Vol. 5, no. 40

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

U.S. National Information Standards Organization - Updated Recommended Practice on SERU: A Shared Electronic Resource Understanding

http://www.niso.org/news/pr/view?item_key=922f576ca5099b17ad8438a7bf8e0858f36430f3

France - Avis du Conseil national du numérique relatif à l’ouverture des données publiques

http://www.cnnumerique.fr/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/2012-06-05_AvisCNNum_12_OpenData.pdf

De la communauté / From the community

AIIM - Forms Processing: user experiences of text and handwriting recognition (OCR/ICR)

http://www.aiim.org/Research-and-Publications/Publications/AIIM-White-Papers/Forms-Processing

The Age of Exabytes: Tools and Approaches for Managing Big Data

http://www.readwriteweb.com/reports/big-data/

Free ebook - Linked Data Patterns: A pattern catalogue for modelling, publishing, and consuming Linked Data

http://patterns.dataincubator.org/book/

IFLA - Data driven futures - censorship takes new forms

http://www.ifla.org/en/publications/data-driven-futures-censorship-takes-new-forms

Publications

Off the Record: E-magazine of the Archives and Records Association Section for New Professionals

http://www.archives.org.uk/images/documents/SNfP/otr3.pdf

Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (June 2012)

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201206.pdf

Thesis - Long term preservation of product lifecycle metadata in OAIS archives

http://deposit.fernuni-hagen.de/2798/1/Diss_Brunsmann.pdf

Book - Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Part I: http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-30216-9?cm_mmc=NBA-_-Jun-12_WEST_10635108-_-product-_-978-3-642-30216-9

Part II: http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-30219-0?cm_mmc=NBA-_-Jun-12_WEST_10635108-_-product-_-978-3-642-30219-0

Book - The Archivists' New Testament: An Archival Arrangement of the Documents of the New Testament

http://tinyurl.com/7bfngv7

Book - Records and Information Management Surveys: The Alpha and Omega

http://tinyurl.com/7kqsq3x

Library Technology Report - Linked Data Tools: Connecting on the Web

http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3845

Book - Rare Book Librarianship: An Introduction and Guide

http://www.abc-clio.com/product.aspx?isbn=9781591588818

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Telling stories with data: SLAIS presentations

June 15, 2012, Vancouver

http://www.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca/telling-stories-with-data-slais-presentations

Séminaire L’information-documentation au coeur des collectivités locales (présentations disponibles)

25 mai 2012, Paris

http://intd.cnam.fr/l-information-documentation-au-coeur-des-collectivites-locales-495130.kjsp?RH=intd

Sur le web / On the web

New web portal - Open Metadata

http://www.openmetadata.org/

Global Philatelic Library

http://newsdesk.si.edu/releases/national-postal-museum-announces-launch-centralized-gateway-world-s-greatest-philatelic-res

Video - The Daguerreotype: Photographic Processes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmm90yhhuJM

Video - Digital Curation Centre: Managing Research Data

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/node/9626

Video - Gay Archives Project

http://vimeo.com/43534322

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Library and Archives Canada - D-Day images now on Flickr

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

Budget Cuts Threaten Access To Information, Watchdog Says

http://updatednews.ca/2012/05/31/budget-cuts-threaten-access-to-information-watchdog-says/

Record collector buys CBC Vancouver's vinyl motherlode

http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Record+collector+buys+Vancouver+vinyl+motherlode/6712481/story.html

Lake Country (B.C.) Museum digitizes its archival records

http://www.lakecountrycalendar.com/community/157287345.html

Nanaimo archives in crisis after feds cut grants

http://www.nanaimobulletin.com/news/155974815.html

Feds help out Cortes Island (B.C.) Museum & Archives

http://www.canada.com/Feds+help+Cortes+Island+Museum/6737251/story.html

Framing Canada: the work of William Notman

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/americas/2012/06/framing-canada-the-work-of-william-notman.html

Entretien avec Denis Beauregard, pionnier de la généalogie en ligne 

http://blog.myheritage.fr/2012/06/entretien-avec-denis-beauregard-pionnier-de-la-genealogie-en-ligne/

Afrique / Africa

Algérie - Le Directeur du Centre National des Archives, Abdelmadjid Chikhi confie : «Les archives appartiennent au territoire sur lequel elles ont été produites»

http://www.latribune-online.com/suplements/cahiers_du_week-end/68249.html

Blue Shield Statement on Mali

http://www.ifla.org/en/news/blue-shield-statement-on-mali

Rwanda - Un document compromettant enterré dans les archives de l’ONU

http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2012/05/31/un-document-compromettant-enterre-dans-les-archives-de-l-onu_822837

Amériques / Americas

Guatemalan Government to Dismantle its “Archives of Peace”

http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/guatemalan-government-closes-peace-archives/

Jamaica - Scotiabank-Gleaner Archival Exhibition Rolls Into St Ann

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120602/lead/lead5.html

Web Archiving and Mainstreaming Special Collections: The Case of the Latin American Government Documents Archive

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/06/web-archiving-and-mainstreaming-special-collections-the-case-of-the-latin-american-government-documents-archive/

The Library of Utopia (a Harvard-led group is launching its own sweeping effort to put literary heritage online)

http://www.technologyreview.com/featured-story/427628/the-library-of-utopia/

Library of Congress - Picturing the War of 1812

http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2012/05/picturing-the-war-of-1812/

Report of first doctor to reach shot Lincoln found

http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Report-of-first-doctor-to-reach-shot-Lincoln-found-3610756.php

Long-sealed Watergate documents may be released

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765580324/Long-sealed-Watergate-documents-may-be.html

The state of open records laws: Access denied

http://www.iwatchnews.org/2012/06/01/9037/state-open-records-laws-access-denied

Maine launches first-in-the-nation medical image archive

http://www.sunjournal.com/news/approved/0001/11/30/maine-launches-first-nation-medical-image-archive/1206764

Vietnam soldier's letters make it home

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7410642n&tag=showDoorFlexGridRight;flexGridModule

New interactive database lets Stanford scholars map a mindset

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/june/mapping-texts-project-060112.html

Stonewall National Museum & Archives Stores America's LGBT History

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/04/stonewall-museum-lgbt-history-fort-lauderdale-florida_n_1563527.html

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. Visits Chinese Military Archives

http://www.facebook.com/notes/veterans-of-foreign-wars-vfw/vfw-visits-chinese-military-archives/10151022307187474

Pakistan - Archival collections contribute to formation of nation's collective memory: Yaseen Anwar

http://www.brecorder.com/pakistan/banking-a-finance/60391-archival-collections-contribute-to-formation-of-nations-collective-memory-yaseen-anwar.html

India - A treasure trove from history

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/a-treasure-trove-from-history/957236/

India - 70,000 files declassified by external affairs ministry

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/70000-files-declassified-by-external-affairs-ministry/articleshow/13833762.cms

Europe / Europa

Historical archive Sarajevo makes cooperation with historical archives from Belgrade and Ljubljana officials

http://www.emg.rs/en/news/region/180352.html

German National Library Linked Data Service now includes dumps for downloads

http://epsiplatform.eu/content/german-national-library-linked-data-service-now-includes-dumps-downloads

Rare Napoleon letter in English goes on sale

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/06/world/europe/france-napoleon-auction/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

France - Afghanistan : le combat des archives

http://www.defense.gouv.fr/terre/a-la-une/afghanistan-le-combat-des-archives

France - Rêve d'archives, archives de rêve

http://sortir.telerama.fr/evenements/expos/reve-d-archives-archives-de-reve,94039.php

Online archive showcases Wales' high streets of yesteryear

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2012/06/05/online-archive-showcases-wales-high-streets-of-yesteryear-91466-31112929/

Ireland - Minister for Arts and Heritage Jimmy Deenihan to move on heritage mergers

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0607/1224317443258.html

Scotland to strengthen freedom of information legislation

http://www.guardian.co.uk/government-computing-network/2012/jun/01/scotland-strengthen-foi-legislation-bill

Helping hedgehogs to cross the road – games in the UK Government Web Archive

http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/helping-hedgehogs-to-cross-the-road-games-in-the-uk-government-web-archive/

University of Greenwich releases online wartime memory archive

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/9749055.University_of_Greenwich_releases_online_wartime_memory_archive/

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

Egypt - National Archives to acquire Mubarak trial documents after case closes

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/18/44076/Books/National-Archives-to-acquire-Mubarak-trial-documen.aspx

International

Human Computation and Wisdom of Crowds in Cultural Heritage

http://www.trevorowens.org/2012/06/human-computation-and-wisdom-of-crowds-in-cultural-heritage/

Can Governments Keep Up Their Open Data Initiatives?

http://www.digitalcommunities.com/magazine/Open-Data-Sustainability.html

In the War of the Maps, Google's Secret Weapon Is Offline Access

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/06/war-maps-googles-secret-weapon-offline-access/53231/

The Internet now has 340 trillion trillion trillion addresses

http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/06/technology/ipv6/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2