ARTchivist's Notebook: Should you use the term "decolonize"?
Should you use the term "decolonize"? When I started my DEI metadata consulting business about 18 months ago, I thought it would be cool to say I was...
ARTchivist's Notebook: An unexpected resource for DEI in metadata
Style Guides: An unexpected resource for DEI in metadata (Screenshot of a slide from our Society of American Archivists Reparative Description Webinar) Last...
ARTchivist's Notebook: Artle, or Art Without Metadata
Like lots of people, I've been playing Artle, the new Wordle-esque game from the National Gallery of Art. Each day brings a new challenge, in the form of an...
ARTchivist's Notebook: Metadata-tion
Metadata-tion Records are like clouds Credit: Dmitry Makeev, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Here's one for the catalogers and processors. I've been...
ARTchivist's Notebook: The role of corporate archives in truth and reconciliation
The role of corporate archives in truth and reconciliation In listening to the podcast episode "How Companies Reckon with Past Wrongdoing" from HBR Ideacast,...
ARTchivist's Notebook: Archives as time travel
Archives as time travel The past is never dead. It's not even past. -- William Faulkner It's a new year, still shadowed by COVID, and I wish the recent past...
ARTchivist's Notebook: Seeing ourselves in archives
Seeing ourselves in archives On giving away Auntie's things (Irene Yamamoto, January 1978) A year ago this week, my Auntie Irene passed away. At the end of...
ARTchivist's Notebook: The White Gaze
The White Gaze Is photography inherently racist? The Getty's exhibition "Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA" (which closed on Oct. 10) explores the ways...
ARTchivist's Notebook: Looting in metadata
Looting in metadata Representing the provenance of stolen items It's no longer surprising to hear how the treasures in the world's museums were acquired...