Piloting Reparative Description and Metadata in SNAC via the Indigenous Description Group
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- Bull, Ia (Contributor)
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Piloting Reparative Description and Metadata in SNAC via the Indigenous Description Group
Abstract
Archivists have recognized the need to rethink how indigenous knowledge can be better represented, not only to heal previous harms but also to make information more accessible and usable for communities. The Indigenous Description Group, founded in Spring 2023 within the Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) cooperative, represents one effort to do this work in a pan-institutional and collaborative way.
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Date
2024-04-02
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05/04/2024, 18:26
Language
English
Rights
Indigenous Matters
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United States of America
Notes
The group itself says it is only working within the US.
“We acknowledge that this work is only within the borders of the U.S. and also relies on the problematic federal recognition process as a starting point. We are eager to explore possibilities of integrating the culture thesaurus that is in development at the National Museum of the American Indian, as well as those developed in Canada and elsewhere; we are also hoping to work with the Technical Infrastructure Working Group to consider better subject searching in our future work.”
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Piloting Reparative Description and Metadata in SNAC via the Indigenous Description Group. (2024, April 2). Descriptive Notes. https://saadescription.wordpress.com/2024/04/02/piloting-reparative-description-and-metadata-in-snac-via-the-indigenous-description-group/
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