Thesaurus construction for community-centered metadata

Bibliographic Data

ID22097147
AuthorsJulia Bullard (0000-0002-6815-0609, University of British Columbia), Julia Bullard Julia Bullard, Nigel Town Nigel Town, N Town (University of British Columbia), Sarah Nocente Sarah Nocente, Sarah Nocente (University of British Columbia), Aleha McCauley Aleha McCauley, Aleha McCauley (0000-0002-5412-758X, University of British Columbia), Heather O'Brien Heather O'Brien, Heather O’Brien (0000-0003-4726-1593, University of British Columbia)
Year2023
Volume9
Issue1
Pages51-66
Publication date2023-09-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNASKO (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2311-4487 • E-ISSN: 2311-4487
PublisherUniversity of Washington Libraries (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7152/nasko.v9i1.16307
OpenAlexW4387246336
LanguageEN
References cited7

Community-engaged approaches to resource access require metadata practices that surface attributes relevant to local information needs and use terminology that reflects local language. This paper details the iterative and ongoing metadata work involved in facilitating access to aggregated items through the Downtown Eastside Research Access Portal. The challenges and strategies we describe here build upon and are relevant to knowledge organization projects seeking to repair issues of inaccurate and stigmatizing descriptive metadata for universal and local collections. After contextualizing the collection and the community, we describe our process in assessing areas of subject terminology in need of major repair, sources consulted for thesaurus terminology, and the approach we have taken to build a stand-alone thesaurus for this project, including our exploration and attempts at meaningful and respectful input into terms and term relationships

Information retrieval · Metadata · Natural language processing · Thesaurus · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Library Science and Information Systems · Semantic Web and Ontologies

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