Vol. 5, no. 14

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

Archives fédérales suisses - Actualités de l’histoire: La Confédération, le Parlement et les sièges

http://www.bar.admin.ch/dokumentation/00445/01508/01510/index.html?lang=fr&download=NHzLpZeg7t,lnp6I0NTU042l2Z6ln1ae2IZn4Z2qZpnO2Yuq2Z6gpJCDeHt,gmym162epYbg2c_JjKbNoKSn6A--

NARA - FAQ About Presidential Memorandum

http://blogs.archives.gov/records-express/?p=1482

De la communauté / From the community

Redefining the Academic Library: Managing the Migration to Digital Information Services

http://www.theconferencecircuit.com/wp-content/uploads/Provosts-Report-on-Academic-Libraries2.pdf

HathiTrust Defendents - Joint answers and response with Court

http://thepublicindex.org/docs/cases/hathitrust/answer.pdf

OCLC - Libraries at Webscale

http://www.oclc.org/us/en/reports/webscale/default.htm

Publications

Association of Research Libraries - SPEC Kit: Digital Humanities

https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:11423.10972503074/rid:50644dc83983e8d8d9c6958228164aad

Research paper - Research on Model of E-government Archive Knowledge Management Based on Semantic Ontology

http://www.it-paper.com/research-on-model-of-e-government-archive-knowledge-management-based-on-semantic-ontology.html

Book - Archives on the Web: Experiences, Challenges, Visions

http://bit.ly/t8ofVp

Book - Defending Professionalism: A Resource for Librarians, Information Specialists, Knowledge Managers, and Archivists

http://www.abc-clio.com/product.aspx?isbn=9781598848694

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

With Constant Care… the Business Archivist in the 21st Century

16-17 April 2012, Copenhagen

http://businessarchivesscotland.blogspot.com/2011/12/business-archivist-in-21st-century.html

Sur le web / On the web

National Library of Sweden - From Grolier binding to book object: The history of book bindings in pictures

http://www.kb.se/english/about/news/From-Grolier-binding-to-book-object/

Outils / Tools

EADitor December 2011 (.1112) beta (XForms framework for Encoded Archival Description)

http://eaditor.blogspot.com/2011/12/eaditor-december-2011-1112-beta.html

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat - Expansion of Open Data Portal

http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/media/nr-cp/2011/1202-eng.asp

Library and Archives Canada digitizes the Lord Elgin Collection

http://thediscoverblog.com/2011/12/02/whats-new-lac-digitizes-the-lord-elgin-collection/

Museums go digital to woo young adults

http://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/story.html?id=5807251

The history of Toronto in photos

http://www.blogto.com/city/2011/12/the_history_of_toronto_in_photos/

B.C. newspaper archive now online

http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/travelleisure/article/1460727

New MemoryBC descriptions for November 2011

http://aabc.ca/resources/news/2011/12/5/new-memorybc-descriptions-for-november-2011/

Committee approves naming for Ottawa archives

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2011/12/06/ottawa-city-archives-facility-naming.html

Records storage contract eyed: private records management could save Niagara Region $563,000 over five years

http://www.niagarathisweek.com/news/article/1256755--records-storage-contract-eyed

Chatham (Ont.) - 'A Queer Archive' to kick off

http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3390567

Don d’archives inestimable pour la Société d’histoire et de généalogie Maria-Chapdelaine (Lac St-Jean)

http://lepoint.canoe.ca/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=217676&id=1182&classif=Nouvelles

Afrique / Africa

Freedom of Information, poverty and promotion of Freedoms in Zambia

http://www.zambianwatchdog.com/archives/27351

Côte d'Ivoire - Protection des documents : Les archivistes au secours de l’administration

http://news.abidjan.net/h/418646.html

Amériques / America

Guatemala - Archives on Decades of Police Terror Accessible Online

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106078

U.S. - National Archives works on declassifying massive backlog of documents

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/national-archives-needs-to-declassify-a-backlog-of-nearly-400-million-pages/2011/11/29/gIQAMAYmPO_story.html

New National Archives video gives fresh look at Pearl Harbor attack

http://www.examiner.com/art-travel-in-washington-dc/new-national-archives-video-gives-fresh-look-at-pearl-harbor-attack-70-years-ago

Library of Congress to receive entire Twitter archive

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=493&sid=2658996

Diversity of Access to Digital Preservation Collections; first results from the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Storage Survey

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2011/12/diversity-of-access-to-digital-preservation-collections-first-results-from-the-ndsa-storage-survey/

Smithsonian Institution Archives - Digital Dilemma: Preserving Computer Aided Design (CAD) Files

http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/digital-dilemma-preserving-computer-aided-design-cad-files

 

Smithsonian museum collects Occupy Wall Street memorabilia: Cultural timepieces or archival ephemera?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/30/national-museum-of-american-history-collects-occup/

Documenting the Occupy protests: Data mining for instant history

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2011/12/documenting-occupy-protests

Massachusetts opens long-hidden Romney archives

http://www.timesleader.com/news/Massachusetts_opens_long-hidden_Romney_archives_12-06-2011.html

Western Soundscape Archive Preserves the Sounds of Nature

http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/audio-archive-captures-soundscapes-nature.html

Chicago Film Archives Join The Internet Archive

http://chicagoist.com/2011/12/06/chicago_film_archives_join_the_inte.php

New Digital Collection From Pepperdine University Libraries: Anti-Communism Films of the Early 1960s

http://library.pepperdine.edu/news/index.php/2011/11/new-digital-collection-anti-communism-films-of-the-early-1960s/

For the record: Museum of Modern Art’s oral history project

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/For-the-record:-MoMA%E2%80%99s-oral-history-project/25184

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

An Interactive Digital Archive of the Japan Earthquake

http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/34950/east-japan-archive/

Japan to send 1,200 Korean royal archives to S. Korea on Tuesday

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20111205p2g00m0dm126000c.html

China - Hangzhou Municipal Archives

http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/771

Vietnam - Communiqué sur les lois sur les archives, mesures, réclamations et dénonciations

http://fr.vietnamplus.vn/Home/Communique-sur-les-lois-sur-les-archives-mesures-reclamations-et-denonciations/201112/19959.vnplus

New Zealand social media policy world's best: Gartner

http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/nz-social-media-policy-worlds-best-gartner/144432

Victoria (Australia) - New watchdog to guard public right to information

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/new-watchdog-to-guard-public-right-to-information-20111203-1ocme.html

Europe / Europa

Poles shot in Katyn have not been legally rehabilitated due to lack of documents

http://www.kyivpost.com/news/russia/detail/118122/

Vatican's Secret Archives to show documents of the Immaculate Conception and of St. Bernadette

http://bit.ly/sjYp8Y

Summary of the inaugural event of the Swiss Chapter of ARMA 

http://jhagmann.twoday.net/stories/55771297

UK - Foreign and Commonwealth Office to release colonial administration records

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/645.htm

UK National Archives -  Cataloguing grants awarded to open up valuable archive collections

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/644.htm

British Library plans website overhaul

http://www.guardian.co.uk/government-computing-network/2011/dec/06/british-library-website-project

UK Web Archive - Twittervane: Crowdsourcing selection of websites

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/webarchive/2011/12/twittervane.html

Results of publicly funded research will be open access – science minister

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/08/publicly-funded-research-open-access

Dickens manuscript illuminates author's workings

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/08/dickens-manuscript-great-expectations

York to create online database of city archives

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-16051379

Christmas card history on display at Shropshire museum

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-16090915

France to Launch Open Data Portal 

http://www.futuregov.asia/articles/2011/dec/02/france-launch-open-data-portal/

France Numérique 2012 : objectif zéro papier pour 2020

http://pro.01net.com/editorial/547656/france-numerique-2012-objectif-zero-papier-pour-2020/

France - Les Archives nationales s’apprêtent à quitter Paris pour Pierrefitte

http://www.la-croix.com/Culture-Loisirs/Culture/Actualite/Les-Archives-nationales-s-appretent-a-quitter-Paris-pour-Pierrefitte-_NG_-2011-12-04-743514

France - La Toile retrouve la mémoire (sur l'archivage du web)

http://www.ecrans.fr/La-Toile-retrouve-la-memoire%2C13683.html

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

Preserve the state security records, Arab Spring countries urged

http://www.sofiaecho.com/2011/12/03/1218220_preserve-the-state-security-records-arab-spring-countries-urged

Israel's National Library puts collection online

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-s-national-library-puts-collection-online-1.399377

Oman - Education minister approves archives system

http://main.omanobserver.om/node/74302

Maroc - Valorisation et promotion des archives nationales : des experts appellent à Rabat à une action intense et soutenue

http://www.libe.ma/Valorisation-et-promotion-des-archives-nationales-Des-experts-appellent-a-Rabat-a-une-action-intense-et-soutenue_a23309.html

International

Library and Archive Groups Delighted by Conclusions on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions at WIPO

http://www.ifla.org/en/news/library-and-archive-groups-delighted-by-progress-on-copyright-limitations-and-exceptions-at-wip

International Council on Archives - Archives and Human rights in Malaga: a fruitful seminar

http://www.ica.org/?lid=11794

OCLC introduces OCLC WorldShare

http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2011/201170.htm

Do you feel lucky? Google Books is at heart a catalogue of errors

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=418378&c=1