Thursday 24 September 2015

Vol. 9, no. 4

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
U.S. Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative - Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials (Draft for Comments)

National Library of Scotland - Strategy 2015-2020

Western Australia State Records Commission - Annual Report 2014-2015

Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (France) - Fiche pratique: le droit au déréférencement en questions

De la communauté / From the community
Society of American Archivists - Comments on Copyright Office's Mass Digitization Pilot Program

ARMA -  Modèle de maturité de la gouvernance de l'information (traduction française)

Various Library Associations - US Telecom Association v. FCC Amicus Brief Supporting Net Neutrality

JISC - Case Studies in Online Resource Discovery

Intellectual Property Rights Guidelines: Europeana Food and Drink

Euducopia Institute - Taking Action in a Critical Moment: from Innovation to Impact

Archives et création : nouvelles perspectives sur l’archivistique : cahier 2

Article - Measuring Verifiability in Online Information

Publications
The Reading Room: a Journal of Special Collections, vol. 1, no. 1 (2015)

Information Management, vol. 49, no. 5 (September/October 2015)

Library and Archives Canada - The Governance and Recordkeeping around the World Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 3 (September 2015)

National Archives of Australia - Government Agencies Information Network Newsletter, no. 8 (2015)

Chroniques: bulletin de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, no. 74 (Septembre-Décembre 2015)

International Council on Archives Flash, no. 30 (September 2015)

Bulletin du Centre d'histoire et d'archives du travail, vol. 2, no. 3 (2015)

Book - Remediating Transcultural Memory: Documentary Filmmaking as Archival Intervention

Book - Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs

Book - The National Archives: World War II Unclassified 

Book - Watershed Moments: a Pictorial History of Courtenay and District (Ontario)

Book - Encrypted Email: the History and Technology of Message Privacy

Book - The Myth and Magic of Library Systems

Book - Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space

Book - Writing and Unwriting (Media) Art HistoryErkki Kurenniemi in 2048

Livre - Culture informationnelle: vers une propédeutique du numérique

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Wellington County (Ont.) - Genealogy Workshop Series
September 26 - November 15, 2015, Guelph

Friends of the City of Ottawa Archives Annual General Meeting
18 october, 2015, Ottawa

Key Trends and Challenges Facing the Information Management Profession
October 22, 2015, Montréal

Big Data, le défi du traitement de données
29 octobre 2015, Université Laval

Webinar - RIOXX: the Pragmatic Development of a Metadata Application Profile
September, 29, 2015

#AskAnArchivist Day
October 1, 2015

Online Course - Personal Digital Archiving for Librarians
October 6 - November 3, 2015

Webinar - Insurance 101: Practical Considerations for Protecting Institutional Collections and Loans
October 8, 2015

Le cycle de vie : quelle évolution, quelles utilités ?
12 octobre 2015, Genève (Suisse)

NARA - Virtual Genealogy Fair
October 21-22, 2015

Gouvernance des connaissances dans les organisations 
21-22 Avril, 2016, Tunis

National Conference of Managing Electronic Records
May 23-25, 2016, Chicago

Sur le web / On the web
National Archives of Australia Video - Managing Email

Video - Introduction to File Format Internals

Video Interview - Elvis Otobo, Nigerian Archivist

Vidéo du MOOC Gérer les documents numériques - Hangout no 1: Introduction et fondamentaux

Archivist: a Platform for Publishing Interactive Interview Transcriptions Online

UK National Archives Podcast - Electric Shock: from the Gramophone to the iPhone

Podcast - Research Data Spring: Automatically Preserving Research Data (with Archivematica)

Slidecast - Impact Analysis of OCR Quality on Research Tasks in Digital Archives

Slidecast - How to Manage a Data Security Incident: Ten Tips from a Breach Practitioner

Slidecast - Humanities, Digital Humanities, Media Studies, Internet Studies: an Inaugural Lecture

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Vanishing Canada: why we're all losers in Ottawa's war on data

Election Issues 2015: a Maclean's primer on vanishing data

Why Internet Privacy Should be a Key Election Issue

Canadian copyright law remarkably complex

Public service union helped save library's documents from the dumpster

Reclaiming the People's Memory

Harper government facing court challenge over secret Order in Council

Information Policies Under the Harper Government Part 3: Cancellation of the Long Form Census

Tribunal upholds grievance by federal scientist denied approval to attend conference

Association of Canadian Archivists Code of Conduct for a harassment-free environment

Group to consult in Iqaluit on residential school archive centre (National Truth and Reconciliation Centre at University of Manitoba)

New First World War Records at the Archives of Manitoba

David Alexander, head of new archives and digital preservation at the Royal B.C. Museum, has been elected president of the B.C. Museums Association

Drive holding millions of B.C. education records lost in data breach

Massive B.C. Privacy Breach underlines risks of government using C-51 to collect and store our private info

Québec - Loi concernant le cadre juridique des technologies de l'information et juges

McMaster University - The story of a very old book 

Folk histories offer different look at Ottawa's past

Making New Memories in the Aftermath of a Quebec Train Disaster (Lac Mégantic)

New archives building proposed for Sault Ste. Marie (Ont.)

Descendants du régiment Carignan-Salières, garde à vous

Afrique / Africa
Tchad - L'accusation traque la main de Hissène Habré dans les archives de la Direction de la documentation et de la sécurité

South Africa - Historian's evidence crucial to democratisation of customary law in Eastern Cape court case

Amériques / Americas
Safeguarding living heritage of Kallawaya communities in Bolivia

NARA - What is Metadata…

Arizona - Genealogy records to be available online after closure of library

South Dakota - Images of state's railroad history added to digital archives

Judicial History Database Brings Nevada Judicial History to Life

A living artifact from the Dutch Golden Age: Yale University's 367-year-old water bond still pays interest

Emory University names Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library for alumnus Stuart Rose

University of California at Los Angeles archive flashes gems to mark 50 years of film and TV preservation

Why Preserve? the Los Angeles Scene: University of California at Los Angeles' Library Special Collections Punk Archive

Archiving a digital history: preserving Penn State University's heritage one link at a time

Nation's first archive of LGBT in the American West takes root at University of Wyoming

University of Virginia - Rare Book Preservationist Restores a Chapter of Virginia's Colonial Past

New Digital Archive at University of Utah Examines the Complicated and Multi-Dimensional Sides of Suicide 

The American Numismatic Society Introduces Digital Library

Getty Research Institute Acquires Archive of Curator Maurice Tuchman

Inside the Prelinger Library, a Unique Archive Of Ephemera

Cataloging the Earliest Public Television Content: an NET Project Update

Boston Public Library assessing rare book section after mold outbreak

A treasure trove of history in the attic at Providence City Hall

PETA Sues Photographer on Behalf of Selfie-Taking Monkey

Happy Birthday ruled out of copyright

Invaluable Announces Live Online Bidding on Titanic Artifacts from Survivors of Infamous Lifeboat No. 1 and Rare Historic Autographs & Documents in Partnership with Lion Heart Autographs

Photographs of John Lennon's final interview to be auctioned 

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Archives New Zealand - The Government Recordkeeping directorate

OCLC to host cataloguing, resource sharing for National Library of New Zealand's Te Puna Services

The story of Japan's hidden Christians emerges from the Vatican archives 

Cambodia - Palm leaves preserving history

De-classification of files: how does India compare to the rest of the world?

Colonial Photography in British India

India - The Netaji Files: from The Hindu's Archives

India - Natwar Singh says government should declassify Netaji's files cites Freedom of Information Act of UK

India - Asiatic Society opens access to Russia files (on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose)

India PM Narendra Modi gifts historic manuscripts (preserved at the National Archives of India) to Irish PM 

India - Goa's archives set to step into the digital age

Europe / Europa
European Commission - Library experts on cultural heritage preservation take care of open source tools

European Film Forum Analyzes Europe's Daunting Digital Challenge

Improving Technical Options for Audiovisual Collections through the PREFORMA Project

Who owns culture? Impressions from Denmark and Germany 

Germany - Higher Regional Court: right to be forgotten also applies to online archives

Czechoslovak Passport Signed Dr. F. Kafka František Sold for US$ 37,500 

Archives de l'État en Belgique - 38 000 moulages de sceaux à consulter en ligne 

Belgique - Saint-Hubert : les Archives ne seront pas fermées avant trois ans

Suisse - Archivistes avec style

France - Réforme de l'état civil : beaucoup trop tôt, selon les archivistes

Service interministériel des archives de France - Pré-versement : Premis in Mets (PIM)

France - Le Centre des archives nationales de Pierrefitte à l’avant-garde de la performance énergétique

10 raisons pour lesquelles Gallica va changer votre vie 

France - Quel cadre légal pour le traitement des données personnelles des mineurs sur internet ?

BNP Paribas : ouvre ses archives historiques au grand public avec le site internet Source d’Histoire

Un Centre d'archives de l'immigration russe en banlieue parisienne

Ireland - Government refuses to release records from 1981-1984 due to sensitive information

Ireland - Freedom of Information request into deal on the past refused

Ireland - Certificates reveal what files Government wants kept hidden

Ireland - Army to modernise medical records

British Library - British Stand-Up Comedy Archive Special Collection

British Library Endangered Archives Programme - 5 million images online

British Library - Rare manuscripts that show how Indian epics shaped Malay literary traditions

British literary icons to be exhibited in China for the first time 

Ten years of the UK web archive: what have we saved?

Cambridge University Library Digitizes 17th-Century Chinese Art Book

First World War love letters reveal enduring love in the face of danger

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Egypt - Ancient manuscript pieced together after Cairo Museum find

Israeli journalist archives lives of Palestinian citizens

Iran and Poland cooperate on cultural heritage, manuscripts issues

How Well Are Arabic Websites Archived?

International
Help the International Rights Statement Working Group develop RightsStatements.org 

Why is it so difficult to use social media data for research and almost impossible to preserve this user-generated content in heritage collections?

Metadata between Archivists' Toolkit and ArchivesSpace

OAIS Model with Functional Entities, Version 3 (with Labels)

Lad, Rad, OCR, ICR : tendances et opportunités d'un marché mature

How technology has transformed historical research 

Archival survival: how to future-proof your digital records

Web Archives: Preserving the Everyday Record

The net, the web, the archive and the historian

Crowdsourcing is Dead: Long Live Citizen Humanities

Auditing your Records Management Program

Et sinon, ça fait quoi un archiviste ?

Snapchat, une profonde rupture dans l'histoire de l’image 

Collectors preserve nearly lost Sonic arcade game through emulation

Leveraging Metadata for (Really) Big Data