ORGANISING YOUR PHOTO AND VIDEO CATALOGUE When working with large quantities ›› What risks are you willing to take? of videos or photos, it’s critical to use metadata Footage that could put you or others for effective cataloguing. This will enable at risk or a subpoena? researchers to quickly identify the correct files, and save valuable time. What goes in the collection? ›› Does your data need to be interoperable with someone else’s systems? Before building a catalogue, it’s helpful to identify Access: Identify your users and contributors the desired outcomes, objectives and uses of the Understanding who will use and contribute catalogue. This will help ensure that the content you collect and catalogue is relevant. ›› Why does the catalogue exist? What to the catalogue helps you make access and permission decisions. When considering security issues, identify what threats you may face if the objectives does the catalogue serve? catalogue is publicly available or stored on an E.g., advocacy, legal case, media report, public unsecured platform. awareness, historic record of a single incident ›› Who are the users? Determine who should or widespread violations, etc. ›› What is the scope of the catalogue? ›› What videos or images will you accept? What will you not accept? ›› How will the data be transmitted to you? ›› What sources or formats will you collect? Eyewitness, anonymous, news/media, live stream, etc.? have access to your content. ›› How will you handle usage rights? E.g. Creative commons, attribution to an individual or organisation? ›› Will the catalogue be public or private? What are the access policies? ›› Who are the contributors? What level of tech-literacy do they have? What languages do they speak? What file formats do they use? 51