Vol. 7, no. 30

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

Archives New Zealand - Appraisal Framework and Statement

http://archives.govt.nz/advice/guidance-and-standards/appraisal-and-disposal-information/appraisal-framework-and-statement

 

Born-Digital U.S. Federal Government Information: Preservation and Access

http://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/Leviathan%20Jacobs%20Report%20CRL%20R3.pdf

UK - The Copyright and Rights in Performances (Research, Education, Libraries and Archives) Regulations

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111112755/contents

State Records Office of Western Australia - Strategic Plan 2014-2018

http://www.sro.wa.gov.au/sites/default/files/sro_strategic_plan_2014_-_2018.pdf

Queensland State Archives - General Retention and Disposal Schedule for Administrative Records (Version 7)

http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/Recordkeeping/RetentionDisposal/Pages/GRDS.aspx

De la communauté / From the community

Archives Association of Ontario - Archives in Wikipedia Survey Results

http://aao-archivists.ca/archeion-news/319-archives-in-wikipedia-survey-results

An Introduction to the Digital Public Library of America Metadata Model

http://dp.la/info/2014/03/25/intro-dpla-metadata-model/

Guidance Documents for Lifecycle Management of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

http://www.educopia.org/publishing/gdlmetd

 

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - CSV on the Web Use Cases and Requirements and Model for Tabular Data and Metadata

http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3758

Article - A Tool for Personal Data Extraction

http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~amelie/papers/2014/neemi_iiweb14.pdf

Publications

Archival Practice, vol. 1, no. 1 (2014)

http://libjournal.uncg.edu/index.php/ap/issue/view/83

International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 14, no. 1-2 (April 2014)

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

Information Standards Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 1 (Spring 2014)

http://www.niso.org/publications/isq/2014/v26no1/

The Electronic Library, vol. 32, no. 2 (2014)

http://ow.ly/v6bHE

Mémoire collective: revue trimestrielle du Centre d'archives de la région de Rivière-du-Loup, vol. 3. no. 1 (Printemps 2014)

http://gfol1.centrearchivesrdl.org/download/Volume_3__numero_1_ws1022234448.pdf

Book - Auditing for Records and Information Management Program Compliance (ARMA International 25-2014)

http://www.arma.org/go/prod/A4947

Book - Consultation and Cultural Heritage: Let us Reason Together

http://www.lcoastpress.com/book.php?id=504

 

Book - Holocaust Memory Reframed: Museums and the Challenges of Representation

http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/product/Holocaust-Memory-Reframed,5168.aspx

 

Book - Mapping Medieval Geographies: Geographical Encounters in the Latin West and Beyond, 300-1600

http://www.cambridge.org/ca/academic/subjects/history/european-history-1000-1450/mapping-medieval-geographies-geographical-encounters-latin-west-and-beyond-3001600

Livre - L'archivistique à l'ère du numérique: les éléments fondamentaux de la discipline

http://www.puq.ca/catalogue/collections/archivistique-ere-numerique-2221.html

 

Livre - Les archives se récolent

http://www.archivistes.org/Les-archives-se-récolent

Livre - Anita Conti : portrait d'archives

http://www.locus-solus.fr/produit/37/9782368330104/ANITA%20CONTI

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives Workshop: Basic Archives

April 7-11, 2014, St. John’s

http://anla.nf.ca/basic-archives-an-introduction-to-archival-practice

1st Annual Symposium of Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) McGill Student Chapter

April 8, 2014, Montreal

http://www.mcgill.ca/sis/node/2707

From the Bankruptcy of Science to the Death of Evidence: Science and its Value

April 10, 2014, Ottawa

http://www.facebook.com/events/819874048026027/

Council of Nova Scotia Archives Spring Conference

May 29-30, 2014, Halifax

http://www.councilofnsarchives.ca/node/433

Webinar - Storage Solutions for Digital Preservation

April 14, 2014

http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/aparsen-webinar-on-storage-solutions-for-digital-preservation/

Audiotape Playback Workshop

May 14, 2014, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)

http://www.arsc-audio.org/conference/pdf/2014_TC_Workshop_Flyer_FINAL.pdf

Qui archive le web et comment?

27 mai 2014, Berne (Suisse)

http://kost-ceco.ch/cms/index.php?id=4,403,0,0,1,0

Sur le web / On the web

Collections Online: Canadian Museum of Nature new site with 710,000 natural history records

http://nature.ca/en/about-us/museum-news/news/press-releases/collections-online-canadian-museum-nature-launches-new-site

Canadian Conservation Institute - Technical Bulletins and Symposia Proceedings Available Online for Free

Symposia and Colloquia: http://www.cci-icc.gc.ca/publications/category-categorie-eng.aspx?id=19

Technical Bulletins: http://www.cci-icc.gc.ca/publications/category-categorie-eng.aspx?id=18

 

Slidecast - Revisiting Canada's First Aerial Photography of 1882-1883

http://www.laqt.org/congres2013/presentations/Werle.pdf

Vidéo - Qu'est-ce que les humanités numériques ?

http://plus.franceculture.fr/qu-est-ce-que-les-humanites-numeriques

UK National Archives - CSV Schema and Validator

http://digital-preservation.github.io/csv-validator/

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Canadian Copyright Institute rebuffed in efforts to open dialogue on fair dealing

http://www.quillandquire.com/google/article.cfm?article_id=12742

Opinion - The feds have been closing the libraries of its departments and commissions as a way to cut the budget deficit, but a deficit of knowledge may be worse

http://www.lfpress.com/2014/03/21/the-feds-have-been-closing-the-libraries-of-its-departments-and-commissions-as-a-way-to-cut-the-budget-deficit-but-a-deficit-of-knowledge-may-be-worse

Library and Archives of Canada install new DFT Scanity

http://dft-film.com/news/LAC-250314.html

Obituary - Barbara Wilson (former archivist at the Public/National Archives of Canada)

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ottawacitizen/obituary.aspx?n=barbara-wilson&pid=170346343&fhid=5973

Divisional Court certifies copyright infringement case against Ontario’s land registry system managers

http://business.financialpost.com/2014/03/26/divisional-court-certifies-copyright-infringement-case-against-ontarios-land-registry-system-managers/

Newfoundland and Labrador - Rooms honours sealing disaster: talks, film, archival materials used to tell tragic tale of 1914

http://www.thetelegram.com/News/2014-03-27/article-3664830/Rooms-honours-sealing-disaster/1

City of Vancouver Archives - First wave of BC Sugar records now available

http://www.vancouverarchives.ca/2014/03/first-wave-of-bc-sugar-records-now-available/

Pointe-à-Callière fait l’acquisition d’une importante collection de cartes postales de Montréal

http://www.pacmusee.qc.ca/fr/actualites/pointe-a-calliere-fait-l-acquisition-d-une-importante-collection-de-cartes-postales-de-montreal

Baffling coded messages discovered at Western University

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/03/23/baffling_coded_messages_discovered_at_western_university.html

Lecture revisits University of Western Ontario's Archives and Tecumseh’s death

http://communications.uwo.ca/western_news/stories/2014/March/lecture_revisits_westerns_archives_and_tecumsehs_death_.html

Pioneers of transgender activism: historical images from the Transgender Archive at the University of Victoria

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/photos/pioneers-of-transgender-activism-1.2581912

Cramahe (Ont.) archive project will continue

http://ow.ly/uPG6J

Nanaimo (B.C.) - Letter to the Editor: City’s record-keeping outdated

http://www.nanaimobulletin.com/opinion/letters/251990731.html

Can Big Data 'Solve' Climate Change?

http://thetyee.ca/News/2014/03/20/Can-Big-Data-Solve-Climate-Change/

Afrique / Africa

Africa Regional Conference on Freedom of Information Implementation: Public institutions urged to strengthen information and record management structures

http://businessdayonline.com/2014/03/public-institutions-urged-to-strengthen-information-and-record-management-structures/

 

Rwanda: MPs Want More Funding for Gacaca Archives Conservation

http://allafrica.com/stories/201403260075.html

Institutionalizing Memory: the Creation of Sierra Leone’s First Peace Museum

http://www.towardfreedom.com/30-archives/africa/3486-institutionalizing-memory-the-creation-of-sierra-leone-s-first-peace-museum

Amériques / Americas

Haïti - Présentation de 30 ans d’archives numérisées de Radio Haïti Inter, 14 ans après l’assassinat de Jean Dominique

http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article16199

Archival standards: an interview with NARA

http://duff-johnson.com/2014/03/21/archival-standards-an-interview-with-nara/

NARA - Calling Citizen Archivists to Crowdsource Video Captions

http://blogs.archives.gov/online-public-access/

Alaska - Archivists Rally to Keep National Archives in Anchorage

http://www.alaskapublic.org/2014/03/25/archivists-rally-to-keep-national-archives-in-anchorage/

NARA - New Katyń Documents Declassified in 2013 and 2014

http://blogs.archives.gov/ndc/2014/03/25/new-katyn-documents-declassified-in-2013-and-2014/

Sinkhole of bureaucracy: deep underground, federal employees process paperwork by hand in a long-outdated, inefficient system

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/03/22/sinkhole-of-bureaucracy/

Air Force Digitizes Administrative Records for Installations

http://www.fedweek.com/item-view.php?tbl=15&ID=147&a=b

Newly Declassified Intelligence Satellite Imagery is Hard to Access

http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2014/03/imagery-access/

Boston College tapes led to charge over McConville’s disappearance

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/ireland/article1391204.ece

Industry Groups Collaborate on Metadata

http://www.homemediamagazine.com/news/industry-groups-collaborate-metadata-32868

Photographers React to Getty Copyright Move

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/photo-news/540489/photographers-react-to-getty-copyright-move

ProQuest Completes Digitization of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Papers

http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1807527

American Museum of Natural History - Darwin Manuscripts Project Will Transcribe Botanical Manuscripts

http://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/news-posts/darwin-manuscripts-project-will-transcribe-botanical-manuscripts

Pennsylvania company builds vast Vietnam War film archive

http://www.armytimes.com/article/20140323/NEWS/303230028/Pa-company-builds-vast-Vietnam-War-film-archive

The Internet Archive Wants to Digitize 40,000 VHS And Betamax Tapes

http://www.fastcompany.com/3028069/the-internet-archive-is-digitizing-40000-vhs-tapes

Preserving Audio for the Future is a Race Against Time

http://www.npr.org/2014/03/22/291420005/preserving-audio-for-the-future-is-a-race-against-time

Digital Culture is Mass Culture: an interview with Digital Conservator Dragan Espenschied

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/03/digital-culture-is-mass-culture-an-interview-with-digital-conservator-dragan-espenschied/

Unprinted images of Kurt Cobain suicide found in archive

http://www.qt.com.au/news/unprinted-images-kurt-cobain-suicide-found-archive/2206144/

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific

The National Library of Australia has opened public access to a collection of Commonwealth Government websites

http://www.psnews.com.au/Page_psn402f6.html

Australia - Smallpox vaccine specimen discovered in New South Wales archives

http://media.uow.edu.au/releases/UOW167904.html

Historic Taiwan feminist archive moves to Tamkang University

http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=215624&ctNode=445

 

Vietnam - Des expériences dans la conservation des documents numériques

http://fr.vietnamplus.vn/Home/Des-experiences-dans-la-conservation-des-documents-numeriques/20143/40103.vnplus

Hong Kong must stop dodging issue of an archives law

http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1457262/hong-kong-must-stop-dodging-issue-archives-law

China releases evidence of Korean women forced into sexual slavery

http://www.arirang.co.kr/News/News_View.asp?nseq=159709

India - 1962 War records destroyed to cover up lapses

http://www.sunday-guardian.com/news/1962-war-records-destroyed-to-cover-up-lapses

 

India - 1984 riots: Court dismisses plea to prosecute cops for destroying files

http://www.firstpost.com/india/1984-riots-court-dismisses-plea-to-prosecute-cops-for-destroying-files-1450149.html

India’s Epic Reunited: Finest Surviving Illustrated Manuscript of the Ramayana Now Digitised and Available Online

http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/Press-Releases/INDIA-S-EPIC-REUNITED-finest-surviving-illustrated-manuscript-of-the-Ramayana-now-digitised-and-ava-690.aspx

India - The disappearing tribe of India's letter writers

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-26379747

India - Project to digitize library archives

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Project-to-digitize-library-archives/articleshow/32694111.cms

Europe / Europa

European Union Parliament breakfast discusses the copyright needs of libraries

http://www.ifla.org/node/8507

 

Preserving History as it Happens: the Internet Archive and the Crimean Crisis

http://activehistory.ca/2014/03/preserving-history-as-it-happens/

Slovenia - Coalition Opposes Coupling of Archives Referendum with European Union Elections

http://www.sta.si/en/vest.php?s=a&id=1992714

Slovenia - SDS (Democratic Party) Files Signatures for Archives Referendum

http://www.sta.si/en/vest.php?s=a&id=1993077

Belarus’ Historical Archive publishes documents about First World War

http://news.belta.by/en/news/society?id=743321

Over 1 million Spanish newspaper pages labeled as public domain

http://openglam.org/2014/03/26/over-1-million-spanish-newspaper-pages-labeled-as-public-domain/

 

Operational for 50 Years: United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus launches online archive of iconic magazine

http://famagusta-gazette.com/operational-for-years-unficyp-launches-online-archive-of-iconic-magazin-p22849-69.htm

Archive of Austrian resistance gets a new boss with fresh ideas

http://austrianindependent.com/news/General_News/2014-03-26/15236/Archive_of_Austrian_resistance_gets_a_new_boss_with_fresh_ideas

Vatican Radio’s digitalization of its sound archives containing the Popes’ voices

http://ow.ly/uYlru

Dutch student offers up all his personal data to highest bidder

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-03/26/shawn-buckles-sells-his-data-soul

Guerre 14-18: la Radio Télévision Belge Francophone cherche des archives

http://www.lavenir.net/article/detail.aspx?articleid=dmf20140325_00453607

France - La donnée va faire son entrée dans le Code du patrimoine, la mutualisation encouragée

http://blog.grandesvilles.org/4343/administration-electronique/dematerialisation/la-donnee-va-faire-son-entree-dans-le-code-des-archives-la-mutualisation-encouragee/

France - Le testament de Philippe Auguste

http://www.connaissancedesarts.com/civilisation/actus/video-le-testament-de-philippe-auguste-105942.php

Scotland - Interview: artist AR Hopwood discusses The False Memory Archive

http://www.list.co.uk/article/59730-interview-artist-ar-hopwood-discusses-the-false-memory-archive/

Lack of social media archiving exposes UK businesses to risk 

http://www.information-age.com/technology/information-management/123457836/lack-social-media-archiving-exposes-uk-businesses-risk

Trading archives chart how Britain's taste for tea grew

http://phys.org/news/2014-03-archives-britain-tea-grew.html

The changing shape of UK weather: historic maps show 142 years of rain, sun and wind 

http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/466012/Archives-show-changing-shape-of-weather-maps-throughout-the-past-142-years

Joanna Trollope donates archive to Oxford University's Bodleian Library

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/25/joanna-trollope-oxford-university-bodleian-library

Wellcome Library (London) - We’re digitising 25,000 19th-century medical books

http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/03/were-digitising-25000-19th-century-medical-books/

WW1 archives taken from Derbyshire record office

http://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/grassroots/ww1-archives-taken-from-record-office-1-6517482

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

Israel - 35 years after peace treaty, archives declassify documents

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=16433

International

Data Mining the Internet Archive Collection

http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/data-mining-the-internet-archive

 

Digitising Audiovisual Collections - Outsourcing vs. In-house approach

http://www.prestocentre.org/blog/digitising-audiovisual-collections-outsourcing-vs.-house-approach

The strengths and weaknesses of the information governance approach to records management

http://thinkingrecords.co.uk/2014/03/21/the-strengths-and-weaknesses-of-the-information-governance-approach-to-records-management/

What Could Curation Possibly Mean?

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/03/what-could-curation-possibly-mean/

 

Born Digital Literary Remains: Libraries Await the Digital Archives of Longing

http://agogified.com/1290

Lack of social media archiving creates legal minefield 

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240216664/Data-explosion-and-inadequate-archiving-creates-legal-minefield

Comment démasquer les faux livres rares ?

http://bibliobs.nouvelobs.com/actualites/20140318.OBS0265/comment-demasquer-les-faux-livres-rares.html

Why Vinyl is the Only Worthwhile Way to Own Music

http://gizmodo.com/why-vinyl-is-the-only-worthwhile-way-to-own-music-1527750499

Vol. 7, no. 29

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

NARA - Automated Electronic Records Management: Managing Government Records Directive (Draft for Review)

http://blogs.archives.gov/records-express/2014/03/10/comment-and-discuss-the-automated-electronic-records-management-report-and-plan/

The Unintended Consequences of Privacy Paternalism

http://www.privacybydesign.ca/content/uploads/2014/03/pbd-privacy_paternalism.pdf

Archives de France - Préconisations relatives au tri et à la conservation des archives des délégués du Défenseur des droits

http://www.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/static/7382

UK National Archives - Triennial Review Findings on the Advisory Council on National Records and Archives

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/920.htm

Hong Kong Office of the Ombudsman - Direct Investigations into the Access to Information Regime and Public Records Management

http://ofomb.ombudsman.hk/abc/files/OmbudsNews_E-20_3_2014.pdf

See also: http://www.scmp.com/business/article/1453449/yet-another-damning-report-government-archives

UK Parliament - Freedom of Information and Ministerial Vetoes: House of Commons Library Standard Note

http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/sn05007/foi-and-ministerial-vetoes

De la communauté / From the community

The State of Digital Publishing in Canada 2013

http://www.booknetcanada.ca/storage/research-education/state-of-digital-publishing/BNC_Research_TheStateofDigitalPublishinginCanada_2013.pdf

 

4C Project - Quality and Trustworthiness as Economic Determinants in Digital Curation

http://www.4cproject.eu/community-resources/outputs-and-deliverables/d4-3-quality-and-trustworthiness-as-economic-determinants-in-digital-curation

 

Info Kit - High Level Digitisation for Audiovisual Resources

http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/infokit/audiovisual-digitisation/audiovisual-digitisation-home

 

Durable Architectural Knowledge Project - Current State of 3D Object Digital Preservation and Gap Analysis Report

http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/32435426

A Modest Proposal for Improving Access to Archives and Other Records

http://www.descriptionguy.com/images/WEBSITE/A-Modest-Proposal.pdf

Institut français - Humanités numériques : état des lieux et positionnement de la recherche française dans le contexte international

http://www.institutfrancais.com/actualités/humanites-numeriques

Publications

D-Lib Magazine, vol. 20, no. 3-4 (March-April 2014)

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march14/03contents.html

 

À rayon ouvert: chroniques de Bibliothèque et archives nationales du Québec, no. 94 (Hiver 2014)

http://www.banq.qc.ca/documents/a_propos_banq/nos_publications/a_rayons_ouverts/ARO_94.pdf

 

The Journal of Electronic Publishing, vol. 17, no. 1 (Winter 2014)

http://ow.ly/uGMlt

Maple Ridge Historical Society (B.C.) Family History Newsletter (March 2014)

http://www.mapleridgemuseum.org/06_family/files/2014/FHG_March2014.pdf

eBook gratuit - Pratiques de l’édition numérique

http://www.parcoursnumeriques-pum.ca/pratiques

Book - Using Primary Sources: Hands-On Instructional Exercises

http://www.abc-clio.com/product.aspx?isbn=9781610694346

 

Book - Outsourcing Technology: a Practical Guide for Librarians

http://rowman.com/ISBN/9780810892484

Book - The Myth of Piers Plowman: Constructing a Medieval Literary Archive

http://www.cambridge.org/ca/academic/subjects/literature/anglo-saxon-and-medieval-literature/myth-piers-plowman-constructing-medieval-literary-archive

  

Book - Proactive Data Mining with Decision Trees

http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/book/978-1-4939-0538-6

Book - Perspectives on Privacy: Increasing Regulation in the USA, Canada, Australia and European Countries

http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/212480

Livre - Ancêtres paysans : mieux les découvrir à travers les archives

http://www.archivesetculture.fr/livre-archives-et-culture-genealogie-ancetres-paysans-413.html

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Hidden Treasures: Celebrating 100 Years of Yiddish Song and Montreal Poets

March 30, 2014, Montreal

http://www.jewishpubliclibrary.org/media/events/8963/03-30-yiddish-cafe.pdf

Council of Archives New Brunswick Annual General Meeting 2014

May 23, 2014, Fredericton

http://canbarchives.ca/canb/532/Annual-General-Meeting-2014

Colloque international archives / déplier l'histoire

25 avril 2014, Bruxelles

http://www.quefaire.be/colloque-international-494758.shtml

Scottish Records Association Conference on Common Lands and Common Good

November 6, 2014, Linlithgow (Scotland)

http://www.scottishrecordsassociation.org/index.php/news/30-news-events/latest-news/81-call-for-papers-scottish-records-association-conference-on-common-lands-and-common-good

Archives 2.0: Saving the Past, Anticipating the Future

November 25-26, 2014, Bradford (UK)

http://britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blogs/cfp-archives-2-0-saving-the-past-anticipating-the-future-25-26-no

Sur le web / On the web

Video - Historic photographs donated to University of British Columbia

http://globalnews.ca/video/1216752/historic-photographs-donated

See also: http://news.ubc.ca/2014/03/18/1-2m-ubc-photo-collection-offers-priceless-glimpse-into-b-c-history/

National Archives of Australia - Forced Adoption History Project

http://forcedadoptions.naa.gov.au/

Press Release: http://www.naa.gov.au/about-us/media/media-releases/2014/15.aspx

Podcast - Head of Archive and Library at the UK National Maritime Museum : Current and Future Roles and Challenges for Archives

http://www.britishnavalhistory.com/making-history-podcast-2-archives/

UK National Archives Podcast - Spies like us: The secret life of Ernest Oldham

http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/spies-like-us-secret-life-ernest-oldham/

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Conservatives painting Government of Canada website blue, organizing by themes not departments, NDP says new look obscuring sensitive facts

http://www.hilltimes.com/news/politics/2014/03/19/conservatives-painting-government-of-canada-website-blue-organizing-by-themes/37894

Info czar loses key case over Defence delays

http://thechronicleherald.ca/canada/1193506-info-czar-loses-key-case-over-defence-delays

Information act ‘terribly outdated,’ NDP MP says

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Information+terribly+outdated+says/9632802/story.html

Court of Queen's Bench of New Brunswick - Screencap of Facebook conversation is “electronic document” under the Evidence Act

http://www.it-can.ca/2014/03/20/screencap-facebook-conversation-electronic-document-evidence-act/

Commission des relations du travail du Québec - Une bande vidéo est un document technologique

http://www.it-can.ca/2014/03/20/une-bande-video-est-un-document-technologique/

Why is this the most popular archival photo in Toronto?

http://www.blogto.com/city/2014/03/why_is_this_the_most_popular_archival_photo_in_toronto/

Go back in time: Vintage Toronto photos shared on Twitter

http://knlive.ctvnews.ca/go-back-in-time-vintage-toronto-photos-shared-on-twitter-1.1724476

 

University of Waterloo - New collections open for research

http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/discipline/SpecColl/2013archives.html

Grande Prairie (Alb.) - City Hall exhibits mark centennial

http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/2014/03/13/city-hall-exhibits-mark-centennial

Hythe (Alb.) historians honoured by South Peace Regional Archives Society 

http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/2014/03/16/hythe-historians-honoured-by-spra

The Examiner donates archives to Westmount (Que.)

http://www.westmountexaminer.com/Community/2014-03-18/article-3654234/The-Examiner-donates-archives-to-Westmount/1

Courtenay and District Museum (B.C.) - Photos in the Attic?

http://www.courtenaymuseum.ca/photos-attic/

Québec - Sortir l’archiviste de l’ombre (Partie 3)

http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/sortir-larchiviste-de-lombre-partie-3/

Afrique / Africa

Google Cultural Institute launches 1st Nigerian historical archive in partnership with Pan African University

http://www.360nobs.com/2014/03/google-cultural-institute-launches-1st-nigerian-historical-archive-in-partnership-with-pan-african-university/

Netia, Archives du Monde, Digitize Togo’s Audio Treasures

http://www.radioworld.com/article/netia-archives-du-monde-digitize-togo's-audio-treasures/269483

Les archives royales aux archives nationales de Madagascar

http://www.archivesnationales.gov.mg/2014/03/1116/

Mali launches an inventory of intangible cultural heritage

http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/en/news/Mali-launches-an-inventory-of-intangible-cultural-heritage-00084

Mali - Le délicat sauvetage des manuscrits de Tombouctou

http://www.la-croix.com/Culture/Actualite/Le-delicat-sauvetage-des-manuscrits-de-Tombouctou-2014-03-19-1122622

Amériques / Americas

Signings of times: US archives show history by pen

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/353248/lifestyle/artandculture/signings-of-times-us-archives-show-history-by-pen

 

The Menace of Overclassification

http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/the-menace-of-overclassification/

Editorial: Keep Alaska's archives in Alaska

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2014-03-19/editorial-keep-alaskas-archives-alaska

Maryland man may have found two lost or forgotten photos of Lincoln’s funeral procession

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/maryland-man-may-have-found-two-forgotten-photos-of-lincolns-funeral-procession/2014/03/19/8f5f5fa6-ade6-11e3-96dc-d6ea14c099f9_story.html

State Dept. seeking ways to keep access open to Iraqi Jewish Archive

http://www.jta.org/2014/03/17/news-opinion/united-states/state-dept-seeking-ways-to-keep-access-open-to-iraqi-jewish-archive

Archiving project earns Oregon Heritage Excellence Award

http://around.uoregon.edu/content/archiving-project-earns-oregon-heritage-excellence-award

Ohio State gives cartoon history a big new home

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-03-13/travel/ct-trav-0316-ohio-cartoon-museum-20140313_1_cartoon-art-chester-gould-galleries

Digital project archives personal accounts of Boston Marathon bombing, aftermath

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20140318/NEWS/140316345

Behind the Scenes at the Coca-cola Archives

http://www.coca-colacompany.com/coca-cola-unbottled/a-world-of-stories-behind-the-scenes-at-the-coca-cola-archives

Resident jazzes up University of Nevada, Las Vegas vinyl archive with 10,000 records

http://www.reviewjournal.com/view/paradise/resident-jazzes-unlv-vinyl-archive-10000-records

Find teacups, manuscripts and sex toys in California State University, Northridge’s Special Collections and Archives

http://sundial.csun.edu/2014/03/find-manuscripts-books-and-sex-toys-in-csuns-special-collection-and-archives/

University of California, Berkeley hires first Wikipedian-in-residence

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/others/news/uc-berkeley-hires-first-wikipedian-in-residence-497431

Story Corps: Preserving Family History, One Memory at a Time

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/business/preserving-family-history-one-memory-at-a-time.html

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific

New home for John Howard (former Australia Prime Minister) collection at University of New South Wales

http://www.naa.gov.au/about-us/media/media-releases/2014/16.aspx

Australia - Welcome the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office to The Commons (Flickr)

http://blog.flickr.net/en/2014/03/18/welcome-the-tasmanian-archive-and-heritage-office-to-the-commons/

National Archives of the Philippines issues guidelines to facilitate systematic records recovery after disaster 

http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=1141394806231

Ancient Prescriptions From Tibet

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/14/arts/design/ancient-prescriptions-from-tibet.html

China restricts academic access to historical archives

http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20140311231740373

Polynésie française - Trésors archivistiques : Musique pa’umotu des années 30

http://www.tahiti-infos.com/Tresors-archivistiques-Musique-pa-umotu-des-annees-30_a96668.html

Taiwan - Les archives de la fondation Awakening versées au fonds documentaire de l’Université Tamkang

http://ow.ly/uJn5i

Europe / Europa

A European Journey: The Archives Portal Europe

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/blog/2014/03/a-european-journey-the-archives-portal-europe/

Activists, Soldiers Move to Protect Libraries in Ukraine

http://publishingperspectives.com/2014/03/activists-soldiers-move-to-protect-libraries-in-ukraine/

 

Ukraine maps chart Crimea's troubled past

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26476314

 

Apocalypse la 1ère guerre mondiale : des archives exceptionnelles

http://fr.news.yahoo.com/apocalypse-1ère-guerre-mondiale-archives-exceptionnelles-183000745.html

Slovenia - Commission Calls for Responsibility for Destruction of SDV (Yugoslav-era secret service) Archives

http://www.sta.si/en/vest.php?s=a&id=1989558

Russian Defense Ministry develops WWI website

http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/politics/52650.html

Vatican Library digitizing its archives and will put them online

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/353477/scitech/technology/vatican-library-digitizing-its-archives-and-will-put-them-online

Armenia’s National Archives to Compile List of Genocide Victims

http://ow.ly/uO6rY

Negatives Go Digital for Romanian WWI Army Photographer

http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/negatives-go-digital-romanian-wwi-army-photographer-n52331

Italy - Gucci Opens its Archive to the World

http://www.out.com/fashion/truman-says/2014/03/17/gucci-opens-its-archive-world

La Belgique va rendre des caisses d'archives à l'Allemagne

http://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/detail_la-belgique-va-rendre-des-caisses-d-archives-a-l-allemagne?id=8226090

France - Affaire Buisson : l'Elysée prié de récupérer les enregistrements, "archives publiques"

http://www.rtl.fr/actualites/info/politique/article/affaire-buisson-l-elysee-prie-de-recuperer-les-enregistrements-archives-publiques-7770460557

France - L'art contemporain aux Archives Nationales de Pierrefitte

http://www.tourisme93.com/art/l-art-contemporain-aux-archives-nationales-de-pierrefitte.html

Ireland launches project to bring together its digital collections

http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=1533

Christy Brown letters, photos and poems to remain in Ireland

http://www.thejournal.ie/christy-brown-archives-1370433-Mar2014/

National Library of Scotland - Historic maps now online for every town in England and Wales

http://www.nls.uk/news/press/2014/03/historic-maps-england-and-wales

UK - Govt extends Freedom of Information rules to more private firms

http://www.moneymarketing.co.uk/news-and-analysis/politics/govt-extends-freedom-of-information-rules-to-private-firms/2008086.article

UK - Latest batch of archive services receive accreditation

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/919.htm

 

Swansea are first university archives in UK to meet gold standard

http://www.swansea.ac.uk/media-centre/latest-news/swanseaarefirstuniversityarchivesinuktomeetgoldstandard.php

UK Foreign Office excludes public from its public records day

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/17/foreign-office-excludes-public-records-day

 

The British Library acquires two rare manuscripts preventing them from leaving the UK

http://artdaily.com/news/68875/The-British-Library-acquires-two-rare-manuscripts-preventing-them-from-leaving-the-UK

Lost poems of Douglas Adams and Griff Rhys Jones found in school cupboard

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/19/lost-school-poems-douglas-adams-griff-rhys-jones

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

Syrie : César, le mystérieux archiviste des tortures du régime

http://www.lepoint.fr/monde/syrie-cesar-le-mysterieux-archiviste-des-tortures-du-regime-14-03-2014-1801284_24.php

World's largest collection of Dead Sea Scrolls to get new home in Jerusalem

http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/world-s-largest-collection-of-dead-sea-scrolls-to-get-new-home-in-jerusalem-1.1734161

Cleveland foundation announces gift to Israeli archaeological archives

http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/03/20/cleveland-foundation-announces-gift-to-israeli-archaeological-archives/

Copyright as Censorship: Turkey's Prime Minister Copyrights his Recorded Calls to Get them off YouTube

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140313/17054426573/copyright-as-censorship-turkeys-prime-minister-copyrights-his-recorded-calls-to-get-them-off-youtube.shtml

Ban Ki-moon regrets no progress on Kuwaiti remains, archives

http://www.menafn.com/1093787519/Ban-regrets-no-progress-on-Kuwaiti-remains-archives

Afghanistan - Government Ministries, Administrations Should Submit Historic Documents to National Archive

http://www.bakhtarnews.com.af/eng/culture/item/11400-government-ministries-administrations-should-submit-historic-documents-to-national-archive.html

International

Cloud archive pros and cons and the questions to ask providers

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240216273/Cloud-archive-pros-and-cons-and-the-questions-to-ask-providers

 

Web archiving: an antidote to 'present shock'?

http://www.nla.gov.au/blogs/web-archiving/2014/03/18/web-archiving-an-antidote-to-present-shock

Bit rot: the Internet never forgets, or does it?

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/3/18/bit-rot-the-internetneverforgetsaordoesit.html

International Ediscovery: Best Practices Around the World

http://www.theediscoveryblog.com/2014/02/19/international-ediscovery-best-practices-around-world/

Golden Age of Discovery ... Down in the Basements

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/20/arts/artsspecial/golden-age-of-discovery-down-in-the-basements.html

 

How To Extract Sheet Music From YouTube Videos

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3027777/how-to-extract-sheet-music-from-youtube-videos