Vol. 6, no. 26

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

Suisse - eCH-0160: Interface de versements d’archives (SIP)

http://www.ech.ch/vechweb/page?p=dossier&documentNumber=eCH-0160&documentVersion=1.0

De la communauté / From the community

ACTI - Data Management Glossary

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ACTI1304.pdf

Book Industry Study Group - Best Practices for Identifying Digital Products (Revised Edition)

http://www.bisg.org/docs/BISG_Policy_1101.pdf

Public Records Resources Online: How to Find Everything There Is to Know About "Mr./Ms. X" (Updated version)

http://www.governmentinfopro.com/PublicRecordsGuide.pdf

Article - Intégrité, signature et processus d'archivage

http://lccjti.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/BaCa07.pdf

Training in Digital Preservation: what we’ve learned and what we’re going to do about it

http://93.63.166.138:8080/dspace/handle/2012/118

Publications

Heritage: the Journal of the Jewish Archives & Historical Society of Edmonton & Northern Alberta, vol. 15, no. 2 (Winter 2013)

http://www.jahsena.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/Jahsena-Heritage_Winter_2013-v6.02h_PROOF1.pdf

City of Richmond (B.C.) - Archives News, vol. 18, no. 1 (Spring 2013)

http://www.city.richmond.bc.ca/__shared/assets/newslettervol18no234959.pdf

South Peace Regional Archives Newsletter, vol. 4, no. 2 (March 2013)

http://www.southpeacearchives.org/pdf/March%202013.pdf

À rayons ouverts: Chroniques de BAnQ, no. 91 (hiver 2013)

http://www.banq.qc.ca/documents/a_propos_banq/nos_publications/a_rayons_ouverts/ARO_91.pdf

Book - Improving the Visibility and Use of Digital Repositories through Search Engine Optimization (SEO): A Library and Information Technology Association Guide

http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=4256

Book - International Life Writing: Memory and Identity in Global Context

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415522540/

Book - Workplace Culture in Academic Libraries: The early 21st Century

http://www.woodheadpublishing.com/en/book.aspx?bookID=2754&ChandosTitle=1

Book -  Teaching History in the Digital Age

http://www.press.umich.edu/3526836/teaching_history_in_the_digital_age

Book - Freedom of Information: Local Government and Accountability

http://ow.ly/i8Ftf

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Social Media In Small Archives Workshop

April 15, 2013, Oshawa

http://durhamregionarchivesgroup.com/2013/02/22/social-media-in-small-archives-workshop/

Exhibit - The Face of the Ghetto: Pictures by Jewish Photographers from the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-1944

Until March 17, 2013, York University, Toronto

http://cjnews.com/campaign?q=node/103003

Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group 12th International Meeting

May 22-24, 2013, Washington

http://www.preservationandarchivingsig.org/events/2013/PASIGDC2013.html

Online Course - Digital Content and Social Media Copyright Issues

March 18 - April 8, 2013

http://www.sla.org/content/learn/certificates/copyright/copyrightprogram/CCM2013/CCM400.cfm

Webinar - Acrobat XI and PDF/A Standards: Long Term Preservation of Documents

https://seminars.adobeconnect.com/_a227210/p4wjtt3z1h7/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal 

Sur le web / On the web

Archives de Montréal 1913-2013

http://archivesdemontreal.com/

International Committee of the Red Cross - Archive Room (for the 150th anniversary of the Committee)

http://www.icrcvideonewsroom.org/icrc150/content/index.asp

Manuscripts Online (online primary resources relating to written and early printed culture in Britain during the period 1000 to 1500)

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2013/02/manuscripts-online.aspx

Video - Fmt/known...? Problems with format identification at New Zealand National Library

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb3BdcOfZFU

 

Video - Hardware and soft skills: surveying scientific personal papers in the digital age

http://archive.org/details/JennyShaw

See also: http://wellcomehistory.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/the-human-genome-archive-project/

UK National Archives podcast - Reckless, Rash and Repentant: Convicts Petitions for Mercy 1819-1858

http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/reckless-rash-and-repentant-convicts-petitions-for-mercy-1819-1858/

Outils / Tools

Web Archiving Integration Layer

http://matkelly.com/wail/

HTTP framework for time-based access to resource states - Memento (new version)

http://www.mementoweb.org/guide/rfc/ID/

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Feds dispute Canada's poor global ranking in freedom of information

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Feds+dispute+Canadas+poor+global+ranking+freedom/8009153/story.html

Drastic Cut at Library and Archives Canada

http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.ca/2013/02/drastic-cut-at-library-and-archives.html

National Gallery of Canada cuts 29 positions to balance budget 

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/travel/National+Gallery+Canada+eliminating+positions/8030492/story.html

Building repairs put Alberta records in temporary limbo

http://www2.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=4dace798-5d82-402c-b31d-22b9c8c5b642

Vancouver - The Map and Plan Digitization Project

http://www.vancouverarchives.ca/2013/02/the-map-and-plan-digitization-project/

University of Toronto - Recent acquisiton: Petition to Queen Anne reviewing the Hudson’s Bay Company’s claims against the French 

http://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/petition-queen-anne-reviewing-HBC-claims

One of the leading war photographers of the 20th century exhibits his “art” at the National Gallery

http://www.ottawamagazine.com/culture/artful-blogger/2013/02/26/the-artful-blogger-one-of-the-leading-war-photographers-of-the-20th-century-exhibits-his-art-at-the-national-gallery/

The Oldest Known Photos of Toronto

http://torontoist.com/2013/02/the-oldest-known-photos-of-toronto/

Editing Canada: help British Library's Team Americas and Wikimedia with a new digital collection

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/americas/2013/02/editing-canada-help-team-americas-and-wikimedia-with-a-new-digital-collection.html

Aurora (Ont.) artifact collection could cost $200K per year

http://www.yorkregion.com/news-story/2078688-aurora-artifact-collection-could-cost-200k-per-year/

Afrique / Africa

The Role of Archives in Nation Building: Preserving Sudan’s documentary heritage

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-and-in-focus-articles/all-news/news/the_role_of_archives_in_nation_building_preserving_sudans_documentary_heritage/back/18618/

Zambia - Freedom of Information Bill will be presented to Parliament in June

http://www.lusakatimes.com/2013/02/27/freedom-of-information-bill-will-be-presented-to-parliament-in-june-sakeni/

Archives nationales à l’étranger: l’Algérie signera des conventions avec plusieurs pays pour récupérer sa mémoire

http://www.letempsdz.com/content/view/87234/1/

 

IFLA - International Meeting of Experts on the Safeguarding of Mali’s Cultural Heritage, UNESCO Headquarters, 18 February 2013

http://www.ifla.org/news/international-meeting-of-experts-on-the-safeguarding-of-mali-s-cultural-heritage-unesco

Amériques / Americas

White House - Expanding Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-public-access-results-federally-funded-research

Transforming the National Archives: A Conversation with David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States

http://www.businessofgovernment.org/blog/business-government/transforming-national-archives-conversation-david-ferriero-archivist-united

Hiding in public: How the National Archives wants to open up its data to Americans

http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/02/hiding-in-public-how-the-national-archives-wants-to-open-up-its-data-to-americans/

Judicial Watch Sues National Archives Challenging the Withholding of Robert F. Kennedy’s Department of Justice Records

http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/jw-sues-national-archives-challenging-the-withholding-of-rfk-department-of-justice-records/

Navy to Close Archives if Sequestration Occurs

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/02/28/navy-to-close-archives-if-sequestration-occurs.html

Justices consider Virginia limits on access to public records

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/02/20/supreme-court-state-access-laws/1932847/

Smithsonian Now Using Archive-It to Crawl Websites

http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/smithsonian-now-using-archive-it-crawl-websites

Lest we forget: The arcHIVe Project

http://www.gay-sd.com/lest-we-forget-the-archive-project/

SCLC civil rights archive exhibit opens amidst '3/5' controversy at Emory University

http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2013/02/sclc_civil_rights_archive_exhi.html

Columbia University acquires Elfquest comic archives

http://boingboing.net/2013/02/25/columbia-university-acquires-e.html

Immigrant Archive Project showcases the ‘real’ immigrant experience

http://www.voxxi.com/immigrant-archive-project-experience/

Not-so-secret atomic tests: Why the photographic film industry knew what the American public didn’t

http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/02/26/not-so-secret-atomic-bomb-tests-why-the-photographic-film-industry-knew

Photographic Artifacts of Black Civil War Troops

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/arts/design/photographic-artifacts-of-black-civil-war-troops.html

Iconic Photographer Lee Miller Estate To Publishes Online Archive

http://www.artlyst.com/articles/iconic-photographer-lee-miller-estate-to-publishes-online-archive

 

Born Digital Folklore and the Vernacular Web: An Interview with Robert Glenn Howard

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/02/born-digital-folklore-and-the-vernacular-web-an-interview-with-robert-glenn-howard/

“The Digital Data Backbone for the Study of Historical Places”: An Interview with Matt Knutzen of the New York Public Library

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/02/the-digital-data-backbone-for-the-study-of-historical-places-an-interview-with-matt-knutzen-of-the-new-york-public-library/

Disney's Ex-Archivist Sues Company for Firing Him Over Sexual Harassment Tale

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/disneys-archivist-sues-company-firing-424852

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

Australia - Public servants baulk at Freedom of Information changes

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/public-servants-baulk-at-foi-changes-20130224-2ezmu.html

India - 50 archival beauties to raise fund for deaf kids

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/50-archival-beauties-to-raise-fund-for-deaf-kids/articleshow/18635526.cms

Europe / Europa

Jewish group rejects Putin's suggestion to house disputed archives in Moscow's Jewish Museum

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Jewish+group+rejects+Putins+suggestion+house+disputed/7996490/story.html

Russian Helicopters Marks 90 Years oF Russian Civil Aviation with Unique Archive Photos

http://www.verticalmag.com/news/articles/22998-russian-helicopters-marks-90-years-of-russian-civil-aviation.html

Rare Polish color home video from 1938 found in Florida closet shows laughing children in a shtetl

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-features/once-vacation-footage-now-a-holocaust-archive.premium-1.505459

Dutch libraries not to lend e-books

http://www.telecompaper.com/news/dutch-libraries-not-to-lend-e-books--928019

Malta - Restoration of documents to begin at the Notarial Archives

http://gozonews.com/37138/restoration-of-documents-to-begin-at-the-notarial-archives/

Suisse - L'École polytechnique de Lausanne va numériser les archives de Venise

http://www.20min.ch/ro/news/vaud/story/L-EPFL-va-numeriser-les-archives-de-Venise-18389854

Association des archivistes français - Au nom du droit à l’oubli, quel patrimoine pour l’Europe de demain ?

http://www.archivistes.org/Au-nom-du-droit-a-l-oubli-quel

Accords Bibliothèque nationale de France sur la numérisation : informations complémentaires

http://www.iabd.fr/2013/02/26/accords-bnf-sur-la-numerisation-informations-complementaires/

Ireland - Infamous Dunmanway diary found in military archives

http://westcorktimes.com/home/?p=15898

Edinburgh through the ages shown in new archive

http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/features/edinburgh-through-the-ages-shown-in-new-archive-1-2805541

 

Documenting LGBT history across the UK

http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/documenting-lgbt-history-across-the-uk/

 

The British Library georeferencing website puts historic maps in their place

http://www.museumsandheritage.com/advisor/news/item/2794

Slave Owner Database: UK University Makes Online List Of British Who Owned Slaves

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/27/slave-owner-database-uk_n_2773022.html

U.K. family archive site offers 2.5M crime records to track down family ne'er-do-wells

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/02/22/uk-family-archive-site-offers-25m-crime-records-to-track-down-family-neer-do-wells

Oxfam donates archive to the Bodleian Libraries

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/2013/News/WTP051798.htm

BT makes digitised version of its archive available online 

http://www.newelectronics.co.uk/electronics-technology/bt-is-making-a-digitised-version-of-its-extensive-archive-available-online/48163/

The map London has in its head

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-britain-tube-20130228,0,7557442.story

Rare poem written by 13-year-old Charlotte Brontë goes on sale

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/9899657/Rare-poem-written-by-13-year-old-Charlotte-Bronte-goes-on-sale.html

Lost Rudyard Kipling poems published

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21585390

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

Israel - Knesset archives go digital

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=7529

International

Facebook reveals plan for new archival data centre

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/22/new_facebook_data_centre/

Disappearing Ink: What will happen to all the books?

http://www.dallasobserver.com/content/printVersion/2998634/

Beyond a href: Preserving Flash-driven Art

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/feb/25/preserving-flash/

Experts tout nanotechnology to preserve cultural treasures

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/agencia-efe/130227/experts-tout-nanotechnology-preserve-cultural-treasures