Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Statistics Canada – Provincial and Territorial Culture Indicators, 2014
British Columbia – Report of the Special Committee to Review the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
National Archives of Ireland – Copyright Guidelines
UK Open Government National Action Plan 2016-2018
France – Référentiel général d’interopérabilité (nouvelle version)
De la communauté / From the community
Anglican Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island – The Diocesan Archives (Updated)
Article – Mapping the Digital Humanities Community on Twitter
Article – Archives of the Present-Future: on Climate Change and Representational Breakdown
Publications
Journal of Archival Organization, vol. 12, no. 3-4 (2014)
Information Management Journal, vol. 50, no. 3 (May/June 2016)
Collection Management, vol. 41, no. 2 (2016)
Revista Photo & Documento, no. 1 (2016)
The Kernel, 8 May 2016 (Special Issue: Archive Fever)
Broadsheet: Magazine of the Scottish Council on Archives, no. 37 (Spring 2016)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 6, no. 4 (April 2016)
Bulletin de nouvelles du Centre de coordination pour l’archivage à long terme de documents électroniques, no. 1 (2016)
The Atlas of Water Damage on Inkjet-printed Fine Art
Book – Digitizing your Community’s History: the Innovative Librarian’s Guide
Book – Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action in and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Book – Cartographies of Exile: a New Spatial Literacy
Book – Public History: a Textbook of Practice
Book – Big Digital Humanities: Imagining a Meeting Place for the Humanities and the Digital
Book – Postcards from the Front 1914-1919
Book – Research Handbook on the History of Copyright Law
Book – Privacy Revisited: a Global Perspective on the Right to Be Left Alone
Book – Libraries: a Design Manual
Book – Blockchain Revolution: how the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World
Livre – Dictionnaire de paléographie française: découvrir et comprendre les textes anciens (XVe-XVIIIe siècles)
Livre – Manuel de paléographie française
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Exhibit – A Stunning and Brutalist Tribute to Rare Books and Archives
May 2016, University of Toronto
Canadian Centre for Architecture Exhibit – Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention
11 May – 16 October 2016, Montreal
Library and Archives Canada’s Digital in 2017: what Does this Mean exactly?
May 24, 2016, Ottawa
Webinar – Library and Research Services Supports for the Canadian Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications
May 25, 2016
Salvage of Museum, Library and Archive Collections
May 23, 2016, Cambridge (UK)
Research Data Management: an Introductory Webinar
May 26, 2016
Archives at Risk: Saving our Worldwide Heritage
June 1-3, 2016, Dublin (Ireland)
Imagining Archives Against Annihilation: Two Acts and a Proposition
June 2, 2016, New York
Culture & Technology: the European Summer University in Digital Humanities
July 19-29, 2016, Leipzig (Germany)
Webinar – Capturing and Communicating the Value of Information Management Services in a Corporate Culture
June 21, 2016
eCourse – Metadata and Linked Data: an introduction
Starting July 5, 2016
Hiob Ludolf Centre Summer School in Ethiopian and Eritrean Manuscript Studies
September 27 – October 1, 2016, Hamburg (Germany)
Webinar: FIDO for Format Identification, and why it Matters (Video Available)
May 10, 2016
Forum Droit d’auteur à l’ère numérique : enjeux et perspectives (vidéos disponibles)
12 mai 2016, Montréal
Partie 1: http://youtu.be/0MBCuZ-VPsI
Partie 2: http://youtu.be/HdFGSJSOEac
Sur le web / On the web
Baladodiffusion – Une exposition qui vaut le détour : Alter ego : les bandes dessinées et l’identité canadienne (Bibliothèque et Archives Canada)
Vidéo – Entrevue avec Claude Roberto, Archives provinciales de l’Alberta (entre 6:30 et 10:30)
Society of American Archivists – Survey: Help Improve the Issues & Advocacy Toolkit
VeraPDF 0.14
Video – Choosing the Best Records Management Policy for your Local Government
Video – Process of Preservation
Slidecast – Preparing Your Collection for the Digital Repository of Ireland
Slidecast – Les métadonnées des images fixes et les médias sociaux
Slidecast – Les Archiveilleurs, une veille participative au service de la communauté archivistique
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
The damage the Tories did with the census won’t be easily undone
Canadians love for census says a lot about who we are
Nine years of censorship: Canadian scientists are now allowed to speak out about their work
Opposition MPs ask whether commissioner offices should be merged
The roadblock to reconciliation: Canada’s origin story is false
Canada’s Secret Identity: new Library and Archives Canada exhibit features Canadian comic books
Library and Archives Canada – EMP….. Electro-Magnetic Pulse?! No: Environmental Monitoring Program!
Library and Archives Canada – Alter Ego: Comics and Canadian Identity
New measures enhance B.C. government openness, transparency
B.C. privacy commissioner mainly positive toward new Freedom of Information policies
Ontario government allows all small claims court documents to be filed online
Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec – Le droit de rectification ne permet pas d’ordonner l’effacement des archives en ligne
BAnQ – Censure lors de la Semaine du film français
Saskatchewan – Weyburn geneologist documenting homestead graves
Archives Alberta – Writing on Paper
Archives of Manitoba – The Panoramic Record: Wide-Angle Photographs from the time of the First World War
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: at Shorncliffe
University of Calgary – Continuing Ed history course offers chance to dive into university archives
When a Private Trans Archive Becomes Public Art
And now, for local golf historians, some homework
Victoria man’s home movies shed light on capital’s history
Vancouver Archives – More digitized maps are available in TIF format
Glance at the past: 1000s of historical Winnipeg postcards donated to city
Do you Know your Winnipeg? Whither the City Archives?
Toronto Museum of Migration Set to Launch this Summer
Thunder Bay – City honours memory of late Harry Kirk, renames Archives building
Calgary radio station CJSW launches Local Music Library
Kitchener – Artist looks at city’s history through smoke, flames and the impact of war
Niagara Falls museum to feature portraits from the archives
Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives (Ont.) – Why Bylaws Matter
Brèves archivistiques : Images animées ou en mouvement
Archivist Interview: Meet Glynys Hohmann, Provincial Archives of Alberta
Vie d’archiviste : Catherine Nadeau, Directrice, Gestion de l’information et administration de la preuve électronique chez KPMG
Afrique / Africa
L’Afrique, du terrain aux archives
Rwanda: Access to Information, a Key Element of Fundamental Freedoms
Algérie – Visite du ministre des Finances à Béjaïa: il faut passer à la numérisation des archives
Contribuer à l’histoire de l’Algérie indépendante depuis les États-Unis ? Le mythe de l’archive
Amériques / Americas
Jamaica – Registrar General’s Department Needs $350 Million to Complete Digitization
U.S. Presidential Recordkeeping: New Challenges in the Digital Age
1,650 Pages of George W. Bush’s Skull and Bones Records Are Set to Be Publicly Released
Library of Congress Acquires Marty Stuart’s Audio-visual Collection of Country Music History
Library of Congress – New Online: Walt Whitman Papers
Library of Congress – Your Personal Archiving Project: Where Do you Start?
NARA’s Cartographic Division holdings include approximately 125,000 Railroad Valuation Maps
Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan Appointed Director of the National Library of Medicine
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – Capturing Social Media Records
Delaware Blockchain Initiative to Streamline Record-Keeping for Private Companies
North Carolina – Court Orders Defendant to Re-Produce Selected Documents in Native Format
Indiana Historical Society – Keeping it all in the family
Boston Tapes: Police Service of Northern Ireland accused of fishing expedition over former IRA man’s Boston tape interviews
Belfast Project Protection of Research, Letter from American Sociological Association Presidents
University of Arizona – A Visitor-Centered Approach to Museums, Archives
University of Michigan – Migrating Files to Preservation Formats: Theory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Processing Digital Research Data
U.N. Development Programme grant to expand Brown University’s digital archive on U.S.-Brazilian relations
Solving the Mystery of Ancient Ink Origins
O Email! My Email! Our Fearful Trip is Just Beginning: Further Collaborations with Archiving Email
Archivists of tragedy: Excavating the mystery of Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple
Tentative deal in legal fight over Chicago nanny’s photos
Judge Allows Paramount’s Klingon Language Copyright Case to Move Forward
Led Zeppelin Copyright Case Heats Up as Lawyers Clash Over Music Experts
John Malkovich’s new movie due for release in 100 years
A notebook of Thomas Jefferson’s wine purchases has been digitized by the New York Public Library
Rare copy of Aristotle’s De animalibus to be auctioned for first time in 125 years
The Digital in the Humanities: an Interview with Bethany Nowviskie
The day we discovered our parents were Russian spies
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australian Broadcasting Commission embarks on ambitious digital archive overhaul
Tasmania – Journal thought to be from Napoleonic Wars uncovered in Hobart second-hand bookshop
Q&A with Elizabeth Tydd, New South Wales Information Commissioner, on access to government information
Hidden treasures aplenty at Federation University’s Mount Helen Campus
Archives New Zealand – The Appraisal Process: Part Six: Signing off and Implementation
New Zealand – Graffiti artist Askew One opens private archives
National Archives of Japan rapidly running out of shelf space
Hiroshima archive underscores aspirations for peace
Île Maurice – Vers la numérisation de la Bibliothèque Nationale
Singapore launches single platform for government e-services
Vietnam archivist shares personal quest
An extraordinary collection of music from a record label that operated in Mumbai from 1935-55 has now been digitized and is available online
Kashmir – Department of Archives to document artifacts housed in religious places
Europe / Europa
Europeana – Vinyl records, cassettes, CDs: how can I keep my favourite music recordings in good condition?
Volodymyr Viatrovych: Real and fictional history in Ukraine’s archives
Italy – One of Florence’s Oldest Families and its 600-Year Archive
Exhibition of Jubilee bulls from Vatican secret archives opens in Rome
Swiss National Science Foundation – Sharing knowledge: Open Access for all is the goal
La loi française sur la numérisation des livres indisponibles devant la justice européenne
Cinéma : comment la France bichonne ses archives
Les archives de la préfecture de police : un trésor bien caché
Une thèse en archivistique: pourquoi et où?
Mysterious Man in the Iron Mask Revealed, 350 Years Later
Somme battle soldiers’ graffiti in cave network offer Great War insights
Irish archive recalls environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa’s life through death-row letters
Fate of Irish man who inspired Zorro has been revealed
UK – Freedom of information lives on
The Collection Care team at the UK Parliamentary Archives
UK National Archives – British Telecom Archives: making a collaborative resource
UK National Archives – Lost voices from the Civil Wars
UK National Archives – Kidnapped to order: child actors in Shakespeare’s day
British Library – Lights, Camera, Action! Filming for the Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
British Library – Fragments in bindings
British Museum – These rare Indian records survived over a century and are now online
Hidden histories of a million wartime women: Women’s Voluntary Service records to go online
Rediscovered first world war letters lead to history search
She takes a good picture: six forgotten female pioneers of photography
Guernsey – Lost WWII resistance heroes’ graves found after 70 years
Transforming Archives: Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
Soldier’s diary is a top Lancashire archive treasure
http://www.garstangcourier.co.uk/news/soldier-s-diary-is-a-top-lancashire-archive-treasure-1-7904095
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel State Archives – The forgotten story of Dora Liese Ettlinger
International
Associated Press – This Big Data Archives Project Dates to 1848
The Language Archive presents her 64 collections of the UNESCO Memory of the World at United Nations Headquarters
Beyond Data: Reproducibility in Scientific Software and the Role of Digital Preservation
Réflexion sur le vrac numérique
Museums and the Web: 20 Years of Debate on Digital Transformation
Benchmarking print book collections: a beginning