Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
UK Government Digital Service – Metadata Standards for Sharing and Publishing Data
British Library – Archiving Interactive Narrative: Technical Report (Version 1.3)
UK Information Commissioner Office – Guidance on Artificial Intelligence and Data Protection
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Association of Research Libraries – Brief to the Federal Government on Budget 2021
Sedona Canada – Commentary on Privacy and Information Security for Legal Service Providers: Principles and Guidelines (Final Version)
IFLA – Coronavirus/COVID-19 Crisis: the Impact on Parliamentary Library & Research Services and their Response
Dutch Digital Heritage Network – The Use of Preservation Tools among Dutch Heritage Organization
Crowdsourced Tips and Suggestions for Artist + Archives Collaborations
Publications
International Journal of Information Management, vol. 54 (2020)
Journal of Documentation, vol. 76, no. 5 (2020)
The Historian, vol. 82, 2020 (Special Issue: Digital History: Past, Present, and Prospects)
Wikimedia Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums Newsletter, vol. 10, no. 7 (2020)
Yad Vashem Magazine, vol. 92 (2020)
Silhouettes: the Associates of the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Newsletter, no. 48 (2019)
Book – Advancing Preservation for Archives and Manuscripts
Book – The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes
Book – Relating Information Culture to Information Policies and Management Strategies
Book – To Make their own Way in the World: the Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes
Book – Library Technical Services: Adapting to a Changing Environment
Book – Comparative Privacy and Defamation
Book – Critical Librarianship
Book – Developing a Library Accessibility Plan: a Practical Guide for Librarians
Book – Large-Scale Data Streaming, Processing, and Blockchain Security
Book – The Rise and Fall of Mass Communication
Book – Cyber Security Auditing, Assurance, and Awareness through CSAM and CATRAM
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
SFU MoveIt: a Tool for Transferring Digital Archives to Repositories Registration
August 17, 2020
Implementing the UNDRIP in Public Archives in Canada
August 17, 2020
Portage Webinar: Enabling Painless Reuse of Shared Research Data and Code
August 25, 2020
Un chemin parsemé d’archives : le jardin du chemin de la croix de l’Oratoire Saint-Joseph
13 septembre 2020, Montréal
National Library of Israel From Memory to Story: Archiving, Remembering, Transforming
August 16, 2020
Scottish Council on Archives – Documenting Covid: Capturing History as it Happens Webinar
August 24, 2020
http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/events/documenting-covid-capturing-history-as-it-happens-webinar/
Online Training – Archiving and Sentencing 101 : Fundamentals
August 25, 2020
Webinar – Archival Practices Training for Small Museums
September 18, 2020
Sur le web / On the web
Archives of Ontario, Queen’S University, Mushkegowuk Council – Online Exhibit: the James Bay Treaty
New Website – Portrait Gallery of Canada
United Church of Canada Archives – New Online Catalogue
LawBytes Podcast – Ontario Privacy Commissioner Patricia Kosseim on the Covid Alert App
Australia Society of Archivists Video – Out of Home Care Records
Video – Women Writers in Review: Integrating Special Collections into Wikidata
Video – Reopening Cultural Institutions: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Connecting to Collections Care
Society of American Archivists – Season Four of Archives in Context Podcast
Vidéo – Les Albertas, seigneurs de Bouc, durant la Révolution
Australian Library and Information Association – Connects during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Slides – Planning Digitization Projects for Community Archives
Infographic – What Information are Giant Tech Companies Collecting from you
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
How public libraries play a vital role in restoring the economy
Reopening Library and Archives Canada: Copy services now available
Library and Archives Canada – What’s new in the collection: refreshing additions on hot summer days
Limited Service at Library and Archives Canada
Saskatchewan provincial archives welcoming inquisitive minds to new amalgamated space in Regina
Help Needed re Ontario Land Records
BAnQ – Jeanne Lapointe et Marthe Blackburn : amitié et mentorat
Passez à la Grande Bibliothèque
ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives – Letter of Concern from Volunteers
Queen’s University Citizen’ Archivist Project
University of Alberta leads project to open access to digital learning across Alberta
Brock University – Regular folks become part of Covid-19 historical record
Ukrainian Canadian Congress – Introducing our expert National Archives Committee
Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada Regimental Museum and Archives – Virtutis Gloria Merces: Glory, the Reward of Virtue
From the runway to the archives, Calgary’s gay history explored
La Société historique Pierre-de-Saurel se dote d’une boutique en ligne
Lethbridge’s Galt Museum (Alberta) proactively collecting items during historic Covid-19 pandemic
Oxford County Archives (Ontario) – WWI Veterans’ Associations
Revelstoke’s forestry museum (British Columbia) launches podcasts and new website
Penticton Museum and Archives (British Columbia) prepares to reopen
Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Visiting a Different Whistler
Lake Country Museum and Archives (British Columbia) – OK Sawmill operations in the Central Okanagan
I rescued my ancestors: Anishinaabe anthropologist brings archival recordings back home
A pastime like no other: Sudbury man scours DNA platforms to help solve family mysteries
Afrique / Africa
Côte d’Ivoire – Le personnel administratif formé sur la bonne gestion des archives à Duékoué
Directeur général des Archives nationales d’Algérie : Décolonisons l’Histoire
France-Algérie : les archives coloniales relèvent d’un patrimoine commun
Zimbabwean Lives Matter Archives: Capture and Share your Experiences
Amériques / Americas
NARA – Introducing the Presidential Library Explorer
NARA – Disaster Preparedness during Hurricane Season
NARA – The First Aeroplane Take Off from a Ship, November 14, 1910, Part I
NARA – The First Aeroplane Take Off from a Ship, November 14, 1910, Part II
Al Neuharth: Newspaper Executive’s Papers Now at the Library of Congress
Library of Congress – Old Copyright Submissions: Hawthorne, Twain, Douglass and Thousands More
Library of Congress – Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Another Mystery Photo Solved
National Library of Medicine – Watch All about it
Declassification at the Pentagon: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Texas Archive of the Moving Image unearths stunning Amelia Earhart film
Harvard – Challenge of archiving the #MeToo movement
University of Texas – Authors’ Invisible Words Reveal Blueprint for Storytelling
New 1,200-book collection magically appears at the University of Nebraska at Omaha library
Even More Impacts of the National Emergency Library and Controlled Digital Lending
This team of Black archivists is dedicated to documenting the Black Lives Matter movement
Indigenous Activists Are Reimagining Language Preservation Under Quarantine
Instagram, Social Action and Archives
In Fort Lauderdale, an historic effort to archive Black digital lives begins
#ArchivesSoWhite: Preparing for the Field
A Rare Recipe From a Talented Chef Enslaved by a Founding Father
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Library of Australia – Newspapers at sea
Island Culture Archival Support – Ancient Burial Site Found in Guam
Archives of resistance: Documenting China’s grassroots uprisings
China – Collection of manuscripts of King Gesar takes world record
India – Digital archives keep track of lost websites, lapsed domain names from the early years
Europe / Europa
Europeana – Transcriptions, subtitles and enrichments: sharing our copyright approach
http://pro.europeana.eu/post/transcriptions-subtitles-and-enrichments-sharing-our-copyright-approach
Will Serbia and Kosovo Open Up Secret War Archives?
Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (Hungary) – Files on the Vatican and the Italian Communist Party: a Hypothesis
Greece – Athens: Services digitalized but some archives still archaic
Dutch Digital Heritage Network – Trends in the Use of Digital Preservation Tools
Austrian National Library Museum – Know the Ancient Egyptian Woman through the Vienna Papyrus
Bibliothèque royale de Belgique – Un livre tue 50 moutons
France – Archives de l’Institut national de l’audiovisuel : voyage dans la cache aux trésors de la vallée de Chevreuse
Arlette Farge : laisser venir à soi, laisser parler l’archive
Rare and horrifying account of an escaped slave who found freedom in Wales
UK Parliamentary Archives – The Kings’ Letters: Evidence in Caroline’s Defence
UK National Archives – A celebration of cats: the creative brilliance of artist Louis Wain
UK National Archives – The defence and loss of Crete, 1940-1941 (Part 2)
UK National Archives – Depicting Japan in British propaganda of the Second World War
UK National Archives – Operations which didn’t happen (part 1): British participation in the invasion of Japan, 1945
UK National Archives – The Archivists’ Guide to Film: the Bridge on the River Kwai
UK National Archives – The Forgotten Army: West African Troops in Burma, 1945
British Library – Going for gold: exploring Olympic & Paralympic resources
British Library – Magic and Divination in Ethiopian Manuscripts
British Library – Ludicrous figures in the margin
British Library – Exploring space savings by removing whitespace in METS files
How we doin?: Digital preservation assessment frameworks at the British Library
Black Cultural Archives – Remembering the Mangrove Nine
Jesuits in Britain Archives – Reflections on lockdown
Guardian – Could you help with the archive’s shorthand transcription project?
Letters reveal British objections to plot of Bridge on the River Kwai
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/aug/11/letters-british-objections-plot-bridge-on-the-river-kwai
The Sale of a Rare, Gold-painted Qur’an at Christie’s Raises Questions of Provenance
Oscar Wilde’s Confessions Raise $60,000+
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
The National Library of Israel: Victim of Covid-19, elections, budget war
National Library of Israel – When Jews from the Land of Israel Vacationed in Lebanon
Israel: Nearly 10,000 files vanish from state archives
Archive Documents Reveal how Settlers Use Israeli Army for own Gain
Grand Egyptian Museum will be finished this year’: behind the scenes of the giant $1bn project
Egypt – Al-Madaq: a new virtual archive documenting Cairo’s history
International
Crowdsourcing Project at Unesco – We Succedeed
ARMA eliminates CEO position, will reevaluate business model per message to members
Creative Commons – Sharing Indigenous Cultural Heritage Online: an Overview of GLAM Policies
Creative Commons – Artificial Intelligence and Creativity: why we’re Against Copyright Protection for AI-Generated Output
Who’s stealing Christopher Columbus letters from libraries around the world?
Reuters applies artificial intelligence technology to 100 years of archive video to enable faster discovery, supported by Google DNI
Special Library Association – Takes Stands against Diversion of Information
Cinq raisons d’abandonner les méthodes manuelles de classification des données
What Is a Museum? A Dispute Erupts Over a New Definition
Museums bring history and culture to life with augmented reality technology