Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Information and Privacy Commissioner for B.C. – Evaluating the Government of British Columbia’s Open Government Initiative
NARA – 2012 Records Management Self-Assessment Report
U.S. Department of Commerce – Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Association of University Teachers Advisory – Custody & Control of Academic Staff Records
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Linked Data Platform 1.0 (Last Call Working Draft)
A Qualitative Data Model for Data Documentation Initiative (a Metadata Specification for the Social and Behavioral Sciences)
NISO – Information Services and Use: Metrics and Statistics for Libraries and Information Providers: Data Dictionary (5th edition)
Article – On the Change in Archivability of Websites Over Time
Publications
Information Standards Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 2 (Summer 2013)
The Bulletin: University of Manitoba’s Newspaper, vol. 47, no. 6, 2013 (Special Issue on Truth and Reconciliation)
Trent University Archives Newsletter, no. 46 (July 2013)
eBook – Ethics, Lies & Archives (now available as PDF)
Book – Theory and Practice in the Conservation of Digital Art: The Project Digital Art Conservation
Book – Vancouver Was Awesome: A Curious Pictorial History
Book – Many Voices, One Vision: The Early Years of the World Heritage Convention
Book – Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book
Book – Feminist Pedagogy for Library Instruction
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Business Strategies, Tools and Tactics for Big Data, Mobile Device Management and Analytics
September 30 – October 2, 2013, Toronto
ARMA – National Capital Region Information Management Days 2013
November 19-21, 2013, Ottawa
Philosophers’ Cafe on the Ethics of Genealogy
December 18, 2013, Vancouver
Digitizing the Medieval Archive 2014
March 27-29, 2014, Toronto
Digital Preservation 2013 (Trip Report and Video Available)
July 23-25, 2013, Alexandria, Virginia
Sur le web / On the web
Petition – Canadian Library, Archives & Museum Workers Call For Release Of Residential School Documents
Fédération syndicale unitaire (France) – Ensemble sauvons la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Slidecast – Managing Digital Content Over Time
Vidéo – Monter un projet Big Data
UK National Archives – Archiving the Arts
Iconic Black and White Photographs, Colorized
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Aboriginal children used in medical tests, commissioner says: Truth and Reconciliation Commission seeks further documentation on tests
Nutritional experiments scandal: Rally organizers want documents released
FBI Seeks Owners of Recovered Rare Maps, Books (Include Canadian Maps and Books)
Canadiana – New 2013 Board Members
History for Sale (about the LAC-Canadiana deal, with Michael McNaly, from the University of Alberta and Carolee Pollock, from MacEwan University)
Calgary – Book drive underway to replace library materials damaged by the flood
Fire Destroys Canadian Library, Archive (Lac Megantic)
Hinterland Who’s Who beaver vignette found in archives
Les riches souterrains de l’hôtel de ville (les Archives de Montréal)
Exploring Vancouver’s fast food past
Citizen wins fight for student grade records from Carleton university
Declassified documents reveal British views of inordinately sensitive’ Canadians
BAnQ – La description de caricatures… Facile, vous dites?
Personal artifacts: An ode to printed pictures
University of Guelph Students Uncover History in French Archives
Afrique / Africa
Digitization of Sudan folklore and traditional music archives
Tunisie : sus aux archives
Amériques / Americas
Argentine – Ouverture des archives: l’Église aidera les Grands-Mères de la place de Mai
XKeyscore: National Security Agency tool collects ‘nearly everything a user does on the internet’
Library of Congress races to preserve TV history
Library of Congres – Linked Open WWI Data: An Interview with Thea Lindquist
Bringing Hidden Collections to Light with Viewshare: An Interview with Julie Miller, Historian at the Library of Congress
Every Voice Matters: StoryCorps and Digital Preservation at the Library of Congress
Jack White’s gift boosts launch of National Recording Preservation Foundation
Boston College tapes name gaffe: Confessions may be useless after identity codes lost
Latest on Boston College Tapes: Radio Free Eireann interview with Belfast Project Director Ed Moloney
The Digital Public Library of America Receives Major Grant from Anonymous Donor
Ultimate paper chase: Saving California’s historical record
Wisconsin – Hollywood archives a ‘hidden gem’
Florida Memory a Good Site for Media Archives
Memorial archivists weave together Oklahoma City bombing’s historical narrative
New York- Inside the New Museum of Contemporary Art’s Vast, Beautiful, and Totally Insane Digitization Project
Marilyn Monroe pictures in $2 million sale of Milton Greene archives
Handwritten poem by Poe sells for $300K at auction
New York Public Library fighting to retrieve baseball artifacts stolen by thieves and sold online
From the Supreme Court Steps to a Museum’s Collection, via Facebook
Las Vegas – Staffers sort through documents, discarding some, digitizing others
Archival Images Combed for Signs of Amelia Earhart
Artist Turns Discarded Books Into Beautiful Works Of Art By Crystalizing Them
‘Printing Out the Internet’ exhibit is crowdsourced work of art
How the FBI Turned Me On to Rare Books by Natalie Zemon Davis
Springfield researchers discover Abraham Lincoln document in Switzerland
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
2015 Digital Transition on track says National Archives of Australia
The National Library of Australia confirms Tessella for Digital Preservation
Australian War Memorial – Centenary digitisation project
Australia – Greek diaspora archives preserved
New sound archive collates 100-year-old voices from India
http://zeenews.india.com/news/
India – Swami Vivekananda’s Web Archive Launched
Indian State Fears Losing ‘Panchnamas’ Records
Europe / Europa
Canvassing for disclosure of KGB archives begins in Latvia
IBM, Poland university digitize Martin Luther, medieval texts
Social media help track property lost in Holocaust
Georgia – Dirty archive to be destroyed in two weeks
A Lost Scottish Island, George Orwell, and the Future of Maps
UK National Archives – Files from 1983 released as 20-year rule transition begins
National archives: Whitehall prepared Queen’s speech for third world war
British Library – Under the Microscope with the Lindisfarne Gospels
University of Limerick digitises its 10 000 strong photo archive
Bank of England helped launder Nazi gold, archives reveal
British archives show Greek Cypriot ‘agitators’ were monitored in the UK during EOKA struggle
British Universities North America Club archive finds a new home
Oxford library comes a step closer to buying archive of photographic pioneer
New research by Swansea University reveals Great War stories
WWI Machine Gun Shot Medium Format Film Instead of Bullets
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
3,000-Year-Old Text May Reveal Biblical History
Iran’s 5th library house to thousands of manuscripts
International
Personal Digital Archiving: Saving Cell Phone Texts
BookVibe Turns Twitter Data into Book Discovery Tool
Taxonomy, a dying profession
Le vol et le recel d’archives publiques (première partie)
Sony and Panasonic create 300GB Blu-ray successor for archives and pros
In The Digital Age, The Family Photo Album Fades Away
Government requests for Twitter users’ data on the rise
How the computer changed the office forever