Thursday, 17 October 2013

Vol. 7, no. 7

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada - Annual Report 2012-2013

Capitalizing on Big Data: Toward a Policy Framework for Advancing Digital Scholarship in Canada (Consultation Document)

France - Délibération portant recommandation relative aux services dits de « coffre-fort numérique ou électronique » destinés aux particuliers 

State Records of Western Australia - Retention And Disposal Schedule Review Reports

De la communauté / From the community
National Information Standards Organization - Open Discovery Initiative: Promoting Transparency in Discovery (Draft for Comments)
 
Creative Commons - Supporting Copyright Reform Policy Statement

"Link Rot" and Legal Resources on the Web: A 2013 Analysis by the Chesapeake Digital Preservation Group

Publications
Code4lib Journal, no. 22 (2013)

Records Management Journal, vol. 23, no. 3 (2013)

Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1 (2013)

Information Standards Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 3, 2013 (Special Issue on Data Curation)

Maple Ridge Historical Society (B.C.) - Family History Newsletter (October 2013)

Association of Research Libraries - SPEC Kit 337: Print Retention Decision Making

Book - Delft Blue & Objects of the World: Archives I and II

Book - On Paper: the Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History

Book - Digital Dieting: From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness

Book - Revolutionizing the Development of Library and Information Professionals: Planning for the Future

Book - Natural Language Processing: Semantic Aspects

Book - Data Stewardship: An Actionable Guide to Effective Data Management and Data Governance

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Libraries, Archives, and Canada's Future: Consultatons in Halifax
November 8-9, 2013, Halifax

Death of Evidence
October 22, 2013, York University

Transforming Information: Record Keeping in the Early Modern World
April 9-10, 2014, London

International Internet Preservation Consortium Annual Conference
May 22-24, 2014, Paris

2014 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums
June 9-12, 2014, Palm Springs, California

Forum des archivistes genevois: les Archives de la Radio Télévision Suisse (présentation disponible)
7 octobre, 2013, Genève

Sur le web / On the web
Slidecast - L’implantation d’un système de gestion documentaire

UK National Archives Podcast - Big Data And Criminals

Baladodiffusion - Pourquoi brûle-t-on des bibliothèques ?

Slidecast - The End Is The Beginning: The Challenges Of Digital Resources Post-Digitisation

Video - ARCOMEM: Extracting Opinions from Images

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Alice Munro archive available at University of Calgary

Minister Clement Highlights the Value of Open Data and Announces Plans to Launch a National Open Data Appathon

Access To Information Laws: Three Reasons Why All Canadian Organizations Should Pay Attention

Top librarian job up for grabs; head of Library and Archives Canada could bag a $226,500 salary
 
Library and Archives Canada - Samuel de Champlain’s General Maps of New France

The Ephemera Collection at the Fisher Rare Book Library (University of Toronto)

Softball Yukon seeking historical artifacts for exhibit: the first traces of baseball in the Yukon Territory date back to 1897 on Herschel Island

Canadian Centre for Architecture - Preserving the Work of Architecture’s Digital Pioneers

University of British Columbia Archives Scrapbook Collection

University of British Columbia - Medieval manuscript’s impact spans centuries

Cour supérieure du Québec - L’accès plus facile aux archives en ligne ne justifie pas une ordonnance pour les y retirer

Canadian comic book heroine of the 1940s resurrected by Rachel Richey (former LAC intern) and Hope Nicholson through Kickstarter campaign

Milton (Ont.) - Newspaper archives to be available online

Afrique / Africa
Timbuktu manuscripts urgent appeal 

Tanzania - Call for better preservation of Julius Nyerere (former Prime Minister) archives

Amériques / Americas
El Salvador - Activists Struggle to Recover Human Rights Archives

US - The Government Shutdown from an Archives Point of View

Libraries combine to preserve vanishing sources online

Lousiana - Who’s got that public record you want? Government begins to comply with new law

Mystery of missing records taints Iowa hazing case

Exxon Valdez litigation records cataloged at Alaska state archives

'No Story Too Small': Northeastern University Launches Digital Archive of Boston Marathon Bombings

Chicago man to Harvard: Pay more for rare papers or I’ll burn them

Washington State University - Powering cultural preservation: New grants expand archiving of indigenous treasures

Undergraduates mine archives to help prosecute those behind Operation Condor

Stanford University buys Joseph Brodsky archive from Lithuania

Target's archivists cut in layoffs

Society of American Archivists decries Target layoff of archivists

California - Preserving LGBT Footage for Posterity

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia - National Archives' hours cut as online traffic rises

Australia - WWII files on torture censored: researchers

Need a textbook in a hurry? Australian Startup will send it by drone

Les archives vietnamiennes et laotiennes intensifient leur collaboration

India - Kerela: Termites gorge on precious history

Europe / Europa
Political Archive of the German Foreign Office
 
Crowdsourcing Tolstoy

Birth of a Masterpiece: a Look at the Original Archives Record of the Breguet “Queen Of Naples” 

La Bibliothèque nationale suisse et Wikimedia CH entament une collaboration

La RTBF fête les 60 ans de la télévision belge en mettant ses archives à l'honneur
 
France - L'État va en justice pour récupérer des manuscrits du général de Gaulle

Trente ans d’archives de Radio France Internationale consultables à la Bibliothèque nationale de France

Bibliothèque nationale de France - Un empire français au Nouveau monde ?

France - Droit à l'oubli : la Fédération de Généalogie dit non et non

Un enregistrement inédit de la dernière chanson de Gainsbourg mis en vente

UK - Archive site home to vast stockpile of secret files

Hundreds of historic London images seen for first time

University of Birmingham WWI archive is digitised for the centenary

New lead in Jack the Ripper case emerges from stately home’s archives

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
Iraqi Jews are opposed to the United States returning the Iraqi Jewish Archives to Iraq
 
National Libraries of Iran, Germany to boost cooperation

International
ARMA International Educational Foundation Announces Partnership with ARMA International

Forget Big Data: The future is Small Data, and Facebook just bought it

Pinterest Drives More Traffic to Publishers Than Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit Combined
 
Type:Rider : un jeu vidéo sur l'histoire de la typographie

Move over, Proust: New theory explains where old memories go

Les données de la recherche sont des archives comme les autres

Thursday, 10 October 2013

Vol. 7, no. 6

Ressources / Resources

De l'État / From the State
Research Guide to Holocaust-related Holdings at Library and Archives Canada

USA - Audit Of The Department Of Justice’s Implementation Of And Compliance With Certain Classification Requirements

De la communauté / From the community
Public Policy Forum - Preserving Canada's Memory: Final Report

Guide to Developing a Request for Proposal for the Digitization of Video (and More) 

World Intellectual Property Organization - Guide on Managing Intellectual Property for Museums (2013 Edition)

Metadata is a Love Note to the Future: UK Higher Education Research Data Management (RDM) Survey

Publications
Collection Management, vol. 38, no. 4 (2013)

First Monday, vol. 18, no. 10 (7 October 2013)
 
Bulletin sur les ressources archivistiques numériques, no 47 (Octobre 2013)
Mémoire collective: bulletin du Centre d'archives de la région du Rivière-du-Loup, vol. 2, no. 3 (Automne 2013)
 
Heritage: the Journal of the Jewish Archives & Historical Society of Edmonton and Northern Alberta, vol. 16, no. 1 (Fall 2013)

Society of California Archivists Newsletter, no. 148 (Fall 2013)

Book - Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader

Book - Web Information Retrieval

Book - Memory and Trauma in International Relations: Theories, Cases and Debates

Livre - Archives militaires mode d'emploi: guide du lecteur dans les fonds du Service historique de la Défense

Book - Developing and Securing the Cloud

Book - The Photograph And The Album: Histories, Practices, Futures

Book - Writing History in the Digital Age

Conférences et événements / Conferences and events
Libraries, Archives, and Canada's Future: Consultations in Calgary and Edmonton
October 24-25, 28-29, 2013, Calgary and Edmonton

Building an Accessible Future for the Humanities Project
November 15-16, 2013, Boston
March 28-29, 2014, Austin (Texas)

Making Cultural Heritage Mobile: Challenges and Possibilities
November 28-29, 2013, Cambridge

The Great War and the Moving Image
April 15-16, 2014, Canterbury

Archives and Copyright: Developing and Agenda for Reform (Presentations Available)
September 27, 2013, London

Sur le web / On the web
Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada - 250th Anniversary of the Royal Proclamation of 1763

AtoM 2.0.0 Now Available

Published Preservation Policies

International Internet Preservation Consortium - Landing Site for Open Source Wayback Development

Big Data TV - Première émission 

Nouvelles du monde / News from the world

Canada
Canadian income data 'is garbage' without census, experts say

New federal web portal for freedom-of-info expanding with 16 new departments

The Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations visited The UK National Archives to view documents connected to the Royal Proclamation of 1763

Université de Moncton - Lancement du Groupe de recherche international en information, communication et documentation durables
 
McMaster University archives home to detailed Alice Munro correspondence 

City of Nanaimo set to release in-camera information

Historic diary donated to South Peace Archives (Alb.)

Mysteries of Saanich (B.C.) generations past uncovered
 
Hamilton (Ont.) - Official Opening and Blessing of the Bishop Farrell Library & Archives
 
Un collectionneur québécois vend sa collection de cartes de hockey de 2 millions $ 

Afrique / Africa
Tunisie - L'ouverture des archives de la police politique du ressort de la Commission Vérité et Dignité

Amériques / Americas
State Library and Archives displays unique items from Texas’ investigation into President Kennedy’s assassination

Missouri State University archives obtains letter from William Faulkner ancestor
 
Ivy League Home for a Cartoonist’s Vast Archive: Al Jaffee’s Work Is Going to Columbia

Amherst College Acquires Rare Native Book Collection

Princeton University Press Partners with Tizra to Take Einstein Papers Online

The Real CBGB Is Ready for Its Closeup: New York University acquires archival footage of famed New York punk club

Mugshots Shouldn't Be in the Public Record. Here's Why.

Stanford researchers to open-source model they say has nailed sentiment analysis

Detroit Music Archive Project Earns Grammy Foundation Praise

Century-old Delaware city records headed online

A Film Archivist and Preservationist Shows Us Our Past to Inform Our Future

Asie-Pacifique / Asia-Pacific
Australia - Ray Edmondson on Audiovisual Archiving and Heritage: challenges of the present
 
Australia - La Trobe University's Greek Archives Already Popular

Archives reveal Japanese atrocities on Diggers kept secret

Lessons from Fukushima: Japanese Red Cross digital archive goes live 

Philippines - Commission on Human Rights to document stories of martial law victims

Vanuatu National Archives

India - Kerala Archives department: 50 years of preserving records

Europe / Europa
KGB archives set to open up to Finnish researchers

Bulgaria to Reintroduce Ban on Disclosure of Communist-Era State Security Files of Senior Intelligence Officers 

The vast reach of the Nazi Holocaust

Belgique - Les Archives de l’État à Namur : pas d’argent pour déménager

Suisse - Un vol de bijoux et de documents du tsar Nicolas II découvert quatre ans après à Lausanne

Après le fonds Michel Foucault, la Bibliothèque Nationale de France vise un agenda de Marcel Proust inédit de l’année 1906

Les Archives nationales de France simplifient l’accès à la numérisation avec Spigraph

Jersey Archive 'will be full' by 2019

Scotland - Value in preserving our recorded history

UK - Ministry of Defence holds 66,000 files in breach of 30-year rule

BBC to digitise entire Shakespeare archive and make it freely available to those in education

18th Century Jewish Haggadah manuscript found in garage

Victoria & Alberts Museum opens its incredible fashion archive to the public

Moyen-Orient / Middle East
National Library of Israel Establishes ARCHINET, Israeli National Internet Archive

Jewish Prayer Book Predates Oldest Torah Scroll

Egypt releases first-ever October War documents

The Great Library at Alexandria was destroyed by budget cuts, not fire

Large Questions Face Future of Iraqi Jewish Archive

Iran - Book released introducing world national archives

International
Why big data has made your privacy a thing of the past