Best Practices for Queer Metadata

This document is the result of two years of work by a group of nearly one hundred knowledge organisers, cataloguers, librarians, archivists, scholars, and information professionals with a concerted interest in improving the metadata treatment of queer people, communities, and items in GLAMS (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Special Collections) and other informational institutions. Their work has been supported by over 800 peer reviewers; combined, these groups make up the Queer Metadata Collective (QMDC). The QMDC builds upon earlier work done by the Trans Metadata Collective (TMDC), a similarly-organised group of metadata workers and information professionals with a concerted interest in improving the metadata representation of trans and gender-diverse people. The work of the TMDC culminated in Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources, focusing on the description, cataloguing, and classification of information resources as well as the creation of metadata about trans and gender-diverse people, including authors, communities, and other creators. Following the publication of the Best Practices, several TMDC members founded and developed the QMDC over the summer of 2022. This document focuses on metadata by and about queer people, communities, and resources. While there is significant overlap between queer metadata and trans and gender diverse metadata, QMDC’s recommendations should not be seen as excluding or superseding TMDC’s, as trans and gender diverse people, communities, and resources have specific needs. For best practices and recommendations about trans and gender-diverse resources, please consult the TMDC document. If the TMDC and QMDC recommendations conflict (we are not aware of any instances in which they do), prefer the TMDC document for trans and gender diverse resources and the QMDC for other types of queer resources.UT Librarie

Crafting a comics Wikidata project

This talk will look at how to create a Wikidata project focused on any or all aspects of comics, including creators, publishers, characters, and/or the works themselves

Review of Best Practices for Cataloging Comics and Graphic Novels

This presentation will feature members of the ALA Graphic Novel and Comics Roundtable Metadata and Cataloging Committee. We will present our committee\u27s creation, Best Practices for Cataloging Comics and Graphic Novels Using RDA and MARC21. The presentation will be a brief review of the document and will also provide us with a chance to gather feedback from audience members so that we can look at areas that might need revision for clarity

Inclusive Cataloging: YOU Can Do It!

Inclusive Cataloging—or Critical Cataloging; or, Ethical Cataloging; or, Reparative Cataloging—is predicated on the assumption that diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and social justice (DEIAJ) are central to the work of catalogers. The presenters will introduce the central tenets of inclusive cataloging and some practical approaches for reparative metadata projects. Attendees will acquire an understanding of inclusive cataloging and approaches to adopt inclusive and reparative descriptive practices in their work at their institutions