Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Archives New Zealand – Appraisal Framework and Statement
Born-Digital U.S. Federal Government Information: Preservation and Access
UK – The Copyright and Rights in Performances (Research, Education, Libraries and Archives) Regulations
State Records Office of Western Australia – Strategic Plan 2014-2018
Queensland State Archives – General Retention and Disposal Schedule for Administrative Records (Version 7)
De la communauté / From the community
Archives Association of Ontario – Archives in Wikipedia Survey Results
An Introduction to the Digital Public Library of America Metadata Model
Guidance Documents for Lifecycle Management of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – CSV on the Web Use Cases and Requirements and Model for Tabular Data and Metadata
Article – A Tool for Personal Data Extraction
Publications
Archival Practice, vol. 1, no. 1 (2014)
International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 14, no. 1-2 (April 2014)
Information Standards Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 1 (Spring 2014)
The Electronic Library, vol. 32, no. 2 (2014)
Mémoire collective: revue trimestrielle du Centre d’archives de la région de Rivière-du-Loup, vol. 3. no. 1 (Printemps 2014)
Book – Auditing for Records and Information Management Program Compliance (ARMA International 25-2014)
Book – Consultation and Cultural Heritage: Let us Reason Together
Book – Holocaust Memory Reframed: Museums and the Challenges of Representation
Book – Mapping Medieval Geographies: Geographical Encounters in the Latin West and Beyond, 300-1600
Livre – L’archivistique à l’ère du numérique: les éléments fondamentaux de la discipline
Livre – Les archives se récolent
Livre – Anita Conti : portrait d’archives
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives Workshop: Basic Archives
April 7-11, 2014, St. John’s
1st Annual Symposium of Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) McGill Student Chapter
April 8, 2014, Montreal
From the Bankruptcy of Science to the Death of Evidence: Science and its Value
April 10, 2014, Ottawa
Council of Nova Scotia Archives Spring Conference
May 29-30, 2014, Halifax
Webinar – Storage Solutions for Digital Preservation
April 14, 2014
Audiotape Playback Workshop
May 14, 2014, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Qui archive le web et comment?
27 mai 2014, Berne (Suisse)
Sur le web / On the web
Collections Online: Canadian Museum of Nature new site with 710,000 natural history records
Canadian Conservation Institute – Technical Bulletins and Symposia Proceedings Available Online for Free
Symposia and Colloquia: http://www.cci-icc.gc.ca/publications/category-categorie-eng.aspx?id=19
Technical Bulletins: http://www.cci-icc.gc.ca/publications/category-categorie-eng.aspx?id=18
Slidecast – Revisiting Canada’s First Aerial Photography of 1882-1883
Vidéo – Qu’est-ce que les humanités numériques ?
UK National Archives – CSV Schema and Validator
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canadian Copyright Institute rebuffed in efforts to open dialogue on fair dealing
Opinion – The feds have been closing the libraries of its departments and commissions as a way to cut the budget deficit, but a deficit of knowledge may be worse
Library and Archives of Canada install new DFT Scanity
Obituary – Barbara Wilson (former archivist at the Public/National Archives of Canada)
Divisional Court certifies copyright infringement case against Ontario’s land registry system managers
Newfoundland and Labrador – Rooms honours sealing disaster: talks, film, archival materials used to tell tragic tale of 1914
City of Vancouver Archives – First wave of BC Sugar records now available
Pointe-à-Callière fait l’acquisition d’une importante collection de cartes postales de Montréal
Baffling coded messages discovered at Western University
Lecture revisits University of Western Ontario’s Archives and Tecumseh’s death
Pioneers of transgender activism: historical images from the Transgender Archive at the University of Victoria
Cramahe (Ont.) archive project will continue
Nanaimo (B.C.) – Letter to the Editor: City’s record-keeping outdated
Can Big Data ‘Solve’ Climate Change?
Afrique / Africa
Africa Regional Conference on Freedom of Information Implementation: Public institutions urged to strengthen information and record management structures
Rwanda: MPs Want More Funding for Gacaca Archives Conservation
Institutionalizing Memory: the Creation of Sierra Leone’s First Peace Museum
Amériques / Americas
Haïti – Présentation de 30 ans d’archives numérisées de Radio Haïti Inter, 14 ans après l’assassinat de Jean Dominique
Archival standards: an interview with NARA
NARA – Calling Citizen Archivists to Crowdsource Video Captions
Alaska – Archivists Rally to Keep National Archives in Anchorage
NARA – New Katyń Documents Declassified in 2013 and 2014
Sinkhole of bureaucracy: deep underground, federal employees process paperwork by hand in a long-outdated, inefficient system
Air Force Digitizes Administrative Records for Installations
Newly Declassified Intelligence Satellite Imagery is Hard to Access
Boston College tapes led to charge over McConville’s disappearance
Industry Groups Collaborate on Metadata
Photographers React to Getty Copyright Move
ProQuest Completes Digitization of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Papers
American Museum of Natural History – Darwin Manuscripts Project Will Transcribe Botanical Manuscripts
Pennsylvania company builds vast Vietnam War film archive
The Internet Archive Wants to Digitize 40,000 VHS And Betamax Tapes
Preserving Audio for the Future is a Race Against Time
Digital Culture is Mass Culture: an interview with Digital Conservator Dragan Espenschied
Unprinted images of Kurt Cobain suicide found in archive
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
The National Library of Australia has opened public access to a collection of Commonwealth Government websites
Australia – Smallpox vaccine specimen discovered in New South Wales archives
Historic Taiwan feminist archive moves to Tamkang University
Vietnam – Des expériences dans la conservation des documents numériques
Hong Kong must stop dodging issue of an archives law
China releases evidence of Korean women forced into sexual slavery
India – 1962 War records destroyed to cover up lapses
India – 1984 riots: Court dismisses plea to prosecute cops for destroying files
India’s Epic Reunited: Finest Surviving Illustrated Manuscript of the Ramayana Now Digitised and Available Online
India – The disappearing tribe of India’s letter writers
India – Project to digitize library archives
Europe / Europa
European Union Parliament breakfast discusses the copyright needs of libraries
Preserving History as it Happens: the Internet Archive and the Crimean Crisis
Slovenia – Coalition Opposes Coupling of Archives Referendum with European Union Elections
Slovenia – SDS (Democratic Party) Files Signatures for Archives Referendum
Belarus’ Historical Archive publishes documents about First World War
Over 1 million Spanish newspaper pages labeled as public domain
Operational for 50 Years: United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus launches online archive of iconic magazine
Archive of Austrian resistance gets a new boss with fresh ideas
Vatican Radio’s digitalization of its sound archives containing the Popes’ voices
Dutch student offers up all his personal data to highest bidder
Guerre 14-18: la Radio Télévision Belge Francophone cherche des archives
France – La donnée va faire son entrée dans le Code du patrimoine, la mutualisation encouragée
France – Le testament de Philippe Auguste
Scotland – Interview: artist AR Hopwood discusses The False Memory Archive
Lack of social media archiving exposes UK businesses to risk
Trading archives chart how Britain’s taste for tea grew
The changing shape of UK weather: historic maps show 142 years of rain, sun and wind
Joanna Trollope donates archive to Oxford University’s Bodleian Library
Wellcome Library (London) – We’re digitising 25,000 19th-century medical books
WW1 archives taken from Derbyshire record office
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel – 35 years after peace treaty, archives declassify documents
International
Data Mining the Internet Archive Collection
Digitising Audiovisual Collections – Outsourcing vs. In-house approach
The strengths and weaknesses of the information governance approach to records management
What Could Curation Possibly Mean?
Born Digital Literary Remains: Libraries Await the Digital Archives of Longing
Lack of social media archiving creates legal minefield
Comment démasquer les faux livres rares ?
Why Vinyl is the Only Worthwhile Way to Own Music