2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries
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Item Mulling Over Multilingual Metadata: Making the Case for Ethical Compromise(2017-05-24) Ballou, Jullianne Hughes; Polk, Theresa; Cofield, Melanie; Kung, Susan Smythe; Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin; LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, University of Texas at Austin; University of Texas at AustinDescriptive metadata provides an initial filter through which users discover, select, and access information resources, often facilitated by use of standardized language and controlled vocabularies. However, multilingual and international collections can provide a particular challenge, as they do not always fit neatly within broadly accepted English and/or North American standards and schemas. Rather, blanket adoption of these tools can serve to embed bias, misrepresent cultural heritage materials, and marginalize the communities represented by them. A panel of library professionals from different libraries and archives at UT, who work with multilingual metadata and international collections, will discuss ways to promote cultural competencies and inclusivity in metadata decision-making. Topics to be discussed include cultural bias in controlled vocabularies, international name authorities, content management system limitations to building multilingual collections, and system-agnostic best practices. We will discuss roadblocks we’ve come up against and workable solutions. Panelists represent different perspectives and experiences with multilingual metadata. Jullianne Ballou, a project archivist at the Harry Ransom Center, will talk about building the Gabriel García Márquez digital archive in CONTENTdm with Spanish and English language metadata. Melanie Cofield, Metadata Coordinator at UT Libraries, will summarize challenges encountered working with metadata in two multilingual digital repositories (The Archive for Indigenous Languages of Latin America and Latin American Digital Initiatives), and share pragmatic, generalizable approaches grounded in best practice. Theresa Polk, Post-Custodial Archivist at LLILAS Benson, will discuss metadata decision-making in a post-custodial context, and implementation challenges with Islandora in the Latin American Digital Initiatives (LADI) project. Susan Smythe Kung, AILLA project manager and linguist, will examine AILLA's attempt to represent indigenous voices in the digital repository by including metadata that is both in hundreds of different indigenous languages as well as about those languages.Item Sharing “Gabo” With the World: Building the Gabriel Garcia Marquez Online Archive(2017-05-24) Ballou, Jullianne Hughes; Barnard, Megan; Adams, Abigail; Lozano, Daniela; Blake, Ryan; Diaz, Diana; Shaheen, Celia; Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at AustinIn 2014 the Harry Ransom Center acquired the papers of Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), considered one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century. Recognizing the worldwide interest in the writer’s work, as well as his importance among scholars, the family of García Márquez gave the Center permission to share significant portions of the collection online. In 2016, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) granted the Center a Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives award to digitize more than 24,000 pages from the Garcia Marquez archive. The project, Sharing “Gabo” With the World: Building the Gabriel Garcia Marquez Online Archive from His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center, will allow scholars, educators, and students everywhere unprecedented free access to manuscripts for novels, a memoir, screenplays, and nonfiction writings; notebooks; scrapbooks; photographs; and related ephemera. Decisions about how to build the digital collection, including selecting and presenting items for digitization and scanning delicate, intricately structured materials were made in close consultation with the Ransom Center’s archivists and conservators. Of particular importance was the decision to preserve and conserve the original materials and allow the digital collection to serve as a reflection and extension of the physical collection. The panel will be comprised of staff from several departments at the Center, all who have worked to make García Márquez’s papers accessible to a diverse, bilingual audience, including those researching his born digital files. Megan Barnard will talk about acquiring the papers; Celia Sheehan and Diana Diaz will discuss conserving and scanning delicate materials, in particular the collection's scrapbooks; Jullianne Ballou and Daniela Lozano will talk about metadata creation for the physical collection and the appropriation of that metadata for the digital collection; Abby Adams will talk about cataloging born digital material in the collection; and Ryan Blake will discuss the process of curating a small selection of photographs from thousands of images.