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Subject Indexing: The Challenge of LGBTQI Literature
University of Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6761-3544
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Cultural Sciences. (Library and Information Science)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4169-4777
2020 (English)In: DHN 2020: Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries: Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 5th Conference, Riga, Latvia, October 21-23, 2020 / [ed] Sanita Reinsone, Inguna Skadiņa, Anda Baklāne, Jānis Daugavietis, CEUR-WS , 2020, p. 203-210Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Despite a growing number of digital LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, queer, intersex) history archives, and research-driven digital LGBTQI initiatives, queer perspectives have not been prominent in the digital humanities. Furthermore, investigations of LGBTQI in literary history is hampered by the fact that, to date, there are no broad scholarly inventories of such literature. Due to the absence of exhaustive bibliographies, scholars need to perform time-consuming, human reading of individual works and imprecise searches in order to locate LGBTQI motifs and themes. Research on subject indexing has also revealed that controlled vocabularies in use are too general to describe LGBTQI themes, motifs, and characters in a relevant manner. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how LGBTQI literature can be made more searchable, and more visible through the development of a quality-controlled subject specific database (QUEERLIT database) in which specialized subject indexing is applied. Methodological challenges pertaining to indexing of queer literary texts with implicit LGBTQI motifs are discussed, as well as theoretical considerations raised when assigning certain contemporary subjects to historical texts.

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CEUR-WS , 2020. p. 203-210
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CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073 ; 2612
Keywords [en]
LGBTQI, Queer, Subject Indexing, Literature, Digital Humanities
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Information Studies
Research subject
Humanities, Library and Information Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-96310Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85086078580OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-96310DiVA, id: diva2:1441691
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DHN 2020: Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries, 5th Conference, Riga, Latvia, October 21-23, 2020
Available from: 2020-06-16 Created: 2020-06-16 Last updated: 2021-09-21Bibliographically approved

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