THE BASIC IDEA OF THE CONTRIBUTION FEATURE (*require user registration)
We need your help! The Japan Disasters Digital Archive is a participatory archive. Individual users' and a group user's active contribution(s) allow it to grow and make it a more valuable and lasting repository of digital information. Using the webform and/or the Bookmarklet feature, every registered user can contribute to the archive by adding a new content, tagging or translating existing content, and creating and curating mini-exhibitions known as “My Collections”. Also users can contribute to the archive by adding tags and translations without registration. This page describes "How to contribute" to the archive in more details.
CONTRIBUTING DISASTER-RELATED DIGITAL INFORMATION
In order to contribute to the archive, you can click on "Contribute" button on the header. You must have an user account to contribute a material to the archive. If you have not signed in to your JDA account, you will be prompted to sign in. Using the contribution feature, you may contribute any disaster-related information in any language that is currently missing in the archive but wish to be added. You can navigate the language tab to enter English (use the English tab for any other language) or Japanese information. There are two steps to complete a contribution. Once you entered all necessary information in the first step, click on the orange "Next Step" button to move to the second step. Any field with * is required before completing your submission (e.g., Title, Media Type, URL, etc.). You can go back and forth between steps to review your contribution. Also the right side window shows a real-time preview of your contiribution. You can check this preview window to see how your contribution will appear in the archive. Make sure the language tab is matching between the two windows otherwise you cannot see the real-time preview of your contribution. Your contribution will become available for other users to browse in the archive once our staff screen it. Moreover, our staff may decide to preserve your contibution by submitting it to the Internet Archive. There are two ways to contribute an outside material to the archive: Webform and Bookmarklet.
