http://www.naa.gov.au/whats-on/records-releases/making-australia-home.aspx

During the 20th century more than seven million people made Australia home. The National Archives project Making Australia Home is progressively making migration records available online.

Via
http://archieven.blogspot.com/2008/07/immigranten-databank-australi-vandaag.html

http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=1155
Peter Murray-Rust is commenting an article of John Wilbanks:

http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/07/02/Jcom0702%282008%29C04/

Abstract: From the life sciences to the physical sciences, chemistry to archaeology, the last 25 years have brought an unprecedented shift in the way research happens day to day, and the average scientist is now simply awash in data. This comment focuses on the integration and federation of an exponentially increasing pool of data on the global digital network. Furthermore, it explores the question of the legal regimes available for use on this pool of data, with particular attention to the application of “Free/Libre/Open” copyright licenses on data and databases. In fact, the application of such licenses has the potential to severely restrict the integration and federation of scientific data. The public domain for science should be the first choice if integration is our goal, and there are other strategies that show potential to achieve the social goals embodied in many common-use licensing systems without the negative consequences of a copyright-based approach. (My emphasis)

The Iraq Memory Foundation, a U.S.-based non-governmental organization (NGO), went to Baghdad shortly after the invasion and began gathering as many documents as it could find. Under the laws of war, such actions may be considered an act of pillage, which is specifically forbidden by the 1907 Hague Convention. The Foundation’s website says its main holdings are “a collection of 2.4 million pages of official Iraqi documents captured by Iraqi Kurdish groups during the 1991 uprising; …a collection of 750,000 pages of Iraqi documents captured in Kuwait after its liberation…in 1991; …approximately 3.0 million pages gathered from Baath Party Regional Command Headquarters in Baghdad following the fall of Saddam in 2003.” This is the body of materials that in January 2008 the Hoover Institution at Stanford University agreed to store.
http://www.archivists.org/statements/IraqiRecords.asp

Open letter from Saad Eskander, Director of the Iraq National Library and Archives to the Director of Hoover Institute, June 21, 2008
http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=439

Website of the Iraq Memory Foundation
http://www.iraqmemory.org/EN/

News article on the conflict:
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/june18/iraq-061808.html

In 1996 the hip-hop artist Guru has pubished the song "Respect the architect". A good friend of mine, who had worked with Guru at this production, just told me, that this great song was called at first "Respect the archivist". Unfortunately the tapes got lost during a computer crash. This is a sad fact on history of archives, because the new "Architect"-Song features the living jazz legend Ramsey Lewis on piano and synthesizer.
To save this stories for the archival history we are looking for any other information about lost artworks with archival content. Peinture, photos, movies, songs, operas, symphonies, books, short stories, poems - there are no limits. We will appreciate every post.

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via Intute

Flickr page with photos of volunteers moving
Special Collections at University of Iowa (Iowa City) out of the lower
levels to upper floors of the library just before the recent floods
there:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/uinews/page8/

Their timeline for protecting the Special Collections is at:

http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/news/2008/06/14/libraries-evacuation-timeline/

http://www.madanpuraskar.org/

Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya archives wishes to express its concern about the security of the historical materials and papers contained in the Narayanhiti Palace in the process of transfer of ownership of the premises as the country is declared a republic by the first sitting of the Constituent Assembly. The Pustakalaya appeals to the Government of Nepal and related government agencies to actively seek the protection of those papers and materials. These rare documents are the common property of the citizens of Nepal, and should be a matter of grave interest to the government, the intelligentsia as well as researchers.

In this connection, the historian Dr. Ramesh Kumar Dhungel, affiliated to the Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies (CNAS) and Advisor to the Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, says: "We know from the reports of Brian Houghton Hodson, the British Resident from 150 years ago, that the material of national and international cultural importance contained in the palace predates the unification of Nepal, and goes back to the Malla period. These are included in containers known as 'bada dhadda', 'lal dhadda', 'lal bakas', 'choto dhadda' and in a room known as the 'bhitri khopi'. The material has not been made available to Nepali researchers till now, other than partially to historian-laureate Baburam Acharya. These papers are of the kind which will help in the understanding the course of national history going as far back as back 2000 years, and they must be catalogued and preserved."