Thursday 26 September 2013

Vol. 7, no. 4

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
Swiss Federal Archives - Project Ellipse: Concept for the Archiving of Official Geodata under Federal Legislation

De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Library Association - Response to Canada’s Action Plan on Open Government

Centre for Law and Democracy - Review of the Nova Scotia Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act

Pew Internet - Who’s Not Online and Why

Publications
Journal of Library Metadata, vol. 13, no. 2-3, 2013 (Special Issue: Linked Data, Semantic Web and Libraries)

The Chronicle: Newsletter of the Jewish Museum and Archives of B.C., vol. 19, no. 3 (September-December 2013)

Book - Tracing Your Ancestors Using The Census: A Guide for Family Historians

Book - Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain

Book - The Librarian's Guide to Academic Research in the Cloud 

Book - Bibliographic Information Organization in the Semantic Web

Book - Digital Government at Work: A Social Informatics Perspective

Book - Oral History Off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice 

Livre - La médiation culturelle 

Livre - Retrouver un soldat de 1914-1918: et le détail de ses quatre années de guerre

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Sunshine Coast Museum & Archives' (B.C.) Silent Auction
October 5, 2013, Gibsons

Webinar - Caring for Audiovisual Material
October 16, 21, 23, 28, 30, 2013

The Sedona Conference Working Group On Electronic Document Retention & Production
November 7-8, 2013, Phoenix

Family History and Technology Conference
February 6-8, 2014, Salt Lake City

Personal Digital Archiving 2014 Conference
April 10-11, 2014, Indianapolis

IS&T Archiving 2014
May 13-16, 2014, Berlin

Sur le web / On the web
Archives of Ontario - Franco-Ontarian Resource Page 

University of Manitoba Digital Collections

Podcast - Archive Fever

Video - British Library Sound Archive

71 Digital Portals to State History

Video - Audio Preservationist Carl Haber, 2013 MacArthur Fellow

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Census picture far from perfect: neighbourhood left out because of lack of info

Libraries Work Together to Preserve Canadian Federal Government Electronic

New York Times Editorial - Silencing Scientists (in Canada)

The Mountain Legacy Project: An Archive-Based Scientific Project

How a ‘charming’ Halifax researcher stole more than 1,300 historical treasures from unsuspecting galleries

Nova Scotia - Stolen artifacts hoarder pleads guilty to 40 charges

Royal B.C. Museum’s new CEO digs into the Archives for first major revamp of the museum in ’50 years’

B.C. - Archivists unearth forgotten stories of residential schools

Ontario - Huronia institution documents to be shielded by privacy laws

Alberta - Archives become fashionable: local archivist invites public to attend fashion show based on archives

Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française de l'Université d'Ottawa - Partenariat avec les Archives publiques de l’Ontario

Ojibwa author Basil Johnson donates papers to McMaster University

Historic records lost in Grand Forks (B.C.) city hall fire, officials fear

Regina - Prince of Wales library branch celebrates a century of service

Cramahe (Ont.) - Archival collection has plenty to offer

Afrique / Africa
Timbuktu's ancient manuscripts to get a new digital existence

Ghana’s Poor Record-Keeping Malaise...A Recipe For Mischief

The Canadian effort for a Liberian library: McMaster student builds a library in his homeland

Amériques / Americas
Trinidad & Tobago - Ministry to work with Inter-American Development Bank to upgrade National Archives

Guatemalan Court Convicts Former National Police Chief: Archive Analyst Testifies on Key U.S. Documentary Evidence

Haïti-Archives Nationales : le nouveau support sécuritaire sera disponible à partir du 1er octobre

NARA To Software Vendors: Help Government Rethink Records Management

World’s Largest Stamp Gallery to Open in Washington, D.C.
 
JFK 50: iPhone app offers archival coverage of Kennedy assassination

How photographer’s daughter rebuilt JFK archive
 
Google Battles to Prove its Book Digitization Is Actually Legal

Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis Announces Launch of Rhode Island State Archives Online Catalog

US nearly detonated atomic bomb over North Carolina: secret document

Mississippi newspaper archives to be digitized

Trove of Michigan folk music unearthed in archive

Morgan Museum to Make Its Entire Collection of Drawings Available Online
 
Lost ‘Steve Jobs Time Capsule’ From 1983 Found & Excavated
 
Stanford asks court to help clarify ownership of Chiang Kai-shek archives

Hip-Hop Archives has a Home at Harvard University

Dell-Led Trio to Donate Magnum Photo Archive to University of Texas

University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives bring history to life with scrapbooks and social media

Preserving the Catholic history of the archdiocese of Atlanta

After decades in a basement, Emily Carr’s Alaska diary sees the light of day

Lost Part Of Film History Found In Barn: Important Mary Pickford Movie Found, Restored

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
New Zealand - Historic newspaper archive publishes three millionth page online

Professor races against time to preserve Japan's video game culture

Polytechnic in Singapore rolls out records management system

Taiwan - Transport documents to be displayed
 
Central State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Pakistan - Department of Archives library being digitalised

India - Political disdain and lack of professional leadership plague National Archives

India - Archives to digitize copies of 200-year-old newspapers

Europe / Europa
'Hitler's Reign Of Terror,' First U.S. Anti-Nazi Film, Found In Belgian Film Archive Cinematheque

Saving the Ludwig von Mises Papers: How the Holocaust Museum Helped Uncover a Nazi Treasure Trove in Moscow

Restoring the Nazi-decimated heritage of Lithuanian Jews

Dedicated Archive to be Created to Commemorate Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Games

1st Succeed hackathon at KB National Library of the Netherlands
 
Crowdsourcing at Amsterdam City Archives, Netherlands 

État de Genève (Suisse) - Il pleut dans les Archives: l’État va enfin les reloger

Copy of Napoleon's will to go on sale in Paris this November at the Drouot auction house

French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir's works, personal items sell for $1.3M in New York auction

France - La Rochelle : 4 tonnes d'archives à sauver après l'incendie de l'hôtel de ville

Irish Roots: The Land Commission’s forbidden fruit

Ireland - 1916 Rising digital-archiving project: Trinity College Dublin calls on public to upload old letters and photos

Development underway for shared national library services in Scotland and Wales
 
UK - How to uncover state secrets through archival research

BBC criticised over children's archive

Crowdsourcing the World Service Radio Archive: an experiment from BBC R&D

British Library - A map discovery hidden in a 17th century portrait
 
Archive documents reveal changing dynamic between UK and the Gulf

Leeds Metropolitan University Online Archive Widens Access To University's Heritage

The False Memory Archive: Artist A.R. Hopwood is carefully collecting all the lies people tell themselves

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Egypt - 2,000 artifacts stolen since 2011 revolution, minister warns

Is Iraq Entitled to the ‘Jewish Archive?’ 

International
Why you need social media recordkeeping 

Outsource Your Memory, With an App
 
Crowdsourcing Technology Offers Organizations New Ways To Engage Public In History

Just How Much of Musical History Has Been Lost to History?

Traduction du terme anglais « record »

Governance: More Than Just Data

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