Ressources / Resources
De l'État / From the State
NARA Bulletin 2014-02: Guidance on Managing Social Media Records
Archives de l'État en Belgique - Rechercher dans les archives: un plan par étapes
De la communauté / From the community
Digital Preservation Coalition - Preservation, Trust and Continuing Access for e-Journals
Council on Library and Information Resources - Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories
Portrait du patrimoine archivistique sur l’histoire de l’UQAM
FactSheet - Metadata and the Digital Repository of Ireland
MA Thesis - The Three Truths of Margaret Thatcher: Creating and Analysing Archival Artefacts
Publications
Archifacts (October 2013)
IFLA Journal, vol. 39, no. 3 (October 2013)
Literary & Linguistic Computing, vol. 28, no. 4, December 2013 (Special Issue on Digital Humanities 2012)
Library Hi Tech, vol. 31, no. 4 (2013)
National Library of Wales - The Welsh Political Archive Newsletter, no. 44 (Autumn 2013)
Trent University Archives News, no. 47 (October 2013)
Friends of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Archives (Ont.) Newsletter, vol. 21, no. 2 (Autumn 2013)
Book - The Great War Illustrated 1914: Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI
Book - Mining the Social Web: Data Mining Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, GitHub, and More (2nd Edition)
Book - William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography
Book - Information Security Fundamentals (Second Edition)
Book - For Nobody's Eyes Only: Missing Government Files and Hidden Archives That Document the Truth Behind the Most Enduring Conspiracy Theories
Book - Private Philanthropic Trends in Academic Libraries
Livre - Les Archives de la Police Scientifique Française
Livre - Les paysans (1870-1970) : récits, témoignages et archives de la France agricole
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Collecting Culinaria: An Exhibition Of Cookbooks And Domestic Manuals
October 25, 2013 - February 7, 2014, Edmonton
Cours en ligne ouverts à tous - La Première Guerre mondiale expliquée à travers ses archives
13 janvier 2014 - 18 Avril 2014
Massive Open Online Course - Image and Video Processing: From Mars to Hollywood with a Stop at the Hospital
January 20, 2014 (9 weeks long)
Massive Open Online Course - Fundamentals of Digital Image and Video Processing
March 31, 2014 (12 weeks long)
Association for Information and Image Management Conference 2014
April 1-3, 2014, Orlando
Designing Storage Architectures for Digital Collections (Presentations Available)
September 23-24, 2013, Washington, D.C.
Sur le web / On the web
JMESS (Javascript Multi Emulator Super System)
New Website - Film Archives UK
NATO archives: first ten years now online
Video - The Digital Public Library of America: An Introduction
AVPreserve - Fixity (Free Open Source Utility for The Documentation and Regular Review of Stored Files) and MDQC (Metadata Quality Control)
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Information watchdog overwhelmed by complaints against Harper government
A government agency has amassed 165M files, many with personal details it has no right to collect
Canada Leads First International Working Group on Open Data
Group wants access to residential school files
Ancestry launches the 1921 indexed census of Canada
1921 census provides a glimpse into Toronto’s multicultural past
The “ghost” Colonel…and other “spooky” portraits in Library and Archives Canada’s collection
Course Syllabus: Cases and Trends in Policy and Program Evaluation, Fall 2013 (given by Daniel J. Caron)
McGill Library acquires important collection on Voltaire
Le Service des archives et de gestion des documents de l'UQAM lance son nouveau site Web
The Law Society of Upper Canada Archives...on YouTube
Toronto - 250-year-old Torah scroll that survived Holocaust gets a facelift
La Forteresse de Louisbourg révèle ses secrets à Moncton
Ottawa history teacher wins national award for her Second World War website
In preparation for Halloween, UM Today is sharing material from the University of Manitoba's Archives and Special Collections
Canadiana - New Health and Medicine titles
Entretien avec Marie-Anne Chabin à la soirée de l’ARÉDIQ à Montréal
Oral History at Bowen Island Museum and Archives (B.C.)
À quoi sert la maîtrise en bibliothéconomie et sciences de l’information?
Afrique / Africa
National Archivist of South Africa : Archives and the “Clouds”: Legacy, Accountability and Structure
South Africa - Boxes in the Bantustan Basement :The Trajectories and Possibilities of the Lebowa Archive
'Rwandapedia' digital archive tells the story of Rwanda's culture and history to the world
UNESCO approves emergency funds for inventory of Mali’s intangible heritage
Algérie - Archives nationales : l'audiovisuel n'a pas bénéficié de l'intérêt qu'il mérite
Six tonnes d’archives transférées d’Algérie par la France en 1961 (historien)
Sierra Leone - New Law Promotes Transparency: Long-Awaited Information Act Could Spur Greater Government Openness
Amériques / Americas
The Earliest Surviving Printed Book from the Americas
Internet Archive Will Shield Visitors
One Format Does Not Fit All: FADGI Audio-Visual Working Group’s Diverse Approaches to Format Guidance
Preserving the Legacy of the X-Ray Universe
Digital Stewardship and the Digital Public Library of America’s Approach: An Interview with Emily Gore
Getty Images Partners with Pinterest
Library of Virginia archivist says some of the most interesting history is found in chancery court
Batmobiles, Gremlins and 'Matrix' Villains: Inside Warner Bros.' Chamber of Secrets
A rare find: Amherst College acquires comprehensive collection of Native American writing
Yale acquires LGBTQ archives
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia says federal digital archives strategy on track
Memorandum of Understanding between Australian Society of Archivist and Archives and Records Association of New Zealand
Discovering South Australia in the Archives
Australia - Germaine Greer sells archive to Melbourne University
Japan's Cabinet approves bill to toughen penalties for secret leakers
Japan - E-legal deposit of online publications started
Japan - Ancient dish bearing kanji 'divorce' chant found in Kyoto
Europe / Europa
Ukraine court says seized Torahs belong to Jews
Finland - National Archives: aviation history documents made available for researchers with Finavia's support
Germany - Saving digital art from an early death at the ZKM museum
It is better for archive of Bulgaria’s revolutionaries to remain in Blagoevgrad: district governor
Austria - Saving a cultural heritage of 0s and 1s
Croatie : chaque année, 50 millions d’euros de pension pour les anciens oustachis (grâce à un formulaire des Archives de l'État Croate)
Suisse - L’introduction d’un registre central des documents administratifs est reportée
Designer of the Bayeux Tapestry identified
France - Recherches illégales dans les archives protégées de Sarkozy selon Valeurs actuelles, l'Elysée dément
France - Une planche originale de Tintin vendue 135.000 euros aux enchères de Cannes
France - Le "Je m'accuse" de Gide à Proust aux enchères le 26 novembre
Ireland - RTÉ Archives Wins Major International Award for Innovative Use of Archive
UK - Open data: safeguarding the future of the public sector
The Gazette: opening up 350 years of UK history
Students use British Library archive to create 17th century virtual worlds
Reformation paper of bishops debating marriage barred from export
‘Frankenstein’ Manuscript Comes Alive in Online Mary Shelley Archive
700-year-old sheet music found in council archive move
Gutter ice-cream and other London health hazards laid bare in archive
Ghostly Isles of Scilly shipwreck photographs to go under the hammer at Sotheby's
Archivists start tackling East London Mosque collection
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Head of Egypt National Archives: State institutions illegally dispose of documents
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi Media signs deal over national archives
International
The International Committee of the Red Cross audiovisual archives: A heritage for humanity
International Federation of Television Archives - Plea to save historic film footage made at Dubai conference
New optical disc can store information "for a billion years"
New software could allow cyborg insects to map buildings
5 trends are reshaping records management