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-====== Submission Guidelines ======
+====== Contribute ======
-Scholars and institutions interested in contributing tablet or book images to the CDLI library are encouraged to look over the following guidelines for scanning and editing text hardcopies. These guidelines ensure that cuneiform tablets are not unnecessarily degraded when scanned and that the resulting images are of high quality. They also help ensure a uniform format in all the images the CDLI displays on its site.
+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.
-Please submit raw or processed images to CDLI at: cdli@ucla.edu. Include a brief email identifying the image(s).
-For a very helpful introduction to important concepts in scanning, see [[http://www.scantips.com|Wayne Fulton's Scantips site]].
+==== Donations ====
+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]].
-There are separate guidelines for scanning book images and scanning actual cuneiform tablets.
+==== Submissions ====
-===== Scanning Tablets =====
+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.
+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.
+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]].
+===== Guidelines for Scanning Tablets =====
+As three-dimensional objects with rounded and often irregular surfaces, cuneiform tablets behave differently on a scanner than a sheet of paper.  The CDLI, however, has developed a workflow that efficiently and reliably delivers high-quality images of tablet surfaces while protecting the tablet from harm.  We've prepared the videos and text below to give you an introduction to this workflow, so that you can duplicate our process at your location.
 ==== Equipment ====
-Under ideal conditions, four pieces of equipment are required to produce high quality digital images of most clay tablets: (i) a desktop or laptop computer with substantial processing power, (ii) a reasonably new desktop scanner (at present, CDLI recommends the HP Scanjet 3670 with a deep bed that results in better capture of image depth), (ii) a means to support tablets during scanning, and (iii) a very dark room (preferably with no windows). In the field, meaning in a variety of museums in various countries around the world, CDLI staff members have improvised a number of alternative methods where one or more of these items was not available, so be creative: the goal is to find a dark workspace (whether a small room or a big cardboard box) and to position each surface of a tablet, facing the surface of the scanner.
+Under ideal conditions, four pieces of equipment are required to produce high quality digital images of most clay tablets: (i) a desktop or laptop computer with substantial processing power, (ii) a reasonably new desktop scanner (at present, CDLI recommends the HP Scanjet 3670 with a deep bed that results in better capture of image depth), (iiI) a means to support tablets during scanning, and (iv) a very dark room (preferably with no windows). In the field, meaning in a variety of museums in various countries around the world, CDLI staff members have improvised a number of alternative methods where one or more of these items was not available, so be creative: the goal is to find a dark workspace (whether a small room or a big cardboard box) and to position each surface of a tablet, facing the surface of the scanner.
 ==== Scanning the Tablet ====