IOV World

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.

  • Editorial image usage policy

    Assignment rules, required metadata and the index of source registers used across the website.

    Project-wide publication standard

    Open register

  • IOV-supplied editorial archive

    Original filenames, page assignments and known information gaps for owner-supplied documentary photographs.

    IOV-supplied archive; missing rights data identified

    Open register

  • News photography

    Record-specific mastheads and contextual image reuses for the News and President’s News registers.

    IOV-supplied archive and official identity images

    Open register

  • Explore collection photography

    Sources, assignments and external-reuse status for imagery used in the cultural collection explorer.

    IOV-supplied archive

    Open register

  • 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 photographs by Tsui Piu used in the Digital Exhibition gallery.

    Photography by Tsui Piu · directly supplied

    Open register

  • Kazakhstan photographic exhibition

    Selected photographs of material culture, performance and gathering, with original filenames and known information gaps.

    Owner-supplied archive; creator and reuse terms not recorded

    Open register

  • Kyrgyzstan photographic exhibition

    Selected photographs of yurts, riders, performance and exchange, with original filenames and known information gaps.

    Owner-supplied archive; creator and reuse terms not recorded

    Open register

  • Commission chair portraits

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

    Verified official or supplied source

    Open register

  • Commissions register photography

    Original filenames and row assignments for the interactive Commissions register backgrounds.

    IOV-supplied archive; reuse terms not recorded

    Open register

  • Editorial tile-hover media

    Sources, generation provenance and single-page assignments for media revealed on hover or keyboard focus.

    Supplied/open-license photography and disclosed AI-generated object imagery

    Open register

  • Card background photography

    Published education and membership card backgrounds with their current source-information status.

    Existing project derivatives; source details incomplete

    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.