Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Update on the Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress
Memorandum of Understanding between “Electronic Memory of the Arctic” and the National Archives of Norway
De la communauté / From the community
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – Three drafts by the Web Cryptography Working Group
Communia – Policy Paper on Proposed Directive on Collective Management of Copyright
Developing an Institutional Research Data Management Plan Service
Article – Ethical Issues in the Preservation of Digital Content
Publications
Journal of Documentation, vol. 69, no. 1 (2013)
Library Management, vol. 34, no. 1-2 (2013)
International Preservation News, no. 58, 2012, (Special issue: Preservation and Digitization of Rare Maps, Globes and Special Collections)
Cahiers français, no 372, 2012 (Numéro spécial: La société numérique)
eBook – Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics
Book – Cultural Heritage Law
Book – Social Media Retrieval
Book – History’s Babel: Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880-1940
Livre – Métiers de l’information, des bibliothèques et des archives à l’ère de la différentiation numérique
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
39th Annual Canadian Association for Conservation Conference and Workshops
May 21 – 25, 2013, Saint John, New Brunswick
Free Webinar – Presidential Records Management Directive (NARA)
January 16, 2013
Free Webinar – Personal Digital Archiving
April 24, 2013
Archives des dictatures: enjeux juridiques, archivistiques et institutionnels
24-25 janvier 2013, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine (France)
Conference Proceedings: 9th International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES 2012)
October 1-5, 2012, Toronto
Sur le web / On the web
Video – Les archives Passe-Mémoire
Top 100 Genealogy Websites for 2013
New Blog – British Library Digital Scholarship Blog
A Data Management and Data Sharing Bibliography for Librarians
Bibliography of articles relating to Library and Archives Canada cuts
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Canadians back government support for arts in Heritage poll: federal department asks about engagement in culture
Library and Archives Canada – Release of a new version of the Census of the Northwest Provinces, 1906 database
Another Step toward the Modernization of Textual Reprography Services at Library and Archives Canada
National library cuts severing ties with past
Archives Bring Historic Aerial Views of Nova Scotia Communities Online
Nova Scotia Archives – Halifax’s Connection to Victor Hugo
Historical mug shots on display in Regina
Afrique / Africa
Algérie : 50 ans après, les archives de la Révolution restent toujours confidentielles
Dans les méandres de la mémoire judiciaire du Sénégal
Amériques / Americas
White House to mandate machine-readable open data
Freedom of information request for dead bin Laden photos denied
National Archives to recall Nixon’s NASA years
Preserving the U.S. Constitution might be easier than preserving electronic records
Library of Congress Acquires Historic Sports Audio Recordings
Former Sen. Lieberman to archive Homeland Security Committee email
Georgia Archives’ supporters remain ‘nervous’
Rhode Island puts more public documents online
Hawaii Open Records Agency Barely Makes a Dent in Backlog
Oregon rides cloud to statewide records management system
University of Michigan makes St. Paul’s ancient letters available for perusal on your iPad or iPhone
University of Iowa’s Gallup collection highlights history of polling
Walt Whitman manuscript now digitized
Photographer Discovers WWI Negatives in Antique Store Camera
Scranton native part of team cataloging Andy Warhol’s archive of personal items
Doug Boyd and the Power of Digital Oral History in the 21st Century
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia – Boost for Australian archival research
National Archives of Australia – Saving personal records after a bushfire
Japan – National archive to compile 300,000 items related to 3/11 quake
Pakistan – Preservation of cultural arts: melodies of unsung maestros and their woes
Kyrgyzstan – Ministry of Culture plans to create a digital library
Europe / Europa
€125.7m European Commission Funding for Digital Projects Announced
Russia – Presidential Library to post electronic collections on key dates
Strong demand to see Stasi files in Germany: archive
Funding for digital heritage archive: Flemmish Institute will look after a “treasure trove” of audio-visual material
Malta – Archivist sheds fresh doubts on name of the Grand Master: debate continues over city founder’s spelling
Sony Issues Dylan CDs to Extend Copyright
In Need, French Museums Turn to Masses, Chapeaux in Hand
Les archives de Georges Duhamel données au département des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Ireland – Archives hold both happy memories and hard truths
Archives reveal life in Edinburgh and Inverness asylums
Secrets of 200 documents released by Jersey Archives
UK – ‘Digital by Default’ will be a complex and costly transition but the initial infrastructure is now in place
UK National Archives – Celebrating 150 years of the Tube
UK – National Cataloguing Grants Programme for Archives – 2012 awards
BBC makes Space for cultural history
Loughton National Jazz Archive workers outline plans for the coming year
Bodleian secures half the funds needed to acquire the Personal Archive of William Henry Fox Talbot
University of Sussex buys Virginia Woolf’s diaries
Ipswich Town archives to be auctioned
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel – Digital archive of election material launched
Archive prepares to cast light on Turkish history
Egypt – Access legalized: a new freedom of information law in the making
International
Digital Preservation, Learning it by Doing it
Embedded Metadata in PDFs Hosted in Institutional Repositories: An Inside-Out & Outside-In View
What do we mean by “embedded” files in PDF?
3D Printing Brings An Entirely New Dimension To Children’s Drawings