Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources: Examples and Implementation

Online Workshop
This session is a follow-up to the previous presentation, “Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources,” which covered the major guidelines in the Trans Metadata Collective’s Report and began exploring implementation in various local institutional contexts. The report provides concrete actionable guidelines that can be used by metadata professionals with a range of backgrounds and working in a range of institution types, and includes both general principles that can be applied in any information context and more in-depth technical guidelines for specific domains.  Responding to participant feedback, the presenters will go into further depth on the guidelines, providing examples from across the cultural heritage spectrum (archival, library, and museum contexts.) Space for discussion will also be included, with participants encouraged to bring their own cataloging or implementation scenarios. Prior reading of the guidelines or attendance of the previous session is not required.

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
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/zxjEHQMJTx3GtGzaA

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