Thursday 25 September 2014

Vol. 8, no. 4

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat - Policy on Access to Information (Revised Edition)

Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat - Policy on Privacy Protection (Revised Edition)

B.C. Office of the Information and Privacy Commissionner - A Step Backwards: Report Card on Government's Access to Information Responses 

NARA - Automated Electronic Records Management Report and Plan

UK Intellectual Property Office - Orphan Works Diligent Search Guidance for Applicants

National Records of Scotland - Digital Preservation Strategy

Archives de France - Préconisations relatives au tri et à la conservation des archives produites par les communes et structures intercommunales dans leurs domaines d’activité spécifiques

Institut national du patrimoine (France) - Restauration des papiers transparents: orientations bibliographiques 

De la communauté / From the community
IFLA - Guidelines for Planning the Digitization of Rare Book and Manuscript Collections

JISC - Equipment for Image Digitisation Projects Toolkit

Digital Preservation in the Age of Cloud and Big Data

Confederation of Open Access Repositories - Annual Report 2013-2014

Preliminary Declaration of the Digital Human Rights

Article  - What's in a Title? Aboutness versus Intellectual Form in Archival Description

Publications
The Electronic Library, vol. 32, no. 5 (2014)

National Archives of Australia - Government Agencies Information Network Newsletter, no. 8 (September 2014)

Impact Digitisation Centre of Competence News, no. 6 (September 2014)

Thesis - No File left Behind: the Predicament of Archival Appraising in the Digital Age

Book - The Shakespearean Archive: Experiments in New Media from the Renaissance to Postmodernity

Book - Writing Your Family History: a Guide for Family Historians

Book - The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle

Book - Britain's X-traordinary Files

Book - Foundations of Museum Studies: Evolving Systems of Knowledge

Book - The Network Reshapes the Library

Book - Implementing Web-Scale Discovery Services: a Practical Guide for Librarians

Book - Creating a Streaming Video Collection for Your Library

Book - Six Key Communication Skills for Records and Information Managers

Book - Slides and Negatives: Digitizing and Protecting your Vintage Film

Book - Sites of Popular Music Heritage: Memories, Histories, Places

Livre - Intégrer des ressources numériques dans les collections

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Portes ouvertes - Centre de conservation du Québec
28 septembre 2014, Québec

Saanich (B.C.) Remembers WWI: Shelbourne Memorial Trees
October 2, 2014, Saanich

L'histoire de Montréal à travers ses archives
4 octobre 2014, Montréal

Mennonite Archives of Ontario: Mennonite Memories of Migration
October 25, 2014, Waterloo

Current Trends and Future Directions for Digital Imaging in Libraries and Archives
November 10, 2014, London (UK)

Survey Photography and Cultural Heritage in Europe (1851-1945): Expanding the Field
April 14-15, 2015, Warsaw  (Poland)

Webinar - SCAPE Project Webinars (Videos Available)
Tools for Uncovering Preservation Risks in Large Repositories: http://vimeo.com/106590070
Digital Preservation Policy Part I: http://vimeo.com/106578632
Digital Preservation Policy Part II: http://vimeo.com/106579484

Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada - New Home Page

Library and Archives Canada Video - Collaboration

Saskatchewan Archives Video - Saskatchewan and the First Months of World War One

Baladodiffusion - Entretien avec Denis Vaugeois sur le Traité de Paris

Centre d'histoire et d'archives du travail - Questionnaire sur les besoins des syndicats en matière de gestion des documents et des archives

Documentary - Digital Amnesia 

UK National Archives Video - Tracing British Battalions or Regiments During First World War

Tibetan eText Repository

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
For an illuminated time only: light limits 1982 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms display

Canadian Museum for Human Rights - Documents a vital part of our history: first treaty among papers on loan here

Federal government has spent more than $20M on monitoring massive log of keywords

A message to Canadian genealogists from Library and Archives Canada

Traité de Paris: les papiers de la conquête

Le traité de Paris à Québec: l’autre document significatif de l’après-1759

Bringing the Legacy of Residential Schools into the Classroom

Council of Archives New Brunswick - New Brunswick Grant Program

Archives Association of Ontario - Wikipedia and Archeion

Alberta Aviation museum heralds arrival of 96-year-old letter

Newfoundland - A soldier lost, then found: records of First World War naval veteran uncovered 100 years later

Calgary - Glenbow library and archives could be on the move: institution looks to change its mandate amidst continued financial shortfalls

Archives de Montréal - Montréal en 1914 et en 1964

Archives bien fournies au musée de la Gaspésie

Plus de 600 000 $ pour l'aménagement du Centre d'archives Mgr-Antoine-Racine de Sherbrooke

Manitoba - Mise à niveau des ordinateurs au Centre du patrimoine de Saint-Boniface

Ontario - Archive fever hits ceramics gallery

Huntsville (Ont.) - Municipal archive hot topic at mayoral debate

Vaughan (Ont.) - Researching the History of a Property

Chilliwack (B.C.) Poppy project will create interactive map of WWI soldiers

Bowen (B.C.) biographies at the Archives

Afrique / Africa
Maroc - De la culture du secret à la culture de la transparence

Amériques / Americas
Colombia - FARC Demand Declassification of Paramilitary Related Archives

17th-Century Manuscript Detailing Early History of Aztec Nation Returns to Mexico

Archives départementales de Guyane: des documents historiques bradés sur eBay

Guyane - Aux Archives, la saga continue

Guyane - Archives : « les documents n'ont pas été volés »

U.S. - House Approves Federal Records Accountability Act

On the Trail of Nazi Counterfeiters: with the recent declassification of hundreds of CIA case files, some strange tales of history have come to light

Online court archive PACER says it will restore access to missing records

Keeping track for the National Archives and Records Administration

A Glimpse Into NASA's New History Archives

Crowdsourcing Consortium for Libraries & Archives (CCLA) Kicks Off with Inaugural Meeting in Boston

Previously Unidentified, 101-Year-Old Film Footage Discovered in Museum of Modern Art’s Collection is The Earliest Known Feature Film Made with Black Actors

Emerging Collaborations for Accessing and Preserving Email

Massachusetts Secretary of State regularly keeps government records secret

Utah State Archives has a problem

Books, archives survive in chilly home: secrets of the Pennsylvania Capitol

Governor Beebe donates archives to Arkansas State University

Boston College - The Belfast Project That Students Forgot

Lost Ansel Adams Negatives Owner Sues Attorney for Fraud

We’re All Digital Archivists Now: an Interview with Sibyl Schaefer (Head of Digital Programs at the Rockefeller Archive Center)

Maryland - We need a Wayback Machine for all cultural archives: Edward Papenfuse

Visiting Kurdish delegation to receive Iraqi secret police documents from University of Colorado Boulder human rights archive 

Tom Hayden, counterculture icon, invites public to dig into his archives

Happy birthday, Boston. Here’s the city’s oldest document

Archivist explores Oklahoma City's past in records project

Archive of Pioneering Astronomer George Willis Ritchey to be Offered at Bonhams

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia - National Film and Sound Archives: caring for two million collection items

Australia - Victoria: Records management on trial? Justice Legislation Amendment (Discovery, Disclosure and Other Matters) Act 2014  

New Zealand freedom of information (FoI) model urged for South Australia

Weirder than old: the CP/M File System and Legacy Disk Extracts for New Zealand’s Department of Conservation

National Diet Library - Conservation work on local documents damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake completed

India - Soon, you can own radio, TV, film digital content from government archives

India - Rare Sanskrit manuscripts crying for attention

India - Srinagar: 60% of police records destroyed?

Europe / Europa
Roll-out of Archivportal-D: Germany’s archives now online and easier to access

Germany - Hamburg's transparency portal goes live

Romania to open communist-era crimes trial

Files of Slovak communist agents still in Czech Republic

République Tchèque - La grande aventure de la numérisation des livres

Vatican reveals unpublished Armenian genocide documents from its secret Archives

Suisse - Plongée dans les archives à l'occasion de l'inauguration de la gare Cornavin (Genève)

France - Françoise Banat-Berger nommée directrice des Archives nationales

Napoléon et Joséphine, un contrat de mariage à 437.500 euros

France - Stockage des données électroniques, SAE et système d’information des archives

France - L'Opéra Comique dévoile ses archives sur Internet

Des brebis aux Archives de Paris: l'expérience d’éco-pâturage initiée aux Archives de Paris est une belle et sympathique réussite

France - Comment prendre en charge des documents numériques sans plate-forme d’archivage numérique ?

Project discovers hundreds of lost Scottish golf courses

Wales - National Library staff suffer 20% pay cut

UK National Archives - Indian infantry unit war diaries go online

Findmypast.co.uk publishes National School Admission Registers, 1870-1914

British Museum to be digitally recreated in Minecraft

Victoria & Albert Museum acquires Peter Brook archive

Rare Jane Austen Manuscript Goes on Exhibit

Historians hope to save historical Hulton Archive

The 10 strangest freedom of information requests

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Saudi Arabia - Rare Photo Archive of Prophet’s Mosque to Go on Auction

A 300-years-old endowment document found in Lebanon's Tripoli

Les archives égyptiennes apporteront un nouveau éclairage sur la personnalité de Salah Ben Youssef

International
The state of document security in a post-Snowden world

Why were corporate wide records systems in the paper age so much more successful than those in the digital age?

SCAPE (Scalable Preservation Environment) Project Ends on the 30th of September

American and Lithuanian institutions to merge Jewish archives online

Box, une boîte dans le nuage à surveiller

Présentation préliminaire du schéma VITAM conçu pour le versement d’archives: exemples d'utilisation