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SUMMARY: Community-focused Approaches to Structured Vocabulary in Challengi
 ng Times
DESCRIPTION: Stacy Allison-Cassin will examine challenges to continuing the
  work toward just practice of controlled vocabulary presented in three stre
 ams: the political\, economic\, and the growing use of artificial intellige
 nce tools within the library field.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p>The last five years have seen a rapid incr
 ease in projects and initiatives intended to address long-known ethical iss
 ues within descriptive practices in libraries. Many initiatives focus on ha
 rmful\, discriminatory language found in a controlled vocabulary. Such proj
 ects have engaged in justice-focused or reparative work by developing alter
 nate Library of Congress terms or developing new structured vocabularies fo
 r use within catalogue systems. However\, just when the struggle to create 
 ethical and just practices within library description seems to be making st
 rides\, threats to progress are looming.</p><p>This talk will examine chall
 enges to continuing the work toward just practice presented in three stream
 s: the political\, economic\, and the growing use of artificial intelligenc
 e tools within the library field\; this talk will discuss the ways structur
 ed data is even more important.</p><p>This event is co-sponsored by the <a 
 title="https://ethics.ubc.ca/" contenteditable="false" href="https://ethics
 .ubc.ca/">W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics</a>.</p><p><strong><im
 g class="alignleft wp-image-48570 size-medium" src="https://ischool.cms.art
 s.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/46/2025/03/AllisonStacy-Profile-2022-300x
 288.jpg" alt="Stacy is standing in front of a tree on a sunny day\, smiling
 ." width="300" height="288" />Stacy Allison-Cassin</strong> is an Assistant
  Professor in the Department of Information Science at Dalhousie University
  in Halifax\, Canada\, Stacy engages in teaching and research related to kn
 owledge organization\, and metadata and issues related to equity and justic
 e. Stacy co-leads the Mellon-funded Respectful Terminology Platform Project
  alongside Camille Callison. She is the chair of the Teaching and Learning 
 community of the National Indigenous Knowledge and Language Association\, a
 nd Indigenous-led association centered in Canada and serves on several othe
 r committees\, boards\, and advisory bodies. A Citizen of the Métis Nation 
 of Ontario\, Stacy has kinship connections to the Georgian Bay Métis commun
 ity.</p><hr /><h2>Registration</h2><p>Please register for the event through
  the form below.</p><p>[gravityform id="72" title="false"]</p>
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