Human Rights Watch, Mnemonic and WITNESS welcome continued access to use software on GitHub which helps preserve documentation of human rights abuses.
The event will feature presentations and discussion on topics such as active open media standardization projects
and examination of open media use in film and video digitization.
Our project investigates how video and open source data gathered by local groups can help corroborate incidents of abuse and help communities tell their own stories.
On World Day of Audiovisual Heritage 2017, WITNESS launched the Activists’ Guide to Archiving in Portuguese at Brazil’s National Archives.
WITNESS celebrates Archives Month 2017 with updates guides, tipsheets, and videos through the month of October.
WITNESS’ senior archivist, Yvonne Ng, will be participating in two upcoming webinars on archiving.
Our new video “Archive!”, shows you how you can preserve and archive video evidence that can help expose and verify human rights abuses.
Yvonne, our Senior Archivist, was recently featured as “Someone You Should Know” in the Society of American Archivists May/June issue of Archival Outlook.
WITNESS and friends train activists on how to archive and preserve their video collections at Brooklyn’s Interference Archive.
The Revolution Needs an Archive: Senior Archivist Yvonne Ng talks about video archiving best practices for activists and citizen witnesses covering protests and human rights abuse.
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