Thursday 30 October 2014

Vol. 8, no. 9

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
Archives New Zealand - Advice on File Formats for the Creation of Digital Records

Centre de coordination pour l'archivage à long terme de documents électroniques (Suisse) - PDF/A-1b avec une police TrueType

Ministry for the Arts - Australian Best Practice Guide to Collecting Cultural Material

De la communauté / From the community
Support Action Centre of Competence in Digitisation (SUCCEED) -  Recommendations on Common Licensing Scheme for Tools and Resources    

OCLC - Registering Researchers in Authority Files

Article - Memory, Monuments and Archives: Some Reflections on Secrecy and Access

Publications
Archives and Records: the Journal of the Archives and Records Association, vol. 35, no. 2 (October 2014)

International Journal of Digital Curation, vol. 9, no. 2 (2014)

International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 15, no. 1 (November 2014)

Journal of Information Science, vol. 40, no. 5 (October 2014)

Alexandria, vol. 25, no. 1-2, 2014 (Special Issue on Web Archiving)

Écrire l'Histoire, no 13, 2014 (numéro spécial Archives ; Les ouvriers de l'oubli)

National Archives of Australia - Governments Agencies Information Network e-Bulletin, no. 9 (October 2014)

Maple Ridge Historical Society (B.C.) Family History Newsletter, October 2014

Book - The C-SPAN Archives: an Interdisciplinary Resource for Discovery, Learning, and Engagement

Book - Styling the Stars: Lost Treasures from the Twentieth Century Fox Archive 

Book - A Guide to Oral History and the Law (Second Edition)

Book - Copyright Workflow for Photographers: Protecting, Managing, and Sharing Digital Images 

Book - Information Privacy Fundamentals for Librarians and Information Professionals

Book - Uncertain Images: Museums and the Work of Photographs

Book - Contemporary Perspectives on the Detection, Investigation and Prosecution of Art Crime: Australasian, European and North American Perspectives

Book - Spontaneous Particulars: the Telepathy of Archives

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Friends of the City of Ottawa Archives Annual General Meeting 2014
November 2, 2014, Ottawa

Trent Valley Archives 25th Anniversary 
November 6, 2014, Peterborough (Ont.)

Exhibit - A Yukon Snapshot: Photos and Home Movies
November 7, 2014 - February 21, 2015, Whitehorse

North Lanark Regional Museum - Genealogy Workshop
November 12-15, 2014, Almonte (Ont.)

Photography Historians: a New Generation?
March 26-28, 2015, Toronto

Performing the Accidental Archive
April 17, 2015, Toronto

Personal Digital Archiving 2015
April 24-26, 2015, New York City

International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly
April 27-28, 2015, University of Stanford (California)

Government Information Day (Presentations Available)
October 16, 2014, Ottawa

Webinar - Transparency and Information Management Open Discussion Forum (Recordings Available)
October 22, 2014

Webinar - Mining Big Economic Data (Recordings Available)
October 28, 2014

Sur le web / On the web
Video - Library and Archives Canada Exhibition on the Franklin Expedition

New Website - Discovering Anzacs: about Australians and New Zealanders in World War I and the Boer War

Slidecast - The Europeana Strategy and Linked Open Data

Slidecast - Médiation numérique dans les GLAMs: crowdsourcing, réseaux sociaux, Open Data et autres initiatives

Video - An Introduction to the Basics of Research Data

Slidecast - DURAARK (Durable Architectural Knowledge) Workbench and PREMIS

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Bullets mark Library of Parliament; gunfight broke out just steps from workers

Erik Spicer was the youngest Parliamentary Librarian of Canada

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada's Research Data Archiving Policy and Historians

Newly released records reveal B.C. history writer was a MI-5 spy who exposed Nazi sympathizers in WWII

WWI propaganda posters on display at Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

World Day for Audiovisual Heritage: University of Dalhousie Archives Releases Footage of “University of the Air” TV show

Université de Victoria - « J. M. », les mystérieuses initiales d'un artiste de la Grande Guerre

University of British Columbia iSchool Doctoral Candidate wins SSHRC Award to support her research on the Trustworthiness of Digital Photographs accessed and stored in Social Media Platforms

Win Tickets to Vancouver Archives Screenings

Université de Sherbrooke - Regards d’un historien sur les sciences humaines numériques

Introducing the LGBTQ Oral History and Digital Archives Collaboratory at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives

Cape Breton culture gets new lease on life

Waterloo (Ont.) - Prospecting for open data

La maison de Jeanne Mance retrouvée en France

Rivière-du-Loup - Le Centre d’archives acquiert le fonds d’archives du club Rotary

What a Night: the 1st Annual Raising the Archives at South Peace Regional Archives (Alb.)

Vaughan (Ont.) - Preservation and Security in the Archives

Afrique / Africa
Kenya - Judiciary moves to eliminate missing file syndrome

Archivists of South African Broadcasting Corportation Radio Archives being interviewed about World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2014 

South Africa museum dedicated to music heritage preservation

Patrimoine audiovisuel ivoirien: les archivistes locaux interpellés pour la préservation

Mali: Journée mondiale du patrimoine audiovisuel édition 2014 : archives en danger, il reste beaucoup à faire 

Madagascar - Patrimoine : les archives audiovisuelles en danger

Algérie - Le ministère des Moudjahidine ne détient aucune archive secrète

See Solomon Osagie Alonge's Rare Photographs of Nigerian Royal Court

Amériques / Americas
50 groups push Obama on Freedom of Information Act legislation

CIA Cannot be Trusted to Destroy Non-Senior Email

Why Netflix sends 'Orange is the New Black' to the Library of Congress on videotape and why the Library hopes that's going to change

Feds set to destroy H-1B records (Labor Condition Applications)

Surveyor Digitization Project Will Bring Thousands of Unseen Lunar Images to Light

Exploitation of Captured Japanese Documents by the Far Eastern Section, Foreign Intelligence Branch, of the Office of Naval Intelligence (OP-16-FE), 1944-1946

Prince of Persia creator donates dev archive to Museum of Play

Internet Archives - Building Libraries Together: New Tools for a New Direction

Civil war diary code cracked


Indiana to Digitize 13 Million Birth, Death, and Marriage Certificates

Alaska - Elders peek into past while helping sort museum's photo collection

Digital humanities on the rise at Stanford University

Stanford Libraries unearths the earliest U.S. website

Stanford University - Library archivists face contractual, technical challenges in preserving digital materials

Hidden Gem: Harvard’s Hiphop Archive

Folklorists partner with University of Maryland archives to create living archives of folk arts documentation

Wanted: Home for a Prized Trove, D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus’s Counterculture Archive

There's Now an Online Archive of Boston Park Documents Dating Back to 1875

New archive preserves Philadelphia art scene zines

The Story Behind the Brooklyn Bridge's Most Famous Photo

The Expansive Influence of an Archive: New Publication Honors Stephen Leiber

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia - Data retention bill introduced to parliament

Australia - National Archives crowd-sources data to flesh out the nation's World War I story

New Zealand - The conservation of George Murray Levick's notebook by the Antarctic Heritage Trust 

Japan’s First Digital 3D Model of a Registered Historic Building to Aid in Preservation of Museum

Vietnam - Présentation de plus de 200 documents sur le Président Ho Chi Minh et la Russie

Hong Kong - Government urged to keep umbrella movement records

After a month of Hong Kong protests: guardians saving the movement's art

India - Declassified UK Archives Shed Light on Nehru, Netaji Aide

India - The disappearing Jewish community of Kolkata

National Portal and Digital Repository for Museums of India

Europe / Europa
CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) is Asking for Your Help in Figuring Out What These Archive Photos Show

Can Hollywood technology preserve minority sports?

German Government Data Portal: Ready to go

Trials in the German Democratic Republic suggested to be ethically ambiguous by archival records

Adolf Hitler's Personal Copy of Mein Kampf Offered for Sale

Russia Bans Wayback Machine Internet Archive Over Islamic State Video

Russia - Red Square Exhibit Sheds New Light on Soviet Cult of Lenin

Belarus - National Historical Archives in Grodno moves into new premises

Napoleon's conquest of Italy led to a copyright-fueled opera boom

Armenia - National Archive Chief Says Enough Documents to Bring Turkey to Court

After The Flash: Photography from the Atomic Archive

Suisse - Le loi révisée sur la protection des biens culturels entrera en vigueur le 1er janvier 2015

Belgique - Culture fédérale: La mémoire du pays est-elle en péril ?

Belgique - Le transfert des archives, une odyssée

Belgique - Seconde phase de numérisation à la Bibliothèque royale

France - L'Institut national de l'audiovisuel met en ligne plus d'un siècle d'archives sur le thème de la montagne

Mise en ligne de la base de données Documents d’archives concernant l'histoire polaire française

France - Suppression de l'épreuve de latin pour les Concours de conservateur du patrimoine (dans la spécialité archives)

Aerial photographs of Northern Ireland in online archive

Ireland - Diary reveals Temple Street hospital’s part in 1916 Rising

Ireland - What do we lose when records are digitised?

Landmark archive of 10 million Gaelic words launched

UK - Millions of orphan artworks and historic documents to be seen under new copyright laws

UK National Archives - Members appointed to the Advisory Council on National Records and Archives

UK National Archives - Spies and scandals in MI5 files

British security services archives focus on General Grivas from Cyrprus

Church of England to examine 1950s records in child abuse investigation

Video games culture deserves a national archive to rival those of books and film

Last wish of Ypres soldiers: I leave everything to mum

Denbighshire archive cuts could see historic documents destroyed

Manchester library unveils public gay history archive

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel - From Kafka to Newton, the stories behind the books

1,000 Years of Scientific Texts From The Islamic World Are Now Online

Arab League calls for concerted efforts to restore stolen Arab archives

Israel stole 80,000 Palestinian books and manuscripts Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Al-Arabi said

De la photographie de guerre à la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel palestinien

Amid insurgency, Iraqi priest is guardian angel of ancient manuscripts

United Arab Emirates - Preserving world cinema for posterity

Armenia not ready to open its archives for investigation of 1915 events: Turkish Minister for EU Affairs

International
Twitter saves Twitpic's domain and photo archive at last minute

The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals launches Archives webpage to mark the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage

New Rhizome tool preserves net art for future generations

Digital Lessons From the Museum and Art World

Collection Appareils: a Comprehensive Online Archive of 10,000+ Beautiful and Odd Vintage Cameras

Running archived Android apps on a PC: first impressions

Preventing Digital Decay

PDF/A-3 vs. PDF

The True Cost of YouTube's Library of Everything