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Controlled Vocabulary Linked Data for Improved Subject Access to LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage Resources
Thursday October 10, 2024 11:20am - 11:30am EDT
Zoom
This lightning talk will review the Homosaurus project, an international controlled vocabulary of LGBTQ+ terms expressed as linked data and designed to supplement broad subject term vocabularies such as the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). The talk will review the vocabulary’s beginnings as a term list to describe resources in the Dutch language Homodoc bibliographic database in the 1980s, its translation to English in 1997 as the Queer Thesaurus, and its later conversion into Homosaurus version 1 (2013) and release as a linked data vocabulary (2015), which dramatically increased accessibility by allowing GLAM institutions around the world to access a standardized LGBTQ+ vocabulary. The talk will also review the current international usage of the Homosaurus (over 50 GLAM institutions in 11 countries), its approval for use in MARC bibliographic records using the source code HomeIT, and its support of the LGBTQ+ student and research communities by serving as a counterpoint to larger subject vocabularies which may contain outdated terms and thus contribute to biased search practices.
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avatar for Joseph Dudley

Joseph Dudley

System Librarian, Bryant & Stratton College
I am a librarian at Bryant & Stratton College, working virtually to provide reference assistance and technical services to BSC students and faculty in western NY, OH, and WI.  We are looking forward to becoming a Linked Data library in order to share our collections across several... Read More →
Thursday October 10, 2024 11:20am - 11:30am EDT
Zoom
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