Documentary Heritage News: May 2012

Library and Archives Canada - Conducting Research on Residential Schools: A Guide to the Records of the Indian and Inuit Affairs Program and Related Resources

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/conducting-research-residential-schools.aspx

Archives de France - Version française du schéma XML EAC-CPF (Contexte archivistique encodé - Collectivités, personnes, familles)

http://www.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/gerer/classement/normes-outils/eac

Library of Congress - Federal Government Strategic Sourcing Of Information Products And Services

http://www.loc.gov/flicc/publications/FRD/Strategic-Sourcing-2012-April.pdf

De la communauté / From the community

Institute of Museum and Library Services - Libraries and Museums in an Era of Participatory Culture

http://www.imls.gov/new_report_explores_roles_of_libraries_and_museums_in_an_era_of_participatory_culture.aspx

IFLA - Background Paper on e-Lending

http://www.ifla.org/en/news/ifla-releases-background-paper-on-e-lending

OCLC - Lasting Impact: Sustainability of Disciplinary Repositories

http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2012-05-11.htm

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Centuries of Knowledge: Graduate School of Library and Information Science Data Curation Education Program

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/30845

Publications

RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, vol. 13, no. 1 (Spring 2012)

http://rbm.acrl.org/content/13/1.toc

D-Lib Magazine, vol. 18, no. 5-6 (May-June 2012)

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may12/05contents.html

New Review of Information Networking, vol. 17, no. 1 (May 2012)

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rinn20/17/1

Review of the National Center for Digitization, no. 21 (2012)

http://bit.ly/JkAKPe

Library Hi Tech, vol. 30, no. 2 (2012)

http://bit.ly/KxQ0XL

ISO 26324:2012, Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system

http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=43506

Book - Tracing Your Ancestors from 1066 to 1837

http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/tracing-your-ancestors-from-1066-to-1837/p/3430/

Book - The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World

http://www.blindgiant.co.uk/the-book/

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

From Reel-to-Reel to MP3: The Challenge of Converting Archival Records

May 23 2012, Nanaimo

http://www.nanaimobulletin.com/community/151189415.html

W3C Meetup in Ottawa

24 May 2012, Ottawa

http://www.w3.org/2012/05/meetup-Ottawa

Sur le web / On the web

Podcast - Medieval queens in The National Archives (UK)

http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/medieval-queens-in-the-national-archives/

Video - Historians Reconstruct Thousands of Medieval Documents Bombed in the Four Courts (Ireland)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb805fUQo6I&feature=youtu.be

Vidéo - Les archives à l'heure de la migration numérique

http://www.institut-national-audiovisuel.fr/actualites/webzine/migrations-numeriques.html

Outils / Tools

PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Schema), version 2.2

http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/premis.xsd

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

BANQ - Towards a Pooling of the Archive Collections of Major East Coast Institutions

http://bit.ly/JAaMrJ

Bookkeeper gets 20 months for stealing from Opera Lyra, Council of Archives

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/News/Ottawa/Bookkeeper%20gets%2020%20months%20for%20stealing%20from%20Opera%20Lyra,%20Council%20of%20Archives/6606779/story.html

The cost of open data: A Canadian lawyer's analysis

http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/the-cost-of-open-data-a-canadian-lawyers-analysis/145426-pg3#ixzz1v29vDdMi

Stratford Institute for Digital Media - Digitizing content increases our ability to use it, share it, preserve it

http://www.stratfordbeaconherald.com/2012/05/13/digitizing-content-increases-our-ability-to-use-it-share-it-preserve-it

Nunavut ATIPP tips public on their information rights: brochures hitting northern communities on privacy rights and how to seek information

http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674atipp_tipping_public_off_to_information_rights/

Yukon Archives marks milestone with a book and a new vault

http://www.gov.yk.ca/news/12-081.html

Whistler Answer gets the digital treatment: Will be featured on WHistler Museum Website

http://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/whistler/whistler-answer-gets-the-digital-treatment/Content?oid=2301395

Royal Victoria Hospital records safe in McGill archives

http://www.montrealgazette.com/Royal+Victoria+recordssafe+McGill+archives/6607011/story.html

Amériques / Americas

U.S. Federal Judge Slows Down Declassification Secret Documents

http://bit.ly/J3bMmN

Ferriero talks role of National Archives

http://thedartmouth.com/2012/05/15/news/ferriero

GeoMAPP and the Future of Digital Geospatial Preservation

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/05/geomapp-and-the-future-of-digital-geospatial-preservation/

Vermont - State archivist Gregory Sanford retiring after 30 years

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20120515/NEWS03/120515016/State-archivist-Gregory-Sanford-retiring-after-30-years

Longtime Nevada state archivist calls Distinguished Nevadan honor 'pinnacle of career'

http://www.rgj.com/article/20120517/NEWS/305170046/Longtime-state-archivist-calls-Distinguished-Nevadan-honor-pinnacle-career-

Projects Aims to Build Online Hub for Archival Materials

http://chronicle.com/article/Building-a-Digital-Map-of/131846/

University of Michigan computer and video game archive has lofty goal: collect every game ever made

http://www.annarbor.com/news/ums-computer-and-video-game-archive-aims-to-collect-every-game-ever-made/

The Surreal Selling of Man Ray: how a Long Island family with an auto-body shop wound up controlling the artist's legacy

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304070304577394304016454714.html

A Few Minutes with an Archivist (from the Connecticut Historical Society)

http://www.aiim.org/community/blogs/expert/A-Few-Minutes-with-an-Archivist

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

Kashmiri medico launches digital oral history archive

http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2012/May/12/kashmiri-medico-launches-digital-oral-history-archive-46.asp

Graffiti Artists Document Indonesia's Street Art Online

http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/lifeandtimes/graffiti-artists-document-indonesias-street-art-online/517370

South Australia State Library says thousands of pics out of copyright

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-14/state-library-photo-catalogue/4010296

New South Wales Government - Our top 10 tips for a great EDRMS implementation

http://futureproof.records.nsw.gov.au/our-top-10-tips-for-a-great-edrms-implementation/

Mutiny on a convict ship: Carpenter's diary describing how vessel heading for Australia was seized by French soldiers is sold at auction

http://bit.ly/JsnUNh

Australia - Nation’s History in Donated Insurance Archive

http://www.probonoaustralia.com.au/news/2012/05/nation%E2%80%99s-history-donated-insurance-archive

Trove of original Abraham Lincoln documents found in Japan

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/12556164-418/trove-of-original-abraham-lincoln-documents-found-in-japan.html

Europe / Europa

EU Ministers Threaten Access to Information

http://www.freedominfo.org/2012/05/eu-ministers-threaten-access-to-information/

Germany - Agency Chief Says Stasi Archive Should Stay Open

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/stasi-agency-head-wants-office-to-remain-open-indefinitely-a-832312.html

Association des archivistes français - Archives et politique : le fantasme du broyeur

http://www.archivistes.org/Archives-et-politique-le-fantasme

France - Un manuscrit fondateur de Jean Jaurès trouve acquéreur à 178.000 euros

http://www.leparisien.fr/toulouse-31000/un-manuscrit-fondateur-de-jaures-trouve-acquereur-a-178-000-euros-16-05-2012-2003416.php

Scotland - £2m facelift for National library storage site

http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/books/2m-facelift-for-library-storage-site-1-2292705

Scotland - ‘Cultural vandalism’ claims as church breaks up archive

http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/top-stories/cultural-vandalism-claims-as-church-breaks-up-archive-1-2297649

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh - Napoleon's post mortem among documents featuring in new online archive

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/100123-napoleons-post-mortem-among-documents-featuring-in-new-online-archive/

Introducing Discovery, The UK National Archives' new catalogue

http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/introducing-discovery-our-new-catalogue/

UK National Archives - Olympic records available online

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/713.htm

BBC archive director to move to British Library

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/11/bbc-archive-director-roly-keating-leave

Archive films used in pioneering approach to tackling dementia and memory loss

http://www.harrogate-news.co.uk/2012/05/17/archive-films-used-in-pioneering-approach-to-tackling-dementia-and-memory-loss/

Archives from the pioneers of modern genetics to be brought together for the first time

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-archives-modern-genetics-brought.html

North Yorkshire County Records Office - Rapid response centre to save archives at risk

http://www.ripongazette.co.uk/news/ripon/rapid-response-centre-to-save-archives-at-risk-1-4546884

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

Turkey, Azerbaijan to Cooperate in State Archives

http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/135944/turkey-azerbaijan-to-cooperate-in-state-archives.html

International

Digital and Print: Living in a World of “Both/And”

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/05/digital-and-print-living-in-a-world-of-%E2%80%9Cbothand%E2%80%9D/

Bloggers of the World Unite: Rare Book Bloggers and the Links They Build

https://standrewsrarebooks.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/bloggers-of-the-world-unite-rare-book-bloggers-and-the-links-they-build/

When digital dies, where does that leave game preservation?

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/170243/When_digital_dies_where_does_that_leave_game_preservation.php

Are we ready for 3D printing?

http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/discover/sustaining-digital/1328-3dprinting