Ressources / Resources
De l'État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada - Fact Sheet: Digitization of Canadian Expeditionary Force Service Files
Privacy Commissioner of Canada - Checks and Controls: Reinforcing Privacy Protection and Oversight for the Canadian Intelligence Community in an Era of Cyber-Surveillance
De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Library Association - Response to the Consultation of the Royal Society of Canada’s Expert Panel on the Future of Canada’s Libraries and Archives
Association of Chief Police Officers (UK) - Heritage and Cultural Property Crime: National Policing Strategic Assessment
Article - The Safeguard of Audio Collections: a Computer Science Based Approach to Quality Control
Publications
Information & Culture: a Journal of History, vol. 49, no. 1 (2014)
The Electronic Library, vol. 32, no. 1 (2014)
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) Journal, no. 42 (2014)
New York Archives, vol. 13, no. 3 (Winter 2014)
Trent University Archives Newsletter, no. 48 (January 2014)
International Preservation News, no. 61 (December 2013)
TIMBUS Newsletter, vol. 3, no. 1 (2014)
Book - Teaching Gender with Libraries and Archives: the Power of Information
Book - From Knowledge Abstraction to Management: Using Ranganathan’s Faceted Schema to Develop Conceptual Frameworks for Digital Libraries
Book - Research Data Management: Practical Strategies for Information Professionals
Book - The Everything Guide to Online Genealogy: Trace Your Roots, Share Your History, and Create Your Family Tree (Third Edition)
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Exhibition - We Will do our Share: the University of Toronto and the Great War
January 29 - May 2, 2014, Toronto
Vancouver Chapter of ARMA International - Painting the Information Landscape
April 4, 2014, Vancouver
1563 Basque Will Unveiling (the Oldest Original Civil Document Written in Canada)
May 15, 2014, Placentia (Newfoundland)
Massive Open Online Course - Building an Information Risk Management Toolkit
Starting February 19, 2014
Unofficial Histories 2014
June 2014, 7-8, 2014, Huddersfield (UK)
Webinar - Beyond EAD: Tools for Creating and Editing EAC-CPF Records and 'Remixing' Archival Metadata (Recording Available)
January 9, 2014
Sur le web / On the web
Video - Death of Evidence: a Funeral for Evidence-Based Decision Making in Canada
Video - A Conversation with David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States
Video - Preserving Grain, Presenting Pixels: Film Preservation and Restoration in the Digital Age
Part 1: http://youtu.be/yN-Z5OaOGDA
Part 2: http://youtu.be/YSFiv13pWag
Podcast - Data Protection and Information Governance
New Website - Europeana 1914-1918: Untold Stories & Official Histories of WW1
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Privy council withholds Senate records under access law
Ottawa firm wins federal email classification software contract
Librarians Protest Canada Cutbacks
Writers’ Union of Canada - Are Library Closings Damaging Canada’s Collective Memory?
Fisheries science books disposal costs Ottawa thousands
Fruits of the Library and Archives Canada and Canadiana.org partnership starting to appear online
Canadian Heritage Information Network - Establishment of a Digital Preservation Discussion Group
Why Canada’s Open Data Initiative Matters to Historians
Un archiviste à Radio-Canada, ça fait quoi?
Alberta - Flood Relief Announcement (with Funding for the Archives Society of Alberta)
B.C.’s museum at the crossroads: Jack Lohman has dramatic new vision for the Royal BC Museum in Victoria
Alberta - Galt Museum and Archives Artifacts Collection Now Searchable Online
Wellington County Museum and Archives (Ont.) searching for interesting tattoos and the stories behind them
Peace River (Alb.) - Record-Gazette archivist a pillar of volunteering
Association des archivistes du Québec: 4 pistes pour mieux vendre la gestion de l’information
http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2014/01/24/4-pistes-pour-mieux-vendre-la-gestion-de-linformation/
Afrique / Africa
Tunisia on the path to safeguarding intangible heritage
Amériques / Americas
Head of Lincoln Presidential Library announces preservation of documents, maps
Revelatory Archive of a Giant of Jazz: Library of Congress Acquires Max Roach’s Papers
The FBI is holding onto encrypted email archives after Freedom Hosting seizure
Thousands of Iowa newspapers pile up at archives after 2009 budget cuts halt microfilming
Colorado’s analog records laws lag behind digital practice
Stanford University - French Revolution Digital Archive
Secrets from Belfast: how Boston College’s oral history of the Troubles fell victim to an international murder investigation
Chabad Moves for $14.75 Million Judgment Against Russia over Jewish Archives
Maryland Institute if Technologies in the Humanities - The Shelley-Godwin Archive: From a Textual to a Digital Condition
Ohio University - New Ohio photo archive launched
Washington University Library Unveils 100+ Hours of Digitized Conversation About the Great Depression
Digital Archive to House 100 Years of Historical Documents from World’s First Black Mental Institution
Military expert uncovers Nazi criminal's passport
Poetry and art from the archives of Big Brother
Interface, Exhibition & Artwork: Geocities, Deleted City and the Future of Interfaces to Digital Collections
Machine Scale Analysis of Digital Collections: An Interview with Lisa Green of Common Crawl
In the Susan Sontag Archives
Signed 1926 Baseball Babe Ruth Sent to Ailing Child with Promise to ‘Knock a Homer’ Heads February 6 Auction of Little Johnny Sylvester Family Archive
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
South China Sea archives open in Hainan
Vatican Library, Japan institutes catalogue, digitize lost archive of persecuted Christians
Cambodia - Ancient culture goes online as National Museum digitises
Historical Archives of Goa
India - 1947 Partition Archive Starts Online Crowd-Funding
1947 Partition Archive: how to Save Memories of the Traumatic Birth of India and Pakistan Before Time Runs Out
India - Rare artefacts, manuscripts rotting in archives department
Reserve Bank of India to digitise its old records
Europe / Europa
Slovenia - Parliament Tweaks Rules on Access to Archives
The National Archives of Estonia joins the Open Planets Foundation
Greek Public TV Archives Go Online
15th-Century Italian Manuscript Returned to Italy
Espagne - Le manuscrit retrouvé de Lope de Vega
Belgique - Bruxelles se met à l'heure de la Grande Guerre
France - Lettres chiffrées d'Henri IV à Jacques Bongars
Les Archives de la Révolution française sont en ligne
The Troubles gallery: 40 years of conflict in Northern Ireland from the Belfast Telegraph archives
UK - Operation War Diary (Crowdsourcing project): 116,638 names tagged in first week
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Bomb damages Egypt's National Library and Archives
Himmler's personal letters found in Tel Aviv
Les lettres d'Heinrich Himmler à sa femme seront publiées en français
Babylonian tablet shows how Noah's ark could have been constructed
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/jan/24/babylonian-tablet-noah-ark-constructed-british-museum
President: Turkey opens all of its archives for historians
Turkey - Ottoman and new republic era reveal with a family archive
Syrian Torture Archive: When Photographs of Atrocities Don’t Shock
International
How the Art World Caught Archive Fever
Words as a Barrier to Understanding. Is It Time to Evolve Beyond Library and Archives?
Identification of PDF preservation risks: analysis of Govdocs selected corpus
Digital optical technology system: a non-magnetic, 100 year, green solution for data storage
Dealing with the past is vital to peace, justice and reconciliation