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Documentary Heritage News
October 3, 2014May 2, 2021

Vol. 8, no. 5

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State
Alberta Information Management – Roles and Responsibilities during Litigation and Discovery
http://www.im.gov.ab.ca/documents/pubications-circulars/ARMC_Circ_2014-001_Roles_and_Responsibilities.pdf

Québec – Plan culturel numérique
http://www.culturenumerique.mcc.gouv.qc.ca/
Communiqué de BAnQ: http://www.banq.qc.ca/a_propos_banq/salle_de_presse/nouvelles/nouvelle.html?n_id=3b8a24d9-fa93-41b6-a72b-efcd83bf782d

European Commission – Digitisation, Online Accessibility and Digital Preservation: Report on the Implementation of Recommendation 2011/711/EU
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/european-commissions-report-digitisation-online-accessibility-and-digital-preservation-cultural

National Endowment for the Humanities – National Digital Newspaper Program: Impact Study 2004-2014
http://www.neh.gov/files/divisions/preservation/ndnp_report_2014_0.pdf

Bibilothèque nationale de France – Guide du lecteur du département des Manuscrits (mise à jour)
http://bnf.libguides.com/manuscrits

De la communauté / From the community
Community Museums Association of Prince Edward Island – Podcasting for Small Museums: a How-to-Guide
http://www.rcip-chin.gc.ca/carrefour-du-savoir-knowledge-exchange/guide_baladodiffusion-podcasting_guide/guide_baladodiffusion-podcasting_guide-eng.jsp

Society of American Archivists – Identifying Culturally Sensitive American Indian Material in a Non-tribal Institution 
http://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/AmericanIndianMaterial_CEPC-CaseStudy3.pdf

Europeana for Research: Final Policy Recommendations
http://pro.europeana.eu/documents/858566/2691fd56-c0c0-4b4f-98dd-fa1eecd4a8dc

National Digital Stewardship Alliance – 2015 National Agenda for Digital Stewardship
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/documents/2015NationalAgenda.pdf

Standford University – Guidance on Building Archivable Websites
http://library.stanford.edu/blogs/digital-library-blog/2014/09/guidance-building-archivable-websites

American Health Information Management Association – Information Governance: Principles for Healthcare
http://www.ahima.org/~/media/AHIMA/Files/HIM-Trends/IG_Principles.ashx

Ithaka S+R – Does Discovery Still Happen in the Library? Roles and Strategies for a Shifting Reality
http://www.sr.ithaka.org/blog-individual/does-discovery-still-happen-library

Publications
Restaurator: International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material, vol. 35, no. 3-4 (September 2014)
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/rest.2014.35.issue-3-4/issue-files/rest.2014.35.issue-3-4.xml

Collection Management, vol. 39, no. 4 (2014)
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wcol20/39/4

Documentaliste – Science de l’information, vol. 51, no. 3 (2014)
http://www.adbs.fr/docsi-n-3-septembre-2014-dossier-transformer-les-risques-en-opportunites-le-pouvoir-de-l-information-142700.htm

Amnis: revue de civilisation contemporaine Europe/Amérique, no 13, 2014 (Dossier: De l’usage postcolonial de l’archive)
http://amnis.revues.org/2093

Hybrid: revue des arts / Journal of Arts, no. 1 (Patrimoines éphémères / Ephemeral Heritages)
http://www.hybrid.univ-paris8.fr/lodel/index.php?id=119

Learned Publishing, vol. 27, 2014 (Special Issue: Data Publishing)
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/alpsp/lp/2014/00000027/00000005

Historic Libraries Forum Bulletin, no. 29 (September 2014)
http://www.historiclibrariesforum.org.uk/hlf/Bulletins/HLF%20Bulletin%2029.pdf

Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 41, no. 1 (October-November 2014)
http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Oct-14/Bulletin_OctNov14_Final.pdf

Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, vol. 51, no. 2 (2013)
http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/bsc/issue/view/1572

Chroniques de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, no. 71 (Septembre-Décembre 2014)
http://multimedia.bnf.fr/chroniques/chroniques_71/

International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives – Handling and Storage of Audio and Video Carriers
http://www.iasa-web.org/handling-storage-tc05

Study – Survey of Best Practices in Researching the Wealthy Donor
http://www.primaryresearch.com/view_product.php?report_id=506

Brochure – Centre d’archives de Laval: Conservation permanente
http://shgij.org/_news/id/12

Book – Is Digital Different? How Information Creation, Capture, Preservation and Discovery are Being Transformed 
http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=8545

Book – Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage
http://ow.ly/BWYkf

Book – Edible Identities: Food as Cultural Heritage
http://ow.ly/C5XtO

Book – Museums and Restitution: New Practices, New Approaches
http://ow.ly/C5XvC

Book – EU Copyright Law: a Commentary
http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/bookentry_main.lasso?id=15101

Livre – Histoires d’immigrations au Québec (sous la direction de Guy Berthiaume et al.)
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1420566/parution-du-livre-histoires-d-immigrations-au-quebec-sous-la-direction-de-guy-berthiaume-claude-corbo-et-sophie-montreuil

Livre – Les difficultés posées par les noms en généalogie
http://www.archivesetculture.fr/livre-archives-et-culture-genealogie-les-difficultes-posees-par-les-noms-en-genealogie-430.html

Livre – Penser, classer, administrer: pour une histoire croisée des collections scientifiques 
http://www.mnhn.fr/sites/mnhn.fr/files/documents/cp_penser_classer_aadministrer_histoire_collections_scientifiques.pdf

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Exhibition – Fierce Imaginings: the First World War in Text and Image
Until December 19, 2014, University of Toronto
http://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/fierce-imaginings

Webinar – Vital Records Program Development
October 6-21, 2014
http://www.arma.org/go/evt/WSNS9921

U.S. National Archives Virtual Genealogy Fair
October 28-30, 2014
http://www.archives.gov/calendar/genealogy-fair/

Future-Proof AV Content for Education and Research
November 6-7, 2014, Venice (Italy)
http://www.prestocentre.org/calendar/future-proof-av-content-education-and-research

The Practice of Digital Preservation
December 9-11, 2014, London (UK)
http://ulcc.ac.uk/event/practice-digital-preservation

International Conference on Digital Society 2015
February 22-27, 2015, Lisbon (Portugal)
http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/international-conference-on-digital-society-2015/

Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages
June 1-12, 2015, Washington D.C.
http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/BOL_2015_home.php

Sur le web / On the web
Podcast – Historians want Canada to give them access to Big Data
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2014/10/02/if-online-data-is-shaping-history-historians-need-access/

Video – Inside the New York Public Library: the Maps Collection
http://youtu.be/PDznQKFRr1U

Vidéo – Sur les archives de Jacques Derrida
http://www.imec-archives.com/les-collections/les-archives-jacques-derrida/

Vidéo – Témoignage d’ancien étudiant: Master en information documentaire HEG-Genève (archiviste aux Archives de l’État de Genève)
http://youtu.be/9AAinGWYnB4

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Stephen Harper says Canadians’ metadata not collected
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/09/26/stephen_harper_says_canadians_metadata_not_collected.html

Canadian government joins 11th-hour search for John A. Macdonald’s precise birthplace
http://o.canada.com/news/canadian-government-joins-11th-hour-search-for-john-a-macdonalds-precise-birthplace

WWI Canadian soldiers’ remains identified
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/wwi-canadian-soldiers-remains-identified-1.2779824

Bibliothèque et Archives Canada a dévoilé une carte panoramique datant de la Première Guerre mondiale
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/ottawa/2014/09/30/011-carte-panoramique-bibliotheque-archives-guerre-mondiale.shtml

Library and Archives Canada passes archives to the Federal Archives of Germany (with examples of German WWI records related to Canada)
http://www.bundesarchiv.de/oeffentlichkeitsarbeit/meldungen/03961/index.html.de

Library and Archives Canada – Feature Film Collection
http://thediscoverblog.com/2014/09/30/feature-film-collection/

New photo exhibit gives a panoramic view of Canada’s cities
http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/blog/posting.asp?ID=1320

History abounds in Hudson Bay Company Archive
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/history-abounds-in-hbc-archive-277547691.html

Hudson Bay Company hands over historic murals for museum display
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/hbc-hands-over-historic-murals–for-museum-display-277704541.html

New First World War Historical Exhibit Opens at Archives of Ontario
http://news.ontario.ca/mgs/en/2014/10/new-first-world-war-historical-exhibit-opens-at-archives-of-ontario.html

Ontario Courts Taken to Task for Addiction to Hard Copy (Again)
http://www.it-can.ca/2014/09/18/ontario-courts-taken-to-task-for-addiction-to-hard-copy-again/

Archives Association of Ontario – Archives Emergency Response Network (AERN)
http://aao-archivists.ca/Archives-Advisor-Updates/3113185

Prince Edward Island – Health records in derelict buildings careless privacy breach
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/health-records-in-derelict-buildings-careless-privacy-breach-1.2778820

Accès à l’information au Québec: les champions de l’obstruction
http://www.lactualite.com/actualites/politique/les-champions-de-lobstruction/

Nuit Blanche photo collages join Toronto’s past and present in startling ways
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/09/25/nuit_blanche_photo_collages_join_past_and_present_in_startling_ways.html

Calgary – Mysterious Developments website publishes rare gems from old rolls of undeveloped film
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/mysterious-developments-website-publishes-rare-gems-from-old-rolls-of-undeveloped-film-1.2779549

Sand, deteriorated paper found inside 137-year-old time capsule in Truro (Nova Scotia)
http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/sand-deteriorated-paper-found-inside-137-year-old-time-capsule-in-truro-1.2024783

About 75 people attend Trent Valley Archives (Ont.) open house
http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/2014/09/14/about-75-people-attend–trent-valley-archives-open-house

Portrait: Service des archives de la Congrégation Notre-Dame
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2014/09/29/portrait-service-des-archives-de-la-congregation-notre-dame/

ActiveHistory – Introducing The Home Archivist
http://activehistory.ca/2014/09/introducing-the-home-archvist/

Afrique / Africa
Une enquête sur le sort des archives de la radio publique décidée par Mehdi Jomaa
http://directinfo.webmanagercenter.com/2014/10/01/tunisie-une-enquete-sur-le-sort-des-archives-de-la-radio-publique-decidee-par-mehdi-jomaa/

Accès à l’information : Transparency Maroc s’oppose au projet de loi
http://www.aujourdhui.ma/maroc/societe/acces-a-l-information-transparency-maroc-s-oppose-au-projet-de-loi–113232

Amériques / Americas
In pictures: A journey through 19th Century Brazil
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29341013

Congressional Budget Office: Some Agencies Likely to Miss Deadline for Records Management
http://www.fedweek.com/item-view.php?tbl=3&ID=6026

Transparency Groups Press White House on Freedom of Information Act Delays
http://freebeacon.com/issues/transparency-groups-press-white-house-on-foia-delays/

National Library of Medicine now part of the commons on Flickr
http://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2014/09/30/national-library-of-medicine-now-part-of-the-commons-on-flickr/

Library of Congress Launches Local Radio Preservation Project
http://www.radiosurvivor.com/2014/09/30/library-congress-launches-local-radio-preservation-project/

Even in 1784 America, it was Impossible to Make a Map Without Infuriating Someone: Abel Bush’s Map was the First in the Country Submitted for a Copyright
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/even-1784-america-it-was-impossible-make-map-without-infuriating-someone-180952700/

Transportation Authority Archivist Seeks Tollbooth
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/nyregion/transportation-authority-archivist-seeks-tollbooth.html?_r=0

California enacts law to increase public access to publicly funded research
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/43860

University of Texas – Abandoned Deus Ex sequel documents discovered in archive
http://ca.ign.com/articles/2014/09/26/abandoned-deus-ex-sequel-documents-discovered-in-archive

University of Massachusetts acquires archive from pro-marijuana group
http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2014/09/26/umass-acquires-archive-from-pro-marijuana-group/gN0PZYKO3c1Iud3iThw3xI/story.html

Harvard – Where books (and more) go to wait
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/09/where-books-and-more-go-to-wait/

Grant Wood sketchbook returns to Iowa museum
http://www.connecttristates.com/news/story.aspx?id=1101882

Boston – Time capsule close to being removed from State House statue
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/09/26/restorer-ponders-how-remove-time-capsule-from-old-state-house-lion-crown/sxVeS5n1siljpOLltJZPdL/story.html

George Eastman House (Rochester) receives digital laboratory from Eastman Kodak Company
http://www.eastmanhouse.org/tools/pressroom/view.php?title=kodakgift

VARs Urge Cities Like Ferguson To Archive To Ease Public Records Retrieval
http://www.crn.com/news/storage/300074236/vars-urge-cities-like-ferguson-to-archive-to-ease-public-records-retrieval.htm

The Online Legacy of a Suicide Cult and the Webmasters who Stayed Behind
http://gizmodo.com/the-online-legacy-of-a-suicide-cult-and-the-webmasters-1617403237/+ashleyfeinberg

Interview – QCTools: Open Source Toolset to Bring Quality Control for Video within Reach
http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/09/qctools-open-source-toolset-to-bring-quality-control-for-video-within-reach/

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Governor-General Peter Cosgrove targeted in National Archives trawl
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/peter-cosgrove-targeted-in-national-archives-trawl-20140926-10md7m.html

National Library of Australia invests in digital future
http://www.cio.com.au/article/556019/national-library-australia-invests-digital-future/

Australia – Capturing the humanity of information in data policy
http://www.afr.com/p/technology/capturing_the_humanity_of_information_LSx28avBBcsk5BlW3tQt9K

Japan Prepares to Make 3D Printed Topographic Maps Available for the Blind
http://3dprint.com/16574/japan-3d-printed-maps-blind/

Joining the dashes: the South China Sea’s littoral states will fight in the museums, in the archives and on the maps
http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21621844-south-china-seas-littoral-states-will-fight-museums-archives-and

India – Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts archives Ramnagar ki Ramleela
http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/lucknow/ignca-archives-ramnagar-ki-ramleela/

India – Rampur library houses rare Persian Ramayan manuscript
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bareilly/Rampur-library-houses-rare-Persian-Ramayan-manuscript/articleshow/43744343.cms

India – Preserving rare, ancient manuscripts
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/preserving-rare-ancient-manuscripts/article6455181.ece

Europe / Europa
Europeana – Tracing the events of 1989
http://pro.europeana.eu/pro-blog/-/blogs/tracing-the-events-of-1989

Europeana – The success of Hispana
http://pro.europeana.eu/pro-blog/-/blogs/the-success-of-hispana


New YIVO Project Digitizes, Reunites Ransacked Pre-War Jewish Archive
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/international/new-project-seeks-digitize-1000-years-jewish-history

Nuremberg stenographer’s mementos to be auctioned
http://www.auctioncentralnews.com/index.php/features/auction-houses/13272

Auschwitz: la vérité (suite à l’ouverture des archives nazies conservées à Moscou par le KGB)
http://www.lexpress.fr/informations/auschwitz-la-verite_595879.html

Allemagne – Importante découverte d’archives sur les déportés NN (Nuit et Brouillard) d’Esterwegen
http://www.fndirp.asso.fr/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/PR889-site-11.pdf

Pope Pius XII and World War II: new archival evidence
http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2014/09/30/pope_pius_xii_and_world_war_ii_new_archival_evidence/1107594

Pirate Attacks, Corruption & Treasure Revealed in Vatican Archives
http://www.livescience.com/48067-pirate-tale-revealed-in-vatican-archives.html

Elusive Mozart Piano Sonata Manuscript Found in Hungarian Library Archives
http://www.theviolinchannel.com/mozart-piano-sonata-11-hungarian-archives-found/

Netherlands – Using design thinking to connect the physical and digital at the Rijksmuseum: an interview with Shailoh Philips
http://designthinkingformuseums.net/2014/09/25/design-thinking-at-rijksmuseum/

Romain Gary, “né à Vilnius” : la Lituanie exhume des archives inédites
http://culturebox.francetvinfo.fr/livres/romans/romain-gary-ne-a-vilnius-la-lituanie-exhume-des-archives-inedites-191279

Denmark wins Open Government Award
http://www.copcap.com/Newslist/2014/denmark-wins-open-government-award

See What’s Buried in the Swiss Bunkers Turned Into Secretive Data Centers
http://www.wired.com/2014/09/yann-mingard-deposit/

Suisse – Les archives littéraires de Maurice Zermatten entreposées à Genève
http://www.tdg.ch/culture/Les-archives-litteraires-de-Maurice-Zermatten-entreposees-a-Geneve/story/26433363

Luxembourg – Archives nationales: des sources historiques uniques sur Internet
http://www.gouvernement.lu/4051997/30-archives-internet

France – Le standard d’échange de données pour l’archivage (Seda) : du standard à la norme
http://www.archimag.com/archives-patrimoine/2014/09/29/seda-standard-echange-donnees-archivage-standard-norme

Collections sonores de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, un trésor en cours de numérisation
http://culturebox.francetvinfo.fr/tendances/numerique/collections-sonores-de-la-bnf-un-tresor-en-cours-de-numerisation-190689

Long-Lost Silent Sherlock Holmes Movie is Found
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/long-lost-silent-sherlock-holmes-737417

Ireland – Death by a thousand cuts: the terrible way we treat our national library and national museum
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/culture-shock-death-by-a-thousand-cuts-the-terrible-way-we-treat-our-national-library-and-national-museum-1.1942929

Ireland – Love old ads? A whole load of them are set to be archived
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/love-old-ads-whole-load-them-set-archived-190555431.html

Ireland – These images from 1970s Limerick are fantastic
http://www.thejournal.ie/from-limerick-with-love-1688559-Sep2014/

England and Wales – Relatives of adopted adults now able to trace family tree
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2014/09/relatives-of-adopted-adults-now-able-to.html

UK –  Parody copyright laws set to come into effect
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29408121

Imperial War Museum asks public to help chart history of WWII American airmen in England
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/world-war-two/art501052-imperial-war-museum-appeals-for-help-with-web-project-charting-history-of-wwii-american-airmen-in-england

UK National Archives – First World War short film competition opens
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/963.htm

UK National Archives – Introducing our online design guide
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/introducing-design-guide/

UK – Record highest monthly visitor numbers to museums
http://www.gov.uk/government/news/record-highest-monthly-visitor-numbers-to-museums

Artists Make Works Using BBC Archive
http://news.artnet.com/in-brief/artists-make-works-using-bbc-archive-117093

Two Persian ‘Ming’ manuscripts on view at the British Museum
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/asian-and-african/2014/09/two-persian-ming-manuscripts-on-view-at-the-british-museum.html

Victorian keep-fit exercises and gym regimes revealed
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-28858090

Day out at the gallows and other bygone photographic oddities
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29246071

Photographic archive of wacky inventions spanning the last 100 years, in pictures
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/11133097/Photographic-archive-of-wacky-inventions-spanning-the-last-100-years-in-pictures.html

Digital archive unlocks canal secrets
http://canalrivertrust.org.uk/news-and-views/news/digital-archive-unlocks-canal-secrets

World’s oldest photography studio opens its archives
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/11128160/Worlds-oldest-photography-studio-opens-its-archives.html

Yorkshire – Archives opened to young people in Great War project
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/world-war-one/archives-opened-to-young-people-in-great-war-project-1-6867634

University of Leeds – Artist draws on First World War archive for inspiration
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/3594/artist_draws_on_first_world_war_archive_for_inspiration

St Ives Archive receives national award for Women in Industry project
http://www.cornishman.co.uk/St-Ives-Archive-receives-national-award-Women/story-22972259-detail/story.html

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Iran state TV accuses BBC of document theft from government archives
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/28/iran-state-tv-accuses-bbc-document-theft-government-archives

Open Letter Calling on United Nations to Ban Trade in Syrian Artifacts
http://diary.thesyriacampaign.org/un-ban-the-trade-in-syrian-antiquities/

UK adopts resolution prohibiting the import of antiquities from Syria
http://www.savingantiquities.org/uk-adopts-resolution-prohibiting-import-antiquities-syria/

Looting Antiquities, a Fundamental Part Of ISIS’ Revenue Stream
http://www.npr.org/2014/09/29/352538352/looting-antiquities-a-fundamental-part-of-isis-revenue-stream

International
World Intellectual Property Organisation General Assembly Fails to Draw any Conclusions on Exceptions and Limitations
http://www.ifla.org/node/9075

Yahoo Directory, once the firm’s cornerstone, to shut down
http://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-directory-once-the-companys-cornerstone-to-shut-down/

So long Lotus 1-2-3: IBM ceases support after over 30 years of code
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/02/so_long_lotus_123_ibm_ceases_support_after_over_30_years_of_code/

Happy birthday compact disc
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/sound-and-vision/2014/10/happy-birthday-compact-disc.html

A Defining Question in an iPhone Age: Live for the Moment or Record It?
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/28/fashion/a-defining-question-in-an-iphone-age-live-for-the-moment-or-record-it.html

Rare, Signed and Forged
http://www.rarebooksdigest.com/2014/09/26/rare-signed-and-forged/

Successful engagement for records and information management projects
http://futureproof.records.nsw.gov.au/successful-engagement-for-records-and-information-management-projects/

Discovering hidden languages in centuries-old writing
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/discovering-hidden-languages-centuries-old-writing

Podcasting industry starts to fulfil its financial potential: ubiquitous smartphones and improved wireless internet access are leading to a new boom time for downloadable audio
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/sep/30/podcast-revival-profits-business-listeners

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