Digitizing Hidden Histories: Building the Gender and Sexual Identity and Expression Collection

A presentation of a newly published digital collection which highlights individuals and communities that explore and challenge traditional norms of gender and sexuality. This continuously growing digital collection consists of rare books, serial publications, photographs and postcards, which represent a range of identities and forms of expression that resist heteronormativity. With some contemporary materials being selected for digitization, stakeholders were mindful of privacy concerns and rights to publish content when building the final project inventory. Additionally, the digital collections development team collaborated with curators and metadata specialists to utilize subject headings that represent LGBTQIA+ communities appropriately while recognizing that language and terminology is everchanging. Therefore, digital collections should not become stagnate after initial publication. Similar considerations and processes used to develop the Gender and Sexual Identity and Expression Collection can be applied to most digital collections management programs, whether new content is being digitized or a previously published material is being remediated.

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Work Title Digitizing Hidden Histories: Building the Gender and Sexual Identity and Expression Collection
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  1. Bethann Rea
License CC BY-NC 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial)
Work Type Poster
Publication Date June 2024
DOI doi:10.26207/x10g-7a64
Deposited November 11, 2024

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    • A presentation of a newly published digital collection which highlights individuals and communities that explore and challenge traditional norms of gender and sexuality. This continuously growing digital collection consists of rare books, serial publications, photographs and postcards, which represent a range of identities and forms of expression that resist heteronormativity.
    • With some contemporary materials being selected for digitization, stakeholders were mindful of privacy concerns and rights to publish content when building the final project inventory. Additionally, the digital collections development team collaborated with curators and metadata specialists to utilize subject headings that represent LGBTQIA+ communities appropriately while recognizing that language and terminology is everchanging. Therefore, digital collections should not become stagnate after initial publication.
    • Similar considerations and processes used to develop the Gender and Sexual Identity and Expression Collection can be applied to most digital collections management programs, whether new content is being digitized or a previously published material is being remediated.
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