Context Sensitivity

1. Why are generic open data guidelines not sufficient for visual research?

Because visual data are always confidential and therefore should never be openly shared with other researchers

Because visual research requires specialized repositories and technical infrastructures that differ from other research data

Because visual data carry contextual, social, and cultural meanings that need to be considered when they are shared and reused

Because visual data cannot be preserved in repositories without first being converted into non-visual formats

2. Why is context especially important during the reuse phase of visual data?

Because future users need to understand the original research context and ethical conditions before deciding how to reuse the visual data

Because images gradually lose visual quality over time and therefore require additional contextual information

Because repositories automatically remove contextual information once visual data have been archived

Because copyright restrictions no longer apply after a dataset has been deposited in a repository

3. What information should documentation communicate to support responsible reuses?

The name of the repository together with the location where the dataset has been archived

The technical characteristics of the files, including formats and software used to create them

The original research aims, consent conditions, permitted uses, ethical reflections, and relevant social or cultural sensitivities

The names, institutional affiliations, and contact details of the researchers who created the dataset

4. A researcher reuses photographs of a ceremony that were shared only for similar research purposes. Can the researcher grant broader permissions to other users?

Yes, if they cite the original study

Yes, if the images are stored in a trusted repository

No. They must respect the original permissions and ethical commitments

Only if the images are more than five years old