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Glossary
A searchable reference for CultureUp terms that connect story, source, media, memory, and review work in plain language.
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Define the language before the archive gets larger.
Source cue
Every definition includes the evidence fields an editor should keep close when the term appears in a page.
Story path
Glossary entries point back to stories, standards, source notes, or review surfaces instead of standing alone.
Terms
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PlaceGlossary
Land acknowledgment
A statement that names Indigenous relationship to a place and can orient readers before a story, event, or public page.
Reader use
Use it as an opening context cue, not as a substitute for nation-specific sourcing or direct community guidance.
Source cue
Include local Indigenous communities, Native Nations connected to the place, wording source, review status, and correction path.
MemoryGlossary
Descendant community
A community with lived, familial, cultural, or historical relationship to people, places, remains, records, or public memory being discussed.
Reader use
Use it when a story involves burial grounds, sacred places, community-held records, or memory that should not be treated as detached evidence.
Source cue
Name the relationship carefully, avoid assuming authority from outside, and include consent or review notes when sensitive material appears.
EvidenceGlossary
Endonym
A name a people, language community, or place uses for itself from within that community or language context.
Reader use
Use it to understand why CultureUp prioritizes self-naming and source-specific labels when covering Indigenous, Amazigh, or other identity-sensitive topics.
Source cue
Pair the term with the source that supports the spelling, language context, translation, and preferred use.
EvidenceGlossary
Exonym
A name used by outsiders for a people, place, or language community, often shaped by translation, power, convenience, or later convention.
Reader use
Use it when comparing official map names, colonial labels, museum terms, and community-used names.
Source cue
Identify who uses the name, when it appears, what source supports it, and whether a community-preferred name should be foregrounded.
EditorialGlossary
Editorial confidence
A visible signal for how strongly a CultureUp claim is supported by available sources and review.
Reader use
Use it to distinguish established history, debated claims, interpretive traditions, current discourse, and material still under review.
Source cue
Attach confidence to the claim, not the whole topic, and update it when new sources or corrections change the record.
MediaGlossary
Rights status
A practical label for whether an image, recording, transcript, clip, or artwork can be reused and under what limits.
Reader use
Use it to understand why CultureUp may discuss a media object before publishing the object itself.
Source cue
Include creator, holder, collection, date, license or rights advisory, access restrictions, and whether permission is still pending.
EvidenceGlossary
Boarding-school record
A student file, register, photograph, administrative document, map, cemetery note, oral history, or institutional record connected to American Indian boarding-school history.
Reader use
Use it with care because a record can identify people or institutions without fully representing lived experience, descendant memory, or community harm.
Source cue
Include repository, record type, date range, community or descendant review status, sensitivity label, image rights, and what the record cannot prove.
MediaGlossary
Documentary image
A photograph, scan, still, or visual record presented as evidence of a person, place, object, event, or source trail.
Reader use
Use it when a visual is being asked to support a factual context rather than simply set a mood.
Source cue
Name creator, date, place, collection holder, caption source, rights status, and whether sensitive or private material needs review.
MediaGlossary
Illustrative image
A visual used to explain a concept or guide the reader without claiming to document the exact person, event, place, or object discussed.
Reader use
Use it when CultureUp needs a safe visual placeholder or concept image and does not yet have a rights-reviewed documentary image.
Source cue
Label the image as illustrative, include creator or generation note, avoid misleading captions, and replace with documentary media when approved.
EvidenceGlossary
Source note
A compact explanation of the evidence behind a claim, credit, caption, timeline event, or cultural context.
Reader use
Use it to understand what kind of record supports the story and where uncertainty may remain.
Source cue
Name the source type, creator or holder, date, access path, and review status when those details matter.
EvidenceGlossary
Provenance
The known path of an object, image, record, or story through creators, holders, collectors, institutions, and communities.
Reader use
Use it to see who made, preserved, moved, labeled, or interpreted the material before it reached the reader.
Source cue
Keep creator, collection, rights holder, date range, and custody notes close to the object.
MemoryGlossary
Oral history
Recorded or remembered testimony that carries lived experience, community memory, family context, and local knowledge.
Reader use
Use it as a source of presence and perspective while naming who is speaking and how the memory was gathered.
Source cue
Include speaker, interviewer, date, place, transcript status, permission limits, and related records.
PlaceGlossary
Public object
A monument, sign, marker, building detail, mural, memorial, route, or material trace that asks a public audience to remember something.
Reader use
Use it to read location, inscription, sponsor, material, maintenance, absence, and public meaning together.
Source cue
Track location, inscription, sponsor, date range, material, condition, and community response.
MediaGlossary
Caption
A reader-facing note that explains what a visual or audio object shows, where it comes from, and why it belongs in the story.
Reader use
Use it to avoid decorative media and make credits, dates, and context visible at the moment of viewing.
Source cue
Pair description with creator, holder, date, credit line, transcript note, and usage status.
EditorialGlossary
Culture profile
A profile that connects a person or community to the places, records, objects, and relationships that make their presence legible.
Reader use
Use it when biography needs evidence, setting, source trails, and cultural context beyond a short summary.
Source cue
Gather names, roles, dates, places, related media, source holders, and unresolved attribution questions.
EditorialGlossary
Timeline event
A dated or sequenced moment that helps readers understand order, turning points, gaps, and evidence before reading a full narrative.
Reader use
Use it when sequence clarifies the story faster than a paragraph can.
Source cue
Attach date label, event title, evidence note, uncertainty marker, related story, and image credit when available.
MediaGlossary
Credit line
A visible attribution that names who made, preserved, owns, supplied, or contextualized a media object or archival record.
Reader use
Use it to keep provenance and rights context near the thing being shown.
Source cue
Name creator, collection, institution, family holder, rights note, and whether the object is documentary or illustrative.
EvidenceGlossary
Tribal Nation source
A public statement, page, record, language note, or direct review path from the Native Nation or Indigenous community connected to the story.
Reader use
Use it to see whether CultureUp is relying on a community source, a federal or museum bridge source, or a note that direct review is still pending.
Source cue
Name the Native Nation or community, spelling source, access date, relationship to the place or person, and review status.
MediaGlossary
Public domain
A rights status indicating that a work can generally be reused without copyright permission, while credit, caption, source, and sensitivity review may still be needed.
Reader use
Use it to separate legal reuse from editorial context when reading archival image or media pages.
Source cue
Keep object title, maker, date, holder, rights label, source URL, and documentary or illustrative status near the media.
MemoryGlossary
Cemetery record
A grave marker, burial register, memorial page, site record, or public-history note connected to burial, remembrance, and descendant memory.
Reader use
Use it with care because public access does not remove privacy, dignity, or descendant-community considerations.
Source cue
Include site name, manager, record type, date range, inscription limits, image rights, condition, and descendant/community review status.
MediaGlossary
Music rights note
A source and permissions note for audio, lyrics, recordings, performances, transcripts, album art, or church media.
Reader use
Use it to understand why CultureUp may discuss gospel or sacred music before embedding or republishing the media itself.
Source cue
Name performer, title, label or holder, date, transcript status, rights status, and whether audio or lyrics are approved for publication.
EditorialGlossary
Evidence label
A visible label that tells readers whether a claim is established history, debated history, cultural memory, interpretation, or current reporting.
Reader use
Use it to follow difficult CultureUp topics without assuming every source supports every kind of claim.
Source cue
Apply the label at the claim or section level and update it when source strength changes.
EvidenceGlossary
Review lane
A visible editorial status for claims, spellings, dates, captions, credits, or source notes that need review or have changed.
Reader use
Use it to make corrections and follow-up work inspectable without interrupting every story.
Source cue
Record the affected page, change type, reason, source impact, status, and update date.