Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
U.N. Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management – Future trends in geospatial information management: the five to ten year vision
The British Library – Transforming stored knowledge into smart knowledge
De la communauté / From the community
OCLC – Final Two Reports in Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums Series
OCLC – Print Archives Disclosure Pilot final report
Open Planets Foundation – Migrating a Windows 2000 Database Server to Virtualized and Emulated Hardware
American Institute of Architects, California Council – Can CAD Be Saved? Preserving Digital Designs
Publications
Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 40, no. 1 (2012)
Trent University Archives Newsletter, no. 41 (April 2012)
Livre – La valorisation des archives: une mission, des motivations, des modalités, des collaborations
Book – Photography and the Artist’s Book
Book – Silent Film Performers: An Annotated Bibliography of Published, Unpublished and Archival Sources for Over 350 Actors and Actresses
Book – Implementing Electronic Document and Record Management Systems
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Webinar – Protect Your Holdings AND Provide Access? (Society of American Archivists)
May 31, 2012
Webinar – Using and Understanding PDF/A as a Preservation Format (Society of American Archivists)
Jun 28, 2012
Webinar – Managing and Preserving Audio and Video in Your Digital Repository
May 16, 2012
June 6, 2012
June 13,2012
Pathways to Privacy Research Symposium: Privacy for Everyone
May 2, 2012, Ottawa
Sur le web / On the web
Exposition virtuelle – GOAAAL ! Un siècle de football belge aux Archives générales du Royaume de Belgique
Podcast – Mike Wash, National Archives and Record Administration: Conversations about Digital Preservation
Video – An Overview of Preservation at the UCLA Library
OCLC – Archives, special collections researchers invited to take online survey
Outils / Tools
Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV)
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Prime minister’s department loses sports and music memorabilia, likely shredded
Clement urged to release more government information online
Library and Archives Canada – The Famous “Kitchen Accord”: Now Available in Digital Format
Library and Archives Canada – Lester Bowles Pearson Images Now on Flickr
Estonian heritage display at the Provincial Archives of Alberta
British Library – Malaria in Ontario: a World Malaria Day post
United Church archives ground zero in search for evidence of forced adoptions
Edmonton – City archives go virtual
Toronto – The Scarborough Hospital honours its past: longtime doctor joins archive committee to preserve hospitals’ past
Nicolet – Vers un centre d’archives régional
Afrique / Africa
Namibia: Feasibility Study On National Archives Almost Complete
Amériques / Americas
Library of Congress’s collection preserves history of American culture
Seeking Miraculous and Lossless Victories: An Update on the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) Still Image Working Group
Ex-spy: Destroying CIA tapes purged ‘ugly visuals’
Veterans Affairs, National Archives team up to help dig out of claims backlog
Ancestry.com Acquires Archives.com For $100 Million
Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums with Wikipedia (GLAM-Wiki): Insights Interview with Lori Phillips
U.S. Geological Survey Historical Maps Go Digital
Nebraska – ‘The written word endures’ at archives
Millions of Harvard Library Catalog Records Publicly Available
The Humanities, Digitized: Reconceiving the study of culture
See the photos! Huge archive of historical photos of New York City debuts online
Cataloguing Queens history for 100 years
Folger Shakespeare Library Acquires Lynn Redgrave Archive
This Camera Doesn’t Take Pictures. It Describes Them.
Chicago – Historians up in arms about archives future: as Gerber/Hart moves, LGBT library’s board accused of stonewalling its members
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Book of the Dead fragment found in Australian museum
What are Australian Government agencies using social media to achieve?
President Aquino orders preservation of all Philippine films and audio visuals
Indonesia – Archive and Document Preservation is Important for Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo
India – National University of Educational Planning and Administration to establish national digital archive
Europe / Europa
Romania opens national library in communist-era building
Oldest Written Documents in Estonia Uploaded
The Gibraltar Museum and the Gibraltar Archives
Poland – National archive acquires JP II’s letters to communists
France – Le gouvernement se dote d’un délégué interministériel aux Archives de France
France – De la description des documents à l’exploitation des données : le projet data.bnf.fr
National Library of Wales £1m war records project
Scotland – Dirty books reveal secret lives of people living in mediaeval times
UK – After the release of colonial records – what about Northern Ireland?
Queen Victoria archive goes online
Alan Turing papers on code breaking released by GCHQ
British Library publishes 30 years of letters between Ted Hughes and critic Keith Sagar
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Lebanese monastery to archive first Arabic Bible, thousands of manuscripts
Emirati films to be archived in new library
Israel Police probing possible theft of Kafka papers
Einstein Archives website received nearly 1 million unique visitors in its first month: more than 34 million hits from 160 countries
International
Saving the game: Why preserving video games is illegal
Why PDF/A is becoming the de facto document format for digital archiving
A Brief History of Digital Video
Usability and Analytics in Libraries, Archives, and Museums
History flushed: The digital age promised vast libraries, but they remain incomplete
Digital Preservation Is Cultural Literacy
Information hoarders: A Harvard history professor explains how human societies evolved to collect, organize and use data