Anna Robinson-Sweet 

Kate Neptune

Danielle Galván Gomez

Isabella León-Chambers

Sydney Kysar

Metadata Learning & Unlearning Summit

Curationist Foundation

Join Curationist for our annual Metadata Learning & Unlearning Summit: Centering Care in Sensitive Collections on Tuesday, October 20.

Thank you for registering! We’re looking forward to the conversation on May 12.

Zoom webinar link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81618191394?pwd=DmJzKua5n26ZPdYAbIu9fhGYTnrUzX.1

<h3>Metadata Learning &amp; Unlearning Summit</h3>Centering Care in Sensitive CollectionsJoin Curationist for our annual Metadata Learning &amp; Unlearning Summit on Tuesday, October 20 at 3 pm ET / 12 pm PT. In this 90 min session, Anna Robinson-Sweet (University of Toronto), Kate Neptune (Brandeis University), and Danielle Galván Gomez, Isabella León-Chambers, and Sydney Kysar from the Postal Service for the Dead will share more about their organizations, approach to research, and their insights around navigating collections with sensitive or difficult material and how those experiences shape archival labor and the broader archival experience.As part of the Learning with Curationist webinar series, this conversation invites our community to learn from digital cultural heritage projects and the people shaping them. All of our webinars are pay-what-you-will. Your contribution is essential to helping Curationist continue offering accessible programming and creating space for conversations on metadata, open knowledge, and digital collection stewardship. About Curationist<a href="https://www.curationist.org/" title="https://www.curationist.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Curationist</a> is a free tool that makes millions of digital images of artworks and artifacts from around the world easy to access. We connect curious minds to the history, stories, and ideas that these works inspire.Our vision is to bring together arts and culture communities to find, share, and work together to reimagine cultural narratives. About Anna Robinson-Sweet<a href="https://annarobinsonsweet.com/" title="https://annarobinsonsweet.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Anna Robinson-Sweet</a> is a researcher and archivist currently affiliated with the University of Toronto, where she is a postdoctoral fellow in the Public History Lab. Her research focuses on community archives that document state violence in the U.S. Previously, Robinson-Sweet worked with <a href="https://communityarchiveslab.ucla.edu/" title="https://communityarchiveslab.ucla.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">the UCLA Community Archives Lab</a> where she collaborated with community archives to assess the impact of their work. About Brandeis University Archives &amp; Special Collections<a href="https://www.brandeis.edu/library/archives/index.html" title="https://www.brandeis.edu/library/archives/index.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Robert D. Farber University Archives &amp; Special Collections Department</a> houses Brandeis University's unique and rare primary sources. The department comprises three integrated units: the University Archives, Special Collections, and University Records Management. The Special Collections include rare books and manuscript collections related to many topics, with particular strengths in history, literature, Judaica, and social justice. About Postal Service for the Dead<a href="https://www.postalserviceforthedead.com/" title="https://www.postalserviceforthedead.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Postal Service for the Dead </a>(PSD) is an ongoing, collective project where people send letters to anyone in their life who has died. Founded in December of 2022, PSD has uplifted the voices of hundreds of people by creating physical and digital platforms for their stories of loss and death.

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