Introduction

This Our-Artifacts.com site is a place where artifacts, history, documents, images, etc are stored and linked together to create a story concerning the topic at hand.

There are several ways you can use the site:

• Explore our example society site the Brooklin Heritage Portal
• Explore public family sites such as the history of Edwin (Ted) Pritchard
• Create and curate your own family history
• Create and curate other society sites
• Assist in the populating of existing sites

To exercise the last 3 choices you need to create a user account using the Create New User function.

Purpose

Families often have shoe boxes full of memorabilia that other family members cannot access or that eventually get lost or discarded. Our-Artifacts provides a convenient service whereby these treasures can be organized, retained and viewed by all family members.

Community institutions or churches would often like to maintain a record of their history. The Our-Artifacts framework provides a means that this can easily be accomplished.

User Roles

Records are grouped together into archives.

Each archive has one or more users associated with them.

Each user has a single role pertaining to each archive they are associated with.

The set of possible roles are:

• curator - sets or revokes the role of the other users associated with the archive. Can add, change, delete content and establish relationships
• patron - can add, change, delete content and establish relationships
• reviewer - can add comments to any entry
• guest - can only view the contents

Each archive has at least one curator.

Privacy Policy

Here are the basic guidelines implemented at Our-Artifacts concerning the visibility of items entered:

• Private records can only be seen by those authorized to do so.
• Public records can be seen by everyone.
• Families by default are assumed to be private unless marked public.
• Society records by default are assumed to be public unless marked private.
• Relationship viewing honours the least permissive viewing of each record in the pair.
• Information for living persons is deemed private unless expressly made public.

There are several levels of visibility:

• top-secret - visible only to the curator that marked it top-secret.
• secret - visible only to the archive curators.
• private - visible only to those authorized by the curator to view the archive records.
• public - visible to all.
• known - private but the existance of the archive is known so other users can request access.