Plane Talk: Navigating Subject Headings and Descriptions in Aviation Records

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.

Putting a Name to Harm: Remediating the Titles of the Sideshow Performers Collection

Kiley Jolicoeur discusses a metadata remediation project undertaken to reclaim the humanity of sideshow performers depicted in souvenir photographs in a digital collection at the Syracuse University Libraries.

Newly Released: Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources

Bri Watson, K.J. Rawson, and Jackson Huang discuss the formation and goals of the Trans Metadata Collective and outline the highest level recommendations of the TMDC’s Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources.

Describing Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation and Freedom: Primary Sources from Houghton Library

Dorothy Berry describes a project at Harvard University’s Houghton Library to build a digital collection featuring materials that illustrate Black life in the Americas.

Improving Collections Metadata Using Donor Inventories

Chriziel Childers describes a project to incorporate donor-provided inventories into collection description for the Paul Lavern Cummings papers at UNLV Special Collections.

Improving Access In Slippers: State Archives of North Carolina Military Collection’s Approach to Teleworking Projects

Matthew Peek describes a remote, three-part project to improve collection discoverability at the State Archives of North Carolina Military Collection.

Updating Digital Collections Metadata at the Iowa Women’s Archives

Anna Holland describes a remote project focused on surveying and updating metadata for digital collections at the Iowa Women’s 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.