Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Privacy Commissioner of Canada – Annual Report to Parliament 2012
Raw Documents: Canada’s ‘Top Secret’ Data Mining Program
National Library of the Netherlands – Annual report 2012
De la communauté / From the community
Discours d’André Gareau, président de l’AAQ, lors du 42e congrès de l’Association
Canadian Association of Research Libraries – Strategic Directions May 2013 to May 2016
Publications
Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography, vol. 65, no. 2 (June 2013)
Archifacts (April 2013)
Society of Alberta Archives News, vol. 32, no. 3 (Spring 2013)
Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 39, no. 5 (June-July 2013)
Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (June 2013)
Service interministériel des Archives de France: Bulletin sur les ressources archivistiques numériques, no 46 (juin 2013)
Book – Measuring the Return on Investment of Knowledge Management
Book – Web-Age Information Management
Book – Natural Language Processing and Information Systems
Book – What is the Impact of Digitizing Books?
Book – Contemporary Collecting: Objects, Practices, and the Fate of Things
Livre – Le Pouvoir en Actes: fonder, dire, montrer, contrefaire l’autorité
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
8th Annual MDM & Data Governance Summit Canada
June 26-27, 2013, Toronto
5e congrès des milieux documentaires du Québec (programme préliminaire disponible)
25-27 novembre 2013, Montréal
Webinar – Content Archiving in a Mobile World: the Old Models Don’t Work
July 17, 2013
1st International Workshop on Archiving Community Memories
September 6, 2013, Lisbon
Dealing With Data Workshop (Videos & Presentations Available)
May 28, 2013, Ghent (Belgium)
Sur le web / On the web
ArchivesCanada Demo Site running AtoM 2.0-Interim 1
Video – Dan Cohen Founding Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America
Slidecast – La diffusion des archives à l’aide du Web 2.0
A Citizen’s Guide to Open Government, E-Government, and Government 2.0
PREMIS OWL ontology 2.2 now available
ARCOMEM (ARchive COmunities MEMories) – Web Crawler Cockpit Demo
A Guardian Guide to Your Metadata
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canada chastised for secret metadata surveillance
Under new policy Treasury Board will be required to report every data breach to privacy commissioner
Harper follows in King’s footsteps: diary sheds light on historic PM’s mindset before addressing British Parliament
Library and Archives Canada and National Music Centre Collaborate to Promote Canada’s Musical History
Library and Archives Canada – Census of Lower Canada, 1825 now available online
Former Library and Archives Canada boss criticizes private digitizing deal
Good-new Canadiana & LAC project spun into bad news?
Canadian Association of Research Libraries – Letter to minister Moore about the Heritage Project partnership of LAC and Canadiana.org
The Next Librarian and Archivist of Canada?
Appel des historiens – Rapatriement de la constitution: l’accès aux archives est essentiel
Review of Alberta’s Freedom of Information and Privacy laws goes public
How Ontario civil servants put a stop to practice of deleting e-mails
De la Belle Époque au prêt-à-porter: 60 Years of Québec Women’s Fashion at the Centre d’archives, de généalogie et d’histoire de l’Outaouais
Dominique Michel fait don de ses archives à Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
Le riche patrimoine chorégraphique à BAnQ
Yukon – A different sort of Klondike treasure
There is a large archive of recorded interviews with Holocaust survivors in Montreal
Courtney Milne collection makes history at University of Saskatchewan: original images, prints, texts, audio donated
Algoma University’s Wishart Library wins prestigious archival award
International Ocean Institute visits the Dalhousie University Archives
Archival Photo Of Vancouver, From Australia With Love
Mennonite Archives of Ontario receives $150,000 in federal funding
New Westminster Museum and Archives (B.C.) – Archives offer answers
British Army records from Canada join Ancestry
Afrique / Africa
Damage to Timbuktu’s cultural heritage worse than first estimated reports UNESCO mission
Mali – Mémoire d’un pays : Les archives nationales en questions
To Rwanda, UN’s International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda Won’t Return Archives, No Answer on Borello
National Archives of the Netherland – Further research cultural heritage Ghana
Angola – Minister highlights national archives role
République démocratique du Congo : le bureau des Archives du Congo n’est pas toujours numérisé
Maroc – Les premières archives à Rabat
Algérie – Les archives des institutions administratives en débat à Oran
Amériques / Americas
Bermuda – Govt advertises for a new Director of Archives
Brazil’s ‘lost report’ into genocide surfaces after 40 years
U.S. – Expansion at the National Archives Means More Focus on Human Right
National Archives puts Founding Fathers’ papers online; tyranny, slaves, smallpox speak volumes
The Era of Metadata
What is metadata mining and why is the government doing it?
How Google Transfers Data To National Security Agency
Every Library and Museum in America, Mapped
http://www.theatlanticcities.
Why the Boston College Oral History Ruling Isn’t a Victory
Wisconsin Historical Society has 3,000 maps online
Colorado State University Water Resources Archive Digitizes More Than 43,000 Water History Documents
Oscars archive preserves movies for future film fans
When Artworks Crash: Restorers Face Digital Test
You’re so vain: University of Michigan study links social media and narcissism
Dirty secrets of Hollywood’s golden age revealed as Private Investigator’s archive is released
Pages from Nazi’s diary found at Lewiston publishing house
Abe Lincoln’s maths homework found in Harvard University archives
Another lost President Lincoln document found, this time on a closet shelf – the second in a week
Faulkner, Beckett and Conrad’s works up at auction
Bible Inscribed by Einstein Up for Auction at Bonhams New York
Smarsh, an archivist for the information age
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Australia – Hackers produce application to help Nationale Archives track cultural journeys
Mass metadata retention: Australia as an early adopter
Australia – New South Wales Government: ancient advice on email management
Digital New Zealand – Metadata now available for commercial use
New Zealand – The first release of a collection of stories from the Canterbury earthquakes is now available
South Asia online archive launched
Shanghai Municipal Archives – Archives from halcyon days go public for first time
Fiji – Work begins on digitalisation of archival material
India – Odisha State Archives: Digitisation of rare books, records underway
India – Fire destroys records at government office
Europe / Europa
Europeana funding cut #AllezCulture
Stalin’s personal archives exposed
Putin Hopes Dispute Over Jewish Archives Resolved
Tarkovsky’s Archives Opened at Film Festival
Eva Braun’s letters discovered, charting her fall from hope
The Only Surviving Film Footage of Anne Frank
Netherlands – The world’s first 3D-printed house
Georgia – Destruction of dirty archive delayed
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Proposed Freedom of Information Law reforms would limit access to much information of public importance
Hungary under Orban moves to restrict freedom of information
What belongs to Macedonia as archives and monuments should be created after 1994: historian
Belgique – Les archives de la Ville de Bruxelles en cours de numérisation
Prism: comment les Français sont écoutés par la NSA, et par des services bien de chez nous
France – La ville de Lyon veut dématérialiser la totalité de ses documents
Census lost: Historic 1926 Northern Ireland records may be destroyed
Ancient Irish texts show volcanic link to cold weather
UK – Freedom of information laws set to be extended
UK National Archives – Armed forces birth, marriage and death records
UK – Plans to mark 100 years since the beginning of the First World War in 2014 announced
‘Top Secret’ D-Day orders emerge – 69 years after they should have been destroyed
The British Library releases Virginia Woolf’s last unpublished work
With construction finally underway, Black Cultural Archives could open in 2014
Your family tree is just a click away as Surrey launches digital archive
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Egypt culture minister sacks National Archives chief, 3 senior officials
I follow Brotherhood’s Hassan El-Banna: Egypt’s new national archives head
Egyptian artists call on army to protect national archives from minister’s ‘plot’
Kuwait parliament launches web archive of legislative decisions
Ambassador: Iranian archives about Armenian Genocide are open for historians
International
E-Mail: Not Dead, Evolving
Social media analytics: are we nearly there yet?
Has Technology Killed Cursive Handwriting?
Most enterprises have no information strategy