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January 24, 2020May 2, 2021

Vol. 13, no. 21

Bonjour,

En date d’hier, cela fait dix ans que j’ai commencé à compiler les Nouvelles du patrimoine documentaire. 

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Hi,

As of yesterday, it has been ten years since I started compiling Documentary Heritage News. 

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State
Canadian Conservation Institute Notes – Longevity of Recordable CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays (Revised)
http://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/conservation-preservation-publications/canadian-conservation-institute-notes/longevity-recordable-cds-dvds.html

UK National Archives – Plugged in, Powered up Digital Strategy
http://livelb.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/new-digital-strategy-plugged-in-powered-up-launched/

Conseil culturel de Bretagne (France) – Archives privées d’intérêt patrimonial : sauvegarder et valoriser les sources de l’histoire et la mémoire en Bretagne
https://www.bretagne.bzh/app/uploads/Synth%C3%A8se-rapport-archives-priv%C3%A9es_CCB-1.pdf

De la communauté / From the community
National Heritage Digitization Strategy – Digital Preservation File Format Recommendations
http://nhds.ca/2020/01/17/digital-preservation-file-format-recommendations/

Mennonite Historical Society of Saskatchewan – 2019 Report
http://mhss.sk.ca/reports/file/MHSS-2019-Report-by-Victor-G-Wiebe-&-Jake-Buhler.pdf

Joint Letter on Transparency in Preparing Guidelines on Article 17 of the European Union Copyright Directive
http://www.ifla.org/publications/node/92799

Copyright Education in Libraries, Archives and Museums: a 21st Century Approach
http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-0ses-bj94

“Do Better” -Love(,) us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums
http://dobetterlabor.com/

Levels of Born-Digital Access
http://docs.google.com/document/d/1N1fG4AgyBEJISc3tk5rWAc_3ZYdDbdVK4_Dbi_TusYQ/edit?ts=5de510d4#

Article – Issues of Ownership: Leveraging Accession Documentation and Provenance Research to Improve Collection Access
http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol7/iss1/1/

Paper – Empowering Data Consumers to Work with Data: Data Documentation for the Enterprise Context
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/337649623_Empowering_Data_Consumers_to_Work_with_Data_Data_Documentation_for_the_Enterprise_Context

Publications
New Review of Academic Librarianship, vol. 25, no. 2-4 (2019)
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/racl20/25/2-4

Library Trends, vol. 68, no. 2 (2019)
http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/41733

Mennonite Historian: a Publication of the Mennonite Heritage Archives (Manitoba), vol. 45, no. 4 (2019)
http://www.mennonitehistorian.ca/45.4.MHDec19.pdf

Master Thesis (University of Manitoba) – Building Bridges: Dismantling Eurocentrism in Archives and Respecting Indigenous Ways of Doing it Right
http://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/xmlui/handle/1993/34497

Master Thesis (University of British Columbia) – Alternative Becomings, Alternative Belongings: Cordillera Case Studies of Records in Context
http://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0378433

ISO 15836-2:2019 – Information and Documentation: the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set – Part 2: DCMI Properties and Classes
http://www.dublincore.org/news/2020/01-16-dcmi-metadata-terms-revised/

Book – Documenting Rebellions: a Study of Four Lesbian and Gay Archives
http://litwinbooks.com/books/documenting-rebellions/

Book – Paper, Materiality and the Archived Page
http://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137498854

Book – The Insubordination of Photography: Documentary Practices under Chile’s Dictatorship
http://upf.com/book.asp?id=9781683401117 

Book – The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/intimacy-paper 

Book – Audacious Missions of World War II: Daring Acts of Bravery Revealed through Letters and Documents from the Time
https://ospreypublishing.com/audacious-missions-of-world-war-ii
Book – Data Protection in the Internet
http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030280482 

Book – Data Visualisation with R: 111 Examples
http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030284435    

Book – Historical Studies in Computing, Information, and Society: Insights from the Flatiron Lectures
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030189549 

Book – Perceived Privacy in Location-Based Mobile System
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030341701 

Book – Applied Approach to Privacy and Security for the Internet of Things
http://www.igi-global.com/book/applied-approach-privacy-security-internet/236588 

Book – Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands: Selections from the Hossein Afshar Collection
http://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300247022/bestowing-beauty 

Book – A Bookshop in Berlin: the Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman’s Harrowing Escape from the Nazis
http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Bookshop-in-Berlin/Francoise-Frenkel/9781501199844

Book – The Handbook of Photography Studies
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-handbook-of-photography-studies-9781474242219/

Livre – Le secret ministériel : théorie et pratique
http://www.pulaval.com/produit/le-secret-ministeriel-theorie-et-pratique

Livre – Archives sonores de la poésie
http://www.lespressesdureel.com/ouvrage.php?id=7349

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
(De)colonial Spaces of Memory Activism
February 6, 2020, Vancouver
http://slais.ubc.ca/events/event/colloquia-2019-2020-decolonial-spaces-of-memory-activism/

Archives Society of Alberta – Archives Institute
May 4-9, 2020, Edmonton
http://archivesalberta.org/professional-development/archives-institute/

28th Polar Libraries Colloquy
June 7-13, 2020, Quebec City
http://www.fourwav.es/view/1500/customtab1459/

Researching Intelligence Records
February 6, 2020, National Archives of Australia
http://www.naa.gov.au/visit-us/events-and-exhibitions/researching-intelligence-records

After-Life: the Digital Future of Visual History Archives
March 9, 2020, University of Melbourne 
http://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/after-life-the-digital-future-of-visual-history-archives-tickets-88989456861

For your Eyes Only: Scalable Approaches to Identifying, Managing, and Securing Sensitive or Restricted Information
April 2, 2020, Salford (UK)
http://www.dpconline.org/events/sensitive-data-april-2020

Australian Society of Archivists – 2019 Designing the Archive (Videos Available)
October 21-25, 2019, Adelaide
http://www.archivists.org.au/news/conference-videos-now-available-2019-designing-the-archive

Sur le web / On the web
University of Alberta Virtual Exhibit – Canadian Women Artists’ Books
http://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/womenartistsbooks/foreward

Historical Reminiscents Podcast – Archival Cookbooks
http://kristamccracken.ca/?p=2595

National Library of Medicine – New and Improved PubMed
http://nlmdirector.nlm.nih.gov/2020/01/21/a-new-and-improved-pubmed/

Video – Open a GLAM Lab
http://youtu.be/GLH3n4BOA6w

Video – Microsoft Unboxed: Microsoft Archive
http://youtu.be/x7CTHjpdxnk

Présentation – Regard statistique sur les membres actuels et potentiels du Réseau des services d’archives du Québec (RAQ) et des services d’archives privés agréés: séance de réflexion sur le milieu archivistique et le positionnement du RAQ
http://archivisteconseilraq.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/presentation_aga_raq_20191128.pdf

Slides – The Turing Way: Reproducible, Inclusive, Collaborative Data Science
http://zenodo.org/record/3615259#.Xig-0chKhPY

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
The “M” Word in Canadian Copyright Law: the “Mandatory” Matter
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2020/01/the-m-word-in-canadian-copyright-law.html
 
Library and Archives Canada – The Death of Albert “Ginger” Goodwin
https://thediscoverblog.com/2020/01/23/the-death-of-albert-ginger-goodwin/

Library and Archives Canada Co-Lab update
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2020/01/lac-co-lab-update.html

LGBTQ2+ memorial to be built near Library and Archives Canada
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/lgbtq2-memorial-to-be-built-near-library-and-archives-canada

BAnQ – La mémoire qui resurgit
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/espaces-autochtones/1477768/banq-autochtones-lexiques-livres-anciens-josephine-bacon-jose-mailhot

University of British Columbia – Oldest Books in Open Collections
http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/carousel/oldest-books-in-open-collections/

Nuxalk College undertakes language digitization project
http://www.coastmountainnews.com/news/nuxalk-college-undertakes-language-digitization-project/

Healing and Education through Digital Access: Residential School Digitization Project
https://archivists.ca/Blog/8650726

Universities must open their archives and share their oppressive pasts
http://theconversation.com/universities-must-open-their-archives-and-share-their-oppressive-pasts-125539

Mountain Legacy Project – Heeding Mountain Hazards
http://mountainlegacy.ca/2020/01/20/heeding-mountain-hazards/

Jewish Public Library’s Rare Judaica Book Collection Has a Road Show
http://www.cjnews.com/news/canada/jpls-rare-judaica-book-collection-has-a-road-show

Take a first peek at what Ottawa’s new super library will look like
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/take-a-first-peek-at-what-ottawas-new-super-library-will-look-like

City of Toronto updates its open data portal, adds new datasets
http://www.itworldcanada.com/article/city-of-toronto-updates-its-open-data-portal-adds-new-datasets/426280

Les archives des bâtiments de l’Hôpital de Montréal pour enfants : témoins de la vie communautaire dans les soins de santé
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2020/01/20/cusm/

L’Association historique francophone de Victoria veut vos archives
http://radiovictoria.ca/lassociation-historique-francophone-de-victoria-veut-vos-archives/

Whistler Museum & Archives Society – The Snow (or not) of 1976-77
http://blog.whistlermuseum.org/2020/01/21/the-snow-or-not-of-1976-77/

Orillia (Ontario) – Trust vital as digital age re-shapes history: Expert
http://www.orilliamatters.com/local-news/trust-vital-as-digital-age-re-shapes-history-expert-7-photos-2015547

Help the Cochrane Historical & Archival Preservation Society (Alberta) put names to faces in old class photos
https://www.cochranetimes.com/news/local-news/help-the-historical-society-put-names-to-faces-in-old-class-photos

Radio show highlights Mennonite archives
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/faith/radio-show-highlights-mennonite-archives-567133892.html

Texas woman whose family was separated by slavery traces roots to Nova Scotia
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/pamela-bailey-big-family-search-slavery-south-carolina-nova-scotia-genealogy-1.5410973

Les Archives nationales entre censure et prudence ?
http://www.journaldequebec.com/2020/01/20/les-archives-nationales-entre-censure-et-prudence

Afrique / Africa
Tunisia: Battle over Truth Commission Archives
http://www.justiceinfo.net/en/truth-commissions/43546-tunisia-battle-over-truth-commission-archives.html

Algérie – M. Abdelmadjid Chikhi, directeur général des Archives nationales : accompagner les chercheurs
http://www.elmoudjahid.com/fr/actualites/147358

South Africa – Apartheid Heritages: the Ethical Dilemmas of Metadata
http://apartheidheritages.org/guest-post-by-cassandra-tanks-19-sdsu-undergraduate-research-assistant-the-ethical-dilemmas-of-metadata/

Amériques / Americas
National Archives Apologizes for Alteration of Women’s March Image
http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2020

NARA – Accepting Responsibility, Working to Rebuild your Trust
http://aotus.blogs.archives.gov/2020/01/22/accepting-responsibility-working-to-rebuild-your-trust/

National Archives Foundation Statement: Rightfully Hers
http://www.archivesfoundation.org/news/naf-statement-rh/

Society of American Archivists Statement: NARA Exhibit on 2017 Women’s March in Washington, DC
http://www2.archivists.org/news/2020/saa-statement-nara-exhibit-on-2017-womens-march-in-washington-dc

NARA’s Alteration of Women’s March Images is Unethical
http://concernedarchivists.wordpress.com/2020/01/18/naras-alteration-of-womens-march-images-is-unethical/

National Coalition for History Criticizes National Archives for Altering Photo in Exhibit on Women’s Rights
http://historycoalition.org/2020/01/21/nch-criticizes-national-archives-for-altering-photo-in-exhibit-on-womens-rights/

American Library Association responds to National Archive efforts to alter materials
http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2020/01/ala-responds-national-archive-efforts-alter-materials

Archival arrangement, archival learning
http://archivalexplorations.wordpress.com/2020/01/20/archival-arrangement-archival-learning/

NARA – Researching Aerial Photography of the United States : RG 145 Aerial Indexes Now Digitized
http://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2020/01/23/researching-aerial-photography-of-the-united-states-rg-145-aerial-indexes-now-digitized/

Federal panel recommends closure and sale of Seattle National Archives facility
http://mynorthwest.com/1670992/seattle-national-archives-closure-recommendation/amp/

The Person who Changes the Constitution: Archivist of the United States
http://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/person-who-changes-constitution/605104/

Researching the U.S. Supreme Court at the Library of Congress
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2020/01/researching-the-u-s-supreme-court-at-the-library-of-congress/

Library of Congress – Frederick Douglass Newspapers, 1847-1874: Now Online
http://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2020/01/frederick-douglass-newspapers-1847-1874-now-online/

New in National Library of Medicine Digital Collections: Fully-Digitized Manuscript Collections
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/New_in_NLM_Digital_Collections.html

Historic Television Broadcasts Documenting the Conservative Movement in the 1960s Released by the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
http://americanarchivepb.wordpress.com/2020/01/22/new-exhibit-historic-television-broadcasts-documenting-the-conservative-movement-in-the-1960s-released-by-the-american-archive-of-public-broadcasting/

US cyber war against ISIS faced bureaucratic hurdles, newly declassified documents reveal
http://thedefensepost.com/2020/01/21/us-cybercom-glowing-symphony-isis/

Parsing the State of State Records Report: Summary of Collections Part 1
http://www.statearchivists.org/connect/blog/2020/01/parsing-state-state-records-report-summary-collections-part-1/

A Missouri bill would cut off aid to libraries that allow kids to access age-inappropriate sexual materials
http://www.cnn.com/2020/01/16/us/missouri-parental-library-oversight-bill-trnd/index.html

Princeton University – Face to Face: Emily Hale on her Letters from T.S. Eliot
http://blogs.princeton.edu/manuscripts/2020/01/21/face-to-face-emily-hale-on-her-letters-from-t-s-eliot/

What’s your Set-Up? Born-Digital Processing at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
http://saaers.wordpress.com/2020/01/21/whats-your-set-up-born-digital-processing-at-unc-chapel-hill/

Heritage Hall: a Holistic Effort to Examine East Carolina University’s Past and Present
https://academicarchivist.wordpress.com/2020/01/23/heritage-hall-a-holistic-effort-to-examine-ecus-past-and-present/

University of Nebraska-led project digitizes 1960s activism artifacts
http://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/nebraska-led-project-digitizes-1960s-activism-artifacts/

University of the Arts – Digital tools for raising awareness of work to decolonise collections and promote inclusion
http://mmitblog.wordpress.com/2020/01/10/digital-tools-for-raising-awareness-of-work-to-decolonise-collections-and-promote-inclusion/

Georgia Tech Research Institute – $25 Million Project Will Advance DNA-Based Archival Data Storage
http://www.news.gatech.edu/2020/01/15/25-million-project-will-advance-dna-based-archival-data-storage

YIVO, world’s biggest Yiddish research center, lays off all its librarians
http://forward.com/yiddish/438538/yivo-yiddish-library/

New online maps documents Native American ancestral territory at Fowler Museum
http://dailybruin.com/2020/01/13/new-online-maps-documents-native-american-ancestral-territory-at-fowler/

Urban Archive Opens a New Door for Digital Architectural Archives
http://archinect.com/features/article/150177377/urban-archive-opens-a-new-door-for-digital-architectural-archives

Here’s what you Can Learn from the Unofficial Apple Archive
https://www.inc.com/don-reisinger/heres-what-you-can-learn-from-unofficial-apple-archive.html

There’s an Archivist for that: Interview with Krü Maekdo, Founder of the Black Lesbian Archives
http://archivesaware.archivists.org/2020/01/22/theres-an-archivist-for-that-interview-with-kru-maekdo-founder-of-the-black-lesbian-archives/

600 Computers Taken Down After Florida Library Cyberattack
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/600-computers-taken-down-after-florida-library-cyberattack/

The Secretive Company that Might End Privacy as we Know it
http://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html

A facial recognition company dug up billions of photos from Facebook and beyond
http://mashable.com/article/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-nyt/

What I Learned from Making Dozens of Public Records Requests for Police Data
http://www.thetrace.org/2020/01/police-data-documentation-public-records-requests/

How Do People Decide Whether to Trust a Photo on Social Media?
http://open.nytimes.com/how-do-people-decide-whether-to-trust-a-photo-on-social-media-e0016b6080ae

Microaggressions in Library and Information Science
https://hacklibraryschool.com/2020/01/22/microaggressions-in-library-and-information-sciences/

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia – Buckingham Palace backtracks on Governors General letters deal with National Archives
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/palace-backtracks-on-governorsgeneral-richard-caseys-letters/news-story/205a61416c6ff49d0c74792124bd1d74

Australia – How a first edition of Principia with Isaac Newton’s notes got to University of Sydney
http://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/01/21/first-edition-of-principia-with-isaac-newtons-notes-got-to-sydney-library.html

Western Australia Digitizes Indigenous Languages
http://www.languagemagazine.com/2020/01/08/western-australia-digitizes-indigenous-languages/

The National Library of New Zealand cull of 600,000 books could be a disaster for researchers
http://thespinoff.co.nz/books/20-01-2020/the-national-library-cull-of-600000-books-could-be-a-disaster-for-researchers/

India – Accessing documents tough at National Archives
http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/accessing-documents-tough-national-archives

India – Satyajit Ray’s film manuscripts digitised
http://www.devdiscourse.com/article/education/835296-satyajit-rays-film-manuscripts-digitised

India – Digital preservation of Indian heritage
http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2020/jan/18/digital-preservation-of-indian-heritage-2090986.html

India – How crowdsourced archives are making Indian history personal and accessible
http://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/how-digital-archives-are-making-indian-history-personal-and-accessible/story-EbmGpGfKFAY4G4Z8BmY7OJ.html

Europe / Europa
Keeping digitised works in the public domain: how the copyright directive makes it a reality
http://pro.europeana.eu/post/keeping-digitised-works-in-the-public-domain-how-the-copyright-directive-makes-it-a-reality

Moscou déclassifie des archives de 1945 au nom de la vérité historique
http://www.lecourrierderussie.com/fil/moscou-declassifie-des-archives-de-1945-au-nom-de-la-verite-historique/

Russia open for publication of WWII archives: top diplomat
http://tass.com/politics/1111373

Monaco to open WWII archives on deportations of Jews
http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/monaco-to-open-wwii-archives-on-deportations-of-jews/

Affaire Gabriel Matzneff : des livres difficilement accessibles, des archives non communicables
https://www.archimag.com/bibliotheque-edition/2020/01/17/affaire-gabriel-matzneff-livres-difficilement-accessibles-archives

La visualisation appliquée aux archives avec Elasticsearch et Kibana
http://www.elastic.co/fr/blog/la-visualisation-appliquee-aux-archives-avec-elasticsearch-et-kibana

National Library of Scotland – The Ian Rankin Files
http://blog.nls.uk/the-rankin-files/

What do British Defense Ministry Archives reveal about Srebrenica Genocide?
http://www.sarajevotimes.com/what-do-british-defense-ministry-archives-reveal-about-srebrenica-genocide/

UK National Archives – Reform: Violence and the struggle for suffrage
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/reform-violence-and-the-struggle-for-suffrage/

Novice to Ninja: the UK National Archives and Digital Preservation Coalition to deliver online digital preservation training
http://www.dpconline.org/news/n2n-online-dp-training

British Library – Upgrading the Georeferencer
http://blogs.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/2020/01/upgrading-the-georeferencer.html

British Library – Using Transkribus for Arabic Handwritten Text Recognition
http://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2020/01/using-transkribus-for-arabic-handwritten-text-recognition.html

Digital Zoroastrian at the British Library
https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2020/01/digital-zoroastrian-at-the-british-library.html

British Library – Happy birthday, Francis Bacon
http://blogs.bl.uk/science/2020/01/happy-birthday-francis-bacon.html

British Library – William Wordsworth: the Poetry of Place
http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2020/01/william-wordsworth-the-poetry-of-place.html

Guildford pub bombings police seize files
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-surrey-51142609

Bodleian Library – Newly Available: Records of the Conservatives in the European Parliament
http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/2020/01/23/newly-available-records-of-the-conservatives-in-the-european-parliament/

Archives, Access & Artificial Intelligence: Nothing about us without us
http://www.dpconline.org/blog/nothing-about-us-without-us

Radiohead Public Library: archive of band’s work goes live
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/20/radiohead-public-library-archive-website

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Kuwait opens archive museum to introduce heritage
http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2020-01/19/content_75630114.htm

Scholar pores over Syrian archives for glimpses of heritage preservation
http://menafn.com/1099571327/Scholar-pores-over-Syrian-archives-for-glimpses-of-heritage-preservation

International
The Way we Write History Has Changed: a Deep Dive into an Archive will Never Be the Same
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/01/smartphone-archives-history-photography/605284/

The Effect of Technology on Archival Activities
http://lucidea.com/blog/the-effect-of-technology-on-archival-activities/

Burning the paper trail on the road to digital documents
http://techhq.com/2020/01/burning-the-paper-trail-on-the-road-to-digital-documents/

Making Copyright Determinations for Open Access in GLAMs
http://medium.com/open-glam/making-copyright-determinations-for-open-access-in-glams-7e677d22ec5e

Une bibliothèque numérique autonome avec Omeka-S
http://www.idnum.fr/une-bibliotheque-numerique-autonome-avec-omeka-s/

The visual language of comic books can improve brain function
http://qz.com/1777533/reading-comic-books-can-improve-brain-health/

Phishing Today, Deepfakes Tomorrow: Training Employees to Spot this Emerging Threat
http://www.darkreading.com/risk/phishing-today-deepfakes-tomorrow-training-employees-to-spot-this-emerging-threat/a/d-id/1336778

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