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when uploading information onto a platform, or when transferring information from one to another platform. Therefore it is important to secure the original content in such a way that prevents the loss of metadata. The Martus application is a helpful tool to secure the original metadata of information.190 Uploading electronic information to Martus before uploading it onto social media ensures both the aims of creating public awareness and securing the metadata for verification of potential evidence at a later stage The Dublin Core Metadata Standards is useful for storing information. In accordance with the Dublin Core style, producers or subsequent receivers of digital information record the following data: • Creator: full, family, given and nick names of any person, organization or service primarily responsible for making the content; • Contributor: full, family, given and nick names of any person, organization or service making a contribution to a resource; • Publisher: full, family, given and nick names of any person, organization or service responsible for making the resource available; • Title: name or names by which a resource will be recognized; • Date: description of dates in the lifecycle of the piece of digital information, such as Created, Available, Modified, Submitted and/or Accepted, as applicable. The Dublin Core prescribes the use of following format for recording dates: YYYY/MM/DD; • Language: any language of intellectual content of resource such as written or spoken words; • Type: refers to a description of the nature of the resource (such as whether it is a still image or a video); • Format: refers to the file format or the data storage medium of a resource, which is relevant in order to determine the equipment needed to display or operate the resource; • Extent: refers to the size or duration of the original resources; • Medium: refers to the specifications of the medium used to create the resources; • Subject: refers to the topic of a resource by means of key words; 190 https://www.martus.org/overview.html#infographic. 123

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PILPG Handbook on Civil Society Documentation of Serious Human Rights Violations Sept 2016

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Perpetrator-centred documentation

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Data/Information Strategy
Preservation and Archiving
Verification

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Guide

Description: Increasingly, civil society actors engage in documentation and investigation processes, seeking to collect evidence against those responsible for serious human rights violations. The purpose of this Handbook is to provide guidelines and best practices for the collection and management of information on serious human rights situations for those that are not professionally trained in such documentation practices. While the Handbook strongly emphasizes the need to refrain from investigating human rights abuses and to refer to professionals, practice shows that this is not always possible. Only under such circumstances and as a last resort may civil society actors consider engaging in certain documentation practices and not in others, always seeking to include professionals when and where possible. They may however only do so by adhering to the ethical principles and documentation guidelines that are provided in this Handbook. These enable unofficial investigators to do no harm, identify security risks, preserve crime scenes, prevent the loss of evidence, and manage the information in manner that preserves confidentiality, security and probative value, with an eye to possible use in later redress processes and without jeopardizing the future work of professionally trained and officially appointed investigators.

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