Thursday 28 January 2016

Vol. 9, no. 22

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
Statement of the Information and Privacy Commissioners of Canada on the Duty to Document

Library and Archives Canada - Generic Valuation Tools now Available Online

Archives New Zealand - Appraisal Report and Schedule: Department of Internal Affairs: Chief Archivist (for Comment)

New South Wales State Records (Ausralia) - Digital Processes at Department of Premier and Cabinet Case Study

U.K. Higher Education Commission - From Bricks to Clicks: the Potential of Data and Analytics in Higher Education

De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Research Knowledge Network - Institutional Mobilization Toolkit

Catholic Archives Society - Basic Disaster Planning Advice Leaflet

Linked Library Data: Early Activity and Development

Fair Use, MOOCs, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act: Frequently Asked Questions

Le Desgin Thinking en bibliothèque

Article - Cloud-supported Preservation of Digital Papers: a Solution for Special Collections?

Publications
D-Lib Magazine, vol. 22, no. 1-2 (January-February 2016)

Journal of Library Metadata, vol. 15, no. 3-4, 2015 (Special Issue: Controlled Vocabularies and the Semantic Web)

The Journal of Contemporary Archival Practices, vol. 3 (2016)

Saskatchewan History, vol. 67, no. 2, Fall/Winter 2015 (Special Issue: 70th anniversary of the Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan)

Saanich Archives (B.C.) Newsletter (January 2016)

Society of Georgia Archivists Newsletter, vol. 48, no. 1 (Winter 2016)

Book - Digital Libraries: Interoperability and Uses

Book - Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland (Third Edition)

Book - Ethics and the Future of Spying: Technology, National Security and Intelligence Collection

Book - Practical Corpus Linguistics: an Introduction to Corpus-Based Language Analysis 

Book - The Invention of Free Press: Writers and Censorship in Eighteenth Century Europe

Book - Privacy Rights in the Digital Age

Book - Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain

Book - The Crisis of Presence in Contemporary Culture Ethics, Privacy and Speech in Mediated Social Life

Book - Museums and Visitor Photography

Livre - Frontières & mémoires, arts & archives

Livre - Les archives de la collaboration militaire française dans la Seconde Guerre mondiale

Livre - L'archiviste dans quinze ans : nouvelles attentes, nouvelles responsabilités, nouveaux défis

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
First Nations Records and Information Management Symposium 2016
February 2, 2016, Vancouver

Yukon Archives à la carte
February 4, 2016, Whitehorse

Knowledge Management 2016: Technology, Collaboration, Innovation
March 2-4, 2016, Toronto

State of Deception: the Power of Nazi Propaganda 
January 25 - February 11, 2016, Paris (UNESCO Headquarters)

Cour en ligne massif et ouvert - Documents numériques, du papier au web
1er février au 4 mai 2016

Online Course - Fundamentals of Electronic Resources Acquisitions
February 8 - March 4, 2016  

Webinar - Software Benchmarking in Digital Preservation
February 11, 2016

Digital Preservation Meets Big Data
March 14-15, 2016, Cambridge

International Internet Preservation Consortium Web Archiving Conference 2016 
April 13-15, 2016, Reykjavik (Iceland)

Archives and Records Association, UK and Ireland Annual Conference
August 31 - September 2, 2016, London (UK)

Sur le web / On the web
National Archives of India - Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Papers

Historical Archives of the European Union - Online Exhibitions Blog

European Holocaust Research Infrastructure - Document Blog

Video - New Tools for Providing Access to Digital Image Collections: Mirador and Spotlight 

Video - The Future of Linked Data in Libraries: Assessing BIBFRAME Against Best Practices 

Video - Secrets of the Online Harvard Libraries

Harvard University's Berkman Center - Amber, a “Mutual Aid” Tool for Bloggers & Website Owners to Help Keep the Web Available

Baladodiffusion - L'historien, l'archive et le silence

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Canada must focus on innovation economy to thrive in digital age

Canada's electronic spy agency broke privacy law by sharing metadata, watchdog says

Meet Heritage Minister Joly, Ottawa's new political powerhouse

Open Letter to Canadians on the Trans-Pacific Partnership from the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of International Trade

History museum staff raised ethical objections to acquisition of Empress of Ireland collection

Veteran calls out Canadian War Museum for using wrong American-style salute on promotional poster

Sarah Jennings interviewed on National Arts Centre History in LAC Signatures Series

Patent of Invention Applications at Library and Archives Canada

Canadian Library Association Votes to Dissolve

The CLA is dead. Long live the CLA.

What should be included in Canada's online archive of queer film?

After 1755: Archives and Acadian Identity

Privacy commissioner raps B.C. for massive privacy protection failure

Le Québec, parent pauvre de Wikipédia

Le Québec se met à l’index

BAnQ - Archives du mois: Promenade dans la neige

BAnQ - Arthur Buies, au-delà de la fiction

University of Toronto - Bringing manuscripts to your screens: professor Alexandra Gillespie co-leads a million-dollar project to preserve medieval manuscripts

Former McMaster University archivist donates figure skating collection

A peek inside Canada's X-Files: some of the past UFO sightings reported around the Greater Toronto Area 

Ottawa - L'histoire méconnue des plaines LeBreton

Historical documents arrive at Port Hope Archives (Ont.)

Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives (Ont.) - Unbuilt Peel: what could Have Been

Ontario Artist's blank books project seeks to restock historic Baghdad library

The Okotoks Museum and Archives (Alb.) Celebrates 100 Years of Women's Right to Vote

1939 royal visit to Burnaby (B.C.) documented in archive video

Nanaimo (B.C.) lending library destroyed by fire

Archives Bois-Francs : un nouvel organisme voit le jour

Association des archivistes du Québec - Gestion de la performance : documentez le dossier des employés

La Presse+ établit un record historique

Afrique / Africa
South Africa - Missing Commission for Conciliation‚ Mediation and Arbitration records a common headache for courts

Nigerian Copyright Reform Becomes Less Transparent As Comments Roll In

Mali - Direction des finances et du matériel du Ministère des Domaines de l'État et des Affaires Foncières : silence : les archives se désagrègent… !

Préservation du patrimoine culturel au Mali : l'UNESCO sensibilise la jeunesse via des supports pédagogiques

Bénin - Initiative panafricaine pour sauver les archives photographiques

Moderniser la gestion des archives au Sénégal : une condition de l'émergence économique 

Algérie - Archives, disparus de la Guerre de libération et indemnisations au centre de la visite du ministre des Moudjahidine Tayeb Zitouni en France

Algérie - Contentieux liés à la mémoire : jusqu'où ira Paris ?

Amériques / Americas
The Real Legacy of Hillary Clinton's Personal Email: Outdated Government-wide Email Management and Overclassification

Where Do Presidential Campaign Websites Go When Campaigns Die?

Election 2016: how Are the Candidates Using Instagram?

Trove of Marine Corps films from 1930s-1970s to be preserved

WGBH, Library of Congress, and WETA to Digitize PBS NewsHour Collection

Bayan USA files Freedom of Information Act request on FBI role in Mamasapano

Arkansas - State Archives History Found in Conway Attic

Illinois Farm Bureau archives hold onto history

Yale University - Donated film reels contain footage from the Nanking Massacre

University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive to open its doors

When it Comes to Born-Digital, how Well Do we Know our Users?

Michael Brown's death sparks Twitter archiving project

Intellectual Property Rights Issues for Software Emulation: an Interview with Euan Cochrane, Zach Vowell, and Jessica Meyerson

Old music is outselling new music for the first time in history

New York Public Library - Using Public Domain Materials in the Classroom 

16 LGBTQ Historical Treasures Hiding in the New York Public Library's Photo Archives 

Digital Preservation Planning: a National Digital Stewardship Residency Boston Project Update

What do a Gutenberg Bible, Charles Bukowski and Paul Theroux have in common? The Huntington Library.

The J. Paul Getty Museum Announces Acquisition of Rare Secular Flemish Manuscript

Judge Approves Sale of John Rogers Photos

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia - Celebrated Northern Territory archivist joins forces of two governments

New Zealand - Ngā Taonga archive steps into digital age

Tibetan museum establishes digital records of collection

Cambodia - Access to information law site goes online

India - First set of 100 Netaji Files declassified; PM visits National Archives, meets family members of Netaji

India - War criminal: how did a fake letter about Netaji Bose create so much controversy?

Indian National Army history rots in defence archive

India - Google Cultural Institute Brings Mumbai's Oldest Museum Online

India - Mussoorie historian threatens to burn rare Sanskrit manuscripts

Europe / Europa
Brussels Includes Reference to the Holocaust in the General Data Protection Regulation

New Europeana Collections site brings people closer to culture

Racial harmony in a Marxist utopia: how the Soviet Union capitalised on US discrimination: in pictures

The role of Anne Frank's diary and academic freedom for text & data mining

Nouveau témoignage sur les expériences médicales nazies

Serbian photojournalists appeal against threat to copyright

Not so neutral: wartime workers at a Swiss arms factory: in pictures

Luxembourg - Les archives de la Commission de surveillance du secteur financier désormais accessibles aux Archives nationales

Luxembourg - Le prestataire de service de dématérialisation et de conservation (PSDC), une banque qui stocke de l'information

Un algorithme est-il un document communicable ?

Comment transmettre la mémoire des déchets radioactifs

Two new Yves Saint Laurent museums to showcase designer's extraordinary archive

Ireland - National Library employee charged with stealing rare books

Ireland - 1916 Rising inspires wonderful new interactive map

UK government retreats on plans to water down the Freedom of Information Act

UK National Archives - Magna Carta resource wins education award

British Library - Queen Victoria’s handwriting

Beatrix Potter story Kitty-in-Boots discovered after 100 years

Berkshire - Reading Prison: look at some of the documents in the archive

Riddle of mystery manuscripts found in South Shields chimney

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Turkey - Adana's visual archivist

International
Explore your Ancestors' Lives in Old Newspapers

Preparing cultural heritage materials to be Digitised

A Secret Memorial and other Subversive Art

How studying the old drawings and writings of kids can change our view of history

NATO looks to combat Russia's information weapon: document

Now Historians can Digitally Preserve what Extremist Groups Would Like to Destroy

90% of large organisations will have a chief data officer by 2019: Gartner

A Linked Data Journey: Survey of Publishing Strategies

People think curating just means choosing nice things: secrets of the museum curators

The race for the master algorithm has begun