Informed Consent
If you want to use or share any recordings of people, it is your responsibility to both help them understand their rights and to document how they want their recordings to be used. This can be quite challenging in remote, non-digital cultures, but it's the right thing to do. It is also necessary to prevent your hard work from becoming inaccessible in the future because of a lack of effort and evidence now.
Informed Consent is one of the stages of completion.
Informed consent may be in the form of an audio/video file of conversation about consent, photographs, a signed form, a photograph of a signed form, and so on.
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For the file or files that provide informed consent, click the Rename button, and then click Informed Consent.
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Normally, add and rename a file for each person in your
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However, suppose you add a file in which a large number of people are involved. It may be impractical to get informed consent from each of them. You may need to add a file from someone representing the entire group. In this case, add the file to the session, not to a person, and rename that file as the informed consent for the group.
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Consent column
A column named Consent appears in the People pane (left in People tab):
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appears if there is no file that includes "Consent" in the file name. -
If there is file with "Consent" in the file name, then a different icon appears according to the kind of file:
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and so on.
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Note
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Currently, SayMore does not help you with those situations where one person has different wishes with respect to different sessions. This is planned for a future version. See Also: http://saymore.palaso.org/news-about-saymore/.
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The Stages column indicates if all of the needed consent documents are on file.
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Each different file type has a different icon. Some of them are shown in the Symbols section (Glossary of Terms).
Related Topics
Related Academic Publications and Internet References
Informed consent among analog people in a digital world (Robinson 2009)
Documentary Linguistics and Ethical Issues (pdf) (Theiberger, Musgrave 2007)
Copyright Essentials for Linguists (Newman 2007)
Query Google scholar for "informed consent" and "language documentation"