Documentary Heritage News

Germany - Wagners at war: Opera family in feud over composer's Nazi past as they're asked to carry out 'moral house cleaning' and publish Hitler letters

http://ow.ly/cC2Dq

Sweden - First of 56 Books Stolen by Thief Who Killed Himself in 2004 Finally Located

http://www.americanaexchange.com/AE/AEMonthly/AEMonthlySingleArticle.aspx?ArticleID=1324&Month=8&Year=2012&Page=1

Suisse - Le Comité International Olympique ouvre ses archives des Jeux Olympiques

http://videos.tf1.fr/jt-13h/le-cio-ouvre-ses-archives-des-j-o-7422383.html

Guyane française - Il conservait les archives chez lui

http://www.franceguyane.fr//regions/guyane/il-conservait-les-archives-chez-lui-133960.php

France - Des archives photographiques du Herald Tribune sous le marteau en novembre

http://www.challenges.fr/media/20120801.AFP4579/des-archives-photographiques-du-herald-tribune-sous-le-marteau-en-novembre.html

ICA celebrates the 2012 London Olympic Games with the London Metropolitan Archives

http://www.ica.org/13347/strategic-objective-1/ica-celebrates-the-2012-london-olympic-games-with-the-london-metropolitan-archives.html

Files reveal brutal treatment meted out by British forces in 1950s Cyprus

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/27/brutality-british-forces-1950s-cyprus

UK - Cabinet Iraq papers to remain secret

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9443216/Cabinet-Iraq-papers-to-remain-secret.html

UK National Archives - Second tranche of colonial administration records released

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/746.htm

Museum of London Will Use Twitter To Gather Public Experience Of Olympics

http://www.psfk.com/2012/07/twitter-museum-olympics.html

Imperilled archive seeks new fearless champion

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=420747&c=1

Close The 17th-Century Paper Social Network

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/the-17th-century-paper-social-network/260346/

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

Israel - A High Holy Whodunit: The Aleppo Codex Mystery

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/magazine/the-aleppo-codex-mystery.html?_r=1

International

The Participatory Museum

http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/discover/new-perspectives/1402-the-participatory-museum

Big data is our generation’s civil rights issue, and we don’t know it

http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/08/big-data-is-our-generations-civil-rights-issue-and-we-dont-know-it.html

Thursday, 26 July 2012

Vol. 5, no. 47

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

State Records Authority of New South Wales - SharePoint 2010: recordkeeping considerations (exposure draft)

http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/recordkeeping/government-recordkeeping-manual/guidance/guidelines/files/sharepoint-2010-recordkeeping-considerations

De la communauté / From the community

EUscreen - Second Online Access to Audiovisual Heritage Status Report

http://blog.euscreen.eu/?p=3235

Business Archives in Scotland - New case studies

http://businessarchivesscotland.blogspot.ca/2012/07/new-case-studies.html

UK Museum Association - Museums 2020 consultation paper

http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums2020/23072012museums2020-consultation

Council on Library and Information Resources - Core Infrastructure Considerations for Large Digital Libraries

http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub153

Pew Internet Report - The Future of Big Data

http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Future-of-Big-Data.aspx

Article - Digitising and Searching Australasian Colonial Legal History

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2111056

Publications

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol. 63, no. 8 (August 2012)

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.v63.8/issuetoc

The Electronic Library, vol. 30, no. 4 (2012)

http://ow.ly/cwjfb

Book - Electronically Stored Information: The Complete Guide to Management, Understanding, Acquisition, Storage, Search, and Retrieval

http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439877265

Book - Effective Document and Data Management: Unlocking Corporate Content

http://tinyurl.com/7gstvkr

Book - Digital Image Forensics: There is More to a Picture than Meets the Eye

http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/book/978-1-4614-0756-0

Book - Archives, Museums and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World

http://ow.ly/cx49A

Livre - Guide pratique : Opportunités des données publiques

http://www.archimag.com/boutique/guides-pratiques/guide-pratique-opportunit%C3%A9s-des-donn%C3%A9es-publiques

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Cultural heritage on line: Trusted Digital Repositories & Trusted Professionals

10-13 December 2012, Florence (Italia)

http://www.rinascimento-digitale.it/conference2012.phtml

Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism (report available)

19 - 20 June 2012, Brussels

http://www.w3.org/2012/06/pmod/report

Sur le web / On the web

Video - Simon Fraser University Archives

http://www.the-peak.ca/2012/07/sfu-archives/

UK National Archives podcast - Charities and their records for family historians

http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/charities-and-their-records-for-family-historians/

Podcast - England and Scotland at War, 1296-1513: sources at The National Archives

http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/england-and-scotland-at-war-1296-1513-sources-at-the-national-archives/

Slidecast - The Development of Digital Preservation Best Practices in EPrints

http://research.library.mun.ca/494/2/slavko_manojlovich_eprints_or2012_pdfa.pdf

Slidecast - Digital Forensics for Digital Archives

http://www.slideshare.net/anarchivist/ndiipp-digitalforensics2012-july

Outils / Tools

State Library of North Carolina - CINCH (Capture, INgest, and CHecksum)

http://statelibrarync.org/news/2012/07/new-tool-makes-digital-preservation-a-cinch/

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Information watchdog joins fight for disclosure of Tommy Douglas security file

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/information-watchdog--joins-fight-for-disclosure-of-tommy-douglas-security-file-163930216.html

Prominent family donates to P.E.I. archives

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2012/07/24/pei-macdonald-house-archives-584.html

Conflict and Commemoration at the Ontario Jewish Archives

http://ontariojewisharchives.blogspot.ca/2012/07/conflict-and-commemoration-at-oja.html

B.C. software woes worse than predicted: privacy group

http://www.timescolonist.com/life/software+woes+worse+than+predicted+privacy+group/6969644/story.html

Appel à projets de numérisation - 2012-2014 par le Réseau Québécois de numérisation patrimoniale (RQNP)

http://www.archivistes.qc.ca/Appel-a-projets-de-numerisation,1053

OCLC opens data center in Toronto, Canada

http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201246.htm

Manitoba history through the camera lens

http://www.winklertimes.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3595809

Brock University - Archivist wins award for work on 1812 website

http://www.brocku.ca/brock-news/?p=17565

Library and Archives Canada - New Finding Aids Online: Department of Militia and Defence (RG9) circa 1914–1919

http://thediscoverblog.com/2012/07/26/new-finding-aids-online-department-of-militia-and-defence-rg9-circa-1914-1919/

Afrique / Africa

Ghana - National archives in danger of losing official documents

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=245292

Comores - Archives nationales: sauver la mémoire de l'indifférence

http://ow.ly/cx5OC

German anthropologists present oral history materials to National Archives of Burkina Faso

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-07/jgum-gap072012.php

Les enjeux historiques du patrimoine malien

http://blogs.rue89.com/echos-histoire/2012/07/17/les-enjeux-historiques-du-patrimoine-malien-228025

Amériques / Americas

Haïti - Archives nationales, apporte de nouvelles visions dans l’administration public

http://www.lematinhaiti.com/contenu.php?idtexte=31748

Haïti : Vers la restructuration des archives publiques

http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article13145

Ex-federal official calls U.S. classification system ‘dysfunctional’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ex-federal-official-calls-us-classification-system-dysfunctional/2012/07/21/gJQAfJ1o0W_story.html

Mitt Romney Olympic Archive Still Off-Limits

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/mitt-romney-olympic-archive-off-limits/story?id=16811397#.UA8tIrRpiSp

Comprehensive Roosevelt archive in the works

http://www.willistonherald.com/news/comprehensive-roosevelt-archive-in-the-works/article_f95cc8f4-d5b0-11e1-8042-001a4bcf887a.html

Listing of Maine archival institutions sought

http://ow.ly/cx60Q

Digital Curation at the University of Maine, a two-year online certificate program launched in the fall of 2012

http://digitalcuration.umaine.edu/

Peering Into the Exquisite Life of Rare Books (the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/books/rare-book-school-at-the-university-of-virginia.html?_r=3

Cook County (Illinois) court staffer held on $750,000 bail for allegedly shredding court files

http://www.suntimes.com/news/13896191-418/cook-county-court-staffer-charged-with-shredding-court-files.html

San Francisco Library receives 505-year-old book

http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2012/07/22/library-receives-505-year-old-book/

Preservation of Media Arts: Interview with Jon Ippolito by Karina de Freitas

http://tecnoartenews.com/news-in-english/preservation-of-media-arts-interview-with-jon-ippolito-by-karina-de-freitas-2/

Online Archive of Ivan Karp’s Publications Launched at Emory University

http://www.materialworldblog.com/2012/07/online-archive-of-ivan-karps-publications-launched-at-emory-university/

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

Australia - Sydney Games ephemera gets a timely outing

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/sydney-games-ephemera-gets-a-timely-outing-20120724-22n5s.html

Malaysia - National Archives' Sarawak branch to provide base on managing public sector records

http://www.nst.com.my/latest/national-archives-sarawak-branch-to-provide-base-on-managing-public-sector-records-1.110325#

Malaysia - Terenganu National Archives gets valuable items related to Islamic astronomy

http://www.nst.com.my/latest/terenganu-national-archives-gets-valuable-items-related-to-islamic-astronomy-1.112564#

India - Human Resource Development ministry to preserve Kashmir's manuscripts, paintings

http://india.nydailynews.com/business/c70571358dbf7814e7dabdf3dc6f483c/hrd-ministry-to-preserve-kashmir-s-manuscripts-paintings

National Archives of India should reach out to people for archival material: Culture Minister Kumari Selja

http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/nai-should-reach-out-to-people-for-archival-material-selja/35664/

Pakistan - Loss of history at the hands of ‘elements’ feared

http://dawn.com/2012/07/23/loss-of-history-at-the-hands-of-elements-feared/

Europe / Europa

Digital Agenda: European Commission opens public consultation on preservation of the open internet

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/12/817&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

15th century Italian banking records discovered in London manuscript

http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/24/15th-century-italian-banking-records-discovered-in-london-manuscript/

France - Les archives françaises et les archives du Vatican

http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2012/07/20/les-archives-francaises-et-les-archives-du-vatican_1735801_3232.html

RTÉ Puts Archive Irish TV Content Online

http://ow.ly/cx6Cq

National Sound Archive for Scotland to be established

http://britishgenes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/national-sound-archive-for-scotland-to.html

UK - New national digital repository for social and economic data

http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/press-releases/22231/new-national-digital-repository-for-social-and-economic-data.aspx

UK National Archives - Americas through a lens: Colonial Office photographic collection released online

http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/744.htm

UK National Archives - Ancient Deeds and the Semantic Cardigan (on linked data)

http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/ancient-deeds-and-the-semantic-cardigan/

UK National Archives - Reflections of a Collaborative Doctoral Award student

http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/reflections-of-a-collaborative-doctoral-award-student/

Harwood ruling raises question over online archives

http://tinyurl.com/cgrrkxb

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

Yemen Passes Strongest Right of Access to Information Law in the Arab World

http://www.law-democracy.org/?p=2293

Dubai courts Director General works as electronic archivist for one day

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/dubai-courts-director-general-works-as-electronic-archivist-for-one-day-1.1053057

International

The 10-million-year sapphire hard disk

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/132793-the-10-million-year-sapphire-hard-disk

Mobile phone data: the oil of the digital age

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/jul/19/mobile-phone-data-development-emerging-markets

Digital Archaeology: Recovering your Digital History

http://www.nypl.org/blog/2012/07/23/digital-archaeology-recovering-your-digital-history#.UA2Vc2sSBLw.email

How Google Organizes the World: Q&A With the Manager of Knowledge Graph

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how-google-organizes-the-world-qa-with-the-manager-of-knowledge-graph.php

Thursday, 19 July 2012

Vol. 5, no. 46

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

State of the Holdings: The Condition of Analogue Holdings at Library and Archives Canada

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/about-us/modernization/Documents/State%20of%20the%20Holdings-June%202012_e.pdf

For The Record: Yukon Archives 1972–2012

http://www.tc.gov.yk.ca/publications/2012_For_The_Record_Yukon_Archives.pdf

UK National Archives - Records collection policy (draft)

http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/742.htm

U.S. National Declassification Center - Fifth biannual Report

http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2012/nr12-139.html

De la communauté / From the community

IFLA, EIFL and CLA joint intervention before the World Intellectual Property Organization Standing Committee on Copyright and related rights

http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/topics/exceptions-limitations/documents/IFLA_SCCR24_Education%20statement_Fin.pdf

Association des archives de l’Ontario - Archeion pour archivistes (version française)

http://aao-archivists.ca/resources/document-downloads/cat_view/70-archeion-docs

Electronic Discovery Reference Model XML White Paper

http://www.edrm.net/archives/12324

UK Heritage Lotery Fund - Using digital technology in heritage projects

http://www.hlf.org.uk/HowToApply/furtherresources/Documents/Thinking_about_good_digital_practice.pdf

Compilation - Records of the Scottish Poor

http://www.myainfolk.com/Resources_files/Records_of_the_Scottish_Poor.pdf

Publications

D-Lib Magazine, vol. 18, no. 7-8 (July-August 2012)

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july12/07contents.html

Museum Practice (Special Issue on New approaches to archives)

http://www.museumsassociation.org/museum-practice/16072012-archives-news

Historical Social Research, vol. 37, no. 3 (Special Issue: Controversies around the Digital Humanities)

http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/zeitschriften/ausgabe=6950

Mémoire d'avenir: en direct des Archives nationales de France, no. 10 (Juillet - septembre 2012)

http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/chan/chan/pdf/memoire-davenir-10.pdf

La Gazette des archives, no 225 (2012)

http://www.archivistes.org/Archives-et-archivistes-sous-le,1894

IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Sections newsletter (July 2012)

http://www.ifla.org/files/rare-books-and-manuscripts/rbms-newsletters/IFLA_newsletter_July%202012_revised.pdf

Book - Heritage Under Siege: Military Implementation of Cultural Property Protection Following the 1954 Hague Convention

http://www.brill.nl/heritage-under-siege

Book - Tracing Your Prisoner of War Ancestors: The First World War

http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Tracing-Your-Prisoner-of-War-Ancestors-The-First-World-War/p/3530/

Livre - Sécurité de la dématérialisation: de la signature électronique au coffre-fort numérique, une démarche de mise en oeuvre

http://www.editions-eyrolles.com/Livre/9782212134186/securite-de-la-dematerialisation

Book - The Past Is a Moving Picture: Preserving the Twentieth Century on Film

http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=JONES006

Book - Image Processing and Analysis with Graphs: Theory and Practice

http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439855072

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

International conference - Dublin Core and Metadata Applications

September 3-7 2012, Malaysia

http://dcevents.dublincore.org/index.php/IntConf/index/pages/view/program-2012

Slavery in New France, an Exhibit at the Montréal Archives Centre

July 17 to August 26, 2012, Montreal

http://tinyurl.com/6rj879l

Exhibit - Of Prairies, Pens and Poets: Celebrating Manitoba Writers on the 30th Anniversary of the Manitoba Writers' Guild

July 16 - August 24, Winnipeg

http://tinyurl.com/74y4c23

Sur le web / On the web

Vancouver, Then & Now Mobile App

http://vancouverisawesome.com/2012/07/18/vancouver-then-and-now-mobile-app-discover-vancouver-decades-ago/

National Library of Australia podcast - Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Ford discusses his new book Canada and his writing life

http://www.nla.gov.au/podcasts/media/Richard-Ford.mp3

Baladodiffusion de la CNIL (France) - Publication d'archives publiques sur internet: quelles conséquences pour la vie privée?

http://www.franceinfo.fr/player/export-reecouter?content=671913

Video - Wikimania 2012 Closing Plenary by David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47pEcmXjt8E

Outils / Tools

Inventory of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in the Cultural Heritage Domain

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag_7rVJwt0CpdFRJOEJxdEk4ZEMxQ01jaDgxQXFSTkE#gid=0

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

2.4 million Ontario voter records missing

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/615/2948788/24-million-Ontario-voter-records-missing-

#history #dilemma: Social media proving difficult for archivists

http://www.canada.com/news/Body+history+dilemma+Social+media+proving+difficult+archivists/6930849/story.html

Victoria's early history bursts from the archives

http://www.timescolonist.com/Victoria+early+history+bursts+from+archives/6936967/story.html

Edson (Alb.) - Local vets take part in archive project

http://www.edsonleader.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3594155

UBC - Unpacking the Douglas Coupland fonds: a new acquisition and a new project

http://blogs.ubc.ca/rbscnew/2012/07/18/unpacking-the-douglas-coupland-fonds-a-new-acquisition-and-a-new-project/

Tracing your family history takes time, effort and money: how to avoid barking up the wrong tree

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/life/Tracing+your+family+history+takes+time+effort+money/6931451/story.html

Afrique / Africa

Preserving Algeria's audiovisual memory: EU-funded project putting digitized archives online

http://tinyurl.com/7psvdn2

Swaziland - Govt working on effective record managing, archiving system

http://www.observer.org.sz/index.php?news=40929

Kenyatta National Hospital records go digital

http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2012/07/knh-records-go-digital/

Amériques / Americas

That plan to archive every tweet in the Library of Congress? Definitely still happening

http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/07/that-plan-to-archive-every-tweet-in-the-library-of-congress-definitely-still-happening/

MIT Economist: Here's How Copyright Laws Impoverish Wikipedia

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/mit-economist-heres-how-copyright-laws-impoverish-wikipedia/259970/

U.S. Department of the Interior Deploys OpenText Cloud-based Enterprise Content Management Solution

http://www.execdigital.com/press_releases/us-department-of-the-interior-deploys-opentext-cloud-based-enterprise-content-management-solution

Historian unveils one of the few surviving audio recordings of blast from 1950's Nevada tests

http://tinyurl.com/cldhbsr

Volunteer transcribers preparing letters to and from Lincoln

http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x1798687345/Volunteer-transcribers-preparing-letters-to-and-from-Lincoln

Alaska - Famous carver Amos Wallace’s documents headed for public archive

http://www.ktoonews.org/2012/07/16/famous-carvers-documents-headed-for-public-archive/

Connecting the Dots: Issues with Preserving Complex Websites

http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/connecting-dots-issues-preserving-complex-websites

Op-Ed: Jewish groups must preserve vital records

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/07/17/3100616/op-ed-preserving-our-family-history

Stanford Oral History Comes Alive

http://hosted-p0.vresp.com/260487/51ea6f4169/ARCHIVE#

Silent film thought to be lost is restored by the Oklahoma Historical Society

http://newsok.com/silent-film-thought-to-be-lost-is-restored-by-the-oklahoma-historical-society/article/3692566#ixzz215wZ5chi

One Family’s Personal Digital Archives Project

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/07/one-familys-personal-digital-archives-project/

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

Malaysia - Police to recover insurgency-era battle records from Britain

http://www.nst.com.my/nation/general/police-to-recover-insurgency-era-battle-records-from-britain-1.107196

Malaysia - National Archives To Use Films To Nurture Patriotism Among Younger Generation

http://tinyurl.com/884pgjh

Pakistan, China ink agreement for cooperation in archive

http://www.brecorder.com/pakistan/business-a-economy/68150-pakistan-china-ink-agreement-for-cooperation-in-archive-.html

Australia - Defence personnel's personal secrets revealed in archive files

http://www.smh.com.au/national/defence-personnels-personal-secrets-revealed-in-archive-files-20120719-22c8h.html

Europe / Europa

Heritage scandal: Italy shuts down national sound archives

http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2012/07/heritage-scandal-italy-shuts-down-national-sound-archives.html

Italy - Vivaldi's lost masterpiece is found in library archives

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jul/15/orlando-furioso-vivaldi-1714-version

350 millions de documents dans les archives de l’Arménie

http://www.armenews.com/article.php3?id_article=79537

Public Consultation on New Dutch Freedom of Information Law

http://epsiplatform.eu/content/public-consultation-new-dutch-foi-law

Suisse - La bibliothèque de Zurich achète une carte de 1635

http://www.20min.ch/ro/news/suisse/story/La-biblioth-que-de-Zurich-ach-te-une-carte-de-1635-19910420

France - Une réseau de musées consacrés à la Résistance vient d’être créé afin d’enrichir leurs archives

http://www.lamontagne.fr/auvergne/actualite/departement/haute-loire/haute-loire-local/2012/07/15/une-reseau-de-musees-consacres-a-la-resistance-vient-detre-cree-afin-denrichir-leurs-archives-1222135.html

Scotland - Pressure grows on Church over archives controversy

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/pressure-grows-on-church-over-archives-controversy.18176217

U.K. Government confirms transition to 20-year rule will begin from 2013

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/739.htm

Free access to British scientific research within two years

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/15/free-access-british-scientific-research

UK Web Archive in the eyes of scholars

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/webarchive/2012/07/uk-web-archive-in-the-eyes-of-scholars.html

British Museum to display Robben Island copy of Shakespeare's works

http://www.business-standard.com/generalnews/news/museum-to-display-robben-island-copyshakespeares-works/33752/

Canterbury Cathedral and University of Kent in bid to preserve unique historic collection

http://www.kent.ac.uk/news/stories/mendham-collection/2012

Canterbury Collection of 128,000 images now available for online research

http://spittalstreet.com/?p=5345

Closure of forensic archive a 'shambles', experts warn

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18880701

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

Iraq rejects US offer to restore half of seized Jewish Archive: report

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/721132.shtml

Israel State Archives - Scanning and digitizing in Hebrew

http://israelsdocuments.blogspot.ca/2012/07/scanning-and-digitizing-in-hebrew.html

The British Library and Qatar Foundation unveil project to digitise half a million pages of archive material

http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/Press-Releases/Transforming-our-understanding-of-Middle-Eastern-history-The-British-Library-and-Qatar-Foundation-unveil-project-to-digitise-half-a-million-pages-of-archive-material-5b8.aspx

International

Why a link between MoReq2010 and the OAIS model would benefit both records managers and archivists

http://thinkingrecords.co.uk/2012/07/13/why-a-link-between-moreq2010-and-the-oais-model-would-benefit-both-records-managers-and-archivists/

How can museums preserve our digital heritage?

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/16/how-can-museums-preserve-our-digital-heritage

Is This the Most-Viewed Photo of All Time?

http://mashable.com/2012/07/16/is-this-the-most-viewed-photo-of-all-time/

La révolution de la photographie vient de la conversation

http://culturevisuelle.org/icones/2456

Preserving Online Science: Reflections

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/07/preserving-online-science-reflections/

Project Gutenberg Launches Repository for Self-Published Works

http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Project-Gutenberg-Launches-Repository-for-SelfPublished-Works-83772.asp