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Documentary Heritage News
September 16, 2016May 2, 2021

Vol. 10, no. 3

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State
Report by the Keeper of the Records of Scotland, 2016 
http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//record-keeping/public-records-act/keepers-prsa-annual-report-2016.pdf
National Records of Scotland – Consultation on Proper Arrangements for Archiving Public Records Final Report
https://consult.scotland.gov.uk/national-records-of-scotland/archiving-public-records/results/proper-arrangements—consultation-analysis—report—final.docx

Annual reports of the Director of the National Archives of Ireland
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Report-of-the-Director-2015.pdf
Accessions Report: http://www.nationalarchives.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/National-Archives-Accessions-Report-2015.pdf

NARA – Controlled Unclassified Information Rule
http://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/09/14/2016-21665/controlled-unclassified-information

NARA – Agency Records Management Training Requirements (for Comments)
http://records-express.blogs.archives.gov/2016/09/13/opportunity-for-comment-draft-training-bulletin/

Archives cantonales vaudoises (Suisse) – Guide pratique de gestion des archives communales
http://www.vd.ch/themes/territoire/communes/guide-de-gestion-des-archives-communales/

Archives cantonales vaudoises – Rapport d’activité 2015
http://www.patrimoine.vd.ch/fileadmin/groups/19/PDF/Rapport_annuel_2015_site_web.pdf

De la communauté / From the community
Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française – Rapport annuel 2015-2016
http://arts.uottawa.ca/crccf/nouvelles/rapport-annuel-2015-2016-du-crccf

International Council on Archives – Seoul Communiqué
http://www.ica.org/en/archives-harmony-and-friendship-sustaining-spirit-seoul

International Council on Archives – Speech: Out of the Box, Into the World (by John Hocking, Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals)
http://www.facebook.com/notes/ica-international-council-on-archives/out-of-the-box-into-the-world-by-mr-john-hocking/1074699459233504

International Federation of Film Archives – Basic Principles of Digital Archiving (Updated Version)
http://www.fiafnet.org/images/tinyUpload/E-Resources/Commission-And-PIP-Resources/TC_resources/Digital%20Preservation%20Principles%20v2%200.pdf

University of London – Assessing Organisational Readiness Toolkit: Helping you Identify the Next Step in Managing your Digital Content
http://dart.blogs.ulcc.ac.uk/2016/09/15/the-aor-toolkit/

Rapport sur la direction du traitement des archives de Marcel Giuglaris
http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01286705v2

Publications
Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres Review, vol. 44, no. 2 (2016)
http://caml.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/caml/issue/view/2308

D-Lib Magazine, vol. 22, no. 9-10 (September-October 2016)
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september16/09contents.html

Les cahiers du numérique, vol. 12, no 3 (2016)
http://lcn.revuesonline.com/resnum.jsp?editionId=3147

Italian Journal of Library, Archives, and Information Science, vol. 7, no. 3 (2016)
http://leo.cineca.it/index.php/jlis/index

Journal of Documentation, vol. 72, no. 6 (2016)
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/jd/72/6

Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Studies, vol. 66, no. 3 (September 2016)
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/libr.2016.66.issue-3/issue-files/libr.2016.66.issue-3.xml

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 67, no. 9 (September 2016)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.2016.67.issue-9/issuetoc

Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship, vol. 1, no. 1 (2016)
http://journals.ku.edu/index.php/jcel/issue/view/554

Chroniques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, no 77 (Septembre-décembre 2016)
http://multimedia.bnf.fr/chroniques/chroniques_77/

Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 6, no. 8 (2016)
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2016

The Chronicle: the Jewish Historical Society of British Columbia Newsletter, vol. 22, no. 2 (2016)
http://jewishmuseum.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Chronicle-Fall-2016-web.pdf

City of Richmond (B.C.) Archives News, vol. 21, no. 2 (Fall 2016)
http://www.city.richmond.bc.ca/__shared/assets/newslettervol21no245153.pdf

Fronts of Modernity: the 20th Century Collections, at the University of Victoria Libraries
http://www.uvic.ca/library/about/ul/publications/UVic%20Library%202016%20FOM%20book%20WEB.pdf

Book – Teaching and Learning in Virtual Environments: Archives, Museums, and Libraries
http://www.abc-clio.com/LibrariesUnlimited/product.aspx?pc=A4951P 

Book – Our History: a Record of Cherished Family Memories
http://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/jennifer-boudinot/our-history/9781631062292/ 
Book – Canada Always: the Defining Speeches of Sir Wilfrid Laurier
http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/533283/canada-always

Book – Indigenous Intellectual Property: a Handbook of Contemporary Research
http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/indigenous-intellectual-property

Book – The Digital Arts and Humanities: Neogeography, Social Media and Big Data Integrations and Applications
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319409511 

Book – The Experiential Library: Transforming Academic and Research Libraries through the Power of Experiential Learning 
http://store.elsevier.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780081007754

Book – Homo Deus: a Brief History of Tomorrow
http://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1111302/homo-deus/

Book – Trustworthy Policies for Distributed Repositories
http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/pdf/10.2200/S00732ED1V01Y201609ICR051

Book – Lines in the Ice: Exploring the Roof of the World
http://shop.bl.uk/mall/productpage.cfm/BritishLibrary/_ISBN_9780712356060/89198/Lines-in-the-Ice

Livre – Les humanités numériques : une histoire critique
http://www.editions-msh.fr/livre/?GCOI=27351100065270 

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
University of British Columbia Rare Books and Special Collections Exhibit – Sui Sin Far and Onoto Watanna
Until October 15, 2016, Vancouver
http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/news/sui-sin-far-and-onoto-watanna/

The Book: a Symbol of Monastic Ascent
September 19, 2016, Toronto
http://medieval.utoronto.ca/2016/09/friends-of-the-library-lecture-prof-adam-cohen-on-monday-19-sept/

Master Calligrapher Professor Wang Dongling
September 27, 2016, Ottawa
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/about-us/events/Pages/2016/master-calligrapher.aspx

Centre régional d’archives de l’Outaouais – De l’Irlande en 1847 à Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix, en Outaouais
6 octobre 2016, Gatineau
http://craoutaouais.ca/les-belles-soirees-du-crao-2/

Archives Association of Ontario – 2016 Municipal Archives Interest Group Open House
October 7, 2016, Minesing 
http://aao-archivists.ca/maig/4251507

Digital Preservation in Action: Building Sustainable Programs and Effective Workflows
October 27, 2016, Victoria
http://aabc.ca/resources/news/2016/9/9/lecture-digital-preservation-in-action-building-sustainable-programs-and-effective-workflows/

La recherche en archives, la recherche sur les archives 
16-17 mars 2017, Sherbrooke
http://www.fabula.org/actualites/colloque-etudiant-la-recherche-en-archives-la-recherche-sur-les-archives_75564.php

Webinar – The Presidential Directive on Electronic Records Management: will you be Ready?
September 20, 2016
https://secure.campaigner.com/CSB/Public/archive.aspx?args=MTYxMTMwODI%3d

Annual General Meeting of the Hong Kong Archives Society
September 24, 2016, Hong Kong
http://www.archives.org.hk/en/page.php?pagename=latest_news&submenu=LATEST&nid=70

Demystifying Digitisation 
September 29-30, 2016, University of Antwerp
http://read.transkribus.eu/2016/09/09/demystifying-digitisation-registration-now-open/

Introduction to Research Data Management
November 30, 2016, London (UK)
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/node/10617

Is there a Democratic Deficit in Archives?
January 24-25, 2017, Northumbria University
http://archivalaccountabilitygap.wordpress.com/

45e congrès de l’Association des archivistes du Québec (actes disponibles)
13 au 15 juin 2016, Québec
http://congres.archivistes.qc.ca/actes-2016/

Webinar – Finding the Public Domain (Recording Available)
September 1, 2016
http://www.districtdispatch.org/2016/09/finding-public-domain-webinar/

Sur le web / On the web
Canadian Content in a Digital World Consultations
http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=1123769

The Great Hockey Bar Project
http://www.reddit.com/r/theGHBDproject/wiki/index

Video – International Council on Archives Congress 2016: Opening Ceremony 
Part 1: http://youtu.be/HA_zirNZBm4
Part 2: http://youtu.be/TUs4vcVvZ5k

Video – International Council on Archives Congress 2016: Highlights  
http://youtu.be/NLPWL2MljvE

UK National Archives Podcast – A Tourist’s Guide to Shakespeare’s London
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/tourist-guide-to-shakespeare-london.mp3

UK National Archives Podcast – Magna Carta: Law, Liberty and Legacy
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/magna-carta-law-liberty-legacy.mp3

National Library of New Zealand Podcast – Telling new Stories with Old Maps
http://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/telling-new-stories-with-old-maps

Videos – Lectures on Digital Photography
http://sites.google.com/site/marclevoylectures/home

Slidecast – Search & Analytics in Archives Using Semantic Annotations
http://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~kberberi/presentations/2016-alexandria.pdf

Slidecast – Historical Text Encoding Initiative: Developing a Portfolio of Common Practice 
http://www.slideshare.net/Mhbeals/historical-tei-developing-a-portfolio-of-common-practice

Slidecast – How to Read 100 Million Publications: VIVO and Comprehensive Open Publication Databases
https://works.bepress.com/john_mark_ockerbloom/18/

Slidecast – If Data Sharing is the Answer, what is the Question?
http://works.bepress.com/borgman/390/

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Government report on Trans-Pacific Partnership’s economic cost completely ignores potential for huge damage to innovation and our digital economy
http://openmedia.org/en/press/government-report-tpps-economic-cost-completely-ignores-potential-huge-damage-innovation

Government use of surveillance devices must be restricted: privacy experts 
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/government-use-of-surveillance-devices-should-be-publicly-debated-privacy-experts/article31844872/

Australian and Canadian Privacy Regulators Working Together 
http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=4ff9431d-68a7-48ea-9db0-7d05d4a4dc41

Diefenbaker like you’ve never seen him: 51 rare images of Canada’s most unusual prime minister
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/dief-like-youve-never-seen-him-50-rare-images-of-canadas-most-unusual-prime-minister

Government releases cache of secret 1976 Canada Cup documents
http://www.tsn.ca/government-releases-cache-of-secret-1976-canada-cup-documents-1.565416

Library and Archives Canada – Working with the National Archives of the UK to commemorate the Battle of Vimy Ridge 
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/2016/National-Archives-UK-agreement.aspx

Library and Archives Canada – First German submarine sunk by the Royal Canadian Navy
http://thediscoverblog.com/2016/09/09/first-german-submarine-sunk-by-the-royal-canadian-navy/

Library and Archives Canada – The Battle of Flers-Courcelette
https://thediscoverblog.com/2016/09/15/the-battle-of-flers-courcelette/

Statistics Canada – Mapping your Community through Crowdsourcing
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/crowdsourcing

Canadian Council of Archives launches the new ARCHIVESCANADA Digital Preservation Service
http://archivescanada.ca/news04

Royal B.C. Museum – $2M launches effort to bring indigenous artifacts home 
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/2m-launches-effort-to-bring-indigenous-artifacts-home-1.2339137

Sir John Franklin’s long-lost HMS Terror believed found
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/hms-terror-found-1.3758400

Franklin find proves Inuit oral history is strong: Louie Kamookak, historian in Gjoa Haven
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/franklin-find-proves-inuit-oral-history-is-strong-louie-kamookak-1.2761362

British Library – The long search for HMS Terror
http://blogs.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/2016/09/the-long-search-for-hms-terror.html

Gord Downie’s generous gift boosts National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/gord-downie-truth-reconciliation-centre-secret-path-funding-1.3754757

Artefacts Canada Modernization is Moving Forward
http://www.rcip-chin.gc.ca/sgc-cms/nouvelles-news/anglais-english/?p=10182

Expert says Alberta government has no reasonable excuse in failing with access to information requests
http://www.660news.com/2016/09/06/expert-says-alberta-government-has-no-reasonable-excuse-in-failing-with-access-to-information-requests/

Nova Scotia Association of Library Technicians (NSALT) to Dissolve
https://librarianship.ca/news/nsalt-to-dissolve/

Getting info from Nunavut’s health department a challenge, says privacy commissioner
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nunavut-privacy-commissioner-audit-hospital-1.3761074

BAnQ – Un fructueux partenariat avec la British Library et le ministère des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie
http://www.banq.qc.ca/a_propos_banq/salle_de_presse/nouvelles/nouvelle.html?n_id=32889c6a-d57f-46f2-818e-d7272c6ea592

BAnQ – Kamouraska d’Anne Hébert, où la réalité rivalise avec la fiction
http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/instantanes/2016/09/14/kamouraska-danne-hebert-realite-rivalise-fiction/

Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: Wounded
http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/ww1blog/index.html#sep12

Centre to honour residential school survivors breaks ground at UBC
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/centre-to-honour-residential-school-survivors-breaks-ground-at-ubc-1.3067495

University of British Columbia – iSchool Faculty Tenure Appointments
http://slais.ubc.ca/ischool-faculty-tenure-appointments/

University of Calgary – Archive offers a backstage pass to six decades of Canadian music history
http://www.ucalgary.ca/utoday/issue/2016-09-13/archive-offers-backstage-pass-six-decades-canadian-music-history

Montreal police search for suspects tied to Concordia University data theft
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/concordia-data-theft-montreal-police-1.3755949

Domenic Rosati Chosen as the 2016 Recipient of the Dalhousie-Horrocks National Leadership Fund
http://blogs.dal.ca/sim/2016/09/12/domenic-rosati-chosen-as-the-2016-recipient-of-the-dalhousie-horrocks-national-leadership-fund/

Karl Marx letter reflects on the Subject of Confederation
http://activehistory.ca/2016/09/karl-marx-reflects-the-subject-of-confederation/

Les derniers mots d’un patriote pendu: un historien découvre une lettre inédite dans les Archives du Manitoba
http://www.ledevoir.com/culture/actualites-culturelles/479639/histoire-les-derniers-mots-d-un-patriote-pendu

New Public Database Charts Decades of Oilsands Advertising
http://www.desmog.ca/2016/09/12/new-public-database-charts-decades-oilsands-advertising

Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Studying the early 20th century way 
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2016/09/studying-early-20th-century-way.html

History of Toronto’s Yiddish theatre on display at Ontario Jewish Archives
http://www.cjnews.com/culture/arts/history-torontos-yiddish-theatre-display-ontario-jewish-archives

Shaping the city: more records of Vancouver’s Planning Department now available
http://www.vancouverarchives.ca/2016/09/15/shaping-the-city-more-records-of-vancouvers-planning-department-now-available/

Montreal’s Médiathèque littéraire Gaëtan-Dostie braces for shutdown
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/a-page-better-left-unturned/article31793253/

Newfoundland – The Collective Memories Project is looking for contributions
http://www.thetelegram.com/News/Local/2016-09-08/article-4635812/The-Collective-Memories-Project-is-looking-for-contributions/1

Kingston – Heritage taking a hit?
http://www.thewhig.com/2016/09/09/heritage-taking-a-hit

Saanich (B.C.) – First World War memorabilia a gift across border
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/first-world-war-memorabilia-a-gift-across-border-1.2340154

A New Home for Deseronto’s Archives (Ontario)
http://cabhc.ca/a-new-home-for-deserontos-archives/

Postcards from Peterborough’s past at Trent Valley Archives (Ontario)
http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/2016/09/10/postcards-from-peterboroughs-past-at-trent-valley-archives

Final phase of Peterborough Museum and Archives’ renewal about to begin
http://www.mykawartha.com/news-story/6853228-final-phase-of-peterborough-museum-s-renewal-about-to-begin/

Ontario – History of Dundas’ Parkside school protected by board archives 
http://www.hamiltonnews.com/news-story/6857609-history-of-dundas-parkside-school-protected-by-board-archives/

Nova Scotia – East Preston United Baptist Church recording community’s history
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/east-preston-united-baptist-church-anniversary-174-1.3755027

Histoire de l’aviation à Rouyn-Noranda  : le premier service aérien régulier au Canada
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/abitibi/2016/09/13/003-histoire-aviation-rouyn-noranda.shtml

Burlington (Ontario) – The little girl who died in the big war 
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6858430-the-little-girl-who-died-in-the-big-war/

Disaster! How Archives Face the Unthinkable
http://www.thingsimfondsof.com/disaster-how-archives-face-the-unthinkable/

Skills for Historians of the Future: Palaeography
http://earlycanadianhistory.ca/2016/09/12/skills-for-historians-of-the-future-palaeography/

Freshly Minted: Danielle Ridge, Forms and Document Management Administrator, Office of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
http://librarianship.ca/blog/danielle-ridge/

Daniel Ducharme – À propos d’un billet d’Instantanés et de certains commentaires sur Wikipédia
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2016/09/a-propos-dun-billet-dinstantanes-et-de.html

Afrique / Africa
Les poilus du Burkina nés en 1889 morts pour la France
http://paddygenealo.over-blog.com/2016/09/les-poilus-du-burkina-nes-en-1889-morts-pour-la-france.html

Amériques / Americas
Mysterious 13th-century book declared oldest manuscript in Americas
http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/blogs/mysterious-13th-century-book-declared-oldest-manuscript-americas

Mexico is the first country to formally adopt the Open Fiscal Data Package
http://blog.okfn.org/2016/09/09/openspending-collaborates-with-mexicos-ministry-of-finance-to-standardise-and-visualise-government-budget-data/

Martinique – La réserve d’annotateurs des Archives est constituée
http://www.martinique.franceantilles.fr/actualite/culture/la-reserve-d-annotateurs-des-archives-est-constituee-378063.php

CIA Cover-Up on Chile: Agency Tries to Hide Knowledge of 9/11/73 Coup Plotting
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB558-CIA-latest-release-of-Presidents-Daily-Briefs-continues-to-cover-up-knowledge-of-1973-Chile-coup/

Archiving Obama administration websites for digital posterity
http://gcn.com/articles/2016/09/06/end-of-term-archive.aspx

Ten Questions with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
http://time.com/4494775/carla-hayden/

Library of Congress – Diaries of John J. Pershing and George S. Patton Now Online
http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2016/16-160.html

Library of Congress – Digital Collections and Data Science
http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2016/09/digital-collections-and-data-science/

NARA – The Wartime Films Project: Remembering WWI
http://narations.blogs.archives.gov/2016/09/12/the-wartime-films-project-remembering-wwi/

NARA – The German Foreign Ministry Archive
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2016/09/14/the-german-foreign-ministry-archive/

National Institute for Standards and Technology – Digital Forensics Rescues Retro Video Games and Software
http://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2016/09/digital-forensics-rescues-retro-video-games-and-software

Society of American Archivists – Digital Cameras: Godsend or Cash Cow
http://issuesandadvocacy.wordpress.com/2016/09/09/research-post-digital-cameras-godsend-or-cash-cow/

New York – Attica Prison Uprising Website 
http://www.ag.ny.gov/press-release/ag-schneiderman-director-nys-archives-ruller-and-state-education-commissioner-elia

MIT’s New Imaging Method Could Let you Read Closed Books
http://futurism.com/mits-new-imaging-method-could-let-you-read-closed-books/
Princeton University launches online Soviet children’s library
http://calvertjournal.com/news/show/6711/princeton-launches-online-soviet-childrens-library

University of California, Los Angeles – Vintage Los Angeles news treasures go digital
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/vintage-news-treasures-go-digital

University of Maryland got $250,000 to digitize newspapers spanning four centuries
http://www.dbknews.com/2016/09/07/university-of-maryland-got-250000-to-digitize-newspapers-spanning-four-centuries/

Why a growing number of museum veterans are crossing over to the commercial sector
http://theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/from-museum-to-auction-house-the-revolving-door-turns-faster/

Why the Hammer Museum’s new free digital archives are a game changer 
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-hammer-digital-archive-20160830-snap-story.html

An offer of my heart: a story of black love after the Civil War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/an-offer-of-my-heart-a-story-of-black-love-after-the-civil-war/2016/09/07/7a566d4c-5a60-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html

How African-Americans can unlock history, find lost family
http://wtkr.com/2016/09/13/how-african-americans-can-unlock-history-find-lost-family/

A Peek at Babe Ruth’s Private Scrapbooks
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/09/a-peek-at-babe-ruths-private-scrapbooks/499235/

Woman featured in iconic WWII Times Square kiss photo dies at 92
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/09/10/woman-featured-in-iconic-wwii-times-square-kiss-photo-dies-at-92.html

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Aboriginal artefacts in Sotheby’s auction prompt questions over provenance 
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/melbourne-arts/aboriginal-artefacts-in-sothebys-auction-prompt-questions-over-provenance-20160902-gr7509.html

Rare New Zealand animal images from Auckland War Memorial Museum used in major Google collection
http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/84229528/rare-new-zealand-animal-images-from-auckland-war-memorial-museum-used-in-major-google-collection

Literary Archives in the Chinese University of Hong Kong
http://literaryartisticarchives-ica.org/2016/09/14/literary-archives-in-the-chinese-university-of-hong-kong/

Europe / Europa
In an attempt to modernize copyright laws, the European Commission forgets about users
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/09/13/european-commission-copyright-leaks/

Iceland – A skin manuscript from the year 1200 was punctured and used as a wheat sieve
http://icelandmag.visir.is/article/a-skin-manuscript-year-1200-was-punctured-and-used-a-wheat-sieve

Icelandic Manuscripts Saved from Cost-Cutting Threats
http://icelandreview.com/news/2016/09/14/icelandic-manuscripts-saved-cost-cutting-threats

Ukrainians dig for Jewish roots as means of escape from war-torn country
http://www.timesofisrael.com/ukrainians-dig-for-jewish-roots-as-means-of-escape-from-war-torn-country/

Centuries-old Japanese fish specimens found in Berlin archive
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201609130009.html

New Amsterdam Stories: a Digital Dig to Link 17th Century Records Between Amsterdam and New York City
http://www.archives.nyc/newamsterdamstories

Switzerland Champions Disclosure Requirement In Patents, Counters US Interpretation
http://www.ip-watch.org/2016/09/15/switzerland-champions-disclosure-requirement-in-patents-at-wipo-counters-us-interpretation/

Switzerland – Massive digital archiving project means these unique musical recordings will live forever
http://www.yahoo.com/music/massive-digital-archiving-project-means-171403617.html

Archives nationales de France – De l’histoire de France au kilomètre
http://www.pluris.fr/publication/archives-nationales-de-l-histoire-de-france-au-kilometre_2-14-2698.php

Thierry Bethencourt a pris la tête de l’Ediaca, les archives de l’armée française
http://lessor.fr/thierry-bethencourt-developper-la-competence-et-la-clientele-16043.html

Mise en ligne de 49.700 minutes des lettres de Napoléon
http://www.rfgenealogie.com/s-informer/infos/archives/mise-en-ligne-de-49.700-minutes-des-lettres-de-napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte, failed novelist: manuscript goes to auction
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/07/napoleon-bonaparte-failed-novelist-manuscript-goes-to-auction

Préserver les données de la recherche à l’ère du Big Data
http://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/preserver-les-donnees-de-la-recherche-a-lere-du-big-data

Musées : pourquoi la France ne conserve plus ses conservateurs
http://www.telerama.fr/scenes/musees-pourquoi-la-france-ne-conserve-plus-ses-conservateurs,147181.php

L’Atelier des Lumières, Paris’s First Digital Museum of Fine Art, to Open in 2018
http://www.cntraveler.com/story/pariss-first-digital-museum-of-fine-art-latelier-des-lumieres-to-open-in-2018

Les photographies les plus anciennes au monde, pour la première fois rassemblées
http://www.lepoint.fr/culture/il-y-a-199-ans-nicephore-niepce-inventait-l-appareil-photo-12-04-2015-1920469_3.php

Hop in and fire up Citroen Origins virtual museum website
http://www.autoblog.com/2016/09/11/citroen-origins-virtual-museum-website/

Nice – 90 ans après, une lettre d’amour refait surface dans un palace
http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2016/09/08/03004-20160908ARTFIG00325-90-ans-apres-une-lettre-d-amour-refait-surface-dans-un-palace.php

National Archives of Ireland – New genealogy records now available
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/2016/09/new-genealogy-records-now-available/

Ireland – Call for top secret material to be released to Kingsmill massacre inquest
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/call-for-top-secret-material-to-be-released-to-kingsmill-massacre-inquest-35041894.html

Will belonging to Scot who died in Auschwitz found in church archives
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/14/jane-haining-scotland-will-auschwitz-jewish-girls-holocaust-nazis-budapest

An Italian tour of Scotland at the start of the 20th Century
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-37051354

UK National Archives – Building Great Wharton 
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/building-great-wharton/

UK National Archives – HMS Resolution and Britain’s first maritime nuclear deterrent 
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/hms-resolution-britains-first-maritime-nuclear-deterrent/

British Library – Restoring the first recording of computer music
http://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2016/09/restoring-the-first-recording-of-computer-music.html

British Library – Commemorating the Battle of the Somme in the UK Web Archive
http://blogs.bl.uk/webarchive/2016/09/commemorating-the-battle-of-the-somme.html

You can see the original tube map drawing at a new British Library exhibition
http://www.timeout.com/london/blog/you-can-see-the-original-tube-map-drawing-at-a-new-british-library-exhibition-091216

The Web as a CMS: how BBC joined Linked Open Data
http://ontotext.com/the-web-as-a-cms-how-bbc-joined-linked-open-data/

A new way of navigating the BBC’s archive of permanently available programmes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/cadb8bc3-7a27-4729-89fb-8d473ab41d0c

Digital research techniques to help unravel Tudor mysteries as new Mary Rose project launched
http://www.maryrose.org/virtual-tudors-project/

Historic mountaineering images archive created
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-37337073

DNA in London Grave May Help Solve Mysteries of the Great Plague
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/bubonic-plague-dna-found-london-black-death/

London’s history in mud: the woman collecting what the Thames washes up 
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/sep/14/london-history-mud-thames-foreshore-mudlarking

Beatrix Potter’s Forgotten Tale Published at Last
http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine_books_blog/2016/09/beatrix-potters-forgotten-tale-finally-published.phtml

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Online database of Ancient Egyptian demons created to help work out what they are
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/ancient-egypt-demons-database-demonthingscom-lions-dogs-foxes-dreamcatcher-a7228366.html

Israel – National Library acquires trove of Afghan Jewish documents
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=36435

Israel State Archives – Leo Lessmann and the Romanian Prisoners of War: Leo Lessmann’s war diary 
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2016/09/leo-lessmann-and-romanian-prisoners-of.html

History of Turkish cinema in Lebanese collector’s archive 
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/history-of-turkish-cinema-in-lebanese-collectors-archive-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=103867&NewsCatID=381

Fake antiquities flood out of Syria as smugglers fail to steal masterpieces amid the chaos of war
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-isis-civil-war-antiquities-fakes-palmyra-a7228336.html

International
Research Data Alliance and Librarianship, Archival Science and Information Science
http://rd-alliance.org/rda-disciplines/rda-and-librarianship-archival-science-and-information-science

Sarah Tyacke nominated an International Council on Archives fellow
http://www.ica.org/en/sarah-tyacke-nominated-ica-fellow-0

How to Attach Original Metadata to Every Photo, Meme and GIF on the Internet
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/16/digital-images-photos-gifs-memes-metadata-496448.html

How to Find Hidden Genealogy Resources in Libraries and Archives
http://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/2016/09/08/find-hidden-genealogy-resources/

Linking In: how Historians Are Fighting Wikipedia’s Biases
http://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/september-2016/linking-in-how-historians-are-fighting-wikipedias-biases

Why scientists must share their research code
http://www.nature.com/news/why-scientists-must-share-their-research-code-1.20504

Saying Goodbye to Documentum
http://wordofpie.com/2016/09/12/saying-goodbye-to-documentum/

Comment démasquer les fausses photos
http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/internet-comment-demasquer-les-fausses-photos

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