Vol. 5, no. 50

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State
National Library of Australia – Testing Software Tools of Potential Interest for Digital Preservation

De la communauté / From the community

Digital Curation Resource Guide
International Council on Archives, Section on University and Research Institutions Archives – Draft Guidelines on Appraisal and Disposition of Student Records 
International Coalition of Sites of Conscience – From Memory to Action: A Toolkit for Memorialization in Post-Conflict Societies
 
IFLA Code of Ethics for Librarians and other Information Workers

MS Thesis – Visualizing Digital Collections at Archive-it
Educopia Institute – Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation (Final version)
Publications
Report – The Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories, 2012-13 Edition

Provincial Archives of Alberta Greetings Cards
 
Book – How to Manage Processing in Archives and Special Collections
Book – Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War
Book – Indexing: From Thesauri to the Semantic Web
 
Book – How to Find Out Anything: From Extreme Google Searches to Scouring Government Documents
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

IFLA Round table on Linked Data (presentations available)
13 August 2012, Helsinki
Sur le web / On the web

Library and Archives Canada – The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee: Caricatures, stamps and other documents

Video – Building the Grateful Dead Archive Online: The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion
Tutorial by ArchivesHub on using MS Excel to create EAD
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Closing doors on Canada’s history
Canadian Conservation Institute – 2012 Conservation and Restoration Treatments Services
Ontario – Archeologists go gaming: video game technology allows for virtual tour of village and its artifacts
No new materials in Millet and District Museum (Alb.) archives due to funding cuts
Rivière-du-Loup – Le Centre d’archives récipiendaire d’un Prix du patrimoine
Afrique / Africa
Tunisie – Des journalistes dénoncent la lenteur du gouvernement à dévoiler les dossiers de la «police politique»
Amériques / Americas
Mexico – Documentation Sciences Foundation Agreement with the National School of Librarianship and Archival Science
National archives gets ready to taste first fruits of TechStat labor
Efforts under way to make Nixon’s White House tapes accessible
Vermont State Archives opens court records for research
California – Bill would make public records easier to search
Scanning history – a visit to the conservation lab at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
University of Texas at Austin – Foundations of Modern Cartography Now Visible Online and in Detail
 
Southern Methodist University archivist stands the test of time
Kansas State University launches digital archive of lost towns
University of North Texas Libraries to host gay history archives in deal with Resource Center Dallas
American Radio Archives is a refuge for the time when the medium ruled
Truman Capote Murder Archives: A chilling glimpse behind a bestseller
Digging Up the Recent Past: An Interview With Doug Reside (Digital Curator with the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

Tokyo professor creates digital maps of A-bombed cities
Sri Lanka archives international commitments
Vietnam – Les documents des rois Nguyên se dévoilent en majesté
State Archives of New South Wales – Digital archives team drops its warez on Github

Europe / Europa

Benedict XVI Dreamed of Becoming Vatican’s Librarian

France – Recel de vieux documents aux archives départementales du Nord
Scotland – 700-year-old letter belonging to William Wallace to go on display
 
UK National Archives – Design through research: The concepts behind Discovery
Hedgehog Street and Linked Open Data
Historic archive saved for the nation

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

Algeria TV gives Palestinian Authority archival records of Palestinian struggle

International