Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
U.S. White House – Federal Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Toolkit
Swiss Federal Archives – How to Get your Data on Opendata.swiss
De la communauté / From the community
Portage Network of Canadian Association of Research Libraries – Response to Industry Canada Consultation on Developing a Digital Research Infrastructure Strategy
Digital Repository of Ireland – Requirements Specifications
Society of American Archivists Opposes Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Provisions
American Library Association, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section – Guidelines: Competencies for Special Collections Professionals (Draft for Comments)
Association of Research Libraries – Transformation of Scholarly Communications
Publications
Journal of Documentation, vol. 71, no. 6 (2015)
IFLA Journal, vol. 41, no. 3 (October 2015)
Historic Libraries Forum Bulletin, no. 32 (September 2015)
Master Thesis – Electronic Records Archives
Book – Photography, Music and Memory: Pieces of the Past in Everyday Life
Book – The Extraordinary Archive of Arthur J. Munby: Photographing Class and Gender in the Nineteenth Century
Book – Secure Management of Private Information (ARMA International TR 28-2015)
Available via ARMA International Bookstore: https://members.
Book – Research Methods and Global Online Communities: a Case Study
Book – Museum and Historic Site Management: a Case Study Approach
Book – Privacy in a Digital, Networked World
Book – Amongst Digital Humanists: an Ethnographic Study of Digital Knowledge Production
Book – Video Cataloguing: Structure Parsing and Content Extraction
Book – Suzy Lake: Performing an Archive
Livre – Enfants abandonnés et enfants sans père : comment retrouver la filiation ?
Livrel – Une compétence de + : nommer les documents et les dossiers numériques
Livre – Le catalogue Goering: l’histoire insensée de la plus grande collection d’art jamais volée
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Provincial Archives of Alberta Exhibit – Katherine Braid: Voices from our Past
September 25, 2014 – January 23, 2016, Edmonton
Webinar – Cloud and Web Services for Libraries
October 14, 2015
Association of Research Libraries SPEC Survey Webcast on Rapid Fabrication/Makerspace Services
October 14, 2015
UK National Archives Webinar – From the First World War to the Cold War: 20th Century Espionage
November 2, 2015
Practical Digital Preservation for State Archives Online Workshops
November 10, 2015 – May 17, 2016
2016 Austalian Society of Archivists Conference
18-21 October, 2016, Parramatta, Sydney
Engaging the Public: Best Practices for Crowdsourcing across the Disciplines (Proceedings Available)
May 6-8, 2015, College Park (Maryland)
Webinar – The Evolving Scholarly Record: Scope, Stakeholders and Stewardship (Recording Available)
September 17, 2015
The Challenge of Digital Sources in the Web Age: Common Tensions Across Three Web Histories, 1994-2015 (Recording Available)
September 29, 2015, London (UK)
Sur le web / On the web
La collection Documents de travail du Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française accessible en ligne
Open Library of Humanities now Online
Video – Open: World’s First Short Film on Open Government, Open Data, and Open Source
Vidéo – MOOC Gérer les documents numériques: maîtriser les risques: hangout numéro 2
Europeana Food and Drink – London Tea Trail
Right to Know Day 2015: Petition to the Swedish Parliament for the Translation of a Book on the 250th Anniversary of Freedom of Information Legislation
Internet Memory Foundation – Free Downloadable Collection for Research Purposes
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canada slides to 59th of 102 nations on information freedom
Inside the Harper government’s trashing of a research library
Ontario Provincial Police drops investigation into RCMP’s destruction of gun registry data after Tories’ retroactive law change
Lost Medical Film Re-Discovered at Library and Archives Canada
Silent film a cinematic time capsule of Canada’s north
Papers related to making of long-forgotten Hudson’s Bay Company documentary donated to Archives of Manitoba
Archives of Manitoba – Private Letters in Corporate Records
Archives Alberta – Minor Disasters can Cause Major Damage
BAnQ – Entre Montcalm et Wolfe : Ramezay, signataire de la capitulation de Québec
Canadian Architectural Archives travel across the country: University of Calgary’s extensive collection featured in growing number of travelling exhibitions
http://www.ucalgary.ca/utoday/
University of Ottawa – Decision made not to renew licence with Access Copyright
University of Concordia – The Diniacopoulos archives go digital: 150 documents from Montreal’s first family of antiquities are now available online
McGill University – School of Information Studies PhD student Steven Ding wins prize for data mining search engine for computer security
The Financial Health of Canadian Genealogical Societies
Rare 1887 Vancouver images surface
Québec – Ouverture officielle du Monastère des Augustines (inclut un centre d’archives)
Windsor’s francophone archives to stay in the city
Thieves steal 120 years of archives from Chute-a-Blondeau, Ont., church
Volunteer burn out puts Dawson Creek (B.C.) archives in jeopardy
Belleville Public Library (Ont.) makes room for archives
Possible Cambridge (Ont.) Archives move more about public access than space for staff: city manager
Scare-itage: Dare you to Look Exhibit Creeps into the Peterborough Museum and Archive (Ont.)
Afrique / Africa
Gestion du patrimoine : les pays membres de la CEEAC préoccupés par la mise en réseau des archives, bibliothèques et musées nationaux
Timbuktu mausoleum destruction suspect sent to International Criminal Court
Guinée – Il était une fois, la bibliothèque nationale guinéenne
Nigeria – University of Jos pushing boundaries on ancient manuscripts collection
Ghana – Withholding public information is unconstitutional
Amériques / Americas
National Archives Accused of Illegally Classifying Details of CIA Torture Program
CIA pulled officers from Beijing after breach of federal personnel records
Librarian of Congress who made phone unlocking illegal retires
Can Anyone Save the Library of Congress?
Reference Interview: Jane Sánchez, Library of Congress, United States
JFK manuscript sells for a whopping $160,000 net
Digital Public Library of America – Help the Copyright Office Understand how to Address Mass Digitization
State Archives of North Carolina – New Military Collection and Veterans Oral History Webpages
Governance needs shift as digital evidence in court becomes common
Taking death records digital: the Iowa experience
Important to preserve Maine’s historic records
Vermont – Odd Jobs: State archivist
Opinion – California’s public records practices can shock outsiders
L’université d’Harvard lance un appel à contributions pour créer des archives Charlie sur les attentats de janvier 2015
University of Texas, Harry Ransom Center – Meet the Staff: Archivist Joan Sibley
Colorado State University’s Archives and Special Collections collects materials documenting the marijuana legalization movement
Cornerll University – Papers of pioneering lesbian photographer given to library
Oregon State University Queer Archives to preserve, share history of LGBT experience on campus
University of Houston Library Releases Rare Duke-Peacock Photos
Stewarding Academic and Research Content: an Interview with Bradley Daigle and Chip German about APTrust
Documenting Black Queer History of the 20th Century
Lunar Mission One, Astrobotic Partnership to Establish First Digital Archive on Moon
Time for vinyl to get back in its groove after pressing times
Orson Welles’ own Citizen Kane manuscripts fetch $102K at auction
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Governments do not like freedom of information: the war on Australia’s privacy and information watchdog
Public Record Office Victoria (Australia) – Report finds systematic recordkeeping failures across Victorian government
State Records of New South Wales (Australia) – Records and information management FAQs: are signatures the final barrier to a truly digital business environment?
Archives New Zealand – Secure destruction of electronic records
Cambodia – Late King’s Biographer Donates Archives to Documentation Center
Europe / Europa
Historical Archives of the European Union – The private archives of Pierre Uri are now available online
PREFORMA – Further standardisation of Matroska and FFv1
Vatican launches digital library on Church and communications
Croatia to Make Yugoslav Spy Files Public
Estonian fiddler finds her voice digging in audio archives
Online database logs Poland’s crumbling Jewish graves
Romanian Ministry of Justice on trial for allowing open access to legislation
Ancient astronomy manuscripts published in Georgia
Sweden – Facebook: Inside the social media giant’s data centre where your likes are recorded
Hermann Goering’s catalog detailing plundered art is published
French digital rights bill published in open democracy first
France – Ouverture des jeux de données de jurisprudence de Légifrance
France – La bibliothèque médiévale de Clairvaux entièrement numérisée
Les films des frères Lumière enfin en DVD
Ireland – Transcripts from Ted Kennedy oral history project released
UK National Archives – Over 350 Army Headquarters war diaries have been published online
British Library outlines ambitions to preserve the UK’s radio heritage
British Library – Erasmus Manuscript Saved for the Nation
British Library – How to Make the Most of Digitised Manuscripts
Exploring the Churchill Archives Centre at Cambridge University
http://www.royal-oak.org/2015/
100,000 digitised books in the UK Medical Heritage Library
Shoreham Airshow tragedy tributes to victims will be preserved in archive
Transforming Archives: Norfolk Record Office
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
UNESCO – Global initiative launched to counter the destruction and trafficking of cultural property by terrorist and organized crime groups
International
When Ancient Texts Vanish, these Scientists Make them Reappear
10 Things you might encounter, when you consult rare documents in an archive
Portable book & document scanners: the dilemma
The Rise and Fall of Text on the Web
The rise and fall of text on the Web: a study using Web archives
Autoclassification tools aid information governance strategy
Why should cities have an open data policy?
The Map of Literature combines centuries of books and poems in one gorgeous illustration
What we Can Learn From the Epic Failure of Google Flu Trends
Comment automatiser la diffusion de sa veille ?