Vol. 6, no. 12

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

Archives de France - Note d’information relative aux évolutions de l’outil de consultation du Thésaurus pour la description et l’indexation des archives locales

http://www.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/static/6286

 

Public Record Office Victoria - Use of Back-up Technology to Archive (Issues Paper)

http://prov.vic.gov.au/government/standards-and-policy/policies/archiving-and-back-up

Dossier de presse - Intelligentsia: entre France et Russie, archives inédites du XXe siècle (exposition)

http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/IMG/pdf/Dossier_de_presse_BD_-_Intelligentsia_cle0d6abe.pdf

De la communauté / From the community

Historic Libraries Forum - Cataloguing Maps: Guidance Notes for the Occasional Map Cataloguer 

http://www.historiclibrariesforum.org.uk/hlf/Guides/Mapcataloguing.pdf

IFLA - Bibliography ”Impact and Outcome of Libraries” (updated version)

http://www.ifla.org/files/assets/statistics-and-evaluation/publications/Bibliography_Impact_and_Outcome_11_2012.pdf

Relationship between the ISO 30300 series of standards and other products of ISO/TC 46/SC 11 (version 5)

http://ow.ly/fo2s9

Publications

Journal of Library Metadata, vol. 12, no. 4 (2012)

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wjlm20/12/4

Library Hi Tech, vol. 30, no. 4 (2012)

http://ow.ly/fmq2X

Library and Archives Canada - Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World, vol. 4, no. 5 (November 2012)

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Documents/GRB%20Newsletter/november%202012.pdf   

Livre - Guide des sources de l’histoire de l’art aux Archives nationales et aux Archives de Paris

https://listes.services.cnrs.fr/wws/arc/athena/2012-11/msg00045/CP-Guide-sources-hist-art.pdf

Book - Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community (4th edition)

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415627030/

Book - Information Resource Description: Creating and Managing Metadata 

http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=6671

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Free Webinars: Strategies for Preserving Electronic Records

January 24 & February 20, 2013

https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/slrm/blog/?p=4043

NAGARA 2013 Judicial Records Forum

February 8, 2013, Phoenix, Arizona

http://ow.ly/fvGQt

The Past and Future of Note-taking (video available)

1-2 November 2012, Harvard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inzPJ4t-Ejs

Welcome Remarks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PACu5QwL6T4

Sur le web / On the web

Library and Archives Canada - Three Grey Cup Heritage Videos on YouTube

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/grey-cup-heritage.aspx

UK National Archives Podcast - Marjorie’s War: four families and the Great War

http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/marjories-war-four-families-and-the-great-war/

Slidecast - What Future for Linked Data Projects?

http://ow.ly/fvGXP

Video Tour of the Conservation Lab at Duke University

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rXaSVhOUpY

British Library - Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts content is now available for download and reuse

http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/reuse.asp

Outils / Tools

Omeka 2.0 Beta

http://omeka.org/blog/2012/11/16/omeka-2-0-beta-ready-for-testing/

New Digital Humanities tool: Tesserae for text mining

http://hastac.org/blogs/hduncan/2012/11/18/new-dh-tool-tesserae-text-mining

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Canadian history, heritage at risk from cuts to Libraries and Archives Canada, say academics

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/national/Canadian+history+heritage+risk+from+cuts+Libraries+Archives/7585621/story.html

Des trésors de papier au bout des doigts

http://www.ledevoir.com/culture/livres/364172/tresors-de-papier

Le pdg de BAnQ reçoit un doctorat honoris causa

http://www.banq.qc.ca/a_propos_banq/salle_de_presse/nouvelles/nouvelle.html?n_id=909cd16b-9197-47c4-9500-3fb38655f4d0

Abitibi - Une mémoire unique en son genre au Canada

http://www.abitibiexpress.ca/Societe/2012-11-19/article-3123243/Une-memoire-unique-en-son-genre-au-Canada/1

Burnaby archives proposes film digitization project

http://www.burnabynewsleader.com/news/180248401.html

Around the House: Archival Photos and Vintage Curling Gear in Vancouver

http://www.curling.ca/blog/2012/11/21/around-the-house-archival-photos-and-vintage-curling-gear-in-vancouver/

L'archiviste, entre le présent et l'avenir (Université de Montréal)

http://affaires.lapresse.ca/cv/201211/19/01-4595307-larchiviste-entre-le-present-et-lavenir.php

Queen's University - Planning for the Library and the Archives of the future

http://www.queensu.ca/news/articles/planning-library-and-archives-future

Afrique / Africa

Crowdsourcing to Preserve Bushman Heritage

http://blog.mysciencework.com/en/2012/11/14/crowdsourcing-to-preserve-bushman-heritage.html

Uganda: Parliament Criminalizes Leaking of Oil Details 

http://allafrica.com/stories/201211191443.html

Amériques / Americas

Bermuda - Archivist ‘matter is closed’

http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20121119/NEWS/711199939

U.S. - How Did Military Units Lose Combat Records in War on Terror?

http://gantdaily.com/2012/11/15/how-did-military-units-lose-combat-records-in-war-on-terror/

Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57552225-38/senate-bill-rewrite-lets-feds-read-your-e-mail-without-warrants/

FBI releases files on Josef Stalin’s daughter

http://metronews.ca/news/world/445621/fbi-releases-stalins-daughter-files/

Preserving Digital Archaeological Data

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/11/preserving-digital-archaeological-data/

Iowa - Our View: History keeps being made at women's archive

http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20121120/OPINION03/311200022/History-keeps-being-made-women-s-archive?odyssey=nav%7Chead&nclick_check=1

Battle over Travis letter shines spotlight on Texas state archives

http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/11/18/4424564/battle-over-travis-letter-shines.html

Alaska State Archives places Governor's Exxon Valdez photographs online

http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-11-22/state-archives-places-governors-exxon-valdez-photographs-online

Oregon - Women's center has digital archive

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20121118/NEWS/311180046/Women-s-center-has-digital-archive

Pennsylvania State University - Wormholes in old books preserve a history of insects

http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/11/20/wormholes-in-old-books-preserve-a-history-of-insects/

'Wicked' author donates papers to University of Albany

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Wicked-author-donates-papers-to-UAlbany-4054971.php

Pacifica Radio Archives: A History of Social Justice, Preserved

http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/11/17/pacifica-radio-archives-the-history-of-social-justice-preserved/

Hurricane Sandy Highlights the Problems of Digital Archives

http://hyperallergic.com/60598/eyebeam-hurricane-sandy-flooding/

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

Australia - Don't destroy abuse records, police urged

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/national/dont-destroy-abuse-records-police-urged/story-e6frfku9-1226518233159

Library records Forgotten Australians

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-16/library-remembers-forgotten-australians/4376144

Internet archive brings India’s political past to life

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Internet+archive+brings+India+political+past+life/7565145/story.html

India - Files of 9 secretaries to PMs destroyed

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-11-16/india/35155901_1_files-secretary-public-authority

Japan - Manuscript of philosopher Kitaro Nishida uploaded on Kyoto school digital archive

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121116b3.html

Europe / Europa

EU cloud computing committee launched

http://www.neurope.eu/article/eu-cloud-computing-committee-launched

Sweden - They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/ff-the-manuscript/

Greek Archive Honors Diaspora Filmmakers

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/11/18/greek-archive-honors-diaspora-filmmakers/

The National Historical Library of Ukraine (NHLU) presented the results of the first stage of the project “Worldwide Access to Historical Heritage of Ukraine through Digitization”

http://www.day.kiev.ua/238731

France - Guarding a 'Fundamental Right' of Privacy in Europe

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/21/technology/guarding-a-fundamental-right-of-privacy-in-europe.html

France - Bataille d'historiens sur la collaboration de Renault

http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2012/11/21/01016-20121121ARTFIG00576-bataille-d-historiens-sur-la-collaboration-de-renault.php

Ireland - Online archive reveals local War of Independence records

http://www.longfordleader.ie/news/local/online-archive-reveals-local-war-of-independence-records-1-4495896

UK National Archives - Missing from the census?

http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/missing-from-the-census/

Disability in the UK Government Web Archive

http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/disability-in-the-uk-government-web-archive/

Archivists stumble across Alfred Hitchcock's lost directorial debut

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/9682185/Archivists-stumble-across-Alfred-Hitchcocks-lost-directorial-debut.html

British-made typewriters reach the end of the line

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/shortcuts/2012/nov/20/last-british-made-typewriter

 

World’s oldest working digital computer springs back to glorious blinking, clacking life

http://venturebeat.com/2012/11/22/worlds-oldest-working-digital-computer-springs-back-to-glorious-blinking-clacking-life/

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

Vienna Jewish community loses bid to regain archives from Israel

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/vienna-jewish-community-loses-bid-to-regain-archives-from-israel.premium-1.478905

Qatar launches National Library project

http://ow.ly/fvHml

International

Preserving.exe: A Short List of Readings on Software Preservation

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/11/preserving-exe-a-short-list-of-readings-on-software-preservation/

Corporations hiring archivists to gather vintage advertising, historical artifacts

http://www.antiquetrader.com/antiques/antiques-americana/corporations-hiring-archivists-to-gather-vintage-advertising-historical-artifacts

Security remains major concern to cloud adoption: survey

http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=69366

NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation: Release Candidate One

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/11/ndsa-levels-of-digital-preservation-release-candidate-one/

Viewpoint: How to invent in an age of information overload

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20415707

Read me, write me: the new media revolution is just beginning

http://theconversation.edu.au/read-me-write-me-the-new-media-revolution-is-just-beginning-9688

Common information risks and why they could be happening to you

http://futureproof.records.nsw.gov.au/common-information-risks-and-why-they-could-be-happening-to-you/