Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
2016 at the National Library of Ireland
British Library – WAV Format Preservation Assessment
U.S. House of Representatives – Freedom of Information Act Is Broken: a Report
European Audiovisual Observatory – Online Copyright Enforcement: Policies and Mechanisms
Service interministériel des archives de France – Étude sur les sites Internet des services d’archives
Observatoire des pratiques : http://www.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/static/8831
Analyse approfondie : http://www.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/static/8830
Fiche stratégie web et organisation : http://www.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/static/8832
Fiche navigation et ergonomie : http://www.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/static/8833
Fiche ressources archivistiques : http://www.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/static/8834
Fiche fonctionnalités et services aux internautes : http://www.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/static/8835
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Historical Association – Letter Regarding Access to Information
Society of American Archivists – Issue Brief: Archivists and the Term of Copyright
Introduction to the Common Specification for Information Packages in the E-Ark Project (for Comment)
Communia – Leveraging Copyright in Support of Education
OCLC – If you Build it, will they Fund? Making Research Data Management Sustainable
Article – Time for a Single Global Copyright Framework for Libraries and Archives
The Archive as Dumpster
Publications
La Gazette des archives, no. 239 (2015)
Information Management, vol. 50, no. 1 (January-February 2016)
Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture, vol. 44, no. 4 (2015)
View: Journal of European Television History and Culture, vol. 4, no. 8, 2015 (Special Issue: Archive-Based Productions)
Tijdschrift voor tijdschriftstudies/Journal for the Study of Periodical Media, no. 38, 2015 (Special issue on the Dutch Digital Newspaper Archive Delpher and Historical Research)
San Jose State University School of Information Student Research Journal, vol. 5, no. 2 (2015)
Library and Archives Canada – Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World, vol. 5, no. 4 (January 2016)
Chroniques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, no. 75 (Janvier-Mars 2016)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 11 (December 2015)
Actes du congrès 2015 de l’Association des archivistes du Québec
Actes du congrès des milieux documentaires du Québec 2015
Saanich Archives (B.C.) News & Events (January 2016)
Association des archivistes français – Mes archives et moi (nouvelle version)
Mémoire – Guide de gestion des documents et des archives pour les personnes privées
Book – Digital Photo Magic: Easy Image Retouching and Restoration for Librarians, Archivists, and Teachers
Book – A New Companion to Digital Humanities
Book – Balkan Heritages: Negotiating History and Culture
Book – Data Protection on the Move: Current Developments in ICT and Privacy/Data Protection
Book – Digital Information Strategies: from Applications and Content to Libraries and People
Book – The Digital Revolution: how Connected Digital Innovations Are Transforming your Industry, Company & Career
Book – Digital Libraries: Providing Quality Information
Book – Big Data Fundamentals: Concepts, Drivers, and Techniques
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Exhibit – Conchies Speak: Ontario Mennonites in Alternative Service
January 4, 2016 – December 16, 2016, Waterloo (Mennonite Archives of Ontario)
Canadian Museum of History – How-to Webinar on Submitting Proposal for Community Memories Projects
January 20, 2015
Convergence: Information Professionals in Libraries and Archives
January 20, 2015, Vancouver
Signatures Series: Secrets of Canada’s Archives
January 25, 2015, Ottawa
Les données ouvertes : qu’est-ce que l’entreprise y gagne ?
27 janvier 2016, Montréal
http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/billets-les-donnees-ouvertes-quest-ce-que-lentreprise-y-gagne-20672760784
The 2016 Dalhousie Horrocks Lecture & Award Presentation (School of Information Management)
February 4, 2016, Halifax
Association of Canadian Archivists McGill Student Chapter Winter Colloquium
February 12, 2016, Montréal
Second Annual Big Data & Analytics Summit Canada
February 17-18, 2016, Toronto
Research Day 2016: Perspectives on Access to Information
March 11, 2016, Vancouver
Documents et ressources pour leur traitement : un couplage crucial
9 et 10 mai 2016, Montréal
2016 ARMA Canada Conference
June 13-15, 2016, Halifax
Online Course – Personal Digital Preservation
Webinar – Creating Content Intelligence: Harmonized Taxonomy & Metadata in the Enterprise Context
January 27, 2016
International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications
October 13-16, 2016, Copenhagen (Denmark)
Archival Seminar: Modern Diplomatics of the Holocaust
August 21-31, 2016, Berlin
Sur le web / On the web
Vidéo – Richard Provencher de la Bibliothèque et Archives Canada : le hockey en temps de guerre
Videos – 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage in Manitoba (Archives of Manitoba)
Baladodiffusion – Denyse Beaugrand-Champagne (BAnQ) : ces histoires fascinantes trouvées dans les archives
Collaborative European Digital Archives Infrastructure (CENDARI) Launched
Legislative Openness Data Explorer
Exactly: a New Tool for Digital File Acquisitions
Baladodiffusion – Silencieusement… dans les pas de Nicolas Frize aux Archives nationales de France
Video – Utah Open Records Portal Overview
Vidéo – À quoi rêvent les algorithmes: nos vies à l’heure des big data
Slidecast – Linked Data on the Ground
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canadian military investigating after hard drive found at recycling depot
Morale very poor at Shared Services Canada, say sources
Hardware issues stall effort to move federal workers to new email system
Five Things: Ideas for a Merged Ottawa Public Library and Library and Archives Canada
Interview with Guy Berthiaume – Should Library and Archives Canada and the Ottawa Public Library find a home together?
At least one – maybe both – LeBreton Flats proposals include library: sources
Library and Archives Canada – Unraveling a life: the power of private records
Opinion – Happy birthday Canada, here’s a portrait gallery
Federal Court Hears Copyright Case about Holocaust Story
The Pass System explores dark chapter in Canadian history
National Jewish Archives Renamed
Alberta environment department to remain under document shredding ban
100-year history of women’s voting rights put on display in Winnipeg
Crime organisé: des rapports d’enquête gardés secrets jusqu’en… 2092
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec et l’UQAM renouvellent leur entente de partenariat
Letters from Stalin’s daughter arrive at University of Toronto library
Les 50 ans de la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l’Université de Montréal
McMaster University – Freeze frames of Hamilton winters past
Oral History Provides Glimpse into Mind of Simon Fraser University’s First Chancellor Gordon Shrum
Dalhousie University – SSHRC Five‑Year Insight Grant Awarded to the EIUI (Environmental Information: Use and Influence) Research Team
University of British Columbia – Behind the Scenes: Digitizing the RCMP
The Top 8 Odd and Outstanding Artist’s Books in Ryerson University’s Special Collections
Dramatically Reducing an Archive’s Carbon Footprint by Working with the City (Toronto)
Vancouver Archives – New in the public domain 2016
Windsor Public Library’s automotive archives to open this month
Société d’histoire du Lac-Saint-Jean – Départ à la retraite pour l’historien et archiviste Gaston Martel
Centre d’archives du Musée de la Gaspésie – Numérisation des archives de la Compagnie Robin
Brandon (Manitoba) marks 100 years since deadly train crash
Association des archivistes du Québec – Vie d’archiviste : Linda Rivest, Société d’histoire de la Rivière-du-Nord
Colonial History in the Age of Digital Humanities
Getting into Gephi (with Canadian Letters and Images Project)
How does one decide where to belong? (on professional associations)
Afrique / Africa
Howard University Returns Ancient Manuscript to Ethiopia’s Debre Libanos Monastery
Amériques / Americas
Rescuing an Obscure Photographic Archive of Early 20th-Century Argentina
Peru – Untangling an Accounting Tool and an Ancient Incan Mystery
The Obama administration is quietly trying to make it harder to study public officials
House passes Freedom of Information Act reforms seeking to speed up, broaden process
Roberta I. Shaffer Named Law Librarian of Congress
Locating Congressional Documents: a Beginner’s Guide
Library of Congress – Papers of Virtuoso Violinist Roman Totenberg Now Online
NARA’s info security chief moves to the White House
NARA – Launch and Learn: our New History Hub Pilot Project
NARA – The Search for Hitler’s Political Testament, Personal Will, and Marriage Certificate, Part II
NARA – Film Preservation 101: why are old films sometimes pink?
Inventorying Software Developed at the National Library of Medicine: a National Digital Stewardship Resident Project Update
Society of American Archivists – Letter to Wisconsin Governor
Wisconsin’s Public Records Board scraps transitory records changes
Harvard – A playful turn for libraries: crowd of gamers helps expand access to handwritten documents
Harvard – Digitizing Native American petitions
Columbia University – A medical pop-up book from the 17th century
Université du Texas – Les célèbres hymnes du couronnement de 1727 par Handel pour le roi et la reine d’Angleterre reçoivent un traitement royal
Viewing Email through a New Lens: Screening, Managing, and Providing Access to Historical Email using ePADD
Digitization Stories #1: Historic State Codes at the University of Georgia
Penn Libraries’ OPenn Manuscript Portal to Host the Country’s Largest Regional Collections of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
LGBT history project inspires new online archive
The Internet Archive’s new project preserves political TV ads so journalists can see who’s lying
Why Rhizome’s $600,000 Mellon Grant is a Big Deal for Digital Preservation
Film preservationists are scrambling to save our analog past
The Custodians: how the Whitney is transforming the art of museum conservation
How Museums Are Helping People with Memory Loss
Inside the secretive subterranean facility where a $5 billion business stores the files of Fortune 1000 companies
Court Libraries Adapt to Deep Cuts, Changing Technology
Popularity of Netflix series overwhelms records custodian
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Government mulls expanded copyright safe harbour
Records management standards in Republic of Korea
South Korea opens presidential archives
Amendments to Taiwan’s Copyright Act; Playing CDs in Public might be Charged
Thousands of Hong Kong protesters gather to demand release of booksellers
WWII Tokyo Trials Database Launched for Chinese, International Researchers
India – National Archives gets rare edition of Shakespearean plays
India – Jammu and Kashmir archives denied record for past 6 decades
Pakistan – Ensuring transparency: civil society urges government pass Right to Information Bill
Europe / Europa
First concrete results on a Digitising European Industry action plan
Historical Archives of the European Union – The historical archives of European Spatial Data Research available for research
Building an open layer over all knowledge: Europeana joins Annotation Coalition
New edition of Mein Kampf set to land on German bestseller lists
What the diary of Anne Frank can tell us about Text and Data mining
Uploading of Anne Frank’s diary ruffles legal feathers
National Library of the Netherlands – From keyword search to concept mining: Keyword Generator as a tool for the study of historical news media
Czech Open Data Forum launches the Open Data Manifesto
La Roumanie créé le premier musée uniquement numérique
Norway – How a karma-seeking Redditor uncovered one of the world’s rarest atlases
Georgia – Thousands of historical volumes restored by National Archives
Belgique – Un permis de conduire pour la conservation numérique des documents
Belgique – Numérisation du patrimoine scientifique de l’Université libre de Bruxelles
Suisse – La Phonothèque nationale rejoint la Bibliothèque nationale
France – Les archives policières et judicaires du Régime de Vichy se dévoilent
France – Mémoire des Hommes : je, tu… ils indexent
France – Archives de Rennes : mémoire des attentats : le fonds Charlie est en ligne
Ireland – Why has it taken so long to recognise role of women in 1916?
The Victorian farmer who saw fairies, the clerk who thought he was being poisoned: archives from a Scottish asylum just released
UK Information Commissioner repeats call for stronger sentences for data thieves
UK National Archives – Help us improve the UK Government web archive
UK National Archives – Curation, collaboration and location: tracing Shakespeare through London
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/curation-collaboration-location-tracing-shakespeare-london/
Museum of Army Chaplaincy archive digitised & published online
Three million historic baptism, marriage and burial records for Northamptonshire go live online
Turner painting saved for the nation by property millionaire’s gift
Warwickshire – Archive of an Archivist
Big name writers join fight for legal right to libraries as campaign petitioning Government tops 7,000 signatures
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Egypt’s President Sisi Launches Biggest Digital Library in the World, Declares 2016 Year of Youth
Armenian National Archives to publish documents on estates of Armenian monasteries in Turkey
Turkey – Iconic library in Istanbul a treasure trove for history buffs with its Ottoman archival database
International
INA and UNESCO conclude agreement to safeguard, digitize and make accessible 70 hours of audiovisual programming
Reconstituer les objets anciens grâce à de nouvaux outils numériques
Historians as Futurists
Digitisation and the Question of Retouching
Four challenges to realistic records management
Librarians as Data Scientists, really?
Can voice recognition technology really identify a masked jihadi?
E-Discovery is not a Spectator Sport: New Survey Results for the Top 5 Most Controversial E-Discovery Issues
La grande illusion de l’ère numérique