TY - JOUR A1 - Junginger, Pauline A1 - Dörk, Marian T1 - Categorizing queer identities : an analysis of archival practices using the concept of boundary objects JF - Journal of Feminist Scholarship N2 - In this paper, we present a field study that examines the development, application and maintenance of classification systems and controlled vocabularies in three archives documenting lesbian, trans* and queer-feminist histories. Queer archives face the challenge of documenting identities that are inherently characterized by embracing fluidity and ambiguity. Thus, queer identities are diametrically opposed to archival procedures of unambiguous classification. At the same time, queer activism relies partly on coherent identity categories in order to be able to act politically. We examine the pragmatic solutions that queer archives establish when dealing with tensions between those requirements. Our goal is to contribute to the ongoing discussions about the ethical dimensions of classification practices. Following the work of Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star (1999) we use the concept of boundary objects as a central theoretical foundation of our research. This concept allows for tracing the negotiations and decision-making processes that influenced the creation of a specific classification system. Through conducting semi-structured interviews with staff members of queer archives in Germany we collected data about their efforts to archive the history of queer communities. Although there are initiatives developing metadata standards for queer identities, these standards are only used to a limited extent by the queer archives we examined. Rather, those archives established individual strategies for categorizing objects that are rooted in their specific history. We argue that classification systems and controlled vocabularies themselves can be understood as artifacts documenting the history of queer movements. KW - LGBT KW - Archiv KW - Grenzobjekt KW - Systematik KW - Klassifikation KW - Metadaten KW - Identität Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.23860/jfs.2021.19.05 SN - 2158-6179 VL - 19 IS - 19 SP - 66 EP - 79 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Engelke, Lutz A1 - Osswald, Anja T1 - "Weltregal" or the World on a Shelf BT - A Utopia for 21st Century Libraries T2 - Museum and Archive on the Move : Changing Cultural Institutions in the Digital Era N2 - Lutz Engelke und Anja Osswald nehmen in ihrem Essay die Möglichkeiten in den Blick, die das World Wide Web als „digitaler Wissensspeicher“ bereithält und skizzieren die Neuerfindung der Bibliothek als Ort des Dialogs, der Kommunikation und der Interaktion in einer „Edutainment-Society“. KW - Bibliothek KW - Digitalisierung KW - Kommunikation KW - Interaktion KW - Dialog Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-11-052963-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110529630-018 SP - 277 EP - 284 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER -