Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
European Union – Handbook on European Data Protection Law (2nd Edition)
UK National Archives – Annual Report and Accounts 2013-2014
NARA – Information Security Oversight Office Annual Report to the President
National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda – Rwanda Metadata Handbook
De la communauté / From the community
European Public Sector Information Platform – Public Sector Information in Cultural Heritage Institutions
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Model for Tabular Data and Metadata on the Web & Metadata Vocabulary for Tabular Data (Draft for Comments)
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World – Current Practice in Linked Open Data for the Ancient World
Center for Global Development – Delivering on the Data Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa
Association of European Research Libraries – Case Studies Released on Research Data Management in Libraries
Publications
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 65, no. 8 (August 2014)
Journal of Documentation, vol. 70, no. 4 (2014)
Italian Journal of Library and Information Science, vol. 5, no. 2 (2014)
International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, vol. 10, no. 1, 2014 (Special issue: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Documenting Performance)
Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (July 2014)
Book – Recordkeeping, Compliance and the Law
Book – Toward a More Balanced Approach: Rethinking and Readjusting Copyright Systems in the Digital Network Era
Book – Authenticity and Replication: the Real Thing in Art and Conservation
Book – Data Classification: Algorithms and Applications
Book – Prisoners, Lovers, and Spies: the Story of Invisible Ink from Herodotus to al-Qaeda
Livre – Claude Simon : les vies de l’archive
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Exhibit – Sovereign Nation: Paths of Resistance and Decolonization
Until July 27, 2014, Anchor Archive Zine Library (Halifax)
Exposition – Amos, il y a cent ans… sur les traces du missionnaire colonisateur Ivanhoë Caron
Jusqu’au 21 décembre 2014, Société d’histoire d’Amos
Webinar – Understanding Rights for Cultural Heritage Content
July 17, 2014
Webinar – Supporting the Digital Humanities on your Campus
July 17, 2014
Archival Access and the Resource Description Framework (RDF)
October 16, 2014, Prato (Italy)
Exploring Historical Sources with Language Technology: Results and Perspectives
December 8-9, 2014, The Hague (Netherlands)
Rethinking Early Photography
June 15-17, 2015, University of Lincoln
Métadonnées et confiance : quelles normes pour les échanges entre communautés ? (présentations disponibles)
27 juin 2014, Paris
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Between the Sheets
German Bundesarchiv Launched a Portal about First World War
Humanistica: Association francophone des humanités numériques
The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) now has a Blog
Bibliothèque nationale de France – La France en cartes
Blog – Cooking in the Archives: Updating Early Modern Recipes (1600-1800) in a Modern Kitchen
Slidecast – Ingest into the Digital Preservation Network: Standard Pipelines
Video – A Look Inside the National Film Registry
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Superior Court to hear residential school testimonies case
Library and Archives Canada – Today’s information, tomorrow’s story
Guy Berthiaume: the enigma of departure
Photographs of First World War still horrify, even those ‘faked’
Canadiana: Putting Canadian history online
Nova Scotia appoints new freedom of information review officer
Most Alberta freedom of information requests get no results
Ontario – Huronia survivors told some case files are missing
Archives of Ontario – Marking WWI with a Travelling Exhibit
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec – Les fonds d’architectes et le tri qualitatif
The McGill School of Information Studies joins the Faculty of Arts
Obituary – Sam Rothstein (founder of the Faculty of Librarianship at the University of British Columbia)
University of British Columbia – Memories of the First World War
Audio-Visual Heritage Association of British Columbia – Revelstoke: A Kiss in the Wind
Lac-Mégantic : le passé de la ville en images
Pour la mémoire de Lac-Mégantic
Early architecture records donated to Region of Waterloo Archives
Oshawa (Ont.) – Del Mastro trial: Battle looms over computer records
Afrique / Africa
Benin – Combining theory and practice: workshop aims to preserve photographs of African history
Amériques / Americas
Brazil: Torture Techniques Revealed in Declassified U.S. Documents
Dictature argentine: les meurtriers d’un évêque condamnés, des archives du Vatican versées au dossier
CIA employee’s quest to release information ‘destroyed my entire career’
Legal and Political Issues Raised by the Loss of Emails at the IRS
Errant spot of ink causes serious misunderstanding of U.S. Declaration of Independence, scholar says
Denied! Appeals court rejects former Gawker editor’s demand for Bush-Cheney library records
Audio: Nixon’s Secret White House Tapes
Decades-Old Rwandan Genocide U.S. Documents Withheld Under B(5) FOIA Exemption, Researches Forced to look Abroad For Transparency
Chronicling America’s Historic German Newspapers and the Growth of the American Ethnic Press
Digitization Successes of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Feds push electronic health records that make fraud easier
Music Vault unleashes 13,000 videos on YouTube
Extending the Life of a Story Through Taxonomy at National Public Radio
Mississippi history, archive director reflects on 42 years
State Archives of North Carolina Supports Digitization Projects
Arizona Homestead records from the National Archives to be digitized and made accessible online
Family Bible records now available on Tennessee State Library and Archives website
Hoover Institution – Foreign Intelligence Files Added to Estonian KGB Digital Collection
Lost Irish language ‘talkie’ featuring Man of Aran cast discovered in Harvard archives
Northern Virginia Civil Rights Archive dedicated at George Mason University
Northeastern University – When history goes digital
Archives From Prisons in New York Are Digitized
Immigrant Archive Project Records the Lives that Made America
Archivist wraps up career of saving Kansas City’s past from dustbin (literally) of history
The Letters That Warren G. Harding’s Family Didn’t Want You to See
When Copy and Paste Reigned in the Age of Scrapbooking
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia opens doors to hackers
Australia – National Archives’ move to State Library building in Adelaide
Cambodia – Most of the knowledge we have about the arts here is very anecdotal: the Java Cafe and Gallery has launched a public archives
US Navy archivists find old photos of 1898 Spanish-American War in the Philippines
Oscar organizers archive Beijing Olympic film
India – All is not lost in Bombay Talkies fire (all films are safe)
Why India does not have Indian declassified archival records?
Europe / Europa
Court ruling to boost access to European Union documents
Librarians and Archivists Concerned Digital Content Licences Overriding Exceptions, Limitations
What is Google deleting under the ‘right to be forgotten’ – and why?
Ukraine – Armed people seize office at regional archive building in Donetsk
Radio archives bring Czechoslovak history to life
Restoration and digitisation: a visit to the Czech National Film Archive
Ikea funds went to Romanian secret police in communist era: secret police files reveal six-figure payments to Ceausescu’s henchmen
East German secret police files still relevant
KGB papers, kept in secret since 1992, released by British archive
Unveiled British archive highlights KGB’s 1968 sabotage campaign in Czechoslovakia
Russia Moves to Ban Online Services that don’t Store Personal Data in Russia
New Polish Vital Records Law Being Drafted (campaign by Gesher Galicia, a non-profit organization that promotes and conducts Jewish genealogical and historical research for Galicia)
Serbia – Collection of documents Yugoslavia-SSSR presented in Belgrade
Copy of Das Kapital sells for $40k just as Dow Jones hits record high
Marens Engelhard new Director Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands
Discover Italy with the Photographic Archive of the Touring Club and Expo Milano 2015
Greece – World’s earliest erotic graffiti found in unlikely setting on Aegean island
Espagne – Demande de restitution intégrale des papiers catalans
Federal Swiss Archives – Edit-a-thon in Bern gets off to a good start
France – Les archives du Président de la République sont-elles sa propriété ?
France – Gérard Ermisse (ancien directeur des Archives nationales), l’histoire au bout des archives
France – Comment mettre en valeur les débats publics grâce au web des données ? Un nouveau chantier de la Direction de l’Information légale et administrative
Un Labo Bibliothèque nationale de France dématérialisé pour la rentrée 2014
Numen remporte le nouveau marché de numérisation de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
The Boston College Tapes Document Northern Ireland’s Murderous Past
Ireland – Boston College exercise in idealism reopened old wounds
UK gov rushes through emergency law on data retention
Files on UK role in CIA rendition accidentally destroyed, says minister
UK National Archives – Warning of data ticking time bomb
War graves: First World War archive goes online
British Library – An Oral History of Wildlife Sound Recording
British Library – A newly digitised unpublished catalogue of Persian manuscripts
Punch Historical Archive goes online
Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum Houses Sport’s Greatest Collection of Books and Magazines
For sale: the £3m library that time forgot
Bath & North East Somerset Council – Archivists Discover 250-Year-Old Weather Diary
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Helmi Namnam appointed head of Egypt’s National Library and Archives
Oman – The National Archives and Records Authority signs contract on Arab al Manhal database
International
Google WWI View: Explore First World War trenches and watch the Western Front evolve as Germany and Allies forged their attacks
My Favorite Animal, the Book Scorpion
How to remove sticky tape from documents?
Public Domain Charter 101
Misunderstanding Metadata
When Irreplaceable History Lives on Obsolete Tech
Tag and Release: Acquiring & Making Available Infinitely Reproducible Digital Objects
La description archivistique à l’ère du numérique (partie 2)
Quality assured ARC to WARC migration