By looking at current examples of participatory archives, this paper hopes to introduce and encourage a discussion of participatory description. How does an originating community describe their records? How can the nuances of another language be allowed for in archival description? Archival description helps to create access points for users, but archivists must ask the question, access for whom? This paper seeks to examine the existing state of archival description and to make recommendations for areas in which decolonizing methodologies might be employed to better address the nuances of multicultural, community, and participatory archives. A literature review is provided in order to examine the current state of archival description. As a second step, decolonizing methodologies are discussed and examined in order to establish a method by which description might become more participatory. Finally, some examples of archives in which participatory endeavors have been undertaken are presented, in order to establish models from which other archives can draw inspiration.

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参与性描述：对档案中的描述方法进行非殖民化

通过查看当前参与性档案的例子，本文希望引入并鼓励对参与性描述的讨论。原始社区如何描述其记录？档案描述中如何允许其他语言的细微差别？归档描述有助于为用户创建访问点，但是归档员必须提出以下问题：访问谁？本文旨在研究档案描述的现状，并为可能采用非殖民化方法更好地解决多元文化，社区和参与性档案的细微差别的领域提供建议。提供文献综述以检查档案描述的当前状态。第二步 讨论并研究了非殖民化方法论，以便建立一种使描述变得更具参与性的方法。最后，介绍了一些进行了参与性努力的档案馆的例子，以建立模型，其他档案馆可以从中汲取灵感。