Identify the source within the portal
SONUMA's professional page describes material from RTBF, local media, independent producers and cultural or institutional collections. A portal title alone therefore does not establish that an item came from a particular national bulletin.
Imagine an exhibition organiser wants a historic report about a Belgian town. Search the place and event, then preserve the title, date, programme and collection. A national news extract, local television report and later documentary can describe the same place differently. Keep each as a candidate until the desired scene and context are checked.
Describe the actual project
The official page describes professional, academic, cultural and associative uses, including academic support within the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles. State the project's context instead of assuming that all searchable material has identical access or reuse conditions.
For a worked brief, list the event illustrated, candidate references, desired passage, intended audience, display setting and duration of use. Describe any website or social-media version separately from an exhibition screen. This provides a concrete use to assess rather than relying on the vague expression educational footage, which can conceal several different distribution plans.
Keep consultation and final selection distinct
First establish that the candidate contains the required scene. Then check the permitted use and supply arrangements. A thumbnail or short preview can support discovery without showing the full report or the surrounding exchange. Keep uncertainty visible until consultation resolves it.
Retain the item reference with the archive's actual response and any later production notes. If a candidate does not contain the needed scene, record a short rejection reason and return to the search. Do not rename the item to fit the project.
For the exhibition, keep a proposed sequence showing which item illustrates each part of the story and why its source matters. If a local report supplies a viewpoint absent from the national extract, describe that role. This helps the final selection retain provenance and context instead of treating all images of the town as interchangeable illustration.
Questions about this guide
Is every SONUMA item an RTBF bulletin?
No. Its published holdings include several kinds of source and collection.
What makes the enquiry specific?
Identified item references, a desired passage and a clear audience, display setting and proposed use.