Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner – Australian Privacy Principles Guidelines
De la communauté / From the community
UNESCO – Institutional Repository Software Comparison
National Digital Stewardship Alliance – The Benefits and Risks of the PDF/A-3 File Format for Archival Institutions
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Network Services Discovery (Draft)
Fiche pratique – Connaître les concours de la fonction publique pour les archives (France)
Article – Visualizing Digital Collections
Publications
Records Management Journal, vol. 24, no. 1 (2014)
Restaurator: International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material, vol. 35, no. 1 (March 2014)
Library Hi Tech, vol. 32, no. 1 (2014)
Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, vol. 7, no. 1 (February 2014)
Advances in Library Administration and Organization, vol. 32 (2014)
Heritage: the Journal of the Jewish Archives & Historical Society of Edmonton & Northern Alberta, vol. 16, no. 2 (Winter 2014)
Book – Documentary & Archival Research
Book – Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management (Third Edition)
Book – Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities
Book – Scribes and Scholars: a Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature (Fourth Edition)
Book – Genealogy Online for Dummies (Seventh Edition)
Book – Handbook of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
Book – Challenging History in the Museum: International Perspectives
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Keeping Tracks : a One Day Symposium on Music and Archives in the Digital Age
March 21, 2014, London
Online Research Forum – Holocaust Memory, Archives or the Representation of the Holocaust and Genocide in the 21st Century
April 22, 2014
Webinar – Creation of Master Archive Package
May 27, 2014
4th International Conference on Information Communication and Management
October 8-9, 2014, Geneva (Switzerland)
AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists) 2014 Annual Conference
October 8-11, 2014, Savannah (Georgia)
International Conference on Digital Preservation and Development of Trusted Digital Repositories (Videos and Presentations Available)
February 5-6, 2014, New Delhi
Sur le web / On the web
Video – Library and Archives Canada Develops a New Approach to Description and Discovery
Archives Association of Ontario – World War I Resources
Nouveau site – Bretania : le portail des cultures de Bretagne
Communiqué de presse : http://ow.ly/tIcnu
ARCOMEM System (Semantic and Social Web Crawling) now Available as Open Source Software
TeachArchives: a New, Innovative Way to Teach in the Archives
Getty Research Institute – Art & Architecture Thesaurus Now Available as Linked Open Data
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Warman and National Post Drop Appeals: Good News for Canadian Copyright Law
Canadian Library Association – Letter to the Minister of Canadian Heritage and the Minister of Industry regarding the Changes to Crown Copyright and Licensing
Response by the Hon. James Moore: http://www.cla.ca/Content/NavigationMenu/CLAatWork/Advocacy/Crown_Copyright_MP_Response_Jan2014.pdf
Canadian Library Association – Statement regarding Federal Government Library Consolidation and Closure
Daniel J. Caron – the victim?
Immigration and Citizenship records at LAC: did your ancestor arrive in Canada between 1865 and 1935?
Nova Scotia Court of Appeal – Carefully Assessing Discovery of Metadata
Organizations work together to preserve Saskatchewan’s rich heritage
BAnQ – Lancement de GALA (Gestion de l’application de la Loi sur les archives) transactionnel
Map project ties together centuries of Toronto history
Centre régional d’archives de l’Outaouais – Concours de photos anciennes
Coquitlam (B.C.) – Her job: build a city archive from scratch
Special note: Congratulation to a former colleague!
Preserving Coquitlam’s heritage
Reeling back Sudbury’s (Ont.) history: archives interest group donates newspaper microfilm reels
Donation to the Sudbury Archives
Oshawa (Ont.) – Collection highlights: City directions
Renovations begin at Peterborough Museum and Archives (Ont.)
Decades-long hunt for mysterious French filmmaker yields rare look into the forgotten past of a Canadian tribe
Re-thinking Information Management in the era of digital disruption
Afrique / Africa
Rwanda – Senate Okays Bill Setting Up Archives, Library Body
Amériques / Americas
Group tries to slow federal government’s move away from paper to the Web
Clinton Foundation keeps tight leash on papers from Bill Clinton’s tenure as governor
Congress in middle of Hollywood copyright clash with Silicon Valley
Declassified Documents Shed Light on 1980 Moscow Olympics Boycott
Washington State – Bill requires elected officials to know open records laws
Volunteers bring Abraham Lincoln papers into online age
‘Monuments Men’ exhibition review
Even Good Films May Go to Purgatory: Old Films Fall Into Public Domain Under Copyright Law
Stanford University begins development on Spotlight (a Blacklight plugin that showcase digital collections)
http://library.stanford.edu/blogs/digital-library-blog/2014/02/stanford-begins-development-spotlight
University of Connecticut – Historic Nuremberg Papers of Sen. Thomas Dodd Go Digital
Illinois State University history behind archive doors
A Conversation with Robert De Niro’s Film Archivist
The Heart of the Matter: a National Digital Stewardship Resident Project and Program Update
I (No Longer) Have a Web Site: Access, Authenticity, and the Restoration of GeoCities
Le timbre le plus célèbre au monde mis aux enchères à New York
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service transfers second set of Old Police Records to Archives New Zealand
New Zealand – University of Canterbury: archive digitally preserves post-quake Pledge books
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1402/S00284/archive-digitally-preserves-post-quake-pledge-books.htm
Australia Pushes South Korea Into Life-Plus-70 Copyright Terms As Part Of Free Trade Agreement
After Winding Odyssey, Tibetan Texts Find Home in China
China – UNESCO to consider Nanjing Massacre files
China’s copyright registrations hit record high
Nepal – Land records to go online in 6 months
Singapore – National archives pioneer Lily Tan dies at age 70
Royal seals affirm Vietnam sovereignty over islands in the East Sea
Online art archive launched in Taiwan
Prajnya Trust to archive photos, success stories of first woman graduates in South Asia
India – Digitize film prints, say Kannada directors
Europe / Europa
Ukraine – City collection ‘ransacked’ as Kiev erupts in violence
First World War in Archive of Serbia Documents
Germany – Access to Stasi files keeps the past in the present and allows for reconciliation
Hungarian rabbi finds 103 Torah scrolls stolen during WW2 in Russian library
Slovenia – Minister Grilc Rejects Criticism of European Union Initiative Regarding Archives
Declassified files expose lies of French nuclear tests
France – Les archives papier de l’ancien secrétaire général de l’Elysée, Claude Guéant, ont disparu
How France’s Open Data Team Is Modernizing The French Government Through Data
France – Les archives de la Sûreté des Archives nationales : un nouveau regard
France – 1914/2014: la Grande Guerre passe à l’ère numérique
France – Le master « archives » est mort, vive le master « archives » !
UK National Archives Fire Tackled by Firefighters
Kew Royal Botanical Gardens – Conserving Darwin’s Letters
600 year old mystery Voynich manuscript decoded by University of Bedfordshire professor
Bath Preservation Trust archive goes on-line
Staffordshire archive centres to close as part of cuts
The Snakes, Angels, and Invented Alphabets of a Mysterious 18th-Century Magic Book
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Bibliothèque nationale du Liban : mais où sont les hommes ?
Lebanon – Guns, flared trousers and same-sex kisses: an archive of photographs from the 1950s to 1970s reveals a record of life long hidden from view
Bahrain King ratifies copyright, trademark laws
Afghanistan – Kabul suicide bomber fails to target World’s largest holy Quran archive
International
8 Book Historians, Curators, Specialists, And Librarians Who Are Killing It Online
Using third-party apps for citizen engagement: information management considerations
The role of “the professional discipline” in archives and digital archives
Microfilm Still Matters in the Digital Age
New Survey: “Over-preservation” threatens effective Information Governance
The Need for a Practical Approach to Assessing Cloud Services for Preservation
Current Trends in Digital Film Preservation
Recherches et archives des mondes contemporains à l’épreuve du numérique