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Beyond crowdsourcing: Working with donors, student fieldworkers, and community scholars to improve cultural heritage collection metadata
Journal of Digital Media Management,
8
(3),
242-253
(2020)
Abstract
Utah State University Libraries (USU) employs community-based crowdsourcing metadata practices that provide in-depth, collaborative strategies that go beyond more commonly used collecting methods. Improved metadata quality is a result of working closely with donors, community scholars, students, and the public to describe cultural heritage collections fairly and thoroughly. This article provides an overview of successful ways to collaborate with those outside of traditional library units to create more diverse, equitable and inclusive descriptions of archival resources.
Keywords: metadata; crowdsourcing metadata; ethical cataloguing; ethical fieldwork; community-based fieldwork
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Author's Biography
Andrea Payant is the Metadata Librarian for Utah State University Libraries. Her research interests include metadata quality benchmarks, outreach for technical services, assessment methods for cataloguing and metadata services, research data management, and optimising metadata creation based on user search behaviours. Her work has been published in a variety of books and journals and she has presented at numerous conferences.
Becky Skeen is the Special Collections Cataloging Librarian for Utah State University Libraries. Her research interests include outreach for technical services, assessment of special collections cataloguing training and professional development, assessment methods for cataloguing and metadata services, and optimising cataloguing records based on user search behaviours. She has presented at numerous conferences and contributed to a number of research articles.
Anna-Maria Arnljots is a cataloging and metadata services assistant at Utah State University Libraries. Her responsibilities include creating Dublin Core metadata and helping to maintain digital collections and exhibits. She holds an MA in American studies with an emphasis in folklore, and an MS in technical writing, both from Utah State University. She has presented on cataloguing and folklore at a number of conferences.
Randy Williams is an emeritus associate librarian at Utah State University Libraries. Her research interests included iversity, equity and inclusion, and she previously received a Utah Humanities’ Human Ties award for her work on the university’s Latinx Voices Project. She is also Archival Liaison for the American Folklore Society, a board member of the Folklore Society of Utah, the Vice President of Cache Refugee and Immigrant Connection, and the 2019–20 Chair of the Utah Humanities Board of Directors.
