Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Ireland – Copyright and Innovation: A Consultation Paper
Australia – Attorney-General’s Department: Extending Legal Deposit Consultation
De la communauté / From the community
2012 Canada Digital Future in Focus
AIIM – Rise of the Information Professional: A Career Path for the Digital Economy
Publications
Library Hi Tech, vol. 30, no. 1 (2012)
Information Technology and Libraries, vol. 31, no. 1 (2012)
Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (March 2012)
Book – Family History: Digging Deeper
Book – In the Memory of the Map: A Cartographic Memoir
Livre – Développer la médiation documentaire numérique
Book – Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace: Explorations in Canadian Women’s Archives
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Exhibition – Collect the WWWorld: The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age
9 March 2012 – 20 May 2012, Switzerland
Council of Archives New Brunswick Annual General Meeting 2012
May 25 2012, Fredericton
Free Webinar – Digital Curation of Text
March 15, 2012
Free Your Metadata: a Concrete Action Plan (video available)
February 10, 2012, New York
Numériser le patrimoine pour le centenaire de la Grande guerre (présentations disponibles)
16 décembre 2011, Paris
Association of Southeastern Research Libraries – Webinar: Intro to Digital Preservation (videos available)
#1: Identifying & Selecting Content – http://vimeo.com/37128406
#2: Considerations for Storage & Protection of Content – http://vimeo.com/36777688
#3: Make Plans to Manage Content & Provide Access Over Time – http://vimeo.com/37210022
Sur le web / On the web
Video – Oral History in the Digital Age
Interview with Doug Boyd:
Interview with Doug Oard:
Video – Salman Rushdie Discusses Creativity and Digital Scholarship with digital archives coordinator Erika Farr
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Calculating the Value of Canada’s Open Data Portal: A Mini-Case Study
Petition to save the CBC music archives
L’histoire de l’Anjou et du Canada s’exporte en Chine
West Kootenay (B.C.) feminism project launched
Winnipeg – Professor seeks historical gold on audiotape: wants recordings of refugees’ stories
A Cultural Institution in Crisis: Cinemathèque Québécoise at Risk of Bankruptcy
Sound and vision: B.C. photographer captured the history of rock
De nombreuses archives civiles de la région de Montréal désormais en ligne
Repentigny – Une subvention de 138 100 $ est accordée au Centre régional d’archives
Cobourg and District Historical Society (Ont.) – Ward bids fond farewell to Archives
Afrique / Africa
Nigeria launches first digital archive
Madagascar – L’Anta, un trésor en archives
Algérie – Les archives : enjeu politique et revers culturel
Une tragédie nommée «Archives du Maroc»
Amériques / Americas
Bermuda – Govt will not reveal cost of keeping Archives director on administrative leave
How the U.S. Military Shares Its Rich History With Facebook Timeline
Department of Defense could open huge military tissue archive
Investigators seek dealers who bought stolen documents from disgraced presidential collector
Searching For Pirate Treasure Ships in the National Archives
NARA – Putting Women on the Map: New Women’s History Collections on Historypin
File Fixity and Digital Preservation Storage: More Results from the NDSA Storage Survey
South Dakota State Historical Society’s archives go digital
Kansas Aviation Museum to dedicate new archive room
Archives on a 20th-Century Jewish Diaspora Are Being Put Online
18th-Century Astronomer Herschel’s Papers Now Public
Handwritten journals from Lizzie Borden lawyer donated to FRHS
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
China – Spiritual heritage preserved
Pakistan – Renowned archivist Lutfullah Khan passes away
Europe / Europa
EU Digital Commissioner: Open Public Data, The Oil Of The Digital Age
Ethnographic and European transportation maps of the 19th century now online
Serge Lifar’s Ballets Russes archive on sale in Geneva
Five hundred new fairytales discovered in Germany
Possible Contempt Sanctions Against Russia over Jewish Archives
France – A saisir avant le 22 avril: manuscrit fondateur de Jean Jaurès
UK – Cameron’s dividing line on access to information
BBC Radio 4’s Listening Project to capture the voices of the nation in conversation
UK – Personal copy of ‘secret’ book belonging to D-Day landings general is discovered in safe
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Turkish army to return documents seized in coup times
State of Kuwait newspaper announces official archives delivered
International
ELCA implémente une solution gestion des archives pour l’Organisation mondiale du commerce
What are the Best Images for Promoting Digital Preservation?
MoReq2010 test programme is open for business
Quality Control for Crowdsourced Transcription
Video games warrant preservation