PDA Event: Implementing Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources at Your Institution

Building off the guiding principles and foundation of the introductory presentation, this follow-up workshop will provide participants with the opportunity to explore what implementation looks like in their local institutional context. We will begin by covering some of the more technical aspects of the best practices, walk through some examples, and then split off into topical breakout rooms, where a facilitator from the Trans Metadata Collective will lead a discussion on implementation in specific domains and answer participant questions.

We will have the following breakout rooms:

• Archival Metadata & Description
• Bibliographic Metadata & Cataloging
• Digital Content & Discovery
• Learning Objectives

After participating in this workshop, you will be able to: 

• Recognize preferred LCSH’s and additional vocabularies that can be used to describe trans and gender diverse subjects;
• Implement best practices for describing trans and gender diverse creators, including when gender should be recorded and how to update name authorities;
• Identify types of content or metadata to flag during assessment for additional examination and enhance or remediate records where necessary

Presenters:

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 how metadata translation and digital aggregations impact the representation of marginalized communities. They currently work as the digital collections and content ingest coordinator at the University of Michigan. 

Adrian Williams received their MLIS from Florida State University in 2018 and has been the Cataloging and Metadata Librarian at the University of Kentucky since January of 2020. Their research and service interests include critical cataloging and classification, and LGBTQ+ inclusive bibliographic description. They’re a member of the Homosaurus Editorial Board, Trans Metadata Collective, and Queer Metadata Collective. In their hours outside of work they’re active in local tenant organizing spaces.

K.J. Rawson is an Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University. He works at the intersections of the Digital Humanities and Rhetoric, LGBTQ+, and Feminist Studies. Rawson is founder and director of the Digital Transgender Archive, an award-winning collection of trans-related historical materials, and he chairs the editorial board of the Homosaurus, an international LGBTQ+ linked data vocabulary.

Register for "Implementing Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources at Your Institution" on February 3.

Learn about session one of this series "Introduction to Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources" on January 26. 

Sponsored by BLC