Conscious Editing/Reparative Description

Conscious Editing/Reparative Description Resources

African American Experience (AAE) in Florida. “Conscious Editing.” University of Southern Florida. December 19, 2021.
Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia’s Anti-Racist Description Working Group. Archives for Black Lives Philadelphia Anti-Racist Description Resources. October 2019.
Caswell, Michelle. Dusting for Fingerprints: Introducing Feminist Standpoint Appraisal. 2022.
Caswell, Michelle and Marika Cifor. From Human Rights to Feminist Ethics: Radical Empathy in the Archives. Archivaria 81 (2016).
Council of State Archivists. Conscious Editing Webinar. Featuring members of the Conscious Editing Initiative at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries. May 27, 2021.
Curtiss, Lydia, Irene Gates, et.al. “Reparative Description, Indigenous Partners, and the SNAC Edit-a-thon.” Archival Outlook (March-April 2022): 4-5, 19.
Dean, J. “Conscious Editing of Archival Description at UNC-Chapel Hill.” Journal of the Society for North Carolina Archivists 16 (2019): 41-55. http://www.ncarchivists.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/jsnca_vol16_dean.pdf
Documentary Heritage & Preservation Services for New York. “Antiracism Resources: Conscious Editing Initiatives.” June 29, 2021.
Florida State University Special Collections. “Conscious Editing: The Way Forward to More Inclusive Description Practices.”
Hart, L. “Conscious Language for a Jim Crow Archive.” Carolina Digital Repository, 9 April 2020. https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/multimeds/6q182q97n
Harvard University. Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. 2020.
Hughes-Watkins, Lae'l. Moving Toward a Reparative Archive: A Roadmap for a Holistic Approach to Disrupting Homogenous Histories in Academic Repositories and Creating Inclusive Spaces for Marginalized Voices. Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies 5 (2018).
Thomas, T. (2020). A Case Study of the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library Conscious Editing Steering Committee. https://doi.org/10.17615/xw79-5z55
Learn more about the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries’ Conscious Editing initiative in the Windows Magazine article “A Choice to Empower.”
National Archives and Records Administration. Reparative Description and Digitization at the National Archives. Includes guiding principles for reparative description, addressing racial inequality, equity action planning.
Society of American Archivists. “Dictionary of Archives Terminology.”

reparative description
n.
1. remediation of practices or data that exclude, silence, harm, or mischaracterize marginalized people in the data created or used by archivists to identify or characterize archival resources (View Citations)

adj.
1. relating to remediation of practices or data that exclude, silence, harm, or mischaracterize marginalized people in the data created or used by archivists to identify or characterize archival resources (View Citations)

Society for American Archivists Protocols for Native American Archival Materials. 2008-2011.
Wilson Special Collections Library. “A Guide to Conscious Editing at Wilson Special Collections Library.” The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries. First Edition 2022.
Yale University. Reparative Archival Description Working Group. Guiding principles, recommendations, standardized descriptions, presentations and publications.

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