Submissions HOWTO
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Status of this document
This document describes the steps necessary to submit a document to The Open Siddur Project. It is currently a draft and subject to review.
Respecting copyright law
All creative works are protected under national and international copyright law from the moment they are fixed in a tangible form. This includes printed matter, handwritten notes, computer files, photographs, drawings, video clips, audio tapes, and anything else we can perceive through human senses, with or without the aid of a computer or other machine.
The intent of copyright law is to grant a work's creator the exclusive right, for a fixed period of time, to share, modify, or distribute that work, or to assign any of those rights to somebody else. During the copyright period, a copyright holder can choose to license any part of the copyright to allow others to share, modify, or distribute the work in some limited or unlimited way. The copyright holder can also choose to put the work into the public domain for anyone to freely use. When the copyright period ends, the work automatically enters the public domain.
Works currently created in the United States are protected under copyright law for the life of the creator plus 70 years.
Choose a licensing scheme
The Open Siddur Project is a dynamic archive centered around the concepts of sharing, modifying, and distributing Jewish liturgical material as widely as possible. Standard copyright licenses establish an agreement between authors, the project, and users as to the conditions under which contributed documents can be shared, modified, and distributed.
All contributing authors (or the copyright holder, if copyright was signed over to a third party) must agree to submit their work under the licensing scheme.
Contributing a document to the Open Siddur Project's archive involves surrendering some of your exclusive rights for the benefit of a vibrant Jewish culture of shared creativity. (If you want to reserve all your rights, please consider how reserving all your rights diminishes the opportunity for others to discover, build upon, and improve your work with a project such as the Open Siddur.)
We allow content into our archive if it is released under one of three licenses, Creative Commons Zero (CC0), Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY), and Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA). Read the terms and decide which you are comfortable with.
Once you have decided, follow the instructions below to write us a license for your content.
Using licenses
CC0
To contribute content to the Open Siddur with a CC0 license (waiving copyright!), please attach the following statement with the material you are providing:
"I am/We are the original author(s) of _______ and I am/We are licensing the following attachments under the Creative Commons Zero License. I/we hereby waive all copyright and related or neighboring rights together with all associated claims and causes of action with respect to this work to the extent possible under the law."
CC-BY
To contribute content to the Open Siddur with a CC-BY license, please attach the following statement with the material you are providing:
"I am/We are the original author(s) of _______ and I am/We are licensing the following attachments under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Attribution may be given as 'Contributors to the Jewish Liturgy Project/Open Siddur', with the author's name(s) _______ included in the contributors list."
CC-BY-SA
To contribute content to the Open Siddur with a CC-BY-SA license, please attach the following statement with the material you are providing:
"I am/We are the original author(s) of _______ and I am/We are licensing the following attachments under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Attribution may be given as 'Contributors to the Jewish Liturgy Project/Open Siddur', with the author's name(s) _______ included in the contributors list."
Note your sources
In addition to copyright issues, we keep track of bibliographic and contributor data. Please tell us what sources you used for any material that was not originally composed for the document under submission.
For more information on how Open Siddur attributes the work of its contributors, please click here.
Formatting
The Open Siddur Project uses (or, will use) standard formatting software for all submitted material. We don't ordinarily preserve the detailed layout of submitted works. Instead, we preserve semantic information about the structure of a document. This allows our users to give content from many different sources a consistent "look and feel" of their choice. In order to make your document conformable to our internal archival format, we ask the following:
- Submit your document as unformatted, plain Unicode text.
- Many older documents simulated Hebrew text using special fonts, and simulated right-to-left text by writing backwards. If your document is like that, make a note. Conversion is possible, and will be easier to long as we know that the material is non-standard.
- Be as consistent as possible. If you format consistently, we may be able to write scripts to convert your submission into our format and get it into the archive faster.
- If there are any special formatting cues, make a note of them with your submission.
If you cannot follow one or more of these formatting suggestions, no problem! Someone else probably can. Ask the mailing list.
Where to submit
Until the technical framework for accepting submissions is complete, submissions may be emailed to contribute@opensiddur.net
Because volunteer effort is required to integrate your content, it may take some time before your submission appears on our site.
Users registered to this wiki can also upload new material directly to the wiki. Registration is free.
Thank you for contributing your work to the Open Siddur Project!
