ardeninredMay 15, 2024

I'd love to hear what you think about my new book chapter: A Visual Workflow for Cataloging

https://surface.syr.edu/istpub/201/

It's about the experimental DressDiscover tool I've been working on with Minor Gordon for #catalogers to choose from a grid of images that represent possible vocabulary terms for stylistic features of #materialculture, and how this relates to #UniversalDesignForLearning #UDL.

Do you think this alternative approach could help make the #cataloging process more inclusive?

A Visual Workflow for Cataloging

Our digital collections team took on the challenge to improve the tools and processes of cataloging. We began to explore how we could build features that helped students into a cataloging worksheet tool, under development at DressDiscover.org. After our initial development of the tool, we looked back and realized just how much Universal Design for Learning (UDL) had influenced our design, although we had not consciously intended that from the start. Our assessment of the project through a UDL lens was at first extremely affirming, helping us to note many ways that our work already supported all three of UDL’s principles of multiple means of engagement, representation, and action and expression. Next, it helped us prioritize the implementation of certain improvements we already had in mind and to add further ideas for future development. Looking at the project from the perspective of UDL helped us to shift from seeing poor quality in catalog records as a deficit on the part of the cataloger to a lack of supportive functionality in cataloging systems and processes. With a UDL approach to the design of cataloging interfaces and processes, we can provide accommodations to catalogers who have formally disclosed disabilities as well as make the cataloging process more comfortable and productive for all, including those who may have invisible, undisclosed, or temporary disabilities, those who are new to the process, and those who have been doing it for years.

SURFACE at Syracuse University
bri watson 🌈🏳️‍🌈Mar 29, 2023

please boost! ! The Queer Metadata Collective is looking for feedback from #catalogers #metadata workers #critcat #critlib #archivists #dh #histsex folks on questions or dillemmas they have encountered while describing individuals/communities/items

Some hypotheticals from working groups:

Classification:
* Some classification systems separate books about gay, lesbian, bisexual (etc) groups into different areas of the library. Should local practices override that in order to group them together?

VioletaFeb 3, 2023

There is no #listserv I like more than the one for Program for Cooperative Cataloging and here is why: there is no shame in saying what one really thinks of the quality of some #NameAuthorityRecord or #BibliographicRecord. The latest gem email contains a question: What intelligence level is this directed at?

Love it!
#librarians
#catalogers

bri watson 🌈🏳️‍🌈Nov 28, 2022

hiii y'all! I can (finally) announce that I've won (finally) announce that I've won a #vaniercanada Graduate Scholarship.

The award recognizes "world-class doctoral students... who demonstrate both leadership skills and a high standard of scholarly achievement"

My goal with the award money is (pending committee and ethics review) is to give it back by paying my research subjects (#catalogers in #GLAMS) for their time in focus groups improving the description of marginalized communities.

Robin Goodfellow (Puck)May 24, 2022
Out of curiosity, #catalogers, how many items can you originally catalog before your brain gives out for the day? #cataloging #librarians