Ressources / Resources
De l’État / From the State
Archives de l’État en Belgique – Rapport annuel 2022
British Library – Knowledge Matters: the British Library 2023–2030
Public Record Offive Victoria (Australia) – Retention and Disposal Authority: Coroners Court of Victoria (for Comments)
De la communauté / From the community
Coalition for Canadian Digital Heritage – Strategic Framework
Canadian Research Knowledge Network and Canadian Association of Research Libraries – Towards Open Scholarship: a Canadian Research and Academic Library Action Plan to 2025
Canadian Association of Research Libraries – National Advocacy Framework for Open Educational Resources
Rapport d’activité de l’Association des archivistes francophones de Belgique
Society of American Archivists - Dataset: Archival Census and Education Needs Survey in the United States
Visualizing Linguistic Diversity of Text Datasets Synthesized by Large Language Models
Publications
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 74, no. 6 (2023)
Library Trends, vol. 70. no. 1 (2023)
The Electronic Library, vol. 41, no. 2-3 (2023)
Slovo, no 53 (numéro spécial : archives et traces : enjeux, usages et poétiques)
Mémoire d’étude (Enssib) – Les fonds d’érudits locaux en bibliothèque : état des lieux et visibilité
Open Access Book – Variant Scholarship: Ancient Texts in Modern Contexts
Book – Lesbian Love Story: a Memoir in Archives
Book – Reconstructing Performance Art: Practices of Historicisation, Documentation and Representation
Book – Toronto as Community: Fifty Years of Photographs
Book – Photographing America’s First Astronauts: Project Mercury through the Lens of Bill Taub
Book – Rethinking Copyright for Sustainable Human Development: Higher Education and Access to Knowledge
Book – J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library: Building the Bookman’s Paradise
Book – The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Recolonisation of Africa: the Coloniality of Data
Book – Principles of Knowledge Auditing: Foundations for Knowledge Management Implementation
Book – Contemporary Curating, Artistic Reference and Public Reception: Reconsidering Inclusion, Transparency and Mediation in Exhibition Making Practice
Livre – Numérisation 3D du patrimoine bâti : acquisition des données, nuages de points et livrables
Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
University of Alberta Bruce Peel Special Collections Exhibit – Mercantile Mobility: Chinese Merchants in Western Canada
Until November 30, 2023, Edmonton
Doors Open : the Archives of Ontario
May 28, 2023, Toronto
What do Members of the Public Want from Data Access and Use Policies?
May 31, 2023
Expanding Access Ability: Exploring Themes of Access in Archives and Information Management
June 5, 2023
Datasheets for Datasets: Describing Web Archives Collections
June 1, 2023
Indigenous Cartography and Cartography of the Indigenous
June 1, 2023
International Archives Week
June 5-9, 2023
Information & Records Management Society – Incorporating Email into an Information Management Strategy
June 6, 2023
NARA’s Regulations for Digitizing Permanent Records
June 7, 2023
Exploring the Digital Record of Everyday Life in Covid-era Britain
June 14, 2023
Symposium on Scientific Archives
June 27-28, 2023
Filling in the Blanks: the Genesis of the English Stationery Binding
October 5, 2023, Kew
Sur le web / On the web
Baladodiffusion du Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française – Les femmes vues par leurs archives
Archives & Things Podcast – Dr. Mark V. Campbell, Northside Hip Hop Archive
Video – An introduction to the Digital Preservation Coalition Technology Watch Report by its Authors
Vidéo – Aide à la décision pour la conservation et la gestion des collections
Video – Exploring Interoperability in Digital Migrations for Special Collections
Video – Supporting Software Preservation Services in Research & Memory Organizations
Video – Enriching Library and Archival Records with Ethnolinguistics Minority Language Identification
Discussion Forum for People Interested in Using Machine Learning in a GLAM
Unlocking our Digital Past with Artificial Intelligence – Survey
Nouvelles du monde / News from the world
Canada
Library and Archives Canada helps preserve documentary heritage across Canada by funding projects in communities
Library and Archives Canada – Chinese Canadian Genealogy: General Registers and C.I.9 certificates
Documentary Heritage Communities Program 2023-2024
Library and Archives Canada Co-Lab Update for May
The Archival Records of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation inscribed in the UNESCO Memory of the World International Register
Welcoming collaboration in the digital universe: how can information professionals unite their efforts to open up culture data?
Canadian Centre for Architecture – A Matter of terms: reflections on the value of interpretation in combination with the technical practice of cataloguing
Newfoundlad & Labrador now has its very own queer history archive
Le Parti québécois veut accéder aux archives sur le camp du Non
Le fonds la Presse à BAnQ : un chantier de plusieurs années
BAnQ – L’histoire des Patriotes racontée par la presse écrite
BAnQ – Une famille de Montréal-Sud
University of British Columbia Digitizers’ Blog – House Styles
Toronto Metropolitan University Archives & Special Collections – Grant Collingwood Fonds
University of Waterloo Special Collections and Archives – Passing of Michael Fritsch and Eric McCormack
Les archives des Augustines du Canada inscrites au Registre international de la Mémoire du monde de l’UNESCO
Whistler Museum and Archives Society – Creating Whistler’s Parks: Rainbow Park, appropriate to expropriate
Local Painting to Get New Home at Museum & Archives of Vernon (British Columbia)
Galt Museum and Archives (Alberta) – A Hairdresser’s Account
Trent Valley Archives (Ontario) celebrates local authors
Centre d’archives régional des Îles-de-la-Madeleine – Le fonds Jean Boulva en vedette… le long travail d’avant diffusion
Centre d’archives régionales du Séminaire de Nicolet – Joseph-Arthur Lemay : un nicolétain pionnier de la bande dessinée au Québec
Royal Canadian Mounted Police use forensic genealogy to connect human remains to Alberta woman
A long-forgotten manuscript comes out of hibernation
Afrique / Africa
Heritage for Peace – Sudan Heritage Protection Initiative
Sénégal: Vers l’harmonisation des procédures d’archivage des actes d’état civil dans la région de Diourbel
Amériques / Americas
United States National Archives Awards $6.5 Million in Grants for Historical Records Projects
NARA – Digitizing Records: Getting Started
NARA – Digitizing Records: Documentation
NARA – Dong Kingman: Watercolor Master
NARA – Where to Lay an American Hero? The Burial Controversy of John Rice (Ho-Chunk)
NARA – Onoda of the Jungle
What’s new online at the Library of Congress: May 2023
Library of Congress – A Civil War Story: Rebecca Pomroy, Lincoln’s Nurse
Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum Launches New Virtual Exhibition
FBI Releases Files Showing Ever-Present Threats Against Queen Elizabeth II
Bill passes to create video archive of Nebraska legislative activity
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts wants protection from Disfarmer discovery
A Gift from the People: the Libraries and Archives of the University of Wisconsin
Old Dominion University – Generative Archive Restoration
Boeing’s New Home for Historical Archives
A Hospital Visit Reveals Medieval Secrets Hidden in Books
In pictures: Sofia Coppola opens up her personal archive
Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
State Library and Tasmanian Archives (Australia) – Manufacturing Reform: Female Convicts and Straw Bonnets
Records on two Korean civil revolutions added to UNESCO register
Korean truth commission will not investigate wartime civilian massacre in Hà My
Thought experiment in the National Library of Thailand
Can a truth and reconciliation commission help solve race debates in Fiji?
India – Back to the roots: Non-profit strives to educate Malayalis about their culture, history
Gandhari Buddhist Manuscripts from First BC to Third AD handed over to Pakistan
Europe / Europa
Finland – Åland’s first UNESCO honour: Gustaf Erikson’s shipping company archive included in Unesco’s Memory of the World register
National Library of Finland – The new website of the Jean Sibelius Works project
A Literary Collection in Hungary
Romania’s oldest manuscript included in UNESCO heritage list
Rare Nazi documents exhibited in Poland archive
Czech Republic – Dvořák archive and Moll Map Collection added to UNESCO list
Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency Member demands Access to the Archives of the former Yugoslavia
Armenia – UNESCO Includes Gomidas Collection in Memory of the World Register
Armenia – Photographs are the Last Witnesses: Project SAVE Archives
Delving into the Portuguese Inquisition archives
Netherlands – Ancient texts of Leiden University on the World Heritage List
A new study of ancient tablets could reveal more about life in the Roman Army
Switzerland – Heidi archives put on UNESCO Memory of the World Register
Archives de l’État en Belgique – Un fonds exceptionnel au service de la restitution du patrimoine culturel congolais
Belgique – Les Archives générales manquent de bras
Sept nouvelles inscriptions françaises au Registre international du patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO Mémoire du monde
Les registres des noms des personnes en esclavage dans les colonies françaises font désormais partie de la Mémoire du Monde
France – L’UNESCO inscrit la tenture de l’Apocalypse à son registre Mémoire du monde
Un survol de l’archivistique féministe en France
L’intelligence artificielle révolutionne aussi le Moyen Âge
Heritage Malta launches website on historic ship graffiti
http://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/heritage-malta-launches-website-historic-ship-graffiti.1033256
RTÉ Publishes Archive Recordings of Irish Music from the 1930s to the 70s
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland : a treasure trove of history gathered over a century
Treasure Hunting at the UK Parliamentary Archives
UK Parliamentary Archives – 1005 Days Tony Benn’s Political Exile
UK National Archives – Indian indenture: Creative responses to the archives
British Library – Medieval and Renaissance Women: remember their names
British Library – Robert Clive: from Hero to Villain
British Library – The wreck of the Arniston
Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel – Unveiling the Connection: why we Read the Book of Ruth on Shavuot
Palestinian Stories initiative: a digital archive for Palestinian families
International
64 new inscriptions on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register
World Health Organization releases data.who.int
Using Transkribus for OCR with printed books
Identification of PDF preservation risks with VeraPDF and JHOVE
Bringing Together Data Governance & Information Governance
How to preserve your digital memories
Archive Team Races to Save a Billion Imgur Files Before Porn Deletion Apocalypse
A Twitter bug is restoring deleted tweets and retweets including my own