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Metadata Learning & Unlearning

Fostering dialogue around cultural memory, data equity, and open education

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Creating Multilingual Digital Infrastructures

This essay shares reflections and learnings from…

Treshani Perera

Invisible Labor and Inclusive Metadata

Bringing equity, diversity, and inclusion work out of the shadows

I pondered over how to title this post as I have frequently reflected on the amount of labor that is required to create…

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Words Matter: Reconciling museum metadata with Wikidata

Bethany Ellerbrook

The Here and Now is the There and Then: Helping Youth Understand Today’s Media Landscape by Looking to the Past

Dovi Mae Patiño-Liu

Photo: Students constructing reflections about program participation Credit: Patiño-Liu

Here, But Not Here: Virtual Reality Programming for Teens in Libraries

A row of six images of severed sculptural Buddha heads, each with a caption below

Why so many heads of Buddha? Acknowledging the erasure of violence in OpenGLAM metadata

Garrett Graddy-Lovelace

Metadata Beyond the Eurocentric: Recovering Digital Cultural Memory

Virginia Poundstone

Dynamic Metadata Deepens Cultural Knowledge

Participatory metadata creation increases access to cultural knowledge. It makes…

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Metadata Isn’t Neutral: Addressing Orientalism and Patriarchy in OpenGLAM Art

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