Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
National Archivist of Australia Speech – Value Public Information so we Can Trust it, Rely on it and Use it
NARA – Six New Draft General Records Schedules (for Agency Review)
Canton du Valais (Suisse) – Guide de gestion des documents pour l’administration cantonale (version 2.0)
European Commission – Guidelines on Open Access to Scientific Publications and Research Data in Horizon 2020
UK Government – Independent Commission on Freedom of Information Report
De la communauté / From the community
International Council on Archives – Social Media Strategy
Europeana – Business Plan 2016
IFLA – FRBR-Library Reference Model (for Review)
OCLC Research – 2015 Activity Report
Wikimedia Foundation – Transparency Report
Qu’est-ce que le Text encoding initiative?
Think-tank for Action on Social Change (Ireland) – Setting the Record Straight: Record Keeping for Good Governance
Afnor – Qu’est-ce qui fait la valeur des bibliothèques ?
Open Knowledge – Changing What Counts: how Can Citizen-Generated and Civil Society Data Be Used as an Advocacy Tool to Change Official Data Collection?
Publications
World Heritage, no. 78, 2016 (Special Issue: World Heritage and Gender Equality)
National Archives of Australia – Government Agencies Information Network Newsletter, no. 2 (2016)
Telling our Stories: Newsletter of the South Peace Regional Archives (Alb.), vol. 7, no. 2 (March 2016)
Book – Law, Memory, Violence: Uncovering the Counter-Archive
Book – Theory Development in the Information Sciences
Book – Remembering 1916: the Easter Rising, the Somme and the Politics of Memory in Ireland
Book – Contract and Copyright Drafting Skills: an A-Z Guide to Working with Clauses
Book – Copyright Law in an Age of Limitations and Exceptions
Book – Security and Privacy in Internet of Things (IoTs): Models, Algorithms, and Implementations
Book – Museum Branding: how to Create and Maintain Image, Loyalty, and Support (Second Edition)
Livre – Marseille, archives remarquables
Livre – Retrouver ses ancêtres hongrois
Livre – Retrouver ses ancêtres bretons
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
From Bibliometrics to Altmetrics: Current Challenges in the Measurement of Scholarly Activity
March 7-8, 2016, Halifax
Les gestes de nos mémoires
9 mars 2016, Québec
Canadian Memory of the World Register
March 30, 2016, Ottawa
Hebrew Printing in the Arab and Islamic World
April 3, 2016, Ottawa
Archives Awareness Week 2016 at the Archives of Ontario
April 4-9, 2016, Toronto
4e Journée des archives religieuses
15 avril 2016, Montréal
Not my Heritage: New Identities/Voices in Conservation
April 23, 2016, Ottawa
Rencontres Henri-Jean Martin 2016 – Sécurité et sûreté des collections
21 mars 2016, Villeurbane (France)
2016 International Association of Music Libraries Archives and Documentation Centres Congress
July 3-8, 2016, Rome
Holocaust Archival Film Footage as a Historical Source
September 19-21, 2016, Jerusalem
Freedom of Information Act Requests at the U.S. National Archives (Video Available)
March 2, 2016, Washington D.C.
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada – Video: Ottawa’s History Unveiled
University of Winnipeg Video – The Oral History Centre: Campus Research
Video – Social Justice Struggles for Rights, Equality & Identity: Role of LGBTQ Archives
Maynooth University (Ireland) – Letters of 1916: a Year in the Life Project
Archives de l’État en Belgique – Vidéo: TIC Belgium: Transnational Intellectual Cooperation, 1815-1914
Fund Trove (National Library of Australia) Facebook Page
North Carolina State University – Social Media Archives Toolkit
VeraPDF (version 0.10)
Slidecast – La source orale en sciences humaines et sociales et son archivage : questions d’éthique et de droit
Slidecast – Developing a Netherlands National Digital Library
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Federal proposals on how to make the government less secretive are being kept secret
Metadata is crucial, Communications Security Establishment insists
St. Anne’s residential school survivor seeks reopening of claims case: former student first to come forward alleging justice denied due to government withholding key documents
Health Canada responds over controversial journal
Library and Archives Canada and 2016-2017 Main Estimates
Library and Archives Canada: Opening Government Records
Tracing Historical Legislation at Library and Archives Canada
http://thediscoverblog.com/2016/03/03/tracing-historical-legislation-at-library-and-archives-canada/
Editorial: Stop dabbling over portrait gallery
The Canadian Museum of History’s movie theatre is going digital
Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan now boasts a (nearly) complete collection of Telemiracle’s past broadcasts
Archive Society of Alberta’s Flood Advisory Programme – Project by the numbers (3)
BAnQ – Les archives judiciaires, miroir de la société
BAnQ – Archives du mois: Monsieur Fortin et sa Boule d’or : de la mercerie à la grande surface
BAnQ – La chasse-galerie: de la légende au petit écran
Une sélection de photographies d’archives de BAnQ présentée à l’Université de Sherbrooke
Copibec : Les auteurs et les éditeurs iront en appel suite au refus de la cour d’autoriser leur action collective contre l’Université Laval
Harvesting the government web space: University of Toronto librarians step in to preserve electronic information
University of Toronto researcher first to open lab notes in real time
Ryerson University – Archiving queer, black history
Ryerson University Archives and Special Collections – Feature from the Collections: the Model Slide Rule
Le déclin de la recherche gouvernementale et industrielle au Canada
Critics decry Canadian medical journal’s “Orwellian” revamp
Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta – Veterans Affairs Grant for our Database
Dozens of British home children lie forgotten in Etobicoke (Ont.) cemetery
La collection Robert-Lionel-Séguin commence à prendre le large
Le quotidien d’un baleinier en 1880 : un trésor pour le Musée de la Gaspésie
Peterborough (Ont.) – Photographic pioneers: how these early artists helped chronicle the city’s 19th-century history
Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives – How Do Archivists Describe Collections? (or how to Read a Finding Aid)
Grant buys more time, space for Kelowna (B.C.) archives
Spaces: The Literary and Historical Society of Quebec
Daniel Ducharme: L’expression et la conservation
Afrique / Africa
Mali – Timbuktu destroyer (of heritage sites) in dock for war crimes
Morocco – Restoring the world’s oldest library
Nigeria – Freedom of Information Act will curb corruption
Malawi Groups Urge Defeat of Revised Access to Information Legislation
Tunisie – Les archives de la présidence finalement mises à la disposition de l’Instance Vérité et Dignité
Cameroun : La préservation et la transmission de la mémoire collective de l’Afrique au centre d’une rencontre internationale
Gabon: une plainte sur l’acte de naissance d’Ali Bongo classée sans suite
Algérie – Un portail Internet dédié au patrimoine culturel inauguré
Le dessous des cartes de la conquête de l’Algérie
Procès Mandela en Afrique du Sud: les archives sonores numérisées
South African History Archive takes battle for Department of Defence records to court
South Africa – Historical records like Rivonia trial documents could be destroyed: Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande
Apartheid Heritages – First Look: Social Justice History Platform
Amériques / Americas
Literary Archives in Uruguay
18th-Century Music Manuscript “Libro Sesto” Tells of Colonial History in Chile
Library of Congress Acquires 96 High-Profile Courtroom Drawings
Library of Congress – Saving America’s Radio Heritage
The National Archives’ Unique Role in Resolving the Hillary Clinton Email Case
NARA Commits to Processing the Withheld JFK Assassination Records by October 26, 2017
Assessing Digital Preservation at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Is the torture report a public record? an interview with the National Security Archive’s Lauren Harper
The Broken System of Classifying Government Documents
An Activist Wrote a Script to Freedom of Information Act the Files of 7,000 Dead FBI Officials
Society of American Archivists – Empowering Archivists through Mentoring
Wisconsin Courts – Paper a thing of the past?
Bob Dylan’s Secret Archive: the musician’s private trove has been acquired for an estimated $15 million to $20 million
Harvard – Egyptian-style handiwork with a digital past
University of Alaska Fairbanks archivists work to preserve obsolete recordings
Old Dominion University – Acquisition of Mementos and their Content Is More Challenging than Expected
The University of Iowa Libraries celebrate and promote their digital collections on social media
Museum of Modern Art’s race to preserve film classics
Preserving at-risk archival radio broadcasts
Download 2,000 Magnificent Turn-of-the-Century Art Posters, Courtesy of the New York Public Library
A New Mexico library is preparing to sell unedited manuscripts and signed books by late author Tony Hillerman
Library with Priceless Collection of Black Literature Crumbling in Chicago
The D.C. Public Library’s New “Memory Lab” Lets You Digitize Old Photos and Videos
Delta and Atlanta: A 75-year partnership that helped transform both
Entire archive of 1950s sci-fi publication IF Magazine released online
The Digital in the Humanities: an Interview with Franco Moretti
http://lareviewofbooks.org/interview/the-digital-in-the-humanities-an-interview-with-franco-moretti/
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, cuts and the culture of forgetting
Australian Historical Association criticises “efficiency dividends”
Good and bad news from the National Library of Australia
Australia – Transparency failings responsible for low levels of public trust, says National archives boss
New South Wales – Baird government labelled secret state as information increasingly blocked
New Zealand’s constitutional treasures to be more accessible
http://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-zealand%E2%80%99s-constitutional-treasures-be-more-accessible
National Library of New Zealand – Digging for treasure in the photo archives
Japanese court recognizes right to be forgotten in suit against Google
Cambodia – Optimism high for law on access to information
Book Tells Story of Cambodia’s First Photographs
Indonesia – National Library opens digital portal
India is in a critical situation in terms of film archiving, says U.S. expert
Indian Institute of Science library to digitise all books, doctoral theses
Europe / Europa
Here Comes the Post-Safe Harbor European Union Privacy Crackdown
Opening of the historical archives of the Court of Justice of the European Union
Introducing Europeana 280
Europeana – How vinyl records are made?
Promoting sound heritage, an Italian story: Gavino Gabriel
Finland – At 170, National Library re-opens amid contemporary pressure
Everis and NTT DATA to Develop Digital Archive System for Preserving Treasures from Spain’s National Heritage
U.S. Returns Stolen Archival Material to Russia
Historical manuscripts from secret Vatican archives published in book “Misericordia”
Suisse – Consulter les archives de l’Organisation internationale du travail à Genève : retour heureux d’expérience
Suisse – Genève restitue à l’Égypte un vestige archéologique volé vieux de plus de 4000 ans
Patrimoine: le manuscrit des Troyens de Berlioz entre à la Bibliothèque nationale de France
France – La destruction de la preuve papier (enfin) autorisée ? La copie numérique fiable a désormais la même force probante que le document papier original
France – Un amendement pour saisir les messages électroniques archivés
Ireland – The Prisons Memory Archive: Representing the Troubles
Ireland – Remembering 1916, Recording 2016: the National Library Web Archive
Ireland – Political accountability needs written records of decisions
UK Government – Launch of new data sharing consultation
The Government Is Stopping us Writing about Spies and the Royal Family, Say Historians
UK National Archives – First World War airship attacks
British Library plans to digitize 11 million old manuscripts
The digitalisation of a nation
Bodleian Library (University of Oxford) – The Mabel FitzGerald Archive, or: an extraordinary woman
Yorkshire – Digital history: Archbishops’ Registers go online for first time
What books were taken to the Antarctic 100 years ago?
Paul Mccartney And Ringo Starr Pay Tribute To Engineer And Archivist Allan Rouse
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel – Tel Aviv: Burglars indicted for heist of 17th Century manuscripts
Oman – Al-Dhawyani Opens the training Program Records and Archives: Theory, Practice, Policy and Governance
International
Performing the Jewish Archive: an international project revives the work of persecuted playwrights and composers
UNESCO and International Committee of the Red Cross partner on the protection of culture heritage in the event of armed conflict
Hard-core data preservation: the best media and methods for archiving your data
How Big Data Complements Information Management
Archives visuelles
L’archiviste et les contenants
Email isn’t dead, but it is ageing: how young people now communicate online
Four Free Online OCR Tools Put to the Ultimate Test
The cult of memory: when history does more harm than good
Open Source Tools for working with Audio Visual files
Object Storage: an Innovative Approach to Active Archive
How did governments lose control of encryption?
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Open Access