University of Maryland

Contributions

OPEN ACCESS: “Piloting Reparative Description and Metadata in SNAC via the Indigenous Description Group”

IndigenizeSNAC team members along with other members of SNAC’s Indigenous Description Group were happy to provide an open access article for the Society of American Archivist’s Descriptive Notes blog! Abstract Archivists have recognized the need to rethink how this knowledge can be better represented, not only to heal previous harms but also to make information more […]

PRESENTATION: Indigenous Description Group Project Update 2023

A quick update from some of our IDG members and IndigenizeSNAC team members from the SNAC Annual Meeting 2023. Highlights include an overview of problem statements, information about our SNAC Edit-a-thon and editorial guide, subject headings and potential remedies with the Library of Congress, and priorities for future work.  Presenters Ia Bull; Diana Marsh; […]

PRESENTATION: IndigenizeSNAC Edit-a-thon Recap and more!

This presentation from the 2022 SNAC Annual Meeting provides a recap of the Indigenous SNAC Edit-a-thon! The edit-a-thon was privileged to have 18 Indigenous participants out of roughly 64 total participants, who all worked on about 50 different SNAC entries! The editorial guide was used and feedback shows that there are concerns and challenges to […]

PRESENTATION: Plans for IndigenizeSNAC Edit-a-thon Revealed

At the 2021 SNAC Annual Meeting, Dr. Diana Marsh and others plugged their plans for an Indigenized version of SNAC’s successful edit-a-thons! Below are the opening video before the edit-a-thon took place, and the closing video after the fact. Opening Video Presenters Diana Marsh; Taylor Gibson; Margaret Bruchac; Lydia Curliss; Irene Gates; Katherine Meyers Satriano; […]