Vol. 14, no. 43

 Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State

Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan – Annual Report 2020-2021
http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/documents/pas_2020_21ar_web_final.pdf

Public Records OFffice Victoria (Australia) – Service Victoria Records Disposition Authority
http://prov.vic.gov.au/about-us/our-blog/feedback-request-service-victoria-rda

De la communauté / From the community

Fédération des milieux documentaires – Le profil de compétences des professionnels de l’information et portail des institutions
https://fmdoc.org/2021/07/29/profil-de-competences-et-portail-des-institutions/

International Council on Archives – Records in Contexts Conceptual Model 0.2 (Public Release)
http://www.ica.org/en/public-release-of-records-in-contexts-conceptual-model-02

International Council on Archives – Universal Declaration on Archives: Oral History Toolkit
http://www.ica.org/en/universal-declaration-on-archives-oral-history-toolkit

Digital Preservation Coalition – Preserving 3D, CAD and GIS: New Technology Watch Guidance Notes (Member Release)
http://www.dpconline.org/news/twgns-3d-cad-gis-member-release

Digital Preservation Coalition – EDRMS Preservation Toolkit (Member Release)
https://www.dpconline.org/news/edrms-preservation-toolkit-member-preview

Publications

Reference Services Review, vol. 49. no. 2 (2021)
http://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/0090-7324/vol/49/iss/2

Weave: Journal of Library User Experience, vol. 4, no. 1 (2021)
http://journals.publishing.umich.edu/weaveux/issue/17/info/

Archives Association of Ontario – Off the Record, vol. 37, no. 3 (2021)
https://aao-archivists.ca/News/10777897

Chapter – On Complexity of GLAMs’ Digital Ecosystem: APIs as Change Makers for Opening up Knowledge
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-77431-8_22

Free eBook – Virtual Heritage: a Guide
https://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/books/e/10.5334/bck/

Book – Sustainable Enterprise Strategies for Optimizing Digital Stewardship: a Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums
http://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538142875/

Book – More Texts from the Archive of Socrates: Papyri from House 17, Level B, in Karanis – P. Cair. Mich. III
http://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110714562/html

Book – Digital Civics and Citizenship: an Applied Approach
http://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538141359

Book – The Inclusive Museum Leader
http://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538152256

Book – Photography: a Critical Introduction (Sixth Edition)
http://www.routledge.com/product/isbn/9780367222758

Book – Knowledge and Information: the Potential and Peril of Human Intelligence
http://bokforlagetstolpe.com/backlist_titles/isbn9789189069619

Book – Dead Men Telling Tales: Napoleonic War Veterans and the Military Memoir Industry, 1808-1914
http://www.oupcanada.com/catalog/9780192896025.html

Book – Secure Data Mining
http://www.springer.com/us/book/9780387879659

Book – Software as Hermeneutics: a Philosophical and Historical Study
http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783030636098

Livre – Y a-t-il un assassin dans votre arbre généalogique ?
http://www.archivesetculture.org/product-page/y-a-t-il-un-assassin-dans-votre-arbre-g%C3%A9n%C3%A9alogique

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

BC First Nations Data Governance Strategy Engagement Sessions
August 4 – September 1, 2021
https://fnps.ca/bcfndgs-engagement-sessions/

Gustav Fritsch ca. 1900: Three-Color Photography, Nature, & Colonial Science
July 30, 2021
http://www.cca.uct.ac.za/news/spirals-colour-camera-colonialism-friday-30th-july

Desmantelando Fronteras/Breaking Down Borders: Leveraging Collaborative Scholarship and Handwritten Text Recognition Technology to Read the Spanish Colonial Archive
July 30, 2021
http://trincoll.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lUVtlOrxT5-owCcjqq5Z0w

Intertwined Challenges: Competing Interests in the Archiving and Accessioning of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission Records
August 3, 2021
http://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrdOqvrzouG9Lv0Ssi2wDc9k4NsU16Cfz7

What is Black about Black Bibliography?
August 3, 2021
http://rarebookschool.org/rbs-online/what-is-black-about-black-bibliography/

European Symposium – Digital Transformation in Archival Science
August 10, 2021
http://en.almamater.si/1-european-symposium-digital-transformation-in-archival-science-n684

Digitization and the Future of Archives: Network meeting III
August 24, 2021
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digitization-and-the-future-of-archives-network-meeting-iii-tickets-163989185067

Engaging with Web Archives for Digital Humanities
September 1, 2021
http://netpreserve.org/events/ewa4dh/?occurrence=2021-09-01

New Digital Exponential Technologies Towards the Generation of Business Models
September 2-3, 2021
http://www.digitaltreasures.eu/new-business-models-workshop/

What’s Past is Prologue: the NewsEye International Conference 2021 (Video Available)
March 16-17, 2021
http://www.newseye.eu/blog/news/the-newseye-international-conference/

Memoriav – Patrimoine audiovisuel et open glam ? (Vidéos disponibles)
24 juin 2021
https://memoriav.ch/fr/retour-journee-professionelle-2021/

Sur le web / On the web

From the Vaults: Audio from Edmonton’s Past – An Interview with Joseph Lamoureux
http://fromthevaults.buzzsprout.com/1209881/8283042-an-interview-with-joseph-lamoureux

France – Collection de documents des fonds diplomatiques français portant sur le Rwanda (1990-1994)
http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/archives-diplomatiques/action-scientifique-et-culturelle/expositions/expositions-dossiers-en-ligne/collection-de-documents-des-fonds-diplomatiques-francais-portant-sur-le-rwanda/

Emulation for Archivists
http://heleix.github.io/emulation-resources/

Video – The Last Year of Digitization: Catching up with OMB/NARA Memorandum M-19-21 (Transition to Electronic Records) Deadlines after Covid
http://youtu.be/AN0leqkU8zI

Video – Paper-Keeping: Women, Family, and Knowledge Work in the Early Modern British World
https://youtu.be/Yvu7dmli3mQ

Video – Lessons from 5 years of Indigenous Language Transcription Projects
https://content.fromthepage.com/lessons-from-5-years-of-indigenous-language-transcription-projects/

Internet Archives – 25th Anniversary
http://anniversary.archive.org/

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Canada’s intellectual property strategy offers limited protection for cultural expression, traditional knowledge
http://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/canadas-intellectual-property-strategy-offers-limited-protection-cultural

Default Judgment Dire Doomsday for Downloaders?
http://excesscopyright.blogspot.com/2021/07/default-judgment-dire-doomsday-for.html

Our digital world is a privacy nightmare
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ts/business/opinion/2021/07/24/our-digital-world-is-a-privacy-nightmare.html

Immigration before 1865 at Library and Archives Canada Part 1
http://findingyourcanadianstory.ca/2021/07/19/immigration-before-1865-at-library-and-archives-canada-part-1/

Association of Research Libraries, Canadian Association of Research Libraries, and Ithaka S+R Launch Joint Project to Advance the Research and Learning Mission
http://www.arl.org/news/arl-carl-and-ithaka-sr-launch-joint-project-to-advance-the-research-and-learning-mission/

How Do Alberta’s Archivists Work During a Pandemic?
http://albertashistoricplaces.com/2021/07/28/how-do-albertas-archivists-work-during-a-pandemic/

Critères abaissés avant l’embauche de Marie Grégoire à la tête de BAnQ
http://www.journaldequebec.com/2021/07/28/criteres-abaisses-avant-lembauche-de-gregoire-a-la-tete-de-banq

Mi’kmaq man on quest to preserve traditional birchbark canoe craft
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/mi-kmaq-man-on-quest-to-preserve-traditional-birchbark-canoe-craft-1.5525718

Call for Participation: the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition
https://www.carl-abrc.ca/news/cwac-call-for-participation-sept2021

Expanding the Covid-19 Pandemic and the University of British Columbia Web Archive
http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/digitizers-blog/expanding-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-the-university-of-british-columbia-web-archive-by-sarah-gallagher/

University of Waterloo – Transcription work at Special Collections & Archives and beyond
http://uwaterloo.ca/library/special-collections-archives/blog/post/transcription-work-special-collections-archives-and-beyond

Ottawa City Archives News
http://www.anglocelticconnections.ca/2021/07/23/ottawa-city-archives/

City of Vancouver Archives – British Columbia Gay and Lesbian Archives Photograph Digitization Wraps Up
http://www.vancouverarchives.ca/2021/07/26/bcgla-photograph-digitization-wraps-up/

Demande accrue pour les archives des Oblats à la Société historique de Saint-Boniface
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1811238/pensionnat-autochtone-oblat-archives-histoire-saint-boniface

Writing in the margins: the story behind Kingston’s Prison for Women magazine
http://www.tvo.org/article/writing-in-the-margins-the-story-behind-kingstons-prison-for-women-magazine

Local Indigenous archives and language revitalization underway at Kingston Frontenac Public Library (Ontario)
http://ygknews.ca/2021/07/27/local-indigenous-archives-and-language-revitalization-underway-at-kfpl/

Buxton National Historic Site and Museum (Ontario) – Local archivist hopeful Emancipation Day uncovers Canada’s history
http://blackburnnews.com/chatham/chatham-news/2021/07/22/local-archivist-hopeful-emancipation-day-uncovers-canadas-history/

York Region opens online archives for 50th anniversary celebration
http://www.newmarkettoday.ca/local-news/york-region-opens-online-archives-for-50th-anniversary-celebration-3967747

Whistler Museum and Archives Society – The village that ceased to exist, part two
http://blog.whistlermuseum.org/2021/07/27/the-village-that-ceased-to-exist-part-two/

Les mirages de la cartographie
http://www.ledevoir.com/culture/620967/geographie-les-mirages-de-la-cartographie

Afrique / Africa

As Algerians push France to open its colonial archives, the family of a man who vanished long ago yearns for answers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/algeria-france-colonial-archives-asselah/2021/07/25/dde06c1e-d5c6-11eb-b39f-05a2d776b1f4_story.html

Archives of beauty and pain: a century of African women in photos
http://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/7/28/archives-of-beauty-and-pain-a-century-of-african-women-in-photos

Amériques / Americas

NARA – Email in PDF: Pushing the (email) envelope
http://records-express.blogs.archives.gov/2021/07/23/email-in-pdf-pushing-the-email-envelope/

NARA – The Importance of Acknowledging Our History: the National Archives and Federal Records Center in Denver, Colorado
http://aotus.blogs.archives.gov/2021/07/26/the-importance-of-acknowledging-our-history-the-national-archives-and-federal-records-center-in-denver-colorado/

NARA – Inside the Still Imaging Lab: Digitization of the Ratified Indian Treaties, 1722-1869
http://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2021/07/27/inside-the-still-imaging-lab-digitization-of-the-ratified-indian-treaties-1722-1869/

NARA – Visual Cues and Clues: Cracking the Code of Glass Negatives
http://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2021/07/27/visual-cues-and-clues-cracking-the-code-of-glass-negatives/

NARA – Problems with Mutiny on the Bounty, 1960
https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2021/07/29/problems-with-mutiny-on-the-bounty-1960/

Lawmakers Tell National Archives to Use Tech Modernization Funding to Fix Veterans’ Backlog
http://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2021/07/lawmakers-tell-national-archives-use-tech-modernization-funding-fix-veterans-backlog/184040/

Library of Congress – Recommended Formats Statement 2.0: a Year On
http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2021/07/rfs-2-0-a-year-on/

Library of Congress – Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud: how we’re Working with Researchers
http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2021/07/cchc-working-with-researchers/

Speculative Annotation Invites Public to Interact with Digitized Collections at the Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-21-040/speculative-annotation-invites-public-to-interact-with-digitized-collections-at-the-library-of-congress/2021-07-29/

Library of Congress – All Hyped Up for HyperCard: Further Adventures with an Apple Legacy Format
http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2021/07/all-hyped-up-for-hypercard-further-adventures-with-an-apple-legacy-format/

Library of Congress – Jade Snow Wong: the Legacy of Fifth Chinese Daughter
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2021/07/jade-snow-wong-the-legacy-of-fifth-chinese-daughter/

National Library of Medicine – Preparing for the Best Future we Can Imagine
http://nlmdirector.nlm.nih.gov/2021/07/28/preparing-for-the-best-future-we-can-imagine/

United States Seizes Funeral Scrolls and Manuscripts Taken from Pre-Holocaust Jewish Communities in Eastern Europe
http://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/united-states-seizes-funeral-scrolls-and-manuscripts-taken-pre-holocaust-jewish

Rare Cuneiform Tablet Bearing Portion of Epic of Gilgamesh Forfeited to United States
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/rare-cuneiform-tablet-bearing-portion-epic-gilgamesh-forfeited-united-states

American Library Association adopts new Code of Ethics principle on racial and social justice
https://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2021/07/ala-adopts-new-code-ethics-principle-racial-and-social-justice

Texas State Library and Archives Commission – Getting the Most Out of your State Records Retention Schedule, Part III: Records Series Item Numbers
http://www.tsl.texas.gov/slrm/blog/2021/07/getting-the-most-out-of-your-state-records-retention-schedule-part-iii-rsins/

Digitized photos from Montana State University Libraries’ Holder Collection unveil beauty of Montana’s Crow Indian tribe
https://www.msstate.edu/newsroom/article/2021/07/digitized-photos-msu-libraries-holder-collection-unveil-beauty-montanas

University of Texas’ Briscoe Center acquires Robert Polidori photo archive worth $30 million
http://www.statesman.com/story/entertainment/arts/2021/06/16/robert-polidori-photos-ut-briscoe-center-archive-acquisition-university-texas/7708013002/

University of Notre Dame launches platform for online access to library, museum holdings
http://news.nd.edu/news/notre-dame-launches-platform-for-online-access-to-library-museum-holdings/

Historic Karamu House donates treasured archives to Case Western Reserve University’s Kelvin Smith Library
http://thedaily.case.edu/historic-karamu-house-donates-treasured-archives-to-case-western-reserve-universitys-kelvin-smith-library/

Papers of seminal African filmmaker Paulin Vieyra acquired by Indiana University Black Film Center/Archive
http://news.iu.edu/stories/2021/07/iub/releases/27-black-film-center-archive-acquires-paulin-vieyra-papers.html

Tribes enter into MOA with Western Carolina University for language preservation
http://www.theonefeather.com/2021/07/tribes-enter-into-moa-with-western-carolina-univ-for-language-preservation/

A Jewish library’s treasure surfaced at auction. How did it get there?
http://www.jta.org/2021/07/27/united-states/a-jewish-librarys-treasure-surfaced-at-auction-how-did-it-get-there

Researchers are pulling movements out of microfilm with digital history
http://vtx.vt.edu/content/vtx_vt_edu/en/articles/2021/07/eng-historians-and-computer-scientists-harness-virtual-reality-and-ai.html

Remembering Genoa: Museum, digital archives preserve history of Nebraska Indian Boarding School
http://www.3newsnow.com/news/local-news/remembering-genoa-museum-digital-archives-preserve-history-of-nebraska-indian-boarding-school

Cordova Historical Museum (Alaska) will digitize 117 years’ worth of newspapers
http://www.thecordovatimes.com/2021/07/24/museum-will-digitize-117-years-worth-of-newspapers/

Library wants help finding the faces in the photos of Williamsburg’s first licensed African American photographer
http://www.dailypress.com/virginiagazette/va-vg-albert-durant-photographer-adcox-0717-20210720-s3maokktmrfjtgb25jsc4jp3zi-story.html

Rarely-seen photos tell the story of America’s Black Civil War soldiers
http://www.cnn.com/style/article/black-civil-war-soldiers-photos/index.html

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific

Deeply unsettling: National Archives of Australia request backlog grows as thousands seek unanswered questions
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7357217/national-archives-backlog-delays-grow-as-thousands-seek-unanswered-questions/

Queensland State Archives (Australia) Appoints First Nations Advisor
http://nirs.org.au/news/qld-state-archives-appoints-first-nations-advisor/

Anniversary celebrations at Queensland State Archives (Australia)
http://www.gaiaresources.com.au/anniversary-celebrations/

National Library of New Zealand – Processing the Evening Post International Collection: an update
http://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/processing-the-evening-post-international-collection-an-update

International forum of history teachers seeks ways to preserve legacy of Korean War veterans
http://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20210727000300325

Calligraphy of Japanese ex-PM donated to Shanghai city archives
http://www.shine.cn/news/metro/2107282769/

India – Plea to acquire papers of Bhagat Singh’s trial from Pakistan
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/plea-to-acquire-papers-of-bhagat-singhs-trial-from-pakistan/article35540103.ece

India – A digital archive on Feroza Begum all set to be launched on her birthday
http://www.uniindia.com/a-digital-archive-on-feroza-begum-all-set-to-be-launched-on-her-birthday/east/news/2459681.html

Europe / Europa

Italy Has a Mobile Game to Promote Italy’s Cultural Heritage
http://mikeshouts.com/italy-land-of-wonders-mobile-game/

Luxembourg – Dramatic rescue of national literary archive
http://delano.lu/article/dramatic-rescue-of-national-li

Belgium – Flooding claims another victim: state archives
https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/art-culture/179374/flooding-claims-another-victim-state-archives/

Belgique – Les Archives de l’État sur le front des inondations
http://www.arch.be/index.php?l=fr&m=actualites&r=toutes-les-actualites&a=2021-07-27-les-archives-de-l-etat-sur-le-front-des-inondations

They became my children too: the Multi-layered meanings of family letters from the Jewish Maquis in France
https://blog.ehri-project.eu/2021/07/29/they-became-my-children-too/

Cannes Docs Talk: Working with Archives: Jean-Gabriel Périot’s method
http://businessdoceurope.com/cannes-docs-talk-working-with-archives-jean-gabriel-periots-method/

Cannes regular Sergei Loznitsa on his archive documentary Babi Yar. Context
http://www.screendaily.com/features/cannes-regular-sergei-loznitsa-on-his-archive-documentary-babi-yar-context/5161450.article

National Records of Scotland – Objects, Archives and Diseased Potato Tubers
https://blog.nrscotland.gov.uk/2021/07/29/objects-archives-and-diseased-potato-tubers/

Obama letter among Annie Ross memorabilia bequeathed to Scottish archive
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/barack-obama-scottish-archives-hollywood-glasgow-b947115.html

Scotland’s Catholic Museum launches interactive virtual site
http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/42713

UK National Archives – The Archivist’s Guide to Film: Target for Tonight
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/the-archivists-guide-to-film-target-for-tonight/

UK National Archives – Fighting the ‘flu, 1918-1919 (Part one)
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/fighting-the-flu-1918-1919-part-one/

UK National Archives – A Magna Carta for refugees
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a-magna-carta-for-refugees/

UK National Archives – Dude, where art thine quill?
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/dude-where-art-thine-quill/

UK National Archives – The rebel councillors: the 1921 Poplar Rates Rebellion
https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/the-rebel-councillors-1921-poplar-rates-rebellion/

British Library – The Paradoxes of Power: Photographic records and postwar nuclear testing
http://blogs.bl.uk/americas/2021/07/the-paradoxes-of-power-photographic-records-and-postwar-nuclear-testing.html

British Library – Shape-shifting: Creative research and the Owner of the Sea
http://blogs.bl.uk/americas/2021/07/shape-shifting-creative-research-and-the-owner-of-the-sea.html

British Library – Researching community online
http://blogs.bl.uk/living-knowledge/2021/07/researching-community-online.html

Victoria & Albert Museum – Tackling racist language in collections
https://collectionstrust.org.uk/blog/tackling-racist-language-in-collections/

International

Discover International Committee of the Red Cross’ Strategy on its Archives, Records and Library Collections
https://blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/discover-icrc-s-strategy-on-its-archives-records-and-library-collections/

Arolsen Archives: International Center on Nazi Persecution – Nazi persecution of queer people
https://arolsen-archives.org/en/about-us/statements/nazi-persecution-of-queer-people/

FromthePage – Make a “Small Bet” on Crowdsourcing
https://content.fromthepage.com/make-a-small-bet-on-crowdsourcing/

Basics of Born-Digital Preservation
http://almanac.rhizome.org/pages/preservation-basics

Managing Electronic Records in Archives
http://lucidea.com/blog/managing-electronic-records-in-archives/

Research Libraries Ensure Trustworthiness in Times of Need
http://www.arl.org/blog/research-libraries-ensure-trustworthiness-in-times-of-need/

Freaking out About Nazi Content on the Internet Archive Is Totally Missing the Point
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210720/17393847212/freaking-out-about-nazi-content-internet-archive-is-totally-missing-point.shtml

The online data that’s being deleted
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210715-the-online-data-thats-being-deleted

The lack of people of colour in science images must be fixed: archives, libraries, photo agencies and publishers need to do better to reflect science’s true past and present
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02036-1