Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
European Commission – Towards an Integrated Approach to Cultural Heritage for Europe
European Commission – Report on the Responses to the Public Consultation on the Review of the European Union Copyright Rules
Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia – A Failure to Archive: Recommendations to Modernize Government Information Management
British Columbia – Minister of Technology, Innovation and Citizens Statement on Government’s Records Management Practices
De la communauté / From the community
University of British Columbia Library Digitization Centre – Impact and Activity Report 2011-2014
PrestoCentre – AV Digitisation and Digital Preservation TechWatch Report, no. 2
PrestoCentre Overview of Manuals
Article – Small Scale, Big Change: the Impact of Social Media (Archives Portal Europe)
Publications
International Journal of Digital Curation, vol. 9, no. 1 (2014)
International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 14, no. 3-4 (August 2014)
Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, vol. 10, no. 2 (2014)
Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 2 (2014)
Arbido: périodique de l’Association des archivistes suisses et de Bibliothèque information suisse (2/2014)
The Halcyon: the Newsletter of the Friend of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto), no. 53 (2014)
National Library of Scotland Newsletter (July 2014)
New York Archives magazine, vol. 14, no. 1 (Summer 2014)
Book – Charlottetown: Then and Now
Book – Towards a New Understanding of Sraffa: Insights from Archival Research
Book – Letting Go of Legacy Services: Library Case Studies
Book – Transmedia Frictions: the Digital, the Arts, and the Humanities
Book – LIS Education in Developing Countries: the Road Ahead
Livre – Lieux de mémoire, patrimoine et histoire en Afrique de l’Ouest
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Government Information Day
October 16, 2014, Ottawa
Webinar – To Standardise or Not: is Normalisation of Video a Thing of the Past?
July 30, 2014
Webinar – Rise of the Databrarian
October 16, 2014
Forum archives numériques et mémoire culturelle
10 november 2014, Berlin
1st International Congress of Cultural Heritage and New Technologies
December 4-5, 2014, Mexico City
Connecting Communities: Storytelling and the Digital Archive Conference
March 27-28, 2015, University of Leeds (UK)
Course – First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Time of Crisis
March 30- April 25, 2015, Amsterdam
International Internet Preservation Consortium Conference General Assembly (Recordings Available)
May 19-23, 2014, Paris
Sur le web / On the web
UK Parliament Video – Public Administration Select Committee: Preservation of Historical Files in the Civil Service
Petition to the Italian Minister of Culture to save the Archival Supervision Agencies
Netherlands National Commission for UNESCO – Culture under Attack: Photo Exhibition on Cultural Heritage and Armed Conflict
Video – Cultural Heritage Institutions are the Guardians of the Public Domain
Slidecast – Assessing the Quality of Web Archives
Slidecast – Towards Linked Vital Registration Data for Reconstituting Families and Creating Longitudinal Health Histories
Video – Europeana Newspapers
Video – University of California Libraries Digital Collection: a Year in Review
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Millions of police requests for Canadians’ data every year, documents show
Shelly Glover staffers remove ugly details from Wikipedia
One third of access to information requests take at least four months to release
Canadiana seeks feedback to improve genealogy collections
New Brunswick – Increased funding announced for archival activities
Thank you note from Council of Archives New Brunswick: http://canbarchives.ca/canb/533/Blog
Québec – La Commission d’accès à l’information est vigilante
In Memoriam: remembering the First World War at University of Toronto
University of Waterloo – Kitchener and the First World War
Álvaro Siza Decides the Fate of his Archives (part of it will be given to the Canadian Center for Architecture)
Massive Quebec vintage clothing archive for sale in Toronto
Edmonton Public Library – Call for Digitized Local Concert Poster Collections
Burlington photographer donates 500,000 negatives to Hamilton Public Library (Ont.)
Do you have photos to lend Baycrest Museum for an exhibition about the history of medicine in Toronto’s Jewish community
Galt Museum & Archives (Alb.) – Sketches of Tommy’s Life in France (WWI)
Township of Esquimalt (B.C.) Launches Archives Digitization Project
Brant and Brantford (Ont.) land records moving to Charlotte Street museum
Amériques / Americas
Washington D.C. launches Freedom of Information Act portal, transparency initiative
Federal Depository Library Program – Web Archiving
The dirty truth about missing emails
Lois Lerner emails reveal gaping open-records loophole
Tale of the Tapes: IRS head confirms investigators have found backup tapes in Lerner probe
Unclassified JFK Assassination Database Still Stored In Top Secret Vault, for Convenience
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum Digital Library now Live
NARA – U.S. World War I Centennial Commission
National Archives to Release Restricted Clinton Files on Bin Laden, Al Gore Campaign
NARA – Relocation of Personnel Records to National Archives at St. Louis
Historic Record of 1918 Cadillac Added to Library of Congress Archive
Society of American Archivists – Call for Case Studies in Archival Ethics
Delaware’s new data destruction law takes effect January 1, 2015
Arkansas Historical Commission Relaunches Online Digital Archives
www.Ulukau.org holds a digital archive of Hawaiian language materials
Rutgers University – Researcher Builds Archive of Translated Anglo-Saxon Narrative Poetry
How Did The Largest Collection Of Hemingway’s Writings End Up In Boston?
The Man who Filmed Early Anchorage (Alaska)
Human rights group donating records to Duke library
Elvis’ library card, movie script to be auctioned at Graceland
Sexual Minorities Archives: Fights to Stay Active in Northampton
Understanding the Participatory Culture of the Web: An Interview with Henry Jenkins
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Au Japon, avec les conservateurs de jeux vidéo
Maurice – Mauritius Post : La numérisation des archives en cours
India – 1947 Partition Archive: Preserving the Past
Indian Govt looks to provide free access to publicly-funded research works
India – Govt to Implement New Scheme to Archive Films: Javadekar
Europe / Europa
Ukraine – How Web archivists and other digital sleuths are unraveling the mystery of MH17
Germany puts 700,000 WWI docs online
The Russian Government’s 7,000 Wikipedia Edits
Romanian cave holds some of the oldest human footprints
Failed sale of 1869 Karl Marx letter disappoints Chinese capitalists who set the price too high
Telefonica signs deal to digitise Spanish library archives
Google could face criminal proceedings in Italy if it doesn’t clean up its act on privacy
Venice – How To Scan 50 Miles of Historical Documents Into an Online Archive
Belgium – Centenary of the Destruction of the University of Leuven Library
Les archives de René Barjavel accueillies par la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Ireland – Cork history catalogue is now available online
Scotland – Warning digital data evidence unreliable
Wales – Scores of valuable maps still missing 15 years after they were plundered from National Library
Comparing the UK’s three national archives
How does LAC rate?
UK – Open document formats selected to meet user needs
Terror flight files saved: Pressure grows on ministers to release ‘water-damaged’ records about rendition of suspects after they dried out
Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland announces first awareness campaign for Records Management
At last, a home for black history: the launch of the Black Cultural Archives will show that our presence in the UK is measured in millennium
English Heritage appeals to public to tag vast collection of First World War aerial photos
WWI time machine: Cambridgeshire history experts to recreate life in 1914
Millions of Staffordshire historical records go online
Print or manuscript? Civilité type in early modern England
World War One autograph book donated to Cambridge hospital
Secret message found in WW1 kilt
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
The Politics of 1948 in Israeli Archives
International
To Infinity and Beyond: why Metadata Matters
Records management strategy still in infancy in many enterprises
New technology could spoil your illegal downloading
The Vinyl Record Meets the 3D Printing Revolution
Digital archaeologists dig up internet’s past
Conversations about digital information management and digital disposal