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Documentary Heritage News
November 8, 2019May 2, 2021

Vol. 13, no. 10

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State
Resolution of the Federal, Provincial and Territorial Information and Privacy Commissioners (Canada) – Effective Privacy and Access to Information Legislation in a Data Driven Society
https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/about-the-opc/what-we-do/provincial-and-territorial-collaboration/joint-resolutions-with-provinces-and-territories/res_191001

U.S. Department of Justice – Step-by-Step Guide for Determining if Commercial or Financial Information Obtained from a Person is Confidential under Exemption 4 of the Freedom of Information Act
http://www.justice.gov/oip/blog/new-guidance-issued-exemption-4-foia

Institut national du patrimoine (France) – Réputées détruites : sur la piste des oeuvres disparues pendant la guerre : de l’identification à la restitution : orientation bibliographique 
http://mediatheque-numerique.inp.fr/Bibliographies/Reputees-detruites-sur-la-piste-des-oeuvres-disparues-pendant-la-guerre-de-l-identification-a-la-restitution

De la communauté / From the community
Digital Preservation Coalition – Technology Watch Report: Preserving Email (Second Edition)
https://dpconline.org/news/dpc-technology-watch-report-preserving-email-2nd-ed-by-christopher-j-prom-now-available

Memoriav: Association for the Safeguarding of the Swiss Audiovisual Heritage – Recommendations: Digital Archiving of Film and Video (version 1.2)
https://memoriav.ch/dafv/?lang=en

California Digital Library – Toward a National Archival Finding Aid Network: from Planning Initiative to Project and Program: an Action Plan
http://cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2019/11/05/toward-a-national-archival-finding-aid-network-planning-initiative-outcomes-and-availability-of-action-plan/

Programming Historian – Beginner’s Guide to Twitter Data
http://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/beginners-guide-to-twitter-data

Research Data Alliance – Engaging Researchers with Data Management: the Cookbook
http://www.rd-alliance.org/group/libraries-research-data-ig/outcomes/engaging-researchers-data-management-cookbook

Article – Coaching Copyright: Rules and Strategies for the Game
https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/29680

Publications
New Review of Information Networking, vol. 24, no. 2 (2019)
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rinn20/24/2

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 70, no. 12 (2019)
https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/23301643/2019/70/12

Free eBook – Among Digitized Manuscripts: Philology, Codicology, Paleography in a Digital World
http://brill.com/view/title/56196

Book – Information Governance: Concepts, Strategies and Best Practices (Second Edition)
http://www.wiley.com/en-ca/Information+Governance%3A+Concepts%2C+Strategies+and+Best+Practices%2C+2nd+Edition-p-9781119491446  

Book – Creating Family Archives: a Step-by-Step Guide to Saving your Memories for Future Generations
http://www2.archivists.org/publications/creating-family-archives 

Book – Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Aesthetics of Power
http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/heritage-formation-and-the-senses-in-post-apartheid-south-africa-9781350059771/  

Book – More than One Picture: an Art History of the Hyperimage
http://shop.getty.edu/products/more-than-one-picture-an-art-history-of-the-hyperimage-978-1606066256 

Book – Data Science and Machine Learning: Mathematical and Statistical Methods
http://www.crcpress.com/Data-Science-and-Machine-Learning-Mathematical-and-Statistical-Methods/Kroese-Botev-Taimre-Vaisman/p/book/9781138492530 

Book – Tracing your Scottish Ancestry through Church and State Records
http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Tracing-Your-Scottish-Ancestry-through-Church-and-State-Records-Paperback/p/16848 

Book – Allied Communication to the Public During the Second World War: National and Transnational Networks 
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/allied-communication-to-the-public-during-the-second-world-war-9781350105126/ 

Book – Sandworm: a New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers
http://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/597684/sandworm-by-andy-greenberg/9780385544405 

Book – Text Mining with Machine Learning: Principles and Techniques
http://www.crcpress.com/Text-Mining-with-Machine-Learning-Principles-and-Techniques/Zizka-Darena-Svoboda/p/book/9781138601826 

Book – Geospatial Health Data: Modeling and Visualization with R-INLA and Shiny
http://www.crcpress.com/Geospatial-Health-Data-Modeling-and-Visualization-with-R-INLA-and-Shiny/Moraga/p/book/9780367357955 

Book – Hands-On Machine Learning with R 
http://www.crcpress.com/Hands-On-Machine-Learning-with-R/Boehmke-Greenwell/p/book/9781138495685 

Book – E-documentation and E-commerce Solutions for Business
http://www.societypublishing.com/book/business-and-management/e-documentation-and-e-commerce-solutions-for-business.html 

Book – You Look Like a Thing and I Love you: how Artificial Intelligence Works and why it’s Making the World a Weirder Place
http://www.readvoracious.com/titles/janelle-shane/you-look-like-a-thing-and-i-love-you/9780316525237/ 

Livre – Dans les archives inédites du ministère de l’Intérieur : un siècle de secrets d’État (1870-1945)
http://www.folio-lesite.fr/Catalogue/Folio/Folio/Dans-les-archives-inedites-du-ministere-de-l-Interieur 

Livre – La Bibliothèque monde : la Vaticane et les Archives secrètes
https://www.editionsducerf.fr/librairie/livre/18869/la-bibliotheque-monde-la-vaticane-et-les-archives-secretes

Livre – Patrimoine culturel de l’Unesco : les plus beaux sites du monde
https://www.decitre.fr/livres/patrimoine-culturel-de-l-unesco-9791029508578.html

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Uncatalogued: a Porn Archive’s Risky Arrangements
November 11, 2019, Montreal
https://counterarchive.ca/uncatalogued-porn-archives-risky-arrangements-public-lecture

Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Sector
November 13, 2019, Montreal
http://www.mcgill.ca/law/channels/event/artificial-intelligence-and-legal-sector-294419

Object Biographies: Artist’s Lives through their Archives
Until November 30, 2019, University of Victoria
http://events.uvic.ca/library/view/event/event_id/45400

Datathon d’Archives Unleashed #Montréal
14-15 mai 2020, Montréal
http://netpreserve.org/ga2020/archives-unleashed-fr/

Free Online Course – The History of the Book in the Early Modern Period: 1450 to 1800
http://www.futurelearn.com/courses/history-of-the-book

Webinar – Review, Appraisal and Triage of Mail 
November 13, 2019
http://zoom.us/webinar/register/8015712275091/WN_92JMAnNKTxO6jmDthJq1dw

UK National Archives – Wine tasting: South Africa: from Huguenots to Hemel-en Aarde
November 13, 2019, Kew (UK)
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wine-tasting-south-africa-from-huguenots-to-hemel-en-aarde-tickets-70255587353

Championing Diversity and Inclusion in Irish Archives and Records
November 21, 2019, Dublin
http://www.eventbrite.ie/e/championing-diversity-and-inclusion-in-irish-archives-and-records-tickets-77758464661

International Conference: Technical and Field Related Problems of Traditional and Electronic Archiving
April 8-10, 2020, Radenci (Slovenia)
http://www.pokarh-mb.si/en/p/45/konferenca-v-radencih.html

Digital Initiatives Symposium 2020
April 28, 2020, San Diego
http://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/

Sur le web / On the web
Scholars Portal – Upgraded Dataverse Platform and Data Curation Tool
http://ocul.on.ca/dataverse-upgrade-2019-11

Lawbytes Podcast – It’s Only Going to Get More Important: Amanda Wakaruk and Jeremy deBeer on Crown Copyright in Canada
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2019/11/lawbytespodcast-episode30/

Historical Reminiscents Podcast – The Abstract Writing Slog
http://kristamccracken.ca/?p=2510

Video – The Knowledge School of Thought, David Lankes
http://youtu.be/YQv7AXZpcsk

BitList 2019: the Global List of Digitally Endangered Species
https://www.dpconline.org/blog/idpd/bitlist2019

Video – Wikipedia Loves Archives
http://youtu.be/u3YGRhBzNHg

Slides – Preserving your Digital Memories
http://libguides.ucd.ie/ld.php?content_id=32467254

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Crown copyright, facts, Keatley, land surveys, Teranet: the hill to die on
http://fairduty.wordpress.com/2019/11/03/the-hill-to-die-on/

Gun serial numbers are not personal information, judge tells RCMP
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-gun-serial-numbers-are-not-personal-information-judge-tells-rcmp-2/

Library and Archives Canadas Gatineau 2 Project Wins Silver in CCPPPs 2019 National Awards for Innovation and Excellence in P3s
http://www.financialbuzz.com/library-and-archives-canadas-gatineau-2-project-wins-silver-in-ccppps-2019-national-awards-for-innovation-and-excellence-in-p3s/

Library and Archives Canada signs collaborative agreement with Memorial University of Newfoundland
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/2019/collaborative-agreement-memorial-university.aspx

Canada’s archives kept in freezers and damaged by water, report finds
https://torontosun.com/news/national/canadas-archives-kept-in-freezers-and-damaged-by-water-report-finds

Guy Berthiaume : une carrière prolifique
http://www.actualites.uqam.ca/2019/guy-berthiaume-une-carriere-prolifique

Righting a historical wrong for Japanese Canadians: association asks British Columbia government to acknowledge responsibility in 1940s dispossession of Japanese Canadians
http://www.timescolonist.com/islander/righting-a-historical-wrong-for-japanese-canadians-1.23996497

Bursting at the seams: Prince Edward Island archives begin move to Atlantic Technology Centre
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-public-archives-moving-to-atlantic-technology-centre-1.5346098

Attending the 2019 Saskatchewan Indigenous Cultural Centre e-miciminayakik Gathering
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2019/11/attending-2019-sicc-e-miciminayakik.html

Province folds up Alberta historical preservation body in bid to save money
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/historical-resources-foundation-disbanded-culture-ministry-1.5346610

L’utilisation des Rights Statements et des licences Creative Commons dans BAnQ numérique
http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/carnetbibliothequenationale/2019/11/07/rights-statements-creative-commons/

BAnQ – Ces 200 000 documents patrimoniaux sont à vous
http://lactualite.com/techno/ces-200-000-documents-patrimoniaux-sont-a-vous/

Preserving Research Data: Finding our Legs at Scholars Portal
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/finding-our-legs

Luciana Duranti awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Mid-Sweden University
http://slais.ubc.ca/2019/11/luciana-duranti-awarded-an-honorary-degree-by-the-mid-sweden-university/

University of British Columbia – They also serve: Honouring Alexis Alvey
https://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/2019/11/07/6069/?fbclid=IwAR1XQWQS6eScRTbUPs9nPbXmcsxMdnpbcaBKqvX_SFD43LgzQulOCYWbr7Q

Western University’s librarians and archivists vote in favour new deal
http://london.ctvnews.ca/western-s-librarians-and-archivists-vote-in-favour-new-deal-1.4670659

University of Winnipeg – Photographing ghosts on the prairies
http://news-centre.uwinnipeg.ca/all-posts/photographing-ghosts-on-the-prairies/

Concordia Students Research War Orphans Project Archives
http://www.cjnews.com/news/canada/concordia-students-research-war-orphans-project-archives

Student Spotlight: Nikolas Lamarre at the McGill University Archives
http://news.library.mcgill.ca/student-spotlight-nikolas-lamarre-at-the-mcgill-university-archives/

Researcher threatened over access to information wins full costs
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/researcher-threatened-over-access-to-information-wins-full-costs

Researchers searching for child graves near abandoned Saskatchewan residential school
http://valliantnews.com/2019/11/03/researchers-searching-for-child-graves-near-abandoned-saskatchewan-residential-school/

Vancouver Archives – Digitized photographs from the Hugh Pickett fonds now online
https://www.vancouverarchives.ca/2019/11/07/digitized-photographs-from-the-hugh-pickett-fonds-now-online/

City archivist gives a look into Saskatoon of 100 years ago
http://www.ckom.com/2019/11/03/629852/

Memories of Eaton’s on display at Galt Museum and Archives (Alberta)
http://lethbridgeherald.com/news/lethbridge-news/2019/11/02/memories-of-eatons-on-display-at-galt-museum-and-archives/

Thunder Bay – City archives honours four pioneering women
http://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/city-archives-honours-four-pioneering-women-1779964

The history of the Sault Ste. Marie’s Croatian community
http://www.sootoday.com/columns/remember-this/the-history-of-the-saults-croatian-community-1825463

South Peace Regional Archives (Alberta) – Soldier Spotlight: Douglas Blackie
http://southpeacearchives.org/2019/11/05/soldier-spotlight-douglas-blackie/

South Peace Regional Archives – Finding Memory: Highlights from the Indigenous Reference Files
http://southpeacearchives.org/2019/11/06/finding-memory-highlights-from-the-indigenous-reference-files-4/

Oshawa Museum – Jack Humphreys: the Story of a Veteran of Two Wars
https://durhamregionarchivesgroup.com/2019/11/07/jack-humphreys-the-story-of-a-veteran-of-two-wars/

The Race to Find Scientific Secrets Encoded in Indigenous Songs
https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/10/29/Find-Secrets-Indigenous-Songs/

Elvis impersonator delves into haunting songs from New Brunswick’s past
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-folk-song-album-1.5347079

Calgary – Second World War medals returned to family after they were donated to Goodwill
http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/second-world-war-medals-returned-to-family-after-they-were-donated-to-goodwill

Six trucs pour mettre en oeuvre votre projet de numérisation
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2019/11/04/projet_numerisation/

Freshly Minted: Hridi Das, MLIS Candidate, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, Western University
https://librarianship.ca/blog/freshly-minted-hridi-das/

Afrique / Africa
Une démarche commune des pays africains pour restituer leurs archives coloniales
http://www.aps.dz/culture/96799-une-demarche-commune-des-pays-africains-pour-restituer-leurs-archives-coloniales

Les archives du Maroc … l’institution qui sauve la mémoire
http://www.moroccojewishtimes.com/2019/11/02/les-archives-du-maroc-linstitution-qui-sauve-la-memoire/

Maroc – Jamaa Baïda… le gardien des archives
http://www.moroccojewishtimes.com/2019/11/02/jamaa-baida-le-gardien-des-archives/

Congo-Brazzaville – Archives nationales : le personnel à l’école du savoir
https://afriqueactudaily.com/index.php/2019/11/05/congo-brazzaville-archives-nationales-le-personnel-a-lecole-du-savoir/

Nigeria – Foundation decries loss of historical facts from archives
http://thenationonlineng.net/foundation-decries-loss-of-historical-facts-from-archives/

The Liberian Archivist, Archie Williams, Recycles History One Newspaper at a Time
http://frontpageafricaonline.com/news/the-liberian-archivist-archie-williams-recycles-history-one-newspaper-at-a-time/

Kenya – National Museum collections to be digitized
http://hivisasa.com/posts/80711313-national-museum-collection-to-be-digitized

Access information regulations validated Sierra Leone
http://www.politicosl.com/articles/access-information-regulations-validated-sierra-leone

South Africa – Approaching digital preservation at scale: a pilot programme at University of Cape Town Libraries
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/approaching-digital-preservation-at-scale

Ottoman Manuscripts Written in Afrikaans Donated to Cape Town University
https://www.albawaba.com/editors-choice/ottoman-manuscripts-written-afrikaans-donated-cape-town-university-1319798

Amériques / Americas
National Library of Mexico – Perspective in Digital Preservation
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/perspective-in-digital-preservation

She Couldn’t Find Dominican Women in the Official Archives. So she Started her Own.
http://www.thecut.com/2019/10/angie-cruz-on-her-instagram-archive-dominicanas-nyc.html

U.S. Government Publishing Office Completes Digitization of 1,300 Congressional Hearings
http://www.gpo.gov/who-we-are/news-media/news-and-press-releases/gpo-completes-digitization-of-1-300-congressional-hearings

NARA – The Berlin Wall: 30 Years After the Fall
https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2019/11/07/the-berlin-wall-30-years-after-the-fall/


NARA – On a Transparent Process for Digital Preservation
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/on-a-transparent-process

Library of Congress – Newly Digitized Collections Now Online Include History of Women’s Suffrage, Civil War, Landscape Architecture and Monetary Policy
http://www.loc.gov/item/prn-19-106/

Inquiring Minds: Family Surprised to Discover Civil War Veteran’s Ordeal on Library of Congress Blog
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2019/11/inquiring-minds-family-surprised-to-discover-civil-war-veterans-ordeal-on-loc-blog/

Library of Congress – Decreased Processing Times for Copyright Registrations
http://blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2019/11/decreased-processing-times-for-copyright-registrations/

Five hundred goats save the Ronald Reagan library from wildfires
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/31/goats-save-ronald-reagan-library-wildfire

Revamped Obama Center tower design: more windows, trimmed profile
http://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2019/10/27/20935541/revamped-obama-center-tower-design-more-windows-trimmed-profile

Supreme Court hears case involving pirate Blackbeard’s ship
http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/469098-supreme-court-hears-case-involving-pirate-blackbeards-ship

Republican senator seeks Obama-Clinton emails from National Archives
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gop-senator-seeks-obama-clinton-emails-from-national-archives

Historic recordings of Maine’s Passamaquoddy Tribe restored more than a century later
http://artscanvas.org/arts-culture/historic-recordings-of-maines-passamaquoddy-tribe-restored-more-than-a-century-later

Illinois Archivist Restores Pieces of History After Devastating Airport Fire
http://news.yahoo.com/illinois-archivist-restores-pieces-history-220422047.html

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Digital Preservation and Games
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/digital-preservation-and-games

Yale University Library – What if online services had a time dimension?
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/what-if-online-services-had-a-time-dimension

University of Notre Dame – It Takes a Village… to Manage Digital Assets
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/it-takes-a-village

A history of photography at the University of Notre Dame in pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/nov/07/a-history-of-photography-at-the-university-of-notre-dame-in-pictures

John Hopkins University Press releases free digitized manuscripts
http://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2019/10/university-press-releases-free-digitized-manuscripts

Villanova University – When the Stars Are Right: H. P. Lovecraft’s Astronomical Manuscript Added to Distinctive Collections
http://blog.library.villanova.edu/2019/10/30/lovecraft/

Boxes, Boxes, Everywhere: Centralizing Acquisitions at Northwestern University Libraries
http://appraisalsaa.wordpress.com/2019/11/06/boxes-boxes-everywhere-centralizing-acquisitions-at-northwestern-university-libraries/

University of Illinois – 100 years of architecture student design work to be preserved, archived
http://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/804112

Recap – Email Archiving: Strategies, Tools, Techniques Workshop
http://saaers.wordpress.com/2019/11/05/saa-2019-recap-email-archiving-strategies-tools-techniques-workshop/

Preserving work in a time of vanishing archives
http://www.cjr.org/q_and_a/lost-archives-clips-pdf.php

Hyperreal Intangible Cultural Heritage: Digital Preservation of Dance
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/hyperreal-intangible-cultural-heritage

Comic strips, goofy snaps and mirror selfies: inside Prince’s private archive
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/26/prince-private-archive-memoir-comic-strips-snaps-selfies

Critical Cataloging and the Serials Archive: the Digital Making of Mill Girls in Nineteenth-Century Print
http://www.archivejournal.net/essays/critical-cataloging-and-the-serials-archive-the-digital-making-of-mill-girls-in-nineteenth-century-print/

The first map of America’s food supply chain is mind-boggling
http://www.fastcompany.com/90422553/the-first-map-of-americas-food-supply-chain-is-mind-boggling

There’s an Archivist for that Interview with Jacqueline Seargeant, Global Archive Manager, John Dewar & Sons Ltd. 
http://archivesaware.archivists.org/2019/11/05/theres-an-archivist-for-that-interview-with-jacqueline-seargeant-global-archive-manager-john-dewar-sons-ltd/

A transgender man’s diaries can help us learn what San Francisco was like decades ago
http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/10/transgender-mans-diaries-can-help-us-learn-san-francisco-like-decades-ago/

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia ineffective in overseeing government-wide digital record policy
http://www.zdnet.com/article/national-archives-ineffective-in-overseeing-government-wide-digital-record-policy/

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia – Collecting the history of video games
http://www.artshub.com.au/news-article/features/digital/jini-maxwell/collecting-the-history-of-video-games-259133

State Library of New South Wales (Australia) – Long-term preservation of digital photographs
https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/blogs/long-term-preservation-digital-photographs

You put WHAT in the repository??? State Library of Queensland’s (Australia) project to audit the repository for obsolete physical carriers
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/you-put-what-in-the-repository

State Library Victoria (Australia) – Ubiquity and the Floppy Disk: Challenges with Obsolete Carriers
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/ubiquity-and-the-floppy-disk

Museums Victoria – Digital preservation & digital asset management in the real world no mere matter of magic
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/no-mere-matter-of-magic

Archival decolonist – Anniversaries need to be uncomfortable
http://archivaldecolonist.com/2019/11/06/anniversaries-need-to-be-uncomfortable/

Digital Preservation – A Couple of Views from New Zealand
http://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/a-couple-views-from-new-zealand

Asian Film Archives – A Reflection: Outreach about digital preservation
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/outreach-about-digital-preservation

China – Working together to reduce digital information at risk
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/working-together-to-reduce-digital-information-at-risk

Chulalongkorn University (Thailand) -From “research output” to “research data”: a willingness to move forward?
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/research-output-to-research-data

India – Tamil University to digitize manuscripts with funds from British Library
http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-nadu/2019/nov/01/tamil-university-to-digitize-manuscripts-with-funds-from-british-library-2055642.html

Europe / Europa
Power to whom? Privacy in a post-General Data Protection Regulation world
http://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/power-to-whom-privacy-in-a-post-gdpr-world-57246/

The European Union Publications Office based its long-term preservation service on international archiving standards
http://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/2019/11/04/The+EU+Publications+Office+based+its+long-term+preservation+service+on+international+archiving+standards

IFLA – Keeping Cultural Heritage at the Heart of Europe
http://www.ifla.org/node/92635

National Archives of Estonia – Public records: what will be preserved about 2019?
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/what-will-be-preserved-about-2019

Sweden – When digital preservation is turned into a municipality organisation
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/digital-preservation-as-municipality-organisation

Royal Danish Library – One Size Fits All?
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/one-size-fits-all

Thirty years after the Berlin Wall fell, a Stasi spy puzzle remains unsolved
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/thirty-years-after-the-berlin-wall-fell-no-end-in-sight-for-stasi-spy-puzzle/2019/11/01/160d8ae2-fb29-11e9-9e02-1d45cb3dfa8f_story.html

Technische Informationsbibliothek (Germany) – For you, for me, for everyone? The risk of discrimination in digital preservation practice
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/for-you-for-me-for-everyone

An invaluable resource for provenance research: German pre-1945 auction catalogues are published online
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/german-pre-1945-auction-catalogues-are-published-online

Netherlands – Leaked document on Elsevier negotiations sparks controversy
http://www.scienceguide.nl/2019/11/leaked-document-on-elsevier-negotiations-sparks-controversy/

Memorandum signed between Matenadaran, Georgian National Center of Manuscripts
https://news.am/eng/news/542999.html

Digitisation and long-term preservation of sound and audiovisual materials at the National Library of Spain
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/av-at-bne

University of Basel (Switzerland) – Starting with complexity: Archiving digital-born music compositions from Mac systems of the 80s/90s
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/starting-with-complexity

Belgium – It’s just not always a clear cut: Digital, analog and everything in between
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/not-always-a-clear-cut

National Library of France – JPEG Got the Blues
https://openpreservation.org/blog/2019/11/07/jpeg-got-the-blues/

Irish Newspaper Archives – Irish Radical & Political Archives
http://www.irishnewsarchive.com/wp/irish-radical-political-archives/

Why a 1972 Northern Ireland murder matters so much to historians
http://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/11/06/what-northern-ireland-legal-case-means-historians/

Teaching a Young Dog Old Tricks: Emulation Research at the National Library of Scotland
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/emulation-research-nls

Extracting Information from 5.25” Floppy Disks: Historic Environment Scotland
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/extracting-info-from-floppy-disks

Scotland –  Decolonising the Hunterian: how museum will confront its dark imperial legacy and links with the slave trade
http://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/history/decolonising-hunterian-how-museum-confront-17135359

UK National Archives – Project Alpha: Building an Archive for Everyone
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/project-alpha-building-an-archive-for-everyone/

UK National Archives – Online research project announced to mark World Digital Preservation Day
https://livelb.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/pronom-research-week/

UK National Archives – Fall of the Wall
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/fall-of-the-wall/
Preserving stories of Black History in the UK and beyond
http://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/arts-culture/preserving-stories-black-history-uk-and-beyond/

Royal Institute for British Architects – Digitally Designed: Digital Preservation of Architectural records
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/digitally-designed

University of Westminster – From starting digital preservation to business as usual
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/starting-dp-to-bau

Digital Archiving at the University of York – Preserving emails. How hard can it be?
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2019/11/preserving-emails-how-hard-can-it-be.html

From new media to Guardian Unlimited: records of the Guardian’s first years online
https://www.theguardian.com/gnm-archive/2019/nov/06/from-new-media-to-guardian-unlimited-records-of-the-guardians-first-years-online

The Brontë Parsonage Museum’s Urgent Appeal for Charlotte’s Little Book
http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/blog/bronte-parsonage-museums-urgent-appeal-charlottes-little-book

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Microsoft implementing artificial intelligence in creating archive of Ben-Gurion’s handwritten works
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Microsoft-implementing-AI-in-creating-archive-of-Ben-Gurions-handwritten-works-607013

Towards Making Palestinian Research Preserved and Accessible
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/making-palestinian-research-preserved-and-accessible

Film Archivists as Freedom Fighters: Restoring Afghan Films Destroyed by the Taliban
http://www.indiewire.com/2019/11/afghanistan-films-taliban-1202186940/

Al-Ahram, Egypt’s Newspaper of Record, Now Available Online
http://www.einnews.com/pr_news/501148412/al-ahram-egypt-s-newspaper-of-record-now-available-online

Bursa Uludag University (Turkey) – Influence of Blockchain Technology on Protecting Trustworthiness of Electronic Records
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/blockchain-on-trustworthiness-of-e-records

International
UNESCO – The Pre-Digital Preservation Black Hole
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/pre-digital-preservation-black-hole

World Bank – Charting the Landscape: a digital content review for effective long-term preservation planning
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/charting-the-landscape

Community Standards for 3D Data Preservation
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/cs3dp

PREMIS News & Highlights for 2019
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/premis-news-highlights-for-2019

Creating SIPs without Breaking a Sweat: the Pre-ingest Tool and File Scraper
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/creating-sips

The long WARC to freedom
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/the-long-warc-to-freedom

PDF: you know she’s a little bit dangerous
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/a-little-bit-dangerous

What can our memory institutions teach us about fake news?
https://dpconline.org/blog/idpd/memory-institutions-teach-about-fake-news

Wikidata va-t-elle libérer les archives de l’autorité des archivistes ?
https://www.archimag.com/archives-patrimoine/2019/11/07/wikidata-liberer-archives-autorite-archivistes

Making Emulation Accessible
http://dpconline.org/blog/making-emulation-accessible

Following the Critical Path for Archival Projects
http://www.margotnote.com/blog/2019/11/04/critical-path-for-archival-projects

Archival Collection Policies: Writing the Best One for your Needs
http://lucidea.com/blog/collection-policies-writing-the-best-one-for-your-needs/

Monetizing digital asset management: the power of metadata management
http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/Features/Monetizing-digital-asset-management-The-power-of-metadata-management-134815.aspx

Microsoft’s Project Silica targets glass as the archival storage medium of the future
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3451716/microsofts-project-silica-targets-glass-as-the-archival-storage-medium-of-the-future.html

Strongly typed documents, move aside: Microsoft Fluid is coming
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/11/microsoft-fluid-brings-big-changes-to-online-collaboration/

Andreessen Horowitz leads $5M round in blockchain-based internet archive
http://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/45935/andreessen-horowitz-leads-5m-round-in-blockchain-based-internet-archive

Women and ethnic minorities in data science probably won’t get promoted over white men
http://thenextweb.com/tech/2019/10/31/study-women-and-ethnic-minorities-in-data-science-probably-wont-get-promoted-over-white-men/

Microsoft Access: the Database Software that won’t Die
http://medium.com/young-coder/microsoft-access-the-zombie-database-software-that-wont-die-5b09e389c166

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