Webinar: Classification as Outreach

Description

Drawing on Tina Gross and Violet Fox’s 2019 “Authority work as outreach,” this talk will explore how inviting community into classification work can strengthen our relationships as well as our systems. I will detail a set of related projects in which community-centered collections engaged users in assessment, revision, and direction for classification and labelling work. I pose this form of collaboration as an approach to scaling and sustainability that sharply contrasts computational or automated means.