Thursday 16 November 2017

Vol. 11, no. 11

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada - 2016-2017 Departmental Results Report 

De la communauté / From the community
World Intellectual Property Organisation - Draft Action Plans on Limitations and Exceptions for the 2018-2019 Biennium

Statement of Society of American Archivists' Representative at World Intellectual Property Organization Standing Committee on Copyright 

Standardized Statistical Measures and Metrics for Public Services in Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries (Draft)

Storage Networking Industry Association - Data Protection Best Practices Technical White Paper

White Paper - Digital History and Argument 

Publications
Program, vol. 51, no. 4 (2017)

Imago Mundi: the International Journal for the History of Cartography, vol. 70, 1 (2018)

ISO 20614:2017 - Information and Documentation - Data Exchange Protocol for Interoperability and Preservation

Book - Nova Scotia Cookery, then and Now

Book - Watermarked Paper from the Archives in Ravenna (1287-1693) 

Book - The Organization of Information (Fourth Edition)

Book - Library and Information Center Management (Ninth Edition)

Book - Heritage and Archaeology in the Digital Age: Acquisition, Curation, and Dissemination of Spatial Cultural Heritage Data

Book - Cineaste on Film Criticism, Programming, and Preservation in the New Millennium

Book - The Planets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA

Book - Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography

Book - Memory Politics, Identity and Conflict: Historical Memory as a Variable

Book - #Fundraising: how to Raise Money for your Library Using Social Media

Book - Unpacking my Library: Artists and their Books

Book - Managing your Research Data and Documentation

Book - Wiki Works: Teaching Web Research and Digital Literacy in History and Humanities Classrooms

Livre - Mémoires, traces et archives en création dans les arts de la scène

Livre - Droit de la donnée : principes théoriques et approche pratique

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
I Am Canada: New Exhibit Celebrating the Art of Canadian Picture Books 
Until January 21, 2018, Toronto

Alaska Highway: the Yukon Perspective, 1942-2017
November 20, 2017, Whitehorse

Canadian Society for Digital Humanities: Gathering Diversities 
May 26-28, 2018, Regina

Community, Diversity, and Education: Academic Librarianship in Challenging Times
May 29-31, 2018, Regina

Digital Preservation in the West of Scotland
November 30, 2017, Glasgow

Good Practice Takes Practice: Certification and Accreditation for Digital Preservation
January 9, 2018, London (UK)

Patrimoines et design d'expérience à l'ère numérique
13-15 mai 2018, Constantine (Algérie)

British Library Labs Symposium 2017 (Videos Available)
October 30, 2017, London (UK)

Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast - Former Enemies Are Now Friends 

British Library - The Polonsky Foundation Catalogue of Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts

Addext: Python Script to Add File Extensions to Files without them

Video - Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation: Building for the Future of Free Knowledge

Al Jazeera - Video: Legacy Archive Tape Migration Project

Podcast - Excavating the CIA Archives

Slides - Navigating Data Privacy in Canada

Présentation - Usages illustratifs et créatifs des archives audiovisuelles

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Forget iris scans, Canadians to use Blockchain for digital IDs

Create some good: sixties Scoop adoptee mapping out Indigenous movements

Saskatchewan government email fiasco a scandal that's going to get worse

Old drawings could assist new earthquake plan at the B.C. Legislature

Archives of Manitoba - Messages by Wire: Telegrams from the Time of the First World War

Quelques-unes des plus anciennes photographies conservées à BAnQ Québec maintenant en ligne

Québec - Preuve de l'intégrité de documents technologiques

Alberta family's donation of wartime letters enriches University of Calgary's Archives and Special Collections

University of Toronto - Students to benefit from new agreement with Library and Archives Canada

Université de Sherbrooke - La professeure Martine Pelletier impliquée dans l'inscription des archives de Marshall McLuhan au Registre de la Mémoire du monde

Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto - We Remember

Sur les traces de Louis Riel à Winnipeg

Archives de la ville de Québec - Il y a 40 ans, Jean Pelletier était élu maire de Québec

La Société historique Pierre-de-Saurel dénonce des compressions budgétaires

A soldier's story: virtual records at Dufferin County Museum and Archives (Ontario)

Cobourg (Ontario) - Legacy at Victoria Hall as volunteers pitch in for Canada 150 project

It suddenly feels very, very close: colourized archival film shines new light on Vimy Ridge soldiers

Who were these men? New photo exhibit tells the story of Eaton's employees who fought for Canada

The heavens were filled with these little devils: Winnipegger's diaries chronicle WW I experience

Archivist stunned after unearthing family's WWI history

First World War in vivid detail: how a B.C. man is bringing history to life by colourizing old photos

A Nova Scotian's quest to make sure no fallen soldier is left forgotten

The flyboy and his girl: whatever happened to Had and Dody? J.E. Hewitt tries to unravel the mystery of a wartime love letter

An untold story of WWII's Great Escape: I retraced my father's war and found out what really happened 

Newfoundland - Correcting an error: how a spelling mistake cost a Regiment veteran recognition for decades

A taste of the past: chefs recreate 200 years of Nova Scotian recipes

Read Neil Young's latest update on his archives

Introducing Donna Richards: South Peace Regional Archives' New Archives Technician

Les trois clés de la description : contexte, contexte, contexte

Afrique / Africa
Reclaiming Liberia's heritage, one document at a time

La documentation sur l'abolition de l'esclavage en Tunisie 1841-1846 sera exposée à l'Unesco en 2018

La France restitue au Maroc les archives du judaïsme marocain

Amériques / Americas
How to Fight Format Rot: the Library of Congress has your back

Christopher Nolan in Conversation with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden

American Film Institute, Library of Congress Celebrate 50 Years of Film Preservation

Electronic filing coming to the Supreme Court

How the military is making it hard to remember our wars

How a Trove of Nazi Art Wound Up Under Lock and Key on an Army Base in Virginia

FBI Consults Public Affairs Office, Not Advisory Board, for Removing Public Info from Website

Society of American Archivists' Records Management Section - Dispostion and its Discontents

Society of American Archivist - Federal Funding Impact Story #7 

Society of American Archivists - November Twitter Chat: Collecting Women's March Materials and Women's Collections in Archives

Harvard professor unveils Romantic-era archives

Stanford University's Hoji Shinbun project digitizes prewar Japanese American newspapers

Florida State University - A New Digital Collection from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience

New center helping trace roots of Jews in New England

Excavating New York, Frame by Frame

We're searching to reclaim what was lost: in museum archives, a tribe urgently seeks proof of its past

The Harlem Hellfighters were captured in a famous photo. Now a retired archivist has uncovered their stories.

DNAinfo, Gothamist, and What We Lose in the Disappearing Digital Archive


Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australasian data practices: mining, scraping, mapping, hacking

State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales (Australia) - Strategies for recordkeeping in collaborative spaces

Australia - Place is Bigger than Metadata: Maps as Colonial Tools

Archival Decolonist - Too many white experts

New Zealand - Data sovereignty: new global guidelines for indigenous health

Singapore - The Life Interview with Karen Chan: Guardian of old films

This futuristic library with more than a million books opens in China

Europe / Europa
Council of Europe hopes that access to archives in Ukraine will be improved

Unearthing Soviet Secrets in Ukraine's Archives

Warsaw Ghetto Jews' secret archive goes on display

Composer Kurt Weill's Long-Forgotten Song of the White Cheese Discovered in Berlin Archive

Spain - New library of Picasso's Guernica opens

Spain - Falklands 1768 Franciscan chapel blueprint discovered in the Archives of Indies in Seville

Malta - Piracy documents give details of expeditions and slaves

France - Le plan secret du ministère : une bombe contre la culture (et les archives)

World's largest collection of manuscripts from bankrupt firm Aristophil to be sold in Paris

Manuscrits Aristophil : des documents réclamés par l'État

Seamus Heaney's biographer races to see poet's faxes before they fade

Watchdog to probe Scottish freedom of information system

Scotland - Campbeltown Picture House archives get national treasure status

Royal archivist cleared to see Duke of Windsor's will

UK National Archives - Digital archiving: disrupt or be disrupted?

UK National Archives - Passchendaele: Sassoon's hell 

UK National Archives - Suffrage tales: a new animation based on our records 

UK National Archives - Richmond in the archives 

British Library crowdsourcing project to unlock a treasure trove of 18th and 19th century theatre playbills

All our yesterdays, captured on camera: reports on a new online Jewish film archive

The museum will not be decolonised

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
United Arab Emirates - New York University Abu Dhabi and National Archives collaborate to create an online public library of historic Arabic-language materials

Oman lists rare manuscript in UNESCO memory register

Ancient data, modern math and the hunt for 11 lost cities of the Bronze Age

International
Britain and US urged to release papers on Dag Hammarskjöld's death

How researchers might examine our digital data centuries from now

Cloudy Culture: Preserving digital culture in the cloud



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