Name: Enhancing Search and Discovery for LGBTQIA+ Materials at the Orbis Cascade Alliance and Beyond: a Tour of the Homosaurus Implementation Project
Start: 2024-10-10T15:45:00-0400
End: 2024-10-10T16:30:00-0400

Thursday October 10, 2024 3:45pm - 4:30pm EDT

Zoom

In 2023, the Orbis Cascade Alliance’s Cataloging Standing Group (CSG) launched a project to retrospectively add terms from the Homosaurus international linked data vocabulary to bibliographic records across its consortium’s holdings. This project serves as a model for libraries and vendors seeking to expand search and discovery for LGBTQIA+ materials using linked data in national bibliographic databases. The project provides pathways for non-library metadata experts to expand discovery and mitigate harm in bibliographic records and library systems drawing from their diverse perspectives.

This presentation will highlight training materials developed for the project, workflows for enhancing the Homosaurus with suggestions for new terms or revisions to existing terms, and an overview of a process for submitting proposals to the SACO Gender and Sexuality Funnel Project. Presenters will also discuss reflections on project participants’ integration with the Homosaurus community of practice through implementation coordination and the development of best practices, plans for advocacy with metadata vendors and library systems, and lessons learned from managing a consortium-wide project.

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