Thursday, 28 March 2019

Vol. 12, no. 30

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
Library and Archives Canada - 2017 to 2018 Report on Fees 

City of Coquitlam Archives (British Columbia) - Annual Report 2018

Archives New Zealand - Disposal Moratorium on Records Relevant to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State Care and in the Care of Faith-based Institutions

Library of Congress - Fiscal 2020 Budget Justification

De la communauté / From the community
Canadian Association of Research Libraries - @Risk North 2 (Digital Collections): Report of the Open Forum 

A Statistical Profile of Artists in Canada in 2016 (with Summary Information about Cultural Workers)

A Public Record at Risk: the Dire State of News Archiving in the Digital Age

Report on the Survey of Digital Data Management Practices at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences

Northeast Document Conservation Center - Digital Preservation Assessment: Peer Assessment

Association of European Research Libraries - Voting Recommendations on the Digital Single Market Directive

Paper - Graveyards of Exclusion: Archives, Prisons, and the Bounds of Belonging

Publications
Comma: International Journal on Archives, vol. 2017, no. 2 (2019)

Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture, vol. 48, no. 1 (2019)

Bulletin de l'Association française des archives orales sonores et audiovisuelles, no 45 (2019)

Mémoire d'avenir : le journal des Archives nationales de France, no 34 (2019)

Signatures: the Magazine of Library and Archives Canada, no. 8 (2019) 

Archives Society of Alberta Newsletter, vol. 38, no. 2 (2019)

The Burlington Historical Society (Ontario) Gazette, vol. 15, no. 4 (2019)

Book - History in the Age of Abundance? How the Web Is Transforming Historical Research

Book - Migration and Refuge: an Eco-Archive of Haitian Literature, 1982-2017

Book - Pierre Werner and Europe: the Family Archives Behind the Werner Report

Book - Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum

Book - Scientists Under Surveillance: the FBI Files

Book - Digital Humanities and New Ways of Teaching

Book - New Directions in Music and Human-Computer Interaction

Book - Searchable Storage in Cloud Computing

Book - Online Film Production in China Using Blockchain and Smart Contracts: the Development of Collaborative Platforms for Emerging Creative Talents

Book - Splendor Solis: the World's Most Famous Alchemical Manuscript

Livre - L'immigration oubliée des Belges en France : XIXe-XXe siècles

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Journée contributive Art+Féminisme
30 mars 2019, Montréal

Introduction to Archives Workshop
April 13, 2019, Winnipeg

ARMA Winnipeg Chapter Event
April 18, 2019, Winnipeg

Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto - Researching the Toronto Archives
April 24, 2019, Toronto

Symposium École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information - School of Information Studies
29 avril 2019, Montreal

Archives Association of British Columbia & ARMA Vancouver Chapter - Digital Directions
May 2-3, 2019, Vancouver

Webcast - Appraisal for Arrangement and Description 
May 1, 2019

NARA - Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote
May 10, 2019 - January 3, 2021, 2019, Washington D.C.

École d'été 2019 de l'Institut d'histoire du livre
24-27 juin 2019, Lyon (France)

Online Course - Introduction to Web Archiving
July 15 - August 25, 2019

De l'hypertexte aux humanités numériques 
16-18 octobre 2019, Montbéliard (France)

Webinar - Trustworthiness of Electronic Records: Approaches from Archival Science and Jurisprudence (Recording Available)
March 21, 2019

Sur le web / On the web
LawBytes Podcast - Going Inside Canada's Copyright Review

Photostories Canada: a New Website Created by the Canadian Photography Institute 

Rappels : les productions théâtrales professionnelles du Québec

Video - Applying a Feminist Open Government Lens to Action Plans

Baladodiffusion - Les archives de l'État en Belgique

Association des archivistes français - Baladodiffusion : retour d'expérience sur la collecte et l'exploitation d'archives orales en entreprise

Numahop: outil de gestion des chantiers de numérisation

Born-Digital Ethical Collecting: a Living Resource List

Slides - Challenges in the Search of European Cultural Heritage

Slides - Accessibility in Cultural Heritage

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Critics say government hiding history by holding onto Cold War documents

Guy Berthiaume announces departure from Library and Archives Canada

Library and Archives Canada and Sir Arthur Doughty

Researching in the 1926 Census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta

Opportunity to provide input on Royal British Columbia Museum modernization

Budget du Québec 2019 : le Centre de services partagés du Québec aboli

BAnQ acquiert les archives de Pierre Laporte

BAnQ souligne la Journée mondiale du théâtre 

BAnQ - La Gaspésie au temps du choléra

Revue de presse : programmes d'agrément : archives privées

Association des archivistes du Québec - Découvrez Cynthia Viau-Mainville, directrice région Montréal

Association des archivistes du Québec - Découvrez Frédéric David, directeur Certification et perfectionnement

The Arquives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives Is Now Available Online and Accessible from Anywhere

University of Toronto gets $100M donation for innovation centre studying artificial intelligence

University of British Columbia Library acquires the personal archives of Hanne Wassermann Walker

Mickey Mouse Comes to McGill's Visual Arts Collection

Université McGill - Révolution! Le mouvement McGill français a maintenant 50 ans

University of Alberta digitization project aims to make valuable research accessible to all

Archives Unleashed Project: 2018 Progress Report

Canadian Committee on Women's History - Digitizing the Pedestal

How are scientific artifacts preserved? Exploring new and traditional conservation methods

Quelques réflexions concernant Wikimedia Commons

Jewish Public Library Archives - Philanthropy for the Masses: the Hebrew Free Loan Association of Montreal 

Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto - Stand Up and Be Counted

Toronto Public Library - Cool Vintage Maps from Digital Archive Ontario

Ontario - Alive with the enthusiasm of our past: archive awareness week honours those volunteers who preserve our history

British Columbia - Exploration Place looking to digitize its archive

British Columbia - This Library Takes an Indigenous Approach to Categorizing Books

Flood waters drain Cochrane Historical & Archival Preservation Society (Alberta) bank account

What 100-year-old research by Nova Scotia children tells us about climate change

Keeping culture alive: British Columbia Indigenous couple inducted into Dance Hall of Fame

Regina man lands out-of-this-world NASA job after work on Apollo 11 documentary

Afrique / Africa
Sénégal - Comment Lionel Mandeix a infiltré les archives du Palais

Ethiopian National Archives Agency, British Library Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Advance Cooperation

Tunisia truth commission says many rights abuse cases yet to reach court

How the Gambia is going about its search for truth and reconciliation

Burundi Truth and Reconciliation Commission's new missions

Amériques / Americas
Declassification Diplomacy: Trump Administration to Turn Over Trove of Declassified Records to Argentina on Human Rights Violations Committed During Military Dictatorship

NARA - Holdings Highlight! RG 167: Submissions to the National Inventors Council

NARA - Robert Bob Wolfe: Captured German Records Expert

NARA - The United States Army Buys its First Aeroplane, 1909

Library of Congress - Moving Forward with the Copyright Office

Library of Congress - Suffragists in Song

National Library of Medicine -  Artificial intelligence is coming. Are the data ready?

The American Civil Liberties Union sues FBI for records related to black extremists report

Deep Hanging out as Historical Research Methodology: the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution

Preservation Is Key at Delaware Public Archives

Volunteers can help North Carolina State Archives transcribe archival records

University of Washington - With a hello, researchers demonstrate first fully automated DNA data storage

University of Neveda Libraries using Virtual Reality technology to preserve the past

University of Florida unveils Joel Buchanan Archive

University of Oregon - New collection helps preserve the legacy of a civil rights trailblazer

Shoshone Nation collaborates with Utah State University Archives to host digital historical collection

Wake Forest University - Performing the Archive: Omeka and AWS

Inspired by University of California's decision to drop its big deal with Elsevier, university librarians are laying the foundation to follow suit

The Digital Humanities Debacle

Capturing History, 280 Characters at a Time

Assessing the Digital Forensics Instruction Landscape with BitCuratorEdu

Hidden in Plain Sight: Institutional Amnesia and the Archives

Blaze tears through St. Louis museum of rare documents

Inside the Lou Reed archive: you can walk directly into his world

Archivists: the Superheroes of Time Travel

Three Einstein letters on antisemitism to be auctioned

Meet Nate Smith, Chief Archivist of the Boston Planning and Development Agency

Meet Meg Winikates, Director of Engagement at the New England Museum Association

Meet Molly Brown, Reference and Outreach Archivist at Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections

An Interview with the Hosts of Society of American Archivists' “Archives in Context” Podcast

This Beer Was Developed to Process Kodak Super 8 Film

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia concerned with capability to become cyber resilient

Former AC/DC frontman Bon Scott's tour letter bought at auction by Western Australia Government for $14,000

Love letters and contraceptive devices: what the New South Wales State Archives (Australia) tell us about marriage

Public Record Office Victoria (Australia) - Transfers and RDA projects update

1919 Great Air Race Winners' Archive Digitised

Researching arrivals to New Zealand: some additional sources

Japan - Efficient, appropriate system needed to handle public records, archives

New book of photography opens window to Hong Kong's colonial past

Korea - Seoul opens municipal archives, public secondhand bookstore

Thousands of Indonesians have opened their own libraries

India - Understanding Bhagat Singh, one writing at a time

Europe / Europa
European Copyright Directive passes, setting dangerous precedent for the open Internet

The new Copyright Directive is a lost opportunity for Europe

European Union Copyright Directive Adopted: the Fight for Libraries and Freedom of Speech Passes to the National Level

Russia - Admiral Alexander Kolchak's Archives Have Been Declassified. Why is the White Army Leader still so Controversial?

Two letters by inventor Nikola Tesla surface in Serbia

Sweden - Uppsala University : the goal is to be able to automatically read enciphered, historical manuscripts

Scientists Reveal Ancient Social Networks Using Artificial Intelligence and X-rays

Nearly 18,000 Ancient Manuscripts from the Vatican's Archives Published Online

France - Archivage numérique : Vitam 2 est finalisé

Les métadonnées de gestion dans Vitam

Université de Bretagne occidentale - Une grande collecte de manuscrits en breton lancée par le Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique

La Tondue de Chartres, un documentaire réalisé avec des fausses archives, et c'est troublant

Compte-rendu du colloque international les Mondes de la généalogie

Ireland - Galway dominates National Museum archive of community history

UK National Archives - The White Crow: Rudolf Nureyev's defection to the West

UK National Archives - Meet our new Collection Care research staff

UK National Archives - The saviour of the sewers

British and Chinese library leaders to share knowledge in Chengdu

British Library - When the personal gets political

Cambridge and Heidelberg announce major project to digitise treasured medieval manuscripts

University of Oxford college to investigate its own role in colonialism

King John royal charter found in Ushaw College Library

Second World War veterans' voices recorded for online sound archive

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel - I have the coolest job in the world, says curator of the world's largest collection of Judaica

Israel - Yad Vashem to build $50 million Heritage Campus, archive 

The Lebanese National Library: the Path

Rare literary works digitized in central Turkey's Konya

International
Archival Projects: Evaluating and Acknowledging Performance

Blockchain Time Capsules: why Family Chains should Replace Family Trees

Let's fight some more about the digital humanities

A Seven Minute History of Digital Publishing

How to Unlock Empathy to Make Library Marketing Mean Something

Why Data Science Teams Need Generalists, Not Specialists

Majority of bitcoin trading is a hoax, new study finds

The history of the fax machine (and why it's not dead yet)