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Thesaurus Construction for Community-Centered Metadata Bullard, Julia; Town, Nigel; Nocente, Sarah; McCauley, Aleha; O'Brien, Heather, 1977-

Abstract

Community-engaged approaches to resource access require metadata practices that surface attributes relevant to local information needs and use terminology that reflects local language. This paper details the iterative and ongoing metadata work involved in facilitating access to aggregated items through the Downtown Eastside Research Access Portal. The challenges and strategies we describe here build upon and are relevant to knowledge organization projects seeking to repair issues of inaccurate and stigmatizing descriptive metadata for universal and local collections. After contextualizing the collection and the community, we describe our process in assessing areas of subject terminology in need of major repair, sources consulted for thesaurus terminology, and the approach we have taken to build a standalone thesaurus for this project, including our exploration and attempts at meaningful and respectful input into terms and term relationships.

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Title
Thesaurus Construction for Community-Centered Metadata
Creator
Bullard, Julia; Town, Nigel; Nocente, Sarah; McCauley, Aleha; O'Brien, Heather, 1977-
Publisher
International Society for Knowledge Organization
Date Issued
2023-09
Description
Community-engaged approaches to resource access require metadata practices that surface attributes relevant to local information needs and use terminology that reflects local language. This paper details the iterative and ongoing metadata work involved in facilitating access to aggregated items through the Downtown Eastside Research Access Portal. The challenges and strategies we describe here build upon and are relevant to knowledge organization projects seeking to repair issues of inaccurate and stigmatizing descriptive metadata for universal and local collections. After contextualizing the collection and the community, we describe our process in assessing areas of subject terminology in need of major repair, sources consulted for thesaurus terminology, and the approach we have taken to build a standalone thesaurus for this project, including our exploration and attempts at meaningful and respectful input into terms and term relationships.
Geographic Location
Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Genre
Conference Paper
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2023-10-27
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0437392
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/86368
Affiliation
Arts, Faculty of; Library, UBC; Information, School of
Citation
Julia Bullard, Nigel Town, Sarah Nocente, Aleha McCauley & Heather O'Brien. 2023. Thesaurus construction for community-centered metadata. NASKO, Vol. 9. pp. 51-66.
Publisher DOI
10.7152/nasko.v9i1.16307
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty; Graduate
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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