Activities in 2025

  • Thematic Networks Success Story: "DALAM Network Educates about Decolonization of Metadata"
    • Read the Success Story here.
  • Subject-Headings describing Indigenous Peoples in the RVM: a tailor-made methodology, an extraordinary project - January 15, 2025.
    • Lecture and demonstration by Susanne Brillant, Universite Laval. 
  • A Rough Guide to German Arctic and other Decolonisation Efforts: Backgrounds, Institutions and Results - March 19, 2025
    • Dr. Christian Salewski of the Archiv für deutsche Polarforschung (AdP), Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany presented an overview of the attitudes towards colonization over Germany's history, as well as current decolonization awareness and activities in the Germany archives sector. 
  • Vocabulaire décrivant les ​Peuples autochtones dans le RVM​ : Présentation à la Table de concertation du milieu archivistique québécois,​ 15 octobre 2025.
    • A 30 minute Zoom presentation by DALAM members, Susanne Brillant and Joë Bouchard, on their project to revise the subject headings describing Indigenous peoples in the  Répertoire de vedettes-matière (RVM). Zoom presentation to “Table de concertation du milieu archivistique québecois”. 
  • Finding Better Words, Interview of Joë Bouchard by Hugo Samson, published in Issues of Scholarly Dissemination.
    • An interview with DALAM member,  Joë Bouchard, regarding  the revision of the vocabulary concerning the Indigenous peoples in the Répertoire de vedettes-matière (RVM, Directory of Subject Headings) of the Bibliothèque de l’Université Laval.  Joë Bouchard  is a librarian at the Université Laval and specializes in Indigenous documentary heritage.

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