Sharing identifiable video

Databrary & the PLAY Project

Rick Gilmore

2023-07-19

The challenge

• Video is a powerful tool for
  • documenting behavior
  • describing research procedures
• Images/video of people pose risks of identification

(One) solution

• Altering images/video is time/resource consuming
• Makes images/video less valuable for reuse by others
• Might pose risks to participants (if using external/commercial service)

(A better) solution

• Share with researchers not the public
  • Researchers with ethics training
  • Researchers subject to institutional supervision
• Share with participant permission

Video data library for researchers in the behavioral sciences

Restricted access data repository

Housed at NYU; staff at NYU & PSU

World’s only repository dedicated to storing and sharing video/audio and other identifiable data

Accessible via R and Python packages for reproducible workflows

Map of Databrary-authorizing institutions as of 2023-02-22.

Why share images & video?

Images and video are essential to the study of behavior

Play & Learning Across a Year (PLAY) Project

https://play-project.org

1 hour of natural behavior in the home

Mothers & 12-, 18-, and 24-month-old infants

Health, vocabulary, temperament, demographic measures

More?

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All protocols openly shared and documented on video.