Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
British Columbia Government Records Service – Email Decision Diagram: Keep or Destroy?
British Columbia Government Records Service – Managing Website Content
National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy – The Australian Research Data Infrastructure Strategy
Queensland State Archives – Discussion Paper: General Retention and Disposal Schedule Renewal
De la communauté / From the community
Preservica – Essential Guide: Affordable Digital Preservation for Libraries and Museums
Strategic Content Alliance – Towards a UK Digital Public Space: a Blueprint Report
Forum de Tokyo – Le numérique, une chance pour la culture
Enssib – Étude de repérage sur les interfaces documentaires innovantes
Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives – Annual Report 2014
Article – The Role of Functional Provenance between Archival Appraisal and Description: do we need an EAC–F Standard?
Publications
American Archivist, vol. 77, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2014)
Library Management, vol. 36, no. 1-2 (2015)
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, vol. 52, no. 1 (2014)
Arbido: périodique de l’Association des archivistes suisses et de Bibliothèque information suisse (4/2014)
Timeless Business Processes and Services Newsletter, vol. 3, no. 3 (December 2014)
École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information – Archives et création : nouvelles perspectives sur l’archivistique
Book – Managing Digital Objects: Analysis, Discovery and Retrieval
Book – Porn Archives
Book – Resource Description and Access (RDA): Element Set
Book – Displaced Heritage: Dealing with Disaster and Suffering
Book – The Emergence of Digital Libraries: Research and Practices
Book – Memory on Trial: Media, Citizenship and Social Justice
Book – Social Media for Creative Libraries: how to Maximise Impact and Reach
Book – The Architecture of Privacy: on Engineering Technologies that Can Deliver Trustworthy Safeguards
Book – Manuscript, Print and Memory: Relics of the Cankam in Tamilnadu
Livre – Les musées et leurs publics: savoirs et enjeux
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
First Annual Islandora Conference
August 3-7, 2015, Charlottetown
Catholic Archivist Group Conference
September 21-24, 2015, Saskatoon
Cours en ligne massif et ouvert – Bien archiver : la réponse au désordre numérique
25 janvier au 8 mars 2015
International Conference on Ancient Manuscripts of Mali
January 28-30, 2015, Bamako (Mali)
Copyright & Cultural Heritage 2.0: Protecting Creators, Sharing Content
February 2, 2015, Edinburg (Scotland)
Hackathon avec des données culturelles suisses
27-28 février, 2015, Berne
8th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage
March 29 – April 1, 2015, Atlanta
Hagley Fellows’ Conference on Technology and Memory
April 18, 2015, Wilmington (Delaware)
Association of Commonwealth Archivists and Records Managers – Government Secrecy in the Era of Openness
June 19, 2015, London (UK)
Writing Digital: Mix Digital 3
July 2-4, 2015, Bath Spa University
Webinar – Case Study of Digital Record Keeping in Estonia (Recording Available)
December 4, 2014
Sur le web / On the web
Parliamentary Treasures: a Glimpse inside the Archives of the Senate of Canada
Vidéo – Au coeur du patrimoine: la restauration des documents (BAnQ)
The New York Times Open-Sources its Hive Crowdsourcing Platform
British Library – Two Off the Map Games Available as Free Downloads
Video – Robert Darnton: Digitize, Democratize: Libraries, Books, and the Digital Future
Video – Developing a Digital Preservation Framework
Podcast – The Human Side of Digital Preservation
Podcast – A Pilot with Public Participation in Historical Research: Linking Lived Experiences of the First World War
Slidecast – Introduction to Information Architecture & Design
Slidecast – Cendari: Leveraging Natural Language Processing for Research in Historical Archives
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Information commissioner pleads poverty, Tory MPs say raise fees
Scrap Access to Information fees instead of raising them, Information Commissioner says
Canadian Digital Media Trends by the Numbers
Library and Archives Canada holds its Stakeholders Forum meeting
Library and Archives Canada – Recent discovery of Sir John Franklin expedition flagship, HMS Erebus, has created a buzz for both the public and historians
Letter to the Editor – Our archival past important to future (on Library and Archives Canada)
Christmas Cards Available at the Nova Scotia Archives
Freedom of information should apply to University of Prince Edward Island, say students
Diocèse de Montréal – Correspondance romaine centenaire
South Peace Regional Archives (Alb.) working towards a new home
Centre d’archives de la région de Thetford – Acquisition d’un fonds d’archives exceptionnel pour l’histoire de notre région
Afrique / Africa
Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries, Archives and Education at World Intellectual Property Organization: what to Know about the Africa Group Proposal
South Africa – High court halts auction of Steve Biko’s autopsy report
Rwanda’s National Commission for the Fight against Genocide (CNLG) and Aegis Trust announce plan to preserve Gacaca Archives: world’s largest collection on transitional justice
Ambassador of the Netherlands to Rwanda visited Gacaca Archives
The Malian Crisis and the Disproportionate Focus on Manuscripts
Il y a 100 ans, les Archives Nationales du Bénin
Fatoumata Cissé Diarra, directrice des archives du Sénégal : l’édification d’une Maison des archives est une priorité absolue
Algérie – Délivrance des visas et récupération des archives de la guerre : une coopération à sens unique
Zimbabwe receives books of Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize-winning writer who grew up there
Amériques / Americas
Brazil Truth Commission Releases Report
Saint-Martin (Antilles françaises) – Médiathèque et archives enfin inaugurées
Library of Congress – The Modern Beauty of 19th-Century Data Visualizations
The Onion: National Archives Clearly Stored Constitution in Three-Ring Binder
The National Association for Information Destruction (NAID) joins records management coalition
New Hampshire – State agencies awash in documents and running out of space to store them
Vermont Historical Society to get Barre records
Thousands of Einstein Documents are Now a Click Away
What could be lost as Einstein’s papers go online: even in our digital age, scholars should visit their subjects’ archives, not just surf their sites
Reporters Committee sues University of California for access to historic government documents
Harvard – Crowdsourcing old journals: project uses Web participation, video games to digitize documents
University of Texas seeks to keep secret cost of author Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive
Cornell to Digitize a Rich Hip-Hop Archive
New Orleans – NOLA Hip-Hop and Bounce Archive goes online
Love letters from Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller to Marilyn Monroe sell for nearly $122,000
The Archivist’s Dilemma: Q&A With Oddball Films’ Stephen Parr
Chicago Film Archive holds keys to the city’s history
Boston is Archiving These Historic Photos of Boston’s Elevated Railways
Archives, Access, and the Sounds of New York City: an Interview with Kenneth Goldsmith
Preserving Carnegie Hall’s Born-Digital Assets: a National Digital Stewardship Resident Project Update
Keeping Vintage Black Music Alive: a Conversation with Sonic Archivist Harry Weinger
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Library of Australia – 15 million newspaper pages digitised
The missing email that sent South Australia into a spin
Vietnam – Un patrimoine est légitime quand il est utile à l’homme
Japan – Kobe opens online-photo archive of Great Hanshin Earthquake disaster to keep memory alive
Hong Kong volunteers photograph and reclaim artworks ahead of police clearance of Admiralty protest site
China publicizes videos documenting Rape of Nanking
India – Delhi wants a digital single archive for 1.2 billion of people
Museum collection of rare Indian shellac records
Europe / Europa
The National Archives of the Netherlands receive nomination for the European Museum of the Year Award 2015
Books from Oscar Wilde’s library discovered at the National Library of the Netherlands
Netherlands – Leiden University: Crowdfunding success for Menno ter Braak library
Hungary – Northern Town of Ózd to Host National Digital Archives
Cardinal Oscar Mejia, former Vatican archivist, dead at 91
Italy – Save the Biblioteca Laurenziana
Romania’s Digital Agenda to drive growth and competition
Lost 1927 Disney Christmas film found in Norway
Guerre 39-45: découverte des archives du tribunal de guerre du Reich
Austérité et archives coloniales en Belgique et au Portugal
Belgique – Le SPF Affaires étrangères transférera ses archives africaines aux Archives de l’État dès 2015
Belgique – Les archives coloniales, un patrimoine en danger malgré les appels au gouvernement
Belgique – Bruxelles: 101 originaux de bande dessinée mis aux enchères
Documents de Thomas Hürlimann remis aux Archives littéraires suisses
Suisse – Changements dans la gestion des archives neuchâteloises
French Official Campaigns to Make Right to be Forgotten Global
Bibliothèque nationale de France – Pourquoi un livre est-il rare ?
Bibliothèque nationale de France – Succès de l’appel au don pour l’acquisition d’un Trésor national: le manuscrit des Douze Césars
France – Archives départementales du Pas-de-Calais: À vos plumes ! Des carnets de poilus à retranscrire sur Wikisource
Ireland – Hidden files on policing could change the definition of torture
Ireland – State sanctions phone and email tapping
Hidden Stories: the Genetic Secrets of Ancient Parchments
How to research your family history using the archive services in Wales
UK National Archives – Researching First World War through personal objects: dog tags
UK National Archives – The Information Game: Alan Turing and Transfer of Government Archives
British Library – An Early Holiday Present: Forty-six new Greek manuscripts online
Churchill feared Japanese invasion of Falkland Islands, archives suggest
Sir Patrick Moore’s archive acquired by the Science Museum
University of Warwick – First Comprehensive Online Archive of Troubadour Crusade Poetry Created
Fort Amherst archives moved out of storage
George Orwell’s jail time confirmed by unseen court records
War poet Isaac Rosenberg recognised in archive footage from the trenches
Man jailed for punching a hole through £8million Monet painting
Rare Dylan Recordings Set for Release in Copyright-Extension Bid
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel arrests relic looters from Dead Sea cave
International
Royalty, Espionage, and Erotica: Secrets of the World’s Tiniest Photographs
Are you ready for EAD3? It’s coming soon
Guide for Identification and Treatment of Mold and Foxing in Libraries and Archives
Methods of Repairing Corrupted or Damaged PDFs
Exploding ARC Files with Warcbase
Document destruction: how-to achieve the paperless office
Estimating Duration of Open Reel Audio
It’s Official: Instagram is Bigger Than Twitter
Google Cultural Instiute – Bringing the museum to your mobile
Study of massive preprint archive hints at the geography of plagiarism
Looking for history-related crowdsourcing projects for new site