Vol. 4, no. 32

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

Federal Court decision - Bronskill v. Minister of Canadian Heritage (access to Tommy Douglas files held at LAC)

http://cas-ncr-nter03.cas-satj.gc.ca/rss/T-1680-09%2008-2011%20Decision%20ENG.pdf

 

Conference of Directors of National Libraries - Reports from national libraries around the world

http://cdnl.info/2011/cdnl2011.html

 

UK Local Government Group - Future libraries: change, options and how to get there

http://www.local.gov.uk/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=c6349d6d-7b26-49e4-aee5-b476de21ecbb&groupId=10161

 

UK Cabinet Office - Making Open Data Real: A Public Consultation

http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/making-open-data-real-public-consultation

 

De la communauté / From the community 

Digital preservation practices and the Rhizome ArtBase

http://media.rhizome.org/blog/8332/rhizome-digital-preservation-practices.pdf

 

From Paper to Persona: Managing Privacy and Information Overload; Sustaining Journalism in the Attention Age

http://rjionline.org/sites/default/files/from_paper_to_persona_-_whitepaper.pdf

 

Publications

Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol. 37, no. 6 (August/September 2011)

http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Aug-11/Bulletin_AugSep11_Final.pdf

 

Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (August 2011)

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201108.pdf

 

IFLA - International Preservation News, no. 54 (August 2011)

http://www.ifla.org/files/pac/ipn/IPN%2054def.pdf

 

Book - I, Digital: Personal Collections in the Digital Era

Table of contents: http://saa.archivists.org/Scripts/4Disapi.dll/4DCGI/store/PDFs/TOCs/BOOKSAA-0578.pdf

Available through the SAA bookstore: http://saa.archivists.org/Scripts/4Disapi.dll/4DCGI/store/storeFront.html?Action=Store

 

Book - A Different Kind of Web: New Connections Between Archives and Our Users

Table of contents: http://saa.archivists.org/Scripts/4Disapi.dll/4DCGI/store/PDFs/TOCs/BOOKSAA-0576.pdf

Available through the SAA bookstore: http://saa.archivists.org/Scripts/4Disapi.dll/4DCGI/store/storeFront.html?Action=Store

 

Book - OECD Guide to Measuring the Information Society 2011

http://www.oecd.org/document/22/0,3746,en_2649_34449_34508886_1_1_1_1,00.html

 

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Digital Preservation Training Programme

November 14-16, 2011, University of London

https://store.london.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?modid=5&prodid=1&deptid=156

 

DLM Forum Triennal Conference

12-14 December 2011, Brussels

http://www.dlmconference.com/

 

Pérenniser les archives numériques, patrimoine de demain : le projet européen KEEP

22-23 Septembre 2011, Paris

http://www.bnf.fr/fr/professionnels/autres_journees_professionnelles/a.ateliers_keep_20110922.html

 

Sur le web / On the web

Hiroshima Archive

http://mapping.jp/hiroshima/

See also: http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110804p2a00m0na015000c.html

 

American Archivist Reviews (a new feature for materials that will not be seen in The American Archivist)

http://www2.archivists.org/the-american-archivist-reviews-launches

 

Information Literacy Package

http://rsc-south-west.ac.uk/resources/files/Infolit/Information%20Literacy%20Package%20main2.swf

 

Outils/ Tools

Keeping Research Data Safe Digital Preservation Benefit Analysis Tools version 2

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/news/get/2011/08/09/krds-digital-preservation-benefits-analysis-toolkit-version-2/

 

Ushahidi v2.1 (free and open source platform for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping)

http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2011/08/09/announcing-ushahidi-v2-1-tunis/

 

Semantic Publishing and Referencing Ontologies

http://sempublishing.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sempublishing/SPAR/index.html

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Canada’s world share of science and social-science papers, 2006-2010

http://sciencewatch.com/dr/sci/11/aug7-11_1/

 

How Twitter And Facebook Helped Bing Thom Design A Surrey (B.C.) Public Library

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1664711/how-twitter-and-facebook-helped-bing-thom-design-a-public-library

 

Book researchers run into red tape: Pointe Claire (Quebec) closes city archives

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/todays-paper/Book+researchers+into+tape/5202848/story.html

 

Lethbridge (Alberta) - Galt photo archive doubles with A.E. Cross donation

http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/local-news/galt-photo-archive-doubles-with-ae-cross-donation-8611.html

 

Afrique

Tunisie: le jour où les archives de l’Agence tunisienne de communication extérieure révéleront leurs secrets...

http://blogs.mediapart.fr/blog/mathieu-magnaudeix/040811/tunisie-le-jour-ou-les-archives-de-l-atce-reveleront-leurs-secre

 

South Africa - New asset database to make politicians more 'accountable'

http://www.timeslive.co.za/politics/2011/08/05/new-asset-database-to-make-politicians-more-accountable

 

Swaziland - Impossible for Children to Access Public Information

http://www.ips.org/africa/2011/08/swaziland-impossible-for-children-to-access-public-information/

 

Zimbabwe: Launching E-Government

http://allafrica.com/stories/201108081585.html

 

Amériques/Americas

Library of Congress Puts Twitter Front and Center

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/library_of_congress_puts_twitter_front_and_center.php

 

The National Book Awards Accepts iPad App Submission

http://www.mediabistro.com/ebooknewser/the-national-book-awards-accepts-ipad-app-submission_b14319?clickid=0004aa13e8bbcf1c0ae01f91dc642055

 

New US Lawsuit Accuses Apple of E-Book Price Fixing

http://publishingperspectives.com/2011/08/lawsuit-accuses-apple-of-price-fixing-attacks-agency-model/

 

Vermont publishes public-records law history

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20110804/NEWS02/108040308/Vermont-publishes-public-records-law-history?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s

 

Saving Scrapbooks From the Scrapheap

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/arts/design/preserving-the-scrapbooks-of-history.html?_r=2

 

Civil rights era preserved through film archive at Washington University

http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/22561.aspxk

 

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

National Archives of Fiji Digitizing Film, Video and Images

http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=176887

 

Thailand - National Archives to recount royal cremation

http://thaifinancialpost.com/2011/08/04/national-archives-to-recount-royal-cremation/

 

Taiwan - National Palace Museum displays Republic of China diplomatic archives

http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=173831&CtNode=414

 

Europe

People’s memories of Norway victims go to National Archive

http://www.euronews.net/2011/08/03/people-s-memories-of-norway-victims-go-to-national-archive/

 

Berlin exhibit uncovers once classified Stasi photos

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/09/us-germany-art-stasi-idUSTRE7784H720110809

 

Ireland - Confidentiality queried in Supreme Court

http://www.imt.ie/opinion/2011/08/confidentiality-queried-in-supreme-court.html

 

UK - Hundreds of historic papers lost from National Archives

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8688070/Hundreds-of-historic-papers-lost-from-National-Archives.html

 

Out of Museum of London's Archives and Into the Light, Charles Dickens Revealed

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49685

 

International

The world's first waterproof paperback will hit the shelves next summer, publishers said

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/8679081/Waterproof-book-makes-reading-in-the-pool-easy.html

 

When Data Disappears

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/opinion/sunday/when-data-disappears.html?_r=2

 

Start-up to release 'stone-like' optical disc that lasts forever

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9218881/Start_up_to_release_stone_like_optical_disc_that_lasts_forever

 

The death of Web 2.0 is nigh…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/07/web-2-platform-end-naughton

 

The inevitable BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) revolution

http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/the-inevitable-byod-revolution/143714

Vol. 4, no. 31

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

New Zealand - The Chief Archivist's Annual Report on the State of Government Recordkeeping 2010

http://archives.govt.nz/chief-archivists-annual-report-state-government-recordkeeping-2010

 

English Translation of the Mexico's Draft Privacy Regulations

http://www.huntonprivacyblog.com/uploads/file/Mexico_Data_Protection_Law_Draft_Regulations_USG_Translation.pdf

 

Archives de France - Guide méthodologique pour le choix de formats numériques pérennes dans un contexte de données orales et visuelles (version 0.5)

http://www.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/static/4923

 

De la communauté / From the community

International Council on Archives - Shape your own archivist: developing a competency model

http://www.ica.org/?lid=9171

 

Survey of Digitized Rare Catholica in the U.S. and Canada

http://www.shu.edu/news/article/355554

 

The connected continent: how the internet is transforming the Australian economy

http://www.tecc.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/940313-aus-news-file-connected-continent-report-110803.pdf

 

Publications

First Monday, vol. 16, no. 8 (August 2011)

http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/346

 

Journal of Information Architecture, vol. 3, no. 1 (2011)

http://journalofia.org/issue/

 

UK National Archives’ Research Newsletter (summer 2011)

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/July-2011-research-enews.pdf

 

Book - Information Consulting: Guide to Good Practice

http://www.woodheadpublishing.com/en/book.aspx?bookID=2510&ChandosTitle=1

 

Book - Records Management and Knowledge Mobilisation: A Handbook for Regulation, Innovation and Transformation

http://www.woodheadpublishing.com/en/book.aspx?bookID=2449&ChandosTitle=1

 

Book - Privacy in America: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

http://www.scarecrowpress.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0810881101

 

Book - Records and Information Management: Fundamentals of Professional Practice (2nd Ed.)

http://bit.ly/piN9Fh

 

Book - Cost Analysis Concepts and Methods for Records Management Projects (2nd Ed.)

http://bit.ly/qBtdcB

 

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

2011 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science

November 19-21, 2011, Chicago

http://chicagocolloquium.org/call-for-papers-2011/

 

Practical Tools for Digital Preservation: A Hack-a-thon

27th-29th September 2011, York

http://www.dpconline.org/events/details/34-hackathon?xref=33

 

Best practices exchange 2011: distilling digital collections

October 20-22 2011, Kentucky

http://www.bpexchange.org/2011/

 

Free Webinar - The Semantic Web: Web 3.0 and Information Management

Aug. 29, 2011 - Sept. 13, 2011

https://www.arma.org/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?webcode=EduRedirect&evt_key=489A9D34-3064-4465-B162-5BF3D6817852&etp_key=0317B1CB-A206-4015-B717-7F87157820E5

 

Sur le web / On the web

45,000 Books to Browse: BiblioLabs and the British Library Launch 19th Century Historical Collection App for iPad

http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/Press-Releases/45-000-Books-to-Browse-at-Your-Leisure-BiblioLabs-and-the-British-Library-Launch-19th-Century-Historical-Collection-App-for-iPad-50a.aspx

 

Gouvernement du Québec - Consultation publique sur le Web 2.0

http://www.consultationgautrinweb2.gouv.qc.ca/

 

Rue des libraires (futur site transactionnel des librairies indépendantes du Québec et du Canada francophone)

http://ruedeslibraires.com/

Voir aussi: http://www.actualitte.com/actualite/27377-rue-independantes-librairies-quebec-internet.htm

 

Podcast: The social life of data

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2011/08/podcast122davidderoure.aspx

 

Outils / Tools

First RDA (Resource Description and Access) Vocabularies published

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lld/2011Aug/0000.html

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Here comes everybody’: What does information ubiquity mean for the archives? (State Records Authority of New South Wales comments on the Richard Brown and Daniel Caron Archivaria's article)

http://futureproof.records.nsw.gov.au/%E2%80%98here-comes-everybody%E2%80%99-what-does-information-ubiquity-mean-for-the-archives/

 

Montreal's Jewish Public Library turns a page

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Jewish+Public+Library+turns+page/5182885/story.html

 

Canadian indicted for stealing presidential artifacts worth millions

http://www.montrealgazette.com/travel/Canadian+indicted+stealing+presidential+artifacts/5194833/story.html

 

Afrique

Tunisie - Les archives de la police politique : un défi pour la transition démocratique

http://nawaat.org/portail/2011/07/28/tunisie-les-archives-de-la-police-politique-un-defi-pour-la-transition-democratique/

 

Egypt - Former minister denies prior knowledge of destruction of State Security archive

http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/482259

 

South Africa - MPs consider info bill concessions

http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2011/07/29/mps-consider-info-bill-concessions

 

Archives du Maroc, la mémoire à venir

http://www.lesoir-echos.com/2011/07/31/archives-du-maroc-la-memoire-a-venir/

 

Amériques / Americas

Trinidad and Tobago - Letters of Margaret Mann now available for research

http://www.newsday.co.tt/features/0,144757.html

 

Privacy law in Bermuda

http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20110801/COMMENT05/708019956/-1

 

La Bibliothèque numérique de l'Université d'Haïti ouvre en septembre

http://www.livreshebdo.fr/actualites/DetailsActuRub.aspx?id=7077#7077

 

CIA forced to release long-secret official history of Bay of Pigs

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB353/index.htm

 

Federal judge: CIA not in contempt for destroying interrogation tapes

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/08/01/cia.aclu.ruling/

 

Complaint Seeks Punishment for Classification of Documents

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/us/02secret.html?_r=1

 

Millions of federal court records are being destroyed to save money

http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/08/02/5456/millions-federal-court-records-are-being-destroyed-save-money

 

University of Kansas establishes first coalition of institutions practicing open access

http://www.news.ku.edu/2011/august/3/openaccess.shtml

 

Mystery of the art and records that vanished in 9/11 attacks

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2020808/Mystery-lost-art-records-vanished-9-11-attacks.html

 

The Buzz: Sirhan Sirhan file now available at California State Archives

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/08/03/3804973/the-buzz-veterans-of-californias.html

 

Virginia’s Rare Book School attracts the world’s bibliophiles

http://www.therecord.com/opinion/columns/article/571053--virginia-s-rare-book-school-attracts-the-world-s-bibliophiles

 

Smithsonian - Digitization Project Brings Ancient Inscriptions Into 21st Century

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/07/digitization-project-brings-ancient-inscriptions-into-21st-century/242420/

 

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

China to digitize folk literature

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90882/7457132.html

 

Hong Kong - Archivists ask for action, now

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/hkedition/2011-08/04/content_13045617.htm

 

World’s largest floating library arrives in India

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_worlds-largest-floating-library-arrives-in-india_1571371

 

Oral history of Vietnam's refugees find a home

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/says-310413-stories-vietnamese.html

 

L'amertume des Coréens face au trésor pillé « prêté » par la France

http://www.rue89.com/2011/08/03/lamertume-des-coreens-face-au-tresor-pille-prete-par-la-france-216473

 

Australia Holds Community Cabinet Meeting via Twitter

http://www.futuregov.asia/articles/2011/jul/29/australia-holds-community-cabinet-meeting-twitter/

 

Australian National Library to Refresh IT Infrastructure

http://www.futuregov.asia/articles/2011/jul/31/national-library-australia-refresh-it-infrastructu/

 

Europe

France - Le Sénat joue la transparence

http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/indiscrets/le-senat-joue-la-transparence_1017408.html

 

À la croisée des Archives nationales et de la Maison de l’histoire de France

http://www.humanite.fr/27_07_2011-%C3%A0-la-crois%C3%A9e-des-archives-nationales-et-de-la-maison-de-l%E2%80%99histoire-de-france-477072

 

UK government licensing policy extended to make more public sector information available

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/604.htm

 

UK - Freedom of information: Minister aims to ease rules on access to data

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/aug/04/freedom-information-rules-access-data

 

UK rail workers archive launched online

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/605.htm

 

History in the speaking (oral archive at the British Library)

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/da627ff6-b6a9-11e0-ae1f-00144feabdc0.html

 

Alfred Hitchcock's Earliest Surviving Film Found

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/alfred-hitchcocks-earliest-surviving-film-218278

 

Earliest medieval map of Britain put online

http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/02/earliest-medieval-map-of-britain-put-online/

 

Crime’s digital past: computer science makes history in a Victorian-era courthouse

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/332393/description/Crime%E2%80%99s_digital_past

 

Moyen-Orient/Middle East

'The war will never end': Saddam's regime in Hoover Institution archives

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/august/iraq-hoover-archives-080111.html