Hi / Bonjour
Exceptionally, the Documentary Heritage News will not be published next week. / Exceptionnellement, les Nouvelles du patrimoine documentaire ne seront pas publiées la semaine prochaine.
Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Setting the Stage for the Future: Speech by the Acting Librarian and Archivist of Canada to the Association des archivistes du Québec at the Congrès 2014
Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada – Annual Report 2013–2014
NARA – Open Government Plan 2014-2016
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian – Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1914
Article – National Library of Wales: Digital Collections as Research Infrastructure
De la communauté / From the community
Society of American Archivists – Code of Conduct (Draft for Comments)
Article – Professional Decline and Resistance: the Case of Library and Archives Canada
Publications
American Archivist, vol. 77, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2014)
Practical Technology for Archives, no. 2 (June 2014)
Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, vol. 26, no. 4 (2014)
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 65, no. 6 (June 2014)
Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 40, no. 5 (June/July 2014)
School of Library and Information Science (San Jose State University) Student Research Journal, vol. 4, no. 1 (2014)
Book – Collecting, Curating, and Researching Writers’ Libraries: a Handbook
Book – Written here, Published there: how Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain
Book – Preserving Complex Digital Objects
Book – Copyright for Academic Librarians and Professionals
Book – The Russian Army in the First World War: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Book – Fundamentals and Evolution of MPEG-2 Systems: Paving the MPEG Road
Book – Digital Access and E-Government: Perspectives from Developing and Emerging Countries
Book – Managing Active Business Records
Livre – CD-R et DVD-R sont-ils des supports pérennes d’archivage ?
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Copyright in the 21st Century: Understanding Domestic and International Trends
June 21, 2014, Vancouver
Première assemblée générale de l’association francophone des humanités numériques
8 juillet 2014, Lausanne
International Conference on Cultural Heritage
November 3-8, 2014, Lemessos (Cyprus)
Webinar – UK National Archives: Cloud Storage and Digital Preservation (Recordings Available)
May 13, 2014
Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage (Presentations Available)
May 19-20, 2014, Madrid
Sur le web / On the web
Harvards Above: the History of World War Two RAF Fleet Air Arm Training in Kingston & Gananoque, Ontario
DMPTool (Data Management Plans Tool) version 2
Slidecast – Records Management for Archivists: Embracing the Dark Side
The Archival Platform Registry (of South African Archival and Memory Institutions and Organisations)
DigArch: a News Aggregator for Digital Archivists
Librarians and Archivists with Palestine – New Website and Solidarity Network
Video Interviews – Experts Discuss Digital Preservation
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Ottawa still improperly collecting info on people requesting access-to-information
Library and Archives Canada releases an updated version of the Immigrants from China database
Library and Archives Canada Acquires Emily Carr’s Journal of Queen Victoria’s Funeral
Information and Privacy Commissioners for Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia – Letter regarding Bill C-13, the Cyberbullying and Lawful Access Bill
Information and Privacy Commissioner to investigate Alberta government’s Freedom of Information requests after allegations of interference
Community Pop Up Museum showcases memorabilia of Torontonians
Queen’s University launches digitzed records of more than 1,000 Kingston-area families
North Vancouver Museum and Archives sure of its ‘Pipe’ dream
Stuart Thomson climbed into a biplane to take Vancouver’s first aerial photographs in 1919
Glooscap Heritage Centre and Mi’kmaw Museum (Nova Scotia) collecting memories for digital archive project
Centre du patrimoine de Saint-Boniface – Projets d’été 2014
Anola (Manitoba) – Municipal record keeper and grave finder honoured
Cornwall (Ont.) – Genealogy group to occupy part of basement at library
North Perth (Ont.) Wants Alternative Archive Access
Une année faste pour la Société d’histoire d’Amos
Drummondville – Des boîtes d’archives locales et sur mesure
La MRC de Charlevoix-Est poursuit ses démarches pour les archives de la Société Historique de Charlevoix
Afrique / Africa
Certaines archives sur l’histoire du Burundi volatilisées
Triompher de l’oubli, la dernière guerre des tirailleurs sénégalais
Le projet « Capital numérique » veut ressusciter et commercialiser les archives audiovisuelles africaines
Declassified U.N. Cables Reveal Turning Point in Rwanda Crisis of 1994
Amériques / Americas
Bahamas – Groups to unite for Freedom of Information rally
NSA Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images
US Secret Service seeks Twitter sarcasm detector
U.S. Federal Records Managers Caught in Squeeze
Thousands of secret investigation files on folk protest singer Peter Seeger will be published on National Archives website
NASA Ames Wrangles Data with Active Archive
Feds push for removal of Spearfish’s D.C. Booth National Historic Fish Hatchery and Archives
Collective Forgetting: Inside the Smithsonian’s Curatorial Crisis
Most Territorial Court Records Will Stay in Alaska
Idaho State Archives digitizing historical newspapers
South Carolina State Library – New Digitization Program for Libraries Announced
Delaware Public Archives adds World War II material to its collection
University of Buffalo launches online LGBT archive
University of Georgia Extension, Digital Library of Georgia release first series of historic farm photos
Harry Ransom Center (University of Texas at Austin) – Meet the Staff: Archivist Amy Armstrong
Yale Film Study Center Joins International Federation of Film Archives
Detroit – Saving our past, one architectural record at a time
Myrtle Beach library unveils air force base archives
Cherokee Nation helps translate Cherokee archives at Gilcrease Museum (Oklahoma)
Exhibiting .gifs: an Interview with curator Jason Eppink
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Budget 2014: axe to fall on government agencies in search for savings (back-office functions of the National Archives and other cultural institutions will be merged)
Australia’s human rights dialogue with China failed, National Archives reveal
Australia – Archive Plan Raises Doubts about Future Sydney LGBTI Museum
The fascinating photos that reveal lives of the thousands of people who moved to Australia after WWII
New Zealand govt proposes mandatory data breach reporting
30 000 free, downloadable images from the Museum of New Zealand’s collections
Malaysia – Mobile archive units to visit schools
Vietnam – Imperial Archives of the Nguyen dynasty: a panorama of a regime
Thai Film Archive uploads old films on YouTube
La Chine va aider l’île Maurice à numériser ses archives
China – Historical Archives of Macau to host exhibition on typhoons
Korea – National archives unveils list of Koreans killed after 1923 quake in Japan
India – Outsiders Can’t Handle Important Govt Records
Europe / Europa
Google taking requests for ‘right to be forgotten’ online in Europe
European Union commissioner: right to be forgotten is no harder to enforce than copyright
European Union – Meeting of Directors of the Historical Archives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs
Netherlands – Scientists Report Finding Reliable Way to Teleport Data
Italian exhibit commemorates World War I with previously unpublished documents
Romania – Open Data Coalition launched
The first phase of Europeana 1989 in Hungary is over
German spies will systematically monitor Facebook and Twitter accounts as part of its metadata collection project
German art firm reveals its Nazi-era records
Slovenia – Authors and Opponents of New Archive Rules Stay on Opposite Banks
Les Archives de la diplomatie albanaise rejoignent le Conseil international des Archives
Belgium – Unesco adds University of Leuven archives to Memory register
Suisse – Anciens manuscrits jurassiens numérisés et accessibles en ligne
France – Agnès Magnien quitte la direction des Archives nationales pour l’Institut National de l’Audiovisuel
France – Loi Patrimoines : Hervé Lemoine réagit à la pétition de la Fédération française de généalogie
France – La vie des services d’archives pendant l’Occupation: le cas du service d’archives municipales de Lorient
France – Comment devenir archiviste
Ireland – Cork: Treasure trove goes online in archives move
UK Copyright changes in force
UK National Archives – Talking Archiving the Arts
British Library releases over 200 Japanese and Chinese prints into Public Domain
Archiving BBC Online
This Yeast Archive is Trying to Save Endangered Beer
New film features rare footage showing how the North West faced the Great War
These Beautiful then & now Photos of Liverpool will Delight the History Nerd in You
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
The Future of the Babylonian Jewish Archives: Interview with Dr. Harold Rhode
Qatar’s International Media Museum: plans scrapped
http://britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blogs/qatar-s-international-media-museum-plans-scrapped
International Archives Day at the Modern Heritage Observatory in Lebanon
International
Future tape archaeology: speculations on the emulation of analogue environments
An Analysis Engine for the DROID CSV Export
Vanishing da Vinci: new nondestructive way to gauge degradation of ancient paper art and docs
Microsoft’s “3-D Audio” Gives Virtual Objects a Voice