Vol. 5, no. 35

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

Archives nationales de France - Projet scientifique, culturel et éducatif pour les années 2013-2016

http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/chan/chan/psce.html

NARA - 2011 Records Management Self-Assessment Report

http://blogs.archives.gov/records-express/?p=1651

De la communauté / From the community

Digital Preservation Coalition Tech Watch Report: Preserving Moving Pictures and Sound

http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/latest-news/859-new-dpc-tech-watch-report-preserving-moving-pictures-and-sound

 

California Digital Library - Unified Digital Format Registry (UDFR) User's Guide

http://udfr.cdlib.org/docs/UDFR-Users-Guide-v1.0.0.pdf

 

UK Open Access Implementation Group - Two Reports on the Benefits of Open Access

http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/575/

http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/576/

3e livre blanc - ISO 30300 – 30301 - Système de gestion des documents d’activité

http://bit.ly/JdTBau

Publications

Journal of Digital Information, vol. 13, no. 1 (2012)

http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/issue/view/346

Documentaliste - Sciences de l'information, vol. 49, no. 1, 2012 (Dossier : La curation : entre usages individuels et pratiques professionnelles)

http://www.adbs.fr/revue-docsi-volume-49-n-1-mars-2012-dossier-la-curation-entre-usages-individuels-et-pratiques-professionnelles-115365.htm?RH=REVUE

Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (May 2012)

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201205.pdf

Book - Doing Archival Research in Political Science

http://bit.ly/IZMfrT

Book - Fundamentals of Managing Reference Collections 

http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=8316

Book - Heritage Film: Nation, Genre and Representation

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-16203-6/heritage-film

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Free webinar - Doing Oral History Interviews: The Basics

http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/2012/Doing-Oral-History-Interviews-The-Basics.html

Preliminary programs for the International Council on Archives 2012 conference

21-23 August 2012, Australia

http://www.ica2012.com/files/pdf/Program-matrix_current.pdf

Sur le web / On the web

Podcast - Digging for diamonds: hidden histories at The National Archives (UK)

http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/digging-for-diamonds-hidden-histories-at-the-national-archives/

Video lecture series: Sustaining Digital Resources

http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2012/04/27/video-lecture-series-sustaining-digital-resources/

France - Carte interactive des lieux d’histoire et de mémoire

http://www.maison-histoire.fr/evenements/agenda-culturel-regions/carte-interactive/

How You Can Help Launch a Digital Preservation Q&A Site

http://www.trevorowens.org/2012/04/how-you-can-help-launch-a-digital-preservation-qa-site/

Outils / Tools

Digital Curation Center - Reviewed Tools and Services Catalogue

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/node/9569

FiletypeID (a tool designed to identify file types from their binary signatures)

https://code.google.com/p/filetypeid/

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Cuts at Library and Archives Canada compilation

Conservatives defend cuts to Archives Canada:

http://www.canada.com/news/Conservatives+defend+cuts+Archives+Canada/6560966/story.html

Some comments from Minister James Moore:  

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/05/02/librarians-fighting-mad-over-federal-cuts

Government librarians reactions:

http://www.canada.com/life/Government+librarians+loud+over+federal+budget+cuts/6555777/story.html

Canadian Library Association statement:

http://bit.ly/L1qXgH

Canadian Historical Association statement:

http://www.cha-shc.ca/en/Homepage_69/items/12.html

Blog posts:

http://unionlibraryworkers.blogspot.ca/2012/05/canadian-archives-community-devastated.html

http://www.jewishpubliclibrary.org/blog/?p=1738

Library and Archives Canada Launches Its Immigration Heritage Online Kits

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/news_releases/Pages/item.aspx?NRID=25

New evidence suggests Cabot may have known of New World before voyage

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/evidence+suggests+Cabot+have+known+World+before+voyage/6537577/story.html

Alberta court issues important e-Freedom of Information decisions – faculty e-mails not in custody or control

http://allaboutinformation.ca/2012/04/28/alberta-court-issues-important-e-foi-decisions-faculty-e-mails-not-in-custody-or-control/

Albertans blocked from obtaining public information, report finds

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Albertans+blocked+from+obtaining+public+information+report+finds/6543877/story.html

The Canadian Music Archives Project

http://blogs.theprovince.com/2012/04/28/the-canadian-music-archives-project/

Q&A - Patrick Cummins: photographer, City of Toronto archivist

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/globe-to/patrick-cummins-photographer-city-of-toronto-archivist/article2416293/

Sudbury - City opens archive building in Falconbridge

http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3551709

Leeds and the Thousand Islands (Ont.) Archive trying to preserve area history

http://www.gananoquereporter.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3551296

Afrique / Africa

Kigali wants International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda genocide archives

http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/Kigali+wants+ICTR+genocide+archives/-/2558/1395684/-/1hpsly/-/

Amériques / Americas

Judge denies freedom of information request to release bin Laden photos

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/04/26/judge-denies-freedom-information-request-to-release-bin-laden-photos/

Web Archiving Arrives: Results from the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Web Archiving Survey

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/05/web-archiving-arrives-results-from-the-ndsa-web-archiving-survey/

Secret files missing at National Archives

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/1/secret-files-missing-at-national-archives/

In National Archives thefts, a radio detective gets his man

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/in-national-archives-thefts-a-radio-detective-gets-his-man/2012/05/02/gIQAN1chxT_story.html

Film Enthusiasts Address the Importance of Rescuing ‘Orphan Films'

http://highbrowmagazine.com/1116-film-enthusiasts-address-importance-rescuing-orphan-films

ArtBase and the Conservation and Exhibition of Born Digital Art: An Interview with Ben Fino-Radin

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/05/artbase-and-the-conservation-and-exhibition-of-born-digital-art-an-interview-with-ben-fino-radin/

Facial recognition to be used in art history research

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/04/facial-recognition-to-be-used-in-art-history-research.ars

Occupy Wall Street: From the Streets to the Archives

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/occupy-wall-street-from-the-streets-to-the-archives/

Oregon - Rare, Once-Lost Pioneer Chinese Immigrant Docs Go Online

http://news.opb.org/article/rare_once-lost_pioneer_chinese_immigrant_docs_go_online/

Vanderbilt digital archive recovers lost Civil Rights voices

http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2012/04/vanderbilt-digital-archive-recovers-lost-civil-rights-voices/

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

India - Panjab University’s rare manuscripts, books to be just a click away — from this year

http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/pus-rare-manuscripts-books-to-be-just-a-click-away-from-this-year/942242/

India - Country’s oldest manuscript out in brand new prints

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Country-s-oldest-manuscript-out-in-brand-new-prints/942090/

Philippine - Gov’t backs archive project: private filmmakers may have to submit copies of their films

http://entertainment.inquirer.net/38645/gov%E2%80%99t-backs-archive-project

Taiwan launches Digital Media Development Center

http://bit.ly/Ku3boo

Fiji archives needs money to digitise record

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/program/pacific-beat/fiji-archives-needs-money-to-digitise-record/937838

Europe / Europa

Europeana - Extraordinary Personal Stories of World War 1

http://blog.europeana.eu/2012/05/extraordinary-personal-stories-of-world-war-1/

EU's top court: application programming interfaces (APIs) can't be copyrighted, would "monopolise ideas"

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/05/eus-top-court-apis-cant-be-copyrighted-would-monopolise-ideas.ars

Germany - Vast Nazi-era archive says conserving Dachau files

http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/World/Story/A1Story20120430-343079.html

Les archives du cardinal Gomá et la Guerre civile espagnole

http://www.zenit.org/article-30684?l=french

France - Découverte: Un brouillon inédit du Petit Prince

http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2012/04/26/decouverte-un-brouillon-inedit-du-petit-prince/

France - À qui les archives de Michel Foucault ?

http://passouline.blog.lemonde.fr/2012/04/29/a-qui-les-archives-de-michel-foucault/

Les archives de Radio France Internationale sauvées par l'Ina

http://teleobs.nouvelobs.com/articles/les-archives-de-rfi-sauvees-par-l-ina

Entretien avec Madame Agathe Sanjuan, Conservatrice-archiviste à la Bibliothèque-Musée de la Comédie-Française

http://www.thefrenchmag.com/Entretien-avec-Madame-Agathe-Sanjuan-Conservatrice-archiviste-a-la-Bibliotheque-Musee-de-la-Comedie-Francaise_a498.html

Jersey - Post Occupation Letters Available to the Public for the First Time

http://jersey.isle-news.com/archives/post-occupation-letters-available-to-the-public-for-the-first-time/11248/

UK to make academic research available free on the net

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17921442

BBC Northern Ireland Archive Footage Now Online

http://bit.ly/IkJhNM

Archivist hunts missing Nestlé films

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/9682250.Archivist_hunts_missing_Nestl___films/

Oral history's quiet heroes

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/27/oral-history-heroes-listening-project

Now you can explore John Peel's record collection: Online archive will allow music fans to explore legendary DJ's albums and studio

http://bit.ly/KFv3ef

Collection of iconic photographs assembled by Eric and Louise Franck donated to Tate

http://bit.ly/IY3JF3

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

Yemen - Parliament approves access to information law‎

http://www.yementimes.com/en/1567/news/759/Parliament-approves-access-to-information-law.htm

Mahmoud Abbas Seeks Arafat’s Archives in Tunisia

http://challahhuakbar.blogspot.ca/2012/04/mahmoud-abbas-seeks-arafats-archives-in.html

International

Archiving Cell Phone Text Messages

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/04/archiving-cell-phone-text-messages/

 

Bit rot: The world is losing its ability to reconstruct history. Better regulation could fix that

http://www.economist.com/node/21553445?frsc=dg%7Ca

Citizens have an appetite for more digital government worldwide, survey shows

http://fcw.com/articles/2012/04/26/global-digital-gov-survey.aspx

Does the future of document management lie in the cloud?

http://idm.net.au/article/009006-does-future-document-management-lie-cloud

Gone Forever - Dangers and Opportunities for Media Archiving

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2012/05/01/gone-forever-dangers-and-opportunities-for-media-archiving/