Nieuws
uit het
veld
nationaal archief
London Manifesto:
call for fair copyright
Some books used to
be made of human
skin...
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and Archii-ta nEwcpe
van Belangen in balans. Handreiking
voor waardering en selectie van
archiefbescheiden in de digitale tijd.
De handreiking beschrijft hoe een
departement, dienst of agentschap in
het digitale tijdperk op een verantwoorde
manier invulling kan geven aan waardering
en selectie van archiefbescheiden.
Verantwoord betekent ook dat digitale
informatie geselecteerd wordt op het
moment van creatie. De handreiking
presenteert drie waarderingsinstrumenten:
de risicoanalyse, systeemanalyse en de
hotspot-monitor. De instrumenten sluiten
aan op de huidige praktijk.
De handreiking en een beknopt
informatieblad zijn te downloaden op de
website van het Nationaal Archief:
www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderwerpen/
waardering-selectie/handreiking
waardering.
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In a bid for fair copyright laws that will
benefit citizens and researchers across
Europe organisations have called for
much needed reforms. The London
Manifesto calls for fair copyright for
libraries and archives across Europe.
The manifesto outlines needed reforms
that will better support research,
innovation and growth and will help
create a digital single market. It focuses
on the important role of libraries and
archives.
The reforms would mean that libraries
can acquire and lend commercially
available digital materials and, with
archives, can continue to underpin
knowledgeable societies in the digital
age. The reforms would allow libraries
and archives to better support research
through modern text and data mining
techniques. They would also create a
more manageable system of harmonised
copyright laws across EU member states.
Non standardised copyright laws across
Europe are failing to support fair access
and use of digital content. Researchers
and citizens in one country can be
subject to a completely different
copyright regime than in another
country. This creates significant problems
for researchers who are working
collaboratively across Europe and will
ultimately obstruct the vision of a digital
single market.
Bron: www.cilip.org.uk
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Though it sounds gruesome to us now,
books bound in human skin were not
uncommon a few centuries ago. Last
year Harvard conservators confirmed a
book in their library had an exterior
Using human skin to cover books peaked in the
19th century.
made of human skin after scientists
tested the binding.
Now University of Notre Dame conserva
tors are awaiting results about whether
a book in their collection was made
using human skin. Though the Notre
Dame copy's history is unclear, the book
has been a highlight on the library's
Special Collections tour for so long that
researchers decided to send a sample to
the New York City Medical Examiner's
office.
Newspaper clippings inside purport that
Christopher Columbus once owned the
book, which is said to have been bound
with the skin of a Moorish chieftain. It
may have passed hands after an era of
forcible conversions of Muslim inhabi
tants to Christianity in Granada, Spain.
But other evidence indicates it may have
been in the library of a German book
collector around the same time, which
contradicts the clippings' timeline.
Specifically, an inscription on the title
page reads 'Sum Christophori Binderi'
('Christophorus Binderus' book'),
according to a synopsis from staff curator
George Rugg. The university speculates
it obtained the book around 1916.
Using human skin to cover books, or
anthropodermic binding, peaked in the
19th century. Authors and scientists
willingly donated their bodies after they
died, but criminals' corpses were also
used to bind texts about law or
medicine. France's Reign of Terror also
saw a spike in human-skin bindings,
particularly those of nobles.
Source: www.buzzfeed.com
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Illustratie: Christopher Dombres (Wikimedia
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