Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Ontario Superior Court of Justice – Fontaine v. Canada (Destruction of Indian Residential Schools Records)
Canadian Conservation Institute – Annual Review 2012 – 2013
De la communauté / From the community
Society of American Archivists – Code of Conduct
Association des archivistes français – Fiches archives municipales / archives électroniques: gestion électronique de documents et cycle de vie
Wikimedia Foundation – First Transparency Report
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Recommendation on Digital Government Strategies
Article – Archiving Social Media in the Context of Non-print Legal Deposit
Publications
Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, vol. 48, no. 4 (2014)
Information & Culture: a Journal of History, vol. 49, no. 3 (2014)
CENDARI (Collaborative European Digital Archives Infrastructure) Newsletter (Spring & Summer 2014)
New South Wales States Records – Now & Then Newsletter, no. 69 (August 2014)
Oregon Records Management Solution Newsflash (August 2014)
Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (August 2014)
National Archives of Australia – Government Agencies Information Network e-Bulletin, no. 7 (August 2014)
Book – Digitization and Digital Archiving: a Practical Guide for Librarians
Book – Our Faithfulness to the Past: the Ethics and Politics of Memory
Book – Sustainability of Scholarly Information
Book – Crisis, Credibility and Corporate History (International Council on Archives Studies)
Book – Stories from the Battlefield: a Quick Guide to Researching World War II Records
Report – International Survey of Academic Library Data Curation Practices
Report – Trends in Rare Books and Documents Special Collections Management, 2014-15
Association of Research Libraries SPEC Kit 340 – Open Source Software
Book – Trent University: Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence
Book – The Open Book Project
Guide pratique – Dématérialisation et valorisation des données audiovisuelles
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Agile Business Intelligence and Data Lake Architecture
September 17, 2014, Toronto
Foundations for Temporal Retrieval, Exploration and Analytics in Web Archives
September 15-16, 2014, Hannover (Germany)
Massive Open Online Course – Introduction to Cybersecurity
September 22 to November 23, 2014
Born-Digital: Reformatting Humanities in the 21st Century
March 20-21, 2015, Miami
Open Repositories 2014 (Presentations Available)
June 9-13, 2014, Helsinki (Finland)
Webinar – Reordering Ranganathan: Shifting User Behaviors, Shifting Priorities (Recordings Available)
July 8, 2014
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada – Web Gallery of William Redver Stark’s Sketchbooks
Prisoners of the First World War, the International Committee of the Red Cross Archives
Making the Most of the Red Cross Prisoner of War Records: http://www.1914-1918.net/soldiers/icrc.html
UK National Archives – First World War: a Global View
Video – Researching World War I using 21st Century Digital Tools
Queensland State Archives Video – Records and Information Management Forum
Internet Archive “Save a Page” Plug-In for Chrome
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Communications Security Establishment Canada won’t say how long it keeps Canadians’ private data
National Research Centre for Truth and Reconciliation wants Algoma University partnership
Canadian Association of Law Libraries – Letter to Library and Archives Canada Re: OCLC Proposal to host Canada’s Union Catalogue
Big data and the public service
Best Canadian Genealogy Websites
Héritage preserves archival sources in Women’s History
First World War legacy: Commemorations of lives lost are all around you
First World War: Excerpts from the diary of Woodman Leonard
Albertans demand open government
Nova Scotia Archives Online Exhibit Tells Story of First World War Propaganda
In Memoriam – Louis G. Vagianos, founder of the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University
University of British Columbia – WWI Centennial: a Soldier’s Story
Montreal Jewish Public Library – Hidden Ephemera Discovered
Montreal Jewish Public Library – The Oral History Project
Calgary – City’s heritage building advocates face uphill battle
First World War postcard reproductions available at Galt Museum and Archives (Alb.)
Musée Héritage Museum (Alb.) – Staff Profile: Project Archivist
Archives Lanaudière – À la découverte de notre patrimoine
Afrique / Africa
Bénin – Assemblée nationale : Nago lance le site web et le site d’archives électroniques
Maroc – Une nouvelle loi sur l’information vient d’être adoptée: de la prison pour les fonctionnaires marocains trop bavards
Ghana – Government Asked to Strengthen Public Records and Archive Dept
Audiovisual Preservation Exchange Ghana – Degradation and obsolescence comes in the smallest forms
Amériques / Americas
Documents suggest foreign automakers aided Brazil’s dictators
Archivally correct: another Washington institution diminished
Embattled National Archives Inspector General to retire after probe finds misconduct
Is that Agency Tweet a Federal Record?
Library of Congress – Making Scanned Content Accessible Using Full-text Search and OCR
Duke’s Legacy: Video Game Source Disc Preservation at the Library of Congress
Library of Congress Acquires American Ballet Theatre Archives
Homeland Security automated file system slower than hand processing
The hackers who recovered NASA’s lost lunar photos
Secret Papers Describe Size of Terror Lists Kept by U.S.
Debunking the Department of Defense Certified Records Management Requirement Myth
Abraham Lincoln’s handwriting verified on central Illinois library book justifying racism
Smithsonian Institution – Paper Painting: Using Acrylics to Repair Leather Bindings
California – State Archives Running out of Room
Indiana – State eyes downtown site for $17M archives project
From Theory to Practice: a Summer Internship at the State Archives of North Carolina
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – Rock ‘n’ roll never forgets
NFL Hall of Fame archives tour: you’ve never seen football treasure like this
Emory University – Searching Through the Salman Rushdie Archives
Ohio University Library – Digital Preservation Policy Framework: a Case Study
Portland eyes deal with public library to store, digitize city archives
Access to Public Records isn’t a Fundamental Right, but it should be
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia – Were we at war in 1914? Nobody knew
Australia – Adelaide antiquarian bookseller, Michael Treloar, puts slides of first contact with the indigenous desert people up for sale
Archives New Zealand and National Library open the files on the First World War
http://ww100.govt.nz/archives-new-zealand-and-national-library-open-the-files-on-the-first-world-war
New Zealand – WWII veteran portraits gifted to RSA for future generations
Online access to TV New Zealand’s archives coming
Fiji – National Archives carries out awareness program
Filipinos Seek Stronger Freedom of Information Guarantee
Brunei – Maintaining the Integrity Records in State Archives
Google brings 76 more India heritage sites and rare archives online
India – Digitising memories
Europe / Europa
Droit à l’oubli: Google peine à établir la validité des demandes
Google Cultural Institute – Teaming up with Europeana to bring Europe’s culture online
Ukraine: Secret service publishes Stalin files
Russian hackers steal 1.2 billion passwords
Did Spain just declare war on the commons?
Italy’s Culture Minister Launches Plan to Reform Heritage Management
Germany – Adventures in the Berlin Archives
Malta – National Archives telegram marks start of WWI
Switzerland Continues Work on Changes to Online Copyright Rules
Belgique – Les Archives de l’État se lancent dans l’édition numérique
Belgique – Les archives de l’État mettent en ligne des documents relatifs à la Wallonie
France – Grande collecte de 14-18: les archives collectées à la Bibliothèque Nationale de France en ligne
France – Le Fonds de Louisbourg aux Archives départementales de Charente-Maritime
Ireland – Troubles archive is offered to Derry
Independent Jersey Care Inquiry – Care files destroyed to make space
UK Adopts Private Copying Exception as Some Rightholders Mull Legal Action
UK – Limitations of the Freedom of Information Act
UK judge says freedom of information means choice of digital file format
Museum Opens up Royal Air Force’s Archives
Darwin Online Digitizes the Complete Library of the HMS Beagle
Wellcome Library and Jisc take 19th-century medical archives online
World War One: rare archive footage from the start of war in 1914
Poignant archive of local men who fought in the First World War digitised by Manx Museum
Siegfried Sassoon’s war diaries published online
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Arabie saoudite – Découverte de la plus ancienne inscription en alphabet arabe par des archéologues français
Israel – Archives under Arrest
Israel State Archives – Israelis under Fire: not for the First Time
International
Fin de la controverse autour de la traduction de « records »
Scientists Figure out how to Record Audio by Seeing Vibrations with a Camera
Why the Security of USB Is Fundamentally Broken
The modern myths of information governance training, storage costs
Preservation vs Presentation: is Digital Display a Solution for Museums?
Digital art history project draws on Getty Vocabulary data to map the migration of artists across 3,000 years
Liquid hard drive could store 1TB data in a tablespoon
Preservations of Silence in the Queer Archive