Thursday, 26 March 2015

Vol. 8, no. 30

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
UK National Archives - Information Managament Assessment: Action Plan Progress Review: Ministry of Defence

U.S. Office of Personnel Management - Final Position Classification Flysheet and Qualification Standard for Records and Information Management Series

eGovernment Factsheets for the 28 Member States of the European Union (2015 Edition)

De la communauté / From the community
State of the Archives: an Analysis of South Africa’s National Archival System

E-ARK Progress Update March 2015

Open Preservation Foundation - JHOVE: Evaluation & Stabilisation Plan

Tate - Sustaining Consistent Video Presentation

Licensing Your 3D Printed Stuff: a 3D Printing Whitepaper

Lisbon Council - The 2015 Intellectual Property and Economic Growth Index

Article - Analyzing Archival Intelligence: a Collaboration Between Library Instruction and Archives

Publications
Convergence: the International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, vol. 21, no. 1, 2015 (Special Issue on Digital Archives and Open Archival Practices)

Journal of the Institute of Conservation, vol. 38, no. 1 (2015)

Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, vol. 27, no. 1 (2015)

Journal of Documentation, vol. 71, no. 3 (2015)

Document numérique, vol. 17, no. 3 (2014)

Force War Records Magazine, no. 1 (April 2015)

Academy of Certified Archivists Newsletter, no. 87 (Winter 2015) 

Bulletin du Centre d’histoire et d’archives du travail, vol. 2, no. 1 (Hiver 2015)

Maple Ridge Historical Society (B.C.) Family History Newsletter (April 2015)

Book - Humanitarian Photography: a History

Book - Information Services Today: an Introduction

Book - Privacy in the New Media Age

Book - Master Data Management

Book - Governance in the Information Era: Theory and Practice of Policy Informatics

Book - Pedagogical Poem: the Archive of the Future Museum of History

Book - Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology

Book - Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists

Livre - Images d'armées: un siècle de cinéma et de photographie militaires, 1915-2015

Livre - Crépuscule des bibliothèques

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Canadian-American Archival Conference
April 3, 2015, Western Washington University Campus (Bellingham) 

Les gestes des archivistes
4 avril et 9 mai 2015, Québec

Postcards from the Past: Insights into History, Technology and Popular Culture
April 27, 2015, Calgary

Preserving your Sports Archives at Home Workshop
May 2, 2015, Winnipeg

Peterborough Museum and Archives Open House
May 24, 2015, Peterborough (Ontario)

New Directions in Active History: Institutions, Communication, and Technologies
October 2-4, 2015, London (Ontario)

Ressources et usages des archives de la justice militaire 
30 avril 2015, Bruxelles

Material Environments: Sensing Time and Matter in Digital and Visual Culture
July 24-25, 2015, University of Greenwich (UK)

Curating and Managing Research Data for Re-use Workshop
July 27-31, 2015, Ann Arbor (Michigan)

Digital Directions: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections 2015
August 3-5, 2015, Raleigh (North Carolina)

Web Archives 2015: Capture, Curate, Analyze
November 12-13, 2015, Ann Arbor (Michigan)

Webinar - Reorganizing and Restructuring the Research Library for Strategy and Value (Recording Available)
March 10, 2015

The Future of Academic Research Libraries (Recordings Available)
March 18, 2015, Montréal

Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada Podcast - Digging Into the Past: Family History in Canada

Video - Exhibition Double Take 2015 at Library and Archives Canada

Petition - Restore Funding for the State Historical Society of Iowa Libraries and Archives

StoryCorps.me: Record and Share the Stories that Are all Around you

Video - Publishing and Preserving Data as Primary Research Objects: the RMap Project

Slidecast - UK National Archives: Equality and Diversity in the Archive Sector

Slidecast - Wikidata for Libraries and Archives

Slidecast - Community Collections: Exploring Three Distinct Approaches to Collaboration and Outreach through Digitization Initiatives

UK National Archives - Portillo’s State Secrets: Discover the Historic Documents Featured in the BBC Two TV Series 

Online Exhibit - Iconic Images of the Armenian Genocide

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Federal government privacy breaches soar to record high

Canadian bureaucrats to use honour system when it comes to archiving text messages

Tax agency shouldn’t delete business-related instant messages, Tony Clement says

Jobs for disabled workers extended after public outrage

New Partnership Brings Canadian Holocaust Testimonies to Visual History Archive of the Shoah Foundation
 
Secrets we Learned from Canada's Museums

Quebec needs sunshine laws as Ontario has

La Cinémathèque et BAnQ fusionnent

Les archives de La petite vie à la Cinémathèque québécoise

BAnQ - Le parcours singulier d’un notaire intrépide et courageux

University of Saskatchewan - Preserving Saskatchewan's rarest music treasures

Saskatchewan - Professor Waiser: History and stories are lost when buildings are torn down

Such Beautiful Shirts: Gatsby-era Fashion at Ryerson University Archives & Special Collections

Vancouver - Diaries reveal harrowing experiences of First World War nursing sisters 

City of Vancouver Archives - Historical zoning maps available

Toronto - Heritage preservation too cumbersome to be effective, proponents say

Scarborough archivist says preserving heritage harder since amalgamation

Groot archives history of Smithers (B.C.) hockey

Brant Museum and Archives (Ont.) - Reorganizing our history

Centre du patrimoine de Saint-Boniface - Les archives de municipalités

Le catalogue de la Bibliothèque de Québec rendu disponible en données ouvertes

Archives audiovisuelles de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue

La violente histoire des coureurs des bois au Témiscamingue: une récente découverte à BAnQ permet de jeter une nouvelle lumière sur la dure réalité 

Portrait: Service de l’accès à l’information et de la gestion de document de la ville de Lévis

Afrique / Africa
Les Archives en Afrique, un patrimoine culturel de l’Humanité 

Il est temps de doter le Sénégal d'une maison des archives: Fatimata Cissé Diarra, directrice des archives du Sénégal

Décès de Monsieur Jean François Maurel, Directeur des Archives du Sénégal de 1958 à 1976 

Burkina Faso - Archives et bonne gouvernance : moyens de défense des droits et devoirs des administrés
 
Le Rwanda et les archives du génocide

Au Maroc, musiques et sons d’autrefois pour rappeler l’histoire juive du royaume 

Congo - Le Sénat va examiner la proposition de loi sur l’accès à l’information

Au Togo, les dossiers de la terreur au service de la réconciliation

Sierra Leone: Right to Access Information Commission Commences Operation

Amériques / Americas
New Inspector General Appointed to the National Archives

It Could Take 30 Years for Hillary Clinton’s Emails to Reach the National Archives


Email Compliance will be a Tall Order without more Resources

Library of Congress - The Doors, Joan Baez, Sly Stone, Steve Martin Recordings Named American Treasures

US Declassifies Document Revealing Israel's Nuclear Program

Iowa - State's moves hint at the loss of historical records

Former Alamo managers sue Texas in battle over archives

State Archives of North Carolina - How Did we Move a Warehouse Full of Records?

Vermont - Budget Cut Means Likely Closure of State Law Library

Alabama - Horror stories abound among patchwork of state public records access laws

All historical city court records were destroyed in January Brooklyn warehouse blaze

Archivists suspended in University of Oregon document leak will not return, university says

Princeton University Archives - Why Tumblr?

U.S. Naval War College - 20-Year project captures Navy’s Women’s History

After Mother Jones Report, University of Arkansas Pulls Diary Critical of the Clintons

Questions raised about Gordon College's right to sell donated collection

University of Northern Colorado digitizes student newspapers from 1892 on

Burton shapes future with history and 3D printers

At Kodak, Clinging to a Future Beyond Film

Coca-Cola’s archives reveal a masterclass in marketing

RadioShack Buyer Plans to Donate Art and Company Archives

Unpublished Tennessee Williams story unearthed

Visualizing Cultural Heritage: Linked Open Data and the Carnegie Hall Archives p. 1

A rich library of African-American poetry goes digital

Grateful Dead archivist delves into the '60s

John Rogers Auction Could Jolt Memorabilia Community

Film preservation pioneer Roger L. Mayer dies at 89

Colonists sent letters by native American messengers, says new book

Interview with Sam Meister, an instructor for the Society of American Archivists Digital Archives Specialist Curriculum and Certificate Program

Shhh… The Librarians Are Doing PowerPoint Comedy

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia - Feminist Artifacts: the Archive of Germaine Greer

State Library of New South Wales (Australia) - The election collection: tracking trends on Twitter

Malaysia - Rosnani offers late husband’s P. Ramlee (film legend) collection to National Archives 

A Digital Bangladesh needs open-source land records 

India - Andhra Pradesh: Historic records should be made more accessible

India - 160 Bhagat Singh files lie in oblivion in Lahore

Europe / Europa
It’s your world, explore it! Europeana stories now in Google’s Field Trip app

Czech researchers probe secret Soviet era archives in Ukraine

Vatican archives shed light on tragedy of Armenian genocide

The Armenian Genocide will remain in all archives around the world: Deputy Head of Russian State Archives

List of Auschwitz inmates found in Polish school baffles historians

Russia will Deploy Digital Fingerprinting to Enforce Copyright Online

Belarus - Public archives are the best response to attempts to falsify history

Go Inside East Germany’s Stasi Archives

The German Government started a public participation process on the use of Open Government Data

Germany - North Rhine-Westphalia launches portal for Open Data and participation

Croatian Government unveils national Open Data Portal

Archives nationales de France - Adapter l'archivage à l'ère du numérique: le projet ADAMANT

À la découverte des secrets de la Bibliothèque nationale de France

France - Les incroyables trésors de l'histoire : la gazette des atours de Marie-Antoinette

Association des archivistes français - Les archives reconnues comme trésors nationaux

Partager nos photos en ligne, solution pour enrichir la mémoire collective ?

Simplification de la gestion documentaire

Retour sur le fiasco du cloud à la française

Manuscript returns to Ireland after 400 years

Ireland - Register your Treasures with the National Library at the General Post Office on Easter Monday

Ireland - Archive restoration and digital re-mastering of first 15 Radharc Films completed

A collection of manuscripts by Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid and other leading modernist writers has been acquired by the University of Edinburgh

Scotland - Dumfries and Galloway's historic images go online

Wales - Captivating unseen images unearthed in forgotten archive depicting life in the Valleys

UK nuclear archive at Wick given go-ahead

UK to share India Papers with Gandhi Ashram



British Library - Enabling Complex Analysis of Large Scale Digital Collections

The Supreme Court’s judgment on Prince Charles’ letters: seven questions and answers

Bodleian Libraries joins with Wikimedia UK to share historic collections

Archivists unearth rare first edition of "The Map that Changed the World"

Digital Archiving at the University of York - When checksums don't match...

Bygones: Glass plate collection provides a unique record of Derby and its people

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Religious archaeology: a chink of light (for what could be the earliest Christian writing in existence)

Qatar Digital Library Preserves the Music of a Vanishing Past

Egypt - Toilet Papyrus: a Papyrus of Homer Used as Toilet Paper

Turkey - Truth and Reconciliation Commission demands access to classified archives

How ISIS Makes $3 Million a Day: Selling Ancient Books

Statement by the UNESCO Director-General on Bosra (Syria)

International
Google Puts Online 10,000 Works of Street Art from Across the Globe

International Internet Preservation Consortium - What’s Next for OpenWayback

Metadata in Microsoft Word documents

Marbled Papers and their Use in Rare Books

The History of the International Internet Preservation Consortium, through Web Archives

Enterprise search: the answer to all our problems or technology that most users neither need nor want?

Facebook as Memoir: Identity & Self-Archivalism Today

Why Medical Data Is Vulnerable and Valuable to Cybercriminals
 
3-D Printing Just Got 100 Times Faster

Digitization challenges: a discussion in progress

The Flickr Commons welcomes our 100th institution


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