Vol. 5, no. 34

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

U.N. Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management - Future trends in geospatial information management: the five to ten year vision

http://ggim.un.org/docs/meetings/Netherlands/Future%20trends%20in%20geospatial%20information%20management%20summary_12April.pdf

The British Library - Transforming stored knowledge into smart knowledge

http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/imagelibrary/downloadMedia.ashx?MediaDetailsID=1428

De la communauté / From the community

OCLC - Final Two Reports in Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums Series

http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2012-04-23.htm

OCLC - Print Archives Disclosure Pilot final report

http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2012/04/25/oclc-print-archives-disclosure-pilot-final-report/

Open Planets Foundation - Migrating a Windows 2000 Database Server to Virtualized and Emulated Hardware

http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2012-04-23-migrating-windows-2000-database-server-virtualized-and-emulated-hardware

American Institute of Architects, California Council - Can CAD Be Saved? Preserving Digital Designs

http://aiacc.org/2012/04/24/can-cad-be-saved-preserving-digital-designs/

Publications

Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 40, no. 1 (2012)

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/raam20/40/1

Trent University Archives Newsletter, no. 41 (April 2012)

http://www.trentu.ca/admin/library/archives/newsletter41.pdf

Livre - La valorisation des archives: une mission, des motivations, des modalités, des collaborations

http://www.editions-academia.be/fr2/fiche_2.php?id=20059

Book - Photography and the Artist's Book

http://www.museumsetc.com/products/artists

Book - Silent Film Performers: An Annotated Bibliography of Published, Unpublished and Archival Sources for Over 350 Actors and Actresses

http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-6751-8

Book - What is Media Archaeology?

http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745650258

Book - Implementing Electronic Document and Record Management Systems

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781466526495/

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Webinar - Protect Your Holdings AND Provide Access? (Society of American Archivists)

May 31, 2012

http://bit.ly/IfzTgS

 

Webinar - Using and Understanding PDF/A as a Preservation Format (Society of American Archivists)

Jun 28, 2012

http://bit.ly/JKlaKc

Webinar - Managing and Preserving Audio and Video in Your Digital Repository

May 16, 2012

June 6, 2012

June 13,2012

http://www.duraspace.org/duratest/webinar-series-registration-open-managing-and-preserving-audio-and-video-your-digital-repository

Pathways to Privacy Research Symposium: Privacy for Everyone

May 2, 2012, Ottawa

http://www.priv.gc.ca/resource/cp/symposium/index_e.asp

Sur le web / On the web

Exposition virtuelle - GOAAAL ! Un siècle de football belge aux Archives générales du Royaume de Belgique

http://goaaal.arch.be/

Podcast - Mike Wash, National Archives and Record Administration: Conversations about Digital Preservation

http://www.loc.gov/podcasts/digitalpreservation/podcast_wash.html

Video - An Overview of Preservation at the UCLA Library

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3EYnWSFonc

OCLC - Archives, special collections researchers invited to take online survey

http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/blog/?p=458

Outils / Tools

Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV)

http://labs.mondeca.com/dataset/lov/index.html

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Prime minister’s department loses sports and music memorabilia, likely shredded

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1168681--prime-minister-s-department-loses-sports-and-music-memorabilia-likely-shredded

Clement urged to release more government information online

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Clement+urged+release+more+government+information+online/6511044/story.html

Library and Archives Canada - The Famous “Kitchen Accord”: Now Available in Digital Format

http://thediscoverblog.com/2012/04/20/the-famous-kitchen-accord-now-available-in-digital-format/

Library and Archives Canada - Lester Bowles Pearson Images Now on Flickr

http://thediscoverblog.com/2012/04/23/lester-bowles-pearson-images-now-on-flickr/

Estonian heritage display at the Provincial Archives of Alberta 

http://bit.ly/I5RiGb

British Library - Malaria in Ontario: a World Malaria Day post

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/americas/2012/04/malaria-in-ontario-a-world-malaria-day-post.html

United Church archives ground zero in search for evidence of forced adoptions

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/04/22/united-church-archives-ground-zero-in-search-for-evidence-of-forced-adoptions/

Edmonton - City archives go virtual

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/City+archives+virtual/6518631/story.html

Toronto - The Scarborough Hospital honours its past: longtime doctor joins archive committee to preserve hospitals' past

http://www.insidetoronto.com/news/local/article/1339200--the-scarborough-hospital-honours-its-past

Nicolet - Vers un centre d'archives régional

http://www.lecourriersud.com/Actualites/Actualites-regionales/2012-04-25/article-2962907/Vers-un-centre-darchives-regional/1

Afrique / Africa

Namibia: Feasibility Study On National Archives Almost Complete

http://allafrica.com/stories/201204200850.html

Amériques / Americas

Jamaica - Policy of Openness Being Pursued by Government

http://www.jis.gov.jm/news/leads/30347

Library of Congress’s collection preserves history of American culture

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/2012/04/22/gIQABtcoaT_story.html

Seeking Miraculous and Lossless Victories: An Update on the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) Still Image Working Group

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/04/seeking-miraculous-and-lossless-victories-an-update-on-the-fadgi-still-image-working-group/

Ex-spy: Destroying CIA tapes purged 'ugly visuals'

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/24/ex-spy-destroying-cia-tapes-purged-ugly-visuals/

Veterans Affairs, National Archives team up to help dig out of claims backlog

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/538/2842058/VA-National-Archives-team-up-to-help-dig-out-of-claims-backlog

Ancestry.com Acquires Archives.com For $100 Million

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/25/ancestry-com-acquires-archives-com-from-inflection-for-100-million/

Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums with Wikipedia (GLAM-Wiki): Insights Interview with Lori Phillips

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/04/galleries-libraries-archives-museums-with-wikipedia-glam-wiki-insights-interview-with-lori-phillip/

U.S. Geological Survey Historical Maps Go Digital

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3176

Nebraska - 'The written word endures' at archives

http://www.omaha.com/article/20120424/NEWS01/704249912/0

Millions of Harvard Library Catalog Records Publicly Available

http://hvrd.me/JlShEE

The Humanities, Digitized: Reconceiving the study of culture

http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/05/the-humanities-digitized

 

See the photos! Huge archive of historical photos of New York City debuts online 

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/photos-huge-archive-historical-photos-york-city-debuts-online-article-1.1066641?localLinksEnabled=false

Cataloguing Queens history for 100 years

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/cataloguing-queens-history-100-years-article-1.1066847

Folger Shakespeare Library Acquires Lynn Redgrave Archive

http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc-theater/news/04-2012/folger-shakespeare-library-acquires-lynn-redgrave-_55386.html

This Camera Doesn’t Take Pictures. It Describes Them.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/a-camera-that-doesnt-take-pictures-but-describes-them/

Chicago - Historians up in arms about archives future: as Gerber/Hart moves, LGBT library's board accused of stonewalling its members

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-gerber-hart-20120426,0,4489781.story

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

Book of the Dead fragment found in Australian museum

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/04/20/queensland-museum-papyrus-book-dead-egypt.html

What are Australian Government agencies using social media to achieve?

http://egovau.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/what-are-australian-government-agencies.html

President Aquino orders preservation of all Philippine films and audio visuals

http://www.zambotimes.com/archives/46611-Aquino-orders-preservation-of-all-Philippine-films-and-audio-visuals.html

Indonesia - Archive and Document Preservation is Important for Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo

http://bit.ly/HZa0zn

India - National University of Educational Planning and Administration to establish national digital archive

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/National-University-of-Educational-Planning-and-Administration-to-establish-national-digital-archive/articleshow/12853595.cms

Europe / Europa

Romania opens national library in communist-era building

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gEWMuF5sSN4SbkRGAN-4JNNfwjjg?docId=CNG.8f5de66e8202b0f87773e00855d9f67a.421

Oldest Written Documents in Estonia Uploaded

http://news.err.ee/culture/07a3980c-870b-4ec5-bb9f-3b1269e594a2

The Gibraltar Museum and the Gibraltar Archives

http://vox.gi/local/4841-the-gibraltar-museum-and-the-gibraltar-archives.html

Poland - National archive acquires JP II's letters to communists

http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/97524,National-archive-acquires-JP-IIs-letters-to-communists

France - Le gouvernement se dote d'un délégué interministériel aux Archives de France

http://www.archimag.com/node/2404

 

France - De la description des documents à l’exploitation des données : le projet data.bnf.fr

http://cblog.culture.fr/2012/04/20/open-data-web-sementique-bnf

National Library of Wales £1m war records project

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17834842

 

Scotland - Dirty books reveal secret lives of people living in mediaeval times

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-dirty-reveal-secret-people-mediaeval.html

UK - After the release of colonial records – what about Northern Ireland?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/20/colonial-records-release-northern-ireland

Queen Victoria archive goes online

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17800359

 

Alan Turing papers on code breaking released by GCHQ

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17771962

British Library publishes 30 years of letters between Ted Hughes and critic Keith Sagar

http://bit.ly/IbeOVW

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

Lebanese monastery to archive first Arabic Bible, thousands of manuscripts

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/04/25/210238.html

Emirati films to be archived in new library

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/film/emirati-films-to-be-archived-in-new-library

Israel Police probing possible theft of Kafka papers

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-police-probing-possible-theft-of-kafka-papers-1.426392

Einstein Archives website received nearly 1 million unique visitors in its first month: more than 34 million hits from 160 countries

http://www.huji.ac.il/cgi-bin/dovrut/dovrut_search_eng.pl?mesge133508654305872560

International

Saving the game: Why preserving video games is illegal

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/04/22/saving-the-game-why-preserving-video-games-is-illegal/

 

Why PDF/A is becoming the de facto document format for digital archiving

http://www.theknowlist.com/2012/04/why-pdfa-is-becoming-the-de-facto-document-format-for-digital-archiving/

A Brief History of Digital Video

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/infographic_a_brief_history_of_digital_video.php

Usability and Analytics in Libraries, Archives, and Museums

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/04/usability-and-analytics-in-libraries-archives-and-museums/

 

History flushed: The digital age promised vast libraries, but they remain incomplete

http://www.economist.com/node/21553410

Digital Preservation Is Cultural Literacy

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kari-kraus/digital-preservation-is-cultural-literacy_b_1455752.html

Information hoarders: A Harvard history professor explains how human societies evolved to collect, organize and use data

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/25/information_hoarders_salpart/

Vol. 5, no. 33

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

Federal, British Columbia and Alberta Privacy Commissioners - Getting Accountability Right with a Privacy Management Program

http://news.gc.ca/web/article-eng.do?nid=669329

UK - Consultation on the Draft Legal Deposit Libraries (non-print works) Regulations 2013: Response from The British Library

http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/ImageLibrary/downloadMedia.ashx?MediaDetailsID=1444

De la communauté / From the community

Free e-book - The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture

http://www.communia-association.org/wp-content/uploads/the_digital_public_domain.pdf

Research Data Curation Bibliography

http://digital-scholarship.org/rdcb/rdcb.htm

London School of Economics - Analysis of Results from the Research Data Preservation Survey

http://lsedice.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/survey-report-full.pdf

Publications

Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol. 38, no. 4 (April/May 2012)

http://asist.org/Bulletin/Apr-12/Bulletin_AprMay12_Final.pdf

LIBER Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3/4 (2012)

http://liber.library.uu.nl/publish/issues/2011-3_4/

ARMA - Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles (GARP) Assessment Tool

http://www.arma.org/garp/Assessment.cfm

National Archives of Australia - Your Memento, no. 6 (April 2012)

http://yourmemento.naa.gov.au/

Book - Leadership in Libraries: A Focus on Minority Librarians

http://www.neal-schuman.com/lil

Book - Heritage from Below

http://bit.ly/HV0GwL

 

Book - Collaborative Research in the Digital Humanities

http://bit.ly/IEP4vn

Livre - Histoire administrative du ministère de la culture et de la communication 1959-2012 (France)

http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/ouvrages/9782110090157-histoire-administrative-du-ministere-de-la-culture-et-de-la-communication-1959-2012

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Free Webinar - Growing Your Career Beyond the RIM Environment (ARMA)

May 25, 2012

http://bit.ly/Jafj2F

Free Webinar - Saving Cherished Memorabilia: Preservation Tips for Family Historians

April 25, 2012 

http://www.loc.gov/preservation/outreach/workshops/public/public3.html

Orphan Works and Mass Digitization Symposium (presentations available)

April 12-13, 2012, Berkeley 

http://www.law.berkeley.edu/11731.htm

Future Perfect 2012: Digital Preservation by Design (video available)

26 & 27 March 2012, New Zealand

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL10EF31FBBAD75FD8&feature=plcp

Sur le web / On the web

Manitoba's Child-Care Institutions Database Now Available

http://mbarchives.ca/fr/node/67

Video - The Mechanics of Book Recommendation Engines

http://bit.ly/IIHHbu

Video - Nelson Mandela Digital Archive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g1JFHBQnrQ

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Canada Joins International Open Government Partnership

http://news.gc.ca/web/article-eng.do?nid=669609

The 2012 Budget and Publishing and Depository Services

http://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/news/2012/2012-006-eng.html

OpenText to supply federal records management

http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/opentext-to-supply-federal-records-management/145269

Signed, stained and sealed: Chretien's unplanned signature of 1982 proclamation

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/signed-stained-and-sealed-chretiens-unplanned-signature-of-1982-proclamation--147500705.html

New document rekindles debate about Samuel de Champlain's birthplace

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/document+rekindles+debate+about+Samuel+Champlain+birthplace/6468217/story.html

Box at National Archives yields high-level telegrams sent after ship’s sinking

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/Papers+found+archives+tell+tales+love+mystery/6460867/story.html

Newfoundland - Exhibits provide insight into Titanic aftermath

http://www.thetelegram.com/News/Local/2012-04-13/article-2953801/Exhibits-provide-insight-into-Titanic-aftermath/1

La soprano Colette Boky fait don de ses archives à BAnQ

http://communiques.gouv.qc.ca/gouvqc/communiques/GPQF/Avril2012/17/c6280.html

B.C. - Harper Government Invests in Pemberton and District Museum and Archives Society

http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/954739/harper-government-invests-in-pemberton-and-district-museum-and-archives-society

B.C. - Reach Gallery Museum expands photo archives

http://www.abbynews.com/community/147346265.html

Ottawa university ready for legal fight for privacy of professor's expenses

http://www.canada.com/news/Ottawa+university+ready+legal+fight+privacy+professor+expenses/6450443/story.html

York University - Recent Acquisition: Paul-Émile Borduas’ copy of “Refus global”

http://deantiquate.blog.yorku.ca/2012/04/18/recent-acquisition-lerefusglobal/

Cobourg archive collections change hands

http://www.northumberlandnews.com/news/article/1335721--cobourg-archive-collections-change-hands

Afrique / Africa

Online petition to save Timbuktu manuscripts

http://www.tombouctoumanuscripts.org/blog/entry/online_petition_to_save_timbuktu_manuscripts/

Portrait de Fatoumata Cissé Diarra, nouvelle directrice des Archives nationales du Sénégal

http://www.futursmedias.sn/societe/profil-fatoumata-cisse-diarra-nouvelle-directrice-des-archives-nationales-femme-d%e2%80%99histoire

Amériques / Americas

A Colonial WikiLeaks? The Migrated Archives and the Caribbean Pt.2

http://nacla.org/blog/2012/4/19/colonial-wikileaks-migrated-archives-and-caribbean-pt2

21st century smarter government is 'data-centric' and 'digital first,' says US CIO

http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/04/21st-century-smarter-governmen.html

U.S. Navy’s History Program “At Risk”

http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/u-s-navys-history-program-at-risk/

Digital Preservation Pioneer: Anne Van Camp

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/04/digital-preservation-pioneer-anne-van-camp/

Library of Congress - New Online Collection and Book Features Rare Garden Images

http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2012/12-076.html

Ronald Reagan Library and Museum to Host Largest Exhibition of Disney Archives to Date

http://www.stitchkingdom.com/disney-ronald-reagan-library-museum-disney-archives-20384/

Archives.com Partners With the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to Publish Millions of Church Records

http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/668593

The 'Archive Team' Rescues User Content From Doomed Sites

http://www.pcworld.com/article/253672/the_archive_team_rescues_user_content_from_doomed_sites.html

Robot brings black history into Internet age

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-04-14/business/bs-bz-project-gado-robot-20120413_1_archives-digital-photos-robot

Carnegie Library releases Iron and Steel Heritage Collection

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/lifestyles/s_791033.html#ixzz1s2guYBjG

Transmissions from The Timothy Leary Papers: The Self-Annotated Papers

http://www.nypl.org/blog/2012/04/17/transmissions-timothy-leary-self-annotated-papers

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee archivist completes Milwaukee Transgender Oral History Project

http://www.uwmpost.com/2012/04/16/uwm-archivist-completes-milwaukee-transgender-oral-history-project/

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

India - Archives dept's request falls on deaf ears, just 6% reply

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Archives-dept-s-request-falls-on-deaf-ears-just-6-reply/Article1-841123.aspx

India - Our past is being moth-eaten

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/article3328939.ece?homepage=true

Kurdistan - Photographer’s Archive Offers Rare Glimpse into Sulaimani’s Past

http://www.rudaw.net/english/kurds/4624.html

Europe / Europa

European Film Gateway - World War I Film Footage in Cyberspace

http://e2.ma/message/bpxgb/jvr

Italian museum burns artworks in protest at cuts

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17754129

Italie : la crise menace le patrimoine (et les Archives Nationales)

http://www.arte.tv/fr/Italie---la-crise-menace-le-patrimoine/6605816.html

Armenia’s archive to publish memories of Armenian Genocide witnesses

http://news.am/eng/news/101402.html

Suisse - Les archives du Montreux Jazz Festival classées à l'UNESCO?

http://www.rts.ch/info/culture/3935274-les-archives-du-montreux-jazz-festival-classees-a-l-unesco.html

Michel Foucault archives declared ‘national treasure’ by French government

http://foucaultnews.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/foucault-archives-declared-national-treasure-by-french-government/

France - La vie des notaires exposée aux Archives nationales

http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2012/04/13/03004-20120413ARTFIG00603-la-vie-des-notaires-exposee-aux-archives-nationales.php

Ireland’s National Library publish James Joyce manuscripts online amid copyright dispute

http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/Irelands-National-Library-publish-James-Joyce-manuscripts-online-amid-copyright-dispute-147430065.html

Britain destroyed records of colonial crimes

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/18/britain-destroyed-records-colonial-crimes

UK National Archives - Web Continuity success

http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/web-continuity-success/

Europe's oldest book: St Cuthbert's gospel is sold for £9m to the the British Library

http://bit.ly/IibBRp

International

Interview: Digital preservation matters

http://www.researchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=366

Has Kindle Killed the Book Cover?

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/04/has-kindle-killed-the-book-cover/255935/

Sony Announces New Optical Disc Archive Solution

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32976

Nineteenth Century Collections Online Arrives at Academic Institutions Worldwide

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gales-nineteenth-century-collections-online-arrives-at-academic-institutions-worldwide-2012-04-17

Change Management for Open Data in Government: A New Model

http://www.eylerwerve.com/2012/open-gov-model/

Vol. 5, no. 32

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

Canada's Action Plan on Open Government

http://www.open.gc.ca/open-ouvert/ap-patb-eng.asp

UNESCO - Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002158/215863e.pdf

Institut français d'éducation - Architecture de l'information, architecture des connaissances

http://ife.ens-lyon.fr/vst/DA-Veille/74-avril-2012.pdf

World Bank - Open Access Policy for Research and Knowledge, Open Knowledge Repository

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:23164491~menuPK:51062075~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html

De la communauté / From the community

Organizing Digital Information for Others: How to Organize Webpages and Shared Documents to Improve Findability

http://www.pebbleroad.com/downloads/organizing-digital-information-for-others-v1.pdf

Orphan Works: Causes of the Problem

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2038068

Publications

Culture & History Digital Journal, vol. 1, no. 1 (2012)

http://cultureandhistory.revistas.csic.es/index.php/cultureandhistory/issue/view/1

Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (April 2012)

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201204.pdf

Livre - Bibliothèques numériques : logiciels et plateformes

http://www.adbs.fr/bibliotheques-numeriques-logiciels-et-plateformes-114632.htm

Livre - Utilisation des images d'archives dans l'audiovisuel

http://www.lavoisier.fr/livre/notice.asp?id=3LKWX3A2S2ROWK

Book - The New Professional’s Toolkit 

http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=7685

Book - Lester J. Cappon, Pioneer Public Historian

http://litwinbooks.com/cappon.php

Book - Archivists, Collectors, Dealers, and Replevin: Case Studies on Private Ownership of Public Documents

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780810883772

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Call for Contributions – iPRES 2012: the ninth annual conference on digital preservation

October 1-5 2012, Toronto

http://ipres.ischool.utoronto.ca/

Webinar - Archival Materials: Using RDA with DACS

May 30, 2012

http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/cat/053012

Webinar - What does tagging have to do with a taxonomy?

April 18, 2012

http://asist.org/Conferences/webinars/2012/What-does-tagging-have-to-do-with-taxonomy-register.html

Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists - "Let's Go for a Beer"

May 2, 2012, Saskatoon

http://www.facebook.com/events/245692475529446/

Sur le web / On the web

Interview - Garry Shutlak, Senior Archivist at the Nova Scotia Archives - Titanic

http://www.newstalk980.com/audio/reginas-morning-news-garry-shutlak-senior-archivist-nova-scotia-archives-titanic/51172

Video - Keeping Our Stories Alive: Canadian Lesbian + Gay Archives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVB7B2mZU1Q

Slidecast - Better Cross-Channel Experiences With Metadata

http://www.slideshare.net/aungstad/better-crosschannel-experiences-with-metadata-information-architecture-summit-2012

Video - Titanic at the NARA -- 100 Years

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPxhj4BtGQQ

Outils / Tools

Crowdsourced Transcription Tool List

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsXpm6NXLstzdExZZzhaclhIY1ZtMk5yazJlT1FReUE#gid=0

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Democracy watchdog, Opposition say Tory open government plan falls short

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/democracy-watchdog-says-conservative-open-government-plan-falls-short-147175055.html

Library and Archives Canada - Vimy Ridge images now on Flickr

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/vimy-ridge-images-now-on-flickr.aspx

Vancouver’s history goes digital: 5,000 photos from more than 70 years being posted online for library

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Vancouver+history+goes+digital/6421600/story.html

Titanic: Budget crunch forced Vancouver museum to sell rare photo

http://www.canada.com/Titanic+Budget+crunch+forced+Vancouver+museum+sell+rare+photo/6427509/story.html

Kitchener - Region’s archives contain pearls of local history

http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/699408--region-s-archives-contain-pearls-of-local-history

Cobourg - There’s a future in archives

http://www.northumberlandtoday.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3530646

Afrique / Africa

Despite information law, Nigeria still largely refuses to release government data

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/despite-information-law-nigeria-still-largely-refuses-release-government-data-to-public/2012/04/06/gIQAnLUKzS_story.html

Call to preserve the ancient manuscripts of Timbuktu and Mali

http://www.ifla.org/en/news/call-to-preserve-the-ancient-manuscripts-of-timbuktu-and-mali

Timbuktu librarians protect manuscripts from rebels

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/11/uk-mali-timbuktu-manuscripts-idUSLNE83A00U20120411

Amériques / Americas

Bermuda Archives receives dozens of records for preservation

http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20120412/NEWS/704129931

A Colonial WikiLeaks? The Migrated Archives and the Caribbean Pt.1

http://nacla.org/blog/2012/4/12/colonial-wikileaks-migrated-archives-and-caribbean-pt1

NARA to Issue Records Management Directives by July

http://www.executivegov.com/2012/04/nara-to-issue-records-management-directives-by-july/

NARA eyes a shared scanning hub in the cloud

http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com/story/nara-eyes-shared-scanning-hub-cloud/2012-04-09

Linking libraries, museums, archives: U.S. archivist says interactivity must rise because users demand it

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/04/linking-libraries-museums-archives/

Movie Studios Are Forcing Hollywood to Abandon 35mm Film. But the Consequences of Going Digital Are Vast, and Troubling

http://www.laweekly.com/2012-04-12/film-tv/35-mm-film-digital-Hollywood/

Coalition On Political Assassinations, in Washington,D.C., believes gov't records hide details surrounding King assassination

http://www.wusa9.com/news/article/200358/158/Govt-Documents-About-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-Remain-Secret

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Opens Archives

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303772904577333701780052954.html

New York Public Library's plan to take books off shelves worries scholars

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/06/new-york-public-library-jersey

New York Public Library's Massive Digitization Project Begins

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/06/new-york-public-library-digitization_n_1408313.html

The Boston Globe Launches Photos “From The Archives”

http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/the-boston-globe-launches-photos-from-the-archives_b12218

Ford Foundation Files Reveal Insights on Culture

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/arts/ford-foundation-records-move-to-rockefeller-archive-center.html

Archives of American Art contributes to Syracuse University Library's Marcel Breuer digital archive

http://bit.ly/I8KmYK

Doak Ewing is baseball's biggest private film archivist

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-400_162-57410217/doak-ewing-is-baseballs-biggest-private-film-archivist/

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

India - Helping faded pages turn a fresh leaf

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/article3274228.ece

India - Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal’s archives go digital to aid academic research

http://zeenews.india.com/news/net-news/bism-s-archives-go-digital-to-aid-academic-research_768752.html 

Pakistan - Lutfullah preserves 5,000 plus voices

http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/karachi/09-Apr-2012/lutfullah-preserves-5-000-plus-voices

Historical exhibition handed over to Seychelles National Archives

http://www.eturbonews.com/28755/historical-exhibition-handed-over-seychelles-national-archives

Japan - Digital images of official gazettes from the Meiji Era are now available on the Internet

http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/news/fy2012/1194300_2111.html

Europe / Europa

Archive Reveals New Details Of Holocaust In Moldova

http://www.rferl.org/content/archive_reveals_new_details_of_moldova_holocaust/24540310.html

Spanish couturier Cristobal Balenciaga's personal archives on show for first time

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j1JcCRy6DutRGRk0Qf_AFu8GlKBQ?docId=CNG.82a75c2fc238d02b90046ac0b44ed38b.3c1

Yuri Gagarin's Falsified Record

http://news.discovery.com/space/the-technicality-that-nearly-cost-gagarin-the-first-spaceflight-record-120412.html

Vatican and Oxford University share ancient texts online

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/12/vatican-oxford-share-ancient-texts-online

Scotland - Titanic discovery: Victim’s letter discovered in national archive

http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2012/04/09/titanic-discovery-victims-letter-discovered-in-national-archive/

Sixty years of Irish history captured in photographic archives

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Sixty-years-of-Irish-history-captured-in-photographic-archives---PHOTOS-146165015.html

Ireland's film archives set for new research centre at NUIM

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/item/26594-irelands-film-archives-set/

UK - True cost of university Freedom of Information requests revealed

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2012/04/FOI.aspx

Medieval Monastic Library of Lorsch recreated online

http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/10/medieval-monastic-library-of-lorsch-recreated-online/

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

'Silent Holocaust' finds its voice: Wartime documents tell story of lost Soviet community

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/silent-holocaust-finds-its-voice-wartime-documents-tell-story-of-lost-soviet-community-1.423644?localLinksEnabled=false

International

Ancestry.com Releases Comprehensive Collection of Titanic Records Available Online 

http://www.sys-con.com/node/2238249

The Challenge of Teaching Personal Archiving

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/04/the-challenge-of-teaching-personal-archiving/

Gloves or no gloves? The archivist's dilemma

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bs-ed-bible-letter-20120406,0,474887.story

Survey: Email archiving heads to the clouds

http://blog.sonian.com/bid/85443/Survey-Email-archiving-heads-to-the-clouds

YouTube founders’ new project will help you publish your own digital magazine

http://venturebeat.com/2012/04/07/youtube-founders-new-project-will-help-you-publish-your-own-digital-magazine/