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2. Making Hyrax more inclusive through controlled vocabulary choice
- Description:
- A lightning talk at Samvera Virtual Connect 2019 described thus and What if the Hyrax web application were to support and include, by default, controlled vocabularies from marginalized communities? Currently Hyrax supplies a default set of descriptive metadata fields for describing uploaded objects. This set of fields includes Keyword (a required field) and Subject (an optional field). Neither of these fields are controlled by a vocabulary of terms upon install. The Questioning Authority (QA) gem exists as an option to configure and apply controlled vocabularies for use with fields such as these in Hyrax. While QA can be configured to work with nearly any vocabulary, the current vocabularies offered through the gem when it is installed include LCSH/NAF/GFT/MPT/DGT, FAST, Geonames, MeSH, Agrovoc, DBPedia, NALT, and Getty (AAT, TGN, ULAN). These are widely used mainstream sources for topical subject and genre description but also tend to reflect the current dominant mainstream power structure in the United States (white, male, straight, able-bodied, middle-class, Christian, Anglo). Should we increase the list of vocabularies available, by default, in the QA gem? Should we go beyond that and enable vocabulary choices on the default Subject and Keyword Hyrax fields? This lightning talk will discuss these questions and consider vocabulary options that would provide more inclusive descriptive capabilities.
- Keyword:
- Controlled vocabulary, Samvera, Virtual Connect 2019, Lightning talk, and Hyrax
- Subject:
- Samvera Community
- Creator:
- Hardesty, Juliet L
- Contributor:
- Indiana University
- Owner:
- rob@scientist.com
- Language:
- English
- Date Modified:
- 07/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 04/23-24/2019
- Rights Statement Tesim:
- In Copyright
- License Tesim:
- Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International
- Resource Type:
- Presentation
3. Working Group and Interest Group updates
- Description:
- A set of very brief (3 minute) presentations given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line updating the Community on the work of some of its Interest and Working Groups. The 'Related URL' below links to beginning of this presentation in the day's YouTube recording.
- Keyword:
- Interest and Working Groups, Hyrax, Metadata, Connect 2020, Samvera, Controlled vocabulary, Marketing, User experience, and Repository management
- Subject:
- Samvera Community
- Creator:
- Egloff, Nora, Goslen, Anna, Awre, Christopher L, Hardesty, Juliet L, Jaffer, Nabeela, and Arling, Adam
- Contributor:
- Samvera Controlled Vocabulary Decision Tree Working Group, Samvera Metadata Interest Group, Samvera Marketing Working Group, Repository Managers' Interest Group, Hyrax 3.0 Metadata Application Profile Documentation Working Group, and Samvera UI Interest Group
- Owner:
- rob@scientist.com
- Language:
- English
- Date Modified:
- 07/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 10/26/2020
- Rights Statement Tesim:
- In Copyright
- License Tesim:
- Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International
- Resource Type:
- Presentation