A special issue of KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies that takes up the critical relationship between metadata and knowledge. The issue includes articles and project reports that address metadata, hidden knowledge, and labour; standards versus expression; knowledge sharing and reuse of metadata; forays into open and shared knowledge; linked data, metadata translation, and discovery; and machine learning and knowledge graphs. Although rarely an object of notice or scrutiny by its users, metadata governs the circulation of information and has the power to name, broadcast, normalize, oppress, and exclude. As the contributions to this issue demonstrate, metadata is knowledge, and metadata creators, systems, and practices must contend with how metadata means.
Guest Editors: Stacy Allison-Cassin and Dean Seeman
Collection launched: July 27, 2022
(Cover image adapted from the public domain image "Floating berg, showing the proportion above and under the water" (1892) by G. Frederick Wright, available from the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank at the University of Washington Libraries.)
Authors: Stacy Allison-Cassin, Dean Seeman
Authors: Daniela Ansovini, Kelli Babcock, Tanis Franco, Jiyun Alex Jung, Karen Suurtamm, Alexandra Wong
Authors: Amanda Belantara, Emily Drabinski
Authors: Lisa Börjesson, Olle Sköld, Zanna Friberg, Daniel Löwenborg, Gísli Pálsson, Isto Huvila
Authors: Erin Canning, Susan Brown, Sarah Roger, Kimberley Martin
Author: Alexandra Gooding
Author: John Huck
Authors: Huda Khan, Claire DeMarco, Christine Fernsebner Eslao, Steven Folsom, Jason Kovari, Simeon Warner, Tim Worrall, Astrid Usong
Authors: Mairelys Lemus-Rojas, Jere Odell, Lucille Frances Brys, Mirian Ramirez Rojas
Authors: Nerissa Lindsey, Greta Kuriger Suiter, Kurt Hanselman
Author: Alexandra Provo
Authors: Magnus Berg, Satwinder Kaur Bains, Sadhvi Suri
Authors: Ryan Lieu, Alberto Campagnolo
Authors: Kate Topham, Julian Chambliss, Justin Wigard, Nicole Huff
KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies is published by the University of Victoria Libraries. We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the university stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and WSÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.
