Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
NARA – Determining the Appropriate Age for Scheduling Permanent Records Transfers (Draft for Comments)
New Zealand – Giving better effect to the Privacy Act: New Privacy Commissioner Naming Policy (Draft)
Texas State Library & Archives Commission – Change to Stage Agency Retention Schedule Recertification Rules
De la communauté / From the community
From Theory to Action: Good Enough Digital Preservation for Under-Resourced Cultural Heritage Institutions
Religious Archives Group – Mapping Religion Related Audio-Visual Collections in the UK
The Smithsonian Interview Project: Questions on Technical Standards in the Care of Time-Based and Digital Art: Ten Insights from Artists and Experts in the Field
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Linked Data Platform Best Practices and Guidelines
Article – Improved Typesetting Models for Historical OCR
Article – Comment faire admettre un document ou une information issus des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication à titre de preuve judiciaire ? (France)
Publications
Literary and Linguistic Computing, vol. 29, no. 3, September 2014 (Special Issue on Digital Humanities 2013: Freedom to Explore)
Library Hi Tech, vol. 32, no 3 (2014)
Broadsheet: Newsletter of the Scottish Council on Archives, no. 30 (2014)
Journal of the National Archives of the United Arab Emirates, vol. 6, no. 11 (2014)
Everything Old is New Again: News From the York University Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections (Fall 2014)
South Peace (Alberta) Regional Archives Society newsletter, vol. 5, no. 4 (September 2014)
Preserve: Quarterly Hallmark Heritage Society (B.C.) Newsletter, vol. 42, no. 2 (Autumn 2014)
Book – Heritage Crime: Progress, Prospects and Prevention
Book – The Philosophy of Information Quality
Book – Semantic Knowledge Representation for Information Retrieval
Book – Photography in Japan 1853-1912
Audio – First World War: 1914: Voices from the BBC Archive
Book – Classification in Theory and Practice (2nd Edition)
Brochure – Copyright and Unpublished Material
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Portraits of the Great War: Archives Vignette Exhibition
August 20 – November 3, 2014, Medicine Hat (Alberta)
Reconciliation: in our City, in our Archives
September 15, 2014, Ottawa
Genealogy Courses in Toronto
September 20 – November 26, 2014, Toronto
Government Information Day (Registrations now Open)
October 16 2014, Ottawa
Outils stratégiques d’évaluation des archives
18 novembre 2014, Montréal
Feminist Libraries and Archives Gathering
September 13-14, 2014, Nottingham (UK)
Webinar – Encoded Archival Description 3 (EAD3): What’s New?
October 23, 2014
2nd Workshop on Big Humanities Data
October 27 2014, Washington D.C.
Webinar – Open Data for the Social Sector (Recordings Available)
8th US Government Geospatial PDF Working Group (Presentations Available)
July 24, 2014, Washington D.C.
Webinar – Islandora: Archives & Special Collections (Recordings Available)
August 28, 2014
Sur le web / On the web
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Released as Linked Open Data
Archive of Digital Art is now Online
Vidéo – En quoi consistent les droits d’auteur associés à une oeuvre?
Video – Summer Camp for Book Nerds (at the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School)
Slidecast – Audiovisual Alacrity: Managing Timely Access to Audiovisual Collections
Slidecast – Memento “Time Travel for the Web” 101
WebCultures Mailing List (a Focused List on Web History and “Allied Fields”)
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
To delete or not to delete e-mail? That is the federal question
Directive to delete emails raises red flag for some
WWI: How Canada remembers its fallen
Canada struggled to produce official historical record of First World War
Victims of Communism memorial (to be built between LAC and the Supreme Court of Canada) cost jumps to $4M
Library and Archives Canada – Capital City Portraits: Faces from the Topley Collection
Pierre Trudeau’s Arctic policy sparked friction with U.S.: Parts of 1980s CIA handbook on the Canadian Arctic released under Freedom of Information laws
3D printers widely accessible at libraries, makerspaces
The First Newfoundland Film
Toronto mayoral candidates debate heritage preservation
What bars used to look like in Toronto
University of Toronto – The Teresa and José Gavinha Júnior Collection of Portuguese Postcards
Archives de l’Archidiocèse de Montréal – Info-archives: la grande guerre
B.C. – Our history: recapturing the glory of a people
Chilliwack Museum and Archives (B.C.) – Almost a century of The Chilliwack Progress now online
City of Vaughan Archives (Ont.) – Engaging the Community
Corner Brook Museum & Archives (Newfoundland) – Walbourne-Gough talks importance of museum and archives in the arts
Crowds come out to celebrate Oshawa (Ont.) library’s 150th
Afrique / Africa
Congo – Musique : les archives de l’association Bisso na Bisso prennent feu
Archives nationales de Madagascar – Formation archivistique juillet 2014
Botswana – The hidden treasures in Philately Museum
South Africa – Cape Town initiative to restore old films
Amériques / Americas
Lifting the Sentence of Secrecy in Chile
Paraguay awaiting presidential sign off on what will be the world’s 100th access to information law
Puerto Rico’s General Archives has been renamed in honor of the late historian Ricardo Alegría
New Snowden leak: how National Security Agency shared 850-billion-plus metadata records
Why PACER removed access to case archives of five courts
FBI Digitizes Millions of Files in Modernization Push
Declassification of the Manhattan District History at the Department of Energy
Library of Congress racing to preserve vast CD collection
US National Archives achieves conservation efforts with LED luminaires from Lumenpulse
National Library of Medicine Launches Pictures of Nursing: the Zwerdling Postcard Collection
Feds Creating Database to Track Hate Speech on Twitter
As Kodak Negotiates Film’s Future With Studios, Archivists Seek Digital Options
Asserting Rights We Don’t Have: Libraries and Archives and Permission to Publish
The secret language of food: we analysed thousands of US menus and found we could predict prices just from the words
Archive of Pre-holocaust Jewish Images Digitized
State Archives of North Carolina – Approving Local Government Records Retention and Disposition Schedules
Utah – State records office denies Cedar Hills group’s records request
Kentucky – More than 190,000 boxes with state history moved to new Frankfort building
Seeing the Great Depression: a new project from Yale University invites viewers to explore some 175,000 images of America in the 1930s and ’40s
Cornell University archive seeks material about microbreweries
Kansas State University creating digital archive of agriculture writing
Natasha Tretheway Former Poet Laureate adds archives to Emory University library
Photos from the Los Angeles city archives now online
The Movie Crypt at the Top of the Stairs: at DuArt, Thousands of Unclaimed Films
First Superman issue sold for $3.5 million on eBay
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Archivist Diana Bertolini Uncovers Mrs. Lovett’s Pie Shop
Interview with Roundabout Theatre Company Archivist, Tiffany Nixon
Startup Company Devises New Audio File Format
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Library of Australia – Lassoing a hurricane: Rewriting Social Media Policy
National Archives of Australia – Boost for Australian archival research
Australia – National Film and Sound Archives preserves Gaywaves
Australia – Fears in the field as Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation shuts library doors
Australia – Federal police mistakenly publish metadata from criminal investigations
Australia – Mystery surrounds the discovery of a 19th century tintype portrait of a young Aboriginal woman
New Zealand – New Taranaki Maori archive and training centre
Hong Kong Martial Arts Living Archive – Campaign turns to the crowd to preserve Kung fu’s ancient heritage
Let the Khmer Rouge Record Show: Cambodia Shouldn’t Censor the Khmer Rouge Court’s files
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/opinion/cambodia-shouldnt-censor-the-khmer-rouge-courts-files.html
Borneo – The importance of proper record keeping
Philippine – University of Santo Tomas documents in ancient baybayin script declared a National Cultural Treasure
Chinese group appeals to Japan’s emperor over artefact taken from China over a century ago
India – Oil Ministry to digitise files and important data
India – Commerce Ministry weeds out 24,338 files during June-July
India – Jews leave a digital footprint on Kolkata
Europe / Europa
Europeana – Introducing the EUHeritageTOUR project
Eastern Ukraine’s museums told to hide their collections
Czech Republic – The Company that (Still) Feeds your Vinyl Record Obsession
President Andrej Kiska wants letter allowing 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion in Slovak archives
Les fonds des bibliothèques russes seront disponibles sur les smartphones en 2015
Malta – Every day is Christmas at the Notarial Archives
Portugal government approves new copyright tax on digital devices
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/portugal-govt-approves-new-copyright-tax-on-digital-devices–1032739
Researcher’s mission to show Nazis’ silencing of music during Holocaust
Linked Open Data at the National library of the Netherlands
Norwegian Mapping Authority releases 8000 historic maps under open creative commons license
La Bibliothèque nationale de France lance un appel aux dons pour acquérir un Trésor national
Interpol à la poursuite d’une lettre manuscrite de Napoléon
France – The Archives Nationales, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine
France – Villeneuve-d’Ascq, une démarche volontaire et artisanale d’archivage électronique
France – Grande vente de documents d’écrivains du XXe siècle chez Sotheby’s
Un maire noir de Paris en 1879, effacé des archives et de l’Histoire
National Archives of Ireland – 1923-1951 testamentary records searchable online
UK National Archives – The day the White House burned
UK National Archives – From airhead to Top Gun: researching Second World War RAF pilots
British Library – User driven digital preservation with Interject
Rare recording of Windsor soldier who fought during WW1
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Egypt – Culture, planning ministers urge opening national library and archives, Abdul Nasser museum soon
United Arab Emirates – Ministry of Labour adopts new techniques to archive data
Iraq and Syria’s cultural heritage face new threat from fanatics: fears grow that social media savvy Islamic State is exploiting monitors’ lists
International
Open Government countries ranking 2013 (based on Open Government Partnership data)
Sharing the knowledge: taking notes on open data from records managers and archivists
The International Committee of the Red Crosse Archive is Opening its Records from 1966-1975
Untangling the Knot of CAD Preservation
Google’s fact-checking bots build vast knowledge bank
Can computers replace historians?
The mistery of images: rare photographs often present an archival conundrum
Tumblr and why Archives Should Try it
The Invention of the “Snapshot” Changed the Way we Viewed the World
How to Track Climate Change? Digitize a Century’s Worth of Moldy Old Records
When (not) to migrate a PDF to PDF/A
Will digitisation destroy libraries or make us stronger?