Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Librarian and Archivist of Canada Speech – Growing the Knowledge City: a New Voice for Libraries
Nova Scotia – Bills: Public Archives Act (Amended) and Government Records Act (Amended)
Public Archives Act: http://nslegislature.ca/legc/bills/62nd_2nd/1st_read/b156.htm
Government Records Act: http://nslegislature.ca/legc/bills/62nd_2nd/1st_read/b157.htm
Press Release: http://novascotia.ca/news/release/?id=20160420005
Northwest Territories – Public Engagement on the Comprehensive Review of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act
U.S. Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative – Digitizing Motion Picture Film: Exploration of the Issues and Sample SOW
NARA – Instructions and Template for Big Bucket Crosswalks
Freedom of Information Act Advisory Committee – Report to the Archivist of the United States
European Policy Brief – The Economic and Fiscal Dimension of Cultural Heritage
Bibliothèque nationale de France – Schéma numérique
UK Information Commissioner’s Office – Preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): 12 Steps to Take Now
Ville de Gatineau – Position suite à une plainte pour accéder à des documents produits par Daniel J. Caron
De la communauté / From the community
UNESCO – Memory of the World Programme: Exploring Means for Further Improvement
Special Libraries Association – Competencies for Information Professionals
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Web Storage (Second Edition)
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance – Annual Report 2015
Paper – A Comparison Between the Performance of Wayback Machines
Paper – A Critique of the Narrative: Linked Data in Libraries
Publications
Journal of the Institute of Conservation, vol. 39, no. 1 (2016)
European Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (EURBICA) Newsletter (April 2016)
Library and Archives Canada – The Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 5 (April 2016)
Ngā Tapuwae: the Archives New Zealand Newsletter (April 2016)
Book – Installation Art and the Practices of Archivalism
Book – The Charters of Freedom at the National Archives (USA)
Book – Fundamentals of Government Information: Mining, Finding, Evaluating, and Using Government Resources (Second Edition)
Book – Museums and the Past: Constructing Historical Consciousness
Book – Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers’ Project
Book – Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking: Traditional to Big Data to Internet of Things
Book – Sonic Time Machines: Explicit Sound, Sirenic Voices and Implicit Sonicity in Terms of Media Knowledge
Book – Pirate Philosophy: for a Digital Posthumanities
Book – Old Shanghai’s Bund: Rare Images from the 19th Century
Book – Knowledge Unbound: Selected Writings on Open Access, 2002–2011
Book – Open Data for Education: Linked, Shared, and Reusable Data for Teaching and Learning
Livre – Humanités numériques : la culture face aux nouvelles technologies
Livre – Reconnaître les photos et cartes postales anciennes (2e édition)
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
eCourse – Virtual Reference: an Introduction
Starting May 2, 2016
Webinar – OAIS: its Limitations and (how) Can they Be Fixed
May 4, 2016
Photoconsortium Annual Event
May 4-5, 2016, Pisa (Italy)
Digital Frenemies: Closing the Gap in Born-Digital and Made-Digital Curation
May 5, 2016, Bethesda (Maryland)
Digital Repository of Ireland: Metadata Standards
May 11, 2016, Dublin (Ireland)
Society of American Archivists Webinar – Rights and Confidentiality
May 17, 2016
Webinar – Research Impact Metrics for Librarians: Calculation & Context
May 19, 2016
Materiality and the Visual Arts Archive: Matter and Meaning
September 23, 2016, University of Brighton (UK)
European Data Forum (Report Available)
November 16-17, 2015, Luxembourg
Threats to Openness Conference (Presentations Available)
November 24-25, 2015, Northumbria University (UK)
Serving the Cultural Heritage: Open Source Preservation Workshop (Presentations Available)
April 7, 2016, Stockholm
Webinar – Trust and Certification (Video Available)
April 18, 2016
Sur le web / On the web
New Website – Portage Network: Shared Stewardship of Research Data in Canada
Canadian Association of Research Libraries – New Website
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – La Bolduc: Queen of Canadian Folksingers
Video – Librarian of Congress Nominee Carla Hayden Confirmation Hearing
Open Data Barometer (Third Edition)
Europeana – Faces of Europe now Online
Archives de l’État en Belgique – Vidéo: the Great War from Below
Video – Digitizing the Culture of Print
Video – Diamonds are Forever: what about Research Data?
Slidecast – Computing Interesting Paths between Resources on the Web
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Will the Google Books ruling hold sway over Canada’s fair dealing analysis?
Feds made 5,670 privacy breaches last year, Canada Revenue Agency worst offender
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/feds-made-5-670-privacy-breaches-last-year-cra-worst-offender-1.2861814
Copyright law for the blind needs fine-tuning
Free the census
Documents shed a little light on what spy Jeffrey Delisle sold to Russians
Improving public service IT systems remains a significant challenge: Treasury Board President Scott Brison
Library and Archives Canada and the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 collaborate to make it easier for Atlantic Canadians to access their heritage
Library and Archives Canada – Jackie Robinson and the baseball colour barrier
Radio-Canada – Les remarquables oubliés des Archives
Il n’y a pas d’oubliés dans les Archives de Radio-Canada
Metis Nation Saskatchewan may be forced to sell its archives and library
Archives Association of Ontario – Update from the Provincial Acquisition Strategy working group
Ontario – Family services sued after personal info hacked, posted on Facebook
Alberta Court of Appeal comments on meaning of “personal information”
B.C. – Government censored Freedom of Information documents that are publicly available
Archives of Manitoba – One Manitoba Soldier: the letters of George Battershill
Société historique de Saint-Boniface – Étienne Gaboury en ligne: plus de 300 plans architecturaux figurent dans la collection
New Brunswick Museum Archives – Rockwood Park’s history told through century-old photos, documents
BAnQ – Un partenaire et un joyau maritime de l’autre côté de la rive (Lévis)
Rare books: Thomas Fisher library has Canada’s largest collection
New Library Preservation and Archives Facility opens at UBC
UBC – iSchool Doctoral Candidates Successfully Defend their Theses (on Archival Issues)
Competition Bureau, Iron Mountain Reach Consent Agreement
What’s in a losing bid? Montreal, city contractors want to keep that secret
Montreal then and Now: McGill student’s gallery slides back and forth in time
New space in Edmonton city archives dedicated to black history
Explore the History of Transit at Two Toronto Exhibitions
1852 ottawa Citizen story points to previous unknown aboriginal burial ground
Gramophone record-collecting teens found Ottawa Phonograph Society
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-phonograph-society-teens-78-records-collectors-1.3533407
Plans for North Vancouver museum resurrected
Museum Musings: the Whistler Question’s archive photos go digital
Explore skateboard culture with Ground Control at Kamloops Museum and Archives (B.C.)
London (Ont.) great’s lost home rediscovered
Oxford archives (Ont.) honour local politician Senator Donald Sutherland for archives awareness week
History comes home with return of original Town documents to Whitby archives (Ont.)
Oshawa – A battle with time and fire
Centre d’archives Domaine-du-Roy (Roberval) – Le web ne menace pas les centres d’archives
Brèves archivistiques: Archivage et archivistique
Explaining Digital Preservation with Cooking Metaphors
Afrique / Africa
Initiative panafricaine pour sauver les archives photographiques #2
The Librarian who Saved Timbuktu’s Cultural Treasures From al Qaeda
Morocco: one of the world’s oldest libraries is renovated
Madagascar – Accès à l’information : des professionnels décèlent des blocages
Côte d’Ivoire – La Commission d’accès à l’information d’intérêt public appelle les services de l’État à se désigner un responsable de l’information
South Africa marks 20th anniversary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
South Africa – Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Victims Database released by the Department of Justice
Amériques / Americas
White House – Collaboration Gives Federal Government Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing a New Home on the Web
Some agencies will miss 2016 email management deadline
Congress to consider making open data the default in federal government
Government only as transparent as its technology, advocates say
Google Books can proceed after Supreme Court of the United States rejection
The CIA is investing in firms that mine your tweets and Instagram photos
How a Simple Information Request Got me Blacklisted by the Pentagon
Library of Congress – Finding Architectural Documentation: a New Reference Aid Points the Way
Library of Congress – A Beginners Guide to Record Retention
Alternate Spring Break: Digital Preservation at NARA
Smithsonian Institution Archives – There Are Records and then there Are Records
Dachau Concentration Camp Papers Acquired by North Carolina State Archives
Yale University’s Beinecke Library acquires playful 1932 map of Harlem nightlife
Recent Changes in how Stanford University Libraries is Documenting Born-Digital Processing
Stanford University Is About to Have the Dopest Map Collection on Earth
Princeton University – Student-initiated campaign seeks to archive records of on-campus activism
Princeton University Rare Books and Special Collections – A Founding Father in Revolutionary Paris
Columbia University – Location Data on Two Apps Enough to Identify Someone, Says Study
University of Michigan – Archivist talks documenting leather, S&M and fetishism history
College of Lousiana – Centenary Archives digitizes Louisiana Methodist newspaper, 1850-1946
Citizen historians scour archives to uncover how U.S. covered Holocaust
American Library Association, Google Launch Libraries Ready to Code
Microsoft sues over law banning tech firms from telling customers about data requests
The invention of the information revolution
Game of Thrones: Journalist Files Freedom of Information Act Request for President Obama’s Season 6 Screeners
Remembering Archivist and Warsaw Ghetto Survivor Rose Klepfisz
Record, archive experiences of Pearl Harbor survivors with app
What would you do? Historians’ ethics and digitized archives
Download 834 Radical Zines from a Revolutionary Online Archive: Globalization, Punk Music, the Industrial Prison Complex & More
Teacher solves mystery of Jane Austen book
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Anzac images: the race to save Australia’s wartime heritage
WW1 Australian field hospital sketches revealed in France
New South Wales State Library (Australia) – A Digitisation Scandal that Isn’t
Archives New Zealand – The Appraisal Process: Part Three: Value Statements
Indonesia – No money for old books: Surakarta manuscript digitization left in limbo
India – Punjab State government has no funds to digitise British-era files
Europe / Europa
Lost Cultures within Europeana
The Europeana Space MOOC
Russia – Your face is big data: the title of this photographer’s experiment says it all
What Russia looked like before 1917 … in color
La décommunisation, serpent de mer de la Pologne
Germany’s WWII Ultimatum to Rotterdam Found at Auction
United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus archives opened up to aid search for missing
Salvador Dalí diary goes up for sale as part of dada and surrealist collection sale
Sweden – Newcomer archives: prototyping urban co-archiving practices for capturing and sharing Malmö
Luxembourg – Une nouvelle présidente pour les bibliothécaires, archivistes et documentalistes
Suisse – À qui la loi sur le droit d’auteur sert-elle vraiment?
Swissbib data goes linked, Partie 1: Transformation des métadonnées, modélisation, indexation
Archives nationales de France – Une clef d’accès inédite dans les archives du pouvoir exécutif
France – Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée : plongée dans la caverne d’Ali Baba du cinéma
France – Archives du communisme: plus de 5500 documents numérisés accessibles en ligne: partenariat Archives nationales-Paprik@2F
France – Des milliers de documents d’une loge maçonnique publiés sur le Web après un piratage
Northern Ireland Victims Commissioner Judith Thompson says government has not been open about past
National Archives of Ireland – Property Losses (Ireland) Committee 1916 Compensation Files now online
Ireland – British army records on 1916 Rising available to public
UK National Archives – Changing the Landscape: artist’s personal quest for great uncle killed on the Somme
British Library – A Firsthand Experience: Great Writers’ Handwriting
Former head of the British Museum: Britain forgets its past, Germany confronts it
Rare colour footage of first David Attenborough expedition found hidden in BBC archives
Rare medieval plainsong is discovered in Norfolk
Saving libraries from cuts is crucial, say UK readers in survey
Librarians curate collection of weirdest book titles including “Jogging with Jesus” and “Satan for kids”
Keeping it reel: the dying art of the film projectionist in pictures
Message in a bottle, promising finder a shilling, bobs up after 108 years
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
United Arab Emirates – National Archives creates Braille versions of United Arab Emirates history books
The Bibliothèque nationale de France partners with the National Library of Israel and the Friedberg Jewish Manuscripts Society
Iran – Tehran exhibit displays rare Georgian manuscripts
Turkey – Man faces $20 million fine for stealing manuscripts
International
International Council on Archives Section for Archives of Literature and Art Projects 2016-2017
A Linked Data Journey: Beyond the Honeymoon Phase
What do we need to know about the archived web?
Metadata for research data management
Mobile Genealogy Apps: Apps for Desktop Genealogy Software
La gestion électronique des documents: une décision stratégique
La fouille de texte et de données au service des sciences
Tips and apps for better mobile phone photography
Why paper document capture is the missing piece of the big data puzzle