Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Archives of Ontario – Recordkeeping Amendments to FIPPA and MFIPPA Information Sheet
France – Arrêté du 24 décembre 2015 portant ouverture d’archives relatives à la Seconde Guerre mondiale
U.S. Copyright Office – Digital Millennium Copyright Act Study (for Comments)
U.S. Copyright Office – Impact and Effectiveness of Digital Millennium Copyright Act Safe Harbor Provisions Study (for Comments)
National Diet Library (Japan) – Lessons Learned from Twelve Years’ Operation of the Web ARchiving Project (WARP)
Public Record Office Victoria – Retention and Disposal Authority for Records of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (for Feedback)
European Union Agency for Network and Information Security – Privacy by Design in Big Data: an Overview of Privacy Enhancing Technologies in the Era of Big Data Analytics
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology – Attribute Metadata and Confidence Scoring (Draft)
De la communauté / From the community
Article – An Approach to Document Fingerprinting
Article – Bibliothèques numériques et gamification : panorama et état de l’art
Publications
Journal of the Japan Society for Archival Science, no. 23 (December 2015)
Digital Humanities Quartely, vol. 9, no. 3 (2015)
Information Research: an International Electronic Journal, vol. 20, no. 4 (December 2015)
The Journal of Electronic Publishing, vol. 18, no. 4 (2015)
ISO 11799:2015 – Information and Documentation – Document Storage Requirements for Archive and Library Materials
Book – Digitizing Flat Media: Principles and Practices
Book – Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users
Book – The Boy who could Change the World: the Writings of Aaron Swartz
Book – The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century: Contesting/Contested Memories
Book – Shadows of Trauma: Memory and the Politics of Postwar Identity
Book – Not Free, Not for All: Public Libraries in the Age of Jim Crow
Book – Information and Data Literacy: the Role of the Library
Book – Digital Information Strategies: from Applications and Content to Libraries and People
Book – Patterns of Commoning
Livre – La Guinée équatoriale aux Archives nationales (XVIIIe – début XXe siècles)
Livre – L’édition photographique belge au 19e siècle : bibliographie et recensement
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage in Manitoba
January 9, 2016, Winnipeg (Archives of Manitoba)
Information & Records Management Society Conference 2016
15-17 May, 2016, Brighton (UK)
Eleventh International Conference on Open Repositories 2016
June 13-16, 2016, Dublin (Ireland)
Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2016
June 19-23, 2016, Newark (New Jersey)
The Ghetto of Venice: the Future of Memory in the Digital Age
June 28 – July 5, 2016, University of California (Santa Cruz)
The Digital Print: Contemporary Practice, Identification, and Preservation
July 25-29, 2016, Malibu (U.S.)
Sur le web / On the web
Video – International Council on Archives Wishes for 2016
Archives nationales de France – Voeux 2016
Vidéo – Les archives départementales du Nord, lieu d’histoire
Research Survey on Social Metadata and User Contributed Content in Memory Institutions
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
The painful journey to the heart of residential school history
Editorial – Let the sun shine on government information
The Letters of the Law: 2015 in Technology Law and Policy
Library and Archives Canada – Top three genealogy questions
Ontario – New fine for destruction of government records
Archives of Manitoba – Counting Down to the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage: the Political Equality League Presents a Petition of Almost 40,000 Signatures to the Executive Council
Algoma University ordered to cut grossly overestimated access to information fees
Boxes marked “Destruction after the Charbonneau Commission” intrigued Montreal Gazette reporter
http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/boxes-marked-destruction-after-the-charbonneau-commission
Battle of St-Lawrence shipwrecks found off Gaspé coast with help of fisherman
Toronto – Progress on heritage preservation is slow
Underground history: a look at Saskatoon’s streetcars
Vancouver in 1916: 100 Years Ago in Vancouver
Prince George (B.C.) – Citizen’s historical record nearly complete
Record Keeping: Document Retention Recommendations for Building Professionals
Association des archivistes du Québec – Bonne année!, spécial archives
Afrique / Africa
Khoya: les archives sonores du Maroc juif
Côte d’Ivoire – Construction bientôt de la bibliothèque de la renaissance africaine d’Abidjan
As ISIS Destroys African Antiquities, the Struggle to Preserve the Heritage of Black People Continues
Amériques / Americas
More than 190 million US voters might have had their personal data exposed
Cold War-era nuclear targets list revealed by National Archives
Will 2016 be the year the government gets email under control?
Georgia State Archives thriving under new management
North Carolina State Archives seeks military items, including personal letters, copies of social media posts
Harvard – Study of African trees goes public: researchers seek help digitizing decades-old observations
Osher Map Library at University of Southern Maine digitizes its rare globe collection
Louisiana – Evangeline League archives provide glimpse of past
How Museum of Modern Art Changed the Field of Film Preservation
New York City strives to add accountability to open data policy
New Digital History Portal for Washington, D.C.
Awkward Santa pictures from the ’50s, ’60s on display in Portland, Oregon
Archivist of the Korean American experience says goodbye to print
Coca Cola : un patrimoine au service de la marque
Retro-tech: 2015 was an astounding year for one cassette tape factory
In the age of Amazon, used bookstores are making an unlikely comeback
Rare 16th Century Babylonian Talmud Breaks Auction Record, Selling for $9.3 Million
Late teacher’s heirs sue producers of the Big Bang Theory, alleging copyright infringement
Then as now: a tale of statelessness from 70 years ago
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Government adds fair use, safe harbour provisions to Copyright Act
Australia – National Archives to put nation’s founding document, Constitution Act, on show
Australia – Bigamy, madness and murder: withheld Victorian archives opened to public after 75 years
Australia – Archive documents reveal Queensland’s 1985 SEQEB dispute
Records management refresher: make sure you’re not a paper dinosaur or a digital disaster
Taiwan – Ministry of Foreign Affair’s papers end up at China auction
Japan – Yasukuni archives shed light on relatives’ final moments
Stranglehold on music copyrights is loosening in Japan
National Archives of Korea Recognizes Independence Movement Documents
Top court rules copyright of Japanese character protected in South Korea
Analysis of North Korea’s computer system reveals spy files
India – Ministry of Women and Child Development launches e-office, 12,000 files digitised
India – No expert to translate 162-yr-old German book
Europe / Europa
2015: Top 20 Searches on Europeana
Hitler’s Mein Kampf hits German market for first time since Nazi leader’s death
Anne Frank foundation fights plans to publish diary online on 1 January
La lettre de l’avocat du fonds Anne Frank
Ma réponse à l’avocat du fonds Anne Frank
Russian court compels Google to pay penalty for reading private e-mails
France opens access to Nazi collaboration-era archives
Quatre questions sur l’ouverture au public des archives du régime de Vichy
Que va changer l’ouverture des archives de Vichy ?
France – En ouvrant les archives publiques et privées de Jacques Chirac
France – L’open data entre dans le code de la santé publique
Ireland – National Archives afford fascinating glimpse into events of 30 years ago
Campaign to protect Freedom of Information Act boosted as UK’s top civil servant opposes tough new rules
Whitehall’s culture of secrecy is dismantling freedom of information
Government seeks ideas from public and industry for the next stage in UK’s digital revolution
UK Home Secretary Wants Everyone’s Metadata; but if you Ask for hers, Government Says you’re Being Vexatious
UK National Archives – Newly released files from 1986-1988
Revealed: Thatcher’s mystery gems, Reagan’s reading and moon dust
Secrecy row as Whitehall refuses to release Cabinet files in full for first time in 50 years
British Library – Christmas Eve Shepherds’ Party
British Library to put very big royal atlas online: project reveals madness of King George III for his map collection
British Library – The wet, wild forest: Rudyard Kipling’s Just so stories in manuscript and print
Records and information management merger faces in-depth investigation
Familes of WWII veterans to hear messages home for first time in 70 years
A Digital Re-creation of a Lost 18th-Century Shakespeare Museum
Camden – Historian backs calls to save archives from £800k cuts
This factory is leading London’s vinyl revival
My grandmother unlocked my family history and showed me who I am
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel State Archives – Villa Moeller in Vienna: Solving a Historical Puzzle
Facebook users solve mystery of ancient relic unearthed in Jerusalem
Egypt’s Jewish literary heritage in danger of being forgotten
Former Israeli ambassador claims rights to Cairo’s Jewish manuscripts
International
DOTS: Long-Term, Human-Readable Archival Data Storage
Buckle your Seats Belts. 2016 is the Year of Awesome Analytics
The weird and wacky of 2015: strange security and privacy stories
Cloud, Data Security Remain Top Concerns Heading Into 2016
Email Records Management: Part 1: the Truth
Five Best OCR Software and tools to convert from picture to text
Every Industry will Be Disrupted by Open Data within 10 Years
Marginalia and its Disruptions
Editorial: Wikipedia fails as an encyclopedia, to science’s detriment
Où est passée la connaissance sur la photographie ?
La destruction de livres, un mémoricide continuel
Why so Many Organizations Struggle with Data Management
Twitter to revive Politwoops, archive of politicians’ deleted tweets
W3C wants to standardise music notation in your Web browser