Vol. 5, no. 32

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

Canada's Action Plan on Open Government

http://www.open.gc.ca/open-ouvert/ap-patb-eng.asp

UNESCO - Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002158/215863e.pdf

Institut français d'éducation - Architecture de l'information, architecture des connaissances

http://ife.ens-lyon.fr/vst/DA-Veille/74-avril-2012.pdf

World Bank - Open Access Policy for Research and Knowledge, Open Knowledge Repository

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:23164491~menuPK:51062075~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html

De la communauté / From the community

Organizing Digital Information for Others: How to Organize Webpages and Shared Documents to Improve Findability

http://www.pebbleroad.com/downloads/organizing-digital-information-for-others-v1.pdf

Orphan Works: Causes of the Problem

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2038068

Publications

Culture & History Digital Journal, vol. 1, no. 1 (2012)

http://cultureandhistory.revistas.csic.es/index.php/cultureandhistory/issue/view/1

Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (April 2012)

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201204.pdf

Livre - Bibliothèques numériques : logiciels et plateformes

http://www.adbs.fr/bibliotheques-numeriques-logiciels-et-plateformes-114632.htm

Livre - Utilisation des images d'archives dans l'audiovisuel

http://www.lavoisier.fr/livre/notice.asp?id=3LKWX3A2S2ROWK

Book - The New Professional’s Toolkit 

http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=7685

Book - Lester J. Cappon, Pioneer Public Historian

http://litwinbooks.com/cappon.php

Book - Archivists, Collectors, Dealers, and Replevin: Case Studies on Private Ownership of Public Documents

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780810883772

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Call for Contributions – iPRES 2012: the ninth annual conference on digital preservation

October 1-5 2012, Toronto

http://ipres.ischool.utoronto.ca/

Webinar - Archival Materials: Using RDA with DACS

May 30, 2012

http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/cat/053012

Webinar - What does tagging have to do with a taxonomy?

April 18, 2012

http://asist.org/Conferences/webinars/2012/What-does-tagging-have-to-do-with-taxonomy-register.html

Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists - "Let's Go for a Beer"

May 2, 2012, Saskatoon

http://www.facebook.com/events/245692475529446/

Sur le web / On the web

Interview - Garry Shutlak, Senior Archivist at the Nova Scotia Archives - Titanic

http://www.newstalk980.com/audio/reginas-morning-news-garry-shutlak-senior-archivist-nova-scotia-archives-titanic/51172

Video - Keeping Our Stories Alive: Canadian Lesbian + Gay Archives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVB7B2mZU1Q

Slidecast - Better Cross-Channel Experiences With Metadata

http://www.slideshare.net/aungstad/better-crosschannel-experiences-with-metadata-information-architecture-summit-2012

Video - Titanic at the NARA -- 100 Years

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPxhj4BtGQQ

Outils / Tools

Crowdsourced Transcription Tool List

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsXpm6NXLstzdExZZzhaclhIY1ZtMk5yazJlT1FReUE#gid=0

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Democracy watchdog, Opposition say Tory open government plan falls short

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/democracy-watchdog-says-conservative-open-government-plan-falls-short-147175055.html

Library and Archives Canada - Vimy Ridge images now on Flickr

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/vimy-ridge-images-now-on-flickr.aspx

Vancouver’s history goes digital: 5,000 photos from more than 70 years being posted online for library

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Vancouver+history+goes+digital/6421600/story.html

Titanic: Budget crunch forced Vancouver museum to sell rare photo

http://www.canada.com/Titanic+Budget+crunch+forced+Vancouver+museum+sell+rare+photo/6427509/story.html

Kitchener - Region’s archives contain pearls of local history

http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/699408--region-s-archives-contain-pearls-of-local-history

Cobourg - There’s a future in archives

http://www.northumberlandtoday.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3530646

Afrique / Africa

Despite information law, Nigeria still largely refuses to release government data

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/despite-information-law-nigeria-still-largely-refuses-release-government-data-to-public/2012/04/06/gIQAnLUKzS_story.html

Call to preserve the ancient manuscripts of Timbuktu and Mali

http://www.ifla.org/en/news/call-to-preserve-the-ancient-manuscripts-of-timbuktu-and-mali

Timbuktu librarians protect manuscripts from rebels

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/11/uk-mali-timbuktu-manuscripts-idUSLNE83A00U20120411

Amériques / Americas

Bermuda Archives receives dozens of records for preservation

http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20120412/NEWS/704129931

A Colonial WikiLeaks? The Migrated Archives and the Caribbean Pt.1

http://nacla.org/blog/2012/4/12/colonial-wikileaks-migrated-archives-and-caribbean-pt1

NARA to Issue Records Management Directives by July

http://www.executivegov.com/2012/04/nara-to-issue-records-management-directives-by-july/

NARA eyes a shared scanning hub in the cloud

http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com/story/nara-eyes-shared-scanning-hub-cloud/2012-04-09

Linking libraries, museums, archives: U.S. archivist says interactivity must rise because users demand it

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/04/linking-libraries-museums-archives/

Movie Studios Are Forcing Hollywood to Abandon 35mm Film. But the Consequences of Going Digital Are Vast, and Troubling

http://www.laweekly.com/2012-04-12/film-tv/35-mm-film-digital-Hollywood/

Coalition On Political Assassinations, in Washington,D.C., believes gov't records hide details surrounding King assassination

http://www.wusa9.com/news/article/200358/158/Govt-Documents-About-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-Remain-Secret

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Opens Archives

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303772904577333701780052954.html

New York Public Library's plan to take books off shelves worries scholars

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/06/new-york-public-library-jersey

New York Public Library's Massive Digitization Project Begins

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/06/new-york-public-library-digitization_n_1408313.html

The Boston Globe Launches Photos “From The Archives”

http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/the-boston-globe-launches-photos-from-the-archives_b12218

Ford Foundation Files Reveal Insights on Culture

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/arts/ford-foundation-records-move-to-rockefeller-archive-center.html

Archives of American Art contributes to Syracuse University Library's Marcel Breuer digital archive

http://bit.ly/I8KmYK

Doak Ewing is baseball's biggest private film archivist

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-400_162-57410217/doak-ewing-is-baseballs-biggest-private-film-archivist/

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

India - Helping faded pages turn a fresh leaf

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/article3274228.ece

India - Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal’s archives go digital to aid academic research

http://zeenews.india.com/news/net-news/bism-s-archives-go-digital-to-aid-academic-research_768752.html 

Pakistan - Lutfullah preserves 5,000 plus voices

http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/karachi/09-Apr-2012/lutfullah-preserves-5-000-plus-voices

Historical exhibition handed over to Seychelles National Archives

http://www.eturbonews.com/28755/historical-exhibition-handed-over-seychelles-national-archives

Japan - Digital images of official gazettes from the Meiji Era are now available on the Internet

http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/news/fy2012/1194300_2111.html

Europe / Europa

Archive Reveals New Details Of Holocaust In Moldova

http://www.rferl.org/content/archive_reveals_new_details_of_moldova_holocaust/24540310.html

Spanish couturier Cristobal Balenciaga's personal archives on show for first time

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j1JcCRy6DutRGRk0Qf_AFu8GlKBQ?docId=CNG.82a75c2fc238d02b90046ac0b44ed38b.3c1

Yuri Gagarin's Falsified Record

http://news.discovery.com/space/the-technicality-that-nearly-cost-gagarin-the-first-spaceflight-record-120412.html

Vatican and Oxford University share ancient texts online

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/12/vatican-oxford-share-ancient-texts-online

Scotland - Titanic discovery: Victim’s letter discovered in national archive

http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2012/04/09/titanic-discovery-victims-letter-discovered-in-national-archive/

Sixty years of Irish history captured in photographic archives

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Sixty-years-of-Irish-history-captured-in-photographic-archives---PHOTOS-146165015.html

Ireland's film archives set for new research centre at NUIM

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/item/26594-irelands-film-archives-set/

UK - True cost of university Freedom of Information requests revealed

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2012/04/FOI.aspx

Medieval Monastic Library of Lorsch recreated online

http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/10/medieval-monastic-library-of-lorsch-recreated-online/

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

'Silent Holocaust' finds its voice: Wartime documents tell story of lost Soviet community

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/silent-holocaust-finds-its-voice-wartime-documents-tell-story-of-lost-soviet-community-1.423644?localLinksEnabled=false

International

Ancestry.com Releases Comprehensive Collection of Titanic Records Available Online 

http://www.sys-con.com/node/2238249

The Challenge of Teaching Personal Archiving

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/04/the-challenge-of-teaching-personal-archiving/

Gloves or no gloves? The archivist's dilemma

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bs-ed-bible-letter-20120406,0,474887.story

Survey: Email archiving heads to the clouds

http://blog.sonian.com/bid/85443/Survey-Email-archiving-heads-to-the-clouds

YouTube founders’ new project will help you publish your own digital magazine

http://venturebeat.com/2012/04/07/youtube-founders-new-project-will-help-you-publish-your-own-digital-magazine/