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There are three essential pieces to informed consent: 1)
- The presentation of all relevant information
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- The speaker’s understanding of the information
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- Freely given consent
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An informed consent conversation should happen before recording begins with any speaker. You can record the conversation either by having a speaker sign a consent form, or by recording the discussion and the speaker’s agreement. It may also be helpful to have informed consent in a written form to keep as a record itself, to use as a teaching tool for new team member about how to acquire informed consent, and work with language speakers. However, if a speaker prefers to just provide verbal consent, that is alright too.
Informed consent is part of many aspects of language revitalization and community work. It is aided and supported by strong relationship building and transparency between the language team, community members, and anyone else involved with this work. It may also be interpreted differently in different contexts. For example, informed consent in an archiving and DiGI project might look more like a donor understanding and agreeing to how resources they provide to be digitized might be represented in a collection.
This agreement would still be based in the presentation of all relevant information, the donor's understanding of the information, and freely given consent, but based around providing resources not being recorded themselves.
For more information on this process, please visit this article and module: Archival Acquisition: Adding to Collections
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What information should be given when discussing informed consent?
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At the conclusion of your discussion, you should ask direct questions that verify your speaker’s consent: ‘Do you consent to participate in recordings for our FirstVoices project?’ ‘Do you consent to be identified by name on FirstVoices.com?'
Additionally, you can show the speaker what information would be present on the FirstVoices site and how the speaker would be represented there. This way informed consent does not seem like just a concept, but the speaker can visualize what he or she is actually agreeing to.
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How do you know if consent has been freely given?
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