#critcat — Public Fediverse posts

The January issue of Critcatenate is available with the latest updates in the world of #InclusiveDescription and critical cataloging.

https://cataloginglab.org/2025/01/31/critcatenate-critcat-in-january-2025/

#Critcat #Metadata #Cataloging #Cataloguing #ReparativeDescription

The August issue of the Critcatenate blog is available.

"Critcatenate is an effort to keep folks up to date on critcat efforts with a monthly-ish roundup of news. Critcat is short for critical cataloging, focusing on the ethical implications of library metadata, cataloging, and classification practice, standards, and infrastructure."

https://cataloginglab.org/category/critcatenate/

#InclusiveDescription #metadata #ReparativeDescription #Critcat #Cataloging #Cataloguing

The July issue of the Critcatenate blog is available with announcements on resources about #InclusiveDescription and related topics in the world of library #metadata.

https://cataloginglab.org/2024/08/01/critcatenate-critcat-in-july-2024/

#CritCat #ReparativeDescription #Cataloging #Cataloguing

The DEI Metadata Handbook: A Guide to Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Description

It is freely available as an open access resource at https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/plugins/books/153/

#CritCat #InclusiveDescription #Metadata #Cataloging #Cataloguing #Accessibility

The May 2024 issue of Violet Fox's blog Critcatenate is available:

https://cataloginglab.org/category/critcatenate/

#Critcat #Cataloging #Cataloguing #InclusiveDescription #ReparativeDescription #Metadata #DEI

I have just encountered Oxfam's Inclusive Language Guide for the charity sector which was published in March 2023! #critcat #inclusivelanguage #metadata https://views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/2023/03/launch-inclusive-language-guide/

new #OA article from me about the critical cataloging database (critcat.org) lessons taught by #critcat (#critarch #critlib). It's dedicated to and opens w a quote from Emily Drabinski bc it would not exist if not for her.

https://serials.atla.com/tcb/article/view/3216

new publication from me and Beck Shaefer: "Handicapped has been cancelled: The terminology and logics of disability in cultural heritage institutions"

Addressing historic Library of Congress headings like "people with social disabilities" we show how classification systems often erase disability and replace them with eugenic narratives about overcoming adversity or policing deviance. :

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/12898 #critlib #critcat #disability #GLAMS #GLAM

please boost/RT! the Queer Metadata Collective is looking for descriptive / catalog policies relating to marginalized communities, individuals, & their works from #galleries #libraries #archives #museums and #speccolls (#GLAMS).

these will be used by QMDC to aggregate and build on individual policies to collective recommendations. policies don't have to be queer specific! internal or external policies welcome, internal ones will not be redistributed without your permission. #critcat #critlib

My proposal is: "Advancing Equitable Cataloging: Marginalized Community-Based Participatory Cataloging in Galleries, Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Special Collections" and here is the official entry: https://vanier.gc.ca/en/scholar_search-chercheur_recherche_2022.html#:~:text=Watson%2C%20Brian-,Photo%20courtesy%20of%20Paul,University%20of%20British%20Columbia,-Other%20Library%20And

there will be some articles soon talking about what it means! Most importantly, hugely excited to have my field (#critcat #critarch #critlib) recognized among the highest levels of doctoral research. This is significant because

hello y'all! I'm joining from twitter. I'm still getting set up and following people, but by way of #introduction I'm bri, a phd at UBC's iSchool. I research information’s histories and the practice of equitable cataloging in cultural heritage institutions (#critcat in #GLAM or #GLAMS).

I also do #LODLAM with Homosaurus, publish on #HistBook / #histsex (buy my book), and other things like the NCPWG, TMDC, and QMDC. (see below for links!)