Vol. 7, no. 51

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

Scotland - Public Records Act: 2014 Report by the Keeper of the Records

http://www.nas.gov.uk/documents/KeepersPRSAAnnualReport%202013-14.pdf

 

Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, Third Edition (Draft for Comments)

http://copyright.gov/comp3/

Australia Parliamantary Library - Access to and Retention of Internet Metadata

http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/prspub/3344749/upload_binary/3344749.pdf

De la communauté / From the community

The Lyon Declaration on Access to Information and Development

http://www.lyondeclaration.org/

 

Society of American Archivists - Best Practices for Volunteers in Archives

http://www2.archivists.org/standards/best-practices-for-volunteers-in-archives

Information Governance Initiative 2014 Annual Report

http://iginitiative.com/igi-publishes-2014-annual-report/

 

Book Industry Study Group - Guide to Identifiers: Explanation of Identifiers (Version 4.0)

http://www.bisg.org/publications/guide-identifiers-explanation-identifiers

NMC Horizon Report 2014 Library Edition

http://cdn.nmc.org/media/2014-nmc-horizon-report-library-EN.pdf

Article - Missing Links: The Digital News Preservation Discontinuity

http://www.ifla.org/files/assets/newspapers/Geneva_2014/s6-carner-en.pdf

Publications

Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, vol. 58, no. 1 (2014)

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ist/jist/2014/00000058/00000001

Archives Portal Europe News Bulletin (Summer 2014)

http://issuu.com/apebulletin/docs/ape-bulletin_summer_2014

Book - Cape Bretoners in the First World War: in their own Words

http://chesticoplace.com/archives/2270

Book - Introduction to Information Behaviour

http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=8507  

Book - Serving Online Customers: Lessons for Libraries from the Business World

http://rowman.com/ISBN/978-0-8108-8733-6 

Book - British and Irish Association of Law Librarians - Handbook of Legal Information Management (Second Edition)

http://ow.ly/zqBgo 

Book - Cloud Management and Security

http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118817095.html 

Book - Radical Information Literacy: Reclaiming the Political Heart of the Information Literacy Movement

http://store.elsevier.com/product.jsp?locale=en_US&isbn=9781843347484

Book - Philology: the Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10209.html

Book - E-Government: Implementation, Adoption and Synthesis in Developing Countries

http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/203825

Livre - Les Convergences entre passé et futur dans les collections des arts du spectacle

http://ow.ly/At5e0

Livre - Signature électronique et dématérialisation

http://www.lgdj.fr/colloques-etudes-rapports/233812707/signature-electronique-dematerialisation

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Provincial Archives of Alberta - Exhibit: Alberta & the Great War

August 20, 2014 - August 29, 2015, Edmonton

http://culture.alberta.ca/paa/eventsandexhibits/default.aspx

See also: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Ambitious+Edmonton+exhibit+tackles+First+World+many+fronts/10135506/story.html

 

BAnQ - Exposition : Destination Québec : une histoire illustrée du tourisme

Jusqu'au 4 janvier 2015, Montréal

http://www.banq.qc.ca/a_propos_banq/salle_de_presse/nouvelles/nouvelle.html?n_id=1f9ebed6-82e2-4499-a750-2614c44fae15

City of Ottawa Archives - Exhibit: Ashes: a City Shaped by Fire

September 25, 2014 to March 21, 2015, Ottawa

http://www.fcoa-aavo.ca/page/ashes-city-shaped-fire

Webinar - Eliminate Information Silos and Strengthen Information Governance with Archiving

http://ow.ly/AsTBd

Exposition - Sous le feu des propagandes: la Suisse face à la Première Guerre mondiale

21 août au 9 novembre 2014, Berne (Suisse)

http://www.nb.admin.ch/aktuelles/01962/04500/04681/index.html?lang=fr

Massive Open Online Course - Information Theory

September 8, 2014 to Janurary 12, 2015

http://www.coursera.org/#course/informationtheory

UK National Archives Academic Open Day

October, 15, 2014, London

http://archivefutures.com/2014/08/20/uk-national-archives-academic-open-day-15-october-2014/

Sur le web / On the web

Quest: City of Coquitlam (B.C.) Archives Online Search Portal

http://www.coquitlam.ca/city-hall/news-media/14-08-14/Browse_Coquitlam_Archives_with_Quest.aspx

Video - Digital Preservation Principles and Practice

Part 1: http://vimeo.com/103337962

Part 2: http://vimeo.com/103338199

Part 3: http://vimeo.com/103338344

Slidecast - Society of American Archivists: Encoded Archival Description 3 (EAD3) Progress Report

http://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/eadRevisionProgress_2014-08-13_0.pptx

UK National Archives Podcast - Big Ideas: Big Data for Law

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/big-data-for-law.mp3

New Website - Irish Record Linkage 1864-1913 Project

http://dri.ie/irish-record-linkage-1864-1913-project-launches-website

Vidéo - Les archives acadiennes de l'Université du Maine à Fort Kent

http://youtu.be/3bzDRHop3RI

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

The case of the disappearing Statistics Canada data

http://www.macleans.ca/economy/economicanalysis/the-case-of-the-disappearing-statistics-canada-data/

Canada launches mission to map Arctic seabed

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-28718806

  

How Canada Shaped the Copyright Rules in the EU Trade Deal

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2014/08/canada-shaped-copyright-rules-eu-trade-deal/

National Gallery - Art conservation: the prince of restoring prints

http://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/local-arts/the-prince-of-prints

Albertans have a right to ask questions about the integrity and preservation of their government's records

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/djclimenhaga/2014/08/albertans-have-right-to-ask-questions-about-integrity-and-preser

Unique film footage found in the vaults of Alberta's Archives (New Airing)

http://www.albertaprimetime.com/Stories.aspx?pd=6868

TLC Visits the Archives of Ontario to Trace Celebrities’ Roots

http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/tracing/TLC/index.aspx

Nova Scotia Archives - A Nova Scotian Observer at the Burning of Washington, August 1814

http://novascotia.ca/archives/virtual/washington/

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec - La valorisation des archives : la collaboration a bien meilleur goût (pour la Superfrancofête)

http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/instantanes/2014/08/15/la-valorisation-des-archives-la-collaboration-a-bien-meilleur-gout/

Québec - Un rapport détenu par la ville est un document au sens de la Loi concernant le cadre juridique des technologies de l’information

http://www.it-can.ca/2014/08/20/un-rapport-detenu-par-la-ville-est-un-document-au-sens-de-la-lccjti/

Government of Canada provides funding for North Vancouver Museum and Archives

http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=875869

New Brunswick - Queens County Heritage receives a grant for rehabilitation and re-use of historic Loomcrofters Studio content and business archive

http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/thc/news/news_release.2014.08.1033.html

 

Contes et chansons archivés: un pont entre les générations d’Acadiens

http://www.acadienouvelle.com/cma-2014/2014/08/17/contes-chansons-archives-pont-les-generations-dacadiens/

Obituary - Ronald Rompkey was a fascinated student of his home province (Newfoundland and Labrador)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ronald-rompkey-was-a-fascinated-student-of-his-home-province/article20072545/

 

First World War researcher tracks Sudbury soldiers' records

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/first-world-war-researcher-tracks-sudbury-soldiers-records-1.2737488

Soldier’s letters now part of Colchester Historical Society Archives (Nova Scotia) collection

http://ow.ly/AATQq

Waterloo - Local historian reveals region’s stories, myths and secrets

http://www.therecord.com/news-story/4765187-local-historian-reveals-region-s-stories-myths-and-secrets/

 

Sault Ste. Marie (Ont.) - Library looks for war memories

http://www.saultstar.com/2014/08/19/library-looks-for-war-memories

Alberta - Early published issues of the St. Albert Gazette are now available online

http://museeheritagemuseum.blogspot.ca/2014/08/early-published-issues-of-st-albert.html

Des Canadiens de l'Alberta retrouvent leurs racines vendéennes

http://www.ouest-france.fr/des-canadiens-retrouvent-leurs-racines-vendeennes-2762422

Dématique et Système d'archivage électronique : choisir son centre de données

http://archivistesqc.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/dematique-et-sae-5-choisir-son-centre-de-donnees/

Afrique / Africa

South Africa - Opening the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Archive: a South African History Archive case study

http://www.archivalplatform.org/blog/entry/opening_the

Projet de loi marocaine sur l’accès à l’information jugé inconstitutionnel

http://www.eco243.info/?p=5215

World War One: Kenya's forgotten heroes

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28836752

Amériques / Americas

Chile - 272,000 Digitized Pages in Jesuit Historical Archives

http://www.radiointereconomia.com/2014/08/21/digitalizan-en-chile-272-000-paginas-de-archivos-historicos-de-los-jesuitas/

U.S. Presidential Records Management Directive: it Takes A Village

http://www.informationweek.com/government/enterprise-architecture/presidential-records-management-directive-it-takes-a-village/a/d-id/1298009

Group Sues Obama over Access to Information

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/08/19/Group-Sues-Obama-Over-Access-Information

Judge Demands Answers After IRS Contradicts Sworn Testimony on Lerner’s Scratched Hard Drive

http://ow.ly/At5q7

Department of Environmental Protection secretary, Auditor General agree agency needs better record-keeping

http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/dep-secretary-ag-agree-agency-needs-better-record-keeping-1.1736857

NARA - Narabot uploads images to Wikimedia Commons

http://gcn.com/articles/2014/08/18/nara-wikimedia.aspx

NARA - Records Storage Facility Compliance

http://blogs.archives.gov/records-express/2014/08/19/records-storage-facility-compliance/

US Holocaust Memorial Museum finds site in Maryland for $40 million archive facility

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/b17e1db6dbd14117bc93f6f670639ab7/DC--Holocaust-Museum-Archives

These whimsical GIFs from Smithsonian Libraries bring old books to life

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/08/14/these-whimsical-gifs-from-smithsonian-libraries-bring-old-books-to-life/

New York State Archives Consolidates Documentary Heritage Program

http://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2014/08/17/nys-archives-consolidates-documentary-heritage-program/

 

Iowa State library digitizes the Iowa Constitution

http://www.radioiowa.com/2014/08/15/state-library-digitizes-the-iowa-constitution/

North Dakota - State Historical Members Work to Archive Old Films

http://www.kfyrtv.com/story/26329652/state-historical-members-work-to-archive-old-films

New Jersey State Library to deliver high school diploma program

http://www.app.com/story/getpublished/2014/08/19/nj-state-library-to-deliver-high-school-diploma-program/14272293/

Emulation as a Service (EaaS) at Yale University Library

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/08/emulation-as-a-service-eaas-at-yale-university-library/

Four Years of Transcribing the Nixon Tapes: what a University of Southern Maine History Professor Learned

http://news.mpbn.net/post/four-years-transcribing-nixon-tapes-what-usm-history-professor-learned

Folger Shakespeare Library Puts 80,000 Images of Literary Art Online, and They’re All Free to Use

http://www.openculture.com/2014/08/folgers-shakespeare-library-releases-80000-images-of-literary-art-into-the-public-domain.html

Preservation project focuses on Warhol films

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2014/08/18/preservation-project-focuses-on-warhol-films.html

Project gives voice to African-American history

http://www.heraldsun.com/news/showcase/x571857341/Project-gives-voice-to-African-American-history

New York City is Releasing more than 15 Years Worth of Data

http://www.statetechmagazine.com/article/2014/08/why-new-york-city-releasing-more-15-years-worth-data

A peek in the Los Angeles City Archive: how the city prepped for nuclear war in the 1950s

http://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp/2014/08/13/38865/a-peek-in-the-la-city-archive-how-the-city-prepped/

Slideshow - 300 years of Niagara Falls

http://ow.ly/At5uC

Smithsonian accepts archival material from Baltimore's LGBT community center 

http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/gay-in-maryland/gay-matters/bs-md-gm-smithsonian-20140819,0,1930273.story

American Antiquarian Society to add Political Cartoon Collection to Metadata Games

http://www.tiltfactor.org/american-antiquarian-society-to-add-political-cartoon-collection-to-metadata-games/

Back to the Future with the Institute of Cultural Affairs Global Archives Project

http://martingilbraith.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/back-to-the-future-with-the-ica-global-archives-project/

Curating Extragalactic Distances: an interview with Karl Nilsen & Robin Dasler

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/08/curating-extragalactic-distances-an-interview-with-karl-nilsen-robin-dasler/

Martin Guitar archivist compiles photo book of company history

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/nazareth/index.ssf/2014/08/martin_guitar_photo_book.html

Artists Build Digital Archive of Mississippi River Life

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/artists-build-digital-archive-mississippi-river-life-n184211

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific

Australia - Artist Creates Digital Life-Forms that Respond to Archival Birdsongs

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/08/audio-life-forms-andy-thomas/

Australia - Catching criminals in Queensland State Archives’ collection

http://blogs.archives.qld.gov.au/2014/08/17/catching-criminals-in-queensland-state-archives-collection/

Archive of wartime southern Vietnam proposed for UNESCO recognition

http://tuoitrenews.vn/society/21716/archive-of-wartime-southern-vietnam-proposed-for-unesco-recognition

Exhibition Review: Toward an Architectural Archive at Japan's National Archives of Modern Architecture

http://archrecord.construction.com/news/2014/08/140818-Exhibition-Review-Toward-an-Architectural-Archive-at-Japans-National-Archives-of-Modern-Architecture-6527965279.asp

Denying Historians: China’s Archives Increasingly Off-Bounds

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/08/19/denying-historians-chinas-archives-increasingly-off-bounds/

China publicizes videos recording anti-Japanese war

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-08/15/c_133559890.htm

The story behind the loss of Pakistan TV's precious archives

http://www.dawn.com/news/1125500/the-story-behind-the-loss-of-ptvs-precious-archives

India - Recording History: the 1947 Partition Archive

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/meimei-fox/recording-history-the-1947-partition-archive_b_5676433.html

Europe / Europa

New Memorandum of Understanding approved between IFLA and the Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER)

http://www.ifla.org/node/8920

Swedish University to archive Ravensbrück concentration camp survivors’ stories

http://www.jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/article/swedish_university_to_archive_ravensbrueck_survivors_stories

Iceland - State Broadcasting Archives Need Saving

http://grapevine.is/news/2014/08/21/state-broadcasting-archives-need-saving/

New Documents About Miguel de Cervantes Discovered in Spain

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/883787-new-documents-about-miguel-de-cervantes-discovered-in-spain/

German Federal Archives - Movies from First World War available online

http://www.bundesarchiv.de/oeffentlichkeitsarbeit/presse/04235/index.html.de

National Library of the Netherlands - OCR improvement: helping and hindering researchers

http://researchkb.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/ocr-improvement-helping-and-hindering-researchers/

Les archives du KGB au secret pour 30 ans de plus

http://verslarevolution.hautetfort.com/archive/2014/08/17/les-archives-du-kgb-au-secret-pour-30-ans-de-plus-5429436.html

Experts launch project to digitize neglected Bosnian heritage

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/08/20/us-bosnia-archives-idUKKBN0GK1BU20140820

Wartime Commander Atif Dudakovic entered Bosnia and Herzegovina Ministry of Defense war archives

http://voiceofserbia.org/content/dudakovic-entered-b-h-ministry-defense-war-archives

 

France - Mort du médiéviste Jean Favier (Ancien directeur des Archives nationales et ex-président de la Bibliothèque nationale de France)

http://www.liberation.fr/culture/2014/08/16/mort-du-medieviste-jean-favier_1081688

France - Open Data : le gouvernement va modifier la loi Commission d'accès aux documents administratifs de 1978

http://www.nextinpact.com/news/89329-open-data-gouvernement-va-modifier-loi-cada-1978.htm

 

France - Les archives météo de la Grande Guerre

http://www.meteomedia.com/nouvelles/articles/les-archives-meteo-de-la-grande-guerre/32785

France - Un bouquiniste valenciennois sanctionné pour un vieux document déchiré

http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/region/un-bouquiniste-valenciennois-sanctionne-pour-un-vieux-ia27b36956n2333464

Scotland - 450 year-old music fragment gets belated encore

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/450-year-old-music-fragment-gets-belated-encore-1-3511640

Sport heroes add to online archive People's Collection Wales

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-28877759

UK - Dozen people declared vexatious by the Royal Borough for their Freedom of Information claims

http://www.windsorobserver.co.uk/news/windsor/articles/2014/08/19/102881-dozen-people-declared-vexatious-by-the-royal-borough-for-their-freedom-of-information-claims/

UK National Archives - Consultation launched for proposals for Public Sector Information Directive

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/957.htm

UK National Archives - Volunteers help identify famous First World War officers' records

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/958.htm

UK National Archives - Happy anniversary, departmental record officer

http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/happy-anniversary-departmental-record-officer/

British Library - Archiving screenshots

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/webarchive/2014/08/archiving-screenshots.html

Volunteers help British Museum in crowdsourcing archeology project

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/aug/18/volunteers-british-museum-crowdsourcing-archeology

BBC - Great War Diaries: Turning Diaries into Compelling Drama

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/posts/Great-War-Diaries-Turning-diaries-into-compelling-drama

Charles Dickens and George Eliot Passing Notes: Stunning Rare Book Documents the Great Writers’ Correspondence

http://www.yareah.com/2014/08/18/charles-dickens-george-eliot-passing-notes-stunning-rare-book-documents-great-writers-correspondence/

Rare Beatles photos discovered in kids charity archive

http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/501049/Rare-Beatles-photos-discovered-in-kids-charity-archive

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

New Photo Resource Uncovered: the Ottoman Imperial Archives

http://www.israeldailypicture.com/2014/08/new-photo-resource-uncovered-ottoman.html

National Library and Archives of Iran added to tourist itineraries

http://www.eturbonews.com/49218/national-library-and-archives-iran-added-tourist-itineraries

 

Collection of Palestinian Posters Nominated for the UNESCO Memory of the World

http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/collection-of-palestinian-posters-nominated-for-the-unesco-memory-of-the-world/

International

How Long do CDs Last? it Depends, but Definitely not Forever

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/08/18/340716269/how-long-do-cds-last-it-depends-but-definitely-not-forever

 

New records management ISO to improve governance and sustainability

http://www.itweb.co.za/office/datacentrix/PressRelease.php?StoryID=251691

 

A brief history of USB, what it replaced, and what has failed to replace it

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/08/a-brief-history-of-usb-what-it-replaced-and-what-has-failed-to-replace-it/

Use this Trick to see a Map of Everywhere Google Knows you've Been

http://www.businessinsider.com/see-what-google-knows-about-my-location-2014-8

 

It Takes 4,500 Pages to Analyze and Archive one Second of Twitter

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3034352/it-takes-4500-pages-to-analyze-and-archive-one-second-of-twitter

iOS and iPhone Recording for Oral History

http://digitalomnium.com/ios-and-iphone-recording-for-oral-history/

Lire sur du papier pour mieux comprendre

http://www.ledevoir.com/culture/actualites-culturelles/416089/lire-sur-du-papier-pour-mieux-comprendre

Memento for Chrome review

http://webarchivingrt.wordpress.com/2014/08/20/memento-for-chrome-review-guest-post-by-cliff-hight/

Les commémorations du centenaire de la Première Guerre mondiale sur Twitter (avril-juillet 2014)

http://histnum.hypotheses.org/2172