Transparency

Media sources and rights registers.

Documentary photographs, portraits, maps and open-license media are recorded alongside the local assets used by the website.

Asset ledger

Published source registers

The register distinguishes material supplied to the project from images drawn from public-domain or open-license sources.

  • Regions directory photography

    Creators, geographic context and rights for the interactive regional and country-preview backgrounds.

    IOV archive and Creative Commons

    Open register
  • Subpage masthead photographs

    Single-use owner-supplied photographs reserved for subdued heading backgrounds across the static subpages.

    Directly supplied; reuse terms recorded where available

    Open register
  • Country and community photographs

    Website derivatives of photographs supplied through the IOV project’s Google Drive media library.

    IOV-supplied archive

    Open register
  • Events photography

    Source filenames and Drive identifiers for photographs reserved for the Events page.

    IOV-supplied archive

    Open register
  • Hong Kong living heritage series

    Ten project-owner-supplied photographs used in the Digital Exhibition gallery.

    Directly supplied

    Open register
  • Commission chair portraits

    Official IOV profile sources and portraits supplied directly for the website.

    Verified official or supplied source

    Open register
  • Ali Abdullah Khalifa memorial portrait

    Source page, original file and the currently unrecorded photographer credit for the official memorial image.

    Official IOV memorial notice

    Open register
  • Mission photography

    Creators, source pages and licenses for documentary images used on the Mission page.

    Creative Commons and public domain

    Open register
  • History location photography

    Creators, source pages and licenses for city and place images used in the IOV history chronology.

    Creative Commons

    Open register
  • Assemblies location photography

    Source pages and licenses for place images used in the assemblies record.

    Creative Commons and public domain

    Open register
  • Editorial public-domain collection

    Creators, source pages and rights status for locally stored cultural images and web derivatives.

    Public domain and CC0

    Open register
  • National flags

    Wikimedia Commons source pages for the national flag files used in youth congress material.

    Public domain or copyright-ineligible

    Open register
  • World map

    Source and public-domain status for the base map used in the regional network interface.

    Public domain

    Open register
Dancers from Haryana performing on a stage at Kumbh Mela in 2019.
Dancers from Haryana perform at Kumbh Mela, 4 February 2019.Michael T Balonek · CC BY-SA 4.0

Rights information still required

Organization-owned photographs should receive individual photographer, date, location, consent and usage information before publication whenever those details are not yet recorded. Missing information should be documented rather than inferred.