Thursday 26 November 2015

Vol. 9, no. 13

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
State Records of New South Wales - Minimum Requirements for Metadata for Authoritative Records and Information

National Archives of India - Report on Colonial Archiving Policy 1858-1947 

UK - Department for Culture Media & Sport - Leadership for Libraries Taskforce: Six Month Progress Report (April - September 2015)

De la communauté / From the community
Archives Association of Ontario - Response to the Development of Ontario's Culture Strategy 

Vancouver Independent Archives Week 2015 Booklet

29 organisations - Open Letter to the European Commission on Copyright Consultation

Europeana - Report on Enrichment and Evaluation

Archivistes sans frontière France - Rapport de la mission en Haïti 2014

Article - Mémoires communistes, mémoires du communisme en Roumanie

Publications
African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science, vol. 25 no. 2 (2015)

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, vol. 30, no. 4 (December 2015)

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, supplement 1, December 2015 (Special Issue: Digital Humanities 2014)

Newspaper Research Journal, vol. 36, no. 3, 2015 (Special Issue: Capturing and Preserving the First Draft of History in the Digital Environment)

Advances in Library Administration and Organization, vol. 34 (2015)

Mémoire d'avenir : le journal des Archives nationales de France, no. 21 (décembre 2015-mars 2016)

Princeton & District (B.C.) Museum & Archives Newsletter (November-December 2015)

University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library - New Holiday Cards on Sale

Book - Archives of the Insensible: of War, Photopolitics, and Dead Memory

Book - Shakespeare, Performance and the Archive

Book - Making Institutional Repositories Work

Book - Big Data and the Internet of Things: Technology, Business, and Social Impacts

Book - The Meaning of the Library: a Cultural History

Book - Imprinting Britain: Newspapers, Sociability, and the Shaping of British North America

Book - Building for Justice: the Historic Courthouses of the Maritimes

Livre - Communisme : la guerre des mémoires

Livre - Manuel de paléographie alsacienne XVIIe-XXe siècles

Livre - Marguerite Yourcenar: archives d'une vie d'écrivain

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Years of Years: Artists in the Crista Dahl Media Library and Archive 
November 26 - December 4, 2015, Vancouver

Comment penser le document aujourd'hui? 
4 décembre 2015, Montréal

Livestream - Investigating Research Data Management & Scholarly Communication
December 11, 2015

University of Toronto iSchool's 10th Annual Employer Showcase
January 15, 2016, Toronto

Le livre de photographie et ses auteurs
28 novembre 2015 au 13 février 2015, Bibliothèque nationale suisse

Maroc - Archives privées : patrimoine national ?
30 novembre 2015, Rabat 

Reading Between the Lines: Translators in the Derrida Archives
December 7, 2015, University of California (Irvine)

Cours en ligne massif et ouvert - Architecture de l'information (2e session)
13 janvier 2016 - 11 mars 2016

The Production of the Archive
January 29, 2016, London (UK)

First International Community as Opportunity: the Creative Archives' and Users' Network Convention
January 19-21, 2016, Marbug (Germany)

5th International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development
July 12-15, 2016, Lisbon (Portugal)

New Directions in the Use of Oral Testimonies: Soviet Experiences of the Holocaust
August 1-12, 2016, Washington D.C.

Le plaisir de l'archive inédite (vidéo disponible)
9 novembre 2015, Paris

École nationale des chartes - Cours Histoire du livre, histoires de livres (vidéo disponible)
16 novembre 2015, Paris

Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada - Launch of Carleton Paper, Loyalists and British Soldiers, 1772-1784 Database

Library and Archives Canada - Carleton Papers-Book of Negroes, 1783 Database

Petition - Save Ashgate Publishing (Published Many Books about Archives over the Years)

Météo-France  - Exposition numérique : à la découverte de 150 ans d'archives météorologiques

Video - Afrocrowd Works with Libraries and Museums to Improve Representation on Wikipedia

Vidéo - Estampes et numérique, même combat (Bibliothèque nationale de France)

Video - CENDARI Archival Research Guide: Role of Women in the First World War

World Wide Consortium (W3C) Data Now Available through a Web API

Slidecast - How to Develop a Digital Preservation Strategy

Slidecast - The Digital Cavemen of Linked Lascaux

Slidecast - Le web 2.0, un web participatif et collaboratif : définition, panorama d'usages par les services d'archives en France et dans le monde

Slidecast - Linked Data for Libraries: Experiments between Cornell, Harvard and Stanford

Slidecast - Data Designed for Discovery

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Canada's new census needs to capture nuances of fast-evolving economy

Civil society groups call on Trudeau to launch full public consultation before introducing C-51 reforms

Canadiana - Héritage Project tackles missing reels

Canadian Heritage Information Network - Crowdsourcing Tools

How to find Privy Council Orders at Library and Archives Canada

Publications numériques : nouveau partenariat entre BAnQ et BAC

Assessing the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation

Ruling in Newfoundland residential schools says Canada abused process

Découverte importante d'une nouvelle liste d'Acadiens de 1763

B.C. information watchdog says probe of Vancouver city hall will delve deeper than investigation of B.C. government

Committee to toughen B.C. record rules

Cour du Québec - Un fichier Excel et un témoignage crédible suffisent à démontrer un fait

Visite à Honfleur pour le 400e anniversaire de la présence francophone en Ontario

(Re)découvrir l'Université d'Ottawa (avec l'archiviste Michel Prévost)

McGill University - New Master of Arts in Digital Humanities

McGill - SIS PhD student Fei Shu and co-authors receive awards for exceptional papers at ASIS&T 2015

Announcing McMaster University's Wikipedia Visiting Scholar: Archivist Danielle Robichaud

York University Librarian Nick Ruest on research team awarded with SSHRC Insight grant

Institutional vs. Twitter Seed Lists for Web Archives (Canadian Political Parties and Political Interest Groups collection)

Look back at Vancouver's past with Archives Week

Archaeologists uncover artifacts from early Halifax beneath Lower Water Street construction site

A history of comics at the Toronto Star

Nouveau piratage sur le site des Archives de la Ville de Montréal

British Columbia - Ktunaxa Nation Council Archives acquire valuable historical records

South Peace Regional Archives (Alb.) - New Collections on our Website

Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives (Ont.) - Canadian and English archives go head-to-head with their records: the Cumbrian Connection Part 2


Drummondville - Les archives en peinture par Gail

Les archives à coeur : Mario Béliveau cumule 35 ans d'ancienneté à l'UQAM, dont 28 au Service des archives et de gestion des documents

Découvrabilité : nos contenus culturels sont-ils visibles?

Afrique / Africa
Nigeria Prepares to Revamp its Copyright System for the Digital Age

Burkina Faso - Premières journées portes ouvertes des Archives nationales 

Gabon - Archives et documentation : formation des formateurs à la Bibliothèque universitaire centrale

Algérie - Les pouvoirs publics doivent instaurer une stratégie de sauvegarde des manuscrits du Tassili

Projet d’appui à la modernisation de l’état civil : le Sénégal appelé à mieux faire

Amériques / Americas
NARA - An Update on Kodacolor Decoded

NARA Displays the Refugee Act of 1980

This app preserves your grandparents' memories in the Library of Congress

JFK Assassination Records and the Enduring Lessons from the Assassination Records Review Board

Get Reintroduced to Rosa Parks as a New Archive Reveals the Woman Behind the Boycott

Surveyor Digitization Project Hints at Long-Lost Lunar Treasures

New Search Options for the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania Library and Archives

Long-lost William Faulkner comedy discovered in the University of Virginia archives is published for the first time

University of Southern California - Shoah worker indexes Armenian testimonies

Florida State University - Accessioning a Rare Book Collection: Part I

Preserving Social Media Records of Activism

Inside Pixar's Living Archives

New York Review of Books archive acquired by New York Public Library 

New York Philharmonic's Archives Strike the Right Note

A Lakota Sioux Warrior's Eyewitness Drawings of Little Bighorn

Massive, 4,000-page Infocom design and biz archive posted online

Acid Bodhisattva: the history of the Timothy Leary archives during his prison and exile years, 1970-1976 (part one)

Photographic metadata helps convict officer over arrest of journalist 

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia - New National Art Archive brings past alive

Preserving the country's history at the Australian War Memorial

Fiji - University of the South Pacific students praise National Archives services

Records and Archives Management Standards in China

Samoa pursues its march towards safeguarding intangible heritage

Sri Lanka - Ancient Tamil manuscripts to be restored through US grant

Europe / Europa
Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland urge Reiss Engelhorn Museum to reconsider suit over public domain works of art

Why is a museum suing Wikipedia for sharing?

Spain Ministry of Finance and Public Administration Announces ARCHIVE a New Web Application that will be Offered under the European Union Public Licence

Greek New Testament Papyrus Is Discovered on eBay

New copyright law in Poland heralds new era for libraries 

Documents on Armenian Genocide from Vatican Archive Published in 7-Volume Set

Sweden Expresses Strong Support for UNESCO’s role in Protecting Heritage in Conflict

France - Partenariat entre le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, le Mémorial de la Shoah et le Musée de l'Holocauste

La bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica, fait peau neuve

France - Charente-Maritime : bataille juridique autour de l'héritage d'un général d'Empire

France - L'École de bibliothécaires documentalistes fête ses 80 ans

France - Saint-Étienne : les messages aux victimes des attentats de Paris ne seront pas perdus

France - Toulouse : des centaines de messages de soutien aux victimes des attentats s'affichent place du Capitole 

National Library of Ireland welcomes Government's announcement of capital investment

Scotland - War pleas against conscription go on web 99 years on

Scotland - Rare wartime military archive found at Erskine Hospital

Scotland - Experts find manuscript similar to Book of Kells

Quiet, please… In praise of the British Library

British Library - The Provenance of Web Archives

British Library - Japanese Nara ehon manuscripts digitised

National Railway Museum - Discovering the First World War through our archive

Oxford University - Web Archiving at the Bodleian

University of Aberdeen Archives Reveal Rules of Student Life in 1600s

Titanic inquiry influenced by Freemasons to protect culpable members, archives suggest

Digital archive of Cornish life opens online

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Oman to fund US$4.5mn UN project for preserving audio-visual archives

Iran - Russian President Gifts Ancient Quran Manuscript to Ayatollah Khamenei

Deux tablettes cunéiformes remises à l'Irak par la Suisse

International
UNESCO General Conference adopts unanimously a new normative instrument on the preservation of documentary heritage

Meeting between John Chambers, Chief Executive of the Archives and Records Association and David Leitch, International Council on Archives Secretary General 

The Irony of Writing Online about Digital Preservation

Why it's so Important to Understand what's in our Web Archives

Folders uninterrupted: the enduring problem of folders

Are we Doomed to a World of PDFs?

The Stakeholders & Structure of your Information Governance Team

An army of history nerds is turning archival material into beautiful gifs

Five tips for digitizing photos

Re-using bad data in the humanities

My Lab Is in the Cloud

A Practical Guide to the Encryption Debate: a Failure of Analysis not Encryption

20 years of Data Science: from Music to Genomics