![]() ![]() A project proposal was subsequently submitted to the Association of Research Libraries that proposed a framework for a new collaborative project with Indigenous communities in the United States and Canada. Two of those themes-1) the potential for linked open data to break down data silos and mutually enrich libraries’ and Wikipedia content and 2) an overarching commitment to increase diversity and inclusion in library and Wikipedia culture and content. During two days of discussion of our respective cultures and roles within the information ecosystem, several big themes emerged. In the summer of 2016 a group of Wikimedians, along with representatives from the Wikimedia Foundation and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) came together to discuss common goals and ideas for collaboration. Learning to Digitize blog post by Jamie Lee Morin.Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day blog post by Jamie Lee Morin.Wikidata Project: Indigenous Peoples of North America.Juno Awards Wikipedia edit-a-thon blog post by Jamie Lee Morin.Inclusive engagement with communities and researchers interested in these topics is critical to making description more robust, pluralistic, culturally competent, and accountable. Open digital projects can enable more diversity, but only when deliberate inclusive and participatory practices are used. ![]() Traditional descriptive practices in both archives and libraries often hide or obscure inequality in gender, sexuality, and racialization-reinforcing cultural hegemony. Furthermore, digital initiatives for archival and special collections often sit in a middle ground between descriptive practices and sometimes act as sites of tension. address a gap in overall strategic engagement in the academic sector for connecting descriptive practices, and especially linked data, with advancing diversity and inclusion.create a model process of community-librarian/archivist/curator-scholar collaboration using Wikidata to create structured data related to Indigenous collections and communities in North America and.advance social justice and diversity within multiple communities, but especially within the research library community.amplify the impact of contemporary special collections and archives in research libraries in the work of social justice.provide pathways for research libraries to address and deconstruct systemic injustice present in systems of description through developing a collaborative community description practice and model power-sharing with Indigenous communities.In Our Own Words: Decolonising Description in the Library and Archival Community Project goalsīroadly stated, this project is intended to: See this page for upcoming events, presentations and conferences. This website will be updated as the project progresses. This project is sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and led by York University Libraries. The purpose of the project is to advance a framework deliverables by using a case study approach to model community collaboration in the creation of structured data (linked open data or LOD) for archival and special collection materials related to Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, Métis) communities in North America. ![]()
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