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Documentary Heritage News
August 19, 2016May 2, 2021

Vol. 9, no. 51

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State
UK National Archives – A Civil Servant’s Guide to Copyright
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/civil-servants-guide-to-copyright.pdf

Archives départementales de la Haute-Saône (France) – Au coeur des archives : le moyen-âge
http://archives.haute-saone.fr/data/ateliers_au_coeur_des_archives_1.pdf

U.S. Government Accountability Office – Cultural Property: Protection of Iraqi and Syrian Antiquities
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-673

De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Association of Research Libraries – Brief to the Federal Government on Budget 2017
http://www.carl-abrc.ca/news/carl-brief-federal-government-budget-2017/

Society of American Archivists – Information Brief: Archives and the Environment
http://www2.archivists.org/statements/information-brief-archives-and-the-environment

Harvard University – Digitizing Orphan Works: Legal Strategies to Reduce Risks for Open Access to Copyrighted Orphan Works
http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/27840430

Ithaka S+R – Organizing the Work of the Research Library
http://www.sr.ithaka.org/publications/organizing-the-work-of-the-research-library/

IFLA – Trends Report Update 2016
http://trends.ifla.org/update-2016

IFLA – Access and Opportunity for All: how Libraries Contribute to the United Nations 2030 Agenda
http://www.ifla.org/publications/node/10546

IFLA – Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development: Principles and Best Practices
http://www.ifla.org/node/10757

Article – Améliorer l’accès aux données des bibliothèques sur le web : l’exemple de data.bnf.fr
http://library.ifla.org/1447/1/081-bermes-fr.pdf

Publications
Archival Science, vol. 16, no. 3 (September 2016)
http://link.springer.com/journal/10502/16/3/page/1

International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 17, no. 3 (September 2016)
http://link.springer.com/journal/799/17/3/page/1

Library Hi Tech, vol. 34, no. 3 (2016)
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/lht/34/3

Book – Linked Data for Cultural Heritage
http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=301621 

Book – Building Trust in Information: Perspectives on the Frontiers of Provenance
http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319402253

Book – Digital Libraries on the Move
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319419374 

Book – Accidental Information Discovery: Cultivating Serendipity in the Digital Age 
http://store.elsevier.com/product.jsp?locale=en_US&isbn=9781843347507 

Book – Memory in the Twenty-First Century: New Critical Perspectives from the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences
http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137520579 

Book – Inspiring Action: Museums and Social Change
http://museumsetc.com/products/inspiring-action

Book – Advertising and Public Memory: Social, Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Ghost Signs
http://www.routledge.com/products/9781138934689 

Book – Trends and Applications in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-42996-0

Book – E-Government for Public Managers: Administering the Virtual Public Sphere
http://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442261914/E-Government-for-Public-Managers-Administering-the-Virtual-Public-Sphere

Book – The Voice of Witness Reader: Ten Years of Amplifying Unheard Voices
http://voiceofwitness.org/books/reader/

Livre – Repenser le fonds local et régional en bibliothèque 
http://www.enssib.fr/presses/catalogue/repenser-le-fonds-local-et-regional-en-bibliotheque-36

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Archives 101: Standards of Archival Practice
September 28-30, 2016, Fernie (B.C.)
http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/archives-101-standards-of-archival-practice-tickets-27082223660

The President’s Daily Brief: Delivering Intelligence to Nixon and Ford
August 24, 2016, Yorba Linda (California)
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-presidents-daily-brief-delivering-intelligence-to-nixon-and-ford-tickets-27034990384

UK Information Commissioner Office Webinar – Records Management for the Public Sector
September 8, 2016
http://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2848883382476083457

Collections as Data: Stewardship and Use Models to Enhance Access
September 27, 2016, Washington D.C.
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/meetings/dcs16.html

Physical Samples and Digital Collections Workshop
October 14, 2016, Copenhagen (Denmark)
http://rd-alliance.org/group/archives-and-records-professionals-research-data-ig/post/cfp-physical-samples-and-digital

Detection, Representation and Management of Concept Drift in Linked Open Data
November 19-23, 2016, Bologna (Italy)
http://event.cwi.nl/drift-a-lod/2016/

Radical Collections: Radicalism and Libraries and Archives
March 3, 2017, London (UK)
http://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/blog/radical-collections-radicalism-and-libraries-and-archives-cfp

Web Archiving Conference 2017
March 29-30, 2017, Lisbon (Portugal)
http://www.netpreserve.org/general-assembly/2017/Call-for-Papers

PDF Days Europe 2016 (Presentations Available)
June 14-15, 2016, Berlin (Germany)
http://www.pdfa.org/2016/08/slide-decks-and-video-recordings-of-the-pdf-days-europe-2016/

Worth a Thousand Words: a Global Perspective on Image Description, Discovery, and Access (Presentations Available)
August 15, 2016, Columbus (Ohio)
http://www.ifla.org/node/10802

Sur le web / On the web
Video – Canadian Conservation Institute, Ottawa
http://youtu.be/_tYNpFcd2vk

University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library – Audio Tour of Reading Revolution Exhibition Now Available
http://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/audio-tour-reading-revolution

Library of Congress Video – Stolen Words: the Nazi Plunder of Jewish Books
http://youtu.be/S04ZYJfLY3o

Video – DIO at the OAIS Archives
http://youtu.be/nHVZAakgqiE

OCLC – New Faceted Controlled Vocabularies Discussion List
http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2016/08-10.html

Slidecast – The Future is Federated
http://www.slideshare.net/RubenVerborgh/the-future-is-federated

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
The Jeopardy! in Canada’s privacy laws 
http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/the-jeopardy-in-canadas-privacy-laws

Border phone search raises privacy, charter issues, say lawyers
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/alain-philippon-cbsa-border-cellphone-smartphone-search-1.3724264

Canada.ca web renewal costs soaring with more expenses coming
http://ottawacitizen.com/business/local-business/canada-ca-web-renewal-costs-soaring-with-more-expenses-coming

Government’s massive shift to single website sees large amounts of data stored on U.S. servers
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/governments-massive-shift-to-single-website-sees-large-amounts-of-data-stored-on-u-s-servers

Ottawa needs to combat abuse of intellectual property rights
http://www.thestar.com/business/2016/08/15/ottawa-needs-to-combat-abuse-of-intellectual-property-rights-geist.html

Library and Archives Canada – 75th Anniversary of the Canadian Women’s Army Corps
http://thediscoverblog.com/2016/08/12/75th-anniversary-of-the-canadian-womens-army-corps/

Library and Archives Canada – Superheroes of the Digital Universe: Digitizing the Bell Features Collection
http://thediscoverblog.com/2016/08/17/superheroes-of-the-digital-universe-digitizing-the-bell-features-collection/7/

Library and Archives Canada – How to find Government of Canada press releases
https://thediscoverblog.com/2016/08/18/how-to-find-government-of-canada-press-releases/

New Virtual Museum Strives to Protect our Broadcasting History
http://www.fyimusicnews.ca/articles/2016/08/17/new-virtual-museum-strives-protect-our-broadcasting-history

Your Texts Are Not Private, Ontario Court Rules
http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/your-texts-are-not-private-ontario-court-rules

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec adds 2.4 million bibliographic records to WorldCat
http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2016/201618dublin.en.html

BAnQ et la Bibliothèque nationale de France renouvellent leur entente-cadre de coopération
http://www.newswire.ca/fr/news-releases/banq-et-la-bnf-renouvellent-leur-entente-cadre-de-cooperation-590468511.html

BAnQ – Un Tour de France au Québec
http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/instantanes/2016/08/17/tour-de-france-quebec/

Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: Visiting friends at the 78th Battalion, the Winnipeg Grenadiers
http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/ww1blog/index.html#aug15

Mapping out Manitoba’s history
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/Mapping-out-Manitobas-history-389419542.html

University Of Manitoba Library Jobs Cut In Staff Restructuring
http://www.themanitoban.com/2016/08/u-of-m-library-jobs-cut-in-staff-restructuring/28779/

Making a (Video) Difference: Dalhousie University and Halifax Public Libraries Team up to Purchase Film Collection
http://www.dal.ca/news/2016/08/16/making-a–video–difference–dal-and-halifax-public-libraries-te.html

University of Waterloo Special Collections and Archives – New collection open : Architecture Conservancy of Ontario
http://uwaterloo.ca/library/special-collections-archives/news/new-collection-open-architecture-conservancy-ontario

University of Saskatchewan Archives and Special Collections – A New Album of Quebec Views: 1900
http://words.usask.ca/uasc/a-new-album-of-quebec-views-1900/

UBC iSchool Student Recognized for Work on Co-op Work Term
http://artscoop.ubc.ca/2016/08/04/ubc-ischool-student-recognized-for-work-on-co-op-work-term/

Amazing archive video shows life in Vancouver in 1900s
http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/archive-footage-vancouver-1901

Revolutions, Punks & Poets: Vancouver’s Forgotten Stories
http://daveostory.com/speaking-presenting/northern-voice/punks-poets-revolutions-forgotten-vancouver-stories/

Remembering Toronto’s First Electric Streetcar
http://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/local-history-genealogy/2016/08/remembering-torontos-first-electric-streetcar-august-15-snapshots-in-history.html

Ottawa – Secrecy around library process shameful
http://www.ottawasun.com/2016/08/17/sherring-secrecy-around-library-process-shameful

Histoire des Autochtones en Abitibi-Témiscamingue : deux communautés, une nation
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/abitibi/2016/08/16/006-histoire-autochtones-abitibi-temiscamingue.shtml

Here in Colborne District (Ontario): documents outline the early years of Peterborough, Victoria and Haliburton
http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/2016/08/12/here-in-colborne-district-documents-outline-the-early-years-of-peterborough-victoria-and-haliburton

Deseronto Archives (Ontario) is moving
https://deserontoarchives.wordpress.com/2016/08/18/deseronto-archives-is-moving/

Barrie (Ontario) library gets painting back after more than 30 years
http://www.sudbury.com/around-the-north/barrie-library-gets-painting-back-after-more-than-30-years-356924

B.C. – Preserving maritime history on the North Coast
http://www.thenorthernview.com/news/390445781.html

Shipwreck Hunters Bag an Amazing Discovery at the Bottom of Lake Ontario
http://gizmodo.com/shipwreck-hunters-bag-an-amazing-discovery-at-the-botto-1785442297

Vie d’archiviste : David Tremblay, ville de Québec
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2016/08/15/vie-darchiviste-david-tremblay/

Archivist: the Many-Faced Professional
http://www.thingsimfondsof.com/archivist-the-many-faced-professional/

A competition for institutional repositories deposit
http://allanamayer.tumblr.com/post/148811971387/a-competition-for-ir-deposit

That OCLC thing
http://allanamayer.tumblr.com/post/149108313932/that-oclc-thing

Afrique / Africa
Zimbabwe – Forced Disappearances: a crucial issue for the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission 
http://www.thezimbabwean.co/2016/08/forced-disappearances-a-crucial-issue-for-the-national-peace-and-reconciliation-commission-nprc/

Amériques / Americas
IFLA – Message from US President Barack Obama
http://www.ifla.org/node/10732

The National Archives and Open Government
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/national-archives-open-government/

NARA – The Gems of Record Group 242: Foreign Records Seized
http://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2016/08/10/the-gems-of-record-group-242-foreign-records-seized/

Search for Obama presidential library director to begin soon
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obamalibrary/ct-obama-library-director-met-2-20160812-story.html

A Library, Its Users, and Its Technology: 40 years at the National Library of Medicine
http://recompilermag.com/issues/issue-4/a-library-its-users-and-its-technology-40-years-at-the-national-library-of-medicine/

NASA launches a free public archive of its recent research results
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/08/17/pubspace-one-stop-shop-nasas-public-research/

Perspectives on Museum Archives: an Interview with Archives Technician Rachel Menyuk, National Museum of the American Indian
http://blog.nmai.si.edu/main/2016/08/museum-archivist.html

Kansas Archives Contain a Treasure Trove
http://hppr.org/post/kansas-archives-contain-treasure-trove

New Jersey State Library, Rutgers University Libraries and the New Jersey State Archives Collaborate on Digital Newspaper Project
http://www.njstatelib.org/news/nj-state-library-rutgers-university-libraries-nj-state-archives-collaborate-nj-digital-newspaper-project/

The Bauhaus, a comprehensive new digital resource, launched by the Harvard Art Museums
http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/about/press-media/the-bauhaus-a-comprehensive-new-digital-resource-launched-by-the-harvard-art-museums

Brigham Young University Curators Help Digitize Scout Archive
http://blog.utahscouts.org/boy-scouting/byu-curators-help-digitize-scout-archive/

Temple University funds efforts to build an archive of LGBTQ content in games
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/279450/University_funds_efforts_to_build_an_archive_of_LGBTQ_content_in_games.php

Researchers track the trackers through 20 years of the archived web
http://techcrunch.com/2016/08/15/researchers-track-the-trackers-through-20-years-of-the-archived-web/

The Internet Archive is preserving thousands of hip-hop mixtapes online
http://www.chartattack.com/news/2016/08/12/the-internet-archive-hip-hop-mixtapes/

Open Content at the Getty: Three Years Later, Some Lessons Learned
http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/open-content-at-the-getty-three-years-later-some-lessons-learned/

Getty Institute – A Day in the Life of a Digitization Expert: a Typical Work Day of an Archivist and Librarian
http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-digitization-expert/

How One 19th-Century Scientist Recorded the Diversity of Enslaved Africans in Rio
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2016/08/12/history_of_slavery_in_brazil_how_one_american_scientist_recorded_country.html

The Endangered Sounds of Community Activism’s Largest U.S. Archive
https://issuesandadvocacy.wordpress.com/2016/08/17/the-endangered-sounds-of-community-activisms-largest-u-s-archive/

Library experts archive items from Dallas police memorial
http://www.sfgate.com/news/texas/article/Library-experts-archive-items-from-Dallas-police-9140690.php

Seattle Public Library Has a New Free Downloading Service for Local Music
http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2016/08/08/24442948/seattle-public-library-showcases-local-music-with-their-new-playback-program

The New York Public Library is Moving 1.5 Million Books to an Underground Lair
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-new-york-public-library-is-moving-15-million-books-to-an-underground-lair

Forget the vault! The Petersen Auto Museum’s archive is an Ali Baba’s cave of gearhead lore
http://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp/2016/08/12/51173/forget-the-vault-the-petersen-auto-museum-s-archiv/

What will Become of Bill Cunningham’s $1 Million Photo Archive?
http://www.wmagazine.com/story/what-will-become-of-bill-cunninghams-dollar1-million-photo-archive

The Jewish refugees behind Curious George
http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-jewish-refugees-behind-curious-george/

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Library of Australia – Life as a Family History Librarian
http://www.nla.gov.au/blogs/behind-the-scenes/2016/08/12/life-as-a-family-history-librarian

New South Wales State Records – Trust no one? The truth is out there
http://futureproof.records.nsw.gov.au/trust-no-one-the-truth-is-out-there/

Malaysia – National Archives Urged to Standardise Procedures in Digital Record Management
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v8/ge/newsgeneral.php?id=1273594

Nepal – Truth and Reconciliation Commission may shelve hundreds of war-era complaints
http://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/truth-and-reconciliation-commission-may-shelve-hundreds-war-era-complaints/

India and Pakistan – Preserving the broken past: one story at a time
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Independence-Day-2016-Preserving-the-broken-past-one-story-at-a-time/articleshow/53711790.cms

India – Rajasthan State Archives digitises freedom, Prajatantra movements documents
http://www.ptinews.com/news/7765566_Raj-digitises-freedom–Prajatantra-movements-documents.html

India – Archives hold hidden stories of Bengal’s women revolutionaries
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/archives-hold-hidden-stories-of-bengals-women-revolutionaries/article8989537.ece

Europe / Europa
Microsoft expands Bing’s Right to be Forgotten filtering in Europe
http://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-expands-bings-right-forgotten-rtbf-filtering-europe/

Pericles – Toward the integration of emulation and virtualization strategies into the conservation of software-based art collections
http://www.pericles-project.eu/blog/post/dependencies,%20software-based%20art,%20significant%20environment%20information,%20virtualisation,%20emulation,%20workflow

Russia and Raoul Wallenberg: Unfinished business
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/19334

How New Polish Copyright Law Modernizes Library Services
http://www.eifl.net/news/how-new-polish-copyright-law-modernizes-library-services

Gibraltar – Digitization of National Archives underway
http://www.gbc.gi/news/digitization-national-archives-underway-32930

Searching for the Quotidian in the Archives: Trade, Fraud, and Intercultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean
http://blog.historians.org/2016/08/searching-quotidian-archives-trade-fraud-intercultural-relations-early-modern-mediterranean/

Handwritten Gustav Mahler Manuscript Expected to Fetch $4.6 Million at Auction
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2418915&CategoryId=13003

Archives de France – Préparation des versements : identification et validation des formats de fichiers
http://siaf.hypotheses.org/676

Uncovering the brutal truth about the British empire
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/aug/18/uncovering-truth-british-empire-caroline-elkins-mau-mau

UK – Former B.C. privacy watchdog squares off against Donald Trump
http://theprovince.com/news/politics/mike-smyth-former-b-c-privacy-watchdog-squares-off-against-donald-trump

UK government is ‘freaking out’ about the potential of open source
http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2468259/uk-government-is-freaking-out-about-open-source-says-red-hat

Red faces at National Archive after Baldrick poem published with WWI soldiers’ diaries
http://eveningharold.com/2014/01/14/red-faces-at-national-archive-after-baldrick-poem-published-with-ww1-soldiers-diaries/

Nomenclator encryptions: centuries old, but still hard to solve
http://scienceblogs.de/klausis-krypto-kolumne/2016/08/13/nomenclator-encryptions-centuries-old-but-still-hard-to-solve/

UK National Archives – In our minds: creative responses to mental health records
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/minds-creative-responses-mental-health-records/

UK National Archives – Shot at the Tower
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/shot-tower/

British Library – Poetry goes online: preserving poetry journals and zines for the Web archive
http://blogs.bl.uk/webarchive/2016/08/poetry-goes-online-preserving-poetry-journals-and-zines-for-the-web-archive.html

Shakespeare’s Globe Archive Undergoeth Digitization
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/08/11/shakespeares-globe-archive-undergoeth-digitization.aspx

Cambridge University – Too Fragile to Open, World’s Oldest Multicolor Printed Book Is Digitized
http://hyperallergic.com/228207/too-fragile-to-open-worlds-oldest-multicolor-printed-book-is-digitized/

University of Westminster launches digital strategy with Arkivum
http://universitybusiness.co.uk/Article/uni-of-westminster-launches-digital-strategy-with-arkivum

Black in the day: creating an online archive of black British life through our own lens
http://www.gal-dem.com/black-in-the-day-archive-black-british-life/

Transforming Archives: London Metropolitan Archives
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/transforming-archives-london-metropolitan-archives/

Rare letter by Mary Wortley Montagu, pioneering travel writer, up for sale
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/18/letter-by-mary-wortley-montagu-pioneering-travel-writer-up-for-auction

Thomas Hardy altarpiece discovered in Windsor church
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/16/thomas-hardy-altarpiece-discovered-in-windsor-church

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel State Archives Publishes Commemorative Book on Golda Meir
http://jpupdates.com/2016/08/16/israel-state-archives-publishes-commemorative-book-on-golda-meir/

United Arab Emirates – The National Archives organized a cultural program for the new teachers in the Emirates National Schools
http://www.na.ae/en/mediacenter/news/news.aspx?ID=9171

International
How can archives support diversity and social justice?
http://medium.com/@gsuiter/how-can-archives-support-diversity-and-social-justice-cb41e2058ef2

Open Government Data is Great: Do Records Managers Agree?
https://interparestrustblog.wordpress.com/2016/08/17/open-government-data-is-great-do-records-managers-agree/

Archivists Grapple with Problems of Preserving Recent Culture Held on Tape Cassettes and Floppy Drives
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160809/08141135195/archivists-grapple-with-problems-preserving-recent-culture-held-tape-cassettes-floppy-drives.shtml

Father of the Internet Worries our Digital History Is Disappearing
http://www.newsweek.com/father-internet-worries-our-digital-history-disappearing-468642

Wayback Machine Won’t Censor Archive for Taste, Director Says After Olympics Article Scrubbed
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-08-17/wayback-machine-wont-censor-archive-for-taste-director-says-after-olympics-article-scrubbed

How Do I Save a Family Bible that Is Falling Apart?
http://www.theroot.com/articles/history/2016/08/how-do-i-save-a-family-bible-that-is-falling-apart/

These Surreal Ancient Alchemy Manuscripts Are Terrifyingly Cool
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/these-surreal-ancient-alchemy-manuscripts-are-terrifyingly-cool

We Need to Make Digital Data that Dies Like Us
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-digital-possessions-keep-us-from-letting-go-of-the-dead

I lost my favorite YouTube channel because I trusted the internet to keep track of it
http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/15/12482158/internet-lost-stuff-youtube-facebook-search

A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100 Million Volkswagens
http://www.wired.com/2016/08/oh-good-new-hack-can-unlock-100-million-volkswagens/

Pokémon GO et la quatrième dimension de la propriété
http://scinfolex.com/2016/08/15/pokemon-go-et-la-quatrieme-dimension-de-la-propriete/

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