Draft International Standard ISO 16175 (formerly ICA-Req) released for ICA members comments

Access the draft versions of the updated ISO 16175 standard - ICA members only, and send your comments to ICA's liaison to ISO, Adrian Cunningham, before the end of April.

Anthea Seles’ presentation on Artificial Intelligence and Archives

The Secretary General was invited to give the keynote speech at the Conference of the French Ministry of Economy and Finance’s Archives Correspondents, and discussed the impact of artificial Intelligence and machine learning on information and archives  management.

UNESCO Archives launches crowdsourcing on 5 000 photos from its historic collection

Put a World of Pictures into Words

Help the UNESCO Archives enrich its exceptional photo collection! We’re transcribing information from 5,000 photos of our historic collection, image by image, so that all the details we have about each photo are searchable. It’s a big job, so we need your help!

February January 2019 HRWG Newsletter

The Archives and Human Rights Group newsletter is now released!

Click here to check available translated versions

The ICA Newsletter of February is now released!

Follow this link to read the February 2019 issue of the ICA Newsletter

ICA Fellows Call for Nominations

Do you know someone who has made a significant contribution to archives at an international level? Has a member of ICA made an important contribution to this organisation? Then nominate them for an ICA Fellowship. Being named an ICA Fellow is the most significant international distinction that...

Comma: Open Call for Papers

Did you contribute to ICA Yaoundé 2018? Write an article for Comma and reach archivists around the world! Submissions are now invited for an open issue, to be published late in 2019. The deadline for submission of the final article is 30 May  2019 (23:59:59 Liverpool Time).

FIDA Funded Projects 2019

In 2018 the Board of trustees of FIDA has awarded the following projects:

1. Creation of literary, artistic and cinematic collections in the National Archives of Cameroon

2. Organization and accessibility of the Memoria Abierta Photo Archive...

The Universal Declaration on Archives is now available in 40 languages

The Universal Declaration on Archives, adopted by the 36th Session of the General Conference of UNESCO on 10th November 2011, has just been translated in Persian by the National Archives of Iran.

SARBICA 2019 Symposium - Early Bird Registration extended to 28 February!

The 2019 International Symposium of the Southeast Asia Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (SARBICA) is hosted by the National Archives of Singapore (NAS). It will take place from 24-28 June 2019 in Singapore. With the theme of “Rethinking Archives: Reframing Boundaries,...