Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
UK – Independent Commission on Freedom of Information: Call for Evidence (Open Consultation)
Mémoire soumis à la Commission des institutions sur le document intitulé Orientations gouvernementales pour un gouvernement plus transparent (par Daniel J. Caron)
De la communauté / From the community
Speech – Archivists: from the Backroom to the Boardroom: in Memory of Tony Newton (Given at International Council on Archives Annual Conference 2015)
Arnprior Archives (Ont.) – Arnprior Area Railway History in Maps
Creative Commons – Comments on Mass Digitization Pilot Program
Hudson Institute – A 21st Century Copyright Office: the Conservative Case for Reform
Reference Guide for Digital Surrogate Metadata
Image Permanence Institute – Suitability of Storage Environments for Collection Materials
Building Histories of the National Mall: a Guide to Creating a Digital Public History Project
IFLA – Responding! Public Libraries and Refugees
Paper – How to Support Participation and Quality Contribution on Websites for Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage
Publications
Information & Culture: a Journal of History, vol. 50, no. 4 (2015)
Statistique et société, vol. 3, no. 2, 2015 (numéro spécial : Archives de la statistique)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 9 (September 2015)
Archives and Records Association Ireland Newsletter (Autumn 2015)
Telling our Stories: Newsletter of the South Peace Regional Archives (Alb.), vol. 6, no. 4 (2015)
Book – Metadata Standards and Web Services in Libraries, Archives, and Museums: an Active Learning Resource
Book – Curating Oral Histories: from Interview to Archive (Second Edition)
Book – Robertson on Library Security and Disaster Planning
Book – A Companion to Heritage Studies
Book – Customer Service in Academic Libraries: Tales from the Front Line
Book – Collecting Children’s Books: Art, Memories, Values
Book – Between Memory and Museum: a Dialogue with Folk and Indigenous Artists
Livre – Archives d’un présent
Livre – Jacques Chirac : vie publique, archives privées
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
We Feel Fine: Big Data Observations about State Institutions and Social Inclusion
October 20, 2015, Vancouver
Archives of Ontario Presentation
October 20, 2015, Toronto
Mindtools: what Does it Mean to be Literate in the Age of Google?
October 21, 2015, Halifax
Mémoires de la francophonie d’Ottawa
22 octobre 2015, Ottawa
Lambton County Archives Introduction to Genealogy Workshop Series
October 27, 2015 – November 21, 2015, Wyoming (Ontario)
Toronto – Understanding the Library and our City with Open Data
November 3, 2015, Toronto
Canada’s Archives: a New Blueprint
November 13, 2015, Ottawa
Alberta on Record Training and Institutional Forum
November 13, 2015, Calgary
The Future of RAD: a Forum for the Archival Community of Newfoundland and Labrador
November 20, 2015, St. John’s
Third Annual Code4lib B.C.
November 26 and 27, 2015, Vancouver
ACA@UBC Symposium: Preserving Liquid Communication
February 10-12, 2016, Vancouver
Sustainable Collection Services: a Webinar Series about Analyzing, Managing & Sharing Print Monographs
November 3 and December 1, 2015
An Introduction to Web Archiving for Historians
November 11, 2015, London (UK)
Enterprise Data World Conference
April 17-22, 2016, San Diego
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Mirrors with Memory
TVO Videos – A Disappearing Canada
Scrapping the Census: http://tvo.org/video/programs/the-agenda-with-steve-paikin/scrapping-the-census
Muzzled Scientists: http://tvo.org/video/programs/the-agenda-with-steve-paikin/muzzled-scientists
University of Waterloo Special Collections and Archives – New Digital Exhibit : Harry Byers
Vidéo – Discours de François Hollande lors de l’inauguration des nouveaux locaux de l’École des Chartes
Europeana – iTunes U Course and Multi-Touch Book on the First World War
Slidecast – People, Communities and Platforms: Digital Cultural Heritage and the Web
Slidecast – SERIF: a Semantic ExeRcise Interchange Format
Bibliography of Writings on the History of Libraries, Librarianship, and Book Culture (Fall 2015)
Survey – BenchmarkDP Consultation on Software Evaluation in Digital Preservation
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canada Caves on Copyright in Trans Pacific Partnership: Commits to Longer Term, Urge ISPs to Block Content
Why the Trans Pacific Partnership Creates a Backdoor Copyright Takedown System in Canada
Un Partenariat transpacifique néfaste pour la vie privée
Questions raised over preserving sensitive Truth and Reconciliation testimony
Silence on science degrades Canada
Government sensitivity over you hearing about sensitive information
Health Canada requires doctor to sign confidentiality agreement to see drug data
Archives Alberta – And the Oscar Goes to… (Behind the Scenes of our How-to Videos)
BAnQ – Le blogue Instantanés fête son 100 000e visiteur
Newfoundland – A grave discovery: Portuguese fishermen return to honour White Fleet
L’épopée des terre-neuvas au Musée de la Marine à Paris
Stolen Charles Darwin book to be returned to Halifax university
Université de Montréal – Big data: le pétrole du 21e siècle
Two New SSHRC Grants: Web Archive Analysis Insight and Hackathon Connect
Library Master Plan Renovations to Cost McGill $180 Million
Carleton University – Animating the archive: Michel Hogue’s new book brings Métis border narratives to life
The Jewish Museum and Archives of B.C. Welcomes New Archivist
My London: Visual records an eye-opener
Photographer Réjean Meloche’s archives show slice of Montreal history
Québec – Les archives de la ville sont des documents au sens de la Loi concernant le cadre juridique des technologies de l’information
Preuve de documents technologiques sur des supports différents
Le Réseau du patrimoine franco-ontarien lance un cri d’alarme sur les archives à Windsor
Un pas de plus vers un centre d’archives à Lévis
La Société d’histoire de la Rivière-du-Nord acquiert de précieux trésors (des fonds d’archives)
Du papier peint qui cache un pan de l’histoire acadienne
Cambridge (Ont.) – Opinion: Moving archives not a good idea
Association des archivistes du Québec – Et si on parlait franchement de gestion du changement?
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/et-si-on-parlait-franchement-de-gestion-du-changement/
Afrique / Africa
Tunisie – Mahmoud Bouali (ancien archiviste de la Présidence de la république): si l’on pouvait résumer une vie aussi bien remplie
Sénégal – Accès à l’information : le comité de pilotage installé
L’histoire du Gabon en version 2.0
Congo – Un fond d’archives disponible à la mairie de Kananga
Mozambique – Freedom of Information Regulations Approved
Google digitizes Kenya National Archives enabling virtual tours
Amériques / Americas
Secret archive offers fresh insight into Richard Nixon presidency
National Declassification Center not yet Releasing All it Can
Declassified State Department Documents Disclose Internal U.S. Government Debate over Whether to Enforce Red Lines for Nuclear Activities in Pakistan
Government Printing Office to Digitize Two Million Pages of the Federal Register
National Archives Renews Digitization Partnerships with FamilySearch and Ancestry
NARA – The Challenge of Digital Records for Archivists
An interview with David Mao: the Acting Librarian of Congress shares his vision
Senate Passes 10 Year Term for Librarian of Congress
As Democratic candidates debate, Internet Archive will be gathering data
Digital Public Library of America – Archival Description Working Group Members
University of Washington Center for Human Rights sues CIA for information on El Salvador massacre
Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Program Plants Seed for Statewide Digital Preservation Effort in California
California now Has the Nation’s Best Digital Privacy Law
Texas – Historic documents are being donated to the state
Hidden treasures at the Wisconsin Historical Society archives
University of Michigan library acquires papers of assisted-suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian
University of Southern Mississippi now home to extensive archival collection of WWII Infantry Division
The World as Seen Through Books: an Interview with Kalev Hannes Leetaru (George Washington University)
Museums Open up to Power of Wiki: Museum of Modern Art now hosts monthly edit-a-thons to help improve the quality of Wikipedia page
Flooding causes minor damage to The New York Times’ photo archive
Notarial Archives tell story of New Orleans in thousands of historic documents
Digital archive site to feature videos honoring life, legacy of New Orleans chef Paul Prudhomme
Collecting the art of protest at Brooklyn’s Interference Archive
Photo bought at a thrift shop for $2 could fetch $5,000,000 at auction
A Court Has Ruled that Bikram Choudhury can’t Copyright his Yoga Poses
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Metadata retention changes explained
Australia – Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull defends use of non-government email service
Australia – Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull reignites stalled Open Government Partnership bid
World War II Australian POW Records Released Online
Queensland State Archives (Australia) – Finalising the discussion on drafts
Records and information management FAQs: using cloud services based outside of New South Wales (Australia)
New Zealand – Managing statutory obligations for information and records: Archives’ perspective
Vietnam – Exposition de photos et d’archives sur Hoang Sa et Truong Sa à Son La
Taiwan – Film archive neglected
China welcomes UNESCO listing of Nanjing massacre files
Japan – Tokyo could cut funds to UNESCO over Nanjing massacre archive
Japan – Siberia detainees records added to UNESCO world memory list
Wartime aerial photos document destruction of Japanese cities in U.S. air raids
Korea – Presidential Archives removes sign written by leftist scholar
Two Korean documentary heritage holdings inscribed in UNESCO’s Memory of the World
Cambodia – Stories from along the Khmer Rouge paper trail
Burmese Artifacts Added to the Memory of the World Register
Diplomatic Archives of Mongolia and Turkey will Cooperate
India – Phased freedom for Netaji files
Europe / Europa
European Commission Hears it from All Sides Following the Safe Harbor decision
What the Safe Harbor Ruling Means for eDiscovery
Russian Defense Ministry Plans Archive Unit to Counter WWII Lies
Hungary – The Chernobyl Archives of Nobel Prize winner in literature, Svetlana Alexievich at Open Society Archives
Finland – 500-Year-Old Skolt Sami Document Joins Memory of the World
Derveni Papyrus: First Greek Item in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Program
German, French versions of Hitler’s Mein Kampf readied as copyright ends
Belgique – Des mesures pour assurer la conservation des archives fédérales
La destruction de données fleurit en Suisse
France – La liberté d’informer sacrifiée sur l’autel du secret-défense
Archives de France – Pré-versement : le dédoublonnage
France – Résoudre le casse-tête du financement de la numérisation patrimoniale ?
France – Basse-Normandie : Sauver les archives Léopold Sédar Senghor, une urgence
Des archives de Louis Pasteur inscrites au registre de la Mémoire du Monde
L’Unesco inscrit la Mappa Mundi comme Mémoire du Monde
Europeana – J’accuse: the Dreyfus-Affair in historical newspapers
How Cartographers Digitized the 18th-Century Road Network in France
Ireland – Uncovering history: how you too can use the 1916 archives
Digital Repository of Ireland – Preservation and Trust: the Data Seal of Approval Certification Process
Ireland – Trinity College library to enter technological age
Ireland – Tyrone parish priest gathered archive of murder secrets and the ghosts of war
National Records of Scotland – Topic Consultation on Scotland’s Census 2021
Gallipoli stories revealed thanks to Isle of Wight archive project
UK – Freedom of information commission not very free with its information
UK National Archives – Preserving First World War diaries
British Library – Chinese collections opened up by Libcrowds
British Library – The birth of the British electorate revealed online
Suffragettes in the UK Parliamentary Archives
Details of more than 1,000 suffragette arrests made available online
Oxford University – How Digital.Bodleian will open access to over 1 million extraordinary images
Oxford University – Creature removed from manuscript by pious reader can be seen again using hyperspectral imaging
University of Cambridge – Earliest Known Draft of King James Bible Is Found, Scholar Says
Vital information could be lost in digital dark age warns professor
Natural History Museum: we hope people will discover new species with our open data
Victorian gas balloon aerial images auctioned
Vicar discovers forgotten first edition of King James bible from 1611 as he is clearing a cupboard at his church
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel – Jesus Was Black Reveals Newly Found Manuscript
Egypt – Customs officials foil attempt to smuggle rare manuscripts to Qatar
Iranian books added to UNESCO Memory of the World
United Arab Emirates – The Memory of the Nation hosts the UNESCO Memory of the World
Turkey – Ugur Unal: Ottomans’ archive keep documents covering Armenians’ crimes against Muslims in Ganja
International
Le Portail international archivistique francophone, l’amour et twitter
Raiders of the lost Web: if a Pulitzer-finalist 34-part series of investigative journalism can vanish from the web, anything can
The Future of the DNA Hard Drive
Interview with Duff Johnson on the relationship between PDF/UA and WCAG 2
PDF forever?
Think the floppy disk is dead? Think again! Here’s why it still stands between us and a nuclear apocalypse
How to save our digital knowledge for future generations to read
Les voleurs d’archives creusent un trou dans notre mémoire collective
Role of Digital Forensics in Corporate Organizations Becoming Increasingly Prominent
Crowdsourced research: many hands make tight work
The lost women: forgotten female photographers brought to light in pictures
The role of libraries in times of crisis
Pourquoi il faut distinguer clairement les archives ouvertes et l’édition électronique ouverte
HTTP Archive: past and future
Visual Literacy in the Age of Open Content
Re-image your Records Management Team
Why the Printed Book will Last Another 500 Years
Google Launches Cloud Datalab, an Interactive Tool for Exploring and Visualizing Data
Why phone location data is the biggest security threat