Contributor credit

The principle

A useful correction deserves visible attribution. Over time the record of who studied this sheet becomes a map of the community that studied it, and that map is itself worth having.

What credit looks like

An accepted contribution is credited in three places: the changelog entry recording the change, the claim or record it affected, and the contributors list. Credit is by the name you give us. If you supply an ORCID it is recorded and linked, so the credit is attached to you rather than to a string that happens to match your name.

You do not need an affiliation

Institutional standing is not a requirement to contribute useful evidence, and it is not treated as one here. A dealer who recognises a collector's mark, a printmaker who recognises a printing characteristic, a retired curator, a graduate student, someone who owns another impression of the same print — all of these have contributed things to projects like this that no institution had.

What matters is the evidence, and evidence is assessed on what it is rather than on who sent it.

Anonymity

You can contribute without being named. Say so and the change will be logged as an anonymous contribution with the evidence intact.

Substantial work

Where a contribution goes beyond a correction — a piece of research, a technical examination, a provenance finding — the contributor is named as its author on the page that carries it, and is credited in the dossier version that first includes it. If it warrants publication in its own right, that is the contributor's to publish, and this project will cite it.