Thursday, 24 July 2014

Vol. 7, no. 47

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
European Commission - Towards an Integrated Approach to Cultural Heritage for Europe

European Commission - Report on the Responses to the Public Consultation on the Review of the European Union Copyright Rules

Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia - A Failure to Archive: Recommendations to Modernize Government Information Management

British Columbia - Minister of Technology, Innovation and Citizens Statement on Government's Records Management Practices

De la communauté / From the community
University of British Columbia Library Digitization Centre - Impact and Activity Report 2011-2014

PrestoCentre - AV Digitisation and Digital Preservation TechWatch Report,  no. 2 

PrestoCentre Overview of Manuals

Article - Small Scale, Big Change: the Impact of Social Media (Archives Portal Europe)

Publications
International Journal of Digital Curation, vol. 9, no. 1 (2014)

International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 14, no. 3-4 (August 2014)

Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, vol. 10, no. 2 (2014)

Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 2 (2014)

Arbido: périodique de l'Association des archivistes suisses et de Bibliothèque information suisse (2/2014)

The Halcyon: the Newsletter of the Friend of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto), no. 53 (2014)

National Library of Scotland Newsletter (July 2014)

New York Archives magazine, vol. 14, no. 1 (Summer 2014)

Book - Charlottetown: Then and Now

Book - Towards a New Understanding of Sraffa: Insights from Archival Research

Book - Letting Go of Legacy Services: Library Case Studies

Book - Transmedia Frictions: the Digital, the Arts, and the Humanities

Book - LIS Education in Developing Countries: the Road Ahead

Livre - Lieux de mémoire, patrimoine et histoire en Afrique de l'Ouest

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Government Information Day
October 16, 2014, Ottawa

Webinar - To Standardise or Not: is Normalisation of Video a Thing of the Past?
July 30, 2014

Webinar - Rise of the Databrarian
October 16, 2014

Forum  archives numériques et mémoire culturelle
10 november 2014, Berlin

1st International Congress of Cultural Heritage and New Technologies
December 4-5, 2014, Mexico City

Connecting Communities: Storytelling and the Digital Archive Conference
March 27-28, 2015, University of Leeds (UK)

Course - First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Time of Crisis
March 30- April 25, 2015, Amsterdam

International Internet Preservation Consortium Conference General Assembly (Recordings Available)
May 19-23, 2014, Paris

Sur le web / On the web
UK Parliament Video - Public Administration Select Committee: Preservation of Historical Files in the Civil Service 

Petition to the Italian Minister of Culture to save the Archival Supervision Agencies

Netherlands National Commission for UNESCO - Culture under Attack: Photo Exhibition on Cultural Heritage and Armed Conflict

Video - Cultural Heritage Institutions are the Guardians of the Public Domain
 
Slidecast - Assessing the Quality of Web Archives
 
Slidecast - Towards Linked Vital Registration Data for Reconstituting Families and Creating Longitudinal Health Histories

Video - Europeana Newspapers

Video - University of California Libraries Digital Collection: a Year in Review

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Millions of police requests for Canadians’ data every year, documents show
 
Shelly Glover staffers remove ugly details from Wikipedia

One third of access to information requests take at least four months to release

Canadiana seeks feedback to improve genealogy collections

New Brunswick - Increased funding announced for archival activities
Thank you note from Council of Archives New Brunswick: http://canbarchives.ca/canb/533/Blog
 
Québec - La Commission d’accès à l'information est vigilante
 
In Memoriam: remembering the First World War at University of Toronto

University of Waterloo - Kitchener and the First World War

Álvaro Siza Decides the Fate of his Archives (part of it will be given to the Canadian Center for Architecture)
 
Massive Quebec vintage clothing archive for sale in Toronto

Edmonton Public Library - Call for Digitized Local Concert Poster Collections

Burlington photographer donates 500,000 negatives to Hamilton Public Library (Ont.)
 
Do you have photos to lend Baycrest Museum for an exhibition about the history of medicine in Toronto’s Jewish community

Galt Museum & Archives (Alb.) - Sketches of Tommy's Life in France (WWI)

Township of Esquimalt (B.C.) Launches Archives Digitization Project

Brant and Brantford (Ont.) land records moving to Charlotte Street museum

Amériques / Americas
Washington D.C. launches Freedom of Information Act portal, transparency initiative

Federal Depository Library Program - Web Archiving

The dirty truth about missing emails

Lois Lerner emails reveal gaping open-records loophole

Tale of the Tapes: IRS head confirms investigators have found backup tapes in Lerner probe

Unclassified JFK Assassination Database Still Stored In Top Secret Vault, for Convenience
 
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum Digital Library now Live

NARA - U.S. World War I Centennial Commission

National Archives to Release Restricted Clinton Files on Bin Laden, Al Gore Campaign
 
NARA - Relocation of Personnel Records to National Archives at St. Louis

Historic Record of 1918 Cadillac Added to Library of Congress Archive

Society of American Archivists - Call for Case Studies in Archival Ethics

Delaware's new data destruction law takes effect January 1, 2015

Arkansas Historical Commission Relaunches Online Digital Archives 

www.Ulukau.org holds a digital archive of Hawaiian language materials
 
Rutgers University - Researcher Builds Archive of Translated Anglo-Saxon Narrative Poetry

How Did The Largest Collection Of Hemingway's Writings End Up In Boston?

The Man who Filmed Early Anchorage (Alaska)

Human rights group donating records to Duke library

Elvis' library card, movie script to be auctioned at Graceland

Sexual Minorities Archives: Fights to Stay Active in Northampton

Understanding the Participatory Culture of the Web: An Interview with Henry Jenkins

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Au Japon, avec les conservateurs de jeux vidéo
 
Maurice - Mauritius Post : La numérisation des archives en cours

India - 1947 Partition Archive: Preserving the Past

Indian Govt looks to provide free access to publicly-funded research works

India - Govt to Implement New Scheme to Archive Films: Javadekar

Europe / Europa
Ukraine - How Web archivists and other digital sleuths are unraveling the mystery of MH17

Germany puts 700,000 WWI docs online

The Russian Government's 7,000 Wikipedia Edits

Romanian cave holds some of the oldest human footprints

Failed sale of 1869 Karl Marx letter disappoints Chinese capitalists who set the price too high

Telefonica signs deal to digitise Spanish library archives

Google could face criminal proceedings in Italy if it doesn’t clean up its act on privacy
 
Venice - How To Scan 50 Miles of Historical Documents Into an Online Archive

Belgium - Centenary of the Destruction of the University of Leuven Library

Les archives de René Barjavel accueillies par la Bibliothèque nationale de France
 
Ireland - Cork history catalogue is now available online

Scotland - Warning digital data evidence unreliable

Wales - Scores of valuable maps still missing 15 years after they were plundered from National Library

Comparing the UK's three national archives

How does LAC rate?

UK - Open document formats selected to meet user needs

Terror flight files saved: Pressure grows on ministers to release 'water-damaged' records about rendition of suspects after they dried out

Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland announces first awareness campaign for Records Management

At last, a home for black history: the launch of the Black Cultural Archives will show that our presence in the UK is measured in millennium

English Heritage appeals to public to tag vast collection of First World War aerial photos

WWI time machine: Cambridgeshire history experts to recreate life in 1914

Millions of Staffordshire historical records go online

Print or manuscript? Civilité type in early modern England

World War One autograph book donated to Cambridge hospital
 
Secret message found in WW1 kilt

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
The Politics of 1948 in Israeli Archives

International
To Infinity and Beyond: why Metadata Matters
 
Records management strategy still in infancy in many enterprises
 
New technology could spoil your illegal downloading

The Vinyl Record Meets the 3D Printing Revolution

Digital archaeologists dig up internet's past

Conversations about digital information management and digital disposal

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