Thursday 25 July 2013

Vol. 6, no. 47

Ressources / Resources
 
De l'État / From the State
British Library - Annual Report and Accounts 2012-2013
 
Bibliothèque nationale de France - Rapport d'activité 2012
 
De la communauté / From the community
Digital Preservation Coalition - Preserving Computer Aided Design (CAD)
 
Guidelines for Digital Newspaper Preservation Readiness (Draft for Public Comments)
 
National Digital Stewardship Alliance - National Agenda for Digital Stewardship 2014
 
Project “Radieschen”: Framework Conditions For An Inter-disciplinary Research Data Infrastructure In Germany
 
DataCite Metadata Schema 3.0
 
Article - Born.Digital@British.Library: The Opportunities and Challenges of Implementing a Digital Collection Development Strategy
 
Publications
Code4lib Journal, no. 21 (2013)
 
Review of the National Center for Digitization, no. 23 (2013)
 
Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, vol. 52, no. 3 (August 2013)
 
Ariadne, no. 71 (July 2013)
 
The Halcyon: the Newsletter of the Friend of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto), no. 51 (2013)
 
National Archives of Australia - Your Memento, no. 11 (July 2011)
 
eBook - Theory in Information Behaviour Research
 
Report - Frontiers in Massive Data Analysis
 
Book - Canadian Copyright: A Citizen's Guide (Second Edition)
 
Livre / Book - L'histoire contemporaine à l'ère numérique / Contemporary History in the Digital Age
 
Book - Multimedia Information Retrieval: Theory and Techniques
 
Book - Collaboration in International and Comparative Librarianship
 
Book - Software Takes Command
 
Book - Architecting the Cloud
 
Book - Unauthorized Access: The Crisis in Online Privacy and Security
 
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Blueprint 2020 Dialogue for the Information Management Community
July 29, 2013, Ottawa
 
Écrire l’archive
7 février 2014, Dijon
 
Webinar - The Sedona Conference Commentary on Ethics & Metadata
August 8, 2013
 
Webinar - Copyright Decisions: Impact of Recent Cases on Libraries and Publishers
August 14, 2013
 
Public History in a Digital World: The Revolution Reconsidered
October 23-25, 2014, Amsterdam
 
Sur le web / On the web
Map of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts Available Online
 
Video - Discovering Local & State Militia Records
 
Video - An Overview of Continuing Education Opportunities, Gaps, and Challenges in Digital Curation
 
Video - Exposition de Playmobil aux Archives départementales de la Manche (France)
 
Video - Archives nationales de France: site de Pierrefitte-sur-Seine
 
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) Repository and OAI-PMH Harvester plugins for Omeka 2.0
 
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
 
Canada
Many more Indian residential school stories to be heard: Networks across the country attempt to build a national archive in Winnipeg
 
Critics call on Tories to release documents to Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Federal cabinet confidence prevents release of documents on attempted inclusion of sanatorium as residential school
 
Treasury Board of Canada to end pencil-pushing with ‘secret network’ for classified information
 
Parliamentary Budget Office to file access to information requests
 
Electronic Memory of the Arctic is presented at the Canada’s Council of Provincial and Territorial Archivists
 
Library and Archives Canada - Release of a new version of the Census of 1851 database

Some Questions on the Héritage Project
 
Radio-Canada lance un appel à témoins pour un documentaire radiophonique sur la Première Guerre mondiale
 
From a dusty court basement to the B.C. Archives
 
Lac-Mégantic : des milliers de documents retrouvés intacts dans une chambre-forte
Vancouver - Archivist ensures city’s queer history kept for posterity
 
Life on the Grid: Review of the City of Toronto Archives Exhibition
 
WWI love letters found in a wall during a renovation, Now at Dalhousie University being preserved
 
The ethics of archive acquisitions: why couldn’t an important collection of British trans history stay in the UK? (about the Ekins collection acquired by the University of Victoria)
 
University of Carleton - Rare Book Acquisition: Sandford's British Genealogy
 
New Westminster (B.C.) - War photo "Wait For Me, Daddy" to be cast in bronze on spot of famous picture
Waterloo (Ont.) consulting government on reposting public documents
 
British Library - The Royal Baby and Photos for Every Occasion (from Picturing Canada)
 
Smallest library in Canada tries to become smallest library in the world
 
How Guy Maddin's Seances uses lost silent films to explore our personal ghosts
 
Afrique / Africa
Africa Needs to More to Preserve Its Audio-Visual Heritage
 
Somalia’s National Library Rises Amid the Ruins
 
Digital Sudan: cultural heritage revived & preserved
 
Sénégal - Bilan de l'incendie de la mairie de Thiès : Une partie des archives corrodée
 
Amériques / Americas
UNESCO Adds Che Guevara's Manuscripts To Heritage Program
 
Les archives de Cuba en pleine lumière
 
Brazilian literary archives
 
Library of Congress - Rescuers rush to preserve TV shows shot on fragile videotape
 
Funding shortfall may halt Abraham Lincoln papers project at National Archives in Washington
 
National Archives to Solicit Digital Records Technology
 
Report Shows National Archives Spent $430K on License Plate Scanner System That Doesn't Work
 
Georgia Archives supporters to fete operations expansion
 
Archive of Resistance: The Interference Archive in Gowanus, Brooklyn
 
Argonne Using X-Rays to Study 19th-Century Daguerreotypes
 
West Roxbury man's archive gives insight into Boston Strangler (with photos)
 
Richard J. Daley (former Chicago mayor) archive ready for unveiling
 
 
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia - Elders tell their stories interactively
 
Australia - UNESCO Honour For Queensland State Archives
 
Korea - How did the inter-Korean summit transcript disappear?
 
National Film Archive of India to restore Lankan film 'Nidhanya'
 
Europe / Europa
Finland Writes History With Crowdsourced Copyright Law
 
Russia releases manuscript of banned wartime classic
 
National Library of Sweden to Recover Stolen Books
 
World War I Images from the Austrian National Archives
 
Old Arabic Texts Describe 'Filthy' Vikings
 
Slawomir Mrozek archive in Switzerland
 
Ireland - Five-year-old Cabinet papers to become accessible for first time
 
Ireland - Military archives on IRA in Rochdale
 
National Records of Scotland puts historic Window Tax records online
 
Scottish Catholics Archive is boost for Aberdeen
 
UK National Archives and University of Glasgow - Digital records sensitivity review
British Library hush is broken by a row over reading room rules
 
British Library - Going Digital: Making manuscripts more accessible
 
One family, one recipe book and over 300 years of culinary history
 
Barnardo's archive 'up for grabs' or destruction
 
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Heads of Egypt National Archives, Supreme Culture Council to be reinstated
 
Turkey - Ankara denies truck carrying diplomatic archive lost on way from Tehran
 
International
The Underdocumented and Multiculturalism
 
Why the video industry should be leveraging temporal metadata
An Open Letter to the Historians of the 22nd Century
 
Open Data et Archivage électronique
How Google Rediscovered the 19th Century
 
Book /Archival Collections and Light Exposure
 
Identification of PDF preservation risks: the sequel

Thursday 18 July 2013

Vol. 6, no. 46

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
Ontario Information & Privacy Commissioner - Primer on Metadata: Separating Fact from Fiction
 
Bibliothèque nationale de France - Observatoire du dépôt légal: données 2012

Public Records Office Victoria (Australia) - Recordkeeping Implications of Cloud Computing

A Conversation with David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States

De la communauté / From the community
Digital Preservation Coalition - Preservation Metadata Technology Watch Report (2nd Edition)

OCLC - Walk This Way: Detailed Steps for Transferring Born-Digital Content from Media You Can Read In-house

Activists Guide to Archiving Video

Charting the Future University of Toronto Libraries: Strategic Plan 2013–2018 (Draft)

Article - The Canadian Copyright Modernization Act: A Guide for Post-Secondary Instructors

Article - Collecte intelligente et adaptative d’applications Web pour l’archivage du Web

Publications
Records Management Journal, vol. 23, no. 2 (2013)

D-Lib Magazine, vol. 19, no. 7-8 (July-August 2013)

Archive Journal, no. 3, Summer 2013 (Special Issue on Data Curation)

Historic Libraries Forum Newsletter, no. 25 (2013)

Report - Trends in Photography Special Collections Management (2013 Edition)

Report - International Survey of Academic Library Data Curation Practices

Libraries & Archives in the US: Market Research Report

Book - Mass Media Law: The Printing Press to the Internet 

Book - The Manual to Public Records Online: A Researcher's Tool to Using Online Resources of Public Record and Public Information

Book - Chinese Librarianship in the Digital Era

Book - Introduction to Indexing and Abstracting (4th edition)

Book - Catalogue 2.0: the Future of the Library Catalogue  

Book - Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection

Livre - Architectures de la connaissance au Québec

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Archives in Paradise?!: An Introduction to Archives in the English-speaking Caribbean
July 23, 2013, Winnipeg

Caring for Your Print Photographs
October 5, 2013, Ottawa

Medici Archive Project Online Paleography Course
September 23 to December 14, 2013
 
Past Forward! Meeting Stakeholder Needs in 21st Century Special Collections (video available)
4-5 June, 2013, Yale University

Open Data Briefing Day (presentations available)
July 5, 2013, York

Sur le web / On the web
Video - Unique Film Footage Found in the Vaults of Alberta's Archives

Pitt Meadows Museum and Archives (B.C.) Now Has a Blog

Video - Bringing Digital Forensics to the Library

Slidecast - European Holocaust Research Infrastructure: Research Infrastructures and Archival Inter-Mediation

Video - Web archives: a new class of primary source for historians ?

Slidecast - State of the Art: Methods and Tools for Archival Processing Metrics

Video - The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Should data centres have a Canadian address?

Library and Archives Canada - Censuses of Canada West and Canada East, 1842 now available online

Intrusive mobile application class action certified in Québec

Freedom of Information requests jump 40% in Nova Scotia

Lac Mégantic: des milliers de testaments détruits

Locals vow to rebuild after local library, archives razed in Lac-Megantic fire

Lac-Mégantic - La bibliothèque renaîtra de ses cendres
 
Story of Saskatchewan's Jewish farmers goes to national museum

Lévis - Le fonds d'archives et les maquettes du chantier Davie inc. classés biens patrimoniaux

Toronto Cardinal Thomas Collins' unusual Vatican souvenirs

Louis Cyr: les archives de l'homme fort à l'UQAM

Digitizing the Maclean’s archives: Here’s where you come in

The Bedside Table Archives: Narratives of Lesbian Intimate Domestic Culture: An Archival Intervention

North Vancouver waterfront museum and archives plans move forward

Maritime Conference, United Church of Canada - Archives Recipe of the Month

University of Toronto Information Student Interning for Nelson Mandela Centre

Afrique / Africa
Nelson Mandela archives to be opened to the public

South Africa - The Afrika Bambaataa Master Of Records Open Archive

Maroc - Des copies complètes de 1939 manuscrits arabes enrichiront la Bibliothèque royale

Amériques / Americas
Bermuda in a World Heritage Universe

For National Security Agency chief, terrorist threat drives passion to ‘collect it all,’ observers say

Judicial Watch sues National Archives over sealed Robert Kennedy records at JFK Library

NARA - Archival Research Catalog is Retiring on August 15th

National Archives Released Watergate-related Records Online 

Library of Congress Announces Legislative Data Challenge
 
Library of Congress - You Say You Want a Resolution: How Much DPI/PPI is Too Much?

Saving A History Of Invention From The Shredder (about the Patent and Trademark Office Archives)

Revolutionary discovery: Colonists’ 1767 petition uncovered in a Harvard library foreshadows the split with Britain

George Washington presidential library plans announced

Iowa - Former Governor Ray’s papers being converted to digital form

Pittsburgh's Jewish archives complete

University of Minnesota archives advance with new technology

Illinois State University history alum applies skills as McDonald’s archivist

Harvard - Hip Hop Word Count analyzes the culture behind music

University of Wisconsin - Charting a map library’s transition to the digital age

UCLA Film and Television Archive, Outfest to launch landmark online LGBT resource

An Ancient Parchment Refuses To Give Up Its Secrets (the Voynich Manuscript)
 
Archivists Save Vintage Recordings From Superstorm Sandy

Auction selling copyright with Monroe negatives

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Digital recordkeeping Q&A at State Records New South Wales in May and June 2013

Korea - Reps from rival parties view list of summit documents at National Archives

Korea State archives confirms absence of inter-Korean summit transcript

Malaysia - National Archives' Historical Materials Need Added Value: Tourism Minister Nazri Aziz

Kashmir and Its Archives

Last-minute rush as India stops telegram service

Europe / Europa
Germany - 'Irreplaceable Loss': Martin Luther Pamphlets Swiped from Museum

Swedish Police captures e-archives

Malta Institute of Professional Photography donates prints to National Archives

Netherlands - Jews should get WWII property taxes back, says Amsterdam mayor 

France - Affaire Prism : "Il faut accélérer notre adaptation au numérique"
 
France - De l’archive à la numérisation : Diplomatique, sources et problématiques variées, sous le regard d’Olivier Guyotjeannin

France - Archivage électronique : la dématérialisation exige d'accélérer le mouvement

Ireland - Could British war diaries help solve the Jean McConville murder?

Scotland - Historians in battle to safeguard Catholic archives

New Project To Digitise 360,000 First World War Royal Air Force And Royal Flying Corps Service Records Announced

British Library to reunite all surviving original copies of Magna Carta

BT digital archives to celebrate UK's telecoms heritage
 
Navigating 18th-century science: Board of Longitude archive digitised

UNESCO recognition for Institution of Civil Engineers archives

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Abbottabad Commission Report Confirms Seized Bin Laden Documents in Pakistan

Afghanistan sends digital copies of historic documents to Iran

Iran - Tabriz’s central library, an archive of lithographs & manuscripts

International
UNESCO starts Digital Roadmap

An approach to archiving e-mails that makes them manageable, shareable, findable and useful (case study from the Food and Agriculture
Organisation of the United Nations)

Starting a conversation about data
 
Pour une grammatologie comme science positive: entretien avec Maurizio Ferraris (à propos de la documentalité)

The “How” of Email Archiving: More Launching Points for Applied Research
 
What If You Could Snapchat a Scent? Meet the new technologies that want to transform fragrances into archives
 
"5D" data written in glass could last millions of years