Infrastructures of reparative description
VALA2024 CONCURRENT SESSION 08
Wednesday 10th July 2024, 2.35-2.55pm
Alissa McCulloch
- Metadata Strategy and Standards Coordinator
- Deakin University
Presentation
Abstract
Following the release of the Guidelines for First Nations Collection Description for the Australian library sector, institutions across the country are grappling with how to translate the Guidelines into local policy and practice. This paper will not tell you how to do that. But it will discuss Deakin University Library’s approach to reparative description, what we’re doing, what we’re thinking about and what we’re planning next. It will also explore the work of the national Reparative Description Community of Practice.
Biography
Alissa is a metadata strategist at Deakin University Library with responsibility for metadata quality analysis, standards alignment, workflow design, reparative description and data flows beyond the catalogue, including leading a team of metadata and access librarians. She is the Information Officer for the ALIA Community on Resource Description (ACORD), the Australian cataloguing and metadata special interest group, and Treasurer for newCardigan, a progressive social and professional networking group for Australian GLAM workers.
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