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Documentary Heritage News
November 1, 2019May 2, 2021

Vol. 13, no. 9

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada – Remembrance Day: an Essential Media Guide (2019) 
https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/media-advisory-an-indispensable-media-kit-for-your-remembrance-day-coverage-860922635.html

British Columbia – Property Taxation Operational Records Classification System Amendment (for Comments)
http://engage.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads/sites/81/2019/10/PTAX-public-consultation-binder-2019-10-23.pdf

British Columbia – Prosecution Services Operational Records Classification System Amendment (for Comments)
http://engage.gov.bc.ca/app/uploads/sites/81/2019/10/PROS-ORCS-Schedule-201915-Public-Consultation-Binder.pdf

Vatican – Apostolic Letter in the Form of a Motu Proprio for the Change of the Name of the Vatican Secret Archive to the Vatican Apostolic Archive
http://www.archiviosegretovaticano.va/content/archiviosegretovaticano/en/news/news/Motu-Proprio-AAV.html

De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Federation of Library Associations – A Plain-language Description of Bibframe and its Potential Impact on Canadian Libraries
http://cfla-fcab.ca/en/news/bibrame_description/

Sedona Canada Commentary on Privacy and Information Security for Legal Service Providers: Principles and Guidelines (for Comments)
https://thesedonaconference.org/publication/Sedona_Canada_Commentary_on_Privacy_and_Information_Security

National Digital Stewardship Alliance – Levels of Digital Preservation 2.0
http://ndsa.org/2019/10/28/ndsa-announces-the-levels-of-digital-preservation-2.0.html

White Paper – Teaching with Digital Primary Sources: Literacies, Finding and Evaluating, Citing, Ethics, and Existing Models
http://dlfteach.pubpub.org/pub/digitalprimarysources

OCLC – Public Libraries Respond to the Opioid Crisis with their Communities
http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2019/oclcresearch-public-libraries-respond-to-opioid-crisis.html

Flexible API Standard for E-content National Information Standards Organization (for Comments)
https://www.niso.org/press-releases/2019/10/niso-releases-draft-fasten-recommended-practice-public-comment

First Draft – Essential Guide to Newsgathering and Monitoring on the Social Web
http://firstdraftnews.org/sources-and-keywords-the-fundamentals-of-online-newsgathering/

Article – Online Disinformation and the Role of Wikipedia
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.12596.pdf

Publications
Archival Science, vol. 19, no. 4 (2019)
http://link.springer.com/journal/10502/19/4

Journal of Film Preservation, no. 101 (2019)
http://www.fiafnet.org/pages/Publications/Latest-Issue.html

Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society, vol. 3, no. 3-4 (2019)
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/3/3-4

Outreach: the Newsletter of the Friends of the UK National Archives, vol. 6, no. 5 (2019)
http://ftna.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Outreach-October-web.pdf

La Pomme : bulletin périodique de la Fondation archives vivantes (Suisse), no 34 (2019)
http://www.archeoplus.ch/fav/download/La_Pomme_34.pdf

Trent University Archives News, no. 64 (2019)
http://digitalcollections.trentu.ca/islandora/object/tula:15106/datastream/PDF/view

The Burlington Historical Society (Ontario) Gazette, vol. 15, no. 9 (2019)
http://burlingtonhistorical.ca/november-2019-gazette/

Free eBook – Image, Knife, and Gluepot: Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print
http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/806

Free eBook – Techniques for Electronic Resource Management: TERMS and the Transition to Open
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/ulib_fac/301/

Livrel gratuit – Exigeons de meilleures bibliothèques : plaidoyer pour une bibliothéconomie nouvelle
http://ateliers.sens-public.org/exigeons-de-meilleures-bibliotheques/

Book – The Passion Projects: Modernist Women, Intimate Archives, Unfinished Lives
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/30264.html 

Book – Trauma and Loss: Key Texts from the John Bowlby Archive
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9780367349998 

Book – A Window into Modern Iran: the Ardeshir Zahedi Papers at the Hoover Institution Library & Archive
https://www.hoover.org/research/window-modern-iran-ardeshir-zahedi-papers-hoover-institution-library-and-archives-selection

Book – Matters of Belonging: Ethnographic Museums in a Changing Europe
http://www.sidestone.com/books/matters-of-belonging 

Book – Data Breaches: Crisis and Opportunity
http://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/PGM334076.html 

Book – Targeted: the Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower’s Inside Story of how Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and how it can Happen Again
http://www.harpercollins.ca/9780062965790/targeted/ 

Book – Pirates and Publishers: a Social History of Copyright in Modern China
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/13269.html 

Book – Defining National Heritage: the National Trust from Open Spaces to Popular Culture
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781409403142 

Book – Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols: Ethnographic Collections and Source Communities
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9781138565593 

Book – Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business
http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030278120 

Book – War and Algorithm
http://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786613646/ 

Book – Peculiar Questions and Practical Answers: a Little Book of Whimsy and Wisdom from the Files of the New York Public Library
http://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250203625

Book – Medicine at Monte Cassino: Constantine the African and the Oldest Manuscript of his Pantegni
http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503579214-1

Livre – Archiver la mémoire : de l’histoire orale au patrimoine immatériel
http://editions.ehess.fr/ouvrages/ouvrage/archiver-la-memoire/ 

Livre – Trésors des bibliothèques et archives de Champagne-Ardenne
http://www.lelivrechezvous.fr/tresors-des-bibliotheques-de-champagne-ardenne.html

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Caring for Digital Collections: Professional Ethics and Decolonization
November 4, 2019, Winnipeg
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/EIJydyuWoAExkzR.jpg

When Dreams Came to Calgary: the Dawn of Moving Pictures in Calgary
November 13, 2019, Calgary
http://jhssa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Ken-Presentation-Poster-Nov-2019.pdf

Here Are the Fragments: an Immersive Theatre Experience Inspired by the Psychiatric Writing of Frantz Fanon
November 19 – December 1, 2019, Toronto
http://theatrecentre.org/?p=13813

Formation gratuite à Wikipédia sur le thème des figures féminines marquantes de l’histoire de Montréal
23 novembre 2019, Montréal
http://archivesdemontreal.com/2019/10/31/invitation-a-une-journee-de-formation-gratuite-a-wikipedia/

Fair Dealing Symposium 2020
February 26, 2020, Edmonton
http://www.ualberta.ca/copyright/about-the-copyright-office/news/2019/october/fair-dealing-symposium-2020—save-the-date-and-call-for-proposals

Decolonising the Archives Research Residency Programme 2020
Submissions until November 14, 2019 for Submissions, London (UK)
http://www.arts.ac.uk/research/stories/call-for-proposals-decolonising-the-archives-research-residency-programme-2020

Decolonising History
November 6, 2019, Birmingham (UK)
http://birmingham.impacthub.net/event/decolonising-history/

Webinar – Generating Metadata with Artificial Intelligence: Experience of the National Library of the Netherlands
November 8, 2019
http://www.anymeeting.com/AccountManager/RegEv.aspx?PIID=EE50D68685473D

Fantastic Futures: Libraries and Artificial Intelligence Conference
December 4-6, 2019, Stanford University
http://www.cni.org/news/fantastic-futures-libraries-and-ai-conference-stanford-university-dec-4-6-2019

La restauration du papier
10-12 décembre 2019, Paris
http://www.chartes.psl.eu/fr/formation-continue/restauration-du-papier

Evidence: the Use and Misuse of Data
June 5, 2020, Philadelphia
http://apply.interfolio.com/69616

Remembrance and Geomedia
July 7-10, 2020, Salzburg (Austria)
http://ehri-project.eu/call-papers-giforum2020-and-ehri-remembrance-and-geomedia

Australian Society of Archivists – Archives Amplified: Connect, Challenge, Reimagine
August 26-27, 2020, Brisbane
http://www.archivists.org.au/conference/2020-conference

Sur le web / On the web
Portail international archivistique francophone – Nouveau site pour la bibliographie
http://bibliopiaf.ebsi.umontreal.ca/bibliographie/

Dalhouse University Library – ZomBool: a Video Game in which you Try to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse by Successfully Applying Search Strategies
https://www.dal.ca/news/2019/10/31/library-of-the-living-dead.html

LawBytes Podcast – Partisan Posts, Social Media, and Misinformation: Taylor Owen on What Actually Happened Online in the 2019 Election
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2019/10/lawbytes-podcast-episode-29/

United State Copyright Office – Learning Engine Video Series
http://www.copyright.gov/learning-engine/

Baladodiffusion  – Valérie Mréjen : je me suis emparée de certaines archives pour en faire des oeuvres
http://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/par-les-temps-qui-courent/valerie-mrejen

Slides – Wikidata & Archivists
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1a7WUJ_PW8cZ_iRArxv_lrepB8dimWHtGFEKVamRuVTQ/edit#slide=id.p

Slides –  Implementing Accessibility for Born-digital Material
http://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kTRZbTu6w5Uh4v-vrJ2bYiD9T_YmRHSFJGE21EMdk0A/edit#slide=id.g442eb61d9d_0_0

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
International Council on Archives – The Approach to Designing Archives (by Ian Wilson)
http://blog-ica.org/2019/10/30/the-approach-to-designing-archives/

Library and Archives Canada – Highlights of Hayward’s photos for companies
https://thediscoverblog.com/2019/10/31/highlights-of-haywards-photos-for-companies/

Canadian Federation of Library Associations Upholds Intellectual Freedom
http://cfla-fcab.ca/en/news/cfla-fcab-upholds-intellectual-freedom/

British Columbia first province to enshrine international standards for Indigenous rights
http://www.citynews1130.com/2019/10/24/bc-legislature-un-rights-indigenous-peoples/

Heritage British Columbia steam locomotive enters the digital world
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kamloops-virtual-reality-locomotive-1.5331506

Provincial Archives of New Brunswick – The Largest Single Collection of UFO Material Is Being Cataloged
http://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/vb5n4a/the-largest-single-collection-of-ufo-material-is-being-cataloged

BAnQ – L’austérité a fait mal à la Grande Bibliothèque
http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/grand-montreal/201910/29/01-5247393-lausterite-a-fait-mal-a-la-grande-bibliotheque.php

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec : notre vaisseau sans vent
http://www.lapresse.ca/debats/editoriaux/201910/29/01-5247495-bibliotheque-et-archives-nationales-du-quebec-notre-vaisseau-sans-vent.php

Utiliser des oeuvres du domaine public n’a jamais été aussi simple grâce à BAnQ
http://www.banq.qc.ca/a_propos_banq/salle_de_presse/nouvelles/nouvelle.html?n_id=5df33148-8160-41e9-887d-be4d87c9bc29

BAnQ conclut un partenariat avec AMI-télé pour démocratiser l’accès au savoir et à la culture
http://www.newswire.ca/fr/news-releases/banq-conclut-un-partenariat-avec-ami-tele-pour-democratiser-l-acces-au-savoir-et-a-la-culture-807059608.html

BAnQ – Le fonds Famille Dufresne : un témoin direct du développement minier nord-côtier
http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/instantanes/2019/10/30/le-fonds-famille-dufresne-un-temoin-direct-du-developpement-minier-nord-cotier/

Quebec – When it is Illegal to Repurpose Publicly Available Information for Commercial Purposes?
http://www.eloisegratton.com/blog/2019/10/25/when-it-is-illegal-to-repurpose-publicly-available-information-for-commercial-purposes/

Introducing Omni: a New Academic Search Tool from 14 Ontario University Libraries
http://ocul.on.ca/introducing-omni

Librarians, archivists reach tentative deal with Western University
http://globalnews.ca/news/6095837/librarians-archivists-western-university-labour-deal/

Western University leads celebration of Walt Whitman legacy
http://news.westernu.ca/2019/10/western-leads-celebration-of-whitman-legacy/

University of Manitoba – The Falcon Lake UFO Files
https://news.umanitoba.ca/the-falcon-lake-ufo-files/

McGill University – Trial by fire (and water): safeguarding a world-class collection
https://reporter.mcgill.ca/trial-by-fire-and-water-safeguarding-a-world-class-collection/

McGill – In Storage No More! Discover the Visual Arts Collection’s New Curated Spaces
http://news.library.mcgill.ca/in-storage-no-more-discover-the-visual-arts-collections-new-curated-spaces/

University of British Columbia Digitizer’s Blog – Main Mall then and now
http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/carousel/main-mall-then-and-now/

Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto needs your help
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2019/10/arcat-needs-your-help.html

Archives de Montréal – Les archives de Jean Drapeau sont maintenant disponibles
http://archivesdemontreal.com/2019/10/25/les-archives-de-jean-drapeau-sont-maintenant-disponibles/

Rapport Malouf sur le coût des jeux de 1976 : la réponse du maire Drapeau rendue publique quelque 40 ans plus tard
http://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/8f8156c7-ede0-4d2d-8873-d89220bfe41c__7C___0.html

Astérix à La Ronde? Jean Drapeau y pensait
http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/grand-montreal/201910/29/01-5247525-asterix-a-la-ronde-jean-drapeau-y-pensait.php

Montreal – The Words and Music Show Becomes a Digital Archive
http://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/the-words-and-music-show-becomes-a-digital-archive

Vancouver – City completes BC Gay and Lesbian Archives collection digitization
http://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/city-completes-bc-gay-and-lesbian-archives-collection-digitization.aspx

City calls for help identifying key people and moments in Vancouver’s LGBTQ2 history
http://globalnews.ca/news/6086588/vancouver-lgbtq2-history-archives/

City of Vancouver Archives – Archives Staff Share their Spookiest Record Discoveries
https://www.vancouverarchives.ca/2019/10/31/archives-staff-share-their-spookiest-record-discoveries/

You Should Know about Vancouver’s Long, Explosive Relationship with Halloween
http://scoutmagazine.ca/2019/10/22/you-should-know-about-vancouvers-long-explosive-relationship-with-halloween/

Toronto Public Library – Ghost Towns of Ontario
http://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/local-history-genealogy/2019/10/ghost-towns-of-ontario.html

Halloweens past: when pirates and clowns roamed Calgary’s streets
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/halloweens-past-costumes-and-coverage-from-the-herald-archives

Ottawa – Super library design set at five storeys as floor details emerge
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/super-library-design-set-at-five-storeys-as-floor-details-emerge

Conservation des archives de Longueuil: qu’est-ce qui a été fait depuis 2006 ?
http://www.lecourrierdusud.ca/conservation-des-archives-de-longueuil-quest-ce-qui-a-ete-fait-depuis-2006/

Kingston Frameworks presents we Remember: 100 Years of Kingston
http://www.kingstonist.com/news/kingston-frameworks-presents-we-remember-100-years-of-kingston/

Residential school exhibit at Peterborough Museum (Ontario) shares shameful past
http://www.mykawartha.com/news-story/9665148-residential-school-exhibit-at-peterborough-museum-shares-shameful-past/

A path to the past: history trail project taking shape in northern Quebec
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/cree-waswanipi-walking-path-history-1.5330405

Les archives historiques du Collège du Sacré-Coeur désormais entreposées au Centre d’archives Mgr-Antoine-Racine
http://www.patrimoine-religieux.qc.ca/fr/actualites/nouvelles/archives-csc-mgr-ar

Archives Bois-Francs – Jacques Baril fait don de ses archives
https://www.lanouvelle.net/2019/10/31/jacques-baril-fait-don-de-ses-archives/

Centre d’archives régional des Îles-de-la-Madeleine – Clin d’oeil sur une fête d’Halloween en 1993
https://www.centredarchivesdesiles.org/2019/10/clin-doeil-sur-une-fete-dhalloween-en.html

Montérégie – Des souvenirs scolaires mémorables conservés en archives
http://www.journalsaint-francois.ca/des-souvenirs-scolaires-memorables-conserves-en-archives/

Lecture d’archives à voix haute : le cas du public scolaire
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2019/10/28/voix_haute/

Antiques: Karsh photo mystery solved
https://ottawacitizen.com/life/homes/antiques-karsh-photo-mystery-solved

Our People at Work: Carlie Moloney, Cataloguing Librarian at Public Services and Procurement Canada
http://librarianship.ca/news/carlie-moloney/

Larry Dohey, Kay Coxworthy Recognized by Museum Association
https://vocm.com/2019/10/30/larry-dohey-kay-coxworthy-recognized-by-museum-association/

Afrique / Africa
Burkina Faso – Loi portant régime juridique des archives : le Parlement donne son quitus
http://www.sidwaya.info/blog/2019/10/24/loi-portant-regime-juridique-des-archives-le-parlement-donne-son-quitus/

Les archivistes togolais s’imprègnent des réalités du numérique
http://www.icilome.com/actualites/874773/les-archivistes-togolais-s-impregnent-des-realites-du-numerique

South Africa’s copyright bill is good for digital archives. Here’s why
http://theconversation.com/south-africas-copyright-bill-is-good-for-digital-archives-heres-why-125744

From security guard to academic archivist: how University of South Africa shaped my life
http://www.unisa.ac.za/sites/myunisa/default/News/Articles/From-security-guard-to-academic-archivist-how-Unisa-shaped-my-life

Amériques / Americas
Student in Peru makes history by writing thesis in the Incas’ language
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/27/peru-student-roxana-quispe-collantes-thesis-inca-language-quechua

Library of Congress – Quaint and Curious Forgotten (Copyright) Lore
http://blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2019/10/quaint-and-curious-forgotten-copyright-lore/

Library of Congress – In the Library’s Web Archives: Dig if you will the Pictures
http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2019/10/in-the-librarys-web-archives-dig-if-you-will-the-pictures/

Library of Congress – Sprinting toward a Lab: defining, connecting and writing a book in five days
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2019/10/sprinting-toward-a-lab-defining-connecting-and-writing-a-book-in-five-days/

Library of Congress – The (Cursed?) Original Book of Witchcraft
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2019/10/the-cursed-original-book-of-witchcraft/

The priceless history inside the Reagan Library, narrowly saved from a fast-moving wildfire
http://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/10/30/priceless-history-inside-reagan-library-now-threatened-by-fast-moving-wildfire/

Federal Judge Orders White House to Preserve Head of State Call Records (National Security Archive)
http://www2.archivists.org/groups/human-rights-archives-section/federal-judge-orders-white-house-to-preserve-head-of-state-call

Society of American Archivists Representative Bill Maher Implores World Intellectual Property Organization to End Borders on Knowledge
http://www2.archivists.org/news/2019/saa-representative-maher-implores-wipo-to-%E2%80%9Cend-borders-on-knowledge%E2%80%9D

Society of American Archivists Supports NARA Inquiry into Wilbur Ross’ Use of Private Email to Conduct Government Business
http://www2.archivists.org/news/2019/saa-supports-nara-inquiry-into-ross%E2%80%99-use-of-private-email-to-conduct-government-business

The Untold Story of the Secret Mission to Seize Nazi Map Data
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/untold-story-secret-mission-seize-nazi-map-data-180973317/

California governor gives OK for state, local agencies to destroy emails
http://thedesk.matthewkeys.net/2019/10/governor-gavin-newsom-cpra-email-records/

Fire rages around famous California Getty museum, but priceless art is staying put
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/29/getty-fire-getty-center-safest-place-for-art-during-la-wildfires/2493715001/

University of Hawaii Press releases 90 classic books as open-access titles
http://www.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=10267

Brandeis University acquires archives of Jewish group that supported Soviet Jews
http://www.jta.org/quick-reads/brandeis-acquires-archives-of-jewish-group-that-supported-soviet-jews

Steal this Archive? Abbie Hoffman’s Papers Become a College Collection
http://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/arts/abbie-hoffman-archive.html

Lost Lou Reed recording for Andy Warhol discovered by Cornell University musicologist
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-10/cu-llr103019.php

Disney Is Quietly Placing Classic Fox Movies into its Vault, and that’s Worrying
http://www.vulture.com/2019/10/disney-is-quietly-placing-classic-fox-movies-into-its-vault.html

We visited the Walt Disney Archives, usually only open to employees
http://seattlerefined.com/the-show/disney-archive

Documenting the Undocumented: Archiving and recording the refugee experience
http://ncph.org/history-at-work/archives-series-refugee-experience/

Artifificial intelligence scanned millions of books to create a historical index of national happiness
http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/10/index-national-happiness/

In Pittsburgh, Archivists Work to Preserve the World’s Response to Mass Violence
http://forward.com/news/national/433691/pittsburgh-shooting-historians-letters-sandy-hook-mother-emanuel/

Artificial intelligence can now read the thoughts of paralysed patients as they imagine they are writing
http://www.zdnet.com/article/with-ai-paralysed-patients-can-communicate-simply-by-imagining-they-are-writing/

The Talented Patricia Highsmith’s Private Diaries Are Going Public
http://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/books/patricia-highsmith-diaries.html

Moneta Sleet: the great black photographer you’ve never heard of
http://www.bbc.com/news/stories-50186270

Teaching with Digital Humanities: a Toolkit for Western History in the Digital Age
http://chi.anthropology.msu.edu/2019/10/teaching-with-digital-humanities-a-toolkit-for-western-history-in-the-digital-age/

#Askanarchivist Day 2019: the Twitter Takeover
http://archivesaware.archivists.org/2019/10/30/askanarchivist-day-2019-the-twitter-takeover/

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia runs up legal bill in face of budget cuts
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/federal/money-to-fight-access-requests-even-as-national-archives-struggle-20191025-p53497.html

National Library of Australia – Improving records for First Nations collections
http://www.nla.gov.au/stories/blog/behind-the-scenes/2019/10/23/improving-records-for-first-nations-collections

Fears Australia’s film and television history could be lost forever
http://7news.com.au/entertainment/tv/fears-australias-film-and-television-history-could-be-lost-forever-c-525525

Australians respond to media campaign that calls out creeping culture of secrecy
http://globalvoices.org/2019/10/29/australians-respond-to-media-campaign-that-calls-out-creeping-culture-of-secrecy/

Queensland Government Recordkeeping (Australia) – Requirements requirements
http://grkblog.archives.qld.gov.au/2019/10/30/requirements-requirements/

New Zealand – Digital platform to ease access of te reo Maori for 21st century conversations
http://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/401651/digital-platform-to-ease-access-of-te-reo-maori-for-21st-century-conversations

Japan – Foreign Ministry refused to release records already made public
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201910270036.html

Archives show Japan studied forcible mobilization of Korean labor during World War II
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20191031012200315

Bangladesh – Government to set up digital archive on Bangabandhu
http://www.bangladeshpost.net/posts/govt-to-set-up-digital-archive-on-bangabandhu-15517

India – Diwali’s visual archive: lights on the canvas
http://www.hindustantimes.com/more-lifestyle/diwali-s-visual-archive-lights-on-the-canvas/story-kxAK0kVeA4hzMG2zIaUHUJ.html

Europe / Europa
National Archives of Finland – Pilot project of mass digitisation
http://arkisto.fi/en/the-national-archives-2/projects-2/mass-digitisation/pilot-project-of-mass-digitisation

Spy Photos from Communist Czechoslovakia
http://www.rferl.org/a/the-communist-spy-photographers-of-czechoslovakia/30236411.html

Migrating Russian eagles run up huge data roaming charges
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50180781

Spain’s atonement: how the country plans to make amends for killing Jews during the Inquisition
http://www.countyweeklynews.ca/news/canada/the-scavenger-hunt-prize-for-sephardic-jews-descendants-of-the-inquisition-spanish-citizenship/wcm/10f9eacc-5667-47e4-8344-14c08ffd2e45

In Pursuit of the Elusive Spanish Forger
http://lithub.com/in-pursuit-of-the-elusive-spanish-forger/

Venice time machine project suspended amid data row
http://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03240-w

Exhibition marks 50th anniversary of the Gibraltar National Archives
http://www.chronicle.gi/exhibition-marks-50th-anniversary-of-the-gibraltar-national-archives/

Armenia –  European Union experts visit is over, they will support digitization of Cadastre archives
http://news.am/eng/news/540634.html

Vatican – Cardinal Mendonça: les Archives apostoliques, outil de fidélité à l’Évangile et à l’histoire
http://www.vaticannews.va/fr/vatican/news/2019-10/cardinal-de-mendonca-archives-secretes-vatican.html

À la Bibliothèque nationale de France, une grève du personnel dénonce les difficultés de l’accueil des publics
http://www.actualitte.com/article/monde-edition/a-la-bnf-une-greve-du-personnel-denonce-les-difficultes-de-l-accueil-des-publics/97633

La Bibliothèque nationale de France, ce sont des livres, mais aussi un fonds de 17.000 jeux vidéo
http://www.leberry.fr/paris-75000/loisirs/la-bibliotheque-nationale-de-france-ce-sont-des-livres-mais-aussi-un-fonds-de-17-000-jeux-video_13672278/

France : publication en chinois d’archives diplomatiques sur les origines des relations franco-chinoises
http://french.xinhuanet.com/2019-10/26/c_138504969.htm

France – Le combat des droits photos
http://www.latribunedelart.com/le-combat-des-droits-photos

Ireland – Large cache of Troubles files kept hidden from legacy inquiries
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/large-cache-of-troubles-files-kept-hidden-from-legacy-inquiries-1.4059062

Genealogists petition for early release of 1926 Irish census
http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/genealogy/1926-irish-census

The female detectives uncovering Scottish art’s lost women
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17987990.female-detectives-uncovering-scottish-arts-lost-women/

UK National Archives – The pannotype mystery: Part 1: historic photographic processes in Design Registers
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/the-pannotype-mystery-part-1-historic-photographic-processes-in-design-registers/

UK National Archives – Reflections of a Bridging the Digital Gap trainee
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/reflections-of-a-bridging-the-digital-gap-trainee/

UK National Archives – Skynet: the real communication satellite system
https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/skynet-the-real-communication-satellite-system/


Black Cultural Archives Just Made Over 4,000 Items Available Online
http://londonist.com/london/features/black-cultural-archives-collection-online-google-arts-culture

British Army engineer reunited with letters found in loft
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-50084865

Unlocking museum archives in one click: Teesside (UK) duo pioneer artificial intelligence tool
http://advisor.museumsandheritage.com/features/unlocking-museum-archives-in-one-click-teesside-duo-pioneer-artificial-intelligence-tool/

Wish you were here: postcards from the 60s and 70s in pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2019/oct/29/wish-you-were-here-postcards-from-the-60s-and-70s-in-pictures

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Palestinian National Library to collect Palestine’s scattered archives
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/10/palestinian-national-library-on-its-way.html

International
United Nations spotlights digitization of audiovisual archives to preserve human history on World Day
http://news.un.org/en/story/2019/10/1050081

World’s Largest Holocaust Archive is Now Making Their Records Available to Everyone on the Internet
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/worlds-largest-holocaust-archive-available-on-the-internet/

The Importance of Preserving Videos of War Crimes
http://www.npr.org/2019/10/26/773675386/the-importance-of-preserving-videos-of-war-crimes

The Wayback Machine: Fighting Digital Extinction in New Ways
http://blog.archive.org/2019/10/18/the-wayback-machine-fighting-digital-extinction-in-new-ways/

Internet Archives – Weaving Books into the Web: Starting with Wikipedia
http://blog.archive.org/2019/10/29/weaving-books-into-the-web-starting-with-wikipedia/

The interaction between search engine caches and web archives
https://documentary-heritage-news.com/2019/10/2019-10-28-interaction-between-search.html

Deaccessioning in the Archives
http://lucidea.com/blog/deaccessioning-in-the-archives/

Ancestry Debuts the World’s Largest Digital Archive of Searchable Online Obituaries and Death Announcements, Powered by Cutting-Edge Artificial Intelligence
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191028005629/en/Ancestry%C2%AE-Debuts-World%E2%80%99s-Largest-Digital-Archive-Searchable

This supernerd might be on to something with digital archives for your stuff
http://gritdaily.com/this-supernerd-might-be-on-to-something-with-digital-archives-for-your-stuff/

Social justice is a library issue; libraries are a social justice issue
http://boingboing.net/2019/10/22/alice-g-smith.html

What to Do if you Encounter Paranormal Forces at the Library
http://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2019/10/29/what-to-do-if-you-encounter-paranormal-forces-at-the-library/

Experts Optimistic about the Next 50 Years of Digital Life
http://www.pewinternet.org/2019/10/28/experts-optimistic-about-the-next-50-years-of-digital-life/

Where the filthy things are: Pornhub says it hosts a staggering 11 petabytes of data, nearly 7,000 years of porn
http://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/web/a29623446/pornhub-porn-data-storage/

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