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Team Updates

GENERAL and TEAM UPDATES: SNAC State of the Cooperative Program Announced!

2026 is shaping up to be a very exciting year of positive change for the SNAC Cooperative! There have been many developments and exciting plans hatched for various aspects of SNAC, including new potential description groups and partnerships, outreach plans, updates to controlled vocabularies, and more! Below are a few teasers, but we want to […]

TEAM UPDATE: Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon with Indigenous Focus!

Brought to you by friends working on the Council for the Preservation of Anthropological Records (CoPAR), this Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon focusing on Indigenous Anthropologists may expand your knowledge and skillset working with linked data. FAIRly Obscure (The Trilogy): An Anthropology Wikipedia Edit-a-thon January 9, 2026 | 11:30 am – 4 pm Virtual REGISTER HERE   Are […]

GENERAL and TEAM UPDATES:

We strive to keep up to date on SNAC and #IndigenizeSNAC happenings, and sometimes part of that means missing an update while some of the dust settles. Apologies for missing last month, but having said that, this update is jam-packed! Edit-A-Thon Due to the government shutdown, we have shifted our venue to the Folger Shakespeare […]

TEAM UPDATE: Final 2 Mellon Positions LIVE!

It has been a long, arduous journey to get all of our Mellon positions listed and up for applications, but the final 2 positions have finally been posted! We have already accepted applications for the Metadata Specialist and Post-Doc, and you can find details about the Developer and Project Manager positions below.   We have […]

TEAM UPDATE: Small Victories

We all know that the funding landscape is something more like a treacherous Martian dystopia at the moment… strange, hard to navigate, a little hard to breathe, and constantly under attack by creatures that sneak up on you! In our position as an R1 University, even though our main funding is not federal (thanks Mellon!), […]