Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick – Digital/Microfilm Transfer Procedures
De la communauté / From the community
UNESCO – Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Draft Recommendations Now Available for Comment
Canadian Library Association Toolkit: Budget Cuts to Federal Libraries
Article – The Cost of Digital Preservation: A Methodological Analysis
Publications
RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, vol. 13, no. 2 (Fall 2012)
Code4Lib Journal, no. 18 (2012)
eConservation: the online magazine, no. 24 (Autumn 2012)
Livre – Abrégé d’archivistique (3e édition)
Livre – Read/Write Book 2: Une introduction aux humanités numériques
Book – Digital Anthropology
Book – Indexing and Retrieval of Non-Text Information
Book – The Oxford Handbook of Oral History
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Library and Archives Canada Roundtable Event
October 17th 2012, London
Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives & Museums Summit 2013
19-20 June 2013, Montreal
Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections (presentations available)
September 20-21, 2012, Washington, D.C.
Sur le web / On the web
Slidecast – Investing in the Long-Term Viability of British Columbia’s Digital Collections
Google Cultural Institute – New Platform for Culture Sector
GPO and NARA – Presidential Documents App
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Ottawa to launch online pilot project for access-to-information requests
Why It’s Time for a Canadian Digitization Strategy Based on Fair Dealing
Toronto’s Queer History, Recounted in Buttons and Pins
Newfoundland – Archivist wants every soldier’s story told
Ottawa – The sound man, silenced: a fire closed aural historian and technician Hy Bloom’s Centretown shop, but his recordings have found shelter at the City Archives
Halifax – City directory offers a step back in time
Surrey (B.C.) Archives presents fall program series
University of Winnipeg preparing 2112 time capsule
Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives opens in Brampton (Ont.)
Afrique / Africa
Congo – Unicef : des armoires de conservation des archives remis aux communes
Cameroun – Documents administratifs: informatiser la gestion des archives
Amériques / Americas
NARA – Archives inspector general Paul Brachfeld placed on administrative leave
National Archives to Open Robert F. Kennedy Records Relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis
US National Archives publish Air Force flying saucer schematics
Donated photographs document early work with Forest Service
FBI admits to destroying their file on journalist Hunter S. Thompson
Kentucky – Libraries and Archives Department sets Electronic Records Day to raise awareness
Texas – Historic court records return home
Restoring Film Gems, Pre-Code or Political
Name The Tribble Contest: ‘Star Trek’ Creature Featured In American Archives Month Promotion
North Dakota State University Archives Meet the Web
Women’s history gets digitized, organized
One man’s quest: cataloging 350,000 medal-of-valor winners
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
India – Researchers working on the colonial period to get access of archival material home
India – New records to shed light on Netaji’s disappearance
India – Ministry of External Affairs to declassify more files
New Zealand – Old letters tell of monkey business
Chinese archives hold key to Malacca’s founding
Europe / Europa
Belarusian archivists celebrate professional holiday today (October 6th)
Archive of Jewish Life in Central Europe Going Online
Malta – 2 million digital images so far at National Archives
Denmark – Government limits freedom of information with new law
Radio Télévision Belge Francophone: 65.000 heures d’archives déjà numérisées par la Sonuma
France – Le ministère de la Culture veut que la numérisation serve à l’éducation
France – Parcours du combattant aux archives militaires
Le fonds photographique de France Soir racheté par un particulier
Jersey Archive asks Islanders advice through National Survey
Scotland – Historic deal for archive
Calls to release Irish adoption records
Ireland – Labour archive donated to National Library
Ireland – Broadcasters resist police bid to grab unbroadcast Belfast riot footage
British Library tracks rise and fall of file formats: analysis of 2.5 billion online files suggests software obsolescence slowing
UK National Archives – Snakes and ladders – the semantics of organograms
Winston Churchill archive made available online
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Afghan filmmakers fear for cinematic history
Egypt – Culture Minister: new draft law on National Archives submitted to government
International
Digital Paleontology – Digging for Ancient Tweets
Responsible Data Citizens Embrace Old World Archiving With New Data Sources
La composition du nouveau bureau de l’AIAF (Association Internationale des Archivistes Francophones)
Big Data: A Short History