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WITNESS Archiving Guide Receives Award from Society of American Archivists
The Activists' Guide to Archiving Video wins the Preservation Publication Award from the Society of American Archivists.
August 7, 2014
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Everything Needs to Change, So Everything Can Stay the Same: Challenges to Keeping Online Video Accessible
Keeping a website online and continuously accessible to the public, whether its a human rights archive or a piece of art, is not merely a question of keeping the power switch on. Our senior archivist discusses some ways to prepare for the inevitable challenge of tech obsolescence.
June 5, 2014
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Why Time is Running Out For Your Videotapes
How can individuals and organizations with limited resources deal with preserving all the videos recorded on tapes years ago?
October 30, 2013
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Atención, Activistas de Derechos Humanos: Aprende a archivar tu video con nuestra nueva guía!
Activists Guide to Archiving Video now available in Spanish!
August 19, 2013
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انتباه لكل ناشطي حقوق الإنسان: تعلم كيفية أرشفة الفيديوهات الخاصة بك مع دليلنا الجديد!
Our Activists' Guide to Archiving Video is now available in Arabic
August 6, 2013
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Attention Human Rights Activists: Learn How to Archive Your Video with our New Guide
Our new how-to guide for managing, storing, sharing and preserving digital video.
July 23, 2013
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What You (and Others) Can Know About a Video Without Even Watching It
Why human rights activists need to be aware of how metadata can be used- both for their benefit and against them.
July 9, 2013
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Sending Videos Safely through the Wild, Wild, Web
From YouTube to FTP, and Dropbox to Google Drive, online services have very different ways of transferring files. Which ones are safest for your videos?
May 9, 2013
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Securing Archives in Insecure Situations: Lessons from Mali
“Centuries of Invaluable Manuscripts Lost to Extremists” could have been the headline. But it wasn’t, because Timbuktu archivists made plans to preserve them. Keeping digital archives can be easier, but no less critical. Here’s what you can do.
February 15, 2013
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How To Make a Trustworthy Video
Video activists risk everything to film human rights violations. But unverified footage can't stand in newsrooms or courtrooms, so their efforts may be in vain. How can activists prevent that? Archivist Yvonne Ng explains a few simple steps they can take.
January 30, 2013
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Behind-the-Scenes of Our 20th Anniversary Video
The challenge: Make a video that encapsulates WITNESS and its work empowering human rights defenders to use video since 1992, set against a backdrop of global events from the last 20 years.
June 22, 2012
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7 Tips to Ensure Your Video Is Usable in the Long Term
n the past year, we have witnessed an unprecedented amount of media created by activists, citizen journalists, oral historians, and others who are documenting contemporary protest movements worldwide. As the volume of material continues to grow, questions about how to find, identify, verify, organize, and maintain this media for use as evidence and as historical documentation have become more pressing than ever.
December 8, 2011
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Video Advocacy Example: Using Video Games to Educate
The international response to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti is often remembered as being chaotic and ineffective, hampered by the massive devastation, poor coordination and communication, and the preexisting economic and political situation in the nation.
November 19, 2011
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Saving Human Rights Video from an Online “Deadpool”
Perhaps serving as a reminder to video creators that video sharing platforms are not archival repositories for their media (nor do they claim to be), Google Video will be finally shutting down entirely next month. Starting April 29, videos hosted on Google Video will no longer be available for playback; after May 13, the videos will be removed. Google is encouraging content owners to download or migrate their videos to YouTube before the deadline.
April 25, 2011
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Celebrate Women’s History Month and Support our Partners
This month, we’ve been looking back at WITNESS’ past work with grassroots partners on women’s rights as part of our ongoing celebration of the International Women’s Day Centenary and Women’s History Month.
March 29, 2011