... handful of catalogers to revise the new instructions so that binary gender was not encoded into the metadata of library records. This paper outlines the developments, results, and implications of this work. This means that a local cataloging community can determine the terms they want to use for...

... Classification Quarterly 29 , no. 1/2 : 53 – 71 . doi:10.1300/J104v29n01_04 . Roberto K. R . 2011 . “ Inflexible Bodies: Metadata for Transgender Identities .” Journal of Information Ethics 20 , no. 2 : 56 – 64 . doi:10.3172/JIE.20.2.56 . Stone Alva T. 2000 . “ The LCSH Century...

... actual practice. Practically speaking, transgender bodies are always somewhere. They are never “the body,” always particular bodies. Knowledges of them are likewise partial, situated, and concrete. They have particular physical addresses, metadata descriptors, storage media, search terms, indexing...

... frustrating to the creator, user, and the archivist. While the ongoing evolution and expansion of LC subject headings is good, moving beyond controlled vocabularies through practices such as the application of user-created metadata (i.e., tags) may be most useful to researchers and creators. It would, for...

... poststructural and queer theory, yet here I am, like everyone else in these projects, clocking absurd numbers of hours conducting interviews, digitizing materials, building websites, writing metadata, vetting collections management systems, and performing the endless labor of transcribing and archiving. Why? In...

... add metadata through tagging. The ability to store and display chronicles of everyday trans life in a publicly accessible archive is especially significant, given that many queer histories have been lost, destroyed, censored, designated as “classified information” and prohibited from view, or never...

... . www.hyperallergic.com/133679/documenting-the-public-side-of-sex . Roberto K. R. 2011 . “ Inflexible Bodies: Metadata for Transgender Identities .” Journal of Information Ethics 20 , no. 2 : 56 – 64 . Schechter Fran , and Jager David . 2014 . “ Contact Photography Festival—Twenty-Five...