Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada – Guidelines on Managing Records in a Minister’s Office
Official and Transitory Records: a Guide for Government of Alberta Employees (Updated Version)
Information and Privacy Commissioner for B.C. – Access Denied: Record Retention and Disposal Practices of the Government of British Columbia
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit – Authors Guild v. Google Decision (on Mass Book Digitization)
UK National Archives – Archives Inspire 2015-2019
British Library – National Audit of UK Sound Collections
European Parliament – Review of the EU Copyright Framework: European Implementation Assessment
Archives de France – Des archives en France 2014
France – Arrêté précisant la dématérialisation des actes comptables des organismes publics
De la communauté / From the community
Statement – Libraries Laud Appeals Court Affirmation that Mass Book Digitization by Google is Fair Use
JISC – Guidelines for Persistently Identifying Software Using Datacite
Ithaka S+R – Research Data Management: Roles for Libraries
Council on Library and Information Resources – Building Expertise to Support Digital Scholarship: a Global Perspective
Article – Linked Metadata and New Discoveries
Publications
Code4lib Journal, no. 30 (2015)
National Archives of Australia – Government Agencies Information Network Newsletter, no. 9 (2015)
Friends of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Toronto) Archives Newsletter, vol. 23, no. 2 (Autumn 2015)
Calendrier bihebdomadaire 2016 pour les 25 ans des Archives littéraires suisses
Disponible dans la boutique en ligne des publications fédérales: http://www.bundespublikationen.admin.ch/cshop_bbl/b2c/start.do
Pamphlet – Doing Veterans Oral History
Book – Metadata
Book – Re-Enacting the Past: Heritage, Materiality and Performance
Book – Virtual Memory: Time-Based Art and the Dream of Digitality
Book – Rhetorical Memory: a Study of Technical Communication and Information Management
Book – Railroad Vision: Steam Era Images from the Trains Magazine Archives
Book – Digital Samaritans: Rhetorical Delivery and Engagement in the Digital Humanities
Book – Paper Love: Searching for the Girl my Grandfather Left Behind
Book – Collaborative Information Seeking: Best Practices, New Domains and New Thoughts
Livre – Big data, open data : quelles valeurs ? quels enjeux ?
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
The Year of the Map: from Archives to Internet
October 25, Vancouver
Archives & Poetry Symposium
October 29, 2015, Winnipeg
Official Launch of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation Archive
November 3-4, 2015, Winnipeg
The Bantams: Victoria’s Unknown Soldiers
November 4, 2015, Victoria (B.C.)
ARMA Prince Edward Island Chapter – 2015 Fall Education Session
November 13, 2015, Charlottetown
Knowledge Sharing and Networking on Data Governance
November 18, 2015, Toronto
Webinar – Schema.org in Two Parts: from Use to Extension
November 18 and December 2, 2015
The Third International Conference on Digital Information Processing, Data Mining, and Wireless Communications
July 6-8, 2016, Moscow
Presenting the Theatrical Past: Interplays of Artefacts, Discourses and Practices
June 13-17, 2016, Stockholm (Sweden)
Propriété intellectuelle et Communs de la connaissance dans l’environnement numérique (vidéo disponible)
17 Septembre 2015, Chambéry (France)
Sur le web / On the web
Canadian Association of Research Libraries Portage – Data Management Plan Assistant
Video – On the Road to 2017 with Library and Archives Canada: Hockey and the First World War: Exhibition
Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française – Nouveau Blogue de la direction
The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada Regimental Museum and Archives – Newly Digitized Archival Films Uploaded to Youtube
British Library – Directory of UK Sound Collections
U.S. General Service Administration – Online Gallery of Public Art
NARA – Chinese Exclusion Act Book and Course
Vidéo – L’École nationale des chartes au XXIe siècle
Video – DIKDA Project: Slovak National Library: from Depository to Depository
Video – British Film Institute: Film is Fragile
Video – Historypin’s New Features
Digital Public Library of America – Primary Source Sets
Boot to Emulation: EaaS as a Local Option (Beta)
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
The Government’s Contracted Shredder Company Was at the Prime Minister’s Office
The Trans Pacific Partnership and Public Domain Content in Canada
Ex-StatsCan chief to Liberals: act now to bring back long-form census
The Rise and Fall of the Conservatives’ Digital Policy
Real Change on Digital Policy may Take Time Under New Liberal Government
How science helped to swing the Canadian election
Vie et mort d’un bulletin de vote
Federal Access to Information law critically sick: new study
Canadian International Trade Tribunal – Notice of Inquiry : Iron Mountain Information Management Services
Library and Archives Canada and National Capital Commission Team up to Plant 130 Trees in Vincent Massey Park
Highway of Tears email deletion referred to RCMP by B.C. privacy watchdog
Québec – La bibliothèque de l’Assemblée nationale, trésor méconnu
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec et la Fondation de BAnQ honorent les 10 boursiers du Programme de soutien à la recherche
BAnQ – Pour le futur du passé… (Pierre Nepveu)
Mi’kmaq atlas reveals secrets behind Nova Scotia place names
University of Manitoba is honoured to celebrate official opening of National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
Dalhousie University partners with Library and Archives Canada
Dalhousie University Archives Launches Free Pilot Archives Document Delivery Service
Simon Fraser University library acquires medieval manuscript
University of British Columbia – How we Digitize: an Open Book with the ATIZ
University of Waterloo Special Collections & Archives – Alexander McNeill
UAlberta Confession needs an archive
Québec – Vers une cour municipale numérique
Les grands incendies de la région de Thetford en vedette au Centre d’archives de la région de Thetford Mines
Archivist Interview: Meet Gina Coady, Elgin County Archives (Ont.)
Vie d’archiviste : Marie-Ève Mantha, ville de Blainville
Afrique / Africa
An introduction to African music archives
Rwanda – The digitization of Gacaca archives to begin soon
Kenya – Report: Red Tape Hinders Access to State Information
Namibia – Stories that were lost, but never died
Nigeria – Justice Ministry Warns Government Officials Against Falsification of Information
Tunisie – Le chef du gouvernement Habib Essid appelle les citoyens à déposer leurs documents importants aux archives nationales
Sénégal – Destruction volontaire d’archives publiques : le clerc A. Sakho déchire le registre du tribunal de grande instance et écope de 3 mois de prison
Amériques / Americas
Mexico cooperates with Guyana on the preservation of archives
Can Historical Records Help Bolivia Win Back Access to the Sea?
Judicial Watch Sues National Archives to Obtain Draft Indictments of Hillary Clinton
The Problem with Using Metadata to Justify Drone Strikes
Pentagon could Be Shredding Docs about Female Rangers
Library of Congress – Lomax Family Manuscripts Now Online
Woodrow Wilson Library hopes crowdfunding will raise money to digitize papers
Lee Harvey Oswald Photo Confirmed Genuine After 3-D Digital Forensic Analysis
New digital archive project to open up Russian-American heritage to the world
Tennessee – State librarian pushes for new state archival facility in Nashville
North Carolina residents invited to bring home movies to State Archives
Texas – FAQ: Why Use a Disposition Log?
Two Weeks After it Sued the CIA, Data Is Stolen from the University of Washington’s Center for Human Rights
Thomas Jefferson’s Hidden Chemistry Lab Discovered Behind University of Virginia Wall
University of Southern Maine – Franco-American story saver archivist Janet Roberts
Gabriel García Márquez archives open for research at Texas university
University of Louisiana Lafayette celebrates 50-year archival anniversary
Virginia Tech University – Team to create crowdsourced archive of Civil War-era Independence Day documents
University of Louisville recognizes donor of huge LGBTQ archive
University of Houston – Archive Hosts Relics of Houston Blues
First-Ever Glimpse Inside the Pixar Studio Archives
Rare 1869 baseball card returned to New York Public Library 30 years later
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
New Zealand – National library duped by $75k forgery
New Zealand – Museum’s bid for Treaty of Waitangi blocked
Archives New Zealand – The Holdings and Discovery directorate
China – Township in Xinjiang Keeps Personal Archive of Uyghurs who Flee Region
India – Search for Netaji Treasure Opens a Pandora’s Box
India – Governor visits national archives, takes a trip through Puducherry’s past
Europe / Europa
The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) Europeana Sounds Task Force has been launched
Germany passes mandatory data retention laws
More evidence from Germany: ancillary copyright still not working
German Bundestag goes to court to keep lobbyists secret
Serbia Resists Pressure to Open Secret Files
Nazi archives shed light on WWII atrocities in Greece
Rare Georgian manuscripts added to UNESCO historical archive
Vectracom numérise le fonds radiophonique de la Radio Télévision Suisse
LSD Archive Has Been on a Long, Strange Trip: Inventor’s papers, shunned by Sandoz, now under the care of Swiss dairy farmer
Further call on the French government to release archives dating back to the Rwandan genocide
France – Le Cadre méthodologique sur l’évaluation, la sélection et l’échantillonnage des archives publiques à l’aune des quatre normes internationales de description
France – Don des archives de Georges Duthuit au Centre Pompidou
Archives départementales des Hautes-Alpes : unique en France, la numérisation à la demande a du succès
Marcel Proust’s memory-laden madeleine cakes started life as toast, manuscripts reveal
Des archives en Vogue
Ireland – Minister Heather Humphreys seeks to cut 30-year waiting time for release of State papers
Ireland – Digital age’s deluge of data spells new chapter for libraries
Ireland – Historic manuscript returns to Dublin after 400 years
UK – Government accused of trying to water down Freedom of Information Act
Plugging genealogy’s 30-year gap
How to deal with 150m pieces of content? A Q&A with the British Library
British Library hits the right note with purchase of Gilbert and Sullivan archive
British Library – Playing at Web Archiving
The Duke of Cambridge opens new archive centre at St John’s College, Cambridge
Royal Institution to sell science treasures to rescue finances
University of Reading – Museums, archives and GIFs: a fine line between fun and foolishness?
Children’s author Michael Morpurgo opts to donate his entire archive to Seven Stories
A magical glimpse into the Tudor imagination: lost library of John Dee to be revealed
Extremely rare Wicked Bible goes on sale
Nestlé UK Archives Search For Missing Painting
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Pupils across United Arab Emirates encouraged to store it up for the future
Emirati to lead Unesco programme to preserve Memory of the World
United Arab Emirates National Archives Selects EverSuite
Dubai – 10m historical items now in electronic form
UNESCO – Statement by the Director-General on violations of cultural heritage in the Middle East
A Jailed Activist’s 3-D Models Could Save Syria’s History from ISIS
International
Let’s discuss OAIS
JPEG2000 and Digitisation: Expert round table
Digital Library of Babel contains every book that has ever been (and ever could be) written
Librarian as public knowledge leader: ways to use Wikipedia
The Quest to Discover the World’s Books Bound in Human Skin
Les trésors enfouis des archéologues du jeu vidéo
Digitizing Natural History
How to document heritage sites under threat: roject aims to create virtual archives using 3D scanning technology
Big data problems we face today can be traced to the social ordering practices of the 19th century
What the Heck is Cuneiform, Anyway?
Portail de données ouvertes: catalyseur ou cimetière de données?
Pourquoi colorise-t-on les vieilles photographies?
Pourquoi gérer les documents en format numérique? 1: les avantages
24% of emails end up in the trash
Facebook just made all public posts searchable
Using only tweets, scientists can now detect earthquakes in 29 seconds flat