Thursday 27 February 2014

Vol. 7, no. 26

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat - G8 Open Data Action Plan

Ministère de la Culture et de la communication (France) - Feuille de route stratégique: métadonnées culturelles et transition Web 3.0

UK Information Commissioner’s Office - Privacy Impact Assessments Code

State Records of New South Wales - Managing Social Media Information 
Managing social media business information: http://futureproof.records.nsw.gov.au/?p=3644
Management strategies for social media information: http://futureproof.records.nsw.gov.au/?p=3658

De la communauté / From the community
International Council on Archives, Section of Professional Associations - Report on Competency Accreditation Certification

PrestoCentre - Audio-Visual Digitisation and Digital Preservation TechWatch Report
 
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - Resource Description Framework (RDF) 1.1 Recommendation

Fiche pratique - Conserver des documents patrimoniaux sur support papier en bibliothèque : exigences et précautions générales (mise à jour)

Pew Internet - How we Analyzed Twitter Social Media Networks with NodeXL

Article - The Lost Archives of Noriega: Emancipating Panamanian Human Rights Documents in U.S. Military Custody

Publications
Archival Science, vol. 14, no. 1 (March 2014)

Arbido: périodique de l'Association des archivistes suisses et de Bibliothèque information suisse (1/2014)

City of Richmond (B.C.) Archives News, vol. 19, no. 1 (Spring 2014)

South Peace Regional Archives (Alb.) Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 2 (March 2014)

Historic Libraries Forum Newsletter, no. 27 (February 2014)

Archivists and Archives of Color Roundtable Newsletter, vol. 28, no. 2 (February 2014)

Book - Writing the History of Memory

Book - Bridging Between Cultural Heritage Institutions

Book - Data Protection for Photographers: a Guide to Storing and Protecting your Valuable Digital Assets

Book - Information Rights: Law and Practice (Fourth Edition)

Livre - Animaux disparus : histoire et archives photographiques 

Book - The Reference Interview Today: Negotiating and Answering Questions Face to Face, on the Phone, and Virtually

Livre - Un imaginaire institutionnel: musées, collections et archives d'artistes

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Information Destruction 101: Everything You Wanted to Know About Information Destruction
March 13, 2014, Winnipeg

Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium
October 18, 2014, Toronto

Free Webinar - Why Preserving Contemporary Music Productions is so Difficult
April 8, 2014

Digital Research in the Humanities and Art 2014
August 31 - September 3, 2014, London

Archives and Records Association of New Zealand / Australia Society of Archivists Annual Conference - Connecting: Past, Present and Future
September 30 - October 3, 2014, Christchruch (New Zealand)

Connecting Collections, Cultures, and Communities: 77th ASIS&T Annual Meeting
October 31 - November 4, 2014, Seattle

Sur le web / On the web
Kabyles.com: la Kabylie au fil des archives

OCLC Exposes Bibliographic Works Data as Linked Open Data
 
Video - The Web as a Preservation Medium

National Geographic Video - Meet Our Vintage Collection Archivist, Bill Bonner

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Provincial education ministers seek to make their voices heard in Access Copyright lawsuit

Federal Court Pushes Back Against Copyright Trolling
 
Rapatriement de la Constitution: des documents caviardés pour réponse
 
Parliamentary 'big data' project "could transform" political research (a project will develop semantic search tools to analyse databases of political debates in the UK, Canada and the Netherlands from 1800 to the present)

1878 Halifax atlas now available online

Northern B.C. Archives’ head archivist, Ramona Rose, won the 2014 Jeanne Clarke Local History award for service in the field of local history

Hamilton - Retired librarian proud of heritage award

Les archives de Sillery passent au numérique

Donation d’un fonds d’archives des Sœurs de la Charité de Québec aux Musées de la Civilisation

Ontario - WWI love letters: Sadie Arbuckle a mystery no more as family reveals her life after Harry Mason

Afrique / Africa
UNESCO Dakar opens photo exhibition to value Senegal's cultural heritage

Nigeria - Inside National Library of shame

Amériques / Americas
Archives’ inspector general enters 18th month on paid leave; taxpayers footing the bill


National Archives’ exhibit shows federal government’s influence on American diet

Southern California military facility to digitize and archive historic videos, photos, film

The Clinton library's secret files

Confirmed: The CIA Destroyed Its Noam Chomsky File and Thousands More on Other U.S. Citizens

FBI - Confidential Files in «Room 6527»

Library of Congress - Preserving Blogs and Discussion Forums in Science, Medicine, Mathematics and Technology

Student at Iowa's Luther College discovers 2,000-year-old documents in library archives

Mexican Communist Leader’s Papers Open to Public at Hoover Institution (Stanford University)

Collection of Rare Titanic-Related Documents Donated to the Penn Libraries

University of Southern California Digital Repository to Preserve Half-Century of Oscar Telecasts

Why scholars can’t resist the uncrackable Voynich manuscript

New York - Archive Comes To Life At New Holocaust Education Center
 
Miami uses hi-tech tools to recreate stolen artifacts

How Pop Up Archive Is Navigating the Murky Waters of Digital Audio Rights

Getting Public Radio’s Legacy off Ageing Rewritable CDs: an Interview with WNYC’s John Passmore

Digital Preservation Pioneer: Bill LeFurgy

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia - Tasmanian prisoners record book released from a wardrobe

The last post: letters home to India during the first world war

India - Presidency University to help tell the Dutch story

Europe / Europa
Ousted Ukrainian president's files found dumped in a lake

Blue Shield Statement on Ukraine

UNESCO supports recovery of the Archives of Bosnia and Herzegovina

European Union Sees Flurry of Activity on Copyright Policy
 
Numérisation des archives du Bureau européen de coordination des Organisations internationales de Jeunesse

European Union - The private archives of Alcide De Gasperi are now open for consultation
 
WWI German Reconnaissance Photographs Sell for $2,000
 
France - Encourager les âgés à reverser leurs archives des deux guerres mondiales : un objectif de mémoire et de solidarité intergénérationnelle

The experience of INA "Mémoires partagées", the French audiovisual heritage

The National library of France becomes ISNI Registration agency : for a persistent identification of persons and organizations

Ireland - Creating an archive of personal accounts of the conflict
 
UK spy agency intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users

Decision to block Prince Charles's letters challenged

British Library - Historic maps in the public domain

Music manuscripts from the 17th and 18th centuries in the British Library 

LexisNexis partners with UK government (including the National Archives) on Big Data project

A history of aerial photos of Britain from English Heritage's Aerofilms archive

Amazing eyewitness account of the exploits of Lawrence of Arabia surfaces as archive of papers go under the hammer

Burlesque beauties of the 1890s: stunning vintage photos of 'loose women in tights' who perfected the art of the tease
 
Fascinating archive of posters urging men to enlist for WWI - and encouraging their wives to send them - set to sell at auction

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israel's modern history sits in a Jerusalem warehouse, waiting to be declassified

Critics say Facebook is erasing pieces of history by deleting pages about the war in Syria

Kuwaiti ambassador to Italy visits central archive to broaden cooperation

International
The 8 most popular document formats on the web

Archivists’ and Records Managers’ Identities – Two Opinions: Different Species or United as One?

Film preservation 2.0

Will Today’s Digital Movies Exist in 100 Years?

First contagious WiFi computer virus goes airborne, spreads like the common cold
 
Archives International will sell 1,000 lots of U.S. and worldwide banknotes

Cloud storage and archives: a match made in heaven?
 
Information management in Enterprise Resource Planning systems

Protection of sound recordings in EU and USA
 
What Do you Mean by Archive? Genres of Usage for Digital Preservers

Thursday 20 February 2014

Vol. 7, no. 25

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner - Australian Privacy Principles Guidelines

De la communauté / From the community
UNESCO - Institutional Repository Software Comparison

National Digital Stewardship Alliance - The Benefits and Risks of the PDF/A-3 File Format for Archival Institutions

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - Network Services Discovery (Draft)

Fiche pratique - Connaître les concours de la fonction publique pour les archives (France)

Article - Visualizing Digital Collections

Publications
Records Management Journal, vol. 24, no. 1 (2014)

Restaurator: International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material, vol. 35, no. 1 (March 2014)

Library Hi Tech, vol. 32, no. 1 (2014)

Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, vol. 7, no. 1 (February 2014)

Advances in Library Administration and Organization, vol. 32 (2014)

Heritage: the Journal of the Jewish Archives & Historical Society of Edmonton & Northern Alberta, vol. 16, no. 2 (Winter 2014)

Book - Documentary & Archival Research

Book - Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management (Third Edition)

Book - Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities

Book - Scribes and Scholars: a Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature (Fourth Edition)

Book - Genealogy Online for Dummies (Seventh Edition)

Book - Handbook of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies

Book - Challenging History in the Museum: International Perspectives

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Keeping Tracks : a One Day Symposium on Music and Archives in the Digital Age
March 21, 2014, London

Online Research Forum - Holocaust Memory, Archives or the Representation of the Holocaust and Genocide in the 21st Century
April 22, 2014

Webinar - Creation of Master Archive Package
May 27, 2014

4th International Conference on Information Communication and Management
October 8-9, 2014, Geneva (Switzerland)

AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists) 2014 Annual Conference
October 8-11, 2014, Savannah (Georgia)

International Conference on Digital Preservation and Development of Trusted Digital Repositories (Videos and Presentations Available)
February 5-6, 2014, New Delhi

Sur le web / On the web
Video - Library and Archives Canada Develops a New Approach to Description and Discovery

Archives Association of Ontario - World War I Resources

Nouveau site - Bretania : le portail des cultures de Bretagne
Communiqué de presse : http://ow.ly/tIcnu
 
ARCOMEM System (Semantic and Social Web Crawling) now Available as Open Source Software

TeachArchives: a New, Innovative Way to Teach in the Archives

Getty Research Institute - Art & Architecture Thesaurus Now Available as Linked Open Data 

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Warman and National Post Drop Appeals: Good News for Canadian Copyright Law

Canadian Library Association - Letter to the Minister of Canadian Heritage and the Minister of Industry regarding the Changes to Crown Copyright and Licensing

Canadian Library Association - Statement regarding Federal Government Library Consolidation and Closure 

Daniel J. Caron - the victim?

Immigration and Citizenship records at LAC: did your ancestor arrive in Canada between 1865 and 1935?

Nova Scotia Court of Appeal - Carefully Assessing Discovery of Metadata

Organizations work together to preserve Saskatchewan's rich heritage
 
BAnQ - Lancement de GALA (Gestion de l’application de la Loi sur les archives) transactionnel
 
Map project ties together centuries of Toronto history
 
Centre régional d’archives de l’Outaouais - Concours de photos anciennes

Coquitlam (B.C.) - Her job: build a city archive from scratch
Special note: Congratulation to a former colleague!

Preserving Coquitlam's heritage

Reeling back Sudbury's (Ont.) history: archives interest group donates newspaper microfilm reels
 
Donation to the Sudbury Archives
 
Oshawa (Ont.) - Collection highlights: City directions

Renovations begin at Peterborough Museum and Archives (Ont.)

Decades-long hunt for mysterious French filmmaker yields rare look into the forgotten past of a Canadian tribe

Re-thinking Information Management in the era of digital disruption

Afrique / Africa
Rwanda - Senate Okays Bill Setting Up Archives, Library Body

Amériques / Americas
Group tries to slow federal government’s move away from paper to the Web

Clinton Foundation keeps tight leash on papers from Bill Clinton’s tenure as governor

Congress in middle of Hollywood copyright clash with Silicon Valley

Declassified Documents Shed Light on 1980 Moscow Olympics Boycott

Washington State - Bill requires elected officials to know open records laws

Volunteers bring Abraham Lincoln papers into online age

‘Monuments Men’ exhibition review

Even Good Films May Go to Purgatory: Old Films Fall Into Public Domain Under Copyright Law

Stanford University begins development on Spotlight (a Blacklight plugin that showcase digital collections)

University of Connecticut - Historic Nuremberg Papers of Sen. Thomas Dodd Go Digital

Illinois State University history behind archive doors

A Conversation with Robert De Niro’s Film Archivist 

The Heart of the Matter: a National Digital Stewardship Resident Project and Program Update

I (No Longer) Have a Web Site: Access, Authenticity, and the Restoration of GeoCities

Le timbre le plus célèbre au monde mis aux enchères à New York

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service transfers second set of Old Police Records to Archives New Zealand

New Zealand - University of Canterbury: archive digitally preserves post-quake Pledge books

Australia Pushes South Korea Into Life-Plus-70 Copyright Terms As Part Of Free Trade Agreement

After Winding Odyssey, Tibetan Texts Find Home in China

China - UNESCO to consider Nanjing Massacre files

China's copyright registrations hit record high

Nepal - Land records to go online in 6 months

Singapore - National archives pioneer Lily Tan dies at age 70

Royal seals affirm Vietnam sovereignty over islands in the East Sea
 
Online art archive launched in Taiwan

Prajnya Trust to archive photos, success stories of first woman graduates in South Asia

India - Digitize film prints, say Kannada directors

Europe / Europa
Ukraine - City collection 'ransacked' as Kiev erupts in violence

First World War in Archive of Serbia Documents

Germany - Access to Stasi files keeps the past in the present and allows for reconciliation

Hungarian rabbi finds 103 Torah scrolls stolen during WW2 in Russian library

Slovenia - Minister Grilc Rejects Criticism of European Union Initiative Regarding Archives

Declassified files expose lies of French nuclear tests
 
France - Les archives papier de l'ancien secrétaire général de l'Elysée, Claude Guéant, ont disparu

How France’s Open Data Team Is Modernizing The French Government Through Data

France - Les archives de la Sûreté des Archives nationales : un nouveau regard

France - 1914/2014: la Grande Guerre passe à l’ère numérique

France - Le master « archives » est mort, vive le master « archives » !

UK National Archives Fire Tackled by Firefighters

Kew Royal Botanical Gardens - Conserving Darwin's Letters

600 year old mystery Voynich manuscript decoded by University of Bedfordshire professor

Bath Preservation Trust archive goes on-line

Staffordshire archive centres to close as part of cuts

The Snakes, Angels, and Invented Alphabets of a Mysterious 18th-Century Magic Book

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Bibliothèque nationale du Liban : mais où sont les hommes ?
 
Lebanon - Guns, flared trousers and same-sex kisses: an archive of photographs from the 1950s to 1970s reveals a record of life long hidden from view

Bahrain King ratifies copyright, trademark laws

Afghanistan - Kabul suicide bomber fails to target World’s largest holy Quran archive

International
8 Book Historians, Curators, Specialists, And Librarians Who Are Killing It Online

Using third-party apps for citizen engagement: information management considerations

The role of “the professional discipline” in archives and digital archives

Microfilm Still Matters in the Digital Age 

New Survey: "Over-preservation" threatens effective Information Governance

The Need for a Practical Approach to Assessing Cloud Services for Preservation

Current Trends in Digital Film Preservation
 
Recherches et archives des mondes contemporains à l’épreuve du numérique