Weiss, Melissa2024-07-292024-07-296/13/2024Weiss, Melissa. (2024, June 13). Apparitional representations: Disability history, reparative descriptions, and ethical failings in a special research collection. Presentation at Metadata Justice in Oklahoma Libraries & Archives Symposium, Virtual.https://hdl.handle.net/11244/340528In this presentation, I discuss the process and outcomes of a reparative description project I undertook for my master’s thesis at the University of Oklahoma. My thesis focused on remediating disability-related descriptions in the Western History Collections. I examined a variety of theoretical models and attempted to apply them as I remediated descriptions. My presentation covers the challenges of trying to remediate descriptions in an archive not dedicated to disability history and provides a methodology for doing remediations that might help archivists struggling with incomplete information about items in a collection.Presentation