library of Congress – New Community of Practice for Exploring Content Provenance and Authenticity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/07/c2pa-glam/

Library of Congress – Fascinating Discoveries are Waiting Just Below the Surface: a Journey into Geocoding with Sabrina Templeton
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/07/junior-fellow-sabrina-templeton-geocoding/

Trump has fired the head of the Library of Congress, but the 225-year-old institution remains a library for all so far
http://theconversation.com/trump-has-fired-the-head-of-the-library-of-congress-but-the-225-year-old-institution-remains-a-library-for-all-so-far-257508

Trump’s Comments Undermine Artificial Intelligence Action Plan, Threaten Copyright
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/98276-trump-s-ai-action-plan-would-nuke-copyright-law.html

Impacts of the Trump Administration on Archives and Archival Workers Story-Telling Initiative
https://connect.archivists.org/discussion/impacts-of-the-trump-administration-on-archives-and-archival-workers-story-telling-initiative-15

Artificial Intelligence Archives, and the Future of Information Governance: Key Insights from NAGARA 2025
https://info.aiim.org/aiim-blog/ai-archives-and-the-future-of-information-governance-key-insights-from-nagara-2025

Delaware Public Archives – 2025: Second Quarter Accessions
http://archives.delaware.gov/2025/07/22/2025-second-quarter-accessions/

Harvard University – Ancient DNA solves mystery of Hungarian, Finnish language family’s origins
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/07/ancient-dna-solves-mystery-of-hungarian-finnish-language-familys-origins/

University of California Santa Barbara – Polchinski archive opens digital window into renowned physicist’s work
https://news.ucsb.edu/2025/021968/polchinski-archive-opens-digital-window-renowned-physicists-work

Virginia Tech unveils digital library platform to expand public access to research and cultural collections
https://www.edtechinnovationhub.com/news/virginia-tech-unveils-digital-library-platform-to-expand-public-access-to-research-and-cultural-collections

Repository Profile: Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia
http://archelements.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/repository-profile-historical-collections-claude-moore-health-sciences-library-university-of-virginia/

University of Connecticut – Generative Artificial Intelligence and Archives: Two Years On
http://foundhistory.org/2025/07/generative-artificial-intelligence-and-archives-two-years-on/

University of Akron archive seeks to ‘fill in the blank’ on local LGBTQ+ history
https://signalakron.org/akron-lgbtq-archive-seeks-to-fill-in-the-blank-on-local-history/

A Conversation with Meta Partenheimer, Digital Projects Archivist at the Cambridge Historical Commission
http://saaers.wordpress.com/2025/07/22/a-conversation-with-meta-partenheimer-digital-projects-archivist-at-the-cambridge-historical-commission/

60-year-old Black history archive faces uncertain future after federal cuts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/07/23/amistad-black-history-trump/

San Francisco-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does that Mean?
https://www.kqed.org/news/12049420/sf-based-internet-archive-is-now-a-federal-depository-library-what-does-that-mean

Women Religious Archives Collaborative to break ground on new heritage center
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8417I2Fzmy0

How Corporate Memory Drives Purpose, Culture And Employee Engagement
https://www.forbes.com/sites/vibhasratanjee/2025/07/18/how-corporate-memory-drives-purpose-culture-and-employee-engagement/

‘It’s all in here’: Inside the battle to save San Francisco Art Institute’s historic archive
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/san-francisco-art-institute-20366457.php

A Professor’s Hunt for the Rarest Chinese Typewriter
http://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/nyregion/mingkwai-typewriter-china.html

Alan Stoker: Former Archivist at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
http://nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/20/alan-stoker-archivist-country-music-hall-fame-rare-audio/

Finding Aid to My Soul: Alan McCafferty
https://archivesaware.archivists.org/2025/07/24/finding-aid-to-my-soul-alan-mccafferty/

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific

University of Sydney – Platypus diplomacy: students uncover hidden history
http://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2025/07/17/platypus-diplomacy-students-uncover-secrets-in-museum-archives.html

New Zealand – Ministry for Culture and Heritage confirms 80 percent cut in senior historian roles
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/567992/ministry-for-culture-and-heritage-confirms-80-percent-cut-in-senior-historian-roles

Europe / Europa

Historical Archives of the European Union Historical Archival and cartographic legacy of I.B.F. Kormoss now open to researchers
https://www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=archival-and-cartographic-legacy-of-i.b.f.-kormoss-now-open-to-researchers

Bavarian State Archives and Arolsen Archives – Undelivered farewell letters from victims of Nazi persecution
https://arolsen-archives.org/en/press-releases/nicht-zugestellte-abschiedsbriefe-von-ns-verfolgten/

Stolen 17th-Century Manuscript Returned to Hungary by New York District Attorney’s Office
https://hungarytoday.hu/stolen-17th-century-manuscript-returned-to-hungary-by-new-york-das-office/

France – Guerre d’Algérie : ce que les difficultés d’accès aux archives disent de notre démocratie
https://theconversation.com/guerre-dalgerie-ce-que-les-difficultes-dacces-aux-archives-disent-de-notre-democratie-261053

Access to open data at the National Library of France using ARK variants
https://arks.org/news/2025-07-23-ark-access-to-open-data-at-the-national-library-of-france/

Mont Saint-Michel manuscript that disappeared during the French Revolution resurfaces after two centuries
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/news/mont-saint-michel-manuscript-that-disappeared-during-the-french-revolution-resurfaces-after-two-centuries

University of Wales – Putting Egypt on the map: Frederik Ludvig Norden’s Travels in Egypt and Nubia
http://www.exploreyourarchive.org/putting-egypt-on-the-map-frederik-ludvig-nordens-travels-in-egypt-and-nubia/

UK National Archives – Latest release of Cabinet Office and Prime Ministers’ papers
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/cabinet-office-records-released/

Wild British Library: from Box to Bees: the story of a wildflower meadow springing up in St Pancras
http://blogs.bl.uk/science/2025/07/wild-british-library-from-box-to-bees-the-story-of-a-wildflower-meadow-springing-up-in-st-pancras.html

University of Portsmouth – Race against time to save Mary Rose video archive
http://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ge22dyngko

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

National Library of Israel – Emma Lazarus: Overlooked at the Statue of Liberty, but Hardly Forgotten
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/emma_lazarus_ny/

National Library of Israel – Yotam Haim’s “Wings of Spirit”
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/yotam_haim_wings_of_spirit/

From Gaza to Amman, how United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East[‘s family archives were rescued under fire
http://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/07/22/from-gaza-to-amman-how-unrwa-s-family-archives-were-rescued-under-fire_6743596_4.html

United Arab Emirates – Abu Dhabi Youth Council and National Library and Archives’ Youth Council organise Institutional Youth Councils Forum
http://www.mediaoffice.abudhabi/en/community/abu-dhabi-youth-council-and-national-library-and-archives-youth-council-organise-institutional-youth-councils-forum/

Qatar National Archive all set to showcase Qatar’s documentary heritage at Expo Osaka 2025
http://www.qatar-tribune.com/article/186045/nation/qatar-national-archive-all-set-to-showcase-qatars-documentary-heritage-at-expo-osaka-2025

International

IFLA Launches Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH) Network
https://www.ifla.org/news/ifla-launches-digital-cultural-heritage-dch-network/

Human Touch in the Artificial Intelligence Era: why Emotional Intelligence Matters for Libraries
http://blogs.ifla.org/arl/2025/07/18/human-touch-in-the-ai-era-why-emotional-intelligence-matters-for-libraries/

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