Thursday, 3 November 2016

Vol. 10, no. 10

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
Government of Canada - End-of-term Self-assessment on Action Plan on Open Government 2014-2016 (Draft for Consultation)

Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner - Improving Access and Privacy with Records and Information Management

UK National Archives - Guidance Principles on the Auto-Deletion of Email

Archives de l'État de Genève (Suisse) - Directive sur la dématérialisation des documents à valeur probante

Archives New Zealand - Appraisal Report: Archives New Zealand National Office

U.S. Federal Trade Commission - Protecting Personal Information: a Guide for Business

De la communauté / From the community
Digital Public Library of America - Archival Description Working Group Whitepaper

Handwritten Text Recognition: Transkribus: a User Report

Communia and European Digital Rights - The Copyright Reform: a Guide for the Perplexed

Institute of Museum and Library Services - State Library Administrative Agencies Survey: Fiscal Year 2014 

Association of European Research Libraries - New Library Buildings in Europe: Documentation 2016

World Wide Web Consortium - Linked Data Notifications Candidate Recommendation 

Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives - Annual Report 2015

Paper - Collections as Data: Conditions of Possibility

Paper - Invisible Defaults and Perceived Limitations: Processing the Juan Gelman Files

Publications
Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction, vol. 4, no. 1 (November 2016)

International Journal on Digital Libraries, vol. 17, no. 4 (November 2016)

International Journal of Information Management, vol. 36, no. 6 (December 2016)

DHCommons Journal (October 2016)

National Archives of Australia - Government Agencies Information Network, no. 10 (2016)

Trent University Archives News, no. 59 (October 2016)

Saanich Archives (B.C.) News & Events (October 2016)

The Chronicle: Newsletter of the Qualicum Beach (B.C.) Historical and Museum Society (2016)

Association of Research Libraries - SPEC Kit 353: Funding Article Processing Charges 

Ph.D. Dissertation - Composing Digital Community Spaces: Design and Literacy Practices in/of the Archive

Book - Global Mobilities: Refugees, Exiles and Immigrants in Museums and Archives 

Book - The Voynich Manuscript

Book - Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts

Book - The Big Humanities: Digital Humanities/Digital Laboratories 

Book - Interpreting Anniversaries and Milestones at Museums and Historic Sites

Book - Landscape, Memory, and Post-Violence in Cambodia

Book - Truth and History in the Ancient World: Pluralising the Past

Book - Tracing your Boer War Ancestors: Soldiers of a Forgotten War

Book - The Paper Office for the Digital Age: Forms, Guidelines, and Resources to Make your Practice Work Ethically, Legally, and Profitably (Fifth Edition)

Book - Armoured Warfare in the First World War: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives 

Book - Early Modern Merchants as Collectors

Book - The Face that Launched a Thousand Lawsuits: the American Women who Forged a Right to Privacy

Book - Secure Data Deletion

Livre - Le droit à l'oubli : du devoir de mémoire au droit à l'oubli

Livre - Qu'est-ce que l'accès ouvert ? 

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Provincial Archives of Alberta - Indigenous Filmmaking in Alberta
November 9, 2016, Edmonton

Digital Preservation Management… Best Practices vs. Reality
November 17, 2016, Vancouver

The Rooms Provincial Archives Open House
November 19, 2016, St John's (Newfoundland)

Vancouver Archives - Vancouver: Exponential Change
November 20 and 27, 2016, Vancouver

L'accès à l'information : pilier de la transparence et de la démocratie au Canada
30 novembre 2016, Montréal et webdiffusion

Transforming your Organization through Information Governance
December 6 and 8, 2016, Kanata (Ontario)

British Library Exhibit - Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line Opens
November 4, 2016 - March 1, 2017, London (UK)

UK Information Commissioner Office Webinar - Can you Afford a Data Breach?
November 16, 2016

Jour et nuit aux Archives : les Archives littéraires suisses en fête
18 novembre 2016, Berne

Free Webinar - Preparing to Digitise your Archives: Metadata
November 24, 2016

Fragile Memories: Doing Oral History with Vulnerable Narrators
November 24-25, Helsinki

Open Cultural Data Symposium
November 25, 2016, London (UK)

Sur le web / On the web
Slidecast - Digitization of Legacy Records at Privy Council Office

Video - Edward Snowden Interviewed at McGill University

Library of Congress - Redesigned Website

Ancestry.ca on Twitter

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
In scathing ruling, Federal Court says CSIS bulk data collection illegal

Ottawa may review parties' use of Canadians' private data

Library and Archives Canada announces the digitization of over 600 documents from the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples

Library and Archives Canada - Voices of the Past

Federal Science Library Recognized as a GTEC Distinction Award Medalist

Canadian Museum of History acquires William James Roué Collection

Héritage Project activates subscriptions to key genealogy dataset

The 2016 sitrep on Canada and reconciliation

Background on Canada's Imperial War Service Gratuity

Ring the alarm: legendary bell precious to Métis nation is missing again

Archives of Manitoba - One Manitoba Soldier: One quick letter to Mother

Ontario Provincial Police plan to text 7,500 cellphones in homicide probe raises privacy concerns

Archives Alberta - History of Halloween in Canada

BAnQ - Municipalités : les documents déposés au conseil municipal

BAnQ - La petite histoire du quartier chinois de Montréal

Nova Scotia - Full disclosure ordered on Irving Shipbuilding deal

A Guide to Online Resources for Teaching and Learning about WW1 in Canada

KindredSpaces: University of Prince Edward Island's Lucy Maud Montgomery collection goes online

From the archives: witch history takes flight in rare manuscript at University of Alberta

Canadian celebrities read war letters for Vancouver Island University's national online archive project

Project at Brandon University's S.J. McKee Archives will shine new light on major Manitoba agricultural collection

University of Toronto - Web Archiving: Past, Present and Future

Data centre coming to University of Northern British Columbia

Acadia University pop-up museum provides new view of WWI

Memorial University - Bearing Witness: TransStories: Selections from the Transgender Archives on display

L'affaire Maillé, ou l'avenir de la confidentialité dans la recherche scientifique

Big Debate over Big Data in Museums

Open data: why the City of Edmonton is getting out of the app-making business

Vancouver - Historical exhibition explores Canada's response to the Holocaust

La retraite de Raymond Ouimet, président du Centre régional d'archives de l'Outaouais, soulignée à l'Assemblée nationale

Kitchener - Schneiders' union archives need a home 

Quand les archives dévoilent la ville de Rimouski

Parcelles de patrimoine : la version restaurée du film de 1949 Le gros Bill a été dévoilée 

Centre d'histoire et d'archives du travail - Deux nouveaux fonds d'archives
Fonds Syndicat des employé(e)s de magasins et de bureaux de la SAQ : http://www.archivesquebecoisesdutravail.org/CHAT/PDF/semb_saq.instr-rech.pdf
Fonds Syndicat des employé(e)s de techniques professionnelles et de bureau d'Hydro-Québec : http://www.archivesquebecoisesdutravail.org/CHAT/PDF/instr_recher_scfp2000.pdf

Archives de la ville de Québec - Octobre 1866 : Saint-Sauveur brûle

Manitoba - Preserving the past (by Norma Forsman, archivist, Beautiful Plains Archives)

Peace River Museum, Archives (Alberta) - Women in the Archives

Historical royal document finds new home in Bracebridge library archives (Ontario)

Un prix en sécurité pour les archives de Mont-Saint-Hilaire

Monument honours 700 children buried in unmarked graves in Newfoundland cemetery

Toronto Public Library - Researching British Military Ancestors

La colonie de Sheptetski en Abitibi : un village ukrainien disparu

Accès à l'information : Entrevue avec Basma Makhlouf Shabou

Michel Lévesque (archiviste) : un des diplômés d'honneur 2016 de l'Université de Montréal

Les archives et la société : c'est votre affaire

Digital Preservation: Choose your own Adventure

Afrique / Africa
La Chine financera la construction d'une bibliothèque nationale et d'un centre national des archives à Djibouti

South Sudan - Can Archivists Save the World's Newest Nation?

Réponse-contribution à l'appel du président Macky Sall à la renaissance au Sénégal des archives et des métiers associés

Côte d'Ivoire - Audiovisuel : bientôt un conservatoire pour la sauvegarde des archives 

Les archives algériennes transférées par la France déplacées vers plusieurs endroits inconnus 

Rwanda - Rwf5 billion to complete Gacaca digital archiving

South African History Archive - Testing the right to know through the courts

Amériques / Americas
Important Archives for Dealing with the Past in Colombia

White House starts moving Obama's records to Chicago

The Digital Transition: how the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age

CIA to put millions of declassified documents online

CIA Releases Controversial Bay of Pigs History

Government alleges former NSA contractor stole astonishing quantity of classified data over 20 years

FBI releases 17-year old archive from Clinton pardon case

Nobody Knows if these Nazi Home Movies Were Lost, Stolen or Destroyed at the National Archives

NARA - Social Media Guidance now in Documenting your Public Service 

Bibliothèque George W. Bush: l'héritage d'un président

America's Librarian: Carla Hayden plans to continue her career-long focus on access and technology as Librarian of Congress

Smithsonian - How Experts Are Digitizing Ancient Manuscripts

Open house at Hawaii state archives celebrates 110th anniversary

Mysterious Voynich Manuscript reborn in facsimile edition

National Grant Funds Digital Access to Archives on Kent State University May 4 Shootings

University of Maine - Acadian Archives exhibit features more than 40 maps of Acadian heritage

Brandeis University Opens Lenny Bruce Archive

Rare 9th Century New Testament Manuscript to be Taken back to Greece by Archbishop Demetrios of America

Q&A: Association of Moving Image Archivists President Andrea Kalas on the Future of Preservation

A Lost Snippet of Film History, Found in a Home Movie Shot in 1964

None Shall Escape, Hollywood's First Holocaust Film, Was All but Unknown for 70 Years. Now it's Been Rediscovered.

World-Renowned George Eastman Museum Collections Now Accessible Online

Emojis before the smiling poop: New York museum acquires world's first set

Philadelphia - When Telling the Story of Changing Neighborhoods Becomes Part of the Story

An Attempt to 3D Model Jorge Luis Borges Library of Babel

Meet the man in charge of Bob Dylan treasure trove

Married father who disappeared 23 years ago is found living 1,000 miles away with a new family after relatives of dead fisherman whose identity he stole track him down on ancestry.com

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Royal visitors meet Dutch migrants at National Archives of Australia

Australia - University of Sydney newspaper launches digital archive

New South Wales (Australia) - Text messages are State records

Japan - Lower court rejects Japanese ex-convict's demand to delete criminal record from Google search results

Confronting the Cambodian Genocide through Oral History

Malaysia - National Archive wants schools with historical background to have them recorded

Indonesia - Right to be forgotten to be upheld: Government

Kashmir to digitize rare manuscripts to preserve cultural heritage

India - Government starts digitising Delhi's land records


Europe / Europa
The Right to Link is Challenged Under European Union Law

International Tracing Service Online Finding Aid on Nazi Camp History Published on European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Portal

Library Voices at the European Parliament: IFLA Supports Generation Code: Born at the Library

Precious Italian manuscripts moved to avoid earthquake damage

Italy police recover stolen manuscript after 30 years

The Codex Purpureus: the first Illustrated book comes from Italy

Polish Ministry of Culture to Merge the National Film Archive and National Audiovisual Institute

Wikipedian in residence at the Austrian Constitutional Court

Spain - Archive of Tom Sharpe in Girona

Bank of Cyprus opens its historical archive

Le Ciné-Journal suisse (1940-1975) disponible sur la Toile

France accused of hiding its archive smuggled during colonial era

Louvre to offer shelter for world treasures rescued from war zones

Scottish witchcraft book published online

Scotland - New digital chapter for 800-year-old book revealed

The Queen and the dismissal: the palace letters are not 'personal' and must be released

UK Parliamentary Archives - Photographing Stone, digitising the Benjamin Stone photographs

UK National Archives - The future for archives on a global scale 

UK National Archives - Elizabeth I's monarchy: rule of a weak and feeble woman?

Datamining for verse in eighteenth-century newspapers: British Library Labs Project

British Library - Development: Digitising Two Centuries of Indian Print 

Police forces overwhelmed by digital evidence, watchdog finds

Public Asked to Help Hunt for Witches' Marks

University of Southampton - Did your ancestor fight in the Hundred Years War?

Early edition of Frankenstein in University of Leicester archives gives rise to chilling story around its creation

Groundbreaking project uses archive footage to reignite Second World War memories

Forgotten Lancashire dialects revealed in poetry research

London Library books taken in 1950s found in locked wardrobe

The long-lost original designs for Manchester Town Hall have been unearthed

Photo archive reveals hidden history of Rodin's The Kiss

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Israeli Minister Recommends Declassifying Files on Yemenite Children's Disappearances in 1950s

National Library of Israel - The Secret Drafts of the Balfour Declaration

National Library of Israel - Harry Houdini: the Skeptical Son of a Rabbi

United Arab Emirates launches new law to make reading a daily habit

International
Internet Archive celebrates 20 years of wayback web and a new mission

L'UNESCO appelle à préserver le patrimoine audiovisuel

Where in the World Must Films Be Preserved?

Untangling the Mess: Researchers' Photo Practices

What does an Archivist add to the DAM conversation?

Talking to ourselves: Crowdsourcing, Boaty McBoatface and Brexit

The fascinating and frightening future of the Internet of Things

It's not too late to save the stacks: why we still need to keep books in our campus libraries

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