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Inclusive Metadata in Digital Libraries: A Qualitative Study of R1 Academic Institutions Luke, Stephanie M. Stratton, Trevor inclusive metadata digital libraries reparative description A qualitative, multi-institutional study investigating how academic libraries in the United States integrate inclusive and reparative description principles and practices into their digital collections. This paper draws on a series of interviews with metadata professionals from nine R1 institutions to assess how they approach the remediation of legacy metadata in their digital collections. The findings demonstrate that, while inclusive metadata is widely recognized as important, its implementation remains underutilized and unevenly applied. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative 2025-12-24 Text application/pdf text/html https://doi.org/10.23106/dcmi.952536765 https://dcpapers.dublincore.org/article/952536765 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Conference Proceedings en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/