Invitation to Contribute

The CCL is an intensively collaborative project. We invite all scholars of medieval canon law to contribute transcriptions of manuscripts (or portions of manuscripts), so that our database expands and becomes ever more useful to all of us. We are able to accept transcriptions in Word (.doc or .docx), Classical Text Editor, NotaBene, or .txt files. If you have files in other formats, please contact us, and we shall see what can be done.

To contribute, please announce the shelfmark(s) of the manuscripts you will provide to us. You may do this either on the CCLawWiki or via private email to afire2@uky.edu. We shall mark the shelfmark on our List of Shelfmarks so that others know what is in preparation for the website.

For preferred protocols for transcription, please see the Guidelines for Transcription. The most important rule is not to use angle brackets < > in the transcription, because these signal encoding markup.

All transcriptions will be published with full credit publicly given to the transcriber.

To submit a transcription of individual canons online, you can use our Canon Submission Form. This form is still being tested, and we encourage comments on your experience in submitting individual canons using this form.

Once we receive the transcription, we shall encode it for integration into our database, so that users may find material in it using our search engine. If you wish to prepare the encoding yourself, please see the Guidelines for TEI-encoding for the CCL project.

The CCL welcomes translations of individual canons or groups of canons that have been published on the CCL website. We recommend that such translations be posted on the CCLawWiki, Section Three. This will allow your name to be attached to the translation offered. To do this, you will need to create an account. As soon as your account is approved (usually within a few days of your request), you will be able to Edit this wiki page. Using the wiki is as easy as using a simple word-processor. See Using The Wiki.

The CCL hopes that the CCLawWiki will become an open forum for discussion of the materials posted on the website and on the CCLawWiki. To discuss particular manuscripts, transcriptions, translations, commentary, or bibliographic items, please post your comments on the CCLawWiki, Section Two. This will allow your name to be attached to the contribution of information or ideas. You may also use this section of the wiki to ask questions about particular canons. To post information or questions, you will need to create an account. As soon as your account is approved (usually within a few days of your request), you will be able to Edit this wiki page. Using the wiki is as easy as using a simple word-processor. See Using The Wiki.

The CCL publishes bibliography on individual canons. To contribute such information, we recommend that you use the CCLawWiki, Section One. This will allow your name to be attached to the contribution. To contribute bibliography, you will need to create an account. As soon as your account is approved (usually within a few days of your request), you will be able to Edit this wiki page. Using the wiki is as easy as using a simple wordprocessor. See Using The Wiki.

The CCL welcomes descriptive articles of Carolingian canon law materials. Such articles may then be discussed by others on the CCLawWiki, Section One. To submit an article for publication, please contact Abigail Firey (afire2@uky.edu), who will consult with members of the project's Advisory Board regarding publication of the submission.

First, you will need to create an account. As soon as your account is approved (usually within a few days of your request), you will be able to Edit any wiki page. After you click on the "edit" tab at the top of the page, you will be given the wiki page into which you can type, or paste material you have copied from another file. There are very basic formatting options in the toolbar on the editing page. When you have finished, be sure to click on the "Save" button at the bottom of the page.

• Last updated May 26, 2009 • Send comments to afire2@uky.edu.