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bri watson 🐝

@brimwats.bsky.social

they/m | brimwats.com • "transmorgifyied high-octane f*glord" • background: #HistSex & #HistBook • now: Vanier Scholar @ UBC working with libraries, archives, museums & how they describe + serve marginalized folks. • HistSex.org, Homosaurus.org, Q+TMDC

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BWbrimwats.bsky.socialMar 19, 2024 10:10pm

this was one of the hardest things i've ever written (36 drafts!! 36!!) but I am truly so excited for it to be out in the world soon. biggest props to @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social @sarahpyke.bsky.social @wynkenhimself.bsky.social for making it happen!

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REFLECTIONS ON
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL WORK
THE HOMOSAURUS,
QUEER VOCABULARIES,
AND IMPOSSIBLE METADATA
BM Watson

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B. M. Watson is a Vanier Scholar at University of British Columbia’s iSchool focusing on histories of information and the practice of equitable cataloging in libraries,
archives, museums, and special collections. Watson is the archivist for the Haslam
Collection on Polyamory at the Kinsey Institute and serves on the editorial board of
Homosaurus (homosaurus.org).
The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, volume 118, number 2,
June 2024. © 2024 Bibliographical Society of America. All rights reserved. Published by The University of Chicago Press for the Bibliographical Society of America. https://doi.org/10.1086/730274

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This essay is occupied with attempts to provide alternative bibliographic infrastructures for marginalized communities and discusses
the possibilities of queer metadata. First, I provide a definitional and
literature review focused on the principles and purposes of the field
of knowledge organization. Next, I introduce the Homosaurus as an
example of a queer alternative to standard cataloging and classification structures. I draw from discussions on imagined records and impossible archival imaginaries in the archival studies field in order to
propose the concepts of “metadatic imaginaries” and “impossible
metadatic imaginaries.” The essay closes with considerations about
the implications for queer bibliography.
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Bibliographic data and metadata, alongside their supporting apparatuses, such as data fields, card catalogs, and controlled vocabularies,
are important because of what they tell us and also because of what
they do not. As Sarah Werner points

bri watson 🐝

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