Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
European Parliament – Briefing: Digitisation of Europe’s Film Heritage
European Commission – Cultural Heritage Counts for Europe
National Archives of Australia – Tracking Family: a Guide to Aboriginal Records Relating to the Northern Territory (Second Edition)
NARA Bulletin – Guidance on Managing Electronic Messages
UK Attorney General’s Office – Records Management Policy
L’action territoriale de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
De la communauté / From the community
Université de Sherbrooke, Service des bibliothèques et archives – Plan stratégique 2015-2017
Online Audiovisual Catalogers – Best Practices for Cataloging Video Games Using RDA and MARC21
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Linked Data Patch Format
Paper – What’s Next: the Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital Humanities
Article – Big Web Data, Small Focus: an Ethnosemiotic Approach to Culturally Themed Selective Web Archiving
Publications
Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 43, no. 2 (July 2015)
Library Management, vol. 36, no. 6-7 (2015)
Book – Photographs, Museums, Collections: Between Art and Information
Book – Black Print Unbound: the Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture
Book – Digital Futures: Expert Briefings on Digital Technologies for Education and Research
Book – Understanding your Users: a Practical Guide to User Research Methods (2nd Edition)
Book – Memory: a History
Book – Navigating the Future with Scenario Planning: a Guidebook for Librarians
Book – The People’s Galleries: Art, Museums and Exhibitions in Britain, 1800-1914
Livre – Une histoire de marin: archives et souvenirs de Marin Marie (1910-1987)
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
9th International Indigenous Librarian’s Forum
August 4 -7, 2015, Winnipeg
Archives, Libraries, and Museums Conference
September 25-27, 2015, Halifax
Online Class – Wikipedia: Library Initiatives and Expert Editing
August 3 – September 13, 2015
Massive Open Online Course – Monasteries, Schools, and Notaries: Part 1: Reading the Late Medieval Marseille Archive
Starting September 1, 2015
Massive Open Online Course – Monasteries, Schools, and Notaries: Part 2: Introduction to the Transitional Gothic Script
Starting September 1, 2015
Symposium et exposition des archives ottomanes
28 au 29 septembre 2015, Kaslik (Liban)
Public Sector Records and Information Management Conference
September 29, 2015, London (UK)
Europeana Sounds 2015 : le futur des sons historiques
2 octobre 2015, Paris
Quelle mémoire pour l’éducation et la recherche ? Sélection et tri des archives, documents et données
6 novembre 2015, Chasseneuil-du-Poitou (France)
Les Archives et la genèse des lois
13-14 novembre 2015, Paris
4th International Conference on Innovation and Information Management
January 18-19, 2016, Brisbane (Australia)
UK National Archives Conference – Dissenting Voices and the Everyday in the First World War
September 8-10, 2016, London
Personal Digital Archiving 2015 (Presentations and Video Available)
April 24-26, 2015, New York
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Yousuf Karsh: Pursuing Greatness
Archives Association of Ontario – Video: Introduction to Using Archives
App – Montréal en histoires
Soft Launch of WebArchives.ca
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Schema Architypes Community Group
Detect-empty-folders Released
New Blog – Publishing in the Archives Profession
Wikimedia Foundation Video – Copyright in the Era of Mass Digitization
Video – Keeping Time: Jamie Martin, IBM Corporate Archivist
Video – 1903 Wright Flyer: Smithsonian in 3D
The Historical Archives of the European Union now on LinkedIn
Wikimedia – Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums Glossary
Slidecast – A Survey of Digital Humanities Curricula
Kickstarter – Made with Creative Commons: a Book on Open Business Models
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Snail mail: federal email upgrade ran into wall of confusion
File breach at electronic spy agency prompts mandatory privacy training
Lessons from laundry privatization: why freedom of information matters in the era of privatization
The Canadian Council of Archives’s vision for 2015-2025
Library and Archives Canada – James Naismith: his early formative years in Canada leading to the invention of basketball
Library and Archives Canada – Nursing Sisters
Northern Ontario stats aren’t reliable enough to be used, data librarian says
Québec : un nouveau site pour le fichier Origine
Québec – Pour en finir avec les dossiers poussiéreux
Association of Manitoba Archives – Archives of the Month: University of Winnipeg Archives and Records Centre
Alice Munro stamp taps into McMaster University’s archives
B.C. – Hugh Pickett: an entertaining life goes up for auction
Art exhibit re-imagines a rare Vancouver history
Winnipeg – City projects receive federal funding (notably for renovations to the Archives building)
Vernon (B.C.) Museum to Upgrade Archives with $100,000 in Funding
Cowichan Lake Community Forest Co-operative (B.C.) – Loggers asked to help preserve forestry photo collections
Whitehorse – Women’s centre marking 40 years of history
Un livre sur le patrimoine industriel de la famille Massé de Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup
Afrique / Africa
Nigeria Lacks Quality Information Management System
Algérie – Le contenu des archives coloniales doit être démythifié
Manque de data-informations en Afrique : un frein majeur au progrès
Amériques / Americas
How PowerPoint Kicked off a Revolution in Military Affairs
How serious is the Hillary Clinton email controversy?
Internal Revenue Service Concealed Internal Communications by Using Instant-Messaging System
National Archives release new photos from 9/11
The National Archives Welcomes Millionth Visitor in Fiscal Year 2015
Smithsonian – Digitized, Searchable Archives Help Revive Sleeping Languages
Films from State Archives of North Carolina Now Available Online
Historic maps of Oklahoma go online for public viewing
New software developed at Stanford University is allowing digital archivists to sort through thousands of emails
Stanford University Project Unearths Personal Histories of Chinese Railroad Workers
Yale University Library makes its Instagram debut
Youngest archivist ever is steeped in Cornell University history
University of Northern Iowa receives manuscript of Bridges of Madison County
University of North Carolina – Researchers Open Repository for Dark Data
William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County goes online
Discover a Trove of Hollywood Treasures at the Motion Picture Academy Library
Theatre Historical Society of America’s American Theatre Architecture Archives Are Now in an Online Catalog as Well as for Onsite Research
New Orleans – Ogden Museum wants Hurricanes Katrina, Rita memories for a digital archive
Judge orders Sacramento to save 15 million emails
How the New York Public Library Crowdsources Digital Innovation
The Archive of Black Marxism and the Story of Twentieth Century Black Radicalism
Using telegrams and love letters to teach World War II
6 Things You Learn Preserving America’s Past
Joe Gould’s Teeth: the long-lost story of the longest book ever written
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Cooking for Copyright campaign sees librarians make vintage recipes in bid to change laws
Rare WW1 portraits by Hilda Rix Nicholas join Australian War Memorial collection
Queensland State Archives (Australia) – First World War fancy dress football poster proves to be an unexpected find
Digitised at the State Library of Queensland: WWI Private James Dundee Bostock Diary
Archives New Zealand – Lost maps found in the archives
New Zealand – Editorial: The Treaty of Waitangi belongs in Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand)
Île Maurice – Bicentenaire des Archives nationales : quand le passé nous est montré
Europe / Europa
Europeana – Writing the past: transcribing handwritten documents from World War One
Europeana – Exploring big visual cultural data: an interview with Lev Manovich
Historical Archives of the European Union – The papers of Albert Coppé can now be consulted online
Grant for digitization project Jewish Council Archives in Europe
Netherlands – Heritage and social media: interview with Professor Julia Noordegraaf
Transparency, Access to Public Information and the Rules of Good Governance in Spain and Catalonia
Malta – Archbishop Scicluna adopts 17th century document to be restored by notarial archives
Google defies France over right to be forgotten
France – L’INSEE sous-traite la numérisation des données du recensement
Institut national de l’audiovisuel – Télé et radio: 12 millions d’heures d’archives à portée de clic
Google et les Archives départementales de la Manche proposent d’explorer virtuellement le Mont-Saint-Michel
Archives de Paris – Restauration et reliure : les archives en réanimation
Le premier Guide Michelin vendu à gros prix
Joint UK-France Data Taskforce created
Ireland – Trinity archives reveal reality of 1916
UK National Archives – Newly digitised records complete story of naval careers
Unnatural crime on a donkey: National archive reveals weird crimes from Victorian London
Alan Parker Donates Entire Working Archives to British Film Institute
Birmingham Hippodrome launches heritage project to catalogue its 116-year history
That’s a reel find: trove of silent films from 100 years ago are discovered in dumped shelf unit
Fossils of Technology: the Imitation Archive Turns Near-Extinct Machines into Music
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Bahrain – National archives milestone hailed
Yémen – Le plus vieux Coran n’est pas à Birmingham, mais sous les bombes saoudiennes
Ottoman-era deed saves Palestinian village in West Bank
4,000-year-old tablets found in Turkey include women’s rights
International
Filmmakers fighting “Happy Birthday” copyright find their smoking gun
Can Digital Knowledge Be Preserved?
Mapping Libraries: Creating Real-time Maps of Global Information
What is actually happening out there in terms of institutional data repositories?
Twitter is deleting stolen jokes on copyright grounds
Author Malcolm Gladwell: more data doesn’t mean you know everything
Hackers Can Disable a Sniper Rifle or Change its Target
That Useless Liberal Arts Degree Has Become Tech’s Hottest Ticket