Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Public Record Office Victoria – Recordkeeping and the Environment (Draft for Public Review)
U.S. Government Printing Office – 2014-2018 Strategic Plan
Ministère de la culture et des communications de France – L’apport de la culture à l’économie en France
De la communauté / From the community
National Information Standards Organization – Open Access Metadata and Indicators (Draft for Public Review)
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Best Practices for Publishing Linked Data
Copyright & Risk: Scoping the Wellcome Digital Library Project
Article – Histoire et numérique : une relation singulière et multiple
Article – Of Course we Share! Testing Assumptions about Social Tagging Systems
Publications
La Gazette des archives, no 231, 2013 (numéro spécial : Les archives des établissements d’enseignement supérieur et de recherche)
AV Insider: Film, Files, Formats, and the Future, no. 4 (December 2013)
Document numérique, vol. 16, no. 2 (2013)
Mémoires d’avenir : en direct des Archives nationales de France, no. 15 (Janvier-Mars 2014)
The Halcyon: the Newsletter of the Friends of The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto), no. 52 (December 2013)
Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (January 2014)
Book – Organizing Exhibitions: a Handbook for Museums, Libraries and Archives
Book – Re-imagining Heritage Interpretation: Enchanting the Past-Future
Book – The Power of Knowledge: how Information and Technology made the Modern World
Book – Contemporary Intellectual Property: Law and Policy (Third Edition)
Livre – Manuel de constitution de bibliothèques numériques
Book – Research Handbook On Intellectual Property Licensing
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Port Hope Archives Annual General Meeting
January 20, 2014, Port Hope (Ont.)
Webinar – Policy-based Data Management
January 23, 2014
Executive Conference on Information Governance
April 14-15, 2014, Amelia Island (Florida)
14e Journées des Archives de l’Université catholique de Louvain
24-25 avril 2014, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgique)
Metadata Intersections: Bridging the Archipelago of Cultural Memory
October 8-11, 2014, Austin (Texas)
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Video – Audiovisual Migration
Video – The Historian in the Digital Age
Remixing Archival Metadata Project
British Library – Donate to Our Projects
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
The Canadian War on Science 2013: a year in advocacy
Canadian Nature Museum digitizing 3 million specimens
Canadian libricide: Tories torch and dump centuries of priceless, irreplaceable environmental archives
Fisheries and Oceans library closings called loss to science
Le Canada accusé de détruire son patrimoine scientifique
The facts on library consolidation at Fisheries and Oceans
Last chapter for many Environment Canada libraries
Secrecy cloaks patents on inventions hidden far from public eye by Industry Canada
Exploring Canada’s Parliamentary History through data.gc.ca: Occupations, 1867-2010
Nova Scotia Archives Launches Unique Nova Scotia Cards
Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française (Université d’Ottawa) – Une nouvelle base de données de documents numérisés
Yousuf Karsh: Renowned Portrait Photographer
Archival Digitization and the Struggle to Create Useful Digital Reproductions
Hamilton – School archives keep physical memories alive
La Société d’histoire et de généalogie des Mille-îles voudrait transférer ses archives à la Maison du citoyen de Sainte-Thérèse
Evansville (Ont.) – Fire destroys home, Mump and Smoot archives and costumes
B.C. Supreme Court – Expert Opinion Unnecessary to Adduce SQL Reports, Which Are “Real Evidence” and not Documents
Afrique / Africa
Plan of Action for Archive and Paper conservation in museums & archives in South Africa
Amériques / Americas
U.S. – Best Places to Work Agency Index Scores 2013 Ranking: Mid-size Agencies (NARA is Among the Lowest)
Bank of America’s ‘Indiana Jones’ strives to save bank’s past
The lobotomy files: a cache of musty documents lost to memory exposes a time when the U.S. lobotomized some 2000 veterans
University of Virginia – Born Digital, Projects Need Attention to Survive
Rare Book Crime Capers: Forgery, Theft, Murder and the Holy Grail of American Printing
StoryCorps uses vocal archives to document American lives
Los Angeles archivist pleads for cop shows like ‘Mob City’ to use just the facts
North Carolina – Destruction of town archives leaves historians and residents devastated
Report Finds More Flaws in Digitizing Patient Files
The Eagles’ ‘Hotel California’ Made Into ‘World’s Largest Vinyl’
British map dealer Andrew Adamson may have found an unusual hand-drawn map of New York from 1776
First 3D-printed book cover is a beautiful sign of an experimenting industry
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Hidden Canberra archives reveals its historic treasures
Australia – Message in bottle leads to tale of war tragedy
New Zealand – Historic archives released online
Chinese archives reveal IRA approaches seeking help for armed campaign
Mapping Cambodia’s distant past
Korea Opens up Digital Data on National Heritage
National Archives of India to Collaborate with State Archives of Turkey and the National Records and Archives Authority of Oman
Europe / Europa
Europe’s rules on freedom of information and hate speech
Serbian Digital Heritage Platform Launches Using Open Source Digital Public Library of America Technology
Bosnia and Herzegovina – Archive of Republic of Srpska
100 Years of Openness at the Library of the Parliament of Finland
Report by US witness to exhumation of Poles killed on Stalin’s orders found in US archives
Suisse – Tous les débats du Parlement depuis 1891 sont désormais disponibles en ligne
Swiss government refuses to lift partial closure of apartheid era records
France – La Défense coupe la tête aux archives de la marine
Les collections sonores de la Bibliothèque nationale de France s’écoutent sur les réseaux sociaux
France – Les images d’archives ne créent pas l’horreur comme la fiction
Daguerreotype process is revealed: a picture from the past
British Red Cross awarded grant to digitise First World War documents on volunteering
Frankenstein author’s letters found by Anglia Ruskin University professor
Siobhan Davies: can dance be archived?
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
North Lebanon library torched
Des preuves sont collectées pour un futur procès des crimes de guerre en Syrie
International
“Accountability, Transparency and Access to Information”: a report on ICA’s 2103 Conference
Comité international de la Croix-Rouge – 7 millions de témoignages de la guerre 14-18 archivés
Can the cloud do ‘in perpetuity’ ?
Archivage : quel est le Système d’Archivage Électronique idéal ?
DNA may be our only salvation from the relentless decay of data
M-Disc Partners with Technology Giants to Transform Archival Storage Landscape