Vol. 6, no. 23

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

Direction générale de la modernisation de l'État (France) - Archivage numérique

http://references.modernisation.gouv.fr/archivage-numerique

De la communauté / From the community

CLA - National Statistical and Values Profile of Canadian Libraries

http://ow.ly/hwMVZ

Livre Blanc : Progiciel de gestion d’archives mixtes

http://www.ever-team.com/fr/livre-blanc-archivage-mixte.html

Orphan Works and the Search for Rightsholders: Who Participates in a 'Diligent Search' under Present and Proposed Regimes?

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2208163

Article - Mining the Web to Predict Future Events

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/horvitz/future_news_wsdm.pdf

Publications

First Monday, vol. 18, no. 4 (February 2013)

http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/379

Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter (February 2013)

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/201302.pdf

ARMA Calgary Chapter - For The Record Newsletter, vol. 35, no. 6 (February 2013)

http://www.armacalgary.org/documents/newsletters/2013-02%20ARMA%20Calgary%20Newsletter%20February.pdf

Book - Archival Arrangement and Description (Society of American Archivists)

http://saa.archivists.org/store/archival-arrangement-and-description-print/3033/

Book - Heritage in the Digital Era: Cinematic Tourism and the Activist Cause

http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415643801/

Book - Trends, Discovery and People in the Digital Age

http://www.woodheadpublishing.com/en/book.aspx?bookID=2866&ChandosTitle=1

Book - Digital Libraries and Archives

http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/book/978-3-642-35833-3

Book - Complex Copyright: Mapping the Information Ecosystem

http://ow.ly/hlMw3

Ebook - The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control

http://www.thelateageofprint.org/download/

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Archives Institute

May 6 - 11, 2013, Calgary

http://www.archivesalberta.org/default.asp?V_ITEM_ID=49

Mining the Archives: the Biennial Dawson City Arts Society Member's Exhibition

January 24 - February 22, 2013, Dawson City, Yukon

http://www.kiac.ca/oddgallery/exhibitions/

DRHA 2013 : Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts

21-24 July 2013, University of Winchester

http://www.allc.org/news-events/drha-2013-digital-resources-humanities-and-arts

Artists' Records in the Archives (Symposium Proceedings Available)

October 11-12, 2011, New York

http://www.nycarchivists.org/proceedings 

Sur le web / On the web

Manitobia: Manitoba history

http://manitobia.ca/

See also: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/New-website-to-make-community-histories-easliy-accessible-190236331.html

Resources Relating to Black History at the Archives of Ontario

http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/black_history.aspx

Video - Gardienne d'archives: société francophone de Victoria

http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/c_est_ca_la_vie/2012-2013/Reportage.asp?idDoc=271980

e-Artexte: dépôt numérique en libre accès consacré à la documentation des arts visuels au Canada

http://e-artexte.ca/

NARA - Managing Content on Shared Drives (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOwwQ5XdbW0

UK National Archives podcast - Tracing battalions or regiments of the British Army during the Great War

http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/tracing-battalions-or-regiments-of-the-british-army-during-the-great-war/

Video - 2013 at the British Library

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCIADtd2M1I

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Fight over Tommy Douglas intelligence file not about history: feds

http://www.globalnews.ca/fight+over+tommy+douglas+intelligence+file+not+about+history+feds/6442802670/story.html

Government of Saskatchewan Declares Archives Week

http://www.gov.sk.ca/news?newsId=39c2824f-7ab1-43c7-82e4-9922aed056be

Celebrating Saskatchewan treasures at Regina archives

http://ckom.com/story/celebrating-saskatchewan-treasures-regina-archives/94947

Provincial archives week: interview with Jeff O'Brien, city of Saskastoon's archivist

http://www.globalsaskatoon.com/video/provincial+archives+week/video.html?v=2332779411&p=1&s=dd#video

Saskatchewan Archives Week looks back on Prohibition

http://www.leaderpost.com/entertainment/Archives+Week+looks+back+Prohibition/7917192/story.html

Photos: Pages of Saskatchewan’s past celebrated for Archives Week

http://metronews.ca/news/regina/537963/photos-pages-of-saskatchewans-past-celebrated-for-archives-week/

Archives Week celebrates Melfort Research Farm

http://www.melfortjournal.com/2013/02/07/archives-week-celebrates-melfort-research-farm

L'importance des archives (pour la communauté fransaskoise)

http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/Jour_de_plaine/2012-2013/chronique.asp?idChronique=272273

Association des archivistes du Québec - Résolution concernant le conflit armé au Mali

http://www.archivistes.qc.ca/Resolution-concernant-le-conflit,1153

Treasures from the Archdiocese of Edmonton archives

http://saltandlighttv.org/blog/general/treasures-from-the-archdiocese-of-edmonton-archives

Delta Museum and Archives (B.C.) - Union upset by cuts at archives

http://www.delta-optimist.com/business/Union+upset+cuts+archives/7925349/story.html

Mise en place à l’Université du Québec à Rimouski d’une collection d’archives sur la Réserve faunique Duchénier

http://www.bas-saint-laurent.org/texte.asp?id=20198

Porno juvénile: Alain Rainville utilise son travail d'archiviste comme excuse

http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/actualites/justice-et-faits-divers/201302/06/01-4619155-porno-juvenile-alain-rainville-utilise-son-travail-darchiviste-comme-excuse.php

Afrique / Africa

Tunisian archivists issue recommendations on the right to access information

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/tunisian_archivists_issue_recommendations_on_the_right_to_access_information/

Oral histories and Archiving Memories in South Africa

http://www.archivalplatform.org/blog/entry/oral_histories/

South Africa - Depression, Despair and Danger: Digitisation at the Cape Town Deeds Office

http://www.archivalplatform.org/blog/entry/depression_despair/

Timbuktu's art of saving its manuscripts

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21294158

Francois Hollande visits library housing torched manuscripts in Timbuktu

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/news-video/video-hollande-visits-library-housing-torched-manuscripts-in-timbuktu/article8150651/

Manuscrits de Tombouctou: La Bibliothèque nationale de France offre son aide

http://www.lematin.ma/express/Manuscrits-de-Tombouctou_La-Bibliotheque-nationale-de-France-offre-son-aide/177434.html

British Library - Major project to digitise and preserve the manuscripts of Djenné, Mali

http://ow.ly/hwOpG

Amériques / Americas

Innovation is prologue for National Archives’ future

http://fedscoop.com/innovation-is-prologue-for-national-archives-future/

North Carolina State Archives Offers Assistance for Document Preservation

http://news.ncdcr.gov/2013/02/01/state-archives-offers-assistance-for-document-preservation/

Supporters of the Georgia Archives Continue to Press for More Funding

http://athens.patch.com/articles/supporters-of-the-georgia-archives-continue-to-press-for-more-funding

Holograms to preserve Holocaust survivor’s legacy

http://www.salon.com/2013/02/05/holograms_to_preserve_holocaust_survivors_legacy/

World's largest El Salvador human rights archive resides at Colorado University-Boulder's Norlin Library

http://www.coloradodaily.com/news/ci_22536644/worlds-largest-el-salvador-human-rights-archive-resides#axzz2KG9ghFrl

Indiana University Digitizes Archives Of 19th Century Literary Society

http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/iu-digitizes-archives-oldest-literary-society-44209/

Video Game Preservation at Scale: An Interview with Henry Lowood

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/02/video-game-preservation-at-scale-an-interview-with-henry-lowood/

Academy acquires 1,000 vintage movie posters for Oscar library

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-academy-acquires-1000-vintage-movie-posters-for-oscar-library-20130129,0,1076482.story

Beyoncé Employs Video Archivist

http://www.noise11.com/news/beyonce-employs-video-archivist-20130204

"Rarer than rare" 1865 baseball card sells for $92,000

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/rarer-rare-1865-baseball-card-sells-92-000-050122046--mlb.html

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

China limiting diplomatic archives access after discovery of document proves Japan’s Senkakus ownership

http://japandailypress.com/china-limiting-diplomatic-archives-access-after-discovery-of-document-proves-japans-senkakus-ownership-0122522

India - Good response to film archives unit proposal

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-02-02/thiruvananthapuram/36703292_1_state-film-development-corporation-film-fraternity-archives

Europe / Europa

Succeed Project (a project to promote research in digitisation and preservation of Europe cultural heritage) launched

http://www.digitisation.eu/news-events/view/article/succeed-project-launched/ 

Key document declaring Soviet Union defunct goes missing from archives

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/02/07/key_document_declaring_soviet_union_defunct_goes_missing_from_archives.html

German Archives show Bulgarians rounded up and transported Macedonian Jews

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/22629/45/

Polish State Archives Publish Digitized Radio Free Europe Polish Scripts

http://www.rferl.org/content/pressrelease/24895101.html

Printing history: the most valuable rare books in existence

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/9569921/Printing-history-the-most-valuable-rare-books-in-existence.html

French National Library Privatizes Public Domain Materials

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130130/07141521824/french-national-library-privatizes-public-domain-materials.shtml

Ireland - Derry church plans digital archive

http://www.derryjournal.com/news/local/derry-church-plans-digital-archive-1-4765110

Scotland - Freedom of information laws 'should be extended to private companies'

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/212098-freedom-of-information-laws-should-be-extended-to-private-companies/

Campaigners fight to save Scots archive at the Edinburgh University’s School of Scottish Studies

http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/top-stories/campaigners-fight-to-save-scots-archive-1-2773069

The UK National Archives celebrates LGBT History Month

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/809.htm

Alec Guinness archive at British Library

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/9854812/Alec-Guinness-archive-at-British-Library.html

UK Web Archives - Archiving social media: a workshop report

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/webarchive/2013/02/archiving-social-media-a-workshop-report-.html

UK - Historians warn minister: hands off our academic freedoms

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/jan/26/historians-warn-minister-over-academic-freedom

Dumfries archive centre plans drawn up

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-21258949

Moyen-Orient / Middle East

Israel State Archives in search of King George's penpal

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-state-archives-in-search-of-king-george-s-penpal.premium-1.501253

International

Electronic Memory of the Arctic: Digitized History and Culture

http://www.emaproject.com/post.html?id=82

Do-It-Yourself Digital Preservation

http://web.library.emory.edu/blog/do-it-yourself-digital-preservation

CDs versus floppies

http://digital-archiving.blogspot.ca/2013/02/cds-versus-floppies.html

L’art d’élaborer des instruments de recherche XML-EAD gratuitement

http://ow.ly/hmyBz

Sony announces the end of the MiniDisc

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/02/sony-announces-the-end-of-the-minidisc/

What should archives or archivists stop doing? What should we drop?

http://www.archivesnext.com/?p=3346

Mind the gap: catching digital content before it slips away

http://www.researchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=397

Vol. 6, no. 22

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State

British Library - Making the Most of Funding Opportunities for Preservation and Conservation Projects (Revised Edition)

http://www.bl.uk/blpac/pdf/funding.pdf

 

De la communauté / From the community

Canadian Library Association - Interlibrary Loan (ILL) User Roundtable Documents

http://www.cla.ca/Content/NavigationMenu/CLAatWork/Advocacy/ILL_User_Roundtable.htm

ICA, IFLA, CCAAA, ICOM, ICOMOS, ICSTI - Statement of Principles on Global Cross Sectoral Digitisation Initiatives

http://www.ifla.org/news/statement-of-principles-on-global-cross-sectoral-digitisation-initiatives

Ithaka S+R - Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content

http://sca.jiscinvolve.org/wp/files/2013/01/Sustaining-our-digital-future-FINAL-31.pdf

What's the Deal with Copyright and 3D Printing?

http://ow.ly/hjA5x

HathiTrust Digital Library - 2012 Year in Review

http://www.hathitrust.org/documents/hathitrust-updates-review2012.pdf

Publications

Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography, vol. 65, no. 1 (2013)

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rimu20/65/1

Journal of Library Administration, vol. 53, no. 1, 2013 (Special Issue: Digital Humanities in Libraries)

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wjla20/53/1

Mémoire d'Archives: en direct des Archives nationales, no. 12 (Janvier-Mars 2013)

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

National Archives of Australia - Your Memento, no. 9 (January 2013)

http://yourmemento.naa.gov.au/

Society of California Archivists Newsletter, no. 145 (Winter 2013)

http://www.calarchivists.org/Resources/Documents/Newsletter/2013winter.pdf

Documentaliste - Sciences de l'information, vol. 49, no. 4 (2012)

http://www.adbs.fr/revue-docsi-volume-49-n-4-decembre-2012-dossier-information-et-territoires-enjeux-strategies-dispositifs-et-acteurs-124800.htm

Canadian Conservation Institute's Technical Bulletin 30: The Digitization of Audio Tapes 

http://www.cci-icc.gc.ca/bookstore/viewCategory_e.aspx?id=18

Book - Rediscovering the World: Map Transformations of Human and Physical Space

http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/geographical+information+systems/book/978-3-642-34847-1

Book - Performing Nordic Heritage: Everyday Practices and Institutional Culture

http://ow.ly/gdQvK

Book - Documentary Culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages

http://www.cambridge.org/ca/knowledge/isbn/item6878511/?site_locale=en_CA

Livre - Impacts écologiques des technologies de l'information et de la communication

http://www.edition-sciences.com/impacts-ecologiques-technologies-information-et-la-communication.htm

Voir aussi : http://www.rue89.com/rue89-planete/2013/01/28/un-e-mail-ca-coute-tres-cher-la-planete-239062

Book - All This Stuff: Archiving the Artist 

http://ow.ly/hjtEn

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events

Archives in Your Attic

February 18, 2013, Peterborough, Ontario

http://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/News-and-Events/2013/Feb/Archives-in-your-attic.aspx

Webinar - Drowning in content? Managing email and file shares is just too hard. Or is it?

February 20, 2013

https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/694717414

Digital Diplomatics 2013

14-16 November, 2013, Paris

http://www.cei.lmu.de/digdipl13/

University of Waterloo - Records Management, Lunch & Learn (Slidecast available)

24 January, 2013, Waterloo

https://uwaterloo.ca/provost/sites/ca.provost/files/uploads/files/Records%20Management%20-%20January%2024%2C%202013.pptx

 

Historical Documents in the Digital Age (videos available in English and French)

25-26 October, Rouen, France

http://www.univ-rouen.fr/audio/?vid=304

Sur le web / On the web

Privacy Commissioner of Canada launches privacy mobile application

http://news.gc.ca/web/article-eng.do?nid=717889

Archive your children’s art with Artkive app

http://babygatorsden.com/artkive/

Podcast - Rawdon Brown and the Brown Archive in The UK National Archives

http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/rawdon-brown-and-the-brown-archive-in-the-national-archives/

Digital Curation Centre - Disciplinary Metadata Guide

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/node/9925

US - Alpha.Data.gov

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/01/28/introducing-alphadatagov

Podcast - Preserving Personal Information

http://www.kuow.org/post/preserving-personal-information

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada

Library and Archives Canada - Release of a new version of the Census of Prairie Provinces, 1916 database

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/2013-january/new-1916-census.aspx

B.C. leads the country in cutting red tape

http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2009-2013/2013JTST0010-000095.htm

Archives reluctant to beef up security following theft: Dalhousie University and Mount Saint Vincent University react after police recover university owned artifacts

http://unews.ca/archives-reluctant-to-beef-up-security-following-theft/

RCMP says some stolen antiques may be from P.E.I.

http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2013-01-29/article-3166498/RCMP-says-some-stolen-antiques-may-be-from-P.E.I./1

University of Victoria archives reveal history of Victoria's artists

http://www.canada.com/entertainment/University+archives+reveal+history+Victoria+artists/7877143/story.html

Gulf Islands (B.C.) - Archives gets piece of Best history

http://www.gulfislandsdriftwood.com/community/189054511.html

Afrique / Africa

Plus de 55 ans après l'indépendance, le Maroc se dote d'Archives nationales

http://www.emarrakech.info/Plus-de-55-ans-apres-l-independance-le-Maroc-se-dote-d-Archives-nationales_a66500.html

'Racism' of early colour photography explored in art exhibition: artists spent a month in South Africa taking pictures on decades-old film engineered with only white faces in mind

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jan/25/racism-colour-photography-exhibition

Algérie - Les Archives nationales réceptionnent la première partie des archives relatives aux relations algéro-yougoslaves

http://www.letempsdz.com/content/view/84123/1/

L'Afrique construit sa bibliothèque au Sénégal

http://www.sudonline.sn/lafrique-construit-sa-bibliotheque-au-senegal_a_12204.html

Timbuktu Manuscripts as Artifacts

http://michaelseangallagher.org/2013/01/29/timbuktu-manuscripts-as-artifacts/

Fire in Timbuktu library: just revenge or eradication of heresy?

http://english.ruvr.ru/radio_broadcast/25298789/103017942.html

Amériques / Americas

Rescue project for Dutch archives in Guyana

http://www.demerarawaves.com/index.php/201301255375/Latest/rescue-project-for-dutch-archives-in-guyana.html

Missouri - State Archives Release '62 Death Certificates

http://www.ktts.com/news/189151221.html

North Carolina - History Buffs Aim to Preserve State Archives

http://ow.ly/hjFzc

 

Intrepid Museum Crowdsources Enterprise Pictures

http://mashable.com/2013/01/24/intrepid-museum-crowdsources-enterprise-pictures/

New York Philharmonic to release more archive online

http://online.wsj.com/article/AP89914795da364f538eab6813dd1f6314.html

Rare Robert Frost Collection Surfaces 50 Years After His Death

http://www.npr.org/2013/01/29/170474762/rare-robert-frost-collection-surfaces-50-years-after-his-death

Anarchy in the Archives: Zine Project Brings Punks of Color to the Academy

http://colorlines.com/archives/2013/01/nia_zine_piece.html

Ouachita Baptist University’s archives a storehouse of the past

http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2013/jan/24/ouachita-baptist-universitys-archives-storehouse-p/?f=trilakes

Asie-Pacifique/Asia-Pacific

Australia - Tim Berners-Lee calls data retention a 'really, really bad idea'

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/330394,tim-berners-lee-calls-data-retention-a-really-really-bad-idea.aspx

Veteran archivists press for legislation in Hong Kong

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1135395/veteran-archivists-press-legislation-hong-kong

China - Why is the government destroying so many documents?

http://www.scmp.com/business/article/1135429/why-government-destroying-so-many-documents

Japan - National library joins digital wave, will offer books online

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201301290061

India - Digitised National Archives catalogue launched

http://www.ciol.com/ciol/news/173756/digitised-national-archives-catalogue-launched

India - Rare Gandhi-Kallenbach letters on display at National Archives

http://ow.ly/hhKjW

India - Arts archive comes alive

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Arts-archive-comes-alive/articleshow/18216526.cms

India - A Fragile Buddhist Treasure

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/01/2013/a-fragile-buddhist-treasure

Europe / Europa

Warsaw Ghetto: The story of its secret archive

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21178079

Germany - Holocaust archive rescues lost identities, reunites long lost families

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/26/16641847-holocaust-archive-rescues-lost-identities-reunites-long-lost-families?lite

The Hitler home movies: how Eva Braun documented the dictator’s private life

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/27/the-hitler-home-movies-how-eva-braun-documented-the-dictators-private-life/

Poignant photograph that proves pensioner's family died at Auschwitz

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9824149/Poignant-photograph-that-proves-pensioners-family-died-at-Auschwitz.html

Germany - Cologne finds itself in new music archive

http://www.dw.de/cologne-finds-itself-in-new-music-archive/a-16546927

Vatican Apostolic Library uploads 256 digitized manuscripts

http://www.romereports.com/palio/vatican-apostolic-library-uploads-256-digitized-manuscripts-english-8886.html

Italy fears for 'vanishing' heritage after arrests over sacking of historic library

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/30/italy-fears-vanifhing-heritage-sacking-historic-library

Romania’s New National Library Remains a Dream Yet to Come True

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/features/01282013/romania-s-new-national-library-remains-dream-yet-come-true

Malta - Preservation of historical documents at Notarial Archives

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130127/business-news/Preservation-of-historical-documents-at-Notarial-Archives.455057

National Archives of Armenia turns digital

http://armenpress.am/eng/news/705967/national-archives-of-armenia-turns-digital.html

Généalogie - Les archives belges arrivent sur Internet

http://www.rfgenealogie.com/s-informer/infos/archives/les-archives-belges-arrivent-sur-internet

Belgique - Cinq années d'archives du Service public fédéral Economie détruites illégalement

http://www.levif.be/info/actualite/belgique/cinq-annees-d-archives-du-spf-economie-detruites-illegalement/article-4000241437297.htm

France - Archives numériques : bientôt une loi, mais pour quoi faire ?

http://www.lemagit.fr/projets/legislation/2013/01/31/archives-numeriques-bientot-une-loi-mais-pour-quoi-faire/

Sotheby’s Will Offer the Library of the Ducs de Luynes

http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/press/2013/01/sothebys-will-offer-the-library-of-the-ducs-de-luynes.phtml

Extremely Rare Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris

http://curiouseggs.com/extremely-rare-color-photography-of-early-1900s-paris/

3 000 photos légendées de la Bataille de Normandie sur un compte Flickr

http://romainbaro.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/01/29/3-000-photos-legendees-de-la-bataille-de-normandie-sur-un-compte-flickr/

New project aims to preserve rare artefacts from Wales' history

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/need-to-read/2013/01/26/new-project-aims-to-preserve-rare-artefacts-from-wales-history-91466-32680312/

Placing council services at arms length has weakened Scotland's freedom of information

http://www.guardian.co.uk/local-government-network/2013/jan/30/scottish-councils-freedom-of-information

UK National Archives - View early Colonial Office photos in Australasia through a lens

http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/805.htm 

International

Scanning: DIY or Outsource

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/01/scanning-diy-or-outsource/

Is JPEG-2000 a Preservation Risk?

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/01/is-jpeg-2000-a-preservation-risk/

Big data and the death of the theorist

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/25/big-data-end-of-theory

Dickens, Austen and Twain, Through a Digital Lens

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/technology/literary-history-seen-through-big-datas-lens.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Only the digital dies: the newest technologies look most likely to vanish; the oldest may always be with us

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21570728-newest-technologies-look-most-likely-vanish-oldest-may-always-be-us-only

Name That Tune: Adding Labels and Descriptions into Your Audio Files

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/01/name-that-tune-adding-labels-and-descriptions-into-your-audio-files/