Vol. 4, no. 34

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

Google Books contract with the British Library

http://www.openrightsgroup.org/assets/files/pdfs/BL%20Google%20Contract.pdf

See also: http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2011/access-to-the-agreement-between-google-books-and-the-british-library

 

De la communauté / From the community

L’ebook a 40 ans (1971-2011)

http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque-numerique/document-49501

 

Council on Library and Information Resources - "Rome Wasn't Digitized in a Day": Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classics

http://clir.org/pubs/reports/pub150/pub150.pdf

 

The Power of Knowledge Rhase 2: Research Libraries UK Strategic Plan 2011–2014

http://www.rluk.ac.uk/files/RLUK%20Strategic%20Plan-%202011%20-%202014.pdf

 

OCLC - Single Search: The Quest for the Holy Grail

http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2011/2011-17.pdf

 

Evaluating Open Source Digital Preservation Systems: A Case Study

http://e-records.chrisprom.com/?p=2261

 

Publications

Book - Waldo Gifford Leland and the Origins of the American Archival Profession

Table of contents: http://saa.archivists.org/Scripts/4Disapi.dll/4DCGI/store/PDFs/TOCs/BOOKSAA-0575.pdf

Available through the SAA bookstore: http://saa.archivists.org/Scripts/4Disapi.dll/4DCGI/store/storeFront.html?Action=Store

 

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Free OCLC webinar - Scan and Deliver: Creative User-initiated Digitization in Special Collections and Archives

22 September 2011

http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2011-08-18.htm

 

Digitisation & OCR: Better, faster, cheaper: Solutions of the IMPACT Centre of Competence and future challenges

24-25 October 2011, London

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/#IMPACT-conference-2011-09-F2011-08-19-10-14-mg

 

Journée des archives des établissements d’enseignement collégial du Québec

5 octobre 2011, Montréal

http://archivistique.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/journee-des-archives-des-etablissements-denseignement-collegial-du-quebec/

 

11es rencontres FORMIST - Nouveaux horizons de la formation à l'information (présentations disponibles)

16 juin 2011, Villeurbane (France)

http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque-numerique/notice-49488

 

Sur le web / On the web

Video - The Provincial Archives of Alberta

http://www.albertaprimetime.com/Stories.aspx?pd=2694

 

Video - Dublin City Library and Archive: Wide Street Commission Map Conservation Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlS_K95mBoQ

 

Outils / Tools

Fedora 3.5 (framework for building digital repositories) now available

http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2011/08/23/now-available-fedora-35/

 

InterPares3 - Shared Drive Migration Toolkit

http://www.interpares.org/ip3/ip3_cs14_report.cfm

 

Library of Congress - Full Open Source Release of Recollection Platform (a web application to create dynamic interfaces to cultural heritage collections)

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/08/full-open-source-release-of-recollection-platform/

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Government institutions don't respect access to information laws

http://www.thehilltimes.ca/page/printpage/-08-22-2011

 

Audit of B.C. RCMP remains sealed

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/08/25/bc-rcmp-audit.html

 

UBC’s University Librarian first Canadian to head IFLA

http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/2011/08/23/ubc%E2%80%99s-university-librarian-first-canadian-to-head-global-group/

 

Digital readers are changing the traditional library system

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/digital-readers-are-changing-the-traditional-library-system/article2136000/

 

Afrique

Tunisie - Archives audiovisuelles (1/2): Des trésors menacés!

http://www.webmanagercenter.com/management/article-109445-tunisie-archives-audiovisuelles-1-2-des-tresors-menaces

 

Tenue du 1er Conseil d'administration des Archives du Maroc

http://www.marocjournal.net/actualites-maroc/37713.html

 

Amériques/Americas

Brazil's military opened file on Pele in 1970

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hm6pP-ystocd7vdQ2L6fLifHHLMw?docId=87644aa656854bd4bb563911463665ab

 

Copyright battles break out in North America

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=417143

 

U.S. Department of Defence Changes its Freedom of Information Act Policy on bin Laden Documents

http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/dod-changes-its-foia-policy-on-bin-laden-documents/

 

Secret Service Must Turn Over Visitor Logs

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/08/24/39250.htm

 

National Archives Recovers Lincoln Documents

http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2011/nr11-166.html

 

Pioneering Internet Archivists Brewster Kahle and Rick Prelinger on Preservation in the Digital Age

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/8/24/pioneering_internet_archivists_brewster_kahle_and

 

Vermont state archives awarded grant to preserve court records

http://vtdigger.org/2011/08/22/vermont-state-archives-awarded-grant-to-preserve-court-records/

 

Fishing in Boston College’s archives (IRA oral history issue)

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/08/23/fishing_for_troubles_in_bcs_archives/

 

Yale Partners with the National Library of Korea to Digitize Rare Books and Manuscripts

http://opac.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=8789&utm_term=uni

 

Archivist helps Vietnam veterans tell their stories

http://starherald.com/articles/2011/08/20/news/local_news/doc4e4926d21f444474024758.txt

 

Saving the Smithsonian’s Web

http://blog.photography.si.edu/2011/08/25/saving-the-smithsonians-web/

 

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

Australia to build national health records infrastructure

http://www.futuregov.asia/articles/2011/aug/19/australia-build-national-health-records-infrastruc/

 

Chaos hinders Japanese e-book market

http://www.thebookseller.com/news/chaos-hinders-japanese-e-book-market.html

 

Europe

Berlin library returning books stolen by Nazis including English copy of Communist Manifesto

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/berlin-library-returning-books-stolen-by-nazis-including-english-copy-of-communist-manifesto/2011/08/22/gIQA58p1VJ_story.html

 

Estonia - Interior Ministry Archives: Gorbachev Killed

http://news.err.ee/politics/21199154-13bb-452d-8854-f3a834617ae1

 

France - Les archives diplomatiques vont-elles déménager ?

http://www.acteurspublics.com/article/19-08-11/les-archives-diplomatiques-vont-elles-demenager

 

France - Archives de la Défense : « Un lien Nation - Armée »

http://www.ouest-france.fr/actu/actuLocale_-Archives-de-la-Defense-Un-lien-Nation-Armee-_-1966673------50129-aud_actu.Htm

 

Oral History Network of Ireland - Preserving stories of the past, for the future

http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/local/preserving_stories_of_the_past_for_the_future_1_2978116

 

Scotland - 'Edible archive' needs strong stomach

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/39Edible-archive39-needs-strong-stomach.6822222.jp

 

British Library digs out decorative paintings to brighten up dark ages

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/25/british-library-dark-ages-exhibition

 

UK - Archives of West End composer donated to Kingston University

http://www.kingstoninformer.co.uk/2011/08/archives-of-west-end-composer.html

 

Moyen-Orient/Middle East

Israel State Archives - Appointment of the new State Archivist

http://www.archives.gov.il/ArchiveGov_Eng/about/Notices2/NewArchivist.htm

 

Western agencies eager for crack at Gadhafi archives

http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/22/7441419-western-agencies-eager-for-crack-at-gadhafi-archives

 

15 millions de tablettes numériques dans les écoles turques

http://www.sobookonline.fr/actu-ebooks/15-millions-de-tablettes-numeriques-dans-les-ecoles-turques/

 

International

The Art of the Letter: what we can learn from illustrated letters in the collections

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/ransomedition/2011/fall/letters.html

 

Experts worry that the family photo album is being lost to technology

http://host.madison.com/wsj/entertainment/city_life/article_83905f80-ca82-11e0-8db0-001cc4c03286.html

 

Metadata looms large at International Broadcasting Convention

http://broadcastengineering.com/news/metadata_ibc_2011_08222011/

 

Accessibility vs. access: How the rhetoric of “rare” is changing in the age of information abundance

http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/08/accessibility-vs-access-how-the-rhetoric-of-rare-is-changing-in-the-age-of-information-abundance/

 

100 000 partitions partagées en ligne pour l’amour de la musique

http://www.tdg.ch/actu/hi-tech/100-000-partitions-partagees-ligne-amour-musique-2011-08-22

 

How Data Science is Shaping Social Science

http://www.forbes.com/sites/oreillymedia/2011/08/22/how-data-science-is-shaping-social-science/

 

Booktrack adds soundtrack to your eBooks

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/08/booktrack-soundtrack-ebooks/

Vol. 4, no. 33

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

New Zealand Data and Information Management Principles

http://ict.govt.nz/programme/opening-government-data-and-information/new-zealand-data-and-information-management-princi

 

U.S. - Data Privacy Legislation: An Analysis of the Current Legislative Landscape and the Implications for Higher Education

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EPO1111.pdf

 

De la communauté / From the community

International Council on Archives - Principles of Access to Archives (Draft)

http://www.ica.org/?lid=9400

 

Introduction aux technologies du Web sémantique en trois partie

Petite histoire du Web sémantique

http://www.lespetitescases.net/petite-histoire-du-web-semantique

Les technologies du Web sémantique

http://www.lespetitescases.net/les-technologies-du-web-semantique

Retour sur le Web de données

http://www.lespetitescases.net/retour-sur-le-web-de-donnees

 

Content Clustering and Sustaining Digital Resources: The JISC eContent Programme 2009-11

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/generalpublications/2011/08/ContentClusteringAndSustainingDigitalResources.aspx

 

International Internet Preservation Consortium - Web archives: the future(s)

http://www.netpreserve.org/publications/2011_06_IIPC_WebArchives-TheFutures.pdf

 

Publications

The Journal of Electronic Publishing, vol. 14, no. 1 (Summer 2011)

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;idno=3336451.0014.1%2A

 

The Social Media Monthly, no. 1 (September 2011)

http://thesocialmediamonthly.com/

Content: http://thesocialmediamonthly.com/?page_id=50

 

Livre - Web HT.0 Pour une société informée: la pertinence numérique et ses défis pour les sociétés démocratiques du XXIe siècle (écrit par Daniel J. Caron, bibliothécaire et archiviste du Canada)

http://tinyurl.com/3lpq59k

 

Livre - Dictionnaire de la culture numérique

http://www.editions-hermann.fr/ficheproduit.php?lang=fr&menu=12&ref=Cultures+num%E9riques+Dictionnaire+de+la+culture+num%E9rique&prodid=1087

 

Book - The Struggle over the Files: The Western Allies and the Return of German Archives after the Second World War

http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item6608049/?site_locale=en_GB

 

Sur le web / On the web

Picture This!: new Library of Congress photo blog

http://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/

 

Video - Adding Descriptions to Digital Photos: Your Gift to the Future

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/videos/personal_archiving/photometadata.html

 

Video - American Artifacts: Inside the National Archivist’s Office

http://www.c-span.org/Events/American-Artifacts-Inside-the-Archivists-Office/10737423396/

 

UK National Archives - Galaxy Zoo and old weather: exploring the potential of citizen science (podcast)

http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/podcasts/galaxy-zoo.htm

 

Stanford University - Free online computer science courses

Machine Learning: http://ml-class.org/

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: http://ai-class.org/

Introduction to Databases: http://db-class.org/

Press release: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/august/online-computer-science-081611.html

 

Outils / Tools

American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus (Beta Version)

http://www.openfolklore.org/et/

Press release: http://www.afsnet.org/members/blog_view.asp?id=592230&post=129094

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

University of Calgary digital library ready for students

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/digital+library+ready+students/5251339/story.html

 

Rivière-du-Loup - Un été bien rempli au Centre d’archives

http://www.infodimanche.com/index.asp?s=detail_actualite&ID=141912

 

Archives opened, Pointe Claire history book back on track

http://westislandgazette.com/news/24561

 

Government staffers apparently above the law: RCMP decision to drop investigation into violation of Access to Info Act ‘potentially catastrophic’

http://fairwhistleblower.ca/content/government-staffers-apparently-above-law

 

Afrique

Rwandan libraries go digital

http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110814000215

 

Burkina Fasso : un projet de bibliothèque numérique en développement

http://www.sobookonline.fr/actu-ebooks/burkina-fasso-un-projet-de-bibliotheque-numerique-en-developpement/

 

Amériques/Americas

Cayman Islands - National records site renamed for archivist

http://www.caymannewsservice.com/local-news/2011/08/11/national-records-site-renamed-archivist

 

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Proposes Standards on Metadata for Electronic Health Information Exchanges

http://www.dataprivacymonitor.com/hipaahitech/hhs-proposes-standards-on-metadata-for-electronic-health-information-exchanges/

 

Department of Defense revises Freedom of Information Act directive to include 'presumption of disclosure'

http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/story/dod-revises-foia-directive-include-presumption-disclosure/2011-08-14

 

NARA takes crowdsourcing approach to tagging historic documents

http://gcn.com/articles/2011/08/05/nara-public-tag-historic-documents-searchable.aspx

 

New Statistics Model for Book Industry Shows Trade Ebook Sales Grew Over 1,000 Percent

http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/891561-264/new_statistics_model_for_book.html.csp

 

Malamud seeks to unlock Smithsonian archives

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20110811/BUSINESS/110819897/1350?Title=Malamud-seeks-to-unlock-Smithsonian-archives

 

Eric J. Schwartz’s love of film fueled his push for preservation of old movies

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/eric-j-schwartzs-love-of-film-fueled-his-push-for-preservation-of-old-movies/2011/08/11/gIQAa7aoBJ_story.html 

 

University of North Texas Receives More than $800,000 In Funding To Investigate Needs in Archiving Research Data

http://untsystem.unt.edu/news/2011/August/11-08-09-arch-res-data.htm

 

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

China Proposes New Rule Including Protections for Personal Information on the Internet

http://www.huntonprivacyblog.com/2011/08/articles/international/china-proposes-new-rule-including-protections-for-personal-information-on-the-internet

 

India - 'More transparency can bring down Right to Information pleas'

http://www.hindustantimes.com/More-transparency-can-bring-down-RTI-pleas/Article1-733815.aspx

 

India - Rare documents on Bhagat Singh's trial and life in jail

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article2356959.ece

 

India - 1947 Partition Archive Preserves Traumatic Past

http://berkeley.patch.com/articles/1947-partition-archive-preserves-traumatic-past

 

Librarians in Australia have launched a three-year project to rediscover lost indigenous languages

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14503382

 

Europe

European citizens making more requests for Commission documents than ever before

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/962&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

 

L’Histoire de la discorde (sur la question des manuscrits arabes détenus par l'Espagne)

http://www.lesoir-echos.com/2011/08/15/l%E2%80%99histoire-de-la-discorde/

 

France - Dans les secrets de la République: les Archives nationales ont ouvert les portes de "l'armoire de fer"

http://www.lepoint.fr/culture/dans-les-secrets-de-la-republique-12-08-2011-1362185_3.php

 

News Analysis: Social media in focus after British riots

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-08/15/c_131048782.htm

 

UK National Archives - Three million crime, court and convict records to be digitised

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/611.htm

 

Brunel archive reveals hidden treasures in show-and-tell at Bristol docks

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/aug/14/brunel-archive-bristol-docks-exhibition

 

Moyen-Orient/Middle East

Historic Meskhetian Turk documents destroyed

http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=77551

 

Iranian historical documents of UK archive now on Iran National Library and Archives website

http://tehrantimes.com/index.php/arts-and-culture/1700-iranian-historical-documents-of-uk-archive-now-on-inla-website-

 

International

Is this the end for books?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/14/kindle-books

 

Era of the PC 'coming to a close"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14490709

 

Economic risks to preservation

http://unsustainableideas.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/economic-risks-to-preservation/

 

Can Data Breaches Kill?

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/231400215