Expert Field Video Tours
Watch the landscape before making the claim
Field videos can help learners see rivers, mounds, paths, public sites, archives, and preservation landscapes. They must remain clearly sourced, rights-aware, and secondary to evidence labels.
Video Learning Path
Expert Field Video Tours
Use short, sourced field videos to help visitors see landscapes before asking them to interpret records. Videos should support the evidence path; they should not replace citations, claim labels, maps, or source trails.
Place Hubs
Place a field video after Quick facts and before the Story Map when the video explains the landscape, public site, mound, river, archive, or visitor route.
Library
Use videos as orientation shelves: field walk, archive walkthrough, map-reading lesson, and oral-history method. Each video needs a transcript or text alternative.
Research Method
Embed short method videos near claim review, source citation, map reading, and safe-sharing guidance.
Partner Path
Use MoorofUs.org links for wider Moor history context; keep TheFoundationsOf.us videos focused on foundations, Muur history framing, place, evidence, and community research.
Free-use source rules
- Prefer public-domain or open-access sources such as National Park Service media credited to NPS, Library of Congress Free to Use and Reuse materials, and Smithsonian Open Access assets.
- For YouTube, use only videos where embedding is enabled and the source is official, educational, or explicitly licensed for reuse. Embedding is not the same as owning reuse rights.
- Every video card should show source, reuse note, transcript or text alternative, and a short explanation of what the video can and cannot support.
- Do not use video narration as proof of identity, ancestry, tribe, legal status, DNA conclusions, descent, or community membership.
Publishing checklist
- Use public-domain, open-access, official educational, or clearly embeddable videos only.
- Write what the video supports, what remains open, and which sources still need review.
- Prefer short clips near place hubs, source trails, map lessons, and research-method sections.
- Add a transcript, caption, or text alternative before promoting the page publicly.
- Do not use a video as identity, ancestry, tribe, legal-status, DNA, descent, or membership certification.
Use Expert Field Video Source: Source to verify Reuse note: Rights and reuse status must be verified before publication.Field video