Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Canada Open Government Consultation Report: What We Heard
States of Sustainability: A Review of State Projects funded by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)
Institut national du patrimoine – Archives et art contemporain: orientation bibliographique
De la communauté / From the community
ARMA – Records Management and Governance of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) Survey
The Metadata Coverage Index (MCI): A standardized metric for quantifying database annotation richness
IFLA – Fonctionnalités requises des données d’autorité matière (FRSAD): un modèle conceptuel (version française)
Finnish Institute – Being Open About Data: Analysis of the UK open data policies and applicability of open data
http://www.finnish-institute.
Publications
Library & Archival Security, vol. 25, no. 1 (2012)
The Electronic Library, vol. 30, no. 2 (2012)
UK Archives sector updates (spring 2012)
Scottish Council on Archives – Broadsheet, no. 13, (April 2012)
First Monday, vol. 17, no. 4 (April 2012)
Book – Web-Age Information Management
Book – Quillen’s Essentials of Genealogy: Tracing Your Irish & British Roots
Book – Quillen’s Essentials of Genealogy: Tracing Your European Roots
Book – Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Free webinar – Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards: Standards for public elections, ballots and voter information
May 16, 2012
Future Perfect 2012: Digital Preservation by Design (presentations available)
26 & 27 March 2012, New Zealand
Sur le web / On the web
National Library of Australia Poscast – Tools for Web Archiving
UK National Archives – Launching Discovery, our new catalogue
AnnotateIt and Annotator: a new mode of communication on the web
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Library and Archives Canada Launches Its New Travelling Exhibition
Perimeter security: Privacy commissioners urge transparency and respect of Canadian privacy standards
Nova Scotia Provincial Archivist named
B.C. Supreme Court confirms Commissioner’s jurisdiction to decide questions of solicitor-client privilege
Ottawa – PIN Contact Falls Under Access to Information
Ottawa – City officially names the James Bartleman Archives and Library Materials Centre
Prof fights University of Ottawa’s release of research documents under freedom of information
Inside old-school books, every scribble tells a story
Huron County Historical Society (Ont.) wants Archive
The Northumberland County Archives: Ensuring a Future for our Past
Afrique / Africa
Mali – Timbuktu scripts safe
La Tunisie se dote d’une loi sur l’accès à l’information
Farah Hached, sur la piste des archives de la Tunisie
Amériques / Americas
NARA chief: Agencies want updated records management processes
Preservation of and Access to Federally Funded Scientific Data
National Archives Releases 1940 Census
Interest in 1940 US census paralyzes National Archive website, with millions of user ‘hits’
Utah volunteers ready to index pre-World War II census
US court hears Boston College’s Belfast Project archive appeal
Shoah Foundation to archive testimonies from Armenian Genocide survivors
Robert Darnton Promises Digital Public Library by 2013
For Archivists, ‘Occupy’ Movement Presents New Challenges
Seeking scraps of Minnesota history
Academy Acquires Film Historian’s Amazing Photo Collection
Trove of family papers donated to Lincoln Presidential Library
Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive A Treasure Trove
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
How Twitter Makes the Internet More Local
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/
Gandhi’s glasses among incredible haul of belongings from Indian peace campaigner set to fetch £80,000
Europe / Europa
Open Source Software and Digital Preservation: An Interview with Bram van der Werf of the Open Planets Foundation
Dutch National Archive To Open Data
‘Huge mass’ of archive documents on Azerbaijani genocide
Bosnia – Why Sarajevo could lose a 660-year-old Jewish prayer book
German firm launches voluminous online archive on Mahatma Gandhi
France – Quand la Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure (DGSE) retrouve sa mémoire
Ireland – Ancient police records go online
The National Archives and Arts Council England announce partnership
Petition launched to save historic archives as London Metropolitan University says it can no longer maintain Women’s Library and TUC collections
Historic photographs of golfing pair could fetch £350k
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel Radio archive could make way for executive offices
International
Philatelic libraries to join forces in global alliance
Archiving, Preservation Move into 21st Century
This old backup: how to dispose of your old archives without exposing yourself
How much paper does a person use on average in a year?
How Twitter Makes the Internet More Local
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/