Ethical guidelines

The work of Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Repositories (GLAMR) institutions in 2020 must be informed by a critical awareness of identity, socio-economic and racial privilege, access, and privacy, among other important criteria. Ethical considerations should govern exchanges between practitioners, users, and communities that may create or donate digital content. These considerations can signal investment in meaningful collaborations that empower all stakeholders.

The Digital Content Reuse Assessment Framework Toolkit (D-CRAFT) Project Team (“Project Team”) developed the Ethical Considerations and Guidelines for the Assessment of Use and Reuse of Digital Content (“Guidelines”). D-CRAFT is a 2.5-year Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) federal grant funded project with goals of developing resources, recommended practices, and use cases for sustainably measuring and evaluating the reuse of digital assets held by cultural heritage knowledge organizations. D-CRAFT is informed by the Project Team’s initial 2017-2018 IMLS grant, “Developing a Framework for Measuring Reuse of Digital objects,” which succeeded in creating a toolkit with resources, best practices, and use cases for studying the reuse of digital assets held by libraries.