Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Canada – Mid-term Self-Assessment on Open Government Action Plan 2014-2016 (for Comment)
Fees for Electronic Records as per Information Commissioner of Canada v. Attorney General of Canada
Archives de France – Standard d’échange de données pour l’archivage (SEDA) 2.0
Australia Copyright Council – Exposure Draft of Copyright Act Amendment Bill
UK Economic and Social Research Council – Big Data: Public Views on the Use of Private Sector Data for Social Research
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Library Association – Toward a Federation of Library Associations in Canada: Strengthening the National Voice for Canadian libraries Final Proposal
Table permanente de concertation des bibliothèques québécoises – Déclaration des bibliothèques québécoises
IFLA Annual Report 2014
American Library Association – After Access: Libraries & Digital Empowerment: Building Digitally Inclusive Communities
Association of Research Libraries – Pilot Library Liaison Institute (Final Report)
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Generating RDF from Tabular Data on the Web
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Generating JSON from Tabular Data on the Web
ENSSIB – Fiche pratique: Comprendre le modèle FRBR et ses extensions
Publications
Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 43, no. 3 (2015)
Practical Technology for Archives, no. 5 (December 2015)
New Review of Information Networking, vol. 20, no. 1-2, 2015 (Special Issue: Shaping our Legacy: Preserving the Social and Cultural Record)
Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, vol. 11, no. 3, 2015 (Special Issue: Geospatial Data Management, Curation, and Preservation, Part 2)
Scripted: a Journal of Law, Technology and Society, vol. 12, no. 2 (2015)
Revue fribourgeoise de jurisprudence, 2015 (numéro spécial: de la justice aux archives)
I2D : Information, données & documents, no. 4, 2015 (dossier : les services d’information au prisme de la valeur)
The Halcyon: the Newsletter of the Friends of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto), no. 56 (December 2015)
Book – Landmark Essays on Archival Research
Book – Using Non-Textual Sources: a Historian’s Guide
Book – Micromuseology: an Analysis of Small Independent Museums
Book – Photography and Place: Seeing and Not Seeing Germany After 1945
Book – Operating System Forensics
Book – The Inquiring Organization: how Organizations Acquire Knowledge and Seek Information
Book – The Great War Illustrated 1915: Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI
Livre – Maudite soit la guerre : écrits censurés d’un journaliste dans les tranchées
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Carleton University’s Ugandan Asian Archives Road Show
January 23, 2016, Toronto
Data Journalism Ethics and Pitfalls
February 17, 2016, Toronto
Transformation Digital Art: International Symposium on the Preservation of Born-digital Art
February 18-19, 2016, Amsterdam
International Council on Archives Section on Business Archives Conference
April 4-5 2016, Atlanta
Archiving 2016
April 19-22, 2016, Washington D.C.
Values in Transition: Perspectives on the Future of the Archival Profession
June 15-17, 2016, Haarlem (Netherlands)
Historical Memory and the Preservation of the Past in the Early Modern Period
October 28-29, 2016, State College (Pennsylvania)
Canada School of Public Service Webcast – The Three R’s of Copyright: Rights, Risks and Responsibilities (Recording Available)
December 18, 2015
Sur le web / On the web
Surrey Archives (B.C.) Video – Growing up in Surrey: 100 Years of History
UK National Archives – First World War Hospital Diaries now Online
National Library of Scotland Video – The Story of our Year: 2015
Library of Congress Video – Teacher Resource: Inquiry & Primary Sources Overview
Video – Recalibrating Access, Security , Privacy and Innovation
UK National Archives Podcast – Using the 1939 Register: Recording the UK Population Before the War
GLAM Survey of Rights in Literary Collections
VeraPDF 0.8 Released
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Improving public access to information will make government better, Trudeau says
Teaching Open Data
Shared Services Canada struggles to win friends
Could the idea of a National Portrait Gallery be resurrected?
Library and Archives Canada – Shaughnessy Hospital: dedication and innovation in war and peace
Canadian Library Association (CLA) Announces Special General Meeting for its Dissolution
CLA Responds to Good e-Reader article entitled the Canadian Library Association wants to Disband
Canadian Research Knowledge Network Receives Funding from the Library and Archives Canada Documentary Heritage Communities Program
Smyth: B.C. government unlikely to clean up its act in wake of document-destruction scandal
Archives of Manitoba – Christmas in the Wards
University of Toronto – IXmaps illustrates how your local data travels through the NSA’s jurisdiction
Dalhousie University Archives adds almost 70,000 records to the Archives Catalogue and Online Collections
Flamborough (Ont.) Archives excited about new home at Waterdown library
South Peace Regional Archives (Alb.) – 1955 County of Grande Prairie Map
Fort Whoop-up historical society (Alb.) pulls 10,000 artifacts in battle with city
Sudbury column: Royal visit as a home movie
Archivist Interview: Meet Kyle Neill, Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (Ont.)
E-book sales plateau while print books hold place in readers’ hearts
The community based archive as a tool for activism
Association des archivistes du Québec – Noël d’antan, spécial archives
Afrique / Africa
Catholic monks in Minnesota are helping to save a trove of Islamic treasures in Mali
Mali – 1384 jours : un projet d’archives photographiques à Bamako
Bénin – La Direction des archives nationales ouvre ses portes au public
Sénégal – Dakar : la déchéance des archives de justice
Tunisie – Abdelwahab Abdallah et Mongi Safra démentent avoir touché aux archives présidentielles
Liban – Les archives culturelles en voie d’être sauvées ?
Amériques / Americas
Argentina – Alberto Manguel to lead National Library
Brazil – Fire Destroys Museum of the Portuguese Language
Library of Congress to Receive 9/11-Responder Oral History Collection
Plans for Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Move Forward
NARA – Christmas on Base: 13 Images of our Soldiers at Christmas
Documents show FBI fielding escape rumors after Hitler’s death
Pete Seeger’s FBI File Reveals How the Folk Legend First Became a Target of the Feds
Do Changes to Wisconsin Records Retention Policies Violate State’s Open Meetings Law?
Plans for Assessing Preservation Storage Options and Lifecycles at MIT Libraries: a National Digital Stewardship Resident Project Update
University of California Berkeley to open $112 million art museum, film archive and events space
Virtual Footlocker Project (Developing an Application for Capturing and Preserving the Personal Records of the Modern Soldier)
Blessed is the Generation: the Launch of the American Jewish Peace Archive
Authenticity Amidst Change: the Preservation and Access Framework for Digital Art Objects
Unknown Cache of Letters Mailed to a Ghost Town May Rewrite History of Big Bend National Park
Archive Documents California Immigrant Story, Through Music
Beethoven manuscript auctioned after being discovered in a Connecticut home
A nightmare example of why any government backdoor access is terrible
Robert Altman’s Compelling Early Cornball, Preserved
Bank of America uses copyright to censor business reporter’s tweets
Tumblr’s Meme Librarian has the best job on the Internet
An interview with performer, educator and archivist of the Great American Songbook, Michael Feinstein
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Mark Dreyfus wins case over George Brandis’ refusal to release ministerial diary
National Library of Australia – How Digital Records Change Lives
State Records of New South Wales (Australia) – Decommissioning systems: the benefits
Digital forensics set for rapid growth in China
Malaysia Records Management Society – Knowledge management without records…
India – Digital India: government digitizes 2 million public records’ characters
India – 6th-century manuscript of Ramayana found in Kolkata, stuns scholars
India – A historian’s tribute to archives and archivists
Europe / Europa
The Final Draft of Europe’s Right to Be Forgotten Law
European Union Regulators Agree on Pan-European Data Privacy Rules
Data Management in the Post-Safe Harbor Era
83 Members of European Parliament say no to ancillary copyright in Europe
Opening of the historical archives of the European Court of Justice
Discover Europeana Sounds’ Music Information Retrieval Pilot
Data Centar wants to narrow the gap between data and ideas in Serbia
Denmark – Lost Astronomy Plates Show Historic Eclipse and More
New Manuscripts From the National Library of Greece
Monaco – Les Archives du Palais publient le nouveau numéro des Annales monégasques
Association des archivistes suisses – May the Force be with the Archives
Belgique – Présentation des Archives générales du Royaume à Bruxelles
A freewheeling conversation with the director of Bibliothèque nationale de France
France – Un parchemin daté de l’an 819 reconditionné dans l’Yonne
Ireland – The Christopher Robson Photographic Collection is presented to the National Photographic Archive
Ireland – Tell your story: documenting the 1916 Rising through public memorabilia collection days
Progressive Democrats archive at University College Dublin cannot be accessed by researchers: papers handed over in 2009 still not catalogued due to lack of resources
Dear Santa letter from 1932 turns up in Belfast archive
Scottish governement to cut culture budget
Scotland – Historical child abuse inquiry announces key dates
Scotland – Chilly Conflict pictures of Germany and the Center East photographs launched to archive
Five things we wouldn’t know without the Freedom of Information Act
UK – Ministers Reflect: New Archive Project Released, Collating Interviews with Government Ministers
Birmingham’s ancient Koran history revealed
University of Southampton – Jane Austen’s Family Music Books Digitised for Free Access Online
Work complete on £6.4m West Yorkshire History Centre
Greeting cards from British troops during First World War give glimpse of life on the front line
Soldier’s mysterious First World War diary leaves Tewkesbury
Opinion – To lose our libraries would be a national disaster: we must act to save them
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Ancient manuscripts digitalized in Turkey for wider access
International
IFLA appoints Mr Gerald Leitner as new IFLA Secretary General
Top 7 Data Storage and Active Archive Predictions for 2016
Five Digital History Projects that Dazzled us in 2015
Five More Digital History Projects we Loved in 2015
Cybersecurity Predictions for 2016: Targeting the human factor
Reinventing past in the digital world: history and online journalism in the age of technological obsolescence
Wrestling with or Embracing Digitization?
The Unexpected Comeback of Actual Books
Bringing libraries closer to Wikipedia: Merrilee Proffitt
Pour ses 15 ans, Wikipédia demande un cadeau à chaque bibliothécaire du monde entier
What Librarians can Teach Us About Managing Big Data
Can traditional records management survive the digital future
The Amazing Lots Being Overlooked at Auctions
Rise of the humanities