Vol. 5, no. 47

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

State Records Authority of New South Wales - SharePoint 2010: recordkeeping considerations (exposure draft)

http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/recordkeeping/government-recordkeeping-manual/guidance/guidelines/files/sharepoint-2010-recordkeeping-considerations

De la communauté / From the community

EUscreen - Second Online Access to Audiovisual Heritage Status Report

http://blog.euscreen.eu/?p=3235

Business Archives in Scotland  - New case studies

http://businessarchivesscotland.blogspot.ca/2012/07/new-case-studies.html

UK Museum Association - Museums 2020 consultation paper

http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums2020/23072012museums2020-consultation

Council on Library and Information Resources - Core Infrastructure Considerations for Large Digital Libraries

http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub153

Pew Internet Report - The Future of Big Data

http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Future-of-Big-Data.aspx

Article - Digitising and Searching Australasian Colonial Legal History

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2111056

Publications

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol. 63, no. 8 (August 2012)

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.v63.8/issuetoc

The Electronic Library, vol. 30, no. 4 (2012)

http://ow.ly/cwjfb

Book - Electronically Stored Information: The Complete Guide to Management, Understanding, Acquisition, Storage, Search, and Retrieval 

http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439877265

Book - Effective Document and Data Management: Unlocking Corporate Content

http://tinyurl.com/7gstvkr

Book - Digital Image Forensics: There is More to a Picture than Meets the Eye 

http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/book/978-1-4614-0756-0

Book - Archives, Museums and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World

http://ow.ly/cx49A

Livre - Guide pratique : Opportunités des données publiques

http://www.archimag.com/boutique/guides-pratiques/guide-pratique-opportunit%C3%A9s-des-donn%C3%A9es-publiques

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Cultural heritage on line: Trusted Digital Repositories & Trusted Professionals

10-13 December 2012, Florence (Italia)

http://www.rinascimento-digitale.it/conference2012.phtml

Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism (report available)

19 - 20 June 2012, Brussels

http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/report

Sur le web / On the web

Video - Simon Fraser University Archives

http://www.the-peak.ca/2012/07/sfu-archives/

UK National Archives podcast - Charities and their records for family historians

http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/charities-and-their-records-for-family-historians/

Podcast -  England and Scotland at War, 1296-1513: sources at The National Archives

http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/england-and-scotland-at-war-1296-1513-sources-at-the-national-archives/

 

Slidecast - The Development of Digital Preservation Best Practices in EPrints

http://research.library.mun.ca/494/2/slavko_manojlovich_eprints_or2012_pdfa.pdf

Slidecast - Digital Forensics for Digital Archives

http://www.slideshare.net/anarchivist/ndiipp-digitalforensics2012-july

Outils / Tools

State Library of North Carolina - CINCH (Capture, INgest, and CHecksum)

http://statelibrarync.org/news/2012/07/new-tool-makes-digital-preservation-a-cinch/

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Information watchdog joins fight for disclosure of Tommy Douglas security file

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/information-watchdog--joins-fight-for-disclosure-of-tommy-douglas-security-file-163930216.html

Prominent family donates to P.E.I. archives

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2012/07/24/pei-macdonald-house-archives-584.html

Conflict and Commemoration at the Ontario Jewish Archives

http://ontariojewisharchives.blogspot.ca/2012/07/conflict-and-commemoration-at-oja.html

B.C. software woes worse than predicted: privacy group

http://www.timescolonist.com/life/software+woes+worse+than+predicted+privacy+group/6969644/story.html

Appel à projets de numérisation - 2012-2014 par le Réseau Québécois de numérisation patrimoniale (RQNP)

http://www.archivistes.qc.ca/Appel-a-projets-de-numerisation,1053

OCLC opens data center in Toronto, Canada

http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201246.htm

Manitoba history through the camera lens

http://www.winklertimes.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3595809

Brock University - Archivist wins award for work on 1812 website

http://www.brocku.ca/brock-news/?p=17565

Library and Archives Canada - New Finding Aids Online: Department of Militia and Defence (RG9) circa 1914–1919

http://thediscoverblog.com/2012/07/26/new-finding-aids-online-department-of-militia-and-defence-rg9-circa-1914-1919/

Afrique / Africa

Ghana - National archives in danger of losing official documents

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=245292

Comores - Archives nationales: sauver la mémoire de l'indifférence

http://ow.ly/cx5OC

German anthropologists present oral history materials to National Archives of Burkina Faso

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/jgum-gap072012.php

Les enjeux historiques du patrimoine malien

http://blogs.rue89.com/echos-histoire/2012/07/17/les-enjeux-historiques-du-patrimoine-malien-228025

Amériques / Americas

Haïti - Archives nationales, apporte de nouvelles visions dans l’administration public

http://www.lematinhaiti.com/contenu.php?idtexte=31748

Haïti : Vers la restructuration des archives publiques

http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article13145

Ex-federal official calls U.S. classification system ‘dysfunctional’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ex-federal-official-calls-us-classification-system-dysfunctional/2012/07/21/gJQAfJ1o0W_story.html

Mitt Romney Olympic Archive Still Off-Limits

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/mitt-romney-olympic-archive-off-limits/story?id=16811397#.UA8tIrRpiSp

 

Comprehensive Roosevelt archive in the works

http://www.willistonherald.com/news/comprehensive-roosevelt-archive-in-the-works/article_f95cc8f4-d5b0-11e1-8042-001a4bcf887a.html

Listing of Maine archival institutions sought

http://ow.ly/cx60Q

Digital Curation at the University of Maine, a two-year online certificate program launched in the fall of 2012

http://digitalcuration.umaine.edu/

Peering Into the Exquisite Life of Rare Books (the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/books/rare-book-school-at-the-university-of-virginia.html?_r=3

Cook County (Illinois) court staffer held on $750,000 bail for allegedly shredding court files

http://www.suntimes.com/news/13896191-418/cook-county-court-staffer-charged-with-shredding-court-files.html

San Francisco Library receives 505-year-old book

http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2012/07/22/library-receives-505-year-old-book/

Preservation of Media Arts: Interview with Jon Ippolito by Karina de Freitas

http://tecnoartenews.com/news-in-english/preservation-of-media-arts-interview-with-jon-ippolito-by-karina-de-freitas-2/

Online Archive of Ivan Karp’s Publications Launched at Emory University

http://www.materialworldblog.com/2012/07/online-archive-of-ivan-karps-publications-launched-at-emory-university/

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

Australia - Sydney Games ephemera gets a timely outing

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/sydney-games-ephemera-gets-a-timely-outing-20120724-22n5s.html

Malaysia - National Archives' Sarawak branch to provide base on managing public sector records

http://www.nst.com.my/latest/national-archives-sarawak-branch-to-provide-base-on-managing-public-sector-records-1.110325#

Malaysia - Terenganu National Archives gets valuable items related to Islamic astronomy

http://www.nst.com.my/latest/terenganu-national-archives-gets-valuable-items-related-to-islamic-astronomy-1.112564#

India - Human Resource Development ministry to preserve Kashmir's manuscripts, paintings

http://india.nydailynews.com/business/c70571358dbf7814e7dabdf3dc6f483c/hrd-ministry-to-preserve-kashmir-s-manuscripts-paintings

National Archives of India should reach out to people for archival material: Culture Minister Kumari Selja 

http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/nai-should-reach-out-to-people-for-archival-material-selja/35664/

Pakistan - Loss of history at the hands of ‘elements’ feared

http://dawn.com/2012/07/23/loss-of-history-at-the-hands-of-elements-feared/

Europe / Europa

Digital Agenda: European Commission opens public consultation on preservation of the open internet

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/12/817&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

15th century Italian banking records discovered in London manuscript

http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/24/15th-century-italian-banking-records-discovered-in-london-manuscript/

France - Les archives françaises et les archives du Vatican

http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2012/07/20/les-archives-francaises-et-les-archives-du-vatican_1735801_3232.html

RTÉ Puts Archive Irish TV Content Online

http://ow.ly/cx6Cq

National Sound Archive for Scotland to be established

http://britishgenes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/national-sound-archive-for-scotland-to.html

UK - New national digital repository for social and economic data

http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/press-releases/22231/new-national-digital-repository-for-social-and-economic-data.aspx

UK National Archives - Americas through a lens: Colonial Office photographic collection released online

http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/744.htm

 

UK National Archives - Ancient Deeds and the Semantic Cardigan (on linked data)

http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/ancient-deeds-and-the-semantic-cardigan/

UK National Archives - Reflections of a Collaborative Doctoral Award student

http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/reflections-of-a-collaborative-doctoral-award-student/

 

Harwood ruling raises question over online archives

http://tinyurl.com/cgrrkxb

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

Yemen Passes Strongest Right of Access to Information Law in the Arab World

http://www.law-democracy.org/?p=2293

Dubai courts Director General works as electronic archivist for one day

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/dubai-courts-director-general-works-as-electronic-archivist-for-one-day-1.1053057

International

The 10-million-year sapphire hard disk

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/132793-the-10-million-year-sapphire-hard-disk

Mobile phone data: the oil of the digital age

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/19/mobile-phone-data-development-emerging-markets

Digital Archaeology: Recovering your Digital History

http://www.nypl.org/blog/2012/07/23/digital-archaeology-recovering-your-digital-history#.UA2Vc2sSBLw.email

How Google Organizes the World: Q&A With the Manager of Knowledge Graph

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how-google-organizes-the-world-qa-with-the-manager-of-knowledge-graph.php

Vol. 5, no. 46

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

State of the Holdings: The Condition of Analogue Holdings at Library and Archives Canada

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/about-us/modernization/Documents/State%20of%20the%20Holdings-June%202012_e.pdf

For The Record: Yukon Archives 1972–2012

http://www.tc.gov.yk.ca/publications/2012_For_The_Record_Yukon_Archives.pdf

 

UK National Archives - Records collection policy (draft)

http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/742.htm

U.S. National Declassification Center - Fifth biannual Report

http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2012/nr12-139.html

De la communauté / From the community

IFLA, EIFL and CLA joint intervention before the World Intellectual Property Organization Standing Committee on Copyright and related rights  

http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/topics/exceptions-limitations/documents/IFLA_SCCR24_Education%20statement_Fin.pdf

Association des archives de l’Ontario - Archeion pour archivistes (version française)

http://aao-archivists.ca/resources/document-downloads/cat_view/70-archeion-docs

Electronic Discovery Reference Model XML White Paper

http://www.edrm.net/archives/12324

UK Heritage Lotery Fund - Using digital technology in heritage projects 

http://www.hlf.org.uk/HowToApply/furtherresources/Documents/Thinking_about_good_digital_practice.pdf

Compilation - Records of the Scottish Poor

http://www.myainfolk.com/Resources_files/Records_of_the_Scottish_Poor.pdf

Publications

D-Lib Magazine, vol. 18, no. 7-8 (July-August 2012)

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july12/07contents.html

Museum Practice (Special Issue on New approaches to archives)

http://www.museumsassociation.org/museum-practice/16072012-archives-news

Historical Social Research, vol. 37, no. 3 (Special Issue: Controversies around the Digital Humanities)

http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/zeitschriften/ausgabe=6950

Mémoire d'avenir: en direct des Archives nationales de France, no. 10 (Juillet - septembre 2012)

http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/chan/chan/pdf/memoire-davenir-10.pdf

La Gazette des archives, no 225 (2012)

http://www.archivistes.org/Archives-et-archivistes-sous-le,1894

IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Sections newsletter (July 2012)

http://www.ifla.org/files/rare-books-and-manuscripts/rbms-newsletters/IFLA_newsletter_July%202012_revised.pdf

Book - Heritage Under Siege: Military Implementation of Cultural Property Protection Following the 1954 Hague Convention 

http://www.brill.nl/heritage-under-siege

Book - Tracing Your Prisoner of War Ancestors: The First World War

http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Tracing-Your-Prisoner-of-War-Ancestors-The-First-World-War/p/3530/

 

Livre - Sécurité de la dématérialisation: de la signature électronique au coffre-fort numérique, une démarche de mise en oeuvre

http://www.editions-eyrolles.com/Livre/9782212134186/securite-de-la-dematerialisation

Book - The Past Is a Moving Picture: Preserving the Twentieth Century on Film

http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=JONES006

Book - Image Processing and Analysis with Graphs: Theory and Practice

http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439855072

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

International conference - Dublin Core and Metadata Applications

September 3-7 2012, Malaysia

http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/program-2012

Slavery in New France, an Exhibit at the Montréal Archives Centre

July 17 to August 26, 2012, Montreal

http://tinyurl.com/6rj879l

Exhibit - Of Prairies, Pens and Poets: Celebrating Manitoba Writers on the 30th Anniversary of the Manitoba Writers' Guild

July 16 - August 24, Winnipeg

http://tinyurl.com/74y4c23

Sur le web / On the web

Vancouver, Then & Now Mobile App

http://vancouverisawesome.com/2012/07/18/vancouver-then-and-now-mobile-app-discover-vancouver-decades-ago/

National Library of Australia podcast - Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Ford discusses his new book Canada and his writing life

http://www.nla.gov.au/podcasts/media/Richard-Ford.mp3

Baladodiffusion de la CNIL (France) - Publication d'archives publiques sur internet: quelles conséquences pour la vie privée?

http://www.franceinfo.fr/player/export-reecouter?content=671913

Video - Wikimania 2012 Closing Plenary by David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47pEcmXjt8E

Outils / Tools

Inventory of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in the Cultural Heritage Domain

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag_7rVJwt0CpdFRJOEJxdEk4ZEMxQ01jaDgxQXFSTkE#gid=0

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

2.4 million Ontario voter records missing

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/615/2948788/24-million-Ontario-voter-records-missing-

#history #dilemma: Social media proving difficult for archivists

http://www.canada.com/news/Body+history+dilemma+Social+media+proving+difficult+archivists/6930849/story.html

Victoria's early history bursts from the archives

http://www.timescolonist.com/Victoria+early+history+bursts+from+archives/6936967/story.html

Edson (Alb.) - Local vets take part in archive project

http://www.edsonleader.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3594155

 

UBC - Unpacking the Douglas Coupland fonds: a new acquisition and a new project

http://blogs.ubc.ca/rbscnew/2012/07/18/unpacking-the-douglas-coupland-fonds-a-new-acquisition-and-a-new-project/

Tracing your family history takes time, effort and money: how to avoid barking up the wrong tree

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/life/Tracing+your+family+history+takes+time+effort+money/6931451/story.html

Afrique / Africa

Preserving Algeria's audiovisual memory: EU-funded project putting digitized archives online

http://tinyurl.com/7psvdn2

Swaziland - Govt working on effective record managing, archiving system

http://www.observer.org.sz/index.php?news=40929

Kenyatta National Hospital records go digital

http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2012/07/knh-records-go-digital/

Amériques / Americas

That plan to archive every tweet in the Library of Congress? Definitely still happening

http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/07/that-plan-to-archive-every-tweet-in-the-library-of-congress-definitely-still-happening/

MIT Economist: Here's How Copyright Laws Impoverish Wikipedia

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/mit-economist-heres-how-copyright-laws-impoverish-wikipedia/259970/

U.S. Department of the Interior Deploys OpenText Cloud-based Enterprise Content Management Solution

http://www.execdigital.com/press_releases/us-department-of-the-interior-deploys-opentext-cloud-based-enterprise-content-management-solution

Historian unveils one of the few surviving audio recordings of blast from 1950's Nevada tests

http://tinyurl.com/cldhbsr

Volunteer transcribers preparing letters to and from Lincoln

http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x1798687345/Volunteer-transcribers-preparing-letters-to-and-from-Lincoln

Alaska - Famous carver Amos Wallace’s documents headed for public archive

http://www.ktoonews.org/2012/07/16/famous-carvers-documents-headed-for-public-archive/

Connecting the Dots: Issues with Preserving Complex Websites

http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/connecting-dots-issues-preserving-complex-websites

Op-Ed: Jewish groups must preserve vital records

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/07/17/3100616/op-ed-preserving-our-family-history

Stanford Oral History Comes Alive

http://hosted-p0.vresp.com/260487/51ea6f4169/ARCHIVE#

Silent film thought to be lost is restored by the Oklahoma Historical Society

http://newsok.com/silent-film-thought-to-be-lost-is-restored-by-the-oklahoma-historical-society/article/3692566#ixzz215wZ5chi

One Family’s Personal Digital Archives Project

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/07/one-familys-personal-digital-archives-project/

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

Malaysia - Police to recover insurgency-era battle records from Britain

http://www.nst.com.my/nation/general/police-to-recover-insurgency-era-battle-records-from-britain-1.107196

Malaysia - National Archives To Use Films To Nurture Patriotism Among Younger Generation

http://tinyurl.com/884pgjh

Pakistan, China ink agreement for cooperation in archive

http://www.brecorder.com/pakistan/business-a-economy/68150-pakistan-china-ink-agreement-for-cooperation-in-archive-.html

Australia - Defence personnel's personal secrets revealed in archive files

http://www.smh.com.au/national/defence-personnels-personal-secrets-revealed-in-archive-files-20120719-22c8h.html

Europe / Europa

Heritage scandal: Italy shuts down national sound archives

http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2012/07/heritage-scandal-italy-shuts-down-national-sound-archives.html

Italy - Vivaldi's lost masterpiece is found in library archives

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jul/15/orlando-furioso-vivaldi-1714-version

350 millions de documents dans les archives de l’Arménie

http://www.armenews.com/article.php3?id_article=79537

Public Consultation on New Dutch Freedom of Information Law

http://epsiplatform.eu/content/public-consultation-new-dutch-foi-law

Suisse - La bibliothèque de Zurich achète une carte de 1635

http://www.20min.ch/ro/news/suisse/story/La-biblioth-que-de-Zurich-ach-te-une-carte-de-1635-19910420

France - Une réseau de musées consacrés à la Résistance vient d’être créé afin d’enrichir leurs archives

http://www.lamontagne.fr/auvergne/actualite/departement/haute-loire/haute-loire-local/2012/07/15/une-reseau-de-musees-consacres-a-la-resistance-vient-detre-cree-afin-denrichir-leurs-archives-1222135.html

Scotland - Pressure grows on Church over archives controversy

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/pressure-grows-on-church-over-archives-controversy.18176217

U.K. Government confirms transition to 20-year rule will begin from 2013

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/739.htm

Free access to British scientific research within two years

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/15/free-access-british-scientific-research

UK Web Archive in the eyes of scholars

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/webarchive/2012/07/uk-web-archive-in-the-eyes-of-scholars.html

 

British Museum to display Robben Island copy of Shakespeare's works

http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/museum-to-display-robben-island-copyshakespeares-works/33752/

Canterbury Cathedral and University of Kent in bid to preserve unique historic collection

http://www.kent.ac.uk/news/stories/mendham-collection/2012

 

Canterbury Collection of 128,000 images now available for online research

http://spittalstreet.com/?p=5345

Closure of forensic archive a 'shambles', experts warn

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18880701

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

Iraq rejects US offer to restore half of seized Jewish Archive: report

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/721132.shtml

Israel State Archives - Scanning and digitizing in Hebrew

http://israelsdocuments.blogspot.ca/2012/07/scanning-and-digitizing-in-hebrew.html

The British Library and Qatar Foundation unveil project to digitise half a million pages of archive material

http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/Press-Releases/Transforming-our-understanding-of-Middle-Eastern-history-The-British-Library-and-Qatar-Foundation-unveil-project-to-digitise-half-a-million-pages-of-archive-material-5b8.aspx

International

Why a link between MoReq2010 and the OAIS model would benefit both records managers and archivists

http://thinkingrecords.co.uk/2012/07/13/why-a-link-between-moreq2010-and-the-oais-model-would-benefit-both-records-managers-and-archivists/

How can museums preserve our digital heritage?

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/16/how-can-museums-preserve-our-digital-heritage

Is This the Most-Viewed Photo of All Time?

http://mashable.com/2012/07/16/is-this-the-most-viewed-photo-of-all-time/

 

La révolution de la photographie vient de la conversation

http://culturevisuelle.org/icones/2456

Preserving Online Science: Reflections

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/07/preserving-online-science-reflections/

Project Gutenberg Launches Repository for Self-Published Works 

http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Project-Gutenberg-Launches-Repository-for-SelfPublished-Works-83772.asp

Vol. 5, no. 45

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

Queensland State Archives - Digital continuity resources 

http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/Recordkeeping/Announcements/Pages/Digitalcontinuityresources.aspx

De la communauté / From the community

Unified Digital Format Registry (UDFR): Final Report

http://udfr.org/project/UDFR-final-report.pdf

Pan-Canadian Documentary Heritage Network: Linked Open Data Visualization “Proof-of-Concept”

http://www.canadiana.ca/en/pcdhn-lod

List of IFLA standards

http://www.ifla.org/en/news/list-of-ifla-standards-now-available

JISC - A Technical Review of Open Access Repository Registries

http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/612/

Publications

American Archivist, vol. 75, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2012)

http://archivists.metapress.com/content/r5233x010425/

Trent University archives news, no. 42 (July 2012)

http://www.trentu.ca/admin/library/archives/newsletter42.pdf

Broadsheet: E-Magazine of the Scottish Council on Archives, no. 16 (July 2012)

http://www.scoarch.org.uk/filegrab/documents/bf906f87bfc0b1d674a5eb28855822e5/broadsheet-issue-16.pdf

Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (July 2012)

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201207.pdf

Program: electronic library and information systems, vol. 46, no. 3 (2012)

http://tinyurl.com/6q7vnr9

Livre - Vos ancêtres à travers les archives militaires

http://www.servicehistorique.sga.defense.gouv.fr/Vos-ancetres-a-travers-les.html

Book - Visualizing the Holocaust: Documents, Aesthetics, Memory

http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewitem.asp?idproduct=14102

Book - Personal Knowledge Capital: The inner and outer path of knowledge creation in a web world

http://www.woodheadpublishing.com/en/book.aspx?bookID=2728&ChandosTitle=1

Book - The No-nonsense Guide to Legal Issues in Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing

http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=8040

Book - Discover Scottish Land Records

http://www.gould.com.au/Discover-Scottish-Land-Records-p/utp0283.htm

Book - Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage Collection Among Libraries of India and Iran: A Comparative Study

http://tinyurl.com/895hwl5

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

ARMA NCR Fall IM Days

November 27- 28, 2012, Kanata

http://www.imdays.ca/

Workshop - Archiving at Home

July 28, 2012, Cambridge (ON)

http://tinyurl.com/749nkao

Webcast - Big Data for Development: Challenges and Opportunities

10th July, 2012, UN Headquarters, New York

http://www.unglobalpulse.org/BD4DWebcast

European Research Libraries (LIBER) Annual Conference (video and presentations available)

June 27-30, 2012, Estonia

Video: http://uttv.ee/naita?id=12587

Presentations: http://www.utlib.ee/liber2012/index.php?id=prog_main

Sur le web / On the web

A collection of 1-minute videos on how to find law on CanLII

http://www.canlii.org/en/blog/index.php?/archives/70-One-minute-legal-research-A-student-made-video-series.html

UK National Archives podcast - The Silken Paper Trail: openness and the national collective memory

http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/the-silken-paper-trail-openness-and-the-national-collective-memory/

Israel's Documented Story: The English-language blog of the Israel State Archives

http://israelsdocuments.blogspot.co.il/

OCLC Video - Scanning and Photography in Special Collections

http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2012-07-12.htm

Video - Why tech can't break the hold of paper

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9735727.stm

Outils / Tools

Digital Preservation In a Box

http://dpoutreach.net/

Open Planets Foundation - xcorrSound:migrationQA New Audio Quality Assurance Tool

http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2012-07-09-xcorrsoundmigrationqa-new-audio-quality-assurance-tool

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Canada's information czar launches review of federal law on 30th anniversary

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/canadas-information-czar-launches-review-of-federal-law-on-30th-anniversary-161600765.html

Supreme Court of Canada Stands Up For Fair Dealing in Stunning Sweep of Cases

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6588/125/

Provincial Archives of Alberta - New in Collections Management: the Scott, Bisset, and McPherson family fonds

http://culture.alberta.ca/paa/whatsnew/bisset.aspx

City of Regina launches open data initiative

http://ow.ly/ccTUO

Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (Ont.) asks public to make a connection

http://www.mississauga.com/what's%20on/article/1390849--archives-asks-public-to-make-a-connection

Historical Westsyde documents now in Kamloops Museum and Archives (B.C.)

http://www.kamloopsnews.ca/article/20120706/KAMLOOPS0101/120709894/-1/kamloops01/historical-westsyde-documents-now-in-museum-archives

Afrique / Africa

Côte d'Ivoire - Un expert dénonce le type de personnel recruté pour l'archivage

http://www.aip.ci/727-DpH-Societe-Un%20expert%20d%C3%A9nonce%20le%20type%20depersonnel%20recrut%C3%A9%20pour%20l'atchivage%20des%20documents

Amériques / Americas

Bermuda - Archives director still on leave after ten months

http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20120711/NEWS/707119917

The endangered archives of the Haynes Publishing Company, Argentina

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/endangeredarchives/2012/07/the-endangered-archives-of-the-haynes-publishing-company-argentina.html

U.S. - Reforming Copyright Is Possible: And it's the only way to create a national digital library

http://chronicle.com/article/Reforming-Copyright-Is/132751/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en

Overview: Library of Congress Launches Beta Release of Linked Data Classification

http://blogs.loc.gov/law/2012/07/library-of-congress-launches-beta-release-of-linked-data-classification/

Pennsylvania - Property records dating to 1850 put online

http://triblive.com/news/2146582-74/records-available-property-rights-office-ranker-1850-ago-deeds-further

Delaware Public Archives commemorates War of 1812 in new exhibit

http://capegazette.villagesoup.com/capelife/story/delaware-public-archives-commemorates-war-of-1812-in-new-exhibit/854945

Interactive website will immortalize songs about Tennessee

http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2012/07/11/interactive-website-will-immortalize-songs-about-tennessee/

Survey: In the Past 4 Years, Universities Have Started Preserving the Web

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/in-past-four-years-universities-began-preserving-the-web/259486/

Court: Interview with IRA car bomber for Boston College oral history project can be released

http://bostoncollegesubpoena.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/court-interview-with-ira-car-bomber-for-boston-college-oral-history-project-can-be-released/

What lies behind the battle over the New York Public Library

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/07/what-lies-behind-battle-over-new-york-public-library

'Mapping Princeton'

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S34/07/43C03/index.xml?section=featured

Iowa - Help Document Student Life in the University Archives

http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/speccoll/2012/07/10/help-document-student-life-in-the-university-archives/

Bankrupt law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf's dilemma over client files: to shred or not to shred 

http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/Legal/News/2012/07_-_July/Dewey_s_dilemma_over_client_files__to_shred_or_not_to_shred/

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

India buys Gandhi archive for $1.28 million

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/india-buys-gandhi-archive-for-128-million/270481-3.html

India - Mulk Raj Anand arrives at National Archives, ready to unpack in his room

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/mulk-raj-anand-arrives-at-national-archives-ready-to-unpack-in-his-room/973721/

Japan - University opens unique archive on grassroots campaigns

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120713f2.html

The search for photos of China's past

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18784990

Australia - Tape used to hold down 'asbestos' tiles at National Archives storage

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/tape-used-to-hold-down-asbestos-tiles-at-archives-storage-20120709-21rzv.html

Library will thrive in a digital world: new chairman of the National Library of Australia Council

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/library-will-thrive-in-a-digital-world-stokes-20120710-21u73.html

Europe / Europa

Reforming copyright for the digital age: the European Commission takes an important step forward

http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/neelie-kroes/copyright-licensing-reform/

Crossdressing, Compression and Colliders: The First Photo on the Web

http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/7/10/crossdressing-compression-and-a-collider-the-first-photo-on-the-web

Malta - First digital archive about Żejtun launched

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=147188

Austrian city builds public library with nothing but QR codes, NFC and stickers

http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/10/austrian-city-builds-public-library-with-qr-codes-nfc-stickers/

France - Paris police open Vel d’Hiv archives

http://www.connexionfrance.com/Paris-police-archives-exhibition-Vel-Hiv-Roundup-Nazis-13913-view-article.html

France - Données publiques : le juge administratif précise les conditions de réutilisation des données des services d’archives

http://www.lagazettedescommunes.com/121820/donnees-publiques-le-juge-administratif-precise-les-conditions-de-reutilisation-des-donnees-des-services-darchives/

Ireland - Freedom of information legislation to be extended

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0707/1224319601528.html

UK National Archives - Mapping our collection

http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/mapping-our-collection/

UK National Archives - Newly released files go behind the scenes of the 'UFO Desk'

http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/738.htm

Probably the best national beer advertising archived in Raveningham

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/probably_the_best_national_beer_advertising_archived_in_raveningham_1_1436191

Web hits delete on magazine's 12-year archive

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/web-hits-delete-on-magazines-12year-archive-7920565.html

 

Medieval manuscript "The Laws of Hywel Dda" back from USA sold for £541,250

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-18784782

Leeds nostalgia: Secrets of the city book archive

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/leeds-nostalgia-secrets-of-the-city-book-archive-1-4717836

International

Big data and the changing economics of privacy

http://paidcontent.org/2012/07/11/big-data-and-the-changing-economics-of-privacy/

Preservation in the cloud? A first look at ‘Preservica’

http://www.ncdd.nl/blog/?p=2631

Remediation, or how digitisation is changing the meaning of texts (Part 1)

http://earlymoderndialogues.wordpress.com/2012/07/07/remediation-or-how-digitisation-is-changing-the-meaning-of-texts-part-1/

L’évolution des marginalia de lecture du « papier à l’écran »

http://www.implications-philosophiques.org/actualite/une/levolution-des-marginalia-de-lecture-du-papier-a-lecran/