2024-10-21 Meeting Notes

Updates

Christian

• Kyle Tanaka

DEI Subject Headings Norm Rule

All

Review rule changes

Testing Update

Cold Requirements

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EFVSb2_fhNlO7XocYMWQ7K9b4cNBUo5HsqQMMa_d9_Q/edit

• 2022-09-29/30 COLD Meeting Agenda + Minutes

  • Request for transforming subject heading for Japanese internment to incarceration (DONE)

  • Alternate Vocabularies for LGBTQ+

  • https://homosaurus.org/ (DONE)

  • https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/gsso (DONE)

Summary

The group reviewed the new norm rule changes, specifically:

• Illegal Immigration → Immigration

• Noncitizen → Undocumented immigrant

• Aliens → Noncitizens

Christian noted a new approach to selecting the data. Either abstracting the condition, or looking for the common denominator between transformed terms can help guide the creation of a rules. For examples, Illegal Immigration was selected for using the rule 650.”a” match “^.*llegal.*” This gets a larger set of records that can then be transformed only when the 650.”a” contains the specific term “Illegal immigration.”

Several examples were looked at:

1. Beyond borders : the human rights of noncitizens at home and abroad

2. Social control and justice : crimmigration in the age of fear

3. Alien stories / by E. C. Osondu.

The first two transformations work as expected.

The group discussed the Aliens → Noncitizens transformation in greater detail. It was noted that SUNY also does similar transformations, but omits Aliens due to its varied uses. We may want to consider a similar approach because the group can not verify where the Aliens transformation requirement came from. It may be possible to hide all subjects with specific terms. As per the documentation this feature exists in Primo VE.

Regardless, the transformation itself needs additional changes; since we are transforming Noncitizen → Undocumented immigrant, it makes more sense to transform Alien → Undocumented immigrant to be compliant with COLD’s request.

Christian made changes to the rule (V4) and will send to CSUB for testing. The rule is currently in place at CSUS.

This rule is close to releasing. The group discussed next steps, and there was support to test the new rule, relay updates to Christiana Hennessey, and develop a plan for informing campuses of the updated rule. This work will be done before the November meeting.

Open Discussion

All

None

eCAUG

All

Anyone going to eCAUG?

I will be presenting on the 24th (Relevancy Ranking) and will hold norm rule office hours on the 25th.

Outstanding Items

• Norm Rule Request Form - Need access

• Trello - Need access

• Continue reviewing Replacement Rules for IZ Local Display Fields

• Genre facet & Audience facet