Thursday 26 January 2023

Vol. 16, no. 22

Ressources / Resources

De l’État / From the State
Ministère de la Culture (France) – Guide juridique : la participation des citoyens aux politiques des patrimoines : les bénévoles dans les structures patrimoniales

United States – National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force Final Report

De la communauté / From the community
Society of American Archivists Case Study – Connecting Past and Present: Using Archival Materials in a Storytelling Exercise

Hague Conference on Private International Law – Practical Handbook on the Operation of the Apostille Convention (Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents), Second Edition

Copyright Flexibilities: Mapping and Comparative Assessment of Eu and National Sources

A Framework for Improving the Accessibility of Research Papers on ArXiv.org

Publications
Esarbica Journal: Journal of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives, vol. 41 (2022)

Code4lib Journal, no. 55 (2023)

Digital Library Perspectives, vol. 39, no. 1 (2022)

International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion, vol. 6, no. 4 (2022)

Journal of Documentation, vol. 79, no. 1 (2023)

Journal of the Japan Society for Archival Science (2023)

Heritage Antagonish (Nova Scotia) – The Old Train Station News, no. 123 (2023)

ISO 15706-1:2023 – Information and Documentation – International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN)
Part 1: Audiovisual Work Identifier: https://www.iso.org/standard/83123.html
Part 2: Version Identifier: https://www.iso.org/standard/83124.html

Free eBook – The Digital Decisive Moment: Transformative Digitization Practices

Open Acces Book – Collaborative Historical Research in the Age of Big Data: Lessons from an Interdisciplinary Project

Book – Ed Ruscha: an Archive of Projects

Book – Family History and Historians in Australia and New Zealand: Related Histories

Book – The Dictionary of the Book: a Glossary for Book Collectors, Booksellers, Librarians, and Others (Second Edition)

Book – Transparency and Secrecy in European Democracies: Contested Trade-offs

Book – Troubles of the Past? History, Identity and Collective Memory in Northern Ireland

Book – Health Data Privacy under the GDPR: Big Data Challenges and Regulatory Responses

Book – A New History of Documentary Film (Third Edition)

Book – The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism

Livre – Le goût du patrimoine

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Webinar – Canadian eDiscovery Caselaw Year in Review
February 2, 2023

Information Resource Management Association of Canada – Chatbots, Machine Learning & Data
February 9, 2023, Toronto

Dalhousie University – Perspectives from the Global South (Suriname) on Archival Repatriation: Challenges and Opportunities
February 13, 2023

Digital Research Alliance of Canada HSS Series 2023
February 14-17, 2023

Archives Society of Alberta 2023 Biennal Conference
May 26-27, 2023

Information & Records Management Society – Microsoft 365 Recent Changes and Upcoming Features
February 8, 2023

Flickr Commons
February 16, 2023

Meet and Greet with Internet Archive
February 23, 2023

Social Justice and Catholic Nuns: how Archives Support Research
January 31, 2023

Archiving War: Lessons from Iraq
February 16, 2023

ArchivesSpace Application Overview and Basic Record Creation Training
February 21, 2023

Strategically Using Production Photos to Increase your Online Discoverability
February 22, 24, 2023

Item Not Found: Accounting for Loss in Libraries, Archives, and other Heritage and Memory Organizations
March 8-9, 2023

Sur le web / On the web
Library and Archives Canada – Treasures Revealed Episode Podcast: Masonic Mystery

From the Vaults: Audio from Edmonton’s Past – An Interview with James F. Falconer

Dictionary of Canadian Biography – New Biography: Edward Gosnell

Archive of the Jesuits in Canada – New Website

ePADD (Email Processing, Appraisal, Discovery, Delivery) – Version 10.0.1

Video – ePADD+ Final Project Presentation and Community Meeting

Video – A Comparison of Recommended File Formats and the New Dutch Method for File Format Assessment

Video – Are Video Codecs… Done?

My Favoriste Manuscript Podcast – Eric Johnson on Manuscript Fragments, Ohio, and the Ethics of Collecting

Five Artificial Intelligence Models for Transcribing Old Russian Handwriting and Printed Russian Texts

Survey – Studying the Impacts of Experienced and Perceived Barriers to Engaging in Reparative Archival Work

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Feds owe it to Canadian public to address the harm caused by copyright term extension

More means less: Extended copyright benefits the corporate few, not the public

I just asked ChatGPT: “What is the difference between copyright “fair use” in the USA and “fair dealing” in Canada?”

Federal Government Completes Review of Access to Information Regime

Canada has leading Artificial Intelligence experts. But does Ottawa have the right plan to support an AI industry?

Library and Archives Canada – Co-Lab update for January

Original, handwritten Anne of Green Gables manuscript released online

BAnQ – Le déneigement d’autrefois s’invite sur des photos inédites de Québec

BAnQ – Neuf choses à savoir sur la vie et la carrière musicale de Joseph Vézina

BAnQ – Votre ancêtre avait-il des démêlés avec la justice?

Le passé, un métier d’avenir

A journey into University of Manitoba’s untapped treasure

University of British Columbia Digitizers’ Blog – Collaboration with the UBC Preservation Unit

Intelligence artificielle (IA) et gestion documentaire: entretien avec Steve Jacob et Seima Souissi

There’s a real urgency: Stoney Nakoda First Nation using new resources to preserve language

Vancouver Archives dusts off some of its cool, old letterhead designs

Whistler Museum and Archives Society – A New Whistler Museum

Time to invest in Peel’s (Ontario) underappreciated archives

Centre d’archives régionales du Séminaire de Nicolet – Le havre de la rivière Nicolet : refuge inachevé pour les navigateurs du lac Saint-Pierre

Rare, recovered 1930s footage of steamship offers glimpse of Okanagan’s past

Canadian historical group urges preservation of threatened war memorial in U.K.

Forgotten chapter of First World War involves brain of Nova Scotia soldier

Afrique / Africa
Guinée-Bissau: les archives sonores en péril

Namibia – Access to Information Act yet to be Implemented

Congo – Archives : une réflexion du Professeur Bob Bobutaka publiée par la revue ” La Revista do Arquivo”

Amériques / Americas
NARA – International Holocaust Remembrance Day

U.S. National Archives’ (NARA) Budget: the 30-Year Flatline

National Archives asks former presidents and vice presidents to check for classified and presidential documents

What’s new online at the Library of Congress

Library of Congress – Posters Power

Library of Congress – Bewitched by TV Themes

U.S. Government Publishing Office Digitizes Historic Congressional Directories from the 1800s

Declassified U.S. Intelligence Documents Describe Taliban History with Illicit Narcotics Trade

National Digital Stewardship Alliance 2022 Year in Review

Audio files from the South Dakota State Archives collections now available online; Files include KGFX founder Ida McNeil

University of Michigan – The Horrors of Good Intentions: Told through the Story of a Dark Repository

University of Massachusetts Amherst – New England Quaker Records to Be Digitized

Lousiana State University professors create plan to protect cultural heritage institutions from natural disaster

The Talmud Manuscript which Puzzled Researchers

The Museum of Flight Archives

New York Public Library Acquires Joan Didion’s Papers

Preserving the legacy of Chicago’s Black social culture

Local History on Exhibit: the Stober Display Case at the Capital Area District Libraries

“Something we want to continue to do”: Preserving Santa Barbara’s past through community archives

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
National Archives of Australia – Sponsoring the survivors

India – 300-year-old Urdu manuscript of Mahabharat rests safe with UP teacher Mohammad Qamar

Europe / Europa
Court of Justice procedural files for 1986 and 1987 released to the Historical Archives of the European Union

European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – The NS-Policy of “Endlösung der Judenfrage” and the Soviet Medical Staff among the Jewish Prisoners of War in Central Ukraine

State Archival Service of Ukraine – Ukrainian archives received material aid from partners from Germany

State Archival Service of Ukraine – Documents about 1748 repressed individuals were added to the database Ukrainian martyrology of the XXth century

State Archival Service of Ukraine – Anatolii Khromov’s comment on the theft of cultural heritage by the russian occupiers to the daily newspaper DerStandard (Austria)

Swedish National Library Harnesses NVIDIA to turn Library Archives into AI Training Data

Tracing Belgian family trees made easier by massive new archive

The Metropolitan Museum of Art restitue une charte de 1176 aux Archives de l’État de Belgique

Archives nationales de France – Le parcours de Charles Péguy (1873-1914) à l’École normale supérieure

Les esquisses de Philippe Apeloig à la Bibliothèque nationale de France

Paris va ouvrir un lieu d’accueil pour LGBT + et des archives nationales pour conserver leur mémoire

France – L’archiviste condamné : il faisait les poubelles de l’Histoire

Ireland – A Community Archive Documents Decades of Radical Activism Against Police Brutality

Scotland – Donated Manuscripts Join Collection at Robert Burns Birthplace Museum

University of Edinburgh – Rare archive find offers glimpse of Bard at work

UK National Archives – Out on the Street: Investigating Fact or Fiction

UK National Archives – The Royal Vauxhall Tavern: Raided

UK National Archives – Remembering the Gross-Rosen concentration camp

UK Web Archive Technical Update: Winter 2023

British Library – Re-imagining the Ebstorf map

British Library – Celebrating the Lunar New Year on the front lines in World War One

British Library – Recording of the week: Bob Cobbing (1920-2002)

British Library – Into the Crucible of Revolution: Hindu Anticolonialism and Radicalism in Early Twentieth Century America

British Library – Across the Heart of Arabia (1): St John Philby’s Mission to Najd

British Library – The hidden life of Winifred Arthur, fore-edge painter

The UK’s Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding digitizes its archive

Librarian finds Arthur Conan Doyle’s letter to Archibald Forbes

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – Persecuted for their Judaism in Germany and for their German Origins in America

National Library of Israel – Escaping Certain Death: How the Jews of Treblinka Rose Up and Fought Back

A Personal Archive of the Islamic Revolution in "I Am Trying to Remember"

International
Post-Holocaust memories and dolls shared with the United Nations Archives

IFLA – Libraries and Sustainable Development in 2023: Trends and Issues

What is the Checksum of a Directory? Using Droid Reports and the Concepts behind Merkle Trees to Generate Directory, and Collection Checksums

Archivists’ tough calls have consequences

The End of Writing