Ressources / Resources
De la communauté / From the community
International Council on Archives annual report 2012
Publications
Journal of Digital Humanities, vol. 1, no. 4 (Fall 2012)
Revue électronique suisse de science de l’information, no. 13 (Décembre 2012)
Document numérique, vol. 15, no. 3 (2012)
Free ebook – From Documentation to Information Science: The Beginnings and Early Development of the American Documentation Institute-American Society for Information Science
Book – Ephemeral Material: Queering the Archive
Book – Corporate Responsibility for Cultural Heritage: Conservation, Sustainable Development, and Corporate Reputation
Book – Scientific Computing and Cultural Heritage: Contributions in Computational Humanities
Livre – Les Archives Internationales de la Danse: un projet inachevé, 1931-1952
Book – Evaluating the Impact of Your Library (2nd edition)
Book – Intellectual Property Law in Canada: Cases and Commentary (2nd Edition)
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Psychology and Information Management
February 20, 2013, Toronto (and Internet)
Digging For Gold In Toronto Libraries and Archives: Day-long Workshop for Family Historians
May 4, 2013, Toronto
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives / Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council Joint Conference
6-10 October, 2013, Vilnius, Lithuania
Free Genealogy Webinars
December 20, 2012 – January 21, 2013
Sur le web / On the web
The Open Data Hub of the European Union (beta version)
Database of Italian Church’s Art and Artefacts
Searching Your Irish Roots Online: a Guide to Irish Genealogy Websites and How to Search on Them
Top 10 Digital Preservation Presentations of 2012
Slidecast – Tool Academy: Web Archiving
Tutoriel: Comment utiliser les annuaires Lovell (BAnQ)
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Ottawa says it never agreed to duplicate residential school records
Debate over crucial residential school documents delays reconciliation deal
Culture of secrecy keeping Canadians in the dark
Ryerson University Archives and Special Collections – The War of 1812, Two Hundred Years Ago
Archival Dialogues at Ryerson Image Centre: A Taster
Lanark County (Ont.) council battles to keep records close to home
Long-time Whitby (Ont.) archivist Brian Winter retires
Afrique / Africa
Namibia: Home Affairs Switches to Electronic Records
Les archives du génocide rwandais divisent
Tunisie : l’agence Tunis Afrique presse (TAP) contribue à préserver l’archive nationale photographique
Amériques / Americas
How Paraguay’s ‘Archive of Terror’ put Operation Condor in focus
White House data strategy calls for standardized metadata and identity authentication
NARA Honored for Innovation and Best Practices in Government
First complete color photo of Earth from space sold off at auction
Texas State Archives Unveils Online Flag Exhibit
Inside the life of the Inuit: Extraordinary photographs document how Alaska’s Eskimos survived the cruelest of winters
Portland Art Museum digitizes its collections, adding, history, context to artworks
Abraham Lincoln archive at GVSU helps bring to life Golden Globe-nominated film by Steven Spielberg
University of Vermont – The specialness of Special Collections
Picturing freedom: how former slaves used photography to imagine and create their new lives after Emancipation
Researchers Say Much to Be Learned from Chicago’s Open Data
Maps alter the course of several lives: Mount Washington man leaves behind a collection whose discovery affects a number of disparate people in profound ways
One man’s effort to save TV’s physical history raises question: Is it art or just strange stuff?
Stokowski sleuth finds historic items for Philly Orchestra on conductor’s 100th anniversary
Oldest Southern library’s book bindery repairs historic works by hand
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Australia – Hunter Valley Theatre Company archive photos saved
Earliest surviving Mughal document?
India (state of Karnataka) – Files pile up in secretariat as space for storage shrinks in Archives
Philippine – Value of film preservation, restoration acknowledged
Europe / Europa
New agreement for cooperation between Jewish Records Index-Poland and the Polish State Archives
Germany – Updating Thomas Mann’s Status From Stuffy to Chatty
Germany – Official wants Rolling Stones to rock Stasi archive
Italy – Free app reveals Dianese archives
France – Les beaux jours du manuscrit
Entretien avec Jean-Yves Houard, secrétaire général de la Fédération Française de généalogie
Ireland – Radio Free Éireann interviews Belfast Project Director Ed Moloney
National Library of Ireland releases prison letters written by Roger Casement in 1916
British Library – Here Comes Santa Claus
UK National Archives – Newly released files from 1982 include Falklands War papers
WWI Belfast soldiers’ letters found in Cavan
Bristol Old Vic theatre creates memories audio archive
Archive film showing Norwich’s Christmas past
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Débat à Oran sur le cinéma Palestinien: «Nos archives sont livrées aux quatre vents»
International
The End of the Map
Why You Should Digitize Your Film Using a Camera Instead of a Scanner
The state-of-the-art in System Preservation
Back up systems are not recordkeeping systems
Best Gift Ever: A 3D Printer