Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
European Parliament – Draft Report on the Harmonisation of Certain Aspects of Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society
Archives de France – La Sûreté du patrimoine archivistique
NARA – Draft Report on Open Source Tools for Records Management
New Zealand – Chief Archivist’s Annual Report on the State of Government Recordkeeping 2012-2013
New Zealand – Chief Archivist’s Annual Report on the State of Government Recordkeeping 2013-2014
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec – Les documents inactifs du réseau de la santé et des services sociaux dans le contexte du projet de Loi 10
De la communauté / From the community
Recode – Policy Recommendations for Open Access to Research Data: Summary Booklet
Research Libraries UK – Unique and Distinctive Collections: Opportunities for Research Libraries
Nelson Mandela Foundation – Reckoning with Oppressive Pasts Documents
Copyright for Creativity – The Copyright Manifesto: how the European Union should Support Innovation and Creativity through Copyright Reform
Library and Information Technology Association – Draft Checklist for Evaluating Metadata Standards
Open Data Barometer Second Edition (January 2015)
Publications
Italian Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science, vol. 6, no. 1 (2015)
Code4lib Journal, no. 27 (2015)
Information & Culture: a Journal of History, vol. 50. no. 1 (2015)
Collection Management, vol. 40, no. 1 (2015)
Book – Collective Memory: how Collective Representations about the Past are Created, Preserved and Reproduced
Book – The Black Box Society: the Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information
Book – Making Data Governance Work: Tales from the Trenches
Book – Book Banning in 21st-Century America
Book – Top Secret Government Archives: Missing Files and Conspiracy Paper Trails
Book – Kill the Messengers: Stephen’s Harper Assault on our Right to Know
Livre – Spectacles en France: archives et recherche
Livre – Les conservateurs de musées: atouts et faiblesses d’une profession
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
ARMA Canada Annual Conference
May 25-27, 2015, Calgary
Association of Critical Heritage Studies Third biannual Conference
June 8-10, 2016, Montreal
Webinar – Affordable Digital Preservation for Public & Academic Libraries
January 28, 2015
Free Webcast – Mastering Metadata Essentials: Strategies for Creating, Packaging and Distributing Book Metadata that Work
February 3, 2015
Archives et démocratie à l’ère du numérique : nouveaux enjeux, nouvelles responsabilités pour les archivistes
6 février 2015, Angers (France)
Webinar – Conducting a Record Inventory
February 18, 2015
Is a Data Warehouse a Data Archive and Why Does It Matter?
February 19-20, 2015, University of Portsmouth
Webcast – Celebrating Fair Use Week: Does Fair Use Really Work?
February 24, 2015
Webinar – Institutional & Research Repositories: Characteristics, Relationships and Roles
February 26, 2015
Metadata and Ubiquitous Access to Culture, Science and Digital Humanities
September 1-5, 2015, São Paulo (Brazil)
Les nouveaux visages du patrimoine (présentations disponibles)
2 et 3 octobre 2014, Paris
Webinar – Are Digital Records Being Managed to Support Development Goals? (Recording Available)
December 11, 2014
Sur le web / On the web
Gouvernement du Québec – Lancement du site www.transparence.gouv.qc.ca
Video – Information Management Adventures at Citizenship and Immigration Canada
New Collections Available on NATO Archives Online
Podcast – The Future of the Past: Transmitting History to Future Generations
Video – The Linked Data For Libraries (LD4L) Project: a Progress Report
Web Archive Player
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
NDP seeks probe of Canada Revenue Agency’s text message destruction
Liberal MP: Long-form census critical for planning emergency services and affordable housing needs
Access to information laws need reform, say authors of how-to book
The complete set: some fascinating examples in Library and Archives Canada’s portrait collection
Minister Leona Aglukkaq Announces Funding to the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation: Film and Video Archive will Help Preserve and Share Inuit heritage
Newfoundland – Former Premier Tom Marshall maintaining office to deal with files
Why is Ottawa sinking Kingston’s Marine Museum?
B.C. privacy commissioner launches probe after Saanich spying allegations
La pdg de BAnQ accède au conseil d’administration de l’École nationale d’administration publique
Archives Alberta – Pests and Susceptible Archival Material
Interview: Privacy guru Ann Cavoukian
This 1856 photo may be the oldest of Toronto (and might have cost us the capital)
Niagara Falls Review photo archives donated to library
Thunder Bay – City using social media to share historical archive photos
Thunder Bay – Digital archive gets clicks
Anne Fortin invites you into the kitchen of Quebec’s past
Les archives du fonds P-107 du Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse
Call for Chapters – Government Information in Canada
Afrique / Africa
Cameroun – Fin du projet de numérisation des archives sonores du service public de radiodiffusion
Tunisie – L’affaire des archives de la présidence devant le juge
Tunisia – Mehdi Jomaa Calls to Give More Importance to Conservation of National Radio Archives
Gambia National Library to be Digitalised
South Africa – Archive of Constitution making available online
South Africa – The Five Hundred Year Archive Online Project
Amériques / Americas
Aztec app brings historic Mexico codex into the digital age
Cayman Islands – Government meeting records kept out of view
U.S. kept international call data for over decade
NARA – The B-Files Partials Project in St. Louis
Environmental Protection Agency faces internal review over scrubbed text messages
Air Force UFO files hit the web
Louisiana’s New and Awesome Historical Archive
Pennsylvania has a new archivist to go with a new archives building
Changes to Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act drops cost of public records
Wyoming seeks to archive Vietnam veterans experiences
Texas State Archives to Receive Records of Outgoing Governor Rick Perry
University of California, Los Angeles Archivist Finds Recording of Martin Luther King Jr. Speech (Listen)
Manuscript in Texas A&M library disproves Game of Thrones fan theory
Digital Audio Preservation at MIT: a National Digital Stewardship Residency Project Update
A Lost Story of Segregated America From LIFE’s First Black Photographer
Digital Archaeologist Restores Old Websites to Former Glory
31 Rolls of Undeveloped Film from a Soldier in WWII Discovered and Processed
On Data Curation: Interview with Andy Palme
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Gang-gang: National Archives exhibition evokes memories of arriving in Australia
Australian police gay bashing erased from records
Australia – La Trobe University: Greek archives on line
National Archives of Korea Introduces Materials for Korean Automobile Industry
South Korea – Historical records on Seoul to be stored at single archives
Fiji – Work for the future (portrait of a Senior archivist at the National Archives)
Malaysia – Penang state compiling historical records
Modernizing China Seeks Historic Preservation Model
Indonesia – Rhoma Irama named copyright commissioner
India – Cabinet meets might soon go paperless: Law Ministry officials agree to proposal from Communications & IT Ministry
India – In a Maiden Move, Tamil Nadu Makes Historical Archives Available Online
India – Chhattisgarh government launches mobile app and digital archive
Europe / Europa
The Spanish Civil War Poster Collection Online at Europeana
X-rays reveal words in Vesuvius-baked scrolls: researchers decipher letters from Herculaneum papyri carbonized by eruption that destroyed Pompeii
Saving Bosnia’s past from the ashes
Slovenia – Signature Fraud Suspected in Archives Referendum
Opening up Swedish culture: an interview with Swedish Open Cultural Heritage
Swedish Schindler mystery remains unsolved, 70 years on: relatives of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg are convinced truth of his fate hidden in Russian archives as Sweden government considers case completely open
Under Soviet direction, East German authorities embraced film as a didactic medium, now posters tell the tale
Azerbaijan Museum of Miniature Books entered Guinness Book of World Records
Des documents inédits sur le génocide Arménien bientôt publiés par le Vatican
Malta – Dinner is served using 200-year-old grocery list
Maltese urged to adopt a notary in archive restoration scheme
Suisse – La Bibliothèque nationale archive sur Wikipedia
http://www.lematin.ch/culture/culture/La-Bibliotheque-nationale-archive-sur-Wikipedia/story/16157975
Suisse – Genève, premier client des archives électroniques fédérales
Suisse – Les Valaisans invités à partager leurs archives pour être numérisées
France – Données personnelles : le sujet polémique du futur projet de loi Numérique
Archives de France – Découvrez le Dispositif d’accompagnement des missions pour l’archivage numérique
La Bibliothèque nationale de France expérimente le crowdsourcing
France – Charlie Hebdo: les messages de soutien des Toulousains seront conservés aux archives municipales
France – Vos ancêtres bientôt en vente ?
A Beautifully Illustrated Costume Catalog From 16th-Century France
Ireland – Easier access to papers on Troubles will give families closure: Minister for Culture
Scotland – University of Glasgow publishes online thesaurus featuring 800,000 words
Welsh Government – Deputy Minister outlines first Wales-only plans to protect our past
UK National Archives – How one of the world’s largest archives is managing the move from parchment to pixels
UK National Archives – Second phase in moving towards 20-year rule
UK National Archives – Unnatural Sex File Given to Abuse Inquiry
From the British Library to Flickr to Europeana: 60 000 public domain images on the move
British Library Endangered Archives Programme – New online collections: 4 million images now online
East London Mosque launches first ever British Muslim archives
Peterborough’s WWI soldiers tea stall visitors’ book stories
Manchester – Revealed: the 250-year-old astronomical treasure tucked away in a store cupboard
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
United Arab Emirates – Emirates Post Group starts distributing boxes for Watheq personal archives project
Original cholera vaccine turns up in Jerusalem: buried in archives for decades, glass ampoule from 1892 now on display
International
Why the Smart Reading Device of the Future may be… Paper
A Data Scientist Explains Some Approaches to Big Data
Newspaper archives: a unique research resource
OpenText receives latest Records Management DOD 5015.2 certifications
The Cobweb: can the Internet be Archived?
A site that began as place to annotate hip hop lyrics thinks it’s figured out how to spread annotation to the wider Web
Update on the burgeoning international e-discovery standard
L’évaluation des archives et la société contemporaine, une intervention de Vincent Doom
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Launches Web of Things Initiative
Les enjeux de la dématérialisation des documents
How to Recover Deleted Photos From Your Memory Card or Smartphone