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Item The University of Maryland Libraries WikiProject: Challenges and Delights(2023-06-08) Hovde, Sarah; Doherty, Jennifer; Philips, Rigby; Guay, BethIn June 2020, members of what is now the Cataloging & Metadata Services team launched a project to begin exploring Wikidata, a free and open knowledge base of structured data. Over the next two and a half years, almost two dozen participants created and edited 1,492 Wikidata items related to 1,294 collections from SCUA and SCPA. In the process, UMD's Wikidata editors got to know our special collections, explored a linked data interface, and made library resources more discoverable by users on the open web. This panel features four project participants, who will provide an introduction to the editing project and share some of the challenges, delights, and historical backstories they discovered while working on Wikidata.Item “Technically” Anyone Can Use This Documentation: How the Average Archivist Can Make Use of the ArchivesSpace Technical Documentation(2023-04-05) Caringola, LizThe ArchivesSpace Technical Documentation isn’t just for developers. Members of the Technical Documentation team will present some examples of how archivists with any level of technical comfort might find this documentation useful for themselves or when communicating with their hosting provider, developer, or IT staff. Presented at the 2023 ArchivesSpace Virtual Member Forum as part of the session "ArchivesSpace Documentation Discussion."Item Consciously Editing Finding Aids at UMD Libraries(2022-05-05) Caringola, LizPresented at the 2022 Maryland Library Association/Delaware Library Association Conference in Cambridge, Maryland, as part of the session "Metadata and Cultural Memory: Investigating Models of Equitable and Inclusive Metadata Creation for Maryland History.”Item Can I Say?: The Punk Oral History Project at SCPA(2020-06-26) Davis, JohnThis presentation discusses an oral history project undertaken by archivist John Davis at Special Collections in Performing Arts (SCPA) at the University of Maryland. Since 2017, Davis has interviewed more than thirty fanzine creators from the Washington, D.C. punk subculture and has gathered the interviews in a series of the D.C. Punk and Indie Fanzine collection. The presentation includes examples of the interviews and also describes how the interviews were conducted using the Oral History Association's best practices.Item Consciously Editing SCUA’s Finding Aids(2021-06-03) Caringola, Liz; Frisch, Hannah; Stranieri, MarcellaThe phrase “conscious editing” was first used by archivists at UNC-Chapel Hill to describe their work “to re-envision our descriptive practice so that whiteness is no longer the presumed default, language in our description products is inclusive and accessible, and our description does not obscure collection material that documents the lives of enslaved people.” Students in Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) have been working from home over the past year to evaluate and improve archivist-created description in SCUA’s finding aids to be more inclusive. In the first part of the project, students read all of SCUA’s finding aids published on the Archival Collections website and applied a rating scale to indicate how the archival description could be improved and the nature of the needed edits. In April, students began to update the finding aids using guidelines such as the “Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia: Anti-Racist Description Resources,” the Conscious Style Guide, and many more. This presentation will summarize the results of the finding aid audit and propose new conscious editing guidelines that will be written into SCUA’s archival processing manual.Item A Work in Progress: Improving Labor Practices in Digital Libraries(2019-06-11) Wickner, Amy; Caringola, ElizabethLabor sustains cultural heritage and yet it is undervalued across libraries, archives, and museums (LAM). LAMs furthermore normalize contingency through practices like using short-term funding to create short-term positions in support of long-term programs and services. Conversations about labor practices and workers’ well-being in LAM often frame these issues as individual concerns. However, the impacts of LAM labor practices spread beyond the growing number of undervalued, invisible, and contingent workers that characterizes this field. In academic libraries, for example, workers with job protections (such as non-contingent faculty status) face mounting workloads as they find themselves unable to support and retain talented colleagues. These protected workers may also find it difficult to scale down their units’ responsibilities, even as undervalued and contingent workers depart. And when library workers depart or become burned out, what becomes of libraries’ ability to sustain access to information, teaching and learning, and high-quality research collections? In this session, we’ll discuss our recent work with the Digital Library Federation Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums (https://wiki.diglib.org/Labor), which focuses on two research areas: foregrounding the experiences of contingent and precarious workers; and developing a research agenda for valuing labor. We’ll briefly review each research activity in the first half of the session and devote the second half to discussion with participants. This session will be interactive but we hope you’ll stay!Item Writing the Docs Honestly(2018-08-16) Wickner, AmyIn this presentation, I reflect on the centrality of documentation to digital preservation work and – drawing on work by Jennifer Douglas, Sara Ahmed, and the Write the Docs community – propose four guidelines for writing more "honest" documentation.