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Representing Communities Through Descriptive Practices In The Archives, Annia Gonzalez, Rhia Rae
Representing Communities Through Descriptive Practices In The Archives, Annia Gonzalez, Rhia Rae
Athenaeum: Scholarly Works of the FIU Libraries Faculty and Staff
This poster will discuss our experiences as archivists in a University Library Special Collections Department working toward creating and implementing descriptive metadata practices that are inclusive of the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented throughout collections. We will present our project decisions and specific examples of new descriptive practices and remediation steps we have taken in the past two years, in the hopes that our experiences will provide a model with recommendations for an ethical archival practice that leads to broader access of important manuscript collections.
National Endowment For The Humanities Grant: Dana Dorsey, Rhia Rae, Rebecca Bakker, Molly Castro
National Endowment For The Humanities Grant: Dana Dorsey, Rhia Rae, Rebecca Bakker, Molly Castro
Works of the FIU Libraries
Presented at the 5th Annual Library Symposium by the Peer Review & Research Committee:
This brief presentation will highlight our current work on the recently awarded National Endowment for the Humanities grant, "Enhancing Access and Research Possibilities through Critical Engagement with Historical Data." The goal of this initiative is to produce a set of open data resources, based on the papers of Dana A. Dorsey (1868 - 1940). The papers record Dorsey’s business transactions and consists of warranty deeds, mortgages, legal documents, and correspondence, which detail the properties and locations of what were the newly created Miami sub-divisions from …