Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick – Guidelines for the Secure Destruction of Records
Ontario Information & Privacy Commissioner – Privacy by Design in the Age of Big Data
U.S. – National Archives Open Government Plan version 2.0
De la communauté / From the community
Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works
MetaMillions: Turning Bits Into Bucks for the Music Industry Through the Standardization of Archival and Contextual Metadata
Council on Library and Information Resources – One Culture: Computationally Intensive Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Publications
Conservation Perspectives: the Getty Conservation Institute Newsletter, vol. 27, no. 1, Spring 2012 (Special issue on Photograph Conservation)
Broadsheet: e-magazine of the Scottish Council on Archives, no. 15 (June 2012)
Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol. 38, no. 5 (June/July 2012)
Information Technology and Libraries, vol. 31, no. 2 (2012)
Livre – Les chantiers du numérique : dématérialisation des archives et métiers de l’archiviste
Livre – Archives pour l’histoire de la formation des adultes
Book – Audiovisual Archives: Digital Text and Discourse Analysis
Book – Genealogist’s Internet 5th Edition
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
New exhibit – Picturing Immigrants in the Ward: How photography shaped ideas about Central and Eastern European immigrants in early 20th-century Toronto
June 22 until May 2013, Toronto
Exhibition – We Simply Turned to the Women: 100 Years of the Catholic Women’s League, Edmonton Archdiocese 1912-2012
June 12 to August 31 2012, Edmonton (Provincial Archives of Alberta)
Exhibition – Public Sins / Private Desires: Tracing Lesbian Lives in the Archives, 1950-1980
June 22 – August 6 2012, Toronto
Exhibition – Faces of 1812 (Library and Archives Canada)
June 13, 2012 to January 6, 2013, Ottawa
Costs and Benefits of Keeping Knowledge (presentations available)
11 June 2012, Copenhagen
Sur le web / On the web
Excel spreadsheet – Tweets at the ACA 2012 annual conference
Podcast – Digital Preservation Network: Cliff Lynch Speaks with University of Virginia’s James Hilton
Podcast – UK National Archives : Tracing merchant seamen, 1857-1918
The Web-Archives Timeline
Poème – L’Archiviste
Outils / Tools
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Metadata Terms with RDFa markup
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Glenn Gould’s preferred piano, chair set for display (they were transferred from LAC to the National Arts Centre)
Digitisation of Canadian material from the British Library as part of The Europeana Collections 1914-1918 project
Ontario – Courting disaster: How increased digitization of court records could streamline system
Commissioner sides with University of Ottawa professor in privacy battle
Rescue mission for Riverview Hospital (B.C.) photos
Nearly lost, photographs tell story of bold invasion
Reclaiming History Through Photographs
Saskatchewan – Man in legislature time capsule photo identified
Elgin County Archives (Ont.) – A fight to save archives funding
Belleville (Ont.) – City’s history needs support
Drummondville – Le Fonds d’archives Germaine Morin Proulx voit le jour
Le cégep de Victoriaville met de l’ordre dans ses archives
Afrique / Africa
Director of Tunsia’s National Archives: “We Need Action” on Transitional Justice
Tunisia: Offices and Archives of Tunis II Court of First Instance Set Ablaze
Les Archives du Sénégal : Un riche patrimoine à la recherche de nouveaux espaces
Etat des lieux dressé des archives de la République démocratique du Congo à la célébration vendredi de la Journée internationale des archives
Amériques / Americas
Bermuda – 150 Years Of The Bacardi Archive Revealed
Congressional data may soon be easier to use online
NARA: 184 TB now in Electronic Records Archive
National Archives will continue to hold Kennedy assassination records secret
Smithsonian Institution – To Preserve or Not to Preserve: Social Media
Civil War photos: Help sought to solve old mystery
Notebooks Shed Light on an Antibiotic’s Contested Discovery
Forbes – No. 1 Worst Master’s Degree For Jobs: Library and Information Science
‘The Book Of Mormon’ Found: Rare, First-Edition Copy Stolen From Arizona Bookstore Recovered In D.C.
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
India – Regional archives longs for better facilities
India – Crime Records Bureau to go paperless in Rajasthan
For sale! Unknown Gandhi archive
Seychelles has a Record Center for National Archives
China – Documents tell story of Mao’s casket
Australia – Government agencies recognise BYOD times
Europe / Europa
Agreement reached on new EU copyright laws on ‘orphan’ works
European medieval and WWI history digital archiving project gets €6.5m in EU funding
Tapes of infamous communist show trial with AP correspondent William Oatis unearthed in Czech National Archives
Who was the first Pope to be photographed? A look at the Vatican’s Photographic Archive
Vatican reports discovery of ancient documents
France – La valorisation du patrimoine culturel de la Défense
Google Ends Legal Dispute With French Authors Over Scans
Ireland’s genealogy experts join forces to provide Irish ancestry info
Historic bilingual film archive donated to National Library of Wales
UK – The National Archives opens up war art with Wikipedia
UK – Supporting archival biodiversity – welcome to the world of private archives
Thomas Cromwell letter to Henry VIII before Anne of Cleves marriage discovered
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Muammar Gaddafi’s photo archive gives an insight into the ‘Jamahiriya’
International
Why Twitter matters: Tomorrow’s knowledge network
Web Archiving Lifecycle
Processing special collections: An archivist’s workstation