[Ohiodig] trigger warnings/disclaimers

[Chatham Ewing]

I think this could be a great topic for a presentation/discussion at archival meetings.

Chatham

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Marsha,

The way that the German Federal Archive handled it on the images they uploaded to Wikimedia Commons was informative. They started back in 2008<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bundesarchiv>, I imagine before use of disclaimers became a bit more widespread, and feature this statement in the summary box<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:BArch-image> below every image: "For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme." (Example<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-0806-0003,_Berlin,_Reichskanzlei,_Ruine.jpg>)

Whatever you do, can you please just not make it show as a popup on every single page? I seem to remember the Australian War Memorial<http://www.awm.gov.au> had that and it was really frustrating to have to repeatedly close it. However, my guess is this was more of a technical problem (i.e. the website not tracking when users had already visited another page), than a deliberate choice on the part of the museum.

Sincerely,
Noah Stegman Rechtin
Tri-State Warbird Museum<http://tri-statewarbirdmuseum.org/>
Collections Manager & Museum Attendant

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