Thursday 31 January 2013

Vol. 6, no. 22


Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
British Library - Making the Most of Funding Opportunities for Preservation and Conservation Projects (Revised Edition)
 
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Library Association - Interlibrary Loan (ILL) User Roundtable Documents

ICA, IFLA, CCAAA, ICOM, ICOMOS, ICSTI - Statement of Principles on Global Cross Sectoral Digitisation Initiatives

Ithaka S+R - Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content

What's the Deal with Copyright and 3D Printing?

HathiTrust Digital Library - 2012 Year in Review

Publications
Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography, vol. 65, no. 1 (2013)

Journal of Library Administration, vol. 53, no. 1, 2013 (Special Issue: Digital Humanities in Libraries)

Mémoire d'Archives: en direct des Archives nationales, no. 12 (Janvier-Mars 2013)

National Archives of Australia - Your Memento, no. 9 (January 2013)


Canadian Conservation Institute's Technical Bulletin 30: The Digitization of Audio Tapes 

Book - Rediscovering the World: Map Transformations of Human and Physical Space

Book - Performing Nordic Heritage: Everyday Practices and Institutional Culture

Book - Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages


Book - All This Stuff: Archiving the Artist 

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Archives in Your Attic
February 18, 2013, Peterborough, Ontario

Webinar - Drowning in content? Managing email and file shares is just too hard. Or is it?
February 20, 2013

Digital Diplomatics 2013
14-16 November, 2013, Paris

University of Waterloo - Records Management, Lunch & Learn (Slidecast available)
24 January, 2013, Waterloo
 
Historical Documents in the Digital Age (videos available in English and French)
25-26 October, Rouen, France

Sur le web / On the web
Privacy Commissioner of Canada launches privacy mobile application

Archive your children’s art with Artkive app

Podcast - Rawdon Brown and the Brown Archive in The UK National Archives

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Library and Archives Canada - Release of a new version of the Census of Prairie Provinces, 1916 database

B.C. leads the country in cutting red tape

Archives reluctant to beef up security following theft: Dalhousie University and Mount Saint Vincent University react after police recover university owned artifacts

University of Victoria archives reveal history of Victoria's artists

Gulf Islands (B.C.) - Archives gets piece of Best history

Afrique / Africa
Plus de 55 ans après l'indépendance, le Maroc se dote d'Archives nationales

'Racism' of early colour photography explored in art exhibition: artists spent a month in South Africa taking pictures on decades-old film engineered with only white faces in mind

Algérie - Les Archives nationales réceptionnent la première partie des archives relatives aux relations algéro-yougoslaves

L'Afrique construit sa bibliothèque au Sénégal


Fire in Timbuktu library: just revenge or eradication of heresy?

Amériques / Americas
Rescue project for Dutch archives in Guyana

Missouri - State Archives Release '62 Death Certificates

North Carolina - History Buffs Aim to Preserve State Archives
 
Intrepid Museum Crowdsources Enterprise Pictures

New York Philharmonic to release more archive online


Anarchy in the Archives: Zine Project Brings Punks of Color to the Academy

Ouachita Baptist University’s archives a storehouse of the past

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Australia - Tim Berners-Lee calls data retention a 'really, really bad idea'

Veteran archivists press for legislation in Hong Kong

China - Why is the government destroying so many documents?

Japan - National library joins digital wave, will offer books online

India - Digitised National Archives catalogue launched

India - Rare Gandhi-Kallenbach letters on display at National Archives

Europe / Europa
Warsaw Ghetto: The story of its secret archive

Germany - Holocaust archive rescues lost identities, reunites long lost families

The Hitler home movies: how Eva Braun documented the dictator’s private life

Poignant photograph that proves pensioner's family died at Auschwitz

Germany - Cologne finds itself in new music archive

Vatican Apostolic Library uploads 256 digitized manuscripts

Italy fears for 'vanishing' heritage after arrests over sacking of historic library

Romania’s New National Library Remains a Dream Yet to Come True


National Archives of Armenia turns digital

Généalogie - Les archives belges arrivent sur Internet

Belgique - Cinq années d'archives du Service public fédéral Economie détruites illégalement

France - Archives numériques : bientôt une loi, mais pour quoi faire ?


Extremely Rare Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris


UK National Archives - View early Colonial Office photos in Australasia through a lens

International
Scanning: DIY or Outsource

Big data and the death of the theorist


Only the digital dies: the newest technologies look most likely to vanish; the oldest may always be with us

Thursday 24 January 2013

Vol. 6, no. 21


Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada - Meeting Challenges of the Future: From Reflection to Action

U.S. National Information Standards Organization - Reflections and Perspectives on Discovery Services

U.S. - Bi-annual Report on Operations of the National Declassification Center

De la communauté / From the community
Article - Humanisme numérique et littératies

Publications
Broadsheet: e-magazine of the Scottish Council on Archives, no. 22 (January 2013)

Novel - The Archived

Book - Linked Data: A Geographic Perspective

Livre - Les archives fantômes: recherches anthropologiques sur les institutions de la culture

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Provincial Archives of Alberta : Family History Day
February 18th, 2013, Edmonton

Copyright Workshop
January 31, Halifax

Framing the Digital Curation Curriculum
6-7 May 2013, Florence, Italy

8th International Digital Curation Conference (presentations available)
January 14-17, 2013, Amsterdam

Sur le web / On the web
Radio-Canada - Réhabiliter les bibliothèques à l'ère du web: entrevue avec Daniel J. Caron

Podcast - Where there’s a will…: probate records for family history at The UK National Archives and beyond

Cours en libre d'accès - Économie du document

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Les Archives nationales du Canada doivent dépoussiérer leurs pratiques

Notes from December 2012 Library Council re: Cuts to LAC and Canada’s National Information Infrastructure

Police recover artifacts stolen from Nova Scotia archives, Province House

B.C. to streamline path to freedom of information

Le conservateur et directeur général des archives de BAnQ honoré

Why this Quebec historian wants your memories

Afrique / Africa
Mali - La numérisation des manuscrits de Tombouctou, un rempart "contre l`obscurantisme" pour un patrimoine en péril

Tunisie: La France restituera les archives sur l'assassinat de Farhat Hached en avril prochain

Amériques / Americas
Uruguay opens historic diplomatic archives to Malvinas war veterans

NASA's Alien Planet Archive Now Open to the World

Alaska breaks ground on Library Archive Museum State project


Georgia - Archives supporters launch funding fight
 
Historic family Bibles crown jewels of New Jersey library: a copy of the 1791 Collins Bible, the oldest printed in America, is among its gem


GLBT History Museum - Viewers imagine past through international archive

Sexuality expert donates archive to Cornell University

New Digital Archive Resurrects Classic Dungeons & Dragons Adventures


Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
National Library of Australia - Archiving the protest site

National Archives of Australia - Blasphemous, indecent or obscene

Australia - Man of secrets keeps white gloves and ready persistence close at hand

Challenging questions on social media and the cloud – interesting enquiries to State Records of New South Wales in December 2012

Tajikistan to solve demarcation problems using Russian archives

Philippine - Dream of a national archive need not become a nightmare

India - Chalachitra Academy to start archives

Europe / Europa
Russian Court Ruling Aids Release of Soviet Era Secrets

Malta - HSBC supports preservation of Notarial Archives’ historical documents

Luxembourg - Etienne Schneider présente le projet de loi relatif à l’archivage électronique

Non à la privatisation du domaine public par la Bibliothèque nationale de France



UK - Ministers consider clampdown on 'industrial users' of Freedom of Information
 
UK National Archives: where is the records backlog?

UK National Archives - Online map descriptions unlock local history


Biritish Library - Digitising Manuscripts: The Condition Assessment

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
International

When is Open Source Software the Right Choice for Cultural Heritage Organizations? An Interview with Peter Murray

Un « disque dur papier » pour rafraîchir la mémoire numérique

Thursday 17 January 2013

Vol. 6, no. 20


Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
PANDORA past, present and future - national web archiving in Australia

De la communauté / From the community

Guide à l’usage des détenteurs d’archives privées de l'immigration en Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Association des professionnels pour l'économie numérique - Content analytics : règles de l'art

Library Copyright Alliance - Comments to US Copyright Office Regarding Orphan Works Notice of Inquiry

Publications
D-Lib Magazine, vol. 19, no. 1-2 (January/February 2013)

Code4lib Journal, no. 19 (2013)

Library of Congress Magazine, vol. 2, no. 1 (January-February 2013)

IFLA Journal, vol. 38, no. 4 (December 2012)

Information Standards Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 4 (2012)

Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (January 2013)

Épistolaire, no. 38, 2012 (Dossier : Correspondances et archives de la création)

Book - Big Data, Big Analytics: Emerging Business Intelligence and Analytic Trends for Today's Businesses

Novel - The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen

Book - Digital Preservation Technology for Cultural Heritage

Livre - Représentations documentaires de l'exposition

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
ARMA Online Course - Managing the Social Media Information Explosion

Crises, Credibility and Corporate History: Tackling the Archive’s Conflict Between Scientific History and Marketing
14-16 April 2013, Basel, Switzerland
 
16ème Colloque International sur le Document Électronique
21-22 novembre 2013, Lille (France)
 
UK Archives Discovery Network Forum 2013
7 March, 2013, UK National Archives, Kew

Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation II
November 18-20, 2013, Barcelona

Sur le web / On the web
Research Data Curation Bibliography, version 2

UK National Archives - A Brilliant Little Operation: The full story of how the Cockleshell Heroes mounted the greatest raid of WW2

Amazing Wildlife Sounds For All Ears: World’s largest natural sound archive goes digital

HathiTrust Research Center Informational Video

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Ottawa running late on access-to-information responses, watchdog says

Canadian Coders Solve Mystery of Open Source Government

Library and Archives Canada acquires the first Bible printed in Canada

Library and Archives Canada: History and the Realpolitik

Montreal's archives celebrates 100th birthday 

B.C. museum secures $10K grant to digitize archives

University of Toronto - Recent acquisition: Third document ever printed in Canada 

University of Toronto - The Algorithms That Automatically Date Medieval Manuscripts

Toronto Botanical Gardens opening trove of books to the public for the first time

Calgary - Mid-Century Icons: Architectural Photography from the Panda Collection, Canadian Architectural Archives

Aerial photos from 1931 offer unique view of Nova Scotia



Accès à l’information : l’Université d’Ottawa a le pire dossier en matière d’accès en Ontario

Afrique / Africa
Somali Ministry of Foreign Affairs to sort, modernise archives

Tunisie - Farhat Hached: 60 ans déjà, et les archives concernant son assassinat ne sont pas ouvertes?

Amériques / Americas

U.S. - Agencies tackle cloud, mobile, big data convergence

Bible Used in Lincoln and Obama Inaugurations on Display
 
FEDLINK to Manage Information Acquisitions Across Federal Agencies

Washington State archives building doubles as bomb shelter

Tennessee State Library and Archives opens the door to social media


Vermont State Archives opens Dean administration records to the public

West Virgina - Inaugurations of governors past highlighted in Archives exhibit



Beyoncé keeps extensive digital archive of life and work

Film and Television Museum offers look into Scorsese's personal archive

System restore: how archivists salvaged 1,500 volumes of digital art from Sandy's floodwaters

Brooklyn Atlantics 1865 baseball card auction could fetch $100,000 or more

America's first bookless public library will look 'like an Apple Store'

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific
Europe / Europa
The start of a Revolution: Historic photos of the Russian Revolution taken by a young Yale graduate are discovered by his granddaughter in his home's basement

Moscow Warns of ‘Response’ to Jewish Archive Ruling

Kafka: une diaspora d'archives

Deux partenariats d'envergure conclus pour la numérisation et la diffusion des collections de la Bibliothèque nationale de France

Les archives de Jean-François Revel données au département des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale de France

L’Histoire du Front de libération nationale corse (FLNC) en archives sur CorsicaThèque
 
What was really going on: the hidden secrets of the UK Government Web Archive

An Oxford University college has secured almost £500,000 of funding to digitise its library of Baptist books


Moyen-Orient / Middle East
New Online Israel Archaeology Archive
 
Israel - An archive of treasures from the ‘first’ writers: examining the literary flotsam of the authors’ archives at Ben-Gurion University

Afghan President Hamid Karzai Receives Digitized Cultural Treasures in State Department Ceremony

International