Description:

The Mellon-funded Transforming Indigenous Archival Search (TIAS) project is exploring how linked data can help reconnect Indigenous archival materials dispersed across institutions and improve their discovery by community researchers. Building on earlier work with the Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Cooperative, this new phase looks more broadly across linked-data systems, standards, vocabularies, and tools for culturally responsive archival discovery. TIAS project team members will discuss current work with SNAC, Wikidata, OpenRefine, Tribal entity data, and related authority systems, along with the larger questions the project is asking about interoperability, reparative description, and the reunification of Indigenous collections.

Speakers:

Diana E. Marsh, Associate Professor, University of Maryland College of Informations
Stephanie Sapienza, Digital Humanities Archivist, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland
Ugoma Smoke, Metadata Specialist, University of Maryland College of Information