Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
France – Loi no 2016-925 du 7 juillet 2016 relative à la liberté de la création, à l’architecture et au patrimoine
U.S.A. – An Act to Improve the Freedom of Information Act
New Zealand Sound & Vision – Strategic Plan 2016-2024: an Audiovisual Archive for all New Zealanders
Paper – Improving Access to Europe’s Digital Audio Archives: the Bibliothèque nationale de France and Europeana Sounds
De la communauté / From the community
University of Toronto – Response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Society of American Archivists – Statement on Draft Revision of Copyright Act Section 108
Rare Books and Manuscripts Section & Society of American Archivists – Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy (for Feedback)
PREservation FORMAts for Culture Information (PREFORMA) – Monitoring of the Open Source Project Implementation & First Prototype Report
Monitoring of the Open Source Project Implementation: http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/PREFORMA_D8.8_Monitoring-of-the-Open-Source-Project-implementation_v1.0.pdf
First Prototype Report: http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/PREFORMA_D8.3_First-prototype-report_v1.1.pdf
Arclight Guidebook to Media History and the Digital Humanities
Publications
Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 44, no. 2 (July 2016)
Information Management, vol. 50, no. 4 (July/August 2016)
D-Lib Magazine, vol. 22, no. 7-8 (July-August 2016)
Radical Teacher, vol. 105, 2016 (Special Issue: Archives and Radical Education)
Information & Culture: a Journal of History, vol. 51, no. 3 (2016)
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, vol. 53, no. 2 (2015)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 6, no. 6 (June 2016)
Historic Libraries Forum, no. 34 (July 2016)
Cathedral Libraries and Archives Association Newsletter (Summer 2016)
Signatures: the Magazine of Library and Archives Canada (Spring/Summer 2016)
Archives Society of Alberta Newsletter, vol. 35, no. 3 (Spring 2016)
Association of Research Libraries Spec Kit – Affordable Course Content and Open Educational Resources
Master Thesis – Activist Social Media Archiving: Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities
Book – Managing Local Government Archives
Book – Hidden Hemingway: Inside the Ernest Hemingway Archives of Oak Park
Book – Discover Digital Libraries: Theory and Practice
Book – Introduction to Metadata (Third Edition)
Book – Starring Amsterdam: Photographs from 1960-1980
Book – Story of my Life: a Workbook for Preserving your Legacy
Book – Big Data: Principles and Paradigms
Livre – L’avenir du passé : art contemporain et politiques de l’archive
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Centre régional d’archives de l’Outaouais – La vêture des Canadiens de Louis XV avant la Conquête
8 septembre 2016, Gatineau
Council of Archives New Brunswick and Council of Nova Scotia Archives Copyright Workshop
October 17-18, 2016, Sackville (New Brunswick)
Free Online Course – Social Media Analytics: Using Data to Understand Public Conversations
Starting July, 18, 2016
Free Webinar – Digital Public Library of America Genealogy and Family History Workshop
July 26, 2016
Web Seminar – Copyright Issues in Institutional Repositories and Digital Archives
August 18, 2016
Dublin Core at 21
August 19, 2016, Dublin (Ohio)
Europeana Sounds 2016: Unlocking Sound Collections
November 4, 2016, Vilnius (Lithuania)
Cultural Heritage: Reuse, Remake, Reimagine
November 21-22, 2016, Berlin
Illumination of Material Culture: a Symposium on Computational Photography and Reflectance Transformation Imaging
March 7-8, 2017, New York
Rencontres nationales sur les formations aux métiers des bibliothèques, des archives et de la documentation (vidéos disponibles)
23-24 mai 2016, Villeurbane (France)
Webinar – The “Tu Darmstadt” Copyright Case Neatly Explained (Recording Available)
June 8, 2016
Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (Recordings Available)
July 6-8, 2016, Oxford
Sur le web / On the web
Archives de l’État en Belgique – Plus de 6.000 photographies de la Grande Guerre en ligne
UK National Archives Podcast – 100 Years of the Women’s Institute: the Acceptable Face of Feminism
Vidéo – L’Instance vérité et dignité en Tunisie: quelles leçons pour la justice transitionnelle ?
D-Place: Massive Open-Access Database on Human Cultures
Slidecast – Exploring and Discovering Archive-it Collections with Warcbase
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Library and Archives Canada – A greater sisterhood: the Women’s Rights struggle in Canada
Library and Archives Canada – Drawn from history: Canadian political figures in comics
Library and Archives Canada – Who will make good? The Land Development Records of the Canadian National Railway and its corporate predecessors
Coltman Report transcription phase complete
50-year-old Inuit drawings offer snapshot of life in the Arctic
Ontario Court of Appeal majority says no Charter right to text in private
Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Withdraws Legal Action against Toronto Police
Royal Ontario Museum – Game Jam
Archives Association of Ontario – Welcome to our new Archeion Assistant, Niloufar Ameli
Manitoba – No secrets in Tory document release
Archives of Manitoba – Panoramic Photo of the 61st Battalion: where’s George Battershill?
Archives Alberta – Common Ground: Disaster Psychology and Vicarious Resilience
Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador – Have a voice in the Collective Memories Project
B.C. – Former ministry staffer George Gretes expected to plead guilty in triple-delete scandal
B.C. government building smartphone app to authenticate your identity
BAnQ – Les archives des Jeux olympiques de Montréal : une mine de renseignements
Des ancêtres aux horizons variés : BAnQ Québec exposera au Pavillon Casault des documents exceptionnels sur le peuplement de la Nouvelle-France
SaskPower case latest of many privacy breaches
Vickery Bowles, Toronto’s City Librarian, selected to be Vice President of Canadiana.org
Better access to justice in Canada? There’s an app for that
Visualizing the Past: Mapping, GIS, and Teaching Historical Consciousness
Mary Agnes Fitzgibbon, or, how I went from national to university archives
Jewish Museum & Archives of B.C. – A Report from the Archives
Jewish walking tour tells story of how Vancouver has evolved
Access commission orders city of Montreal to make losing contract bids public
Tumbler Ridge (B.C.) Community Forest gives Archives Grant
The U.S.-Canada border runs through this tiny library: meet the only library in the world that operates in two countries at once
Archivist Interview: Meet Melissa Caza, Ontario Jewish Archives
Afrique / Africa
Une plateforme en ligne pour les archives photographiques de l’Afrique francophone
Bénin: le fonds du photographe Cosme Dossa numérisé par l’École du patrimoine africain
Tunisie – Mahmoud Triki offre sa bibliothèque personnelle à la Bibliothèque nationale
Lost and Found Photos from a South African Portrait Studio
An Intern Reflects: Six Month Internship at South African History Archive
Amériques / Americas
A rare find: African voices in the Costa Rican National Archives
Senate Confirms Carla Hayden as 14th Librarian of Congress
Library of Congress Acquires Archives of the American Association of Geographers
Culture of Secrecy in Federal Government Increasingly Undermines Freedom of Information Act
MuckRock is launching a national database of Freedom of Information Act exemptions
Why Freedom of Information Act Is Broken, from a Government Worker’s Perspective
95%: Describing the National Archives’ Holdings
The Wartime Films Project: Taking a User-Centered Design Approach at NARA
The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it’s like a 1960s time capsule
The FBI has collected 430,000 iris scans in a so-called pilot program
Letting go so others may learn: Museum seeks personal artifacts for Holocaust Museum
Holocaust Museum no place for a PokeStop, Pokemon Go players told
Pokemon Go has come to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and that’s a good thing
Society of American Archivists – Sound and vision: using video to tell the tales of archives and archivists
Archiving Arkansas: State archives offer plethora of jewels for research buffs
Indiana – State archives building headed to Indiana University, Purdue University Indianapolis campus
Louisiana State Archives – The Life of a Rookie Archivist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Unlocking the past with the future of imaging
Princeton goes open access to stop staff handing all copyright to journals, unless waiver granted
Indiana University digitization initiative preserves more than 100K items in first year
First impressions of University of Michigan’s new Orson Welles papers
Recovering the history of University of Wisconsin’s first African-American students
The Digital in the Humanities: an Interview with Sharon M. Leon, associate professor of history at George Mason University
George Eastman Museum Acquires Key Items in Cinematography History
Collection of photographs provides rare snapshot of changing times for 19th century Plains Indians
Archives used to generate Google map of New York City circa 1900
As Seattle moves to online public records portal, concerns emerge over policy changes
Chicago – Police Disciplinary Records Dating to 1967 Must Be Made Public, Court Rules
Queens Family Court Ditches Paper for Digital Records
Boeing archivist outlasts five CEOs protecting 100 years of history
70-year-old notes had been found in cafe’s dirty dish tray: family of found WWII love letters located
On the Other Side of the Window: Being an Archives Researcher
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Elizabeth Caplice (National Library archivist), who won fans with her honest cancer blog, dies age 32
Japan – Tokyo High Court overturns man’s right to be forgotten
Hiroshima survivors’ art held in UK to be returned to Japan
China Focus: Japanese archives confirm Chinese settled on South China Sea islands
Interview with Jennifer Chang, Co-founder of Archives of Modern Chinese Art
First World War Letters From Women of Dulmial Village, Pakistan
Europe / Europa
European Union copyright rules holding back cultural institutions
The Grandmother of Kabul pays a special visit to the NATO Archives
New copyright management model to be developed: Russian Culture Ministry
How the first Russian car was presented in archival photographs
Ukraine posted online 380 archive documents about Volyn massacre
Hungary – Save the Georg Lukács Archive
Spain – Honoring García Lorca’s Genius: a Bout over a $22 Million Archive
Spain – Q&A with Esteve Riambau, Filmoteca de Catalunya
Researcher finds first example of children’s doodles from the medieval period
The Vatican just digitized this 1,600-year-old epic
The Vatican Digital Library is Now Online. Here’s what you Need to Know
Details emerge of how Auschwitz blueprints transferred from Germany to Israel
Valuable Bach manuscript goes under the hammer
Le jour où on a imprimé le premier livre
Luxembourg – L’avenir des archives historiques du Service de renseignement de l’État est réglé
Archives nationales de France – Michel Rocard, l’Histoire, la politique, l’archive
Bordeaux : une édition de 1588 des Essais de Montaigne disponible en ligne
Un dessin de Degas volé par les nazis adjugé 462.500 euros
Les bases de données Pascal et Francis en accès libre sur le web
National Library of Ireland – The Liam O’Leary Archive
Wales – Hear the long lost recording of Italian opera legend Pavarotti discovered hidden in festival archive
UK Information Commissioner Office – General Data Protection Regulation still relevant for the UK
Taskforce to Gauge Brexit Effects on UK Museums
UK National Archives – Heresy, sacrilege and exhumation: uncovering excommunication records
UK National Archives – Food for thought? Rationing and the Second World War
Food for Thought: Food Technology Resources at the British Library
Intelligence mapping of British East Africa: a new online resource from the British Library
British Academy – Cold War archival documents published for the first time
National Health Service seeks cure for its costly digital headache
Unseen Beatrix Potter illustrations discovered in stately home
Lest we Forget: a poet’s reflections on the Battle of the Somme
York village archives may be destroyed
Transforming Archives: St. George’s Chapel Archives
Opera magazine launches complete digital archive
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Syria – UNESCO Director-General deplores heavy damages at the National Museum of Aleppo
International
No, Digitization Is Preservation
Liberating data: how libraries and librarians can help researchers with text and data mining
Announcing the development of SocArXiv, an open social science archive
http://socopen.org/2016/07/09/announcing-the-development-of-socarxiv-an-open-social-science-archive/
Digital toxic waste (or why metadata shouldn’t live forever)
Professionnels de l’information et humanités numériques : compétences, formation, métier
How Metadata Makes Big Data Manageable: Explained by the Digital Photo Example
Why Pokemon Go and the Library is a perfect partnership
The Peril and Promise of Pokémon GO for Museums and Heritage Sites
Questions you need to ask when developing a digital strategy
The Art of Handwriting
A look inside Facebook’s data center