Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Centre de conservation du Québec – Préservation des collections en situation de crise sanitaire
https://www.ccq.gouv.qc.ca/index.php?id=373
Public Record Office Victoria – Records Disposition Authority for Magistrates’ Court of Victoria (Draft for Comments)
http://prov.vic.gov.au/about-us/our-blog/feedback-request-magistrates-court-victoria-rda
Public Record Office Victoria – Records Disposition Authority for Records of the County Court (Draft for Comments)
De la communauté / From the community
Revised Digital Repository of Ireland Guidelines for Preparing Metadata
http://dri.ie/publication-revised-dri-guidelines-preparing-metadata
OCLC – Reopening Archives, Libraries, and Museums Project update: Test 4 Results
https://www.oclc.org/research/news/2020/realm-project-test-four-results-announced.html
Information Law and Policy Lab (University of Amsterdam) – Web Harvesting by Cultural Heritage Institutions
http://ilplab.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/ILP-Lab-Policy-Paper-Web-Harvesting-final.pdf
Université de Lausanne – Réflexions sur les humanités numériques : origines, définitions, développements
Getting in and Getting on: Class, Participation and Job Quality in the UK’s Creative Industries
Article – Open is not Forever: a Study of Vanished Open Access Journals
Publications
Journal of Archival Organization, vol. 17, no. 1-2 (2020)
Revue Critique, no 879-880, 2020 (numéro spécial : faire collecte : archives et création)
International Council on Archives Expert Group on Indigenous Matters – Bulletin (2020)
International Council on Archives New Professionals – Newsletter, no. 15 (2020)
International Federation of Film Archives Bulletin Online, no 7 (2020)
http://en.calameo.com/read/000918540224d2e94bc4d
Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum – Memoria Magazine, no. 35 (2020)
http://view.joomag.com/memoria-en-nr-35-08-2020/0579154001598468742
Master Thesis (Haute école de gestion de Genève) – Enabling better Aggregation and Discovery of Cultural Heritage Content for Europeana and its Partner Institutions
Mémoire de maîtrise (Enssib) – Signalement et valorisation des textes (religieux) en arabe : la coopération au service d’une meilleure (re)connaissance de ces fonds
Free eBook – Boxes: a Field Guide
Book – Recordkeeping Cultures (Second Edition)
Book – Tracing your Scottish Family History on the Internet: a Guide for Family Historians
Book – Copyright’s Arc
Book – The Book in the Cathedral: the Last Relic of Thomas Becket
Book – Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy: Architectures, Challenges, and Applications
Book – Knowledge Management for Corporate Social Responsibility
Book – World Guide to Libraries 2020
Book – Privacy is Power: why and how you should Take Back Control of your Data
Book – Assessment of Cataloging and Metadata Services
Book – Burning the Books: a History of Knowledge Under Attack
Livre – Archives des gens simples
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Digital Preservation 101
September 9, 2020
Alberta – Okotoks Museum & Archives 20th Anniversary Open House
September 12, 2020, Okotoks
Archives Association of Ontario – Archival Conversations: Migrating Legacy Finding Aids
October 14, 2020
Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta – 30th Annual General Meeting
October 26, 2020
Royal Photographic Society – Looking to the Present, Looking to the Past
September 9 – October 28, 2020
Online Discussion – Facilitating Archival Research on the Study of the Turbulent 1940s
September 10, 2020
Australian Association of Archivists Webinar – Supporting and Activating the Adelaide Tandanya Declaration on Indigenous Archives
September 11, 2020
http://www.archivists.org.au/events/category/online-events
Webinar – Research Data Management and Digital Preservation
September 11, 2020
https://ssl.eventilla.com/event/m95ok
Information and Records Management Society – A Modern Approach to a Records Management Staple
September 15, 2020
https://irms.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1401667
Seeing Editors: Metadata, Machine Learning, and the Shapes of Social Justice
September 15, 2020
Les archives d’artistes : diversité des fonds, enjeux et dispositifs de valorisation
23-24 novembre 2020, Paris
Popular Culture Association Annual Conference – Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture
June 2-5, 2021, Massachusetts
Sur le web / On the web
Request for Feedback – A Reconciliation Framework for Canadian Archives
Catherine McKenna Podcast – The Builders with Leslie Weir, Librarian and Archivist of Canada
Records Search and Rescue Podcast – Toys, Toys, Toys
Unesco Video – How can Archives, Libraries and Museums Help Combat the Disinfodemic Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic?
http://en.unesco.org/news/memory-institutions-are-uniquely-positioned-combat-covid-19-disinformation
European Commission – Survey on the Application of the Orphan Works Directive
http://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/OWDTargetedSurvey2020
NARA – Native American Photographs Tagging Mission
National Archives of Australia – Australia’s Prime Ministers
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Library and Archives Canada – Japanese Canadian internment: over 40,000 pages and 180 photographs digitized by the DigiLab
Gradual Reopening Library and Archives Canada
Information Commissioner of Canada – Timeframe for filing a complaint
The Copyright Board’s New $757,548.50 (+?) Website: Finally an Apparently Functional Search Engine, but Otherwise Disappointing at Best and Problematic at Worst
Department of National Defence refuses to release records as it fights to protect privacy of long dead child molester
Ottawa names two former residential schools as national historic sites
2020 is a year for the history books, but not without digital archives
Launch of the Healing and Commemoration Project’s Online Archival Portal: Part of Reconciliation for Former Students of Newfoundland and Labrador Residential Schools
Ontario Launches Consultations to Strengthen Privacy Protections of Personal Data
Les Archives nationales : 100 ans au service des Québécois
http://mnq.quebec/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/BanQ_MNQ.pdf
La rentrée de l’École branchée se fait en collaboration avec BAnQ
Québec – Nos archives à la dérive
Residential school group searches for identities of two boys who drowned while attending Shingwauk
Blackface in the Kodak Archive, Ryerson University’s Special Collections: Context for Reading Racist Images
Salvaged Starpod: Architect Louis Sullivan in McGill University’s Visual Arts Collection
McGill University Library – Dr. Jessica Stacey on Voltaire
University of British Columbia – An Archival Science student jumps at an opportunity
Université de Montréal – Réaction de l’EBSI à la décision des Sulpiciens concernant leurs archives
Dossier des Sulpiciens et sauvegarde des archives au Québec: l’urgence d’un plan concret
Anglican Council of General Synod – Decolonizing our descriptions, unsettling our practice
Covid-19 Policies at the Shambhala Archives
Société historique de Montréal – Codex canadensis : une énigme de la Nouvelle-France
Whitehorse – Collection Goes to the Archives
http://www.whitehorsestar.com/News/collection-goes-to-the-archives
Réouverture du service d’archives du Musée d’histoire de Sherbrooke
Sudbury – Vandals wiping out Indigenous pictographs, researcher says
Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Developing Whistler’s Swing
South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – Introducing Movie Monday
Lake Country Museum and Archives (British Columbia) – The Early Days of Okanagan Centre
Kootenay Lake Archives (British Columbia) – Archives seeks stories of pandemic’s effects on Kaslo
Statford-Perth Archives (Ontario) – Reflections: Archives in the Time of Covid-19
http://www.stratfordbeaconherald.com/opinion/columnists/reflections-archives-in-the-time-of-covid-19
Lambton Archives (Ontario) Seeking Peoples Personal Stories amid Covid-19
Oxford County Archives (Ontario) – Not your Average Recipes
http://oxfordcounty.ca/Explore-Oxford/Libraries-museums-and-archives/Archives/Blog
Société historique Saint-Pierre-de-Saurel – Jean “Picolo” Dontigny, le vendeur de rêve
Groups Documenting Historic Tragedy off Newfoundland: the Sinking of the Caribou
WWII veteran’s family reunited with service record found at Goodwill
Vie d’archiviste : nouveaux diplômés spécial rentrée : Geneviève Beaudry
Miss Canadian History: an Archive Story
Afrique / Africa
Shaping the Future of African Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums through Hackathon
Influence of Copyright Exceptions and Limitations on Access to Information in Kenya, Ghana and Uganda Libraries
Nigerian Gothic, the Instagram Archivist Immortalising Black Pop Culture
Amériques / Americas
NARA – Democratizing Access to our Records
NARA – Why we Fight: Prelude to War, America’s Crash History Lesson
NARA – Back to School: from One-Room Schools to Great Halls with the National Register of Historic Places
Library of Congress – The March on Washington in Color
Library of Congress – Metaphors for Understanding Born Digital Collection Access: Part III
Library of Congress – What I Wish they Taught me about Copyright in Art School
Library of Congress – Rick Atkinson: the Lasting Impact of World War II on the U.S.
Declassification at the Pentagon II: More Silly Secrecy
The Friends of “El Viejo”: Declassified Records Detail Suspected Paramilitary, Narco Ties of Former Colombian President Uribe
Society of American Archivists – ICYMI: Standing Together in Archival Workers Emergency
http://issuesandadvocacy.wordpress.com/2020/08/31/icymi-standing-together-in-awe/
Inside the hidden facility safeguarding America’s largest collection of Holocaust artifacts
Digitizing the First Days of Public Access Television
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – FAQ: Can I destroy a paper original after scanning?
New tool to preserve historic resources from the African American Civil Rights journey in Nevada
Yale University – More Watching, Less Searching: Repurposing Fortunoff Archive Metadata for Visual Searching
Purdue University – Launching the Digital Humanities Toolbox
University of Houston – Texas Art Project: Digitized Microfilmed Archives
Emory University acquires archive of Black Panther Party activist Kathleen Cleaver
Harriet Tubman Center at Binghamton University launches Truth and Reconciliation Commission
With Covid-19 archives, Brown University students, faculty and staff aim to diversify the historical record
Archival Documents, Like Magic, Thanks to University of Connecticut Researchers’ New App
The Inside Story of the $8 Million Heist from the Carnegie Library
Behind the scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: what does it take reopen a national landmark?
Little Rock Museum to Archive Impact of Pandemic on Black Arkansans
United Keetoowah Band museum received grants that will update library archives, help save Cherokee language
There’s an Archivist for that! Interview with Annette La Rue from Electromagnetic Tattoo and Adam Jeffery from the Baltimore Tattoo Museum
The Radical Collective of 20-Somethings who Filmed the DNC and RNC of 1972
The mystery behind two never-before-heard Sinatra recordings
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Public servants’ names shouldn’t be removed from Freedom of Informations by default: Information Commissioner
Recordkeeping Infrastructures and Microsoft 365
The OPM Archive Foundation unveils online archive of digitised Filipino music artifacts
Europe / Europa
Europeana – Erasmus and the historical roots of studying abroad
http://blog.europeana.eu/2020/09/erasmus-and-the-historical-roots-of-studying-abroad/
More than 60 members already support the READ-COOP SCE
History in Ink’s: Russia’s First Tattoo Archive Celebrates Ancient Traditions
Hungary – Countless Historical Maps Made Available Online by National Széchényi Library
Records from Once-Secret Archive Offer New Clues into Vatican Response to Holocaust
Rendre visible la face cachée de l’iceberg : explorer les documents manuscrits à l’aide de l’intelligence artificielle
Les Archives nationales en France mettent en ligne les décrets de naturalisation des années 1931-1948
France – Procès des attentats de janvier 2015: les images seront versées aux Archives nationales
Petition launched to get 1926 Irish census online by 2022
http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/genealogy/petition-1926-irish-census-online
Ireland – Priceless: Book of Kells to get new Visitor Centre to Protect Manuscript
UK National Archives – Only a bold course can save civilisation: the atomic bomb, Britain and the future of war
UK National Archives – Soviet-Japan and the termination of the Second World War
British Library – 21 Gdansk Demands: the First Step towards Freedom
http://blogs.bl.uk/european/2020/08/21-gda%C5%84sk-demands-the-first-step-towards-freedom.html
British Library – The Great Fire of London in maps
British Library – Digitised Music Manuscripts
Response to media misrepresentation of the British Library
British Library’s chief librarian claims racism is the creation of white people
Black Cultural Archives – We’re back: a message from our MD, Arike Oke
Cambridge University Library joins Google Arts and Culture
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – When David Ben-Gurion Met Chazon Ish
National Library of Israel – The Jewish Doctor who Said No to the Corset
Rare Damascus Crowns to remain in Israel’s National Library
Baath Party Archives Return to Iraq, with the Secrets they Contain
International
International Committee of the Red Cross Archives – The Central Tracing Agency
How technology is helping preserve and commemorate WWII and Holocaust history
Covid-19 is spurring the digitisation of government
Access in Archives: the Fundamentals
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