A donated recording can be preserved for one purpose and later searched for another. Google’s March 8, 2017 description of Cloud Video Intelligence API makes that a concrete question for civic and interfaith archives. The private-beta service was presented as a way to locate shots containing entities within videos held in Google Cloud Storage, with media catalogs among its intended uses. [video]

Our proposed stewardship rule begins before indexing: record the agreed purpose of using the donation and who may see the resulting clips. Before making a search result accessible, a custodian should review it with enough surrounding footage to understand its context. This is an ethical recommendation about responsibility, not a legal requirement established by Google’s announcement or a claim that all faith traditions prescribe the same approach. [video]

The separate Kaggle announcement brings dataset use into the discussion. Google said the community worked with public datasets and built machine-learning models, and described future support for storing and querying large datasets alongside training and deployment. For custodians, our reading is to keep permission to preserve a recording distinct from a decision to contribute material to a model-building or dataset-sharing project. The announcement itself grants neither permission. [kaggle]

An archive could make that distinction visible in a short decision record: agreed use, intended audience and the person responsible for contextual review. Searchability may serve discovery, while withholding a clip may preserve the purpose of the donation. Neither choice is settled by a product capability. These two corporate posts establish the proposed tools and community direction; they do not measure harm or resolve the archive’s obligations to its contributors. [video][kaggle]

Source documents

  1. Google Cloudhttps://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/announcing-google-cloud-video-intelligence-api-and-more-cloud-machine-learning-updates
  2. Google Cloudhttps://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/03/welcome-Kaggle-to-Google-Cloud.html