Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Canada’s Action Plan on Open Government – Consultation on Year-1 Progress
Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner – Deleting Accountability: Records Management Practices of Political Staff (Addendum)
U.S. Congressional Research Service – Retaining and Preserving Federal Records in a Digital Environment: Background and Issues for Congress
De la communauté / From the community
OCLC – Social Media and Archives: A Survey of Archive Users
IFLA Trend Report – Riding the Waves or Caught in the Tide? Navigating the Evolving Information Environment
IFLA – Guidelines for the Digitization of Manuscripts and Rare Books (Draft)
The Preservation of Complex Objects: Volume 3: Gaming Environments and Virtual Worlds
IBM – Using Crowdsourcing In Government
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Three RDFa Recommendations Published
Publications
Book – Exhibits in Archives and Special Collections Libraries
Book – Perspectives on Women’s Archives
Book – The Green Library
Book – Web Metrics for Library and Information Professionals
Book – Expert Bytes: Computer Expertise in Forensic Documents
Book – The Corporate Records Handbook: Meetings, Minutes & Resolutions
Livre – Des archives à l’archive: l’archivage comme processus de création artistique
Livre – Analyse et représentation documentaires: introduction à l’indexation, à la classification et à la condensation des documents
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Never Let the Crew See You Cry (Playwright Made in Partnership With The Provincial Archives of Alberta)
August 16-25, 2013, Edmonton
Exhibit – Witnesses: Art And Canada’s Indian Residential Schools
September 6 – December 1, 2013, Vancouver
Conference – Reading the Machine, Writing the Archive
September 10, 2013, Edmonton
Conférence – Gestion documentaire d’un grand projet par l’exemple du CHUM, un projet en soi
16 octobre 2013, Montréal
41st Annual Museum Computer Network Conference
November 20-23, 2013, Montreal
ArchiveGrid and Related Work Webinar (Recordings Available)
23 May 2013
Sur le web / On the web
Video – A Wax Cylinder Recorder and Player Behind the Scenes at the Canadian Museum of Civilization
Video – Survey of Special Collections and Archives in the United Kingdom and Ireland
UK National Archives – ‘All change!’ – Charting 200 years of railway history
Petition – Prevent Sale of Works From the Detroit Institute of Arts
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canadian Surveillance 101
Canadian businesses slower to embrace data analysis, study finds
Bioethicists call for investigation into nutritional experiments on Aboriginals
The Levels of Digital Preservation and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
RCMP stops responding to people using access to information laws: information commissioner
Canadian Historical Association – Interlibrary Loan Service
Saskatchewan Archives to digitize audio, visual records
Manitoba’s oldest moving pictures kept safe, but mostly forgotten
Manitoba’s moving pictures: motion pictures, now mostly forgotten, offer black-and-white view of early Manitoba
Ce qu’encoder veut dire: cartes perforées, posthumanité et chanson country (sur les travaux de Dominic Forest, professeur à l’Université de Montréal)
Ontario Public Interest Research Group – Archives in the public interest
1921 census info helps fill in blanks for Victoria historians and genealogists
Sisters of St. Ann’s art offers a glimpse into Victoria’s past
City of Vancouver Archives – Our students: Cristen Polley
New Perth County (Ont.) Archives Planned
Lakeshore (Ont.) has dispute with museum volunteers over resource centre
Canadian Editor’s Webzine Archives ‘cli-fi’ Books Past And Present
Archive CD Books Canada Inc. joins Findmypast to bring Canadian Content online
British Library – On Patriotism: Propaganda in the Library’s Canadian Photographic Collection
Afrique / Africa
Tunisie – Les archives de Perspectives /Amel Tounsi seront remises aux institutions de l’État en septembre
Amériques / Americas
Oldest globe to depict the New World may have been discovered
International Council on Archives – Mission to Columbia
U.S. National Security Agency collected 56,000 emails by Americans a year: documents
Unisys Projects with National Archives and IRS Honored with Government Computer News Awards
Nearly fifty years after JFK gunned down, many asking why CIA still hasn’t released all assassination files
Final collection of Richard Nixon’s private conversations released
Library of Congress – Xporting Digital Format Sustainability Descriptions as XML
Sons of the American Revolution make major donation to Delaware Public Archives
Minnesota Historical Society – New Oral History Page Available: Voices of Minnesota
http://discussions.mnhs.org/
Texas State Library and Archives Commission Selects Finalists for Agency Executive
American Indian Histories and Cultures Digital Archive Debuts
Iowa City Library’s Local Music Project Could Become Library Model
Syracuse University Acquires Wainhouse Archive, Marquis de Sade’s English Translator
http://news.syr.edu/
Restoration of Frida Kahlo’s photographic archives thanks to Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Settlement for Failure to Scrub Data from Photocopier: A $1.2 Million Lesson Learned
Archivists Strive to Protect Gay Home Movies
Solving Problems and Saving Bits: An Interview with Jason Scott
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Digital future for indigenous past
http://www.theaustralian.com.
Australia – History comes alive in a digital era
Japan – The English version of the Digital Library from the Meiji Era and the National Diet Library Digitized Contents are released
Japan – National Archives to get new building
Hiroshima, Nagasaki A-bomb items added to Google archives
China – Urgent Update about Shanghai Municipal Archives
Rare artifacts brought from New York handed to Nepal National Archives
Nepal – National Archives seeks key to documents from Ministry of Foreign Affairs
British Library to partner with National Library of Singapore to digitise Malay manuscripts
National Singapore library uses analytics to forecast demand
Solomon Islands – Archives summit dubbed a success
Activists Campaign Against Weakening India’s Right to Information Act
National Film Archive of India helps restore Sri Lankan classic
Réunion – État civil réunionnais de 1704-1907: les archives nationales mettent en ligne un trésor historique
Europe / Europa
Hungary – WWI database to be complete by 2018
Warsaw Uprising: Historical footage remastered
Nazi Bride Schools: unearthed documents shed light on the secretive Bride Schools of Nazi Germany
Germany – The Stasi puzzle with 600 million pieces
Notarial Archives: ‘Malta’s national monument of shame’
Suisse – Migros ouvre ses archives
Serbia’s Prime Minister warns against the “revision of history” during First World War Centenary
Massive archive of French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s personal items coming to New York auction
Germany intervenes in WW1 commemoration debate
Ireland – Online database documents 70,000 buried in cemetery
British Film Institute opens archives with new Samsung Smart TV app
British still trying to hush up role in Iran coup: archivist
Queen Victoria’s life at Balmoral archive sells for £15,000
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Egypt’s devastating museum looting latest casualty
UNESCO condemns looting in Egypt
United Arab Emirates – Abu Dhabi officials archive 80% of governnment documents
Oman – Ministry to approve procedural tools for record management
International
The whole is always smaller than its parts: why data science needs archival theory
What Does It Really Matter If Companies Are Tracking Us Online?
“Why Does ‘S’ Look Like ‘F’?”: A Beginner’s Guide to Reading Early Modern Texts
What’s Lost When Everything Is Recorded
History Hashtags: Exploring a Visual Network of Twitterstorians
The end of the printed word, revisited