Conscious Editing/Reparative Description Resources

African American Experience (AAE) in Florida. “Conscious Editing.” University of Southern Florida. December 19, 2021.
Antracoli, Alexis A.; Berdini, Annalise; Bolding, Kelly; Charlton, Faith; Ferrara, Amanda; Johnson,Valencia; and Rawdon, Katy. “Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia: Anti-Racist Description Resources.” October 2020.
https://archivesforblacklives.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/ardr_202010.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2HYg-zfQt140DzUBvAM9EeuSaApPX2yyRBUfw3bXIZVb0KwBwauOMwe9k
Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia’s Anti-Racist Description Working Group. Archives for Black Lives Philadelphia Anti-Racist Description Resources. October 2019.
Berry, Dorothy. “Conscious Editing: Enhancing Diversity and Discovery.” Sunshine State Digital Network Webinar, October 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGCTtDgNty4
Berry, Dorothy, et al. Toward Culturally Competent Archival (Re)Description of Marginalized Histories. 2018
Bolding, Kelly; Hart, Laura; Rinn, Meghan; Smith, Holly. “SSDN Introduction to Conscious Editing Series Part 2.” November 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD4V-FZCkkw
Bone, Christine, Sharon Farnel, Sheila Laroque, and Brett Lougheed. Decolonizing Descriptions: Finding, Naming and Changing the Relationship between Indigenous People, Libraries and Archives. 2017
Carbajal, Itza; Coup, Betts; Tai, Jessica. “SSDN Introduction to Conscious Editing Series Part 3.” December 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtl_ysMpPN8
Caringola, Liz; Frisch, Hannah; and Stranieri, Marcella. “Consciously Editing SCUA’s Finding Aids,” Libraries Research and Innovative Practice Forum. June 3, 2021. https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/27153
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).
Chew, Carissa. Inclusive Terminology Project.
Chilcott, Alicia. “Towards protocols for describing racially offensive language in UK public archives.” Archival Science 19, 2019, pp. 359-376. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-019-09314-y
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.”
Geraci, Noah, and Cyndi Shein. “Practicing Inclusive Archival Description.” Campfire session facilitated at the Society of California Archivists Annual Meeting. 2019
Geraci, Noah. Programmatic Approaches to Bias in Descriptive Metadata. 2019
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).
Humanities for All. Mukurtu CMS: An Indigenous Archive and Publishing Tool
Kempton, Alia D. A Case Study: Reparative Description in Archival Settings. 2022.
Lellman, Charlotte; Clutterbuck-Cook, Hanna; LaFountain, Amber; and Sedgwick, Jessica. “Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description.” 2020. https://wiki.harvard.edu/.../Guidelines+for+Inclusive+and+Conscientious+Description
Local Contexts. Grounding Indigenous Rights. Local Contexts also provides a new set of procedural workflows that emphasize vetting content, collaborative curation, ethical management and sustained outreach practices within institutions. https://localcontexts.org/
Luster, Dominique. “Archives Have the Power to Boost Marginalized Voices.” Talk delivered at TEDxPittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2018
MacNeil, Heather. “Picking Our Text: Archival Description, Authenticity, and the Archivist as Editor.” The American Archivist, vol. 68, no. 2, Fall - Winter 2005, pp. 264-278. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40294291
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.
OCLC. Reimagine Descriptive Workflows: A Project Summary
Princeton University Libraries. PUL’s inclusive description working group shares progress on effort to describe collections accurately, respectfully
Smith, Helen Wong. Cultural Diversity Competency Course. 2018
Smith, Helen Wong and Rebecca Hankins. Cultural Competency and Diversity in the Archives. 2016
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Talking about Race: Social Identities and Systems of Oppression
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 of American Archivists Protocols for Native American Archival Materials. 2008-2011.
Society of American Archivists. Reparative Description. Blog post.
Society of California Archivists. Applying Radical Empathy Framework in Archival Practice. 2018
Sunshine State Digital Network: Introduction to Conscious Editing Series. 2020
Sunshine State Digital Network Metadata Working Group. Inclusive Metadata & Conscious Editing Resources, October 5, 2020. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1APavAd1p1f9y1vBUudQIuIsYnq56ypzNYJYgDA9RNbU/edit
Tang, Annie; Berry, Dorothy; Bolding, Kelly; and Winston, Rachel E., "Toward Culturally Competent Archival (Re)Description of Marginalized Histories”. Library Presentations, Posters, and Videos. August 16, 2018. https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/library_presentations/23
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.”
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.
Yin, Karen. “Conscious Style Guide.” 2015. https://consciousstyleguide.com

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