Vol. 4, no. 32

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

Federal Court decision - Bronskill v. Minister of Canadian Heritage (access to Tommy Douglas files held at LAC)

http://cas-ncr-nter03.cas-satj.gc.ca/rss/T-1680-09%2008-2011%20Decision%20ENG.pdf

 

Conference of Directors of National Libraries - Reports from national libraries around the world

http://cdnl.info/2011/cdnl2011.html

 

UK Local Government Group - Future libraries: change, options and how to get there

http://www.local.gov.uk/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=c6349d6d-7b26-49e4-aee5-b476de21ecbb&groupId=10161

 

UK Cabinet Office - Making Open Data Real: A Public Consultation

http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/making-open-data-real-public-consultation

 

De la communauté / From the community 

Digital preservation practices and the Rhizome ArtBase

http://media.rhizome.org/blog/8332/rhizome-digital-preservation-practices.pdf

 

From Paper to Persona: Managing Privacy and Information Overload; Sustaining Journalism in the Attention Age

http://rjionline.org/sites/default/files/from_paper_to_persona_-_whitepaper.pdf

 

Publications

Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol. 37, no. 6 (August/September 2011)

http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Aug-11/Bulletin_AugSep11_Final.pdf

 

Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (August 2011)

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201108.pdf

 

IFLA - International Preservation News, no. 54 (August 2011)

http://www.ifla.org/files/pac/ipn/IPN%2054def.pdf

 

Book - I, Digital: Personal Collections in the Digital Era

Table of contents: http://saa.archivists.org/Scripts/4Disapi.dll/4DCGI/store/PDFs/TOCs/BOOKSAA-0578.pdf

Available through the SAA bookstore: http://saa.archivists.org/Scripts/4Disapi.dll/4DCGI/store/storeFront.html?Action=Store

 

Book - A Different Kind of Web: New Connections Between Archives and Our Users

Table of contents: http://saa.archivists.org/Scripts/4Disapi.dll/4DCGI/store/PDFs/TOCs/BOOKSAA-0576.pdf

Available through the SAA bookstore: http://saa.archivists.org/Scripts/4Disapi.dll/4DCGI/store/storeFront.html?Action=Store

 

Book - OECD Guide to Measuring the Information Society 2011

http://www.oecd.org/document/22/0,3746,en_2649_34449_34508886_1_1_1_1,00.html

 

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Digital Preservation Training Programme

November 14-16, 2011, University of London

https://store.london.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?modid=5&prodid=1&deptid=156

 

DLM Forum Triennal Conference

12-14 December 2011, Brussels

http://www.dlmconference.com/

 

Pérenniser les archives numériques, patrimoine de demain : le projet européen KEEP

22-23 Septembre 2011, Paris

http://www.bnf.fr/fr/professionnels/autres_journees_professionnelles/a.ateliers_keep_20110922.html

 

Sur le web / On the web

Hiroshima Archive

http://mapping.jp/hiroshima/

See also: http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110804p2a00m0na015000c.html

 

American Archivist Reviews (a new feature for materials that will not be seen in The American Archivist)

http://www2.archivists.org/the-american-archivist-reviews-launches

 

Information Literacy Package

http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/resources/files/Infolit/Information%20Literacy%20Package%20main2.swf

 

Outils/ Tools

Keeping Research Data Safe Digital Preservation Benefit Analysis Tools version 2

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/news/get/2011/08/09/krds-digital-preservation-benefits-analysis-toolkit-version-2/

 

Ushahidi v2.1 (free and open source platform for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping)

http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2011/08/09/announcing-ushahidi-v2-1-tunis/

 

Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies

http://sempublishing.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sempublishing/SPAR/index.html

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Canada’s world share of science and social-science papers, 2006-2010

http://sciencewatch.com/dr/sci/11/aug7-11_1/

 

How Twitter And Facebook Helped Bing Thom Design A Surrey (B.C.) Public Library

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1664711/how-twitter-and-facebook-helped-bing-thom-design-a-public-library

 

Book researchers run into red tape: Pointe Claire (Quebec) closes city archives

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/todays-paper/Book+researchers+into+tape/5202848/story.html

 

Lethbridge (Alberta) - Galt photo archive doubles with A.E. Cross donation

http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/local-news/galt-photo-archive-doubles-with-ae-cross-donation-8611.html

 

Afrique

Tunisie: le jour où les archives de l’Agence tunisienne de communication extérieure révéleront leurs secrets...

http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/mathieu-magnaudeix/040811/tunisie-le-jour-ou-les-archives-de-l-atce-reveleront-leurs-secre

 

South Africa - New asset database to make politicians more 'accountable'

http://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2011/08/05/new-asset-database-to-make-politicians-more-accountable

 

Swaziland - Impossible for Children to Access Public Information

http://www.ips.org/africa/2011/08/swaziland-impossible-for-children-to-access-public-information/

 

Zimbabwe: Launching E-Government

http://allafrica.com/stories/201108081585.html

 

Amériques/Americas

Library of Congress Puts Twitter Front and Center

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/library_of_congress_puts_twitter_front_and_center.php

 

The National Book Awards Accepts iPad App Submission

http://www.mediabistro.com/ebooknewser/the-national-book-awards-accepts-ipad-app-submission_b14319?clickid=0004aa13e8bbcf1c0ae01f91dc642055

 

New US Lawsuit Accuses Apple of E-Book Price Fixing

http://publishingperspectives.com/2011/08/lawsuit-accuses-apple-of-price-fixing-attacks-agency-model/

 

Vermont publishes public-records law history

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20110804/NEWS02/108040308/Vermont-publishes-public-records-law-history?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s

 

Saving Scrapbooks From the Scrapheap

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/arts/design/preserving-the-scrapbooks-of-history.html?_r=2

 

Civil rights era preserved through film archive at Washington University

http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/22561.aspxk

 

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

National Archives of Fiji Digitizing Film, Video and Images

http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=176887

 

Thailand - National Archives to recount royal cremation

http://thaifinancialpost.com/2011/08/04/national-archives-to-recount-royal-cremation/

 

Taiwan - National Palace Museum displays Republic of China diplomatic archives

http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=173831&CtNode=414

 

Europe

People’s memories of Norway victims go to National Archive

http://www.euronews.net/2011/08/03/people-s-memories-of-norway-victims-go-to-national-archive/

 

Berlin exhibit uncovers once classified Stasi photos

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/09/us-germany-art-stasi-idUSTRE7784H720110809

 

Ireland - Confidentiality queried in Supreme Court

http://www.imt.ie/opinion/2011/08/confidentiality-queried-in-supreme-court.html

 

UK - Hundreds of historic papers lost from National Archives

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8688070/Hundreds-of-historic-papers-lost-from-National-Archives.html

 

Out of Museum of London's Archives and Into the Light, Charles Dickens Revealed

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49685

 

International

The world's first waterproof paperback will hit the shelves next summer, publishers said

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/8679081/Waterproof-book-makes-reading-in-the-pool-easy.html

 

When Data Disappears

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/opinion/sunday/when-data-disappears.html?_r=2

 

Start-up to release 'stone-like' optical disc that lasts forever

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9218881/Start_up_to_release_stone_like_optical_disc_that_lasts_forever

 

The death of Web 2.0 is nigh…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/07/web-2-platform-end-naughton

 

The inevitable BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) revolution

http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/the-inevitable-byod-revolution/143714