Vol. 5, no. 31

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

Canada Open Government Consultation Report: What We Heard

http://open.gc.ca/consult/results-resultatstb-eng.asp

States of Sustainability: A Review of State Projects funded by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/multimedia/documents/ndiipp-states-report032612_final.pdf

Institut national du patrimoine - Archives et art contemporain: orientation bibliographique

http://mediatheque-numerique.inp.fr/index.php//mediatheque_numerique/outils_pedagogiques/bibliographies/archives_et_art_contemporain

De la communauté / From the community

ARMA - Records Management and Governance of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) Survey

http://www.slideshare.net/emcacademics/records-management-and-governance-of-electronically-stored-information-esi

The Metadata Coverage Index (MCI):  A standardized metric for quantifying database annotation richness

http://www.mitre.org/work/tech_papers/2012/12_0850/12_0850.pdf

IFLA - Fonctionnalités requises des données d’autorité matière (FRSAD): un modèle conceptuel (version française)

http://www.bnf.fr/documents/frsad_rapport_final.pdf

Finnish Institute - Being Open About Data: Analysis of the UK open data policies and applicability of open data
http://www.finnish-institute.org.uk/images/stories/pdf2012/being%20open%20about%20data.pdf

Publications

Library & Archival Security, vol. 25, no. 1 (2012)

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wlas20/25/1

The Electronic Library, vol. 30, no. 2 (2012)

http://bit.ly/HBmfjU

UK Archives sector updates (spring 2012)

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/archives/archives-sector-update-spring-2012.pdf

Scottish Council on Archives - Broadsheet, no. 13, (April 2012)

http://www.scoarch.org.uk/notice-board/272

First Monday, vol. 17, no. 4 (April 2012)

http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/363

Book - Web-Age Information Management

http://bit.ly/H8K3RS

Book - Quillen's Essentials of Genealogy: Tracing Your Irish & British Roots

http://books.simonandschuster.com/Quillen's-Essentials-of-Genealogy-Tracing-Your/W-Daniel-Quillen/9781593601560

Book - Quillen's Essentials of Genealogy: Tracing Your European Roots

http://books.simonandschuster.com/Quillen's-Essentials-of-Genealogy-Tracing-Your/W-Daniel-Quillen/9781593601553

Book - Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back

http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/doing_recent_history/

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Privacy Protection for Your Records

April 12, 2012, Winnipeg

http://mbarchives.ca/fr/node/66

Free webinar - Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards: Standards for public elections, ballots and voter information

May 16, 2012

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/846313449

Future Perfect 2012: Digital Preservation by Design (presentations available)

26 & 27 March 2012, New Zealand

http://www.slideshare.net/FuturePerfect_/presentations

Sur le web / On the web

National Library of Australia Poscast - Tools for Web Archiving

http://www.nla.gov.au/podcasts/media/Web-Archiving. mp3

UK National Archives - Launching Discovery, our new catalogue

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/692.htm

AnnotateIt and Annotator: a new mode of communication on the web

http://blog.okfn.org/2012/04/03/annotateit-and-annotator/

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Library and Archives Canada Launches Its New Travelling Exhibition

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/library-and-archives-canada-launches-its-new-travelling-exhibition-1638799.htm

Perimeter security: Privacy commissioners urge transparency and respect of Canadian privacy standards

http://www.priv.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2012/nr-c_120402_e.cfm

Nova Scotia Provincial Archivist named

http://heritagecapebreton.ca/2012/04/news/nova-scotia-provincial-archivist-named/

B.C. Supreme Court confirms Commissioner’s jurisdiction to decide questions of solicitor-client privilege

http://informationandprivacylaw.com/information-and-privacy-law/public-sector/b-c-supreme-court-confirms-commissioners-jurisdiction-to-decide-questions-of-solicitor-client-privilege/

Ottawa - PIN Contact Falls Under Access to Information

http://bit.ly/HXPxMz

Ottawa - City officially names the James Bartleman Archives and Library Materials Centre

http://ottawastart.com/story/16597.php

Prof fights University of Ottawa's release of research documents under freedom of information

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/Prof+fights+University+Ottawa+release+research+documents+under/6412656/story.html

Inside old-school books, every scribble tells a story

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/inside-old-school-books-every-scribble-tells-a-story/article2387802/page1/

Huron County Historical Society (Ont.) wants Archive

http://www.bayshorebroadcasting.ca/news_ item.php?NewsID=45114

The Northumberland County Archives: Ensuring a Future for our Past

http://www.northumberlandview.ca/index.php?module=news&func=display&sid=14137

Afrique / Africa

Mali - Timbuktu scripts safe

http://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/timbuktu-scripts-safe-1.1269340

La Tunisie se dote d’une loi sur l’accès à l’information

http://www.kapitalis.com/fokus/62-national/9135-la-tunisie-se-dote-dune-loi-sur-lacces-a-linformation.html

Farah Hached, sur la piste des archives de la Tunisie

http://www.la-croix.com/Actualite/S-informer/Monde/Farah-Hached-sur-la-piste-des-archives-de-la-Tunisie-_EG_-2012-04-02-784033

Amériques / Americas

NARA chief: Agencies want updated records management processes

http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20120404_9241.php

Preservation of and Access to Federally Funded Scientific Data

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/04/preservation-of-and-access-to-federally-funded-scientific-data/

National Archives Releases 1940 Census

http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2012/nr12-99.html

Interest in 1940 US census paralyzes National Archive website, with millions of user ‘hits’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ national/interest-in-1940-us-census-paralyzes-national-archive-website-with-millions-of-user-hits/2012/04/02/gIQAxo5WrS_story.html

Utah volunteers ready to index pre-World War II census

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/53838830-78/1940-census-archives-records.html.csp

US court hears Boston College's Belfast Project archive appeal

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0404/court-to-decide-on-belfast-project-interviews.html

Shoah Foundation to archive testimonies from Armenian Genocide survivors

http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_20303001/shoah-foundation-archive-testimonies-from-armenian-genocide-survivors

Robert Darnton Promises Digital Public Library by 2013 

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/51353-at-columbia-lecture-harvard--s-robert-darnton-promises-digital-public-library-by-2013-.html

For Archivists, ‘Occupy’ Movement Presents New Challenges

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/for-archivists-%E2%80%98occupy%E2%80%99-movement-presents-new-challenges/35929

Seeking scraps of Minnesota history

http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/145788575.html

Academy Acquires Film Historian's Amazing Photo Collection

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/Orson-233726.html

Trove of family papers donated to Lincoln Presidential Library

http://www.sj-r.com/breaking/x1440922547/Trove-of-family-papers-donated-to-Lincoln-Presidential-Library

Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive A Treasure Trove

http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/94016/dartmouth-jewish-sound-archive-treasure-trove/

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

Gandhi's glasses among incredible haul of belongings from Indian peace campaigner set to fetch £80,000

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2123561/Gandhis-glasses-incredible-haul-belongings-Indian-peace-campaigner-set-fetch-80-000.html

Europe / Europa

Open Source Software and Digital Preservation: An Interview with Bram van der Werf of the Open Planets Foundation

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/04/open-source-software-and-digital-preservation-an-interview-with-bram-van-der-werf-of-the-open-planets-foundation/

Dutch National Archive To Open Data

http://epsiplatform.eu/content/dutch-national-archive-open-data

'Huge mass' of archive documents on Azerbaijani genocide

http://www.news.az/articles/politics/57435

Bosnia - Why Sarajevo could lose a 660-year-old Jewish prayer book

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/04/02/f-sarajevo-haggadah.html

German firm launches voluminous online archive on Mahatma Gandhi

http://baltic-review.com/2012/04/german-firm-launches-voluminous-online-archive-on-mahatma-gandhi/

France - Quand la Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure (DGSE) retrouve sa mémoire

http://www.lepoint.fr/chroniqueurs-du-point/jean-guisnel/quand-la-dgse-retrouve-sa-memoire-04-04-2012-1448264_53.php

Ireland - Ancient police records go online

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/republic-of-ireland/ancient-police-records-go-online-16138905.html

The National Archives and Arts Council England announce partnership

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/693.htm

Petition launched to save historic archives as London Metropolitan University says it can no longer maintain Women’s Library and TUC collections

http://www.islingtontribune.com/news/2012/mar/petition-launched-save-historic-archives-london-metropolitan-university-says-it-can-no

Historic photographs of golfing pair could fetch £350k

http://www.stratfordobserver.co.uk/2012/03/30/news-Historic-photographs-of-golfing-pair-could-fetch-%C2%A3350k-34294.html

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

Israel Radio archive could make way for executive offices

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-radio-archive-could-make-way-for-executive-offices-1.422018

International

Philatelic libraries to join forces in global alliance

http://www.examiner.com/stamp-collecting-in-national/philatelic-libraries-to-join-forces-global-alliance

Archiving, Preservation Move into 21st Century

http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/archiving-preservation-move-into-st-century/212660

This old backup: how to dispose of your old archives without exposing yourself

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/this-old-backup-how-to-dispose-of-your-old-archives-without-exposing-yourself.ars

How much paper does a person use on average in a year?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/04/daily-chart-0?fsrc=scn/tw/te/dc/imalumberjack

How Twitter Makes the Internet More Local
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137387/yuri-takhteyev-barry-wellman-and-anatoliy-gruzd/how-twitter-makes-the-internet-more-local