The CERL Thesaurus is a product from and by the CERL community. CERL members contribute authority records, we identify and link to relevant external resources and where possible we merge and correct data.
If you want to contribute data, send in corrections or wish to become an editor, please contact the Secretariat.
Contributing data to the CERL Thesaurus
CERL members are warmly invited to contribute their authority files for names and place names, where the information is related to material printed before the middle of the nineteenth century.
Often academic projects gather and annotate information about owners, readers, illuminators, book binders, booksellers, printers or printing families, etc., etc. CERL is keen to explore with you whether this data can be incorporated into the CERL Thesaurus, both to enrich the CERL Thesaurus and to sustainably store your data and make it available for future use.
Editing the CERL Thesaurus data
The CERL Thesaurus has an editing module, and CERL is grateful to the very small team of editors that corrects mistakes and merges duplicate records. You are invited to join the team!
Editors are issued with a personal account to access the editing environment. They are provided with training and we have drawn up some Editing Guidelines:
Content
- CERL Thesaurus format description
- Guidelines to using the new CT interface for editing
- How to use the form based editor
- Indexing of the CERL Thesaurus
- Guidelines for editing printers’ records