http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/ Culturas de Archivo Powered Site es-es http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/images/logo.gif http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/ tttp@irational.org http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=807 JORNADA PROFESIONAL MEMORIMAGE 2011* *El dominio público: las imágenes de archivo libres de derechos* Con la presencia de: Carol Swain, documentalista de los Archivos Nacionales de EEUU (NARA) y Ramon Casas, vocal de la Comisión de Propiedad Intelectual del Ministerio de Cultura Una oportunidad única para descubrir uno de los archivos más importantes del mundo y conocer la realidad del dominio público en EEUU y en España more: click http://memorimagefestival.org/es/text.php?id=93&edicion=2011 http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=806 DEL ARMARIO AL ARCHIVO. ARCHIVAMOS. ACAL www.acal.es Con motivo de la celebración del día internacional del orgullo lésbico, gay, bisexual y transexual (LGBT) dedicamos parte del nuevo número de Archivamos a conocer un poco mejor la documentación y los archivos generados durante la lucha de este colectivo por equiparar sus derechos a los de los heterosexuales. En el artículo central descubriremos el ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, primer archivo LGTB de Estados Unidos. En el Reino Unido visitaremos el Archivo Hall-Carpenter fundado a finales de los setenta en Londres con el objetivo de recopilar las pruebas que reflejaran la discriminación a la que eran sometidos. Por último nos desplazaremos hasta Sudáfrica, donde se encuentra el GALA (Gay and Lesbian Archives), fundado en 1997, un año después de que la Constitución surafricana declarara ilegal la discriminación por orientación sexual. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=805 time.com Thursday, Jun. 23, 2011 Hack Attack By Bill Saporito So who would you like to hack today? A bank, a website, a corporation or perhaps a government agency that's rubbing you the wrong way? The hacktivist group LulzSec is taking requests. Or maybe you'd like to get your hands on some stolen credit-card accounts to boost your personal spending level or purchase some malware that will divert a business's payments from its vendors to you. A malware seller called Zeus not only can do that but also provides customer support. Hacking has become a service and entertainment business — and in a quantity and at a quality never before reached. Hacktivists, pranktivists, idealists and malware coders are oozing past the circa-2000 network-security gates of corporations and governments with ease. Among the biggest hacks was the one that brought down Sony's PlayStation Network. Some fingered the politically motivated group Anonymous, and authorities in Spain have arrested several purported members. But Anonymous has said, Not us. When Sony announced that it had finally restored service, the gang of merry hacksters called LulzSec began to trample through its websites, including Sony Pictures. LulzSec, which makes a point of pointing out holes in Web security, used a hack called an SQL injection, then tweeted about it: "We accessed EVERYTHING. Why do you put such faith in a company that allows itself to become open to these simple attacks?" It has since broken into gaming companies such as Bethesda Softworks and Minecraft. It used a hack called a distributed-denial-of-service attack to lock up the CIA's website; it accessed account information from Citibank. (See if hackers are getting smarter.) http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=804 elpais.com Un ensayo en ratas abre la puerta a la recuperación de la memoria Se demuestra por primera vez la eficacia de un implante cerebral en la función cognitiva - El hallazgo permite investigar futuros tratamientos del alzhéimer EMILIO DE BENITO - Madrid - 18/06/2011 La clave de un tratamiento para el alzhéimer puede estar un paso más cerca. Y, para no variar, gracias a la gula de las ratas. Un ensayo realizado por investigadores de la Universidad del Sur de California, y que publica Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation ha demostrado, por primera vez, que un implante cerebral puede hacer que los animales recuperen la memoria de algo que habían aprendido. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=803 elpais.com El Gobierno vasco sigue reclamando los papeles del primer Ejecutivo autónomo UNAI MORÁN / J. R. MARCOS - Bilbao / Madrid - 16/06/2011 Quince cajas de archivo llegaron el martes alrededor de las 15.00 horas a la sede de la Consejería de Cultura del Gobierno Vasco, en Vitoria. Contenían los documentos incautados al Partido Nacionalista Vasco durante la dictadura franquista y depositados hasta cinco horas antes en el Centro Documental de la Memoria Histórica, en Salamanca. El PNV recibirá esos documentos en el plazo máximo de un mes, una vez hayan sido analizados por el Gobierno vasco, intermediario en la operación y encargado, como todas las comunidades autónomas, de sufragar la digitalización de la copia que ha quedado depositada en el archivo salmantino. El material recala en Euskadi como consecuencia de una disposición adicional recogida en la ley de restitución a Cataluña del material incautado. En la misma se abría la puerta también a la devolución de papeles a personas naturales o jurídicas de carácter privado, y a ella se acogió el PNV. Los archivos ahora devueltos reflejan la vida del partido, el funcionamiento de sus órganos de gobierno y su organización a través de varias actas de reuniones y asambleas, listas de afiliados y correspondencia interna. Durante una rueda de prensa, Josu Erkoreka, portavoz del PNV en el Congreso, destacó ayer entre el material recuperado, una serie de cartas privadas entre el primer lehendakari, José Antonio Aguirre, el histórico nacionalista Juan de Ajuriaguerra y quien fue ministro republicano Manuel de Irujo. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=802 El doctor Vela declaró en 1981 que su clínica llevaba un registro de mujeres que abandonaban a sus hijos al nacer JESÚS DUVA / NATALIA JUNQUERA - MADRID - 19/06/2011 El director de la clínica San Ramón, de Madrid, declaró a la policía en 1981 que este centro tenía un libro en el que se hacía constar el nombre de las parturientas que deseaban "perder" a sus hijos. Los bebés eran inscritos a continuación en el Registro Civil como hijos de "madre desconocida" antes de ser dados en adopción. La clínica San Ramón resultó ser una auténtica fábrica de bebés de la que salieron cientos de niños que hoy buscan a sus madres biológicas. La Brigada Judicial de Madrid detuvo en noviembre de 1981 a cinco mujeres y un hombre por su presunta implicación en un delito de "tráfico de recién nacidos". En esa red había prostitutas, intermediarias, la dueña de una guardería y el compañero sentimental de una de estas mujeres. Y mucho dinero por medio. Las investigaciones dejaron al descubierto que los bebés procedían de la clínica San Ramón, situada en paseo de La Habana de Madrid, donde las gestantes "obtenían toda clase de facilidades para ocultar su identidad" a la hora de desprenderse de sus bebés. El director de esa clínica que presuntamente sirvió de base para innumerables adopciones de recién nacidos era el doctor Eduardo Vela Vela, que asistía en el parto a las mujeres y, además certificaba que los bebés eran hijos de "madre desconocida". Empleados de ese hospital calcularon ante la policía que el 70% de las inscripciones que hacían en el Registro Civil eran de este tipo. Nunca se supo muy bien si ese doctor fue detenido o no. No lo aclaraba la nota de prensa difundida en su día por la Jefatura Superior de Policía, dirigida entonces por el comisario Gabriel García Gallego. Ni siquiera citaba el nombre del doctor Vela. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=801 Botanica After Humboldt EXPOSICIÓN DEL 16 DE JUNIO AL 16 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2011 INAUGURACIÓN EL JUEVES 16 DE JUNIO DE 2011, 19.30 HORAS MANEL ARMENGOL, ALBERTO BARAYA, JOAN FONTCUBERTA, JUAN CARLOS MARTÍNEZ, RAFAEL NAVARRO, JUAN URRIOS. Calcografía Nacional Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando C/ Alcalá, 13. 28014 Madrid http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=800 23/07/2010 | Actualizada a las 09:46h | Cultura Egipto recibe cien solicitudes privadas para legalizar piezas arqueológicas Muchas de las autentificadas son monedas de los periodos griego, romano e islámico, objetos prehistóricos y armas de la dinastía de Mohammed Ali El Cairo. (EFE).- Egipto ha recibido cien solicitudes de particulares para legalizar restos arqueológicos en su poder, de los que el ochenta por ciento son auténticos, en un proceso facilitado por una nueva ley que entró en vigor hace seis meses. "El resultado ha sido verdaderamente inesperado", dijo el director de la Administración de la Colección Arqueológica, Husein Basir, en una entrevista con el semanario en inglés del diario estatal Al Ahram. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=799 nytimes.com July 19, 2010 The Web Means the End of Forgetting By JEFFREY ROSEN Four years ago, Stacy Snyder, then a 25-year-old teacher in training at Conestoga Valley High School in Lancaster, Pa., posted a photo on her MySpace page that showed her at a party wearing a pirate hat and drinking from a plastic cup, with the caption “Drunken Pirate.” After discovering the page, her supervisor at the high school told her the photo was “unprofessional,” and the dean of Millersville University School of Education, where Snyder was enrolled, said she was promoting drinking in virtual view of her under-age students. As a result, days before Snyder’s scheduled graduation, the university denied her a teaching degree. Snyder sued, arguing that the university had violated her First Amendment rights by penalizing her for her (perfectly legal) after-hours behavior. But in 2008, a federal district judge rejected the claim, saying that because Snyder was a public employee whose photo didn’t relate to matters of public concern, her “Drunken Pirate” post was not protected speech. When historians of the future look back on the perils of the early digital age, Stacy Snyder may well be an icon. The problem she faced is only one example of a challenge that, in big and small ways, is confronting millions of people around the globe: how best to live our lives in a world where the Internet records everything and forgets nothing — where every online photo, status update, Twitter post and blog entry by and about us can be stored forever. With Web sites like LOL Facebook Moments, which collects and shares embarrassing personal revelations from Facebook users, ill-advised photos and online chatter are coming back to haunt people months or years after the fact. Examples are proliferating daily: there was the 16-year-old British girl who was fired from her office job for complaining on Facebook, “I’m so totally bored!!”; there was the 66-year-old Canadian psychotherapist who tried to enter the United States but was turned away at the border — and barred permanently from visiting the country — after a border guard’s Internet search found that the therapist had written an article in a philosophy journal describing his experiments 30 years ago with L.S.D. According to a recent survey by Microsoft, 75 percent of U.S. recruiters and human-resource professionals report that their companies require them to do online research about candidates, and many use a range of sites when scrutinizing applicants — including search engines, social-networking sites, photo- and video-sharing sites, personal Web sites and blogs, Twitter and online-gaming sites. Seventy percent of U.S. recruiters report that they have rejected candidates because of information found online, like photos and discussion-board conversations and membership in controversial groups. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=798 Wall Street Journal EMILY STEEL And JESSICA E. VASCELLARO Facebook, MySpace and several other social-networking sites have been sending data to advertising companies that could be used to find consumers' names and other personal details, despite promises they don't share such information without consent. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=797 www.elpais.com Facebook y MySpace, acusadas de enviar datos personales a las agencias de publicidad 'The Wall Street Journal' denuncia esta práctica, que carece de la autorización del internauta E. P. - Barcelona - 21/05/2010 Facebook, MySpace y otras redes sociales han estado enviando datos personales a las agencias de publicidad, a pesar de su promesa de no distribuir esa información sin su permiso. Así lo denuncia hoy el periódico The Wall Street Journal. El periódico norteamericano señala que la práctica se activa cuando un internauta clica en una publicidad. Automáticamente el nombre del usuario y sus números de identificación llegan a la agencia. El diario señala que después de avisar a las redes sociales implicadas, Facebook y MySpace corrigieron su código. Por este sistema, las agencias publicitarias recibían información útil para formar perfiles de consumidores, con la edad, profesión y lugar de residencia, entre otros datos. La acusación del WSJ se extiende a las redes sociales y a las agencias más importante, como Doubleclick (Google) y Right Media (Yahoo), aunque han negado haber hecho uso de esos datos. A través de la web, la agencia publicitaria sólo recibe la dirección del internauta que ha clicado, sin embargo si la conexión es através de una red social, a esa información se le incorpora el perfil del usuario. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=796 Texto completo en: http://www.amateurarchivist.net/amateur/?p=282 Museo de aquellos que imaginamos lo que es la inmigración como concepto claro y naturalizado y que, además, curiosamente, no nos consideramos dentro esa categoría. El presente escrito surge de la invitación a Entrepreneurial Cultures el MUHBA*. concreto se dedica al MHIC, basándose en lo dicho allí por su directora en el encuentro y en la información obtenida en la web del museo. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=795 POSTED AT 2:55 PM ON MAY 14, 2010 BY ED MORRISSEY That’s the question Claire Berlinski asks in the latest issue of City Journal, but the answer is rather easy to surmise. Michael Moynihan wrote about the problem from a different angle in an excellent article for Reason last year, and various pundits have noted the dearth of admissions over the true nature of the Soviet regime in the period since the end of the Cold War. The archives gathered by Pavel Stroilov and Vladimir Bukovsky, among others, provide evidence in stark terms of the end result of collectivist impulses — and challenge the academic conclusions about the nature of Soviet leaders, especially Mikhail Gorbachev: In the world’s collective consciousness, the word “Nazi” is synonymous http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=794 Iraq strikes deal with US for return of archives (AFP) – 3 days ago BAGHDAD — The United States has agreed to return millions of documents to Iraq, including Baghdad's Jewish archives, that were seized by the US military after the 2003 invasion, a minister said on Thursday. The documents, which fill 48,000 containers, are currently being held by the US State Department, the National Archives and the Hoover Institute, a think-tank. "We have reached an agreement with the United States, after negotiations with officials at the State Department and the Pentagon, over the return of the Jewish archives and millions of documents that were taken to America after the events of 2003," Deputy Culture Minister Taher Hamud said. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=793 nytimes.com May 15, 2010 Google Data Admission Angers Europe By KEVIN J. O’BRIEN BERLIN — European privacy regulators and advocates reacted angrily Saturday to the disclosure by Google, the world’s largest search engine, that it had systematically collected private data on individuals since 2006 while compiling its StreetView photo archive. After being pressed by European officials about the kind of data the company compiled in creating the archive — and what it did with that information — Google acknowledged on Friday that it had collected personal data on individuals around the world. In a blog post on the company’s Web Site, Alan Eustace, Google’s engineering chief, wrote that the information had been recorded as it was sent over unencrypted residential wireless networks as StreetView cars with mounted recording equipment passed by. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=792 Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) With a Probability of Being Seen Dorothee and Konrad Fischer: Archives of an Attitude 15 May – 12 October 2010 Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) Plaça dels Àngels, 1 08001, Barcelona Spain www.macba.cat The presentation of this exhibition around the figure of Konrad Fischer – the artist, gallerist, collector and curator – allows the museum to study the social, political and economic forces that shape artistic production and its effect upon a broad international community. This exhibition brings together some key issues of MACBA's current research: the role of artists, not only as creators but also as organisers and viewers, the role of collecting in art history, as well as the influence of series exhibitions such as Prospect in stimulating a response towards avant-garde developments in contemporary artistic production. The works and documentation brought together in this show constitute an investigation into the art-historical agency of an individual that not only introduced unconventional works in the Western contexts of the sixties and seventies, but also marked the artistic movements that later became canonical. The exhibition is divided in three main sections: Konrad Lueg – Artists; Dorothee and Konrad Fischer – Gallery and Archive; and Konrad Fischer – Curator. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=791 newsweek.com Fortress Apple The company needs to open up. By Daniel Lyons | NEWSWEEK Published Apr 23, 2010 By Daniel Lyons | NEWSWEEK Published Apr 23, 2010 From the magazine issue dated May 3, 2010 Apple's new iPad is more than just a gorgeous consumer electronics device. It's also a kind of challenge to the Internet itself—or at least to the conventional wisdom of what the Internet is supposed to be all about. Since the dawn of the Web we've been told that this brave new world came with brave new rules, one being that everything must be free and open. Force people to pay a subscription fee to read your news? You'll be doomed, the pundits tell us. You'll be left behind, eclipsed by all the smarty-pants companies that know enough to give their work away. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=790 nytimes.com April 30, 2010 Shoppers Who Can’t Have Secrets By NATASHA SINGER IT’S called behavioral tracking: • Cameras that can follow you from the minute you enter a store to the moment you hit the checkout counter, recording every T-shirt you touch, every mannequin you ogle, every time you blow your nose or stop to tie your shoelaces. • Web coupons embedded with bar codes that can identify, and alert retailers to, the search terms you used to find them and, in some cases, even your Facebook information and your name. • Mobile marketers that can find you near a store clothing rack, and send ads to your cellphone based on your past preferences and behavior. To be sure, such retail innovations help companies identify their most profitable client segments, better predict the deals shoppers will pursue, fine-tune customer service down to a person and foster brand loyalty. (My colleagues Stephanie Rosenbloom and Stephanie Clifford have written in detail about the tracking prowess of store cameras and Web coupons.) http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=789 nytimes.com April 26, 2010 Bitten By PHILIP HOARE INSECTOPEDIA By Hugh Raffles Illustrated. 465 pp. Pantheon Books. $29.95 Hugh Raffles’s beautifully written “Insectopedia” — part reference, part narrative and wholly engrossing — begins with an evocative image. On Aug. 10, 1926, a small monoplane began flying missions from Tallulah, La., to assess the population of insects in a vertical column of air. It was the first time insects had been collected by plane, and the results were astounding. In a square mile, rising to 14,000 feet, there were as many as 36 million insects. The amazed researchers began to realize that the atmosphere was unbelievably alive for all our notions of its emptiness: another world, filled with an ever moving, airy regiment. “They found ladybugs at 6,000 feet during the daytime, striped cucumber beetles at 3,000 feet during the night,” Raffles writes. “They collected three scorpion flies at 5,000 feet, 31 fruit flies between 200 and 3,000, a fungus gnat at 7,000 and another at 10,000.” And at the exalted altitude of 15,000, possibly the highest elevation at which any specimen had yet been taken, a lone ballooning spider was floating on its filaments, its body borne up on unseen currents. It was evidence of an aerial plankton, an ocean over our heads. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=788 elpais.com JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ 01/05/2010 E. L. Doctorow sigue aplicando en sus novelas lo que él llama un simulacro de crónica histórica de Estados Unidos. El autor de títulos como Ragtime recurre ahora al caso de dos personajes populares, Homer y Langley, como metáfora de un país que pierde el rumbo. Por Juan Gabriel Vásquez A Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (Nueva York, 1931) le gusta repetir el mismo comentario sarcástico: "La gente dice que escribo novelas políticas, que escribo novelas sobre el pasado, que uso técnicas posmodernas, que juego con los géneros literarios, que mis libros ocurren en Nueva York y que tienen personajes judíos... Así que soy un novelista político-histórico-posmoderno-de género-neoyorquino-judío. No sé, yo rechazo toda etiqueta que se le ponga al sustantivo novelista. Creo que usted estará de acuerdo conmigo: el novelista es alguien que acoge el mundo entero". http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=787 www.thejakartapost.com National archive system a mess: Govt official Rana Akbari Fitriawan, The Jakarta Post, Bandung | Sat, 04/17/2010 12:19 PM | National The outdated and inefficient national archives system must be renovated quickly to streamline bureaucracy and transparency at government institutions, a government official says. "This is partly due to the fact that a number of institutions regard archival work as merely *documentation'," said Tasdik Kinanto, the secretary of the Administrative Reforms Ministry, in Bandung. Law No 43 2009 on national archives stipulates that all government institutions keep well-organized and efficient archives. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=786 The Historical Archives of Macao conduct conservation workshops for up to twelve people on one or two Saturday afternoons a month. Participants meet in the gallery of the old Historical Archives building and learn some of the fascinating skills used in conserving paper records. Projects taught so far include paperback and hard cover notebooks, silk-bound volumes and accordion fold-out books. Launched in June 2009 to mark the newly established International Archives Day, the workshops aim to give locals an insight into this traditional craft while demonstrating the care Historical Archives professionals extend to the historic documents they work with every day. The archive staff have years of experience and training in handling these precious records, and are keen to share some of the basic notions involved in this craft with the public. While the presentation is mostly in Chinese, instructional support is also provided in English and support is on hand for the hearing-disabled. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=785 http://www.portalangop.co.ao 4/16/10 7:06 PM Angola President dos Santos approves media archive of Angola Luanda - The Angolan Head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos, Friday in Luanda approved the Network of Media Archive of Angola (REMA). According to the report of Construction and Organisation programme of Media Archive, the president also has set up an executive commission for its implementation, under the new Constitution. This is contained in a note released by the Services of Support to the President of Republic. According to the source, the creation of REMA, which has already been in the use in various Portuguese-speaking countries, constitutes a leading tool for development of education, thus allowing the access of the high and higher education students to the literature and scientific research. http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=784 The Audit, The News Frontier — April 15, 2010 05:21 PM It’s Time for the Press to Push Back Against Apple Yank iPad apps unless Apple cedes complete control over the right to publish By Ryan Chittum The Nieman Journalism Lab’s Laura McGann has a disturbing report that ought to perk up every news organization that sees Apple’s iPad as part of its future. McGann talked to Mark Fiore, who won a Pulitzer this week for his trenchant editorial cartoons. Apple has denied his iPhone (and thus iPad) application because in the mega-corporation’s own words, “it contains content that ridicules public figures” and violates its license, which says (emphasis mine): Applications may be rejected if they contain content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, sounds, etc.) that in Apple’s reasonable judgement may be found objectionable, for example, materials that may be considered obscene, pornographic, or defamatory.” http://www.culturasdearchivo.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=783 www.nytimes.com April 17, 2010 A Pulitzer Winner Gets Apple’s Reconsideration By BRIAN STELTER Here’s a digital-age perk of winning a Pulitzer Prize: Apple might be a whole lot nicer to you and your work. On Monday Mark Fiore became the first online-only cartoonist to win a Pulitzer, for weekly animated videos published on SFGate.com, the Web site of The San Francisco Chronicle. In a subsequent interview with the Nieman Journalism Lab, he recalled that Apple had rejected his iPhone application in December since it included cartoons that mocked public figures.