Thursday 30 April 2015

Vol. 8, no. 35

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
B.C. Government Records Service Guide - Instant and Text Messaging (Updated Version)

Guide Concerning e-Delivery of Documents in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice

Policy Advice on e-mail from Different National Archives

De la communauté / From the community
Modern Special Collections: Embracing the Future While Taking Care of the Past

AVPreserve - Two Metadata Management Tutorials 

Draft Paper - Seven Reasons why we Need an Independent Digital Humanities

Publications
Information & Culture: a Journal of History, vol. 50, no. 2 (2015)

Les Cahiers du numérique, vol. 11, no. 1, 2015 (numéro spécial sur l'archivage numérique des savoirs)

Reference Services Review, vol. 43, no. 2 (2015)

Daguerreotype Journal, Year 2, no. 2 (Spring 2015)

Canadian Library Association - Feliciter, vol. 61, no. 1 (2015)

Thèse de doctorat - Le design des programmes des façons de faire du numérique

Library Technology Reports - Coding for Librarians: Learning by Example

Book - Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Competing Narratives in the Middle East 

Book - Flood of Images: Media, Memory, and Hurricane Katrina

Book - The Oxford Guide to Library Research

Book - Art Collections, Private and Public: a Comparative Legal Study

Game - Analogue vs Digital Memory Game

Book - I Hope I don't Intrude: Privacy and its Dilemmas in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Book - Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India

Book - Tracing your Ancestors through Death Records (Second Edition)

Book - The Photographer and the President: Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Gardner, and the Images that Made a Presidency

Livre - La vie algorithmique: critique de la raison numérique

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Educational Archives and Heritage Centre of the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board Doors Open
May 2-3, 2015, Hamilton

Francophones in Alberta: Courage and Determination 
Until June 21, 2015, St. Albert (Alberta)

Webinar - Software Preservation and Use: I Saved the Files But Can I Run Them?
May 13, 2015

Webinar - The Proposed European Union General Data Protection Regulation
May 20, 2015

Government Secrecy in the Era of Openness
June 19, 2015, London (UK)

INFuture2015: e-Institutions: Openness, Accessibility, and Preservation
November 11-13, 2015, Zagreb (Croatia)

International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly (Some Presentations Available)
April 27 - May 1, 2015, Stanford University

Sur le web / On the web
Nouveau site - Ligne du temps de l'histoire des femmes au Québec

Video - David Fricker, e-Government: Policy Responses from the National Archives of Australia

Bibliothèque royale de Belgique - Les journaux numérisés accessibles au public en ligne

U.S. Copyright Office Publishes Index of Fair Use Decisions

Video - Brewster Kahle: Providing Universal Access to Modern Materials and Living to Tell the Tale

Resources for Talk on Archival Ethics, Online Privacy, and the Right to be Forgotten at Personal Digital Archiving 2015

Slidecast - Personal Digital Archiving 2015, Keynote Talk by Howard Besser & Rick Prelinger

Nouveau blogue - Archives municipales de Beaune (France)

Video - New Fields and Feeled Effects: Ted Nelson Keynote at Information Architecture Summit

UK National Archives - Records and Online Resources for Gallipoli Centenary

Sustainable Environment Actionable Data - Version 1.5

Slidecast - Building Sustainability: Preserving Research Data without Breaking the Bank

Vidéo - Nos ordinateurs ont-ils la mémoire courte ?

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
The Power of Backroom Lobbying: how the Recording Industry Got their Copyright Term Extension 

Library and Archives Canada - Wampum belts

On The Road to 2017: Reflecting on Canada’s First World War Commemoration Plans

B.C. government hid or destroyed key records, NDP says

Archives of Manitoba - Hudson's Bay Company & Cable Communications

Ontario Jewish Archives - Jewish pioneers in the motion picture business

University of Northern British Columbia - The Newspapers of Cassiar, B.C.

University of Waterloo - Artifact found among records for archiving

Ryerson University Archives and Special Collections - Designs on Teaching: Alfred Sung at the Ryerson School of Fashion

Cyberjustice - Entente de partenariat entre le ministère français de la Justice et l'Université de Montréal

Université de Montréal - Discerner le vrai du faux sur Internet

Four centuries of history: black Halifax interactive website launches

How a precious blueprint of the Bloor Viaduct got a makeover at the Toronto Archives

Une application pour découvrir l'histoire de Montréal

Montréal corrige des lacunes dans la classification de ses documents

Archives de Montréal - Mise en ligne de 3 fonds d’archives pour souligner le 75e anniversaire de l’obtention du droit de vote des femmes au Québec

Rare photos reveal Waterloo Region’s past

Whitby (Ont.) - Archives resources connect students to the past

Phase I of Cranbrook (B.C.) History Centre's Cranbrook Museum set to open

De nouveaux locaux pour le Centre d'archives de la région de Thetford

Travelling exhibit of 1800s diaries from the Archives of Ontario stops at Lambton Heritage Museum

Call For Vintage Film Footage in Lambton County (Ont.)

Belleville (Ont.) - Archives construction begins in June

Pour l'amour du Bénin (à propos de Véronique Bélec, commis à Bibliothèque et archives Canada)

Afrique / Africa
La numérisation de l’information administrative au Sénégal : un impératif selon Mor Ndiaye Mbaye, Directeur des systèmes d’Information de l’ARTP

Congo - Kinshasa : Des secrétaires paroissiaux formés en gestion des archives

Tunisie - Instance Vérité et Dignité : Joachim Gauck : Toute victime a également droit d’accéder aux archives qui la concernent

Tunisie - Le président allemand rencontre les membres de l'Instance Vérité et Dignité 

Amériques / Americas
Stolen 18th-century book found in Argentina

Freedom of information and democracy in the Cayman Islands

Russian Hackers Read Obama's Emails During White House Security Breach

CIA Reviews Operational Files Exemptions from Freedom of Information Act

Library of Congress - Helping Congress Archive their Personal Digital Files

America's archive reflects America's faith: Bill Federer reviews Library of Congress's magnificent décor

Maine - Secretary of state vows fixes for records retention program

Why the Delaware Public Archives is pushing for digitization

Montana Historical Society gets anonymous surprise in 150th year

University of Iowa Libraries restoring thousands of flood-damaged relics

University of Virginia to Publish Rare Letters of First Lady Martha Washington

Getty Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) Released as Linked Open Data

Teaching the Armenian Genocide with Primary Sources from the New York Times

#FreddieGray: Social Media Imagery in the Archive

Theft of rare books investigated at New York Public Library

How One Photographer Captured a Changing New York City Over 50 Years

United States returns Egyptian artifacts smuggled by an international criminal network

Red Alert Media Matrix Makes New Offer for Rogers Archive

Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Interview: Jacob Nadal of ReCAP (Research Collections and Preservation Consortium)

Movie monster creator Rick Baker is auctioning his life’s work

A Star Is Reborn: Nitrate Film on the Big Screen

New online archive offers unprecedented access to John Cage’s work

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia - Portrait project aims to create pictorial archive of 14,000 World War II veterans

Keeping secret (some) Australian goverment archives

Australia - Public Record Office Victoria competition unearths historic photographs held by everyday people

Australia - Victoria State Library gets $80 million upgrade

New Zealand - ANZAC archives on public display for the first time 

UNESCO to assess the impact on Nepal’s cultural heritage of the devastating earthquake

Kung fu archivist in Hong Kong seeks Unesco listing for Hakka style of the martial art

Korea - Rare shamanism archive unveiled

Chinese national library buys Karger archive

Pakistan - Losing Karachi’s history, one day at a time

Europe / Europa
European Union-wide digital contract rules boosting e-Commerce

Database of Soviet-era diaries in Russian now available online

Latvian Ministry of Culture and Europeana sign Memorandum of Understanding 

Ukraine - Group archives Soviet-era wall mosaics

In opening access to Communist totalitarian archives, Ukraine draws on European experience

Nazi surrender order to be auctioned in New York 

Spain - New Documents Reveal Garcia Lorca Executed During Civil War

Spain - Documents Handed to Orihuela Municipal Archives by Ecology Group Pro-Río 

Sweden - Moderna Museet Acquires Important Marcel Duchamp Archive Compiled by Ulf Linde

Top 50 file formats in the National Library of the Netherlands e-Depot

Mémoire sous clé: archives de la ville d'Amsterdam

First Armenian Interviews Go Live in Visual History Archive, as Delegation Attends Armenian Genocide Commemoration

Ce que révèlent les archives vaticanes du massacre des Arméniens

The Battle of Gallipoli and the Vatican's Secret Archives

Pope Francis orders Vatican to open files on Argentina dictatorship

Suisse: les archives dévoilent les dossiers de la honte

Suisse - La Confédération resserre son étau sur la Cinémathèque suisse

France to Head Open Government Partnership Only One Year After Joining It

France - Découvrez les trésors cachés de la bibliothèque de l'Assemblée nationale

France - Louvre : les conservateurs défendent le sur-place

France - Réception pour la remise des archives de l'Institut national de l'audiovisuel au National Archives of Singapore

Head of French TV and radio archives, Agnes Saal, resigns over 40,000-euro cab bill

France - Les manuscrits médiévaux de Chartres reprennent vie avec une vaste campagne de restauration

France - Trente-cinq ans après la mort de l'ennemi public n°1 (Jacques Mesrine), les archives qu'il avait confiées à sa maîtresse resurgissent

Ireland - War diaries of Father Francis Gleeson go online

National Library of Ireland - Launch Date for Catholic Parish Register Digitisation Project Announced

A researcher at the University of Glasgow has discovered the oldest surviving non-biblical manuscript from Scotland

Edinburg to start collecting public's digital memories

Wales - Police file on murdered four-year-old Joyce Cox must remain secret until 2040

British Library - The Paston Letters Go Live

British Library - Making Islamic-style paper

The Oldest Known Footage of London (1890-1920) Shows the City’s Great Landmarks

Birmingham - Real People, Real Archives: a Crucial Lesson from Connecting Histories

World War One medal found in Manchester sewer

These 1913 Autochrome Portraits Are From the Early Days of Color Photography

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Understanding Copyright in the Arab World

1,900-year-old papyrus reveals ancient Egyptian cure for a hangover

How Jewish and Palestinian cultural artifacts became Israeli property

Bahrain - Lecture on national archives scheduled 

Turkey - Genocide 100: Erdogan says archives ready to be viewed as commemoration takes place in Turkey

Turkish archives won't alter historical fact, says human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson

Turkey's archives on 1915 events open to historians

International
Association of Commonwealth Archivists and Records Managers - Planned Publication for Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in November 2015

A UNESCO Expert Meeting on Digital Preservation Challenges held in Paris

Dossier littérature grise : l'information grise

The Current State of Machine Intelligence

Does the digital era herald the end of history?

Linked Open Data in Libraries

Identifying manuscripts in social media

Records management in the cloud: a multidimensional issue

Is VHS making a comeback?

The Lost Art of Information Architecture

The Giant Robots that Serve the World's Largest Library Archives

These are the first finalists for the new World Video Game Hall of Fame