Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
UK Intellectual Property Office – Exceptions to Copyright: Libraries, Archives and Museums
De la communauté / From the community
Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland – Dickens 2012: Recording Commemorative Events in the Digital Age
Ithaka S+R – A Guide to the Best Revenue Models and Funding Sources for your Digital Resources
2014 Canada Digital Future in Focus
Tate – Digital Audience Research Report: Understanding Visitors’ Motivations and Usage of the Online Collection
The Value and Impact of Data Sharing and Curation: a Synthesis of Three Recent Studies of UK Research Data Centres
Société d’histoire et de généalogie de Matane – Rapport des activités 2013
Publications
Archive Journal, no. 4 (Spring 2014)
Culture et Recherche, no 129, hiver 2013-2014 (numéro spécial Archives et enjeux de société)
Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 1 (2014)
Ariadne, no. 72 (Mars 2014)
e-Abhilekh: Quarterly Newsletter of the National Archives of India, vol. 1, no. 3 (October-December 2013)
Book – Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia
Book – Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian Culture Online
Book – Digital Libraries Applications: CBIR, Education, Social Networks, eScience/Simulation, and GIS
Book – Digital Library Technologies: Complex Objects, Annotation, Ontologies, Classification, Extraction, and Security
Book – The Art Collector’s Handbook: a Guide to Collection Management and Care
Book – Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Surrey (B.C.) Spring Archives Series
April 12 and 19, May 3 and 10, 2014, Surrey
Canadian Society for Digital Humanities 2014
May 26-28, 2014, St. Catharines (Ont.)
Webinar – Oral History Metadata Synchronizer
April 7, 2014
Technical Drawings and their Reproductions
October 6-7, 2014, The Hague (Netherlands)
Making the Information Governance Landscape in Europe: DLM Forum 7th Triennal Conference
November 12-14, 2014, Lisbon (Portugal)
Webinar – Expressing Preservation Requirements on Audiovisual Collections (Recording Available)
March 10, 2014
Webinar – Exchange of Video Assets: Best Practices and Standards in Different Organisations (Recording Available)
March 25, 2014
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – The Virtual Gramophone: Early Canadian Sound Recordings
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec – Adoptez un livre!
Vidéo – La collection de livres anciens de l’Université de Sherbrooke révèle ses trésors
German Digital Library now Online (in German and English)
Podcast – The Video Word Made Flesh (Different Organizational Approaches and Challenges of Managing Video Collections for Access and Preservation)
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Provinces hand over aboriginal death records from residential school period
Residential school survivors notified of possible privacy breach
U.S. Calls Out Canadian Data Protection as a Trade Barrier
Info commish appeals ruling
Canada’s metadata collection worries critics
Better know a Canadian functionary: the Dominion Archivist of Canada, National Archivist of Canada and Librarian and Archivist of Canada
Minister Glover won’t halt plan to outsource Library and Archives Canada catalogue to U.S. firm
Canadian Heritage announces competition for memorial to communism’s victims (it will be located between the Supreme Court and Library and Archives Canada)
Canadian Library Association Letter to Clerk of the Privy Council about the appointment status of the new Librarian and Archivist of Canada
Ontario – Bureaucrat demoted for alleged role in records purge
Past Protection: Conservation at the Archives of Ontario
Ontario Court of Justice – E-Document Provisions do not Clear up Hearsay Problems
Une première campagne de financement pour la Fondation de BAnQ
Nova Scotia government reaches settlement in Bluenose II copyright dispute
Seed Library Takes Root at Dalhousie University: Q&A With Coordinator Jolene Reid
Archives look back at history of Expos in Montreal
Coquitlam’s (B.C.) founding papers are restored
Bruce County Museum and Cultural Centre (Ont.) to offer free admission for Archives Awareness Week
http://www.shorelinebeacon.com/2014/04/02/museum-to-offer-free-admission-for-archives-awareness-week
Afrique / Africa
Sénégal – Bibliothécaires et archivistes partants pour un enseignement supérieur de qualité
Amériques / Americas
Argentina – Dictatorship-era archives show links in repression, Malvinas
Haïti – Des nouvelles mesures pour améliorer la qualité des services aux Archives nationales
Haïti – La Bibliothèque Nationale et le Bureau Haïtien du Droit d’Auteur s’accordent pour le respect des droits d’auteur
U.S. – Freedom of Information Act exemptions provide ample cover for bureaucrats hiding agency secrets, transparency advocates say
Managing a Library of Congress Worth of Data
From Regime Change to Declassified Diplomacy (about the secret U.S. documents related to the 1964 Brazilian coup d’état)
Introducing the American Civil Liberties Union’s NSA Documents Database
U.S. National Film Preservation Foundation Unearths Lost Silents in Pact with Dutch Museum
50-year-old FBI files shed light on Iowa man’s police brutality case
Teen says U.S. government can save $400m with a typeface change
The arrest of Ivor Bell and oral history archives (the Belfast Project)
Editorial – Boston College oral history project is a disaster
Photos of Slave Descendants Donated to Smithsonian
Tennessee – State Library and Archives Receives Papers Detailing Civil War Love Story
Cherokee Heritage Center gets grant for historic documents preservation
20 000 Open Access Maps at New York Public Library
The New York Public Library Archives Just Released the Oldest Dance Videos in Existence – and They’re Beautiful
Columbia Records Executive’s Archive Headed to New York Public Library
How the Boston City Archives Crams Almost 400 Years of History in 140 Characters
New Stanford University photo archive highlights turbulent times of civil rights movement
Duke University – Rubenstein Library Acquires Radio Haiti Archives
Harvard discovers three of its library books are bound in human flesh
Michigan State University Archives campaigns to preserve old footage
University of South Carolina Film Archive Turns Up Rare Historic Baseball Footage
The University of North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking’s Moving Image Archives
Palace launches project to archive ‘New Mexican’ photo collection
The Man who Owns a Magna Carta
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia wins legal battle to suppress secret papers on East Timor ‘for fear of upsetting Indonesia’
Japan recommends Toji Temple’s documents for UNESCO Memory of World
Hong Kong – Archives law would put an end to government secrecy, says former judge
Meet China’s Protest Archivist
Chinese Government Expands Freedom of Information
National Archives of the Philippines – Executive Meeting National Inventory for Disaster Preparedness and E-Governance
Malaysia – National Archives: Hand over P.Ramlee’s works for conservation
Tahiti – Au Service du patrimoine archivistique : anciennes publications de l’imprimerie officielle, disponibles
India – Digitisation only way to preserve valuable literature for posterity
Europe / Europa
Europeana Sounds: a gateway to Europe’s sound and music heritage
Ukraine’s paper-shredding activists
KGB archives in Ukraine will be open to public
Russian Defense Ministry posts declassified WWII docs on Ukrainian nationalists’ activities on its website
Slovenia – Archives Referendum Confirmed for 4 May
How Polish poet Bolesław Leśmian’s manuscripts survived World War II and journeyed across three continents
Finland – Skolt Sámi archives candidate for UNESCO list
Centenaire de la Première Guerre Mondiale: quand le numérique donne du sens à l’histoire
France – Did you really think that your old home movies were of no use? (about Nos Archives)
France – L’Insitut national de l’audiovisuel va remasteriser des archives en 4K
France – Cognac : Martell se replonge dans ses 300 ans d’histoire
Le plus sulfureux des manuscrits de Sade, de retour à Paris
France – Ce que la mise en ligne fait aux archives : à propos d’un MOOC
Ireland – No damage done to National Library artifacts in blaze
UK National Archives – Searching and sharing gazettes now easier than ever
Second release of historic Archive documents now available on Bank of England website
Out of bounds: the National Trust’s libraries
Lost British silent film classic Love, Life and Laughter found in Dutch archive
Radio station creates online archive of Bolton’s World War One Gallipoli heroes
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
At Risk: Egypt’s Heritage and Our Own
Egyptian Grape Guard’s Ancient Contract Decoded
Sixth-century clay tribute to Nebuchadnezzar II up for auction
Oman – National Authority of Records and Archives seeks to boost e-documents management
L’histoire palestinienne à l’honneur à la Bibliothèque nationale d’Israël
Recherches en Galicie Orientale avec les Archives Centrales du Peuple Juif à Jérusalem
International
The Future of Archives is Participatory: Archives as Platform, or A New Mission for Archives
PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies) & LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe)
Early PhD findings: Exploring historians’ resistance to crowdsourced resources
Navigating the WARC File Format
The Core Components of the New Generation of Records Management/Information Governance Tools