Documentary Heritage News: July 2014

Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia - A Failure to Archive: Recommendations to Modernize Government Information Management

http://www.oipc.bc.ca/special-reports/1664

British Columbia - Minister of Technology, Innovation and Citizens Statement on Government's Records Management Practices

http://www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2014/07/ministers-statement-on-governments-records-management-practices.html

De la communauté / From the community

University of British Columbia Library Digitization Centre - Impact and Activity Report 2011-2014

http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/digitizers-blog/digitization-centre-impact-and-activity-report/

PrestoCentre - AV Digitisation and Digital Preservation TechWatch Report, no. 2

http://www.prestocentre.org/library/resources/av-digitisation-and-digital-preservation-techwatch-report-02

PrestoCentre Overview of Manuals

http://www.prestocentre.org/library/resources/prestocentre-overview-manuals

Article - Small Scale, Big Change: the Impact of Social Media (Archives Portal Europe)

http://www.apex-project.eu/index.php/en/articles/186-small-scale-big-change-the-impact-of-social-media

Publications

International Journal of Digital Curation, vol. 9, no. 1 (2014)

http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/issue/view/18

International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 14, no. 3-4 (August 2014)

http://link.springer.com/journal/799/14/3/page/1

Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, vol. 10, no. 2 (2014)

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wmgl20/10/2

Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 2 (2014)

http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/8/2/index.html

Arbido: périodique de l'Association des archivistes suisses et de Bibliothèque information suisse (2/2014)

http://www.arbido.ch/userdocs/documents/arbido_2_2014_Inhalt.pdf

The Halcyon: the Newsletter of the Friend of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto), no. 53 (2014)

http://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/sites/default/files/halcyon%20june%202014.pdf

National Library of Scotland Newsletter (July 2014)

http://us3.campaign-archive2.com/?u=f02d68b0ba95dc21c56dfbcc8&id=97486656fd&e=bc2fe936e2

New York Archives magazine, vol. 14, no. 1 (Summer 2014)

http://www.archives.nysed.gov/apt/magazine/archivesmag_current.shtml

Book - Charlottetown: Then and Now

http://ow.ly/ztvjL

Book - Towards a New Understanding of Sraffa: Insights from Archival Research

http://us.macmillan.com/towardsanewunderstandingofsraffa/RiccardoBellofiore

Book - Letting Go of Legacy Services: Library Case Studies

http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=10973

Book - Transmedia Frictions: the Digital, the Arts, and the Humanities

http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520281851

Book - LIS Education in Developing Countries: the Road Ahead

http://www.ifla.org/publications/ifla-publications-series-165

Livre - Lieux de mémoire, patrimoine et histoire en Afrique de l'Ouest

http://ow.ly/za3BH

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Government Information Day

October 16, 2014, Ottawa

http://www.biblio.uottawa.ca/html/Page?node=gov-info-day&lang=en

Webinar - To Standardise or Not: is Normalisation of Video a Thing of the Past?

July 30, 2014

http://www.prestocentre.org/calendar/standardise-or-not-normalisation-video-thing-past

Webinar - Rise of the Databrarian

October 16, 2014

http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/articles/2014-07/webinar-rise-databrarian

Forum archives numériques et mémoire culturelle

10 november 2014, Berlin

http://www.institutfrancais.com/sites/default/files/allemagne_forum_archive_numerique_berlin_presentation.pdf

1st International Congress of Cultural Heritage and New Technologies

December 4-5, 2014, Mexico City

http://www.ethnosproject.org/cfp-1st-international-congress-of-cultural-heritage-and-new-technologies/

Connecting Communities: Storytelling and the Digital Archive Conference

March 27-28, 2015, University of Leeds (UK)

http://pararchive.com/2014/07/15/connecting-communities-storytelling-and-the-digital-archive-conference/

Course - First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Time of Crisis

March 30- April 25, 2015, Amsterdam

http://www.ancbs.org/cms/images/First_Aid_Course_2015_-_DEF_announcement.pdf

International Internet Preservation Consortium Conference General Assembly (Recordings Available)

May 19-23, 2014, Paris

http://www.bnf.fr/fr/professionnels/anx_journees_pro_2014/a.jp_2014_iipc_ag.html

Sur le web / On the web

UK Parliament Video - Public Administration Select Committee: Preservation of Historical Files in the Civil Service

http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=15865

Petition to the Italian Minister of Culture to save the Archival Supervision Agencies

http://www.change.org/it/petizioni/ministro-dei-beni-e-delle-attività-culturali-e-del-turismo-dario-franceschini-garantiamo-la-tutela-del-patrimonio-archivistico-nazionale

Netherlands National Commission for UNESCO - Culture under Attack: Photo Exhibition on Cultural Heritage and Armed Conflict

http://www.cultureunderattack.org/node/24

Video - Cultural Heritage Institutions are the Guardians of the Public Domain

http://pro.europeana.eu/pro-blog/-/blogs/2244943

Slidecast - Assessing the Quality of Web Archives

http://www.slideshare.net/phonedude/dp-2014nelson

Slidecast - Towards Linked Vital Registration Data for Reconstituting Families and Creating Longitudinal Health Histories

http://www.slideshare.net/dri_ireland/linked-vitalregistrationdatalongitudinalhealthhistories

Video - Europeana Newspapers

http://vimeo.com/100313926

Video - University of California Libraries Digital Collection: a Year in Review

http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2014/07/16/the-dams-is-live-uc-libraries-dig-collection-project-reaches-major-milestone/

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Millions of police requests for Canadians’ data every year, documents show

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/07/21/millions_of_police_requests_for_canadians_data_every_year_documents_show.html

Shelly Glover staffers remove ugly details from Wikipedia

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/glover-staffers-remove-ugly-details-from-wikipedia-268055011.html

One third of access to information requests take at least four months to release

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/07/22/one_third_of_access_to_information_requests_take_at_least_four_months_to_release.html

Canadiana seeks feedback to improve genealogy collections

http://www.canadiana.ca/en/genealogy-survey

New Brunswick - Increased funding announced for archival activities

http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/news/news_release.2014.07.0890.html

Thank you note from Council of Archives New Brunswick: http://canbarchives.ca/canb/533/Blog

Québec - La Commission d’accès à l'information est vigilante

http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/actualites-en-societe/413983/la-commission-d-acces-est-vigilante

In Memoriam: remembering the First World War at University of Toronto

http://news.utoronto.ca/memoriam-remembering-first-world-war-u-t

University of Waterloo - Kitchener and the First World War

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/discipline/SpecColl/wwi.html

Álvaro Siza Decides the Fate of his Archives (part of it will be given to the Canadian Center for Architecture)

http://www.archdaily.com/530613/alvaro-siza-decides-the-fate-of-his-archives/

Massive Quebec vintage clothing archive for sale in Toronto

http://www.blogto.com/fashion_style/2014/07/massive_vintage_clothing_archive_for_sale_in_toronto/

Edmonton Public Library - Call for Digitized Local Concert Poster Collections

http://epllocalmusic.tumblr.com/post/92665636963/call-for-digitized-local-concert-poster-collections

Burlington photographer donates 500,000 negatives to Hamilton Public Library (Ont.)

http://www.insidehalton.com/news-story/4642623-burlington-photographer-donates-500-000-negatives-to-hamilton-public-library/

Do you have photos to lend Baycrest Museum for an exhibition about the history of medicine in Toronto’s Jewish community

http://jewishgenealogytoronto.com/2014/07/do-you-have-photos-to-lend-baycrest.html

Galt Museum & Archives (Alb.) - Sketches of Tommy's Life in France (WWI)

http://www.galtmuseum.com/archives-tommyslife.htm

Township of Esquimalt (B.C.) Launches Archives Digitization Project

http://www.civicinfo.bc.ca/302n.asp?newsid=5853

Brant and Brantford (Ont.) land records moving to Charlotte Street museum

http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/2014/07/20/brant-and-brantford-land-records-moving-to-museum

Amériques / Americas

Washington D.C. launches Freedom of Information Act portal, transparency initiative

http://civsourceonline.com/2014/07/21/washington-d-c-launches-foia-portal-transparency-initiative/

Federal Depository Library Program - Web Archiving

http://www.fdlp.gov/377-projects-active/2020-web-archiving

The dirty truth about missing emails

http://fcw.com/articles/2014/07/18/records-management-disconnect.aspx

Lois Lerner emails reveal gaping open-records loophole

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/20/lois-lerner-emails-reveal-gaping-open-records-loop/

Tale of the Tapes: IRS head confirms investigators have found backup tapes in Lerner probe

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/23/tale-tapes-irs-head-confirms-investigators-have-found-backup-tapes-in-lerner/

Unclassified JFK Assassination Database Still Stored In Top Secret Vault, for Convenience

http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2014/07/unclassified-jfk-assassination-database-still-stored-top-secret-vault-convenience/89435/

Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum Digital Library now Live

http://blogs.archives.gov/carter-chronicle/2014/07/21/new-digital-library-goes-live/

NARA - U.S. World War I Centennial Commission

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/1166/3664694/Rob-Dalessandro-National-Archives-and-Records-Administration

National Archives to Release Restricted Clinton Files on Bin Laden, Al Gore Campaign

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/07/16/national-archives-to-release-restricted-clinton-files-on-bin-laden-al-gore-campaign/

NARA - Relocation of Personnel Records to National Archives at St. Louis

http://blogs.archives.gov/online-public-access/?p=9266

Historic Record of 1918 Cadillac Added to Library of Congress Archive

http://paddocktalk.com/news/html/story-257959.html

Society of American Archivists - Call for Case Studies in Archival Ethics

http://www2.archivists.org/groups/committee-on-ethics-and-professional-conduct/call-for-case-studies-in-archival-ethics

Delaware's new data destruction law takes effect January 1, 2015

http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=996e814b-c701-40e8-a04d-be990c0f6790

Arkansas Historical Commission Relaunches Online Digital Archives

http://swtimes.com/features/arkansas-historical-commission-relaunches-online-digital-archives

www.Ulukau.org holds a digital archive of Hawaiian language materials

http://www.hawaiibusiness.com/Hawaii-Business/July-2014/wwwUlukauorg-holds-a-digital-archive-of-Hawaiian-language-materials/

Rutgers University - Researcher Builds Archive of Translated Anglo-Saxon Narrative Poetry

http://news.rutgers.edu/news/researcher-builds-archive-translated-anglo-saxon-narrative-poetry/20140721

How Did The Largest Collection Of Hemingway's Writings End Up In Boston?

http://wgbhnews.org/post/how-did-largest-collection-hemingways-writings-end-boston

The Man who Filmed Early Anchorage (Alaska)

http://www.movingimagearchivenews.org/the-man-who-filmed-early-anchorage/

Human rights group donating records to Duke library

http://www.heraldsun.com/news/showcase/x143263104/Human-rights-group-donating-records-to-Duke-library

Elvis' library card, movie script to be auctioned at Graceland

http://ca.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idCAKBN0FS2DZ20140723

Sexual Minorities Archives: Fights to Stay Active in Northampton

http://www.therainbowtimesmass.com/2014/07/23/sexual-minorities-archives-fights-stay-active-northampton/

Understanding the Participatory Culture of the Web: An Interview with Henry Jenkins

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/07/understanding-the-participatory-culture-of-the-web-an-interview-with-henry-jenkins/

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific

Au Japon, avec les conservateurs de jeux vidéo

http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2014/07/17/au-japon-avec-les-conservateurs-de-jeux-video_4452400_4408996.html

Maurice - Mauritius Post : La numérisation des archives en cours

http://www.lematinal.com/news/local/4520-mauritius-post-la-numerisation-des-archives-en-cours.html

India - 1947 Partition Archive: Preserving the Past

http://thediplomat.com/2014/07/partition-preserving-the-past/

Indian Govt looks to provide free access to publicly-funded research works

http://www.medianama.com/2014/07/223-government-open-access-policy/

India - Govt to Implement New Scheme to Archive Films: Javadekar

http://www.outlookindia.com/news/article/Govt-to-Implement-New-Scheme-to-Archive-Films-Javadekar/851213

Europe / Europa

Ukraine - How Web archivists and other digital sleuths are unraveling the mystery of MH17

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/07/21/how-web-archivists-and-other-digital-sleuths-are-unraveling-the-mystery-of-mh17/

Germany puts 700,000 WWI docs online

http://www.thelocal.de/20140723/german-government-wwi-archive-opened-to-public-online

The Russian Government's 7,000 Wikipedia Edits

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/07/20/the-russian-governments-7000-wikipedia-edits/

Romanian cave holds some of the oldest human footprints

http://www.sciencenews.org/article/romanian-cave-holds-some-oldest-human-footprints

Failed sale of 1869 Karl Marx letter disappoints Chinese capitalists who set the price too high

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/22/failed-sale-of-1869-karl-marx-letter-disappoints-chinese-capitalists-who-set-the-price-too-high/

Telefonica signs deal to digitise Spanish library archives

http://www.telecompaper.com/news/telefonica-signs-deal-to-digitise-spanish-library-archives--1026907

Google could face criminal proceedings in Italy if it doesn’t clean up its act on privacy

http://gigaom.com/2014/07/22/google-could-face-criminal-proceedings-in-italy-if-it-doesnt-clean-up-its-act-on-privacy/

Venice - How To Scan 50 Miles of Historical Documents Into an Online Archive

http://gizmodo.com/how-to-scan-50-miles-of-historical-documents-into-an-on-1609143001

Belgium - Centenary of the Destruction of the University of Leuven Library

http://rylandscollections.wordpress.com/2014/07/22/centenary-of-the-destruction-of-the-university-of-leuven-library/

Les archives de René Barjavel accueillies par la Bibliothèque nationale de France

http://www.actualitte.com/patrimoine/les-archives-de-rene-barjavel-accueillies-par-la-bnf-51481.htm

Ireland - Cork history catalogue is now available online

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/cork-history-catalogueis-now-available-online-276094.html

Scotland - Warning digital data evidence unreliable

http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/warning-digital-data-evidence-unreliable-1-3482272

Wales - Scores of valuable maps still missing 15 years after they were plundered from National Library

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/scores-valuable-maps-still-missing-7458704

Comparing the UK's three national archives

http://britishgenes.blogspot.ca/2014/07/comparing-uks-three-national-archives.html

How does LAC rate?

http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.ca/2014/07/how-does-lac-rate.html

UK - Open document formats selected to meet user needs

http://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-document-formats-selected-to-meet-user-needs

Terror flight files saved: Pressure grows on ministers to release 'water-damaged' records about rendition of suspects after they dried out

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2695049/Terror-flight-files-saved-Pressure-grows-ministers-release-water-damaged-records-rendition-suspects-dried-out.html

Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland announces first awareness campaign for Records Management

http://www.archives.org.uk/latest-news/ara-announces-first-awareness-campaign-for-records-management.html

At last, a home for black history: the launch of the Black Cultural Archives will show that our presence in the UK is measured in millennium

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/23/black-cultural-archives-understanding-british-history

English Heritage appeals to public to tag vast collection of First World War aerial photos

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/war-and-conflict/first-world-war/art492184-English-Heritage-appeals-public-vast-collection-First-World-War-aerial-photos

WWI time machine: Cambridgeshire history experts to recreate life in 1914

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/Cambridge-First-World-War-Anniversary/SLIDESHOW-WWI-time-machine-Cambridgeshire-history-experts-to-recreate-life-in-1914-20140720060057.htm

Millions of Staffordshire historical records go online

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-28342167

Print or manuscript? Civilité type in early modern England

http://collation.folger.edu/2014/07/print-or-manuscript-civilite-type-in-early-modern-england/

World War One autograph book donated to Cambridge hospital

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-28419718

Secret message found in WW1 kilt

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10988489/Secret-message-found-in-WW1-kilt.html

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

The Politics of 1948 in Israeli Archives

http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/07/the-politics-of-1948-in-israeli-archives.html

International

To Infinity and Beyond: why Metadata Matters

http://www.cdnsciencepub.com/blog/to-infinity-and-beyond-why-metadata-matters.aspx

Records management strategy still in infancy in many enterprises

http://searchcontentmanagement.techtarget.com/feature/Records-management-strategy-still-in-infancy-in-many-enterprises

New technology could spoil your illegal downloading

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2695217/New-technology-spoil-illegal-downloading-Secret-watermarks-record-details-person-pirates-music-TV-file-police.html

The Vinyl Record Meets the 3D Printing Revolution

http://3dprint.com/9465/3d-printed-record/

Digital archaeologists dig up internet's past

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/digital-archaeologists-dig-up-internets-past-20140719-zta4z.html

Conversations about digital information management and digital disposal

http://futureproof.records.nsw.gov.au/conversations-about-digital-information-management-and-digital-disposal/