Ethical responsibilities to users and potential users

We are in the process of learning and figuring out what these responsibilities are, with the assistance of HRDI, other archivists and librarians and other people.

Think about at least two very broad categories of users: Researchers and groups (conversations/dialogue/collective thinking)

- Labeling
Categories reflect and shape our attitudes

What are our responsibilities here? Are they simply to make information easy to access? Or do we also have a responsibility change attitudes in directions that will promote social justice? (These desires motivate our work in the first place!)
Example: Is a topic or category of narrator "family member" or do we further divide into "family member of murder victim" and "family member of executed person"

In other words, do we list subjects as people currently think (to the extent that we know or think we know), or how we wish that they would think?

We wish to stress commonalities among families who have lost loved ones rather than create or reify conflict between murder victims' families and families of executed persons

- Understanding
Annotations & glossaries as editorial content

- "Warnings" & caveats
Graphic content

- Do we have a responsibility to provide interviews that potential users want?
For instance, interviews with teenagers would be useful, some people argue, and help prevent violence. We do not conduct interviews with anyone unable to consent fully to an interview (actual consent and legal consent). Conservative view about consent overrides the desires of users and potential users.