Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Council of Europe – Handbook on European Data Protection Law
NARA Bulletin 2014-04: Revised Format Guidance for the Transfer of Permanent Electronic Records
UK Cabinet Office – Sharing or Collaborating with Government Documents (Proposal Open for Comment)
Manuel de catalogage des manuscrits médiévaux à la Bibliothèque nationale de France
De la communauté / From the community
Archives Association of Ontario Response to Royal Society of Canada Panel on the Future of Libraries and Archives
Archives Association of Ontario – Archeion for Archivists
Canadian Association of University Teachers – Comments for Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel on the Future of Libraries and Archives
International Council on Archives – Technical Guidance on Managing Archives with Restrictions
Persist: UNESCO Digital Strategy for Information Sustainability
Europeana – Report on Task force on European Data Model Mappings, Refinements and Extensions
Reinventing Archival Method: Presentation for Roundtable Event in Honour of Hans Hofman, National Archives of the Netherlands
Publications
Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, vol. 37, no. 4 (December 2013)
Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 40, no. 3 (February-March 2014)
Documentaliste – Sciences de l’information, vol. 50, no. 4 (Décembre 2013)
The Chronicle: Newsletter of the Jewish Museum and Archives of B.C., vol. 20, no. 1 (January-April 2014)
IFLA Library Theory and Research Section Newsletter, no. 5 (2014)
Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (February 2014)
Oregon Records Management Solution Quarterly NewsFlash (January 2014)
Afnor – MEDONA: Modélisation des échanges de données pour l’archivage
Book – Conceptualizing 21st-Century Archives
Book – Information Security and Risk Management
Book – Image Encryption: a Communication Perspective
Book – Yellow Peril!: an Archive of Anti-Asian Fear
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Arnprior & McNab/Braeside Archives Annual General Meeting
February 15, 2014, Arnprior (Ont.)
Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives – Nan’s Cookbook in the Digital Age
February 21, 2014, St. John’s
ARMA Canada 30th Conference & Expo (Registration Now Open)
June 8-11, 2014, Ottawa
48th Annual Conference of the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives
June 17-June 20, 2014, Montreal
Free Webinar – Topics Related to Audiovisual Digitisation and Digital Preservation
February 25 and 27, 2014
The Role of Standards for the Preservation of Audiovisual Material: http://ow.ly/tmV3c
A New and Effective Way to Teach Archive Management and Preservation: http://ow.ly/tkDM1
Preserving Big Data for Research
March 4-6, 2014, Amsterdam
Digital Preservation 2014
July 22-24, 2014, Washington D.C.
Sur le web / On the web
Library of Congress – Songs of America Presentation
Stanford University – Free Text-Analysis Tool
http://engineering.stanford.edu/research-profile/stanford-scientists-put-free-text-analysis-tool-web
Video – NDP MP Question Fisheries Minister on Department of Fisheries and Oceans Library Closures
Video – Chaplin’s Novel Manuscript Found in Archives
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Cutbacks reduce revenue agency’s nine libraries to one
The Elusive Prime Ministerial Library
Library and Archives Canada and the National Film Board of Canada Sign an Agreement to Showcase Canada’s Heritage
D-day anniversary: nearly lost, photographs tell story of bold invasion
Le Sommet sur les archives au Canada ne doit surtout pas rester un acte isolé
Nova Scotia’s freedom-of-information watchdog upset over ‘disrespectful’ firing
Archives week celebrates preservation of Saskatchewan’s history
Saskatchewan – Keeping our rich past alive
University of Regina highlights collection linked to ‘Monuments Men’
The history of diversity in Moose Jaw (Saskatchewan)
Moose Jaw – Crowdsourcing history at the archives
University of Manitoba – A trove of professional hockey memorabilia kept in archives
University of Toronto – Exploring the shelves of Pratt’s Special Collections
University of Toronto – Libretti Digitization Project Launched
Toronto Public Library Launches First Ever Digital Innovation Hub
Association des archivistes du Québec – La signature numérique : un nouveau service à la disposition de nos membres
Le Centre régional d’archives de Lanaudière: préserver hier pour demain
Forgotten Canada: newly unearthed photos bring us turn-of-the-century lolcats
CanCom: revisiting the golden age of Canadian comics
Afrique / Africa
South Africans ‘digital scatterbrains’ when it comes to data storage
Amériques / Americas
Haiti’s Declaration of Independence: Digging for Lost Documents in the Archives of the Atlantic World
U.S. Senate ponders Iraqi Jewish archives legislation
Records of the Monuments Men at the National Archives
How the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library’s first Director helped recover and preserve threatened archives of Europe during World War II
New York Court Archivist Isn’t Letting Retirement Stop Him
Yale University acquires Gianfranco Sanguinetti’s archives
Brandeis University – Venetian accounts book tells story of 18th-century Jewish community: grant will digitize, preserve rare piece of history
The search for the lost Nazi diary
Ka-Pow! Marvel Opens Massive Comic Book Images Archive And API To Fans, Developers
Mormon church, genealogy companies work together
New research center helps preserve history of movie palaces: Theatre Historical Society of America sees reinvigoration of resources, mission
Tape of Martin Luther King Jr. Arizona Speech Found
Bill Bonner: the Archivist of Photographic Memories at National Geographic
New York Philharmonic’s Archives Going Online
Museum Archive Leads Bronx Students to Forgotten Slave Burial Ground
Vintage Auction Catalogs With Personal Provenance
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/arts/design/vintage-auction-catalogs-with-personal-provenance.html
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia’s relations with Indonesia at stake over secret East Timor papers
National Archives of Australia shares expertise widely
EDRMS across New Zealand’s Government: challenges with even the most managed of records management systems!
Japan plans to register WWII kamikaze pilots’ letters as UNESCO World Heritage
India – National Film Archive of India to get digital library, new vault
India – 1984 riots: Court queries police on destruction of records
Now, access online files on Rudyard Kipling’s time in India
Europe / Europa
Bulgaria President Urges Opening of Communist-Era State Security Files
Germany – Stasi archive head Jahn: ‘Clarification not justification’
German Federal Archives Authenticates Recently Released Himmler Letters
Italian photography collection in crisis: appeal to save the world’s oldest picture agency
How the Real Monuments Men Saved a Priceless Yiddish Archive
Georgia to destroy archives with records of personal data
Luther’s annotated Bible now online
Romanian Ghosts: The Race to Save a Hauntingly Beautiful Photo Archive
Exclusive Interview: Erik Kwakkel, Medieval Book Historian (Leiden University, Netherlands)
Cartoon Map of Europe in 1914
Armenian’s historical crimes proved through document in French Foreign Ministry’s archive
Un film montrant la mort de masse pendant la Grande Guerre, exhumé un siècle après
France – Le Quai d’Orsay déclassifie ses archives sur les relations entre la France et les États-Unis
France – Lancement d’un recueil national d’archives sur la Shoah
Découverte d’un manuscrit inédit du maréchal Pétain
Le manuscrit de Chateaubriand rejoint l’Institut de France
Ireland – Government urged to adopt 20-year rule for State papers
Ireland – Access to State papers is critical to effective democracy
Ireland – International Expert Praises International Conflict Research Centre Archive Project
Wales – ‘Forgotten’ book illustrations to be preserved in new online project
UK National Archives – Big data funding boost for law and for historical datasets
British Library – Building a jukebox for Europe
World War One: How did 12 million letters a week reach soldiers?
‘Confusion’ led to BBC digital project failure
Oxford historians angry at Foreign Office archive
In London’s Archive of Modern Conflict with Timothy Prus
Dennis the Paywall Menace Stalks the Archives
Kingston University historians chosen to archive lives of World War One Red Cross volunteers
Project will create digital archive of historic cave drawings
The False Memory Archive: Did that Really Happen?
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Egypt – UNESCO ambassador raises alarm over National Library and Archives damage
Israel Upgrades Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Archive with High-Quality Images
Israel – Government weighs seizing papers kept illegally by Ariel Sharon
Jerusalem – Manuscripts at al-Aqsa mosque undergo facelift
Turkey – Archive established for Turkish public culture
International
Metadata: a contestable concept?
Ready to archive in the cloud?
Saving sounds: Internet archivists work to rescue vanishing noises