[Metadatalibrarians] Help with outdated and offensive terms in metadata

[Jeude Kirsten]

Dear Erica,



I once worked in a project for the digitization of a german historical press archive. We had similar questions when working on the years 1930-45. The folders carried discriminating titels, which were used at that time.

As the parts of the archive with this folders are not online, there is no final solution I could show you. But we came to a point of view, that we cannot change the titles. As an archive we should document the history and not change it. BUT: we thought it is really important to add context to the presentation and not just present them like they are. We could add an explanation and add alternative terms for searching. This brings us to another problem: the indexing of that discriminating terms by search engines. For that I do not know, how to deal with it. But as I said: We did not solve the problem in real life. This post represents a discussion years ago.



Best regards,

Kirsten



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Von: Metadatalibrarians [mailto:metadatalibrarians-bounces at lists.monarchos.com] Im Auftrag von Erica FINDLEY
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. Juni 2017 19:53
An: metadatalibrarians at lists.monarchos.com
Betreff: Re: [Metadatalibrarians] Help with outdated and offensive terms in metadata



Is there anyone out there that would be willing to talk about this with me more?



Thanks in advance,



Erica









*Erica Findley*

*Cataloging | Metadata Librarian*

Multnomah County Library

Isom Building

My schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00 am-5:00 pm

Phone: 503.988.5466

multcolib.org <http://www.multcolib.org/>









On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 11:05 AM, Erica FINDLEY <ericaf at multcolib.org<mailto:ericaf at multcolib.org>> wrote:



> Good morning,

> At my library, we are working on a digital collection of works created

> as part of the Oregon Federal Art Project

> <https://gallery.multcolib.org/collection/oregon-federal-arts-project>

> during the late 30's and early 40's. Some of the pieces of art have

> titles like "Basota negroid bust" or "Indian Habitat Diorama" and

> "Indian ceremonial dance".

>

> Since these terms are part of the title, I am not sure what to do. Do

> I keep the titles, but make some kind of note in these?

>

> Please help! If you can point me to any readings on this that would

> also be appreciated.

>

> Thanks in advance,

>

> Erica

>

> *Erica Findley*

> *Cataloging | Metadata Librarian*

> Multnomah County Library

> Isom Building

> My schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00 am-5:00 pm

> Phone: 503.988.5466

> multcolib.org <http://www.multcolib.org/>

>

>

>

>

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