[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Use of Genders field in Agents module?

[Clemens, Alison]

Hi, ArchivesSpace colleagues,

I'm writing to ask if anyone on this list has internal, documented policies and best practices in the use of the Genders field in the ArchivesSpace Agents module.

We (here at Yale) haven't yet started using that field and are in the process of assembling some initial thoughts about how we might guide practitioners on campus to use (or not use) that field.

Any local documentation you have about this would be much appreciated - if you're willing to share, could you please send me a note at alison.clemens at yale.edu<mailto:alison.clemens at yale.edu>?

And if you're curious about the broader literature and principles we're consulting in this work, I've included our compiled list of sources below my signature.

With thanks,
Alison

Alison Clemens
[she/her or they/them]
Access Strategist
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University Library
alison.clemens at yale.edu<mailto:alison.clemens at yale.edu>

Compiled resources:


  *   Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources<https://zenodo.org/record/6686841#.Y-ZlpnbMKUk>
  *   Revised Report on Recording Gender in Personal Name Authority Records<https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/documents/gender-in-NARs-revised-report.pdf>
  *   SNAC Cooperative Demographics Statement<https://portal.snaccooperative.org/node/359>
  *   Collection Services Manual for the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University, Section 5.4.4, Describing Gender<https://github.com/rose-collectionservices/collection-services-manual/tree/master/05-DESCRIPTION#544-describing-gender>
  *   Digital Transgender Archive Harm Reduction Guide<https://docs.google.com/document/d/15usOPOUi4Edq0gz2O47xbQBgvYJJlpX3sj6_LDOaQuM/edit>
  *   Harvard CHoM Description Manual<https://wiki.harvard.edu/confluence/display/hmschommanual/Guidelines+for+Inclusive+and+Conscientious+Description#GuidelinesforInclusiveandConscientiousDescription-Identity&Naming>
  *   Records in Contexts (RiC) Comments from the Technical Subcommittee on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (TS-DACS), Section 2. Concepts Around Human Identity: RiC-P36 Gender (2016)<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XoQmrT-kdj5fCKNcg0umghsWFORrKRf7rMsB4OsnY5o/edit#heading=h.3o2j39wyeqw5>

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