Deliverable | Timeframe | Due Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
Phase 2 | |||
Create best practice recommendations and guidance for creating inclusive language in library metadata statements | Mid-term | 2024 | Include components of Inclusive language statements with examples Include guidance and examples on creating user feedback form Local workflows will not be addressed |
Create a proposal for a UC-wide standing group to implement recommendations for Ethical & Inclusive Metadata in Discovery | Phase 2 | 2024 | Define scope of work Define representation and experience needed for membership Document initial deliverables Determine proposed place in the UC Libraries Governance Structure Determine decision-making capacity and relationship to existing SILS groups |
Create 2024 Final Report | Phase 2 | 2024 | |
Phase 1 | |||
Identify needs at each campus with regards to successful implementation of ethical and inclusive metadata practice for description, faceting, subject headings, controlled vocabularies, and authority records in SILS and UC Library Search (Alma and Primo). | Short-term | ||
What does “successful implementation” mean?
Do we need a deliverable for identifying EDIJ resources & projects? A number of these deliverables are dependent on such a list.
SURVEY
Determine what groups/people the survey should be sent to.
public services
technical services
Digital projects metadata
Special Collections & Archives
Library Level
July 2023 | Create survey Create Communication & Survey Contact list Survey campuses Analyze survey results Define what “successful implementation” means and scope areas of ethical and inclusive metadata practices Utilize survey when reviewing and updating Work Plan |
Create a list of UC reparative and inclusive cataloging local projects and practices that can be shared systemwide. | Short-term |
Will this be a continually updated list, and if so, who will maintain?
July 2023 | Who can contribute to this space? Will the site be ongoing? Who will be responsible for the site following our work? Categorizing, tagging, etc. needs Created: UC Campus Reparative and Inclusive Cataloging and Metadata Projects, Policies, and Practices | ||
Create a means of information sharing and communication around local campus efforts | Midterm | October 2023 | Determine |
Google Drive and Google Groups (perhaps a new UC-wide group?) might be a familiar platform that would be easy for users
Who will have view access? All UC staff? Public?
I would suggest starting UC-wide before deciding if it was appropriate to open to the Publicongoing responsibility for hosting and maintaining Determine the scope and policies for information sharing Created: SILS Community Slack channel #diversity-equity-inclusion |
Create a directory of campus personnel with description and discovery-related DEIJA expertise or responsibility (i.e. NACO, SACO, |
Linked Data, Language, Accessibility) | Midterm |
Determine platform
Question: is this just for the EIMPPT to use, or for other UC staff? If the former, Confluence would be sufficient. If the latter, I would again suggest Google Drive.
Add language as one of the expertise categories?
October 2023 | Determine ongoing responsibility for hosting and maintaining Determine full list of areas of need (i.e. add language, non-Latin scripts, etc.) | ||
Create a space for resources and training materials for UC libraries addressing DEIJA in cataloging, metadata and discovery | Short-term | July 2023 | Determine |
Make concrete recommendations for improved DEIJA discovery experience
Long-term
criteria and scope Who can contribute to this space? |
Make concrete recommendations for addressing representation issues with vocabularies, including misrepresentation due to factual error or bias and underrepresentation or erasure due to lack of specific headings.
Long-term
Develop best practices to create anti-racist and anti-biased description and classification for a more equitable, diverse and inclusive UC Library Search
Long-term
Make concrete recommendations for reparative cataloging for catalogers and systems personnel
Long-term
Maybe more clarity on “concrete recommendations” for the deliverables that have this phrase? From presentations related to ethical cataloging, it seems sometimes the hardest part about this work isn’t identifying that there is a problem, it’s how to make the decision on what to do about it.
Will the site be ongoing? Who will be responsible for the site following our work? Created: DEIA Resources and Training for Cataloging, Metadata and Discovery | |
Identify which groups are responsible for changes at local, national and/or international levels (e.g., local-level, SILS Operations Team, Operations Subteams, Leadership Group) | Midterm |
October 2023 | Identify potential best practices, policies, vocabulary, etc. that need to be changed Created: SACO Funnels Make a list of responsible groups for proposing/approving changes In Process: Groups Responsible for Policy Change | |
Hold regular updates with the stakeholders |
(Q1-4)
Throughout | Create Communication & Survey Contact list Communicate throughout with SILS RM, SILS Discovery, CMCKG, SCCMCKG, EDICKG, and local campus diversity committees Present at SILS Town Hall(s), as needed | |
Create Phase 1 Final Report | Long-term |
December 2023 | Release Phase 1 final report December 2023 |