Digital decolonization and activist tagging in the Post-Apology Residential School Database

Abstract

The Post-apology Residential School Database, or PARSD, is a collection of digital and digitized news media responses to and representations of Indian Residential Schools since the Canadian government's official apology in Parliament on June 11 th , 2008. In this conceptual paper, we discuss PARSD tagging practices, describing how our archival description approach is informed by feminist and anti-colonial theoretical frameworks and outlining how project members and 'guest taggers' describe, organize, and display PARSD records to promote decolonization. We conclude by considering both the potential and possible limitations that these practices may play in decolonizing and reconciling research.

FemiLISm now!: Identifying and exploring feminist theories and methods in CAIS/ACSI and ASIS&T conference proceedings, 1993-2021

“…All four of the conference proceedings that were categorized in the subdomain of knowledge organization took a critical stance toward neutrality and persuasively demonstrated the harms invoked when knowledge and knowers are marginalized (Olson and Ward 1997;Olson and Schlegl 1999;Rayburn 2021;Allard et al 2018). These researchers contest concepts of universalism and neutrality and suggest that feminist, anti-colonialist, Indigenous, and other critical frameworks make power visible in LIS systems and contexts.…”