Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources

While libraries and archives hold many materials about or by trans or gender diverse people, the lack of attention paid to these communities often leads to inaccurate, inadequate, and even harmful classification and description. Seeing this need, a group of trans and gender diverse information professionals convened over the course of a year to create the Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources. We use the terms "trans and gender diverse" because gender is social and cultural. Many culturally-specific understandings of gender do not fit neatly into the Western conceptualization of "trans" but face related challenges around description and classification. This presentation and discussion will cover the major guidelines in this document and explore some ways that they can be implemented in your local institutional context. Prior reading of the guidelines is not required; simply bring your thoughts and questions.

Presenter/Facilitator Bio

Jackson Huang

Jackson Huang is a gender variant library technologist whose work focuses on the intersections of structural politics and technological infrastructure in libraries and archives. Their research explores metadata translation and digital aggregations on the representation of materials related to the history of marginalized communities. They currently work as the digital collections and content ingest coordinator at the University of Michigan.

Devon Murphy

Devon Murphy (they/them) is a white, nonbinary, and chronically ill metadata worker based in Austin, Texas, United States (Tonkawa, Comanche, and Coahuiltecan land.) They currently work as the Metadata Analyst at the University of Texas at Austin Libraries, managing metadata for cultural heritage collections. They are also active in creating ethical guidelines for visual resource collections with the Visual Resources Association’s Equitable Action Committee, and with the QMDC (Queer Metadata Collective).

Cost: Free
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This is part of the Maskwacis Cultural College Microlearning Series and is open to the public.
Contact Manisha Khetarpal by email  mkhetarpal@mccedu.ca or call toll free: 1 866 585 3925