Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Archives de France – Guide méthodologique : le format de fichiers PDF
Archives de France – Qualité des disques BLU-Ray enregistrables pour l’archivage des données numériques
De la communauté / From the community
Alliance for Permanent Access to the records of Science in Europe Network – A European Framework for Audit and Certification of Digital Repositories
Rapport Open GLAM: Recommandations pour l’ouverture des données et des contenus culturels
JISC – Preparing for Data-driven Infrastructure
Declaration on Parliamentary Openness
Article – Archives participatives
Publications
Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, vol. 8, no. 3, 2012 (Special issue on Advances in Geospatial Information, Collections & Archives)
D-Lib Magazine, vol. 18, no. 9-10 (September-October 2012)
Journal of Library Metadata, vol. 12, no. 2-3 (2012)
Document numérique, vol. 15, 2012/1
Library and Archives Canada – Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World, vol. 4, no. 4 (2012)
Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 1, no. 1 (September-October 2012)
Book – CMIS and Apache Chemistry in Action
Book – Perceptual Digital Imaging: Methods and Applications
Book – The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright
Book – Organizing Archival Records: A Practical Method of Arrangement and Description for Small Archives (Third Edition)
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
British Records Association Annual Conference – Jewels in the Crown? The Archives of the Empire
10 December 2012, London
Webinar – Metadata for Managing Scientific Research Data (presentations available)
August 22, 2012
2012 ALA Rare Books and Manuscript Section Preconference (Selected Presentations and Documents available)
June 19-22, 2012, San Diego
Sur le web / On the web
Ars Electronica Archives Now Online
New International Internet Preservation Consortium website
UK National Archives podcast – Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn: clothing, courtship and consequences
Outils / Tools
Format registry browser
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Advocacy group files complaint over B.C.’s record on freedom of information requests
Grace-Pépin Access to Information Award 2012 recipient: Darrell Evans
Ads are coming to a library near you: BAnQ gets corporate sponsor
BC History Digitization Program 2013
The Ontario Independent Music Archive
Putting faces to an open secret of pioneer days in the West: New exhibit features early prostitutes, madams
At the Royal Ontario Museum, photos document Cambodia’s record of horror
Université Laval – Doctorat d’honneur à Bruno Racine (président de la Bibliothèque nationale de France)
Afrique / Africa
Somali radio archives survive decades of looting and conflict
Kenya to Train South Sudanese Records Management Personnel
Liberia – Commending The National Archives Center
Sécurité des archives nationales au Mali : La « mémoire » de l’Etat se consume
Amériques / Americas
The Empire of Haiti: digitising some of the Nineteenth Century
Library of Congress Overhauls Online Offerings
Gov. Nathan Deal now says he’ll keep Georgia state archives open to public
Florida court records are going on computers — but not online
Every Minute Of Every TV News Program, Online And Searchable
Pittsburgh City Council Approves Plan to Create City Archives Commission
Records discovery could solve 50-year-old Birmingham civil rights era bombing case
UCLA Library preserves audiovisual mementos of the past
An Auction, In Cold Blood (about the Kansas Bureau of Investigation case file on the Clutter murders)
Columbia acquires ‘X-Men’ author’s archive
55 years of the Monterey Jazz Festival
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Australia – Digital archives at risk of vanishing
Australia – Govt wages war on paper
New Zealand – 10,000 glimpses of past posted online
India – Ancient Urdu manuscripts decay in AP State Archives
Malaysia – ‘Conduct research to ensure accuracy’
Europe / Europa
Why Europe is opening up its cultural history online
Stasi files: The world’s biggest jigsaw puzzle
Spain’s Ministry of Justice Creates Archive for Concentration Camp Victims
Head of the Central Archives of Armenia’s Ministry of Defense arrested
20 years later: The National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Joseph Goebbels Archives Go on Block: Nazi Propaganda Chief’s Early Documents Valued at $200K
France – Patrimoine : Visite des archives de la Société nationale des chemins de fer (SNCF)
Les Français ambigus sur l’usage du papier à la maison et en entreprise
Jersey Archive asks the public to nominate which streets feature in ‘What’s Your Street Story?’
Scotland – Commissioner warns freedom of information rights ‘erosion’
UK – The National Archives set to receive London 2012 digital Olympic records
Charity’s archive given prestigious national award
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Newly revealed Coptic fragment has Jesus making reference to ‘my wife’
International
A qui appartiennent les métadonnées ?
Access the Full Archive of Public Tweets
What Popular Culture is Telling Us About Libraries and Why We Should Listen
How not to write about libraries – some guidelines for reporters
Call for paper – World Wide Web: Special Issue on Social Media Preservation and Applications