Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Information Commissioner of Canada – Advisory Notice: Time Extensions Pursuant to Paragraph 9(1)(b) of the Access to Information Act
Archives New Zealand – Regulatory Statement
Archives New Zealand – Information and Records Management Standard
Library of Congress – Recommended Formats Statement 2016-2017
NARA – 2015 Records Management Self-Assessment Report
UK Government – Knowledge Principles for Government
De la communauté / From the community
Portage Network – White Paper on Research Data Discovery in Canada
Macdonald-Laurier Institute – How to Really Support Canadian Culture: Heritage and the Copyright Brief
Practical Considerations for the UK in Applying and Communicating the new UNESCO Recommendation on Protecting Documentary Heritage Including in Digital Form
Europeana – White Paper on Best Practices for Multilingual Access to Digital Libraries
Council on Library and Information Resources – The Open Data Imperative: how the Cultural Heritage Community Can Address the Federal Mandate
Star Reforms in the Open Government Partnership
Data Repository and Curation Services, how Do we Compare? A Snapshot of Six Academic Library Institutions
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Linked Data Notifications (Draft)
Paper – The Final Abuse of Indian Residential School Children: Deleting their Names, Erasing their Voices and Destroying their Records after they Have Died and without their Consent
Publications
Journal of Electronic Publishing, vol. 19, no. 1 (Summer 2016)
Theoritical Inquiries in Law, vol. 17, no. 2, 2016 (Special Issue: the Constitution of Information: from Gutenberg to Snowden)
Études de communication, vol. 46, no. 1, 2016 (Numéro spécial : les médiations des patrimoines vers la culture numérique ?)
First International Council on Archives Congress Newsletter (2016)
Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 5, no. 4 (July-August 2016)
Ngā Tapuwae: the Newsletter of Archives New Zealand (July 2016)
National Archives of Australia – Government Agencies Information Network e-Bulletin (July 2016)
Off the Record: the Official Publication of the Archives Association of Ontario, vol. 32, no. 3 (Summer 2016)
Saskatchewan History, vol. 68, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2016)
Trent University Archives News, no. 58 (July 2016)
Book – Teaching with Primary Sources
Book – The Origins of Japanese-Chinese Territorial Dispute: Using Historical Records to Study the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Issue
Book – Working with Text: Tools, Techniques and Approaches for Text Mining
Book – Doing Digital Humanities: Practice, Training, Research
Book – Copyright in Islamic Law
Book – Knowledge Management in Practice
Book – Cyberspies: the Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage
Book – Museum Administration 2.0
Book – Educating the Profession: 40 years of the IFLA Section on Education and Training
Book – Critical Information Literacy: Foundations, Inspiration, and Ideas
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Solutions to Address Common Analytic and Data Challenges
September 21, 2016, Toronto
Conférence Big Data
23 septembre 2016, Montréal
Big Data Strategy at BMO
October 19, 2016, Toronto
Webinar – How to Respond to a Security Incident in your Library
August 17, 2016
Free Webinar – How to Create New Revenue Streams for your Library
September 12, 2016
Cours en ligne massif et ouvert – Les médiations culturelles et scientifiques à l’ère des réseaux sociaux
À partir du 21 septembre 2016
Versioning Cultural Objects: Concepts, Structures and Expressions
December 1-2, 2016, University in Maynooth (Ireland)
Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries
March 14-17, 2017, Gothenburg (Sweden)
Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries Conference
June 20-23, 2017, Iowa City
ABC Copyright Conference 2016 (Presentations Available)
May 26-27, 2016, Halifax
Bibliothèques, archives et musées à l’heure de l’open data : bonnes pratiques, normes et retours d’expériences (vidéos disponibles)
24 juin 2016, Paris
Forum 2016 de l’Association des archivistes français (certains présentations en ligne)
30 mars au 1er avril 2016, Troyes
Second Virtual Symposium on Information & Technology in the Arts & Humanities (Recordings Available)
April 27-28, 2016
New South Wales – Records Managers’ Forum (Recordings Available)
July 19, 2016, Kingswood (Australia)
Sur le web / On the web
Bibliothèque et Archives Canada – Nouvelle page Web dédiée au régiment de Carignan Salières
Vidéo des Musées de la civilisation – Chantier des archives : le traitement des oeuvres sur papier
NARA – Video: Records Management Guidance for Political Appointees
Video – University of Oklahoma: Digitizing the Collections
Podcast – Foucault, the Archive and the Writing of Intellectual History
SEAD (End-to-end Data Services) 2.0
Slidecast – Personal, not Painful: Practical and Motivating Experiences in Data Sharing
Slidecast – Involving Humans in Semantic Data Management
Slidecast – Tools for Preserving Performative Media
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Gaps in census mean Canadians are being left out of history (by Ian Wilson and Bill Waiser)
Why Canada’s e-library is barren: slow going national digitization plan leaves virtual shelves empty
Election law needs update to deal with Twitter, Facebook, watchdog says
StatsCan looking for powers to make all surveys mandatory, compel data from companies
Privacy commissioner to investigate data breach of public servants’ personal info
Smoke in Ottawa data centre shuts down e-mail for 50,000 civil servants
Why Canada should adopt a national Intellectual Property strategy
Fix Canada’s copyright law before it puts publishers out of business
Library and Archives Canada – What’s new in the collection: the summer 2016 edition is out
Luce Lebart appointed Director of the Canadian Photography Institute
Inuit press claim for co-ownership of Franklin artifacts
Archives Alberta – Cover All the Bases: Collections Insurance
Alberta – Les cartes géographiques à l’ère de la géolocalisation
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: Friends at the front
Manitoba – Camp Hughes marked for its role in First World War
Newfoundland – Forget-Me-Not Commemorate a Hero campaign in full swing
It’s the new emerging thing: mining for data in western Labrador
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/data-storage-bitcoins-western-labrador-1.3694238
Regard québécois sur le droit à l’oubli et la suppression de renseignements personnels en ligne
BAnQ – Commission d’enquête sur le coût de la XXIe olympiade [Commission Malouf], 1977-1978
Ottawa museums try to get handle on Pokemon Go craze
Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto – Love, Mom: Letters from Mary Power to her Son, 1822-1824
Toronto Public Library creating Chinese Canadian Archive
Cumberland Museum Archives (Ont.) to stay put
Nouveau départ et nouveaux locaux pour la Société d’histoire de la Haute-Gaspésie
Pour 500$, il se retrouve avec un trésor d’archives
Les normes ISO – Gestion des documents d’activité sont-elles ignorées au Québec ?
Catch’em all! Pokémon in the Archives
Conference Seasons and Summer Vacations
Afrique / Africa
Vie associative : les bibliothécaires, archivistes, documentalistes et muséologues du Congo créent une plate-forme
Daughter of Sudanese film legend preserves his legacy
Project of structuration, digitalization and treatment of German colonial archives in Cameroon
A history of Benin in 15,000 photographs
Amériques / Americas
Haïti – L’identification des enfants non-enregistrés par l’état civil, nouveau défi des mairesses
Library of Congress to preserve Democratic National Convention Host Committee’s digital, social platforms
Library of Congress – Digitizing Braille Music
Library of Congress – World War I: a Wartime Clipping Service
National Archives Presidential Libraries and PBS series American Experience Launch #ElectionCollection Challenge
NARA – The Wartime Films Project: Narrowing the Focus of our User-Centered Design Pilot
NARA – Microfilming in a Digital Era
Introducing Freedom of Information Act to a New Generation of Requesters
Should Secret Service Protect Emails of Future Presidents?
The Copyright Office is trying to redefine libraries, but libraries don’t want it: who is it for?
Smithsonian Institution – Conserving Archival Collections Suffering from Fungal Attack
American Library Association – Resolution on the Restoration of the United Nations Depository Library System
NASA Is Finally Digitizing the Viking Mission’s 40-Year-Old Data
New Hampshire citizen archivists train to transcribe history
Acquiring and Appraising Born-Digital Material at the Minnesota Historical Society
Yale Set to Reopen its Renovated Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Muhammed Ali biographer donates archive to Illinois Wesleyan University
The Digital in the Humanities: an Interview with Jessica Marie Johnson, assistant professor of Africana Studies and History at Johns Hopkins University
A Snapshot of a 21st-Century Librarian
The Future of the Past: Modernizing the New York Times Archive
Malcolm X handwritten postcard, featuring chimpanzee expressing racial tensions, auctioned for $11,793.75
19th-Century Schoolgirls were Incredibly Good at Drawing Maps
Appeal filed in Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven copyright case
The shock of the new: a visit to Pepco’s archives
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Queensland State Archives (Australia) – Having trouble logging appraisal?
Transforming libraries in Myanmar: the e-Library Myanmar Project
South Korea – Gangwon Province Transforms Right to be Forgotten into Business Opportunity
Nepal – Plight of intellectual pride: let’s save our libraries
India – Subramanian Swamy demands review of Mahatma Gandhi assassination archives
The fear of history: India needs a policy that allows scholars to access primary documents and archival material
State wish for film archive gets National Film Archives of India push
Europe / Europa
Article 29 Working Party Statement on the decision of the European Commission on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
There’s a Russian Pokémon GO-Type Game that Lets you Catch Historical Figures
Russian Copyright Law Allows Entire News Site to Be Shut Down Over a Single Copied Article
Why libraries are everywhere in the Czech Republic
Engineer Discovers Something Amazing in Da Vinci’s Irrelevant Scribbles
Vatican library digitises 1,600-year-old edition of Virgil
Mont Blanc ice cores will be sent to Antarctica to preserve climate record
Switzerland – Bridging the Curation Gap between Research and Libraries: a Case Study
Belgique – Endroits méconnus de l’Université catholique de Louvain: les Archives ou les couloirs de la mémoire
Le jour où on a pris la première photo
http://bibliobs.nouvelobs.com/documents/20160719.OBS4920/le-jour-ou-on-a-pris-la-premiere-photo.html
Roger Chartier : nos rapports avec la culture écrite sont profondément transformés
The Archives of the planet by Albert Kahn, now available in open data
Les archives municipales de Lyon vont exposer vos clichés de mariages
Thousands of frozen manuscripts from bankrupt Aristophil fund to return to market
The National Library of Ireland: online and on the shelves
Former librarian who stole hundreds of rare antique books worth nearly €200,000 from the National Library of Ireland avoids jail
An Irish breakthrough in the big data storage problem
Oldest map of Scotland goes on display in Edinburgh
Scotland – Rare 16th century legal manuscript comes home to St Andrews
http://www.scottishlegal.com/2016/07/27/rare-16th-century-legal-manuscript-comes-home-to-st-andrews/
National Library of Wales should be given prominent role
UK National Archives – A day in the life of a Transfer Adviser
UK National Archives – Shining a light on a glass lantern collection
UK National Archives – László von Almásy: the real English patient
UK National Archives – Captain Fryatt: forgotten martyr of the First World War
British Library – Murdered but not silenced: a unique recording of pianist Marion Roberts (1901-1927)
Victoria and Albert Museum acquires world’s largest collection of paper peepshows
New interactive map of 100,000 photos and videos reveal lost London in the Victorian era
Dick Whittington treasury entrusted to Guildhall library
Transforming Archives: Rambert Archive
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
High Court of Justice okays transfer of ancient library to western Jerusalem
Hebrew University in Jerusalem – Take a virtual walk through the Einstein archives
United Arab Emirates – Sultan Al Qasimi issues law on setting up Sharjah Documentary and Archives Authority
United Arab Emirates – Nahyan bin Mubarak examines National Archives historical documentation of UAE-Egypt relations at embassy event
Germany returns two rare manuscripts of Holy Quran to Iran
Syria’s secret library
Turkey – Tabanlioglu architects renovates Istanbul’s historic library with its rare book collection
International
RIP, VHS players: the last VCRs ever will be made this month
We need to talk about smart contracts and recordkeeping
Challenges to Archives in an Age of Digital Abundance
Debunking Archival Research Myths
The Most Popular Sea Creature in Cartography
Technology changes how authors write, but the big impact isn’t on their style
Scientists work toward storing digital information in DNA
Open Data as a Human Right: the Case of Case-Law
Wikipedia seeks to speak your language
Let’s open library doors to Wikipedia
How Pokémon Go is creating a barrier for gamers with disabilities