Documentary Heritage News

Exceptionally, the Documentary Heritage News will not be published next week. / Exceptionnellement, les Nouvelles du patrimoine documentaire ne seront pas publiées la semaine prochaine.

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

Setting the Stage for the Future: Speech by the Acting Librarian and Archivist of Canada to the Association des archivistes du Québec at the Congrès 2014

http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?mthd=tp&crtr.page=1&nid=853719&crtr.tp1D=970&_ga=1.40096482.1119503500.1401916128

En français: http://nouvelles.gc.ca/web/article-fr.do?mthd=tp&crtr.page=1&nid=853719&crtr.tp1D=970&_ga=1.174690219.88265336.1398706573

Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada - Annual Report 2013–2014

http://www.oic-ci.gc.ca/eng/rapport-annuel-annual-report_2013-2014.aspx

NARA - Open Government Plan 2014-2016

http://www.archives.gov/open/open-government-plan-3.0.pdf

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian - Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1914

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2014/05/226880.htm

Article - National Library of Wales: Digital Collections as Research Infrastructure

http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/digital-collections-research-infrastructure

De la communauté / From the community

Society of American Archivists - Code of Conduct (Draft for Comments)

http://www2.archivists.org/news/2014/call-for-member-comment-on-draft-saa-code-of-conduct

Article - Professional Decline and Resistance: the Case of Library and Archives Canada

http://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/radicalteacher/article/view/105

Publications

American Archivist, vol. 77, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2014)

http://archivists.metapress.com/content/m47414114623/

Practical Technology for Archives, no. 2 (June 2014)

http://practicaltechnologyforarchives.org/

Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, vol. 26, no. 4 (2014)

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wacq20/26/2

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 65, no. 6 (June 2014)

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.2014.65.issue-6/issuetoc

Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 40, no. 5 (June/July 2014)

http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Jun-14/Bulletin_JunJul14_Final.pdf

School of Library and Information Science (San Jose State University) Student Research Journal, vol. 4, no. 1 (2014)

http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/slissrj/vol4/iss1/

Book - Collecting, Curating, and Researching Writers’ Libraries: a Handbook

http://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442234970

Book - Written here, Published there: how Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain

http://www.ceupress.com/books/html/Written%20Here%20Published%20There.htm

Book - Preserving Complex Digital Objects

http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=9580

Book - Copyright for Academic Librarians and Professionals

http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=10893

Book - The Russian Army in the First World War: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Russian-Army-in-the-First-World-War/p/6093

Book - Fundamentals and Evolution of MPEG-2 Systems: Paving the MPEG Road

http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470974338.html

Book - Digital Access and E-Government: Perspectives from Developing and Emerging Countries

http://www.igi-global.com/book/digital-access-government/95210

Book - Managing Active Business Records

http://www.arma.org/go/prod/A4913

Livre - CD-R et DVD-R sont-ils des supports pérennes d’archivage ?

http://www.inatheque.fr/publications-evenements/publications-2014/cd-r-et-dvd-r-sont-ils-des-supports-p-rennes-d-archivage-.html

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Copyright in the 21st Century: Understanding Domestic and International Trends

June 21, 2014, Vancouver

http://continuinged.slais.ubc.ca/copyright-in-the-21st-century/

Première assemblée générale de l’association francophone des humanités numériques

8 juillet 2014, Lausanne

http://www.martingrandjean.ch/premiere-assemblee-generale-de-lassociation-francophone-des-humanites-numeriques/

International Conference on Cultural Heritage

November 3-8, 2014, Lemessos (Cyprus)

http://www.culturalheritage2014.eu/index.php/call-for-participation/

Webinar - UK National Archives: Cloud Storage and Digital Preservation (Recordings Available)

May 13, 2014

http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/webinar-cloud-storage-digital-preservation/

Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage (Presentations Available)

May 19-20, 2014, Madrid

1st session: http://www.digitisation.eu/blog/datech-1st-session-document-analysis-ocr/

2nd session: http://www.digitisation.eu/blog/datech-2nd-session-linguistic-processing-encoding/

3rd session: http://www.digitisation.eu/blog/datech-3rd-session-postcorrection/

4th session: http://www.digitisation.eu/blog/datech-4th-session-best-practices-experiences/

5th session: http://www.digitisation.eu/blog/datech-5th-session-enrichment/

Sur le web / On the web

Harvards Above: the History of World War Two RAF Fleet Air Arm Training in Kingston & Gananoque, Ontario

http://www.harvardsabove.ca/

DMPTool (Data Management Plans Tool) version 2

http://blog.dmptool.org/2014/05/29/new-dmptool-released-today/

Slidecast - Records Management for Archivists: Embracing the Dark Side

http://fr.slideshare.net/amossar/records-management-for-archivists-embracing-the-dark-side

The Archival Platform Registry (of South African Archival and Memory Institutions and Organisations)

http://www.archivalplatform.org/news/entry/archival_platform_registry_of_archival_and_memory_institutions_and_organisa/

DigArch: a News Aggregator for Digital Archivists

http://www.digarch.t15.org/

Librarians and Archivists with Palestine - New Website and Solidarity Network

http://librarianswithpalestine.org/publications/press-release-june-2014/

Video Interviews - Experts Discuss Digital Preservation

http://www.infodocket.com/2014/06/04/video-interviews-experts-discuss-digital-preservation-at-digitisation-days-2014/

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Ottawa still improperly collecting info on people requesting access-to-information

http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/ottawa-still-improperly-collecting-info-on-people-requesting-access-to-information-1.1846859

Library and Archives Canada releases an updated version of the Immigrants from China database

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/2014/immigrants-china-database.aspx

Library and Archives Canada Acquires Emily Carr's Journal of Queen Victoria's Funeral

http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1949839

Information and Privacy Commissioners for Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia - Letter regarding Bill C-13, the Cyberbullying and Lawful Access Bill

http://www.oipc.ab.ca/Content_Files/Files/News/Letter_to_Committee_C_13_June_2014.pdf

Information and Privacy Commissioner to investigate Alberta government's Freedom of Information requests after allegations of interference

http://www.edmontonsun.com/2014/05/30/information-and-privacy-commissioner-to-investigate-alberta-governments-freedom-of-information-requests-after-allegations-of-interference

Community Pop Up Museum showcases memorabilia of Torontonians

http://www.thestar.com/life/travel/2014/06/02/community_pop_up_museum_showcases_memorabilia_of_torontonians.html

Queen’s University launches digitzed records of more than 1,000 Kingston-area families

http://genealogyalacarte.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/queens-university-launches-digitzed-records-of-more-than-1000-kingston-area-families/

North Vancouver Museum and Archives sure of its 'Pipe' dream

http://www.nsnews.com/news/north-vancouver-museum-and-archives-sure-of-its-pipe-dream-1.1097030

Stuart Thomson climbed into a biplane to take Vancouver’s first aerial photographs in 1919

http://www.vancouversun.com/life/THIS+WEEK+HISTORY+1919/9892431/story.html

Glooscap Heritage Centre and Mi’kmaw Museum (Nova Scotia) collecting memories for digital archive project

http://www.trurodaily.com/News/Local/2014-06-02/article-3747353/Heritage-centre-collecting-memories-for-digital-archive-project/1

Centre du patrimoine de Saint-Boniface - Projets d'été 2014

http://shsb.mb.ca/Carnet/Projets-ete_2014

Anola (Manitoba) - Municipal record keeper and grave finder honoured

http://www.manitobacooperator.ca/2014/05/29/municipal-record-keeper-and-grave-finder-honoured/

Cornwall (Ont.) - Genealogy group to occupy part of basement at library

http://www.cornwallseawaynews.com/News/2014-06-02/article-3747260/Genealogy-group-to-occupy-part-of-basement-at-library/1

North Perth (Ont.) Wants Alternative Archive Access

http://blackburnnews.com/midwestern-ontario/midwestern-ontario-news/2014/06/04/north-perth-wants-alternative-archive-access/

Une année faste pour la Société d’histoire d’Amos

http://blogues.banq.qc.ca/instantanes/2014/06/05/une-annee-faste-pour-la-societe-dhistoire-damos/

Drummondville - Des boîtes d'archives locales et sur mesure

http://www.journalexpress.ca/Actualites/2014-06-01/article-3742539/Des-boites-darchives-locales-et-sur-mesure/1

La MRC de Charlevoix-Est poursuit ses démarches pour les archives de la Société Historique de Charlevoix

http://cihofm.com/nouvelles/La-MRC-poursuit-ses-demarches-pour-les-archives-de-la-SHC-2014-05-29-09-35

Afrique / Africa

Certaines archives sur l’histoire du Burundi volatilisées

http://www.iwacu-burundi.org/certaines-archives-sur-lhistoire-du-burundi-volatilisees/

Triompher de l’oubli, la dernière guerre des tirailleurs sénégalais

http://www.rfi.fr/tirailleurs/20140602-premiere-guerre-mondiale-tirailleurs-senegalais-archives-histoire-afrique/

Le projet « Capital numérique » veut ressusciter et commercialiser les archives audiovisuelles africaines

http://www.gfm.sn/le-projet-capital-numerique-veut-ressusciter-et-commercialiser-les-archives-audiovisuelles-africaines/

Declassified U.N. Cables Reveal Turning Point in Rwanda Crisis of 1994

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/world/africa/un-cables-reveal-a-turning-point-in-rwanda-crisis.html

Amériques / Americas

Bahamas - Groups to unite for Freedom of Information rally

http://ow.ly/xtqMn

NSA Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/us/nsa-collecting-millions-of-faces-from-web-images.html

US Secret Service seeks Twitter sarcasm detector

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27711109

U.S. Federal Records Managers Caught in Squeeze

http://www.informationweek.com/government/open-government/federal-records-managers-caught-in-squeeze/d/d-id/1269215

Thousands of secret investigation files on folk protest singer Peter Seeger will be published on National Archives website

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/27/seeger-files-releasedonline.html

NASA Ames Wrangles Data with Active Archive

http://insidehpc.com/2014/06/02/nasa-ames-wrangles-data-active-archive/

Feds push for removal of Spearfish’s D.C. Booth National Historic Fish Hatchery and Archives

http://www.bhpioneer.com/local_news/article_3d9fdb82-ec02-11e3-af21-0019bb2963f4.html

Collective Forgetting: Inside the Smithsonian’s Curatorial Crisis

http://thinkwritepublish.org/the-narratives/collective-forgetting

Most Territorial Court Records Will Stay in Alaska

http://www.alaskapublic.org/2014/06/02/most-territorial-court-records-will-stay-in-alaska/

Idaho State Archives digitizing historical newspapers

http://www.idahopress.com/news/local/idaho-state-archives-digitizing-historical-newspapers/article_f9275bca-e7be-11e3-a3df-001a4bcf887a.html

South Carolina State Library - New Digitization Program for Libraries Announced

http://www.statelibrary.sc.gov/new-digitization-program-for-libraries-announced

Delaware Public Archives adds World War II material to its collection

http://www.wdde.org/62872-delaware-public-archives-adds-world-war-ii-material-collection

University of Buffalo launches online LGBT archive

http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/campus/campus-host-page.host.html/content/shared/university/news/ub-reporter-articles/stories/2014/May/lgbt_archive.detail.html

University of Georgia Extension, Digital Library of Georgia release first series of historic farm photos

http://onlineathens.com/uga/2014-05-30/uga-extension-digital-library-georgia-release-first-series-historic-farm-photos

Harry Ransom Center (University of Texas at Austin) - Meet the Staff: Archivist Amy Armstrong

http://blogs.utexas.edu/culturalcompass/2014/06/02/meet-the-staff-aarmstrong/

Yale Film Study Center Joins International Federation of Film Archives

http://its.yale.edu/news/film-study-center-joins-international-federation-film-archives

Detroit - Saving our past, one architectural record at a time

http://www.freep.com/article/20140601/BUSINESS06/306010068/architecture-archives-kessler-yamasaki-kahn

Myrtle Beach library unveils air force base archives

http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/25635282/myrtle-beach-library-unveils-air-force-base

Cherokee Nation helps translate Cherokee archives at Gilcrease Museum (Oklahoma)

http://www.cherokeephoenix.org/Article/Index/8246

Exhibiting .gifs: an Interview with curator Jason Eppink

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2014/06/exhibiting-gifs-an-interview-with-curator-jason-eppink/

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific

Australia - Budget 2014: axe to fall on government agencies in search for savings (back-office functions of the National Archives and other cultural institutions will be merged)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-12/dozens-of-agencies-to-fall-under-federal-budget-axe/5445354

Australia's human rights dialogue with China failed, National Archives reveal

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australias-human-rights-dialogue-with-china-failed-national-archives-reveal-20140604-39iz1.html

Australia - Archive Plan Raises Doubts about Future Sydney LGBTI Museum

http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/local-news/new-south-wales-news/archive-plan-raises-doubts-about-future-sydney-lgbti-museum/123627

The fascinating photos that reveal lives of the thousands of people who moved to Australia after WWII

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2646049/Photos-insight-life-Australias-migrant-hostels-WWII.html

New Zealand govt proposes mandatory data breach reporting

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/386862,nz-govt-proposes-mandatory-data-breach-reporting.aspx

30 000 free, downloadable images from the Museum of New Zealand’s collections

http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2014/06/03/free-downloadable-images-from-te-papas-collections

Malaysia - Mobile archive units to visit schools

http://www.nst.com.my/streets/johor/mobile-archive-units-to-visit-schools-1.607781

Vietnam - Imperial Archives of the Nguyen dynasty: a panorama of a regime

http://vovworld.vn/en-us/Culture/Imperial-Archives-of-the-Nguyen-dynasty-a-panorama-of-a-regime/242694.vov

Thai Film Archive uploads old films on YouTube

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Thai-Film-Archieve-uploads-old-films-on-YouTube-30235257.html

La Chine va aider l'île Maurice à numériser ses archives

http://french.cri.cn/621/2014/05/30/482s385878.htm

China - Historical Archives of Macau to host exhibition on typhoons

http://www.macaudailytimes.com.mo/macau/53293-historical-archives-to-host-exhibition-on-typhoons.html

Korea - National archives unveils list of Koreans killed after 1923 quake in Japan

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140602000789

India - Outsiders Can't Handle Important Govt Records

http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil_nadu/Outsiders-Cant-Handle-Important-Govt-Records/2014/06/01/article2256866.ece

Europe / Europa

Google taking requests for ‘right to be forgotten’ online in Europe

http://www.thestar.com/business/tech_news/2014/05/30/google_taking_requests_for_right_to_be_forgotten_online_in_europe.html

European Union commissioner: right to be forgotten is no harder to enforce than copyright

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/04/eu-commissioner-right-to-be-forgotten-enforce-copyright-google

European Union - Meeting of Directors of the Historical Archives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs

http://www.gr2014.eu/events/expert-meetings/meeting-directors-historical-archives-ministries-foreign-affairs-eudia

Netherlands - Scientists Report Finding Reliable Way to Teleport Data

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/science/scientists-report-finding-reliable-way-to-teleport-data.html

Italian exhibit commemorates World War I with previously unpublished documents

http://www.timescolonist.com/life/italian-exhibit-commemorates-world-war-i-with-previously-unpublished-documents-1.1097920

Romania - Open Data Coalition launched

http://www.epsiplatform.eu/content/romania-open-data-coalition-launched

The first phase of Europeana 1989 in Hungary is over

http://www.osaarchivum.org/press-room/announcements/first-phase-Europeana-1989-project-Hungary-over

German spies will systematically monitor Facebook and Twitter accounts as part of its metadata collection project

http://groundreport.com/german-spies-will-systematically-monitor-facebook-and-twitter-accounts-as-part-of-its-metadata-collection-project/

German art firm reveals its Nazi-era records

http://ow.ly/xuVoO

Slovenia - Authors and Opponents of New Archive Rules Stay on Opposite Banks

http://www.sta.si/en/vest.php?s=a&id=2016671

Les Archives de la diplomatie albanaise rejoignent le Conseil international des Archives

http://french.cri.cn/621/2014/06/01/501s386140.htm

Belgium - Unesco adds University of Leuven archives to Memory register

http://www.flanderstoday.eu/education/unesco-adds-ku-leuven-archives-memory-register

Suisse - Anciens manuscrits jurassiens numérisés et accessibles en ligne

http://www.arcinfo.ch/fr/regions/jura/anciens-manuscrits-jurassiens-numerises-et-accessibles-en-ligne-561-1303274

France - Agnès Magnien quitte la direction des Archives nationales pour l'Institut National de l'Audiovisuel

http://ow.ly/xxRKA

France - Loi Patrimoines : Hervé Lemoine réagit à la pétition de la Fédération française de généalogie

http://www.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/actus/projet-loi-archives#loi-patrimoines

France - La vie des services d’archives pendant l’Occupation: le cas du service d’archives municipales de Lorient

http://alma.hypotheses.org/1016

France - Comment devenir archiviste

http://infos.emploipublic.fr/a-la-une/comment-devenir-archiviste/

Ireland - Cork: Treasure trove goes online in archives move

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/treasure-trove-goes-online-in-archives-move-270762.html

UK Copyright changes in force

http://www.business-cloud.com/articles/news/uk-copyright-changes-force

UK National Archives - Talking Archiving the Arts

http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/talking-archiving-arts/

British Library releases over 200 Japanese and Chinese prints into Public Domain

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/asian-and-african/2014/05/british-library-releases-over-200-japanese-and-chinese-prints-into-public-domain.html

Archiving BBC Online

http://www.bbc.co.uk/informationandarchives/archivenews/2014/archiving_bbc_online.html

This Yeast Archive is Trying to Save Endangered Beer

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/theres-a-safety-deposit-box-for-the-yeast-that-makes-your-beer/371876/

New film features rare footage showing how the North West faced the Great War

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/world-war-one-new-film-7194243

These Beautiful then & now Photos of Liverpool will Delight the History Nerd in You

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/31/liverpool-then-and-now-photos_n_5397669.html

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

The Future of the Babylonian Jewish Archives: Interview with Dr. Harold Rhode

http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/162125/sec_id/162125

Qatar's International Media Museum: plans scrapped

http://britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blogs/qatar-s-international-media-museum-plans-scrapped

International Archives Day at the Modern Heritage Observatory in Lebanon

http://www.ica.org/15853/international-archives-day/international-archives-day-at-the-modern-heritage-observatory-in-lebanon.html

International

Future tape archaeology: speculations on the emulation of analogue environments

http://www.thegreatbear.net/audio-transfer/future-tape-archaeology-speculations-emulation-analogue-environments/

An Analysis Engine for the DROID CSV Export

http://www.openplanetsfoundation.org/blogs/2014-06-03-analysis-engine-droid-csv-export

Vanishing da Vinci: new nondestructive way to gauge degradation of ancient paper art and docs

http://phys.org/news/2014-06-da-vinci-nondestructive-gauge-degradation.html

Microsoft’s “3-D Audio” Gives Virtual Objects a Voice

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/527826/microsofts-3-d-audio-gives-virtual-objects-a-voice/