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Mind the (Training) Gap: A Case Study in Assessing Metadata Competences by Transforming Records for a Multi-System Migration

This chapter discusses a multi-department collaborative project to reprocess digitized university art exhibition catalogs in an academic library at an R1 research university. It examines the challenges to legacy metadata remediation, the implications of a lack of training with migrations, and how to manage the expectations of internal repository stakeholders. Furthermore, it prioritizes the importance of organization-wide training in repository management, and positions a culture of continuous learning as a prerequisite for fulfilling the library’s mission

Searching for Paumanok: A Study of Library of Congress Authorities and Classifications for Indigenous Long Island, New York

Long Island is a case in point of the United States settler state landscape co-opting Indigenous peoples and places for naming geographies, beaches, and spaces. Despite ubiquity, the historic Indigenous origins and contexts have been largely obscured and overwritten. This study assesses the availability and accuracy of terms for organizing, classifying, and describing works by and about Indigenous Long Island. It reveals a lack of representation in catalog records and suggests remediation through establishing subjects and names with accurate, culturally relevant terms. A symbolic form of land acknowledgment, this practice of accountability fosters commemoration, reclamation, and reparation processes

Searching for Paumanok: Methodology for a Study of Library of Congress Authorities and Classifications for Indigenous Long Island, New York

Part 1 of “Searching for Paumanok: A Study of Library of Congress Authorities and Classifications for Indigenous Long Island, New York” evaluated Library of Congress (LC) bibliographic tools and sources for description and arrangement of Indigenous Long Island collections. Part 2 details the processes for identifying and assessing subject headings, names, and classifications with an emphasis on decolonizing methodologies. The authors discuss practical strategies for examining representations of Indigenous peoples and their homelands in LC Authorities. The study culminates with a knowledge organization schema to improve bibliographic control and understandings of Indigenous Long Island history and culture

Digital Repository Legacies: A Case Study in Assessing Organizational Trustworthiness

Academic libraries rarely discuss cases of digital repositories that do not meet the standards expected of trusted digital repositories. Implications from inconsistent adherence to technical and professional criteria often surface during migration projects. In 2020, Stony Brook University Libraries began migrating assets to a mono-repository environment. Persistent historical factors presented challenges to repository trustworthiness. This case study discusses a survey project to evaluate legacy repository statuses in the contexts of infrastructure, documentation, and staff capacity. It considers a paradigm of organizational accountability in digital asset stewardship and offers insights for reconciling inherited legacies with aspirations to be a trusted repository

Rape rates of American Indians in Robeson and surrounding counties

American Indians experience rape at a disproportionately high rate compared to their representation within the United States population. Despite federal, state, and tribal interventions to combat sexual violence in Indigenous communities’ rape rates are still high. Underreporting of rape in Indigenous communities can be accounted for by patriarchal ideals that negatively influence the treatment and responses to rape. Victim-blaming attitudes and behaviors permeate criminal justice systems’ and Rape Crisis Centers’ interactions with Native rape victims and encourage and account for the underreporting of the crime. State-recognized tribes are particularly affected because of their lack of status and national focus. The Lumbee Tribe of Robeson County is the largest state-recognized tribe in North Carolina and must rely on North Carolina’s legislation, police forces, and Rape Crisis Centers to provide justice and advocacy for their communities’ rape victims. The Lumbee’s tribal-based Rape Crisis Center, Enlightening Native Daughters was created to provide culturally competent services to better assist their communities’; however, it fails to adequately address rape because of its emphasis on educating women and not cultural revitalization. In order to see permanent changes in rape rates of Indigenous people a paradigm shift in popular thinking needs to occur in which matriarchal gender roles and gender typing of masculinity and femininity are taught

Cultural Heritage Image Sharing Recommendations Report

Deliverable 13.2 for the WorldFAIR Project’s Cultural Heritage Work Package (WP13). Although the cultural heritage sector has only recently begun to think of traditional gallery, library, archival and museum (‘GLAM’) collections as data, long established practices guiding the management and sharing of information resources has aligned the domain well with the FAIR principles for research data, evidenced in complementary workflows and standards that support discovery, access, reuse, and persistence. As explored in the previous report by Work Package 13 for the WorldFAIR Project, D13.1 Practices and policies supporting cultural heritage image sharing platforms, memory institutions are in an important position to influence cross-domain data sharing practices and raise critical questions about why and how those practices are implemented. Deliverable 13.2 aims to build on our understanding of what it means to support FAIR in the sharing of image data derived from GLAM collections. This report looks at previous efforts by the sector towards FAIR alignment and presents 5 recommendations designed to be implemented and tested at the DRI that are also broadly applicable to the work of the GLAMs. The recommendations are ultimately a roadmap for the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) to follow in improving repository services, as well as a call for continued dialogue around ‘what is FAIR?’ within the cultural heritage research data landscape. Visit WorldFAIR online at http://worldfair-project.eu. WorldFAIR is funded by the EC HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ERA-01-41 Coordination and Support Action under Grant Agreement No. 101058393

UX design in online catalogs: Practical issues with implementing traditional knowledge (TK) labels

At the center of the evolving debates of open access and intellectual property in memory institutions is a long history of excluding Indigenous Peoples from conversations concerning the access and use rights to their belongings. In recent decades many memory institutions challenged prevalent historical and current classifications of Indigenous Peoples in online catalog records. Most recently the Library of Congress (LC) adopted a new cataloging practice called Traditional Knowledge (TK) labeling as a way to return control over access and use of Indigenous materials to their rightful Indigenous owners. The advent of this emergent digital rights tool disrupts previously held assumptions about the purpose of rights statements in catalog records as well as challenges the existing balance between the rights of Indigenous communities and the interests of public access. The adoption of TK Labels in the LC’s “Ancestral Voices” digital collection brings serious practical implementation issues to light that deserve further consideration before memory institutions invest in this new digital access rights metadata standard. Although TK Labels are a technological opportunity that provide more space for community-based relationships within memory institutions, this paper suggests that the practical implementation of TK Labels in Ancestral Voices falls short of its promise to return authority to the Passamaquoddy people. Rather, TK Labels raise more logistical and technical questions about the effectiveness of the TK labeling framework and purpose of re-cataloging records describing Indigenous materials

UMSI Master's Thesis: Traditional Knowledge Labels in the “Ancestral Voices” Collection: Legacy Data, User Experience Design, and Cataloging Rules

In growing recognition of problems with many historical and current classifications of Indigenous peoples, some memory institutions are beginning to adopt Traditional Knowledge (TK) labeling practices as a metadata standard that informs catalog users of specific Indigenous community access and use terms. This research is to examine whether TK Labels as developed with Local Contexts are effective educational tools that return control over access and use to Indigenous communities. In this research I close read ten bibliographic records in the Ancestral Voices digital collection describing three re-cataloged wax cylinders belonging to the Passamaquoddy people. I found that TK Label fail to position the Passamaquoddy people as authorities of their belongings. In doing so TK Labels are not effective educational tools for non-Indigenous catalog users. I argue that merely superimposing TK Labels onto existing cataloging standards does not address the underlying issue of continuing to keep the legacy information, such as the title of the material. I discuss implications for memory institutions investing in this new cataloging practice of TK Labels and provide suggested user experience and design interventions to mitigate usability challenges.Master of ScienceUniversity of Michiganhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/149645/1/Reijerkerk_Dana_20190507_Final-MTOP-Thesis.pd

Reality Bytes: Strategies for Evaluating and Communicating the Virtual Realities of Digital Repositories

Working with data and bits requires continuous reality checks. For institutions that have accepted the responsibility of maintaining digital assets, self-assessment is a key component of digital collection stewardship. Organizations can make use of benchmarks, data-driven reporting, and surveys to record and communicate digital capabilities. Engaging in this reflective work aids in determining if capacity exists to realistically meet the requirements for providing long-term access to digital resources. For a repository to gain the trust of its content depositors and users, the data must be reliable and retrievable. These expectations presume that data will be refreshed and migrated for as long as the item is needed. Without investment in these integral components of digital asset management (DAM), perpetual use of digital repositories is a challenging promise for stewards to keep. This presentation will discuss strategies grounded in DAM practices for documentation and assessment, and ways to communicate findings that are characteristic of trustworthy, acceptable, and unsustainable digital repositories. DAM utilizes data assessment tools to strategically assess and plan for reliable and long-term collection maintenance. With this holistic approach, DAM follows criteria and tenets of data integrity, and places emphasis on frameworks of trusted and acceptable repositories. Information yielded from these studies detail the state of infrastructure, management, and sustainability. In institutions with unsustainable models (systems, people, resources), DAM can communicate and chart a course towards data-driven decision-making