Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Alberta Information and Privacy Commissioner – Alleged Improper Destruction of Records by Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development
France – Loi relative à la gratuité et aux modalités de la réutilisation des informations du secteur public
Ministère de la culture et de la communication (France) – Archives des monuments historiques dans les directions régionales des affaires culturelles
U.S. Office of Inspector General – Evaluation of the Department of State’s Freedom of Information Act Process for Requests Involving the Office of the Secretary
Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Report and Schedule: Veterans’ Affairs New Zealand (for Comment)
Library of Congress – BIBFRAME AV Assessment: Technical, Structural, and Preservation Metadata
De la communauté / From the community
Society of American Archivists – Case Study: Preserving Cham Manuscripts in Vietnam
Guidance for Implementing “Documented Information” Clause Using Processes and Controls of ISO 30301:2011 Management System for Records
JISC – How and why you should Manage your Research Data: a Guide for Researchers
Surveying the Open Data Landscape
The Conflict Antiquities Trade: a Historical Overview
Free eBook- FRBR Before and After: a Look at our Bibliographic Models
Free eBook – Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists
Publications
The American Archivist, vol. 78, no.2 (Fall/Winter 2015)
Information & Culture: a Journal of History, vol. 51, no. 1 (2016)
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 67, no. 1 (January 2016)
Revue électronique suisse de science de l’information, no. 16 (décembre 2015)
Colonnes: bulletin de liaison des centres d’archives d’architecture, no. 31 (2015)
Patrimoines, revue de l’Institut national du patrimoine, no. 11 (2015)
IFLA Metadata Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 2 (December 2015)
It’s about Time: the Newsletter of the Port Hope (Ont.) Archives (Winter 2016)
Association internationale des archives sonores et audiovisuelles – Recommandations pour la production et la conservation des objets audionumériques
Book – Post-Yugoslav Constellations: Archive, Memory, and Trauma in Contemporary Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian Literature and Culture
Book – Records Management (Tenth Edition)
Book – Management of Electronic and Digital Media (Sixth Edition)
Book – Online GIS and Spatial Metadata (Second Edition)
Book – Getting Started with Data Science: Making Sense of Data with Analytics
Book – Colonial Heritage, Memory and Sustainability in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities and Prospects
Book – Town & Crown: an Illustrated History of Canada’s Capital
Livre – Patrimoine littéraire en ligne: la renaissance du lecteur?
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Truth, Lies, and Manufacturing Memory
October 28-29, 2016, Toronto
Online Course – How to Tell a File’s Format: Five Open Source Tools
ARMA International Virtual Conference
January 12, 2016
Free Online Course – Digital Curation: an Introduction
Starting January 17, 2016
Massive Open Online Course – Behind the Scenes at the 21st Century Museum
Starting January 18, 2016
Massive Open Online Course – Engaging Citizens: a Game Changer for Development?
February 1 – March 7, 2016
Second European Association for the Digital Humanities Symposium
March 7-12, 2016, University of Leipzig (Germany)
Standing on the Digits of Giants: Research Data, Preservation and Innovation
March 8, 2016, London (UK)
Re:Humanities 2016: Bleeding Edge to Cutting Edge
March 31-April 1, 2016, Bryn Mawr College (Pennsylvania)
Archives Matter Conference 2016: Queer, Feminist and Decolonial Encounters
June 3, 2016, London (UK)
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Video – Wallot-Sylvestre Seminar: Libraries, Books, and the Digital Future
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Shot Stone: Curling in Canada
Join the Conversation: New Canadian Library and Information Management Discussion List and Facebook Page
International Council on Archives – World-Wide Directory of Repositories Holding Artistic & Literary Archives
Le journal d’Anne Frank est un cadeau
Texas State Library and Archives Video – Why is 75 Years such a Common Retention Period? who Decided?
Getty Institute – Digitizing Photography Incunabula
Podcast – Will Future Historians Consider these Days the Digital Dark Ages?
Podcast – Rare Books Uncovered
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Law and information groups challenge far reaching retroactive Conservative law
La destruction du registre des armes à feu en cour
Chrétien’s nemesis is back and that’s good for access to information
Copyright term extension in Trans-Pacific Partnership restricts access, costs consumers
Public Domain Day outside the USA: what Canada and the rest of the world get
My Estimate of when your Canadian Expeditionary Forces Service File will be Digitized
Library and Archives Canada – Hockey Marching as to War: the 228th Battalion
Canadian Librarians Track Down Fugitive Federal Government Documents
Alberta – The legislature library: books and documents plus a hamburger, tin of caviar and bag of dirt
Royal BC Museum launches program to encourage handwritten letters
Samuel Holland’s historic map of Prince Edward Island returning to U.K.
Québec – La cassette du discours de Jacques Parizeau sera remise aux Archives nationales
BAnQ Gaspé : l’histoire au bout des doigts
Them Days (Labrador) – Introducing the New Project Researcher
Long-lost concerto found deep in University of Toronto basement archives
University of Toronto iSchool Introduces New Co-op Program
University of Toronto – SSHRC Supports iSchool Doctoral Research
University of Waterloo Special Collections & Archives – Red Riding Hood
Compute Canada Grant: Web Archives for Longitudinal Knowledge
Canadian university libraries threatened by soaring academic publisher prices
Transforming Ottawa: a look back to Ottawa’s future
As historically accurate as possible: Vancouver man hooked on Lego megaprojects
10 Vancouver photos from the 80’s… the 1880’s
Old Skating Photographs from Toronto
Belleville (Ont.) – Community Archives on the move
Prince Albert (Saskatchewan) – A historical treasure trove
Lake Country Museum and Archives (B.C.) – Mystery curlers: can you identify these men from 1918?
Vernon (B.C.) man trying to reunite mysterious keepsake box with rightful owners over the holidays
Thunder Bay Public Library offers 3D printing services
Hidden Messages and Code Words: Bill Alldritt’s Letters as a Prisoner in First World War Germany
Job openings and job seekers/grads in Canadian libraries
Amériques / Americas
Argentina – Administration gets ready to shake up National Archive of Memory
Watchdog: State Department archiving issues go beyond Hillary Clinton’s emails
ARMA Recommends Federal Information Governance Rules Changes
Library of Congress – APIs: How Machines Share and Expose Digital Collections
NARA – The Search for Hitler’s Political Testament, Personal Will, and Marriage Certificate, Part I
Digital Copyright Reaches the Supreme Court (Perhaps)
Smithsonian Institution Archives – Word-processing files need love, too
Guard sues because federal inmate mistakenly gets his personnel information
Public Records Request on Rhode Island Truck Tolls Yields 1882 Maps of Providence
Harvard’s Find of a Colonial Map of New Jersey Is a Reminder of Border Wars
University of Texas Harry Ransom Center Receives Grant to Digitize Gabriel García Márquez Archive
University of California at Los Angeles prof helps capture immigrants’ accounts of their first days in America
North Carolina State University Libraries – Let the Bits Describe Themselves
Florida State University Libraries Special Collections – Accessioning a Rare Book Collection : Part II
The Newberry to Digitize 30,000 Pamphlets Documenting the French Revolution
Alaska – 40-year Baranov archivist retires
How do we save the Internet for history? This group is trying
New York City – Mayor Bill De Blasio aims to digitize old city records
New York City Faces a Daunting Records Management Initiative
New York Public Library Invites a Deep Digital Dive
New York Public Library’s Erotica Collection
How Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s words were freed from old floppy disks
Digital Stewardship in a Radio Archive: an National Digital Stewardship Resident Project Update
Digital Archive Launched Today, Chronicles 100 Years of Aerospace Achievements
FilmToaster: acclaimed Orangeburg photographer invents tool to preserve negatives
Hearing Voices: Librarian-Produced Podcasts
The Cat Photographer Totally Earned his Title
Macaque monkey who took selfies can’t be declared copyright owner of photos: judge
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – 1990s secrets revealed as cabinet documents released
Files in the National Archives of Australia withheld from public access in 2015
Chinese treasures on display in Canberra as part of first collaboration between national libraries of Australia and China
Library of Australian science and Fenner Archive closed
State Archives of New South Wales (Australia) – Decommissioning and digital archives: different models
University of Tasmania – Dennison Collection offers unrivalled pictorial insight into the development of Tasmania
New Zealand – WW1 project seeks citizen historians
Photos capture political upheaval in Korea
India – Mumbai’s slum museum now joins world’s most unusual exhibit archives
Europe / Europa
Europeana – E-Space Photography pilot: citizens love to share their memories
French academic defies Anne Frank Fund, publishes diaries online
National Library of the Netherlands – And now… the results of our Researcher-in-residence Call for Proposal
Rare Color Photos Reveal Germany in 1900 Before it Was Destroyed by Wars
How Germany’s love of silence led to the first earplug
Bulgaria Publishes Information on Former State Security Agents in Open Data
Portuguese Web Archives – We archived the Web pages of the Portuguese Parliamentary Elections of 2015
Italy Says it Will Spend More than $300 Million on Cultural Projects
Sophisticated art thieves network operating at Rome airport uncovered
Italie – La super-bibliothécaire de Catane
Italian Diary Archive Rewrites History from the Bottom up through a Personal Story Commons
Suisse – 25 ans des Archives littéraires : sous le signe des avant-gardes
France – Archives LGBT : comment les Archives nationales participent-elles à leur sauvegarde ?
France – Un premier docteur ès archives
Attentats : le Fonds Charlie, collecté par les archives municipales de Toulouse, est en ligne
À Quimper, la première bibliothèque diocésaine numérique de France
Le professeur-documentaliste : qu’est-ce que c’est?
Ireland – Declassified files: Dozens to remain closed for decades
Declassified files: British files being released much faster than those in Dublin
Ireland – Setting the bounds of the nation from the archives
Scottish Cabinet Papers from the Year 2000 Opened to the Public
Declassified records reveal Scottish executive’s early days
£200k saves Scots author Muriel Spark’s papers for nation
Scotland – Sherlock Holmes mystery cracked by Royal Botanic archives
Secrets censored for 30 years reveal dark history of UK terrorism
UK – Red tape and a three year Freedom of Information battle with Cabinet Office
Information managers lose a decade to track down papers for public release
New executive directors appointed to the UK National Archives
British Library – Bald’s Leechbook now Online
CSI Medieval: researchers to uncover forensic secrets of Britain’s historic wax seals
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Qatar – Digitising thousands of rare historical documents
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/news/qatar/364840/digitising-thousands-of-rare-historical-documents
Iran – Qajar documents kept at Munich State Archives
Egypt to restore its historical National Archives building
Who should keep Iraqi Jewry’s archives, saved from Saddam, now on tour in US?
The National Library of Israel Presents: 10 Things we Did in 2015
Breaking the Silence: former Israeli soldier branded a traitor for asking troops to tell their West Bank stories
Europeana – Get ready to discover sounds of Turkish culture and daily life in Istanbul
Turkey – Ottomans’ archive keep documents covering Armenians’ crimes against Muslims in Ganja
International
International Council on Archives – Invitation to Apply for Bursaries for the Seoul Congress September 2016
IFLA – On the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attack dissenting voices must be protected
The NATO Archives commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Agreement and the IFOR peacekeeping mission
W3C – A Metadata Standard as a Base for Universal Images
OCLC signs agreements with leading publishers worldwide
The United Nations library announced its most-checked-out book of 2015. It’s kind of disturbing.
Special Report: Digital Humanities in Libraries
La valorisation à travers Wikipédia
L’archiviste vs #lesgens
On Interesting Archives Online, or “They Save that? Huh”
The disappearing archive
Archive-it – State of the WARC: our Digital Preservation Survey Results
Archiving is evolving: here are the functionalities every enterprise should have
Lensless cameras and HDR sensors: computational photography may change everything
Information governance in 2015: did we learn anything?
Expectations for 2016: a year of cloud challenges
The e-book Industry is in a State of Decline: 2015 Year in Review
Top 20 most-edited pages on Wikipedia in 2015
The triumph of email: why does one of the world’s most reviled technologies keep winning?
Education on copyright is insufficient: interview with a teacher
Why Are Digital-Privacy Apps so Hard to Use?
Heat-Resistant Ceramic Parts Are Now 3-D Printable
L’économie collaborative accroît les inégalités patrimoniales