METADATA THAT EXCLUDES: A Case Study of the Rock Springs Massacre in Digital Collections
This poster presents the preliminary findings of a project that analyzes archival materials about the 1885 Rock Springs Massacre to understand archival silences around the experiences of Chinese people in the United States. We observed that metadata contributes to the exclusion of Chinese people through absent categories, overly narrow subject descriptions, and an emphasis on foreignness and otherness. Future work will identify points of intervention in digital preservation to address these issues.
["Han, Yingying", "Han, Ruohua", "Wickett, Karen M."]
["metadata", "digital collections", "archival silence"]