Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
British Columbia – Privacy Management and Accountability Policy
UK National Archives – The Digital Landscape in Government 2014-2015
UK National Archives – The Application of Technology Assisted Review to Born-digital Records Transfer, Inquiries and Beyond
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision – Digital Preservation Sound and Vision: Policy, Standards and Procedures
NARA – General Records Schedules (now Available in CSV Format)
NARA – Coloring Book of Patents 2016
Ireland Data Protection Commissioner – Data Sharing in the Public Sector (Updated Version)
De la communauté / From the community
Information and Records Management Society – New Records Management Toolkit for Schools
Filling the Digital Preservation Gap: a Jisc Research Data Spring Project Phase Two Report
Interface Specification: RDF Representation
The Current State of Software Preservation
Publications
Records Management Journal, vol. 26, no. 1 (2016)
Liber Quarterly: the Journal of the Association of Research Libraries, vol. 25, no. 3 (2016)
Interactions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, vol. 12, no. 1, 2016 (Special Issue on Gender in Education and Information Studies)
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, vol. 53, no. 1 (2015)
Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law, vol. 10, no. 4 (2015)
Book – Digitizing your Collection: Public Library Success Stories
Book – Tracing your Ancestors through Local History Records
Book – Research Methods for Reading Digital Data in the Digital Humanities
Book – Quality and the Academic Library: Reviewing, Assessing and Enhancing Service Provision
Book – Practical Tips for Facilitating Research
Book – Library Volunteers Welcome: Strategies for Attracting, Retaining and Making the Most of Willing Helpers
Book – Heritage, Democracy and the Public: Nordic Approaches
Book – Bone Rooms: from Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums
Livre – Digital stories : arts, design et cultures transmédia
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
University of Saskatchewan Archives & Special Collections – Exhibit: 60 Years of Educational Publishing in Saskatchewan
February 1 – April , 2016, Saskatoon
Archives and Privacy: Tension and Synergies
February 25, 2016, Toronto
Ontario Women’s Activism at the Archives
February 25, 2016, Archives of Ontario
Symposium: Medieval Manuscripts in Canada
March 18, 2016, Victoria
Ottawa Gene-O-Rama
April 1-2, 2016, Ottawa
Image/Interface Symposium
May 13-14, 2016, Toronto
Catholic Archivist Group Annual Conference
May 16-19, 2016, Halifax
Un projet de prototype pour la visualisation en graphe de métadonnées archivistiques
15 février 2015, Paris
Cours en ligne massif et ouvert – Web sémantique et web de données
7 mars au 1er mai 2016
Webinar – Becoming a Data-driven Organization: Aligning Business & Data Strategy
March 23, 2016
International Council on Archives Section on Business Archives 2016 Conference
April 4-5 2016, Atlanta (United States)
Pérenniser l’éphémère : archivage et médias sociaux
9 et 10 mai 2016, Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique)
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives 47th Annual Conference
September 24-29, 2016, Washington D.C.
Archives et bibliothèques à l’ère des humanités numériques
19 et 20 Octobre 2016, Tunis
Webinar – How Global Records Management Practices and Standards Are Evolving for Business (Recording now Available)
February 5, 2016
Sur le web / On the web
New Blog – Information Commissioner of Canada
Podcast – Shakespeare 400th: Rare Books Exhibit in Toronto
Archives de l’État en Belgique – Vidéo: Projet Jusinbellgium (sur les crimes de guerre)
Video – Rosa Parks Collection: Telling her Story at the Library of Congress
Video – Emulation and Virtualization as Preservation Strategies
Video – Fort Hare University (South Africa) on a Digitisation Drive of their Archives
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Open government push requires cultural shift in public service, federal documents warn
Open government at a crossroad: Canada needs better funding and access to information reform
Federal privacy watchdog wants info on agency tracking peaceful protests
Identifying the Implications of the Schrems Decision in Canada: Connecting the Dots on Data Transfers between Canada, the EU and the U.S.
Library and Archives Canada – The Persons Case, 1929
Ottawa urged to boost museum funding to restore aging buildings
Annual Archives Week in Saskatchewan reminder history is important
Saskatchewan – Celebration of Archives Week with Launch of New Video Commemorating First World War
Saskatoon archivist Jeff O’Brien: the importance of archives in day-to-day life
Nova Scotia launches open data portal
Growth by discovery: using Nova Scotia’s open data
Expansion to Yukon Archives vault announced
Yukon Archives opens doors to public with Archives à la Carte
Ontario Information watchdog reminds politicians about email transparency rules
Faire du Québec le champion des mégadonnées
The Future of Public History Programs in Canada
Archival Literacy and the Role of Universities in Archival Instruction
University of Saskatchewan embraces new partnership with National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
Ryerson University – Special Collections: Celebrating 10 Years
University of Toronto – Dr. Ursula Franklin’s archival papers now open to researchers
University of Waterloo – Professor Ian Milligan Awarded the CSDH/SCHN 2016 Outstanding Early Career Award
University of Alberta student paper going digital
Ottawa’s central library project is not in good hands
Toronto Public Library home to long forgotten Valentine’s Day postcards
Winnipeg – City’s indigenous file needs more work
B.C. – Delving into Coquitlam’s rich history
Smiths Falls (Ont.) – Archival coordinator helps town museum get ready for anniversary, Canada 150
Centre d’archives régional des Îles de la Madeleine – Capsule de conservation : photographies
Archives Bois-Francs voit le jour
Les Jardins de Métis mettent en valeur leurs archives
Ghomeshi e-mails reveal growing legal importance of digital debri
Afrique / Africa
Mali – Timbuktu: 900-year-old ceremony re-consecrates mausoleums destroyed by armed groups
Togo – Vers la bonne gestion des patrimoines documentaires
Togo – Les archives, un trésor à préserver
Vie d’archiviste : Adama Aly, Banque Centrale des États de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (Sénégal)
Amériques / Americas
White House – Open Data: Empowering Americans to Make Data-Driven Decisions
Classified Information Found in Personal Emails of Colin Powell, Aides to Condoleezza Rice
Feds fight disclosure of Hillary Clinton Whitewater indictment drafts
What the government is still hiding about the JFK assassination
CIA now posting its historic X-Files reports online
Keeping Our Tools Sharp: Approaching the Annual Review of the Library of Congress Recommended Formats Statement
NARA – When a Workprint is the Only Print
Texas State Library and Archives – FAQ: what’s the Deal with Social Media?
Lansing man donates rare slavery document to Michigan Archives
The Washington State Library illuminates rural digital collections with visual mapping
In Orwellian move, North Carolina State Archives blocks access to death penalty photo
University of Texas – Alumna to Create Comprehensive Archive of the Black Diaspora
University of Texas – Harry Ransom Center’s world-renowned photography collection energized by new acquisitions
University of Michigan Acquires Archive of Filmmaker Nancy Savoca
Princeton University – Ensuring Born-Digital Access at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
Columbia University – The Art of Repairing and Digitizing a 400-year-old 3D Book
The University of Virginia-led APTrust is a coalition of 17 universities committed to preserving and protecting a diverse digital record
University of California, Irvine – Born-Digital and in the Virtual Reading Room
Digitizing an oversize poster collection: institutional Scanning at Yeshiva University
Los Angeles and Esri Launch New Open Data Platform
Warner settles Happy Birthday copyright suit for $14 million
Online legal publishers squabble over the right to copyright the law
Salem Witch Trial Judge’s Psalm Book Brings $221k at Swann
Getting Medieval with Big Data: David J. Herlihy (1930-1991), the first digital historian
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
War veterans are up in arms about a plan to destroy records and case files held by Archives New Zealand
New Zealand – Public Records are a matter of Public Record
New South Wales State Records (Australia) – Records and information management FAQs: what to do with removable media after records are captured into corporate systems
No More Gatekeepers! Social media engagement breaks down barriers within the archival sector
Japan gets serious about cybersecurity as Olympics approach
Building Digital Libraries in Mongolia
India – Official Secrets Act: panel seeks to ease criteria for classifying info
Europe / Europa
Europe’s top court mulls legality of hyperlinks to copyrighted content
European Union Commission and United States agree on new framework for transatlantic data flows: EU-US Privacy Shield
Transcriptorium: the Journey to a Crowdsourcing Platform
Nobody Knew these Horrifying Color Photographs of the Lodz Ghetto (Poland) Existed
Wikimedia Foundation removes the Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law requirements
Netherlands – Download Hundreds of Van Gogh Paintings, Sketches & Letters in High Resolution
Spanish government using courts to avoid freedom of information requests
Portuguese Web Archive – The Case for the Preservation of Research & Development Project Websites
Ancient Greek manuscripts reveal life lessons from the Roman empire
Vatican invites Turkish researchers to its archive
Switzerland – The treasured Montreux Jazz Festival archive is now online
Suisse – Création, semis et palabres: un projet d’archivage de création artistique en danse
France – Patrimoine écrit : comment l’État enrichit les collections publiques
Les Archives Nationales de Paris, le lieu qui garde l’histoire
France – Effets de manche et fait d’archives : des lycéens de Vernon dans la peau d’un avocat
Les archives sont une source essentielle dans la restauration de vêtements de Haute Couture
Bilketa, a new online resource for Basque collections
Ireland – National Archives permits us to learn from mistakes
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh – Completed online archives catalogue of 30,000 historical medical records
Digital Past 2016: Cynefin Is an Innovative Project To Digitise all the Tithe Maps of Wales
Thousand year old tradition of printing Britain’s laws on vellum has been scrapped to save just £80,000
UK launches digitisation programme of Indian manuscripts
British Museum – A medieval alchemical book reveals new secrets
London School of Economics releases Ambedkar archives
British Deaf Association film archive includes rare footage of 1930s Yorkshire vs Lancashire match
Historical archive of Berrow’s Worcester Journal is in safe hands
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – UNESCO recognizes Newton’s theological manuscripts as Memory of the World
Aleppo Codex named world treasure by UNESCO
National Library of Israel – 30 Years to Nathan Sharansky’s Release: Saving a Little Book of Tehilim
Saving Yemen’s heritage, heart and soul of classical Islamic tradition
Can Yemen’s Unparalleled Collection of Manuscripts be Saved?
The Dubai Digital Library aims to preserve national heritage, culture and identity: here’s how
These Rebels Have Amassed a Library from Syria’s Ruins
Turkey – Istanbul Memories displayed in personal archive
International
The Scientists who Are Deciphering Unreadable Ancient Texts
What Is the Future of the Photo Archive?
Historic Photographic Processes in a Nutshell
Can web tools tell you if a photo is fake?
The Rarefied World of Rare Book Collecting Is Not a Dying Art
How the Phonograph Changed Music Forever
Getting started with linked data
TIFF compression? Use discretion
World’s First Online Auction Platform for After-Sales Debuts
Yahoo Has Decided to Scale Down Flickr
The challenge of saving lives with big data