Ali Lane and Charise Dinges examine how archivists at the Museum of Flight reconcile the differences between natural language use, Library of Congress Subject Headings, and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s vocabulary standards when describing aircrafts.
Tag Archives: controlled vocabulary
The Uncontrolled Vocabulary: Queer Archiving and the Fluidity of Language
Bianca Finley Alper, Isaac Fellman, and Megan Needels discuss the creation of an in-house controlled vocabulary at the GLBT Historical Society and confront the difficulties of cataloging an inherently fluid terminology.
Pvt. Smith or PVT Smith? Abbreviating Military Ranks in Archival Descriptions
Andrew Harman discusses the creation of a controlled vocabulary for military rank abbreviations at Chapman University’s Center for American War Letters Archives.
Change is Good: Navigating Wikidata as a Controlled Descriptive Vocabulary
Sharon Mizota discusses the development of guidelines for using Wikidata as a controlled descriptive vocabulary within a reparative, social justice framework.
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