Thursday 27 September 2012

Vol. 6, no. 4


Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
Library of Parliament Research Publication - Preserving Canada’s Digital Documentary Heritage

Response of Library and Archives Canada to the Round IX Management Accountability Framework: Action Plan 2012-2013

Manitoba Ombudsman - User's Guide to FIPPA: Access to Information and Protection of Privacy

UK National Archives - Funding the Archives Sector Research Report

Queensland Government Digital Continuity Strategy 

De la communauté / From the community
Confederation of Open Access Repositories - Strategy 2012-2015 and Workplan 2012-2013

World Economic Forum - Big Data, Big Impact: New Possibilities for International Development

Position paper - The value dimensions of Digital Preservation

Publications
Bulletin sur les ressources archivistiques numériques, n° 44, septembre 2012

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol. 63, no. 10 (October 2012)

Free e-book - Jefferson's Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress

Livre - L'entreprise et sa mémoire: mélanges en l'honneur de Maurice Hamon

Book - Memory

Book - Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony
 
Book - How to Archive Family Keepsakes: Learn How to Preserve Family Photos, Memorabilia and Genealogy Records

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
McMaster University's 125th Anniversary - Archival Documents Exhibit
September - December 2012, Hamilton, Ontario

Emerging Trends in Book History and Print Culture Studies
March 28-29 2013, Sherbrooke
April 5-6 2013, Toronto

Applying for Funding for Your Archives Project Workshop
Six locations around Nova Scotia

Archiving 2013

Sur le web / On the web
Ryerson University Library & Archives - Remembering Jack Layton Website

Slidecast - Archiving Media from the “Occupy” Movement

Podcast - Open Government and trustworthy records

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Campagne électorale 2012 : Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec collecte et conserve les sites Web
 
100-year-old artifacts on display at Sask. Legislative Building

Victoria - Archive grows, thanks to donors

Bowen’s community Archives (B.C.) are looking for interviewers

Archives help connect the dots and bring King’s (Ont.) history to life


« Je vis au jour le jour »: À 80 ans, Dominique Michel lègue tous ses souvenirs aux Archives du Québec

Plan to relocate UBC’s music library opposed

University of Winnipeg gets $500,000 GRANT for Residential School Research

Afrique / Africa
South Africa - Overcoming Legacies of the Past?: The National Oral History Programme

L'Égypte détient une grande partie de documents relatifs à la révolution algérienne



Amériques / Americas
In Kennedy Recordings, History’s Raw Materials


Lesser-known Emancipation document gets spotlight




Warhol’s archives undergo a reorganisation: the Andy Warhol Museum faces problems in preserving the documents of his life

Exhibiting Video Games: An interview with Smithsonian’s Georgina Goodlander

West Roxbury detective's Boston Strangler archive is focus of documentary

Emory digital scholars archive Occupy Wall Street tweets

 
Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Archives of China's political advisory body put into operation

Pakistan - Key sources of national history gathering dust in Karachi University library

New Zealand - University establishing quake archive

Australia - Treasure Trove: WWI service dossier

Europe / Europa
Finland is about to start using crowdsourcing to create new laws

Netherlands - Ordina wins application management and development contract for National Archives and Education Inspectorate
 
Czech Republic - Golden Bull of Sicily goes on display at National Archive

Armenian National Archive will publish digitized materials on Armenian Genocide in Internet

Berlin - Program learns to recognize rough sketches of objects

France - Il faut sauver les manuscrits d’Émilie du Châtelet (traductrice de Newton)

Ireland National Library seeks help to digitise collection


UK National Archives - Update on Discovery, our new catalogue


London Metropolitan Archives offer new insight into daily life of Epping Forest dwellers

Historian uncovers rare writings by 18th century political icon, Edmund Burke

Evolution theorist Alfred Russel Wallace goes online

Moyen-Orient / Middle East International
Hitachi unveils glass slivers that store data forever

Twitter Building Tweet-Downloading Archive Feature by Year's End

Thursday 20 September 2012

Vol. 6, no. 3


Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
Archives de France - Guide méthodologique : le format de fichiers PDF

Archives de France - Qualité des disques BLU-Ray enregistrables pour l'archivage des données numériques

De la communauté / From the community
Alliance for Permanent Access to the records of Science in Europe Network - A European Framework for Audit and Certification of Digital Repositories

Rapport Open GLAM: Recommandations pour l'ouverture des données et des contenus culturels

JISC - Preparing for Data-driven Infrastructure

Declaration on Parliamentary Openness

Article - Archives participatives

Publications
Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, vol. 8, no. 3, 2012 (Special issue on Advances in Geospatial Information, Collections & Archives)

D-Lib Magazine, vol. 18, no. 9-10 (September-October 2012)

Journal of Library Metadata, vol. 12, no. 2-3 (2012)

Document numérique, vol. 15, 2012/1
 
Library and Archives Canada - Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World, vol. 4, no. 4 (2012)

Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 1, no. 1 (September-October 2012)

Book - CMIS and Apache Chemistry in Action

Book - Perceptual Digital Imaging: Methods and Applications

Book - The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright

Book - Organizing Archival Records: A Practical Method of Arrangement and Description for Small Archives (Third Edition)

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
British Records Association Annual Conference - Jewels in the Crown? The Archives of the Empire
10 December 2012, London

2012 New York Archives Week
October 7-13 2012, New York
 
Webinar - Metadata for Managing Scientific Research Data (presentations available)
August 22, 2012

2012 ALA Rare Books and Manuscript Section Preconference (Selected Presentations and Documents available)
June 19-22, 2012, San Diego

Sur le web / On the web
Ars Electronica Archives Now Online

New International Internet Preservation Consortium website

UK National Archives podcast - Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn: clothing, courtship and consequences

Outils / Tools

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Advocacy group files complaint over B.C.’s record on freedom of information requests

Grace-Pépin Access to Information Award 2012 recipient: Darrell Evans

Ads are coming to a library near you: BAnQ gets corporate sponsor


The Ontario Independent Music Archive

Putting faces to an open secret of pioneer days in the West: New exhibit features early prostitutes, madams


Université Laval - Doctorat d'honneur à Bruno Racine (président de la Bibliothèque nationale de France)

Afrique / Africa
Somali radio archives survive decades of looting and conflict

Kenya to Train South Sudanese Records Management Personnel

Liberia - Commending The National Archives Center

Sécurité des archives nationales au Mali : La « mémoire » de l’Etat se consume

Amériques / Americas
The Empire of Haiti: digitising some of the Nineteenth Century


Florida court records are going on computers — but not online


Pittsburgh City Council Approves Plan to Create City Archives Commission

Records discovery could solve 50-year-old Birmingham civil rights era bombing case

UCLA Library preserves audiovisual mementos of the past
 
An Auction, In Cold Blood (about the Kansas Bureau of Investigation case file on the Clutter murders)



Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific Europe / Europa
Why Europe is opening up its cultural history online

Stasi files: The world's biggest jigsaw puzzle

Spain’s Ministry of Justice Creates Archive for Concentration Camp Victims

Head of the Central Archives of Armenia’s Ministry of Defense arrested

20 years later: The National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Joseph Goebbels Archives Go on Block: Nazi Propaganda Chief's Early Documents Valued at $200K

France - Patrimoine : Visite des archives de la Société nationale des chemins de fer (SNCF)

Les Français ambigus sur l'usage du papier à la maison et en entreprise

Jersey Archive asks the public to nominate which streets feature in ‘What’s Your Street Story?’

Scotland - Commissioner warns freedom of information rights 'erosion'

UK - The National Archives set to receive London 2012 digital Olympic records
 
Charity’s archive given prestigious national award

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Newly revealed Coptic fragment has Jesus making reference to 'my wife'

International

Access the Full Archive of Public Tweets

What Popular Culture is Telling Us About Libraries and Why We Should Listen

How not to write about libraries – some guidelines for reporters

Call for paper - World Wide Web: Special Issue on Social Media Preservation and Applications

Thursday 13 September 2012

Vol. 6, no. 2


Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
European Commission - Permitted uses of orphan works

Archives de France - Standard d'échange de données pour l'archivage (SEDA), version 1.0

Open the Government - Secrecy Report 2012

De la communauté / From the community
International Council on Archives - Principles of Access to Archives (version adopted at the 2012 congress)
 
OCLC - Swatting the Long Tail of Digital Media: A Call for Collaboration

Sérendipité et autres curiosités: critique malicieuse de la société de l’information à usage de ceux qui pensent (et donc archivent)

Publications
Archival Science, vol. 12, no. 3 (September 2012)

Information Standards Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 2-3, 2012 (Special issue on Linked Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums)

City of Richmond (B.C.) Archives News, vol. 17, no. 2 (Fall 2012)

Book - Handbook of Information Management

Book - Securing Digital Video: Techniques for DRM and Content Protection

Book - Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan

Book - The UFO Files: the inside story of real-life sightings

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Exhibit - 200th Anniversary of Red River Settlement
Winnipeg, Manitoba Archives Building

Exhibit - Archival Dialogues: Reading The Black Star Collection
September 29–December 16, 2012, Toronto
 
8th International Digital Curation Conference
14 - 16 January 2013, Amsterdam

Sur le web / On the web
Routledge Performance Archive

UK National Archives Podcast - From wheelchair polo to winning professionals: the history of the Paralympics

The UK National Archives and the Victoria and Albert Museum launch resource on Victorian Britain

Slidecast - Measuring Impact for the Digital Humanities

NARA Video - US Constitution: The "Fifth Page"

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Budget cuts threaten church archives

Mining the blogosphere: Concordia researchers develop tools that make sense of social media

The man who keeps The Dead alive: Victoria archivist had no idea a postscript at the end of a letter would lead to his dream job

Afrique / Africa
Security Council to decide International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda archives` fate

Somalia archives survive conflict

Amériques / Americas
Freedom of Information Act backlog grows even as agencies process more requests

Federal Judge Approves Settlement in Department of Justice E-Book Case

Declassified documents add to proof that US helped cover up 1940 Soviet massacre

FBI Sentinel Case Management System Actually Over Budget

US probes reported record-shredding of fuel buys for Afghan army

Georgia Closes State Archives: Only State In The Nation To Cut Historic Service

Alaska - Texts for state business are public records, ruling says


Irish groups seeking alliance with Boston College (regarding the Troubles archives)

Rare tour of motion picture academy's archive

Purdue archives keeps Neil Armstrong's story alive

The AIMS Project and the Stewardship of Born-Digital Archival Materials: An interview with Bradley Daigle

Kari Kraus Talks About Digital Archeology, Video Game Preservation, and Being a “DH’er”

Artist who created Obama 'hope' poster is spared prison in image fraud case

Online Archive Provides a Window on Abolition, Women's Rights, other Progressive 19th Century Movements

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific Europe / Europa


Russian federal Gov’t plans to become paperless by the end of 2017

Swiss National Library Goes Open Data


Dans certaines prisons françaises, des détenus peuvent faire de l'archivage numérique et sonore
Voir sous "Comment s'organise le travail en détention ?"

France - "Peste et Choléra" un roman né grâce aux archives de l’Institut Pasteur

Rare collection of James Joyce poems to go on display in National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway)

UK museum revives first-ever film shot in color

Hillsborough and the power of documentary evidence

Discovered: Lord Byron's Copy Of Frankenstein, With Love From Mary Shelley

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey stands for opening 1915 archives

International
Protecting Your Rare Books: Maintaining the Right Environmental Conditions

Help Define Levels for Digital Preservation: Request for Public Comments

The Preservation of Neglect: Centuries-old books on parchment may soon become more accessible than vital scientific writings and data from early computers