Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Canada Council for the Arts – Strategic Plan 2016-2021
BAnQ – Recueil des règles de conservation des documents des établissements de santé et de services sociaux du Québec, section B (version 1.3)
Québec – Lignes directrices sur la diffusion de données ouvertes
European Commission Conference Speech – The Digitising of Industry: the Wider View
France – Arrêté du 20 avril 2016 modifiant l’arrêté du 21 janvier 1988 portant création du Conseil supérieur des archives
Australia Productivity Commission – Intellectual Property Arrangements (Draft)
De la communauté / From the community
Report on Canadian Association of Research Libraries’s 2015-2016 Public Affairs and Advocacy Activities
Conseil du patrimoine religieux du Québec – Guide de déménagement d’un dépôt d’archives
Web Archiving at National Libraries: Findings of Stakeholders’ Consultation by the Internet Archive
Best Guess Guidelines for Cataloguing Born Digital Material
Digital Repository of Ireland – An Overview of Geotagging
Open Data in a Big Data World: an International Accord
Publications
Archives and Records, vol. 37, no. 1, 2016 (Special Issue: Born Digital Description)
Code4lib Journal, no. 32 (2016)
National Archives of Australia – Government Agencies Information Network Newsletter, no. 4 (April 2016)
Trent University Archives News, no. 57 (April 2016)
Book – Digital Curation (Second Edition)
Book – Managing Information Services: an Innovative Approach (Fourth Edition)
Book – The Wiki Way of Learning: Creating Learning Experiences Using Collaborative Web Pages
Book – Exploring Discovery: the Front Door to a Library’s Licensed and Digitized Content
Book – Whose Memory? Which Future?: Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe
Book – The Lost Book of Moses: the Hunt for the World’s Oldest Bible
Book – Lost Books: Reconstructing the Print World of Pre-Industrial Europe
Book – Lessons in Library Leadership: a Primer for Library Managers and Unit Leaders
Book – Political Museum: Power, Conflict, and Identity in Cyprus
Book – Big Data in Practice: how 45 Successful Companies Used Big Data Analytics to Deliver Extraordinary Results
Livre – L’affaire Touvier : les révélations des archives
Livre – Les Palais de l’histoire : mémoires de Jean Favier
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
University of Saskatchewan Archives & Special Collections – Queer as Film
May 4 – June 8, 2016, Saskatoon
Library and Archives Canada Exhibit Opening – Alter Ego: Comics and Canadian Identity
May 12, 2016, Ottawa
Prime Time Nationalism: the Role of Television Broadcasts/Archives in the Aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars
May 13-14, 2016, Budapest (Hungary)
L’action éducative et culturelle, un défi pour les archives et les bibliothèques
24-25 mai, 2016, Paris
Photography Preservation Workshop
June 20-21, 2016, Vilnius (Lithuania)
Free Online Course – Japanese Culture through Rare Books
Starting July 18, 2016
Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council Conference 2016
November 2-3, 2016, Vilnius (Lithuania)
E-Ark Conference
November 30 – December 2, 2016, London (UK)
Where Are the Libraries that Were Looted by the Nazis? Identification and Restoration : a Work in Progress
March 23-24, 2017, Paris
From Dust to Dawn: Archival Studies After the Archival Turn
November 15-17, 2017, Uppsala University (Sweden)
Le patrimoine politique du Québec : un état des lieux des traces documentaires (présentations disponibles)
22 mai 2015, Montréal
Open Source Preservation Workshop (Videos Available)
April 7, 2016, Stockholm (Sweden)
Sur le web / On the web
Canadiana – Aboriginal Soldiers Documented: Online Archive
Sahapedia: India’s First Online Portal on Cultural Heritage
See also: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/online-heritage-portal-sahapedia/1/651043.html
DPF Manager: Open Source Modular TIFF Conformance Checker (Version 2.0)
Video – Access Denied: Privacy in an Age of Surveillance
Video – Defining the Scholarly Record for Computational Research
Vidéo – Les données numériques peuvent-elles disparaitre ?
Video – Welcome to Digital Public Library of America Fest 2016
Slidecast – Grant Cycles, Deadlines, and Labor Advocacy: a Roundtable about the Changing Work of Project Archivists
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canadian Heritage – Consultations on Canadian Content in a Digital World
Consultations on Canadian Content in a Digital World : Everything’s on the table
Kids will suffer if Canada’s copyright legislation doesn’t change
U.S. Releases Report on Protection of American Intellectual Property Rights Across the World, Canada Remains on Watch List
Liberals pledge to implement all access-to-information promises “as quickly as possible”
Treasury Board President Scott Brison pledges to improve reporting of privacy breaches
The vanishing act of government documents and what to do about it
Speaking of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (a comparison between Canada and Romania by an archivist at the National Archives of Romania)
Records of reserve pass system destroyed before historical value known
Improvements to Viewing Canadian War Diaries at LAC
Collection Managers at Library and Archives Canada – A few of our favourite things
Library and Archives Canada – Preventive Care and Maintenance: Laura Secord and the Grassy Knoll
Library and Archives Canada – Ottawa’s Uppertown: a lost neighbourhood uncovered
Royal Ontario Museum to unearth 1.5 million objects for new virtual collection
Why the Royal Ontario Museum’s chief information officer is pushing for a digital museum
How Toronto museums are helping people with Alzheimer’s experience art, even if they can’t remember it
Newfoundland – More than half province’s libraries closing in wake of budget cuts
Newfoundland – Government faces backlash over library cuts
The Canadian Library Association Urges Government of Newfoundland and Labrador to Reconsider Cuts to Public Libraries
Newfoundland Archives go Public with Eloquent Mobile
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: George Battershill arrives in England
History Matters: Radio opened new world to Saskatchewan residents
BAnQ – Le hockey à travers les archives
BAnQ – Elles abandonnent leurs enfants et les laissent mourir
BAnQ – The Library at Night: a Review
University of Toronto – iSchool Student Featured in Major Photography Journal (for a Project about Archives)
Un important partenariat entre le Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française et le Musée virtuel du Canada
Ryerson University Archives and Special Collections – It’s Preservation Week, do you know where your photos are?
Ottawa Jewish Archives now more accessible online
Space dedicated to black history opens in Edmonton archives
Museum of Jewish Montreal: a snapshot of the city’s Jewish roots
Le Service de police de la ville de Montréal rend certaines données publiques
Centre du patrimoine de Saint-Boniface – Étienne Gaboury en ligne
Centre canadien d’architectures – Sauver les fichiers d’hier et d’aujourd’hui
Quand le numérique nous fait perdre la mémoire
Des milliers d’archives des Cantons-de-l’Est maintenant disponibles sur internet
Kingston – Marine Museum of the Great Lakes receives eviction notice
Windsor Public Library to Honour Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women with Faceless Dolls Project
Grimsby (Ont.) library enters digitizing era
The British Colonist adds 30 years of digitized newspapers
Dying in a digital world
How two Canadian designers salvaged a century of Olympic logos
Public Demesne: using Archival Images to raise funds
Afrique / Africa
Angola – Huíla: Les Médiathèques devraient créer des archives numériques de recherche des académies
Ensuring Freedom of Information Law in Ghana
Namibia – Access to information is a right not a privilege
Amériques / Americas
How the CIA Writes History
Appeals court dismisses lawsuit seeking access to records on lethal drone strikes
Crowdsourcing Historical and Archival Information with NARA’s History Hub
Laurence Brewer Appointed New U.S. Chief Records Officer
Maryland Historical Society launches digital archive for Baltimore unrest
Rare maps acquired by Texas General Land Office Archives and Records
Vermont – New details in Governor Peter Shumlin administration email controversy
Pennsylvania State Archives will relocate to $24M facility by 2020
Pennsylvania – Archivist: new state archives building is needed to meet digital needs
Boston College subpoenaed for Anthony McIntyre interviews: British government seeks access to taped interview by former IRA prisoner
Boston College opposes legal moves to seize IRA tapes
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/28/boston-college-opposes-legal-moves-to-seize-ira-tapes
Duke University – Digitizing Divinity: New Duke Chapel Recordings Digital Collection
San Francisco State University – Labor Archives and Research Center marks 30 years, looks to future
Lewis & Clark College – A peek into the Watzek Special Collections
Game of Thrones Freedom of Information Act Requesters Face Stark Reality
Rare Vintage Photos Show WWII-Era Hawaii Like Never Before
The archival ambitions of the Chicago Dance History Project
#ArchivesForBlackLives: Building a Community Archives of Police Violence in Cleveland
New York – Archives of Sound at the Library for the Performing Arts
Projects archive memories of Brooklyn, Filipino community in New York
Sheldon Museum to digitize entire collection
The Only Known Footage of Louis Armstrong in Studio Was Recently Discovered
Founding Rules of Base Ball Sell for $3.26 Million in Auction
New Archive Makes Available 800,000 Pages Documenting the History of Film, Television & Radio
Download 67,000 Historic Maps (in High Resolution) from the Wonderful David Rumsey Map Collection
Preservation Beyond the Bits: an Interview with Linda Tadic
The Digital in the Humanities: an Interview with Laura Mandell
Bagger’s Enhancements for Digital Accessions
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Trove is a national treasure worth funding
Australia’s cultural institutions too weak to cut with morale low, according to union report
Australia – Anzac hero John Simpson’s will found in State archive
New Vinyl Pressing Plant to Open in Australia
State Library of New South Wales (Australia) – New Indigenous Languages Project Maps 100 Year-old Data
Archives New Zealand – The Appraisal Process: Part Four: Drafting Process
New Zealand – Archives cast light on lives of soldiers
New Zealand – University of Canterbury website dedicated to unsung Cantabrians of WWI
Japanese Priests Collected Almost Seven Centuries of Climate Data
Cambodia – My Phnom Penh: Youk Chhang, Genocide archivist
Vietnam – Une nouvelle loi concernant l’accès à l’information restreint l’accès à l’information
2,000-year-old Buddhist texts on show in central Vietnam
Singapore – More government records, including National Day rally speeches, available on National Archives portal
Race to digitise photographs chronicling the birth of Bangladesh
India – Jammu and Kashmir: No Government document archived since 1985
India – Fire Devastates New Delhi’s National Museum of Natural History
Europe / Europa
An insight in the Europeana Sounds statistics
Spain bans export of Federico García Lorca archive amid fears of sell-off
Germany opens files on Chile sect run by Nazi pedophile
Copyright chaos: why isn’t Anne Frank’s diary free now?
Open Society Archives (Hungary) – The Roma Digital Repository Project
Unpublished Salvador Dalí diary auctioned for 91,800 euros
CERN releases 300TB of Large Hadron Collider data into open access
http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/22/cern-releases-300tb-of-large-hadron-collider-data-into-open-access/
Phonothèque nationale suisse – Des enregistrements du violoniste Yehudi Menuhin retrouvés
France – Pour une véritable exception text mining dans la Loi sur le numérique
France – Open data : quels coûts pour les collectivités locales ?
Fauxtographie : l’Histoire manipulée
Que faire avec les 30 000 livres d’Alberto Manguel?
Ireland – New Military Archives building opens with launch of Medals Series Database
National Library of Ireland receives donation of W.B. Yeats’s Nobel Prize medal
The Book of Kells: Medieval Europe’s Greatest Treasure?
Canadian who took on Facebook named UK information commissioner
UK to continue printing laws on vellum
UK National Archives – When art and archives collide
UK National Archives – Paying for the privilege: a new Shakespeare discovery
UK National Archives – New £20 note to feature signature held at the National Archives
Some Surviving Receipts for Taxes Paid in 18th-Century England and Scotland
Vodafone and British Library Create Interactive Digital Library Wallpaper of Shakespeare’s Iconic Works
British Library – Swahili Manuscripts Project
University of Cambridge – First performance in 1,000 years: lost songs from the Middle Ages are brought back to life
British Red Cross launches digital A-Z archive of First World War volunteers
A glimpse into the archives: the surprising history of Shakespeare at the Royal Opera House
Dylan Thomas poem drafts to go on public show
In honour of the International Day of the Midwife we are delighted to launch the Midwife’s Tales Oral History Collection
Shakespeare letter found in school archives
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
From Tablet to Scroll: how Was the Bible Written?
Diverse collection of rare manuscripts go on display in United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates’ art scene for the last 35 years in online archive
The reel deal: the Israel Film Archive, housed at the Jerusalem Cinematheque, preserves the heart and soul of Israeli history
Israel – Tel Aviv’s Beit Hatfutsot-Museum Museum Aims to Digitize Jewish Music Archive
New classification system to archive records in Oman adopted
Oman – Head of Palestinian Archives Visits National Records and Archives Authority
Syria – Blue Shield Statement on Palmyra issued
UNESCO experts take preliminary stock of destruction in World Heritage site of Palmyra
International
International Organization for Standardization – Records management in the digital age
What can the International Internet Preservation Consortium do to advance tools development?
France and Australia launch shared archival history project
Algeria-Indonesia: MOU for Exchange of Archives Relating to Movement of Non-Aligned
A Vision for the Digital Humanities
Ces huit joyaux littéraires conservés dans des bibliothèques universitaires
Freaky Formats: the Odd-sized Records you Never Knew Existed
The Average Webpage Is Now the Size of the Original Doom
Of Nuance and Algorithms: what Conceptual History Can Learn from Topic Modeling