Contributions

Our Principal Investigator, Dr. Diana Marsh, and Graduate Assistant, Ia Bull, recorded a workshop presentation with other SNAC Liaisons for eLaboratories on December 12, 2024. The presentation, titles ” SNAC for Indigenous Archival Research: Finding Records and Improving Representation,” discussed how SNAC can be used for archival research by introducing key components to the SNAC […]

IndigenizeSNAC and UMD scholars have published an essay in the Journal of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology tackles the fundamental problems with displaced and dispersed Indigenous archival diaspora and promotes SNAC as a potential solution. These are important implications that will allow for SNAC to become better known as a discovery tool and sets […]

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 […]

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; […]

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 […]