The Trans Metadata Collective (TMDC) is a group of dozens of cataloguers, librarians, archivists, scholars, and information professionals with a concerted interest in improving the description and classification of trans and gender diverse people, …
While libraries and archives hold materials about or by trans or gender
diverse people, the lack of familiarity with these communities can lead to inaccurate,
inadequate, and even harmful classification and description. Consequently, a group
of trans …
Linked data, also called Web 3.0, is the practice of structuring information in a way that both computers and humans can easily understand, and it holds revolutionizing potential and implications for libraries, archives, and museums. As institutions …
What stories about the Stonewall uprising circulated around its 50th anniversary in 1969? How was the anniversary commemorated? Who is identified as important to the Stonewall story?
Bodycams, First Amendment, Live PD, law and order: police work has been
in the news a lot lately, and I have been thinking about how the police order, organize,
and control all of that information when literal life and freedom are on the line.
I sat …
The works of Donatien Alphonse François (1740-1814), better known as the Marquis de Sade, were banned nearly-immediately upon publication by both the King of France Louis XVI and Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and remained so for over two centuries. …