Minor/Short-term: Update Frontend Pages

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Checklist:

• Landing page board > Collective
• About page (bri & d need to provide text)
• Contact: to proton email address

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D. is working on this, but here are the changes needed:

For all:

Homosaurus (org) --> Add "Homosaurus Collective"
Editorial Board mentions -- change to collective

About

https://homosaurus.org/about

Mission

The same

History

Revise text to shorten significantly (as everything needs to be translated)
Link to new C&I article, mention that it is in English

Resources

The same (we need to revise these generally)

Editorial Board --> The Collective

• Subheaders for each board
• One sentene on what the board does. Second summary X and Y are the convenors of this board. Bolded names.
• Subsub header Members.
• phorto name and website if provided
• Otherwise, just a list of each active member
• TermBoard only: paren language board they are involved in
• Orgboard only: mentions of subcommitte if any (tech is bri kj janaya and jackson)

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About Page

Homosaurus Collective

The Homosaurus Collective is made up of more than 40+ members based in 9 countries, is subdivided into three interdependent boards: Organizing, Implementation, and Term Development Boards.

Resources

These guides (in English) were published by the former Editorial Board and will eventually be translated and updated to read Homosaurus Collective.

• Documentation and Implementation Guide
• Metadata Application Profile

Organizing Board

Board Co-convenors: Marika Cifor & Bri Watson
The Organizing Board provides coordination, visioning, and guidance across the project, and helps to develop and grow the Collective, seeking funding, hosting summits, and identifying partnerships. This board contains the Systems Subcommittee, which focuses on software functionality and coordinates with developers.

Members

Avery Dame-Griff, Gonzaga University, http://averydame.net/
Bri Watson, Western University (+Systems Subcommittee), https://brimwats.com
Jackson Huang, Educopia (+Systems Subcommittee)
Janaya Kizzie, Brown University (+Systems Subcommittee)
K.J. Rawson, Northeastern University (+Systems Subcommittee) https://cssh.northeastern.edu/faculty/k-j-rawson/.
Keahi Adolpho, Virgina Commonwealth University
Marika Cifor, University of Washington, Seattle
Mary Cornell
Michael Radmacher, University of Victoria Transgender Archives, https://www.uvic.ca/library/visit-and-contact/find-a-librarian/profiles/radmacher-michael.php
Patrick Keilty, University of Toronto, https://patrickkeilty.com

Implementation Board

Board Co-convenors: Isaac Fellman, Rachel Newlin, Crystal Yragui
The Implementation Board works with outside organizations on the implementation of the Homosaurus, developing both internal and external training practices, creating implementation resources, and tracking use and scholarly application of and writing on the Homosaurus.

Members

Crystal Yragui, University of Washington, https://github.com/CECSpecialistI
Emory LaPrade, Johnson City Public Library
Gabrielle Garcia, Lambda Archives, https://gabriellesgarcia.wordpress.com
Isaac Fellman, Digital Transgender Archive
Julia Bullard, University of British Columbia, https://ischool.ubc.ca/
Melissa Adler, Western University, https://www.fims.uwo.ca/people/profiles/melissa_adler.html
Rachel Newlin, Schaumburg Township District Library
Travis Wagner, University of Illinois, http://travislwagner.com/

Term Development Board

Board Co-convenors: Chloe Noland, Keahi Adolpho, Siska Humlesjö
The Term Development Board supports cross-language work and provides coordination among Term Development Committees. This board oversees the Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi and Bengali, Japanese, Spanish, and Swedish Language-Specific Committees, which are sustained long-term, as well as Ad-Hoc Thematic Committees, such as the Pasifika/Oceania committee, which are temporary in nature.

Committee Co-Convenors

Annie Wolfe, Bibliothèque et Archives / Library and Archives Canada (QC French committee)
Partha Mukhepadhyay, University of Kalyani (Hindi/Bengali committee)
Kazuyuki Sunaga, Kokugakuin University (Japanese committee)
Amber Redegeld, IHLIA LGBTI Heritage (Dutch committee)
Keahi Adolpho, Virginia Commonwealth University (English committee co-convenor)
Chloe Noland, University of California, Santa Cruz (English committee co-convenor)
Siska Humlesjö, University of Gothenburg (Swedish committee)
Sofia Zamora Morales, Northeastern (Spanish committee)

Members

Anita Mazur, Polytechnique Montreal (QC French committee)
Críspulo Travieso Rodríguez (Spanishcommittee), Universidad de Salamanca (Spain) https://produccioncientifica.usal.es/investigadores/57534/detalle
Ernesto Cuba (Spanish committee)
Hortense Chopart Université de Montréal (QC French committee)
Indica Mattson, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University (German committee)
Irina Rogova, Virgina Commonwealth University (English committee)
Iris Bouman (French committee)\Gerrit Wessel, IHLIA LGBTI Heritage & QueerSearch ; https://ihlia.nl/ & https://queersearch.org/en/home-2/ (Dutch committee)
Lia Ryland San Francisco Public Library (English committee)
Linda Streh (German committee)
Marie-Ève Berthiaume, Bibliothèque de l'Université Laval (QC French committee)
Mylène Larivière-Langlois, University of Montreal (QC French committee)
Nicolas Longtin-Martel, Archives gaies du Québec (QC French committee)
Olov Kriström, Collection coordinator, QRAB (Swedish committee)
Sebastian Lönnlöv, Librarian and PhD candidate, University of Gothenburg (Swedish committee)
Thomas Bürgisser (German committee)

Acknowledgements & Gratitude

Former Members

The Homosaurus Collective would like to thank the former members of the Collective and the Editorial Board for their labour and love:

• Billey Albina, formerly Systems & Metadata Librarian at Bard College.
• Clair Kronk, creator of GSSO Ontology and PhD in biomedical informatics at the University of Cincinnati Medical School.
• Jay Colbert, Boston Public Library
• Adrian Williams, formerly of University of Kentucky Library
• Cailin Roles, Bentley University
• Claudia Schelling, Archivist Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History
• Kai Brust
• Thami Jothilingam, University of the Fraser Valley
• Thea Sibbel, IHLIA LGBTI Heritage

And most notably and loudly:

• Jack van der Wel, IHLIA LGBTI Heritage, and Creator of the Homosaurus Vocabulary

Gratitude

The Homosaurus Collective would like to thank our fabulous collaborators: AVEN, the Black Lesbian Archives, COLAGE, InterACT, the Leather Archives & Museum, and the Sex Worker Oral History Project. We would also like to thank the many users of the Homosaurus who have suggested terms and provided feedback over the years. In particular, we are grateful to Orla Egan, Alice Galvinhill, Ellen Greenblatt, Juniper Johnson, Dee Michel, Cailin Roles, and Lydia Willoughby for their contributions.

In Memoriam

Walter "Cat" Walker: Walter "Cat" Walker served as the Head Cataloging Librarian at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California from 2004 until his untimely death in 2020. He was also a Director-at-Large of the American Library Association's Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Roundtable (ALA GLBTRT) and he volunteered at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries for 25 years.

Cat Walker joined the Editorial Board of the Homosaurus in 2016 after he met Jack van der Wel at the LGBTQ ALMS conference in London. At this conference, Cat presented a keynote titled "Overcoming the Barriers: Improving Access to LGBTQ+ Content in Collections." Cat’s lifelong activism and passion for LGBTQ libraries and archives motivated him to join the Editorial Board and he quickly became an active member of our team. At the next LGBTQ ALMS Conference in Berlin in 2019, Cat and Jack presented a paper together on the Abridged Homosaurus.

It is difficult to overstate Cat's contributions to the Homosaurus over the four years that he worked on the project. As the board dramatically revised the first version of the Homosaurus, Cat played a central role in helping us to make use of many more terms and LGBTQ-related contexts, representations, and histories. Cat worked extensively on reconciling Homosaurus version one to version two, examining the vocabulary with a close eye and pulling terms that required revision, lacked consistency across the list, or had a unique value that could be extended for related searches and needs. This list, composed of new suggested terms as well as adaptations of existing ones, was one of Cat’s most recent and ambitious contributions to the board’s work. At the time of his death, his documentation of related and suggested terms encompassed over 250 changes and/or new terms––important work that we will be sure to complete on his behalf and in his honor.

Above all, Cat was a patient, kind, and gracious teacher and collaborator and he was always the first to volunteer to take on new projects. Cat’s attention to detail, as well as his commitment to making the Homosaurus a truly beautiful and inclusive set of terms, will be impossible to replace. We are endlessly grateful to him as we celebrate all that he contributed to this important project.

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Contact Us

If you are using the Homosaurus, we want to hear from you! Please reach out to let us know how you are using this vocabulary and share any feedback you might have. We are also open to having new members join our Collective so please let us know if that is something you are interested in.

The Homosaurus is a work in progress and we welcome suggestions for new terms to be added or changes to be made within the vocabulary. The Homosaurus Collective oversees the upkeep of the vocabulary and will consider all proposed terms and changes on a quarterly basis.

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Feedback from @kaiwalani re text:

Just a heads up that the convener list for term development isn't accurate in English or German. Annie Wolfe is now the French convener, not Mylène and Amber Redegeld is the Dutch convener, not Gerrit. I think I also gave feedback previously that Siska, Chloe, and I also need to be named as committee conveners, not just board co-conveners. This could mean listing us twice, or changing the parenthetical after our names to say "English committee co-convener" and "Swedish committee convener." Also, we changed all language from "subcommittee" to "committee" before we finalized the Collective structure, so all of that needs to be updated for the Term Dev Board language committees member list. During initial planning, we had originally said "subcommittee" when we were referring to each of the three boards as committees rather than boards, so that's probably where that came from.

1. Updated above
2. edited to be board co-covenors in all to match style
3. sorted members alphabetically
4. chose the double-listing route