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| ====== Contribute ====== | ====== Contribute ====== |
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| There are two ways you can contribute to the CDLI mission: Financially, through a tax-deductible donation to the CDLI Foundation, or by providing images of cuneiform tablets that are not already in our collection. | The CDLI is a collaborative project with capture and text processing efforts underway in North America, Europe and the Middle East. We adhere to a policy of open access, making our data sets of text and images available over the internet to any user for free. There are two ways you can contribute to our mission: Financially, through a tax deductible donation to the CDLI Foundation, or by providing, catalogues, transliterations, and/or digital images of cuneiform tablets that are not already in our collection. We particularly encourage cuneiformists to monitor their own publications, to alert us of errors or omissions in our files on their work, and to submit to us better or supplemental digital documentation on their own or on the publications of others in their possession. |
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| ==== Donations ==== | ==== Donations ==== |
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| The CDLI warmly welcomes financial contributions. Your tax-deductible donations to the CDLI Foundation will help fund scanning teams and projects around the world, and you'll be able to see the results here, at the CDLI website. You can find more information, as well as make a donation, [here[https://giving.ucla.edu/Standard/test/NetDonate.aspx?SiteNum=245https://giving.ucla.edu/Standard/test/NetDonate.aspx?SiteNum=245]]. | You can help preserve the heritage of the cradle of civilization, stretching from ancient Israel and Syria across Anatolia to Assyria, Babylonian and Persia, by contributing to the CDLI. Your tax deductible donation will support our ongoing capture, processing, and free dissemination of cuneiform tablet collections found worldwide,and it will ensure that these invaluable historical resources remain permanently accessible to future generations. To make a contribution, click [[https://opencollective.com/cdli|here]]. |
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| ==== Submissions ==== | ==== Submissions ==== |
| The CDLI welcomes new tablet images! We send scanning teams to collections whenever possible, but travel and personnel costs limit how much we can do. Therefore, if you are a scholar with a substantial library of cuneiform publications, the curator of a collection of cuneiform tablets, or even the owner of a single tablet, please consider scanning the tablet or book yourself and sending the results to us. Not only will you help improve our understanding of Mesopotamian history and life, but you'll also help preserve that knowledge for future generations. | The CDLI welcomes new tablet images! We send scanning teams to collections whenever possible, but travel and personnel costs limit how much we can do. Therefore, if you are a scholar with a substantial library of cuneiform publications, the curator of a collection of cuneiform tablets, or even the owner of a single tablet, please consider scanning the tablet or book yourself and sending the results to us. Not only will you help improve our understanding of Mesopotamian history and life, but you'll also help preserve that knowledge for future generations. |
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| If you do decide to contribute your labor, please look over the following guidelines for scanning and editing text hardcopies. Scanning actual cuneiform tablets differs substantially from scanning printed pages; following these guidelines will protect your tablets, ensure high quality images, and simplify our posting the tablets on the CDLI website. | If you do decide to contribute your labor, please look over the following guidelines for scanning tablets and editing text hardcopies. Scanning actual cuneiform tablets differs substantially from scanning printed pages; following these guidelines will protect your tablets, ensure high quality images, and simplify our posting the tablets on the CDLI website. |
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| You can submit any image, raw or processed, to the CDLI at: cdli@ucla.edu. Please include in the email a brief description of the image(s), including (when appropriate) location, date and publication number. For a very helpful introduction to important concepts in scanning, see [[http://www.scantips.com|Wayne Fulton's Scantips site]]. | You can submit any image, raw or processed, to the CDLI at: cdli@ucla.edu. Please include in the email a brief description of the image(s), including (when appropriate) location, date and publication number. For a very helpful introduction to important concepts in scanning, see [[http://www.scantips.com|Wayne Fulton's Scantips site]]. |
