Example of typical information regarding the Digital Library to include in an Ethics Proposal/Consent Form

- All audio-visual data collected should be stored in a secure, restricted-to-permission-access database

- List of researchers who have access to data (only need the names of the primary investigators for the particular study)  

- The data will be shared with other AIRS colleagues on the AIRS online digital library. This digital library is not for the public but is used by AIRS researchers. This provides them with the ability to contrast data and learn from each other's work. This database is part of the AIRS project, is password-protected and is meant to be available to only those researchers, scholars or educators who have been granted access. All data will be kept confidential and unavailable to persons outside the AIRS research team.

- Participants should be contacted for permission before any of their data is shown at a conference or similar event

- Participants should have the option of refusing to be videotaped in a consent form (note: the researcher can determine whether they give the option of refusing audio-recordings as well but should not have the option to refuse to put any of the data on the digital library)

Below are samples of an information letter and consent form used for a study under Theme 3.1.1.