Vol. 5, no. 34

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

U.N. Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management - Future trends in geospatial information management: the five to ten year vision

http://ggim.un.org/docs/meetings/Netherlands/Future%20trends%20in%20geospatial%20information%20management%20summary_12April.pdf

The British Library - Transforming stored knowledge into smart knowledge

http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/imagelibrary/downloadMedia.ashx?MediaDetailsID=1428

De la communauté / From the community

OCLC - Final Two Reports in Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums Series

http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2012-04-23.htm

OCLC - Print Archives Disclosure Pilot final report

http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2012/04/25/oclc-print-archives-disclosure-pilot-final-report/

Open Planets Foundation - Migrating a Windows 2000 Database Server to Virtualized and Emulated Hardware

http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2012-04-23-migrating-windows-2000-database-server-virtualized-and-emulated-hardware

American Institute of Architects, California Council - Can CAD Be Saved? Preserving Digital Designs

http://aiacc.org/2012/04/24/can-cad-be-saved-preserving-digital-designs/

Publications

Archives and Manuscripts, vol. 40, no. 1 (2012)

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/raam20/40/1

Trent University Archives Newsletter, no. 41 (April 2012)

http://www.trentu.ca/admin/library/archives/newsletter41.pdf

Livre - La valorisation des archives: une mission, des motivations, des modalités, des collaborations

http://www.editions-academia.be/fr2/fiche_2.php?id=20059

Book - Photography and the Artist's Book

http://www.museumsetc.com/products/artists

Book - Silent Film Performers: An Annotated Bibliography of Published, Unpublished and Archival Sources for Over 350 Actors and Actresses

http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-6751-8

Book - What is Media Archaeology?

http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745650258

Book - Implementing Electronic Document and Record Management Systems

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781466526495/

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Webinar - Protect Your Holdings AND Provide Access? (Society of American Archivists)

May 31, 2012

http://bit.ly/IfzTgS

 

Webinar - Using and Understanding PDF/A as a Preservation Format (Society of American Archivists)

Jun 28, 2012

http://bit.ly/JKlaKc

Webinar - Managing and Preserving Audio and Video in Your Digital Repository

May 16, 2012

June 6, 2012

June 13,2012

http://www.duraspace.org/duratest/webinar-series-registration-open-managing-and-preserving-audio-and-video-your-digital-repository

Pathways to Privacy Research Symposium: Privacy for Everyone

May 2, 2012, Ottawa

http://www.priv.gc.ca/resource/cp/symposium/index_e.asp

Sur le web / On the web

Exposition virtuelle - GOAAAL ! Un siècle de football belge aux Archives générales du Royaume de Belgique

http://goaaal.arch.be/

Podcast - Mike Wash, National Archives and Record Administration: Conversations about Digital Preservation

http://www.loc.gov/podcasts/digitalpreservation/podcast_wash.html

Video - An Overview of Preservation at the UCLA Library

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3EYnWSFonc

OCLC - Archives, special collections researchers invited to take online survey

http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/blog/?p=458

Outils / Tools

Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV)

http://labs.mondeca.com/dataset/lov/index.html

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Prime minister’s department loses sports and music memorabilia, likely shredded

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1168681--prime-minister-s-department-loses-sports-and-music-memorabilia-likely-shredded

Clement urged to release more government information online

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Clement+urged+release+more+government+information+online/6511044/story.html

Library and Archives Canada - The Famous “Kitchen Accord”: Now Available in Digital Format

http://thediscoverblog.com/2012/04/20/the-famous-kitchen-accord-now-available-in-digital-format/

Library and Archives Canada - Lester Bowles Pearson Images Now on Flickr

http://thediscoverblog.com/2012/04/23/lester-bowles-pearson-images-now-on-flickr/

Estonian heritage display at the Provincial Archives of Alberta 

http://bit.ly/I5RiGb

British Library - Malaria in Ontario: a World Malaria Day post

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/americas/2012/04/malaria-in-ontario-a-world-malaria-day-post.html

United Church archives ground zero in search for evidence of forced adoptions

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/04/22/united-church-archives-ground-zero-in-search-for-evidence-of-forced-adoptions/

Edmonton - City archives go virtual

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/City+archives+virtual/6518631/story.html

Toronto - The Scarborough Hospital honours its past: longtime doctor joins archive committee to preserve hospitals' past

http://www.insidetoronto.com/news/local/article/1339200--the-scarborough-hospital-honours-its-past

Nicolet - Vers un centre d'archives régional

http://www.lecourriersud.com/Actualites/Actualites-regionales/2012-04-25/article-2962907/Vers-un-centre-darchives-regional/1

Afrique / Africa

Namibia: Feasibility Study On National Archives Almost Complete

http://allafrica.com/stories/201204200850.html

Amériques / Americas

Jamaica - Policy of Openness Being Pursued by Government

http://www.jis.gov.jm/news/leads/30347

Library of Congress’s collection preserves history of American culture

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/2012/04/22/gIQABtcoaT_story.html

Seeking Miraculous and Lossless Victories: An Update on the Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) Still Image Working Group

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/04/seeking-miraculous-and-lossless-victories-an-update-on-the-fadgi-still-image-working-group/

Ex-spy: Destroying CIA tapes purged 'ugly visuals'

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/24/ex-spy-destroying-cia-tapes-purged-ugly-visuals/

Veterans Affairs, National Archives team up to help dig out of claims backlog

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/538/2842058/VA-National-Archives-team-up-to-help-dig-out-of-claims-backlog

Ancestry.com Acquires Archives.com For $100 Million

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/25/ancestry-com-acquires-archives-com-from-inflection-for-100-million/

Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums with Wikipedia (GLAM-Wiki): Insights Interview with Lori Phillips

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/04/galleries-libraries-archives-museums-with-wikipedia-glam-wiki-insights-interview-with-lori-phillip/

U.S. Geological Survey Historical Maps Go Digital

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3176

Nebraska - 'The written word endures' at archives

http://www.omaha.com/article/20120424/NEWS01/704249912/0

Millions of Harvard Library Catalog Records Publicly Available

http://hvrd.me/JlShEE

The Humanities, Digitized: Reconceiving the study of culture

http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/05/the-humanities-digitized

 

See the photos! Huge archive of historical photos of New York City debuts online 

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/photos-huge-archive-historical-photos-york-city-debuts-online-article-1.1066641?localLinksEnabled=false

Cataloguing Queens history for 100 years

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/cataloguing-queens-history-100-years-article-1.1066847

Folger Shakespeare Library Acquires Lynn Redgrave Archive

http://www.theatermania.com/washington-dc-theater/news/04-2012/folger-shakespeare-library-acquires-lynn-redgrave-_55386.html

This Camera Doesn’t Take Pictures. It Describes Them.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/a-camera-that-doesnt-take-pictures-but-describes-them/

Chicago - Historians up in arms about archives future: as Gerber/Hart moves, LGBT library's board accused of stonewalling its members

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-gerber-hart-20120426,0,4489781.story

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

Book of the Dead fragment found in Australian museum

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/04/20/queensland-museum-papyrus-book-dead-egypt.html

What are Australian Government agencies using social media to achieve?

http://egovau.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/what-are-australian-government-agencies.html

President Aquino orders preservation of all Philippine films and audio visuals

http://www.zambotimes.com/archives/46611-Aquino-orders-preservation-of-all-Philippine-films-and-audio-visuals.html

Indonesia - Archive and Document Preservation is Important for Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo

http://bit.ly/HZa0zn

India - National University of Educational Planning and Administration to establish national digital archive

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/National-University-of-Educational-Planning-and-Administration-to-establish-national-digital-archive/articleshow/12853595.cms

Europe / Europa

Romania opens national library in communist-era building

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gEWMuF5sSN4SbkRGAN-4JNNfwjjg?docId=CNG.8f5de66e8202b0f87773e00855d9f67a.421

Oldest Written Documents in Estonia Uploaded

http://news.err.ee/culture/07a3980c-870b-4ec5-bb9f-3b1269e594a2

The Gibraltar Museum and the Gibraltar Archives

http://vox.gi/local/4841-the-gibraltar-museum-and-the-gibraltar-archives.html

Poland - National archive acquires JP II's letters to communists

http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/97524,National-archive-acquires-JP-IIs-letters-to-communists

France - Le gouvernement se dote d'un délégué interministériel aux Archives de France

http://www.archimag.com/node/2404

 

France - De la description des documents à l’exploitation des données : le projet data.bnf.fr

http://cblog.culture.fr/2012/04/20/open-data-web-sementique-bnf

National Library of Wales £1m war records project

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17834842

 

Scotland - Dirty books reveal secret lives of people living in mediaeval times

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-dirty-reveal-secret-people-mediaeval.html

UK - After the release of colonial records – what about Northern Ireland?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/20/colonial-records-release-northern-ireland

Queen Victoria archive goes online

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17800359

 

Alan Turing papers on code breaking released by GCHQ

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17771962

British Library publishes 30 years of letters between Ted Hughes and critic Keith Sagar

http://bit.ly/IbeOVW

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

Lebanese monastery to archive first Arabic Bible, thousands of manuscripts

http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/04/25/210238.html

Emirati films to be archived in new library

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/film/emirati-films-to-be-archived-in-new-library

Israel Police probing possible theft of Kafka papers

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-police-probing-possible-theft-of-kafka-papers-1.426392

Einstein Archives website received nearly 1 million unique visitors in its first month: more than 34 million hits from 160 countries

http://www.huji.ac.il/cgi-bin/dovrut/dovrut_search_eng.pl?mesge133508654305872560

International

Saving the game: Why preserving video games is illegal

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/04/22/saving-the-game-why-preserving-video-games-is-illegal/

 

Why PDF/A is becoming the de facto document format for digital archiving

http://www.theknowlist.com/2012/04/why-pdfa-is-becoming-the-de-facto-document-format-for-digital-archiving/

A Brief History of Digital Video

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

Usability and Analytics in Libraries, Archives, and Museums

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/04/usability-and-analytics-in-libraries-archives-and-museums/

 

History flushed: The digital age promised vast libraries, but they remain incomplete

http://www.economist.com/node/21553410

Digital Preservation Is Cultural Literacy

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kari-kraus/digital-preservation-is-cultural-literacy_b_1455752.html

Information hoarders: A Harvard history professor explains how human societies evolved to collect, organize and use data

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/25/information_hoarders_salpart/