Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
NARA – General Records Schedule Transmittal 30
De la communauté / From the community
The Research Data Alliance: the First Five Years
Article – Lessons from Archives: Strategies for Collecting Sociocultural Data in Machine Learning
Publications
The American Archivist, vol. 82, no. 2 (2019)
Journal of Archival Organization, vol. 16, no. 4 (2019)
Review of the National Center for Digitization, no. 35 (2019)
The iJournal: Graduate Student Journal of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information, vol. 5, no. 1 (2019)
Revue électronique suisse de science de l’information, no 20 (2019)
IFLA Journal, vol. 45, no. 4 (2019)
South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science, vol. 85, no. 1 (2019)
Revue Communication, organisation, société du savoir et information, no 6 (2019)
Taiwan National Archives Administration – Archives Semiannual, vol. 18, no.2 (2019)
Note: the Journal is Available under “Publications“
Mémoire d’avenir : le journal des Archives nationales de France, no 37 (2020)
IFLA Metadata Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 2 (2019)
Book – Moving Archives
Book – The Poetics and Politics of the Veil in Iran: an Archival and Photographic Adventure
Book – GDPR for Dummies
Book – Practical Mobile Forensics (Fourth Edition)
Book – Beyond the Doctrine of Man: Decolonial Visions of the Human
Book – Understanding Digital Ethics: Cases and Contexts
Book – In the Name of History
Book – Big Data, Political Campaigning and the Law: Democracy and Privacy in the Age of Micro-Targeting
Book – Advances in Paleoimaging: Applications for Paleoanthropology, Bioarchaeology, Forensics, and Cultural Artefacts
Book – Sámi Media and Indigenous Agency in the Arctic North
Book – Hunting Cyber Criminals: a Hacker’s Guide to Online Intelligence Gathering Tools and Techniques
Book – The Politics of Transitional Justice in Latin America: Power, Norms, and Capacity Building
Livre – Dans la bibliothèque de nos présidents : ce qu’ils lisent et relisent
Livre – Retrouver un ancêtre marin (deuxième édition)
Livre – Trésors du patrimoine immatériel de l’Unesco
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Ontario Genealogical Society – Webinar Line-Up for 2020
January to December 2020
Anarchist Archives Lecture Series: Rojava Revolution: Autonomous Self-Governance in Northern Syria
January 13, 2020, University of Victoria
Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast – Tom Longboat is Cogwagee is Everything
Unesco – Survey: Policy Document on the Impacts of Climate Change on World Heritage Properties
Vidéo – Le secret défense en question
Video – Reducing Carbon in the Digital Realm
Video – Global Privacy Assembly: in conversation with Eduardo Bertoni, Director of the National Access to Public Information Agency, Argentina
Video – Forgetting and Being Forgotten: Growing Up in a Digital Era
Slides – What Is Research Data Alliance and why Should I Attend the 15th Plenary in Melbourne?
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
The European Union isn’t particularly fond of Canada’s anti-piracy laws
Mounties eyed Cold War candid camera scheme, declassified documents show
Doomsday scenario of mass layoffs due to artificial intelligence unlikely, federal documents say
Leslie Weir leads Library and Archives Canada into a brave new future
Library and Archives Canada – Retrospective publications: better late than never
Good News from Library and Archives Canada’s Theses Canada Program
Vernon City Directory Online Update
2019: a year of Canadian genealogy in review
Is your Genealogical Society Sustainable?
Ontario Genealogical Society – Reflections Prior to Entering a Genealogical 2020
Map quest sends Nova Scotians to attics, basements in search of old charts
University of British Columbia School of Library, Archival and Information Studies – We are officially the School of Information
Montreal – Jean Drapeau’s personal archives open to the public
Montreal – Mayor Jean Drapeau tried to prevent the 1955 Richard Riot, but Clarence Campbell wouldn’t listen
Here’s what life in Vancouver looked like a century ago
A hidden treasure of 1960s Vancouver recordings resurfaces
London Free Press Archives: London’s biggest stories of the past decade
70 ans d’histoire témiscamienne sous un même toit
Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Cameras and Museums: how Photographs Help Preserve History
Newfoundland and Labrador disability advocates archive rich history
Indigenous song keepers reveal traditional ecological knowledge in music
Podcast aims to heal, educate about residential schools: it’s still affecting people
Dartmouth woman begins to unravel mystery behind grandfather’s old war photos
Although popular as Christmas gifts, DNA kits can open up a Pandora’s box of family secrets
Il confirme que Céline Dion a des aïeux bretons
Afrique / Africa
Cameroun – Les archives coloniales de l’accès à l’indépendance du pays désormais accessibles
Congo – Patrimoine : les archives nationales dotées d’un bâtiment adéquat
Le directeur général du Centre des archives nationales : l’Algérie n’a jamais été un État militaire
Rwanda Blockchain School to Launch in 2020 for Devs, Professionals
Amériques / Americas
January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1924 are Open to All
As President Trump Tweets and Deletes, the Historical Record Takes Shape
White House proposes 500% increase in cost of getting immigration records
Tracing your Family’s Roots May Soon Get a Lot More Expensive
Society of American Archivists – Comments on Proposed Hike in United States Citizenship and Immigration Records Access Fees
Library of Congress – Les Paul: Inventing Modern Sound
Library of Congress – The Man who Recorded the World
What 2019 National Library of Medicine Accomplishment Makes you Most Proud?
US Army bans TikTok app from government phones
Shattered: inside the secret battle to save America’s undercover spies in the digital age
FBI file shows intrigue around fracking pioneer
Legal Information Preservation Alliance – Preservation grant opportunity
California’s new data privacy law will change the internet
Texas State Library and Archives Commission – eRecords 2019: Using Enterprise Content Management Tools and Embracing Digitization
http://www.tsl.texas.gov/slrm/blog/2019/12/erecords-2019-using-ecm-tools-and-embracing-digitization/
History professor discovers identity of mystery woman painting found at Colorado State Archives
T.S. Eliot letters, among best-known sealed literary archives, open at Princeton University after 60 years
Rare footage from 1929 expedition to Mount Athos discovered at Princeton University
Four million cards. 4,000 drawers. And a whole lot of paper cuts. A coalition of book lovers rushes to save University of Virginia’s card catalogue.
University of Chicago – Stamp collection provides rare picture of North Korea
Yeshiva University Historic Photos Available in New Digital Collection
A 19th-century book helped lay the foundation for gay rights. A Hopkins University researcher just found a rare copy.
University of Washington – What I learned from studying billions of words of online fan fiction
University of Pittsburgh library digs into its archives to celebrate Science Fiction Day
University of Minnesota – Transgender activism takes center stage
Internet Archives – Libraries and Publishing Now: Viva la Library
Internet Archives – Over 100,000 historic vinyl records are being digitised and made available to stream online for free
Inside the Getty photography vaults: How the museum protects historic prints
What’s Lost when a Language Disappears
Vasa National Archives digitizes Lodge Records
Ellis Island in color: artist brings archive of earliest immigrants pictures to life
New-York Historical Society – Little Women in the Archives: Letters Reveal Louisa May Alcott’s Business Savvy
Library staff to study digital preservation in Washington, DC
Responses & Retrospectives: Rachael Woody Reflects on 2019 Issues
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australian Society of Archivists response to the ongoing bushfire crisis
National Archives of Australia – Latest Cabinet release
Public Record Office Victoria (Australia) – Pyjama Girl killer’s prison record among files opened 1 Jan 2020
Cabinet Office violated Japan’s public record guidelines for discarded sakura party data
Former monk preserves the ancient craft of making palm leaf manuscripts in Cambodia
Indonesia to revive truth and reconciliation commission
National Archives of Indonesia offer free family archive restoration for flood victims
India – People should take out their ancestral texts for conservation: National Mission for Manuscripts
India – Thirty participants transliterate 1,065-page Sanskrit manuscript
Europe / Europa
Europeana – Louis Braille and the braille alphabet
A Medieval Guide to Predicting the Year
Honoring the Art of the Archival Film
Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: why Unread Books Are More Valuable to our Lives than Read Ones
Italian high schoolers are helping bring secret Vatican archives to the masses
How artificial intelligence helps unlock the secrets of Old Master and modernist paintings
A Post-Idealistic Iceberg Clad in Steel: Switzerland’s National Film Archive Finally Completes
France – Un texte inédit d’Albert Camus retrouvé dans les archives du général de Gaulle
France Blocks Export of $26M Cimabue Painting Discovered in Kitchen
Ireland – Lack of archive space for thousands of state files
The Irish Times view: Neglect of the National Archives
Archives reveal details of suspected informants killed by the IRA between 1978 and 1994
State Archives: Irish Republican Army’s bid to control road haulage for protection money
State Archives: Irish government outraged over Irish Rugby Football Union participation in 1989 South Africa sports event
Busier is better: National Library of Scotland plans to throw open doors to families
Digital Preservation @ University of Glasgow – File migration formats
UK National Archives – Prime Minister’s papers from 1996 released
National archives: Sir John Major snubbed separate Scottish time zone
UK National Archives – Closed files on Guildford pub bombings to remain sealed
Ministry of Defence proposed Russian membership of Nato in 1995, files reveal
British Library – New year, new manuscripts
British Library – A New Year card from MI5
British Library – Beyond Digitisation: Engaging the Community around the Barbados Mercury
Christie’s to Sell Polarizing Marina Abramovic Mixed-Reality Work, Attempting to Set New Precedent for Digital Art at Auction
Australian on mission to photograph every parish church in England
Collector finds rare templates used to print first edition 1860s Alice In Wonderland books in a garage and sells them for £8.5k
Thank you to … the librarian who saved my life before I knew it needed saving
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – Rare Images: when the Land of Israel Shook in 1927
National Library of Israel – Ben-Gurion: Prayer is Self-Deception
Israel Is Hiding Documents that Could Help its War Crimes Case at the International Criminal Court
Turkey’s transfer of Ottoman archives to Palestinians undermines Israeli land claims
Building the revolution’s memory: Coders archive Lebanon’s protests
Oman – Bait Qirsh Museum contains ancient coins, manuscripts
United Arab Emirates – Egypt’s golden age of cinema: hundreds of rare photos come to Abu Dhabi
International
United Nations declares International Decade of Indigenous Languages
Cloud, Intelligent Content Services, and Digital Fragility: what’s on the Records and Information Management Horizon for 2020
Top 10 information management stories of 2019
What to Expect in the Publishing World in 2020
Abebooks – Most Expensive Sales of 2019
In memoriam: all the best tech that died in the 2010s
Reflections on Tech in 2019
The Fight to Decolonize the Museum
Web Packaging for Web Archiving
These are the monks who still preserve ancient texts around the world
Ten Digital Curation Tools for Teachers and Educators
How Libraries Are Dealing with Bedbugs