Metadata is often created about marginalized communities by professionals unfamiliar with the issues and preferences of the communities involved and so work practices which appear to be neutral continue to enact harm. To counteract these problems, metadata best practices should be developed by representative communities. That is, those directly affected by exclusionary work practices. Example projects, which take up this challenge, include the Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia, Protocols for Native American Archival Materials, the Chicano Studies Collection Thesaurus, and the Trans Metadata Collective (TMDC). Created in 2021, TMDC, the focus of this contribution, was created in 2021, with the goal of developing a series of best practices addressing the sizable gap in information resources for trans and gender diverse materials and the communities that data is derived from.
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