Corrections and contributions

The archive is a living document, and it accepts and logs corrections. If you can improve a record, flag an error, report the current location of a work, or dispute an attribution, the archive wants to hear from you. Every correction received is logged in the public /changelog, and each record carries its own Last reviewed date, so you can see how current it is.

What you can submit

The contact form routes corrections under four headings:

• Provenance correction: an owner, sale, exhibition, or chain-of-ownership detail that is wrong, incomplete, or out of date.
• Attribution dispute: a work the archive lists as by Rauscher that you believe is not, or a work credited elsewhere that you believe is. The standard the archive applies is set out on /methodology; works that fail every test are kept on /works/rejected-attributions.
• Ownership or location update: the current whereabouts of a work, especially one the archive marks not_located (see /works/not-located).
• Factual flag: any other error of fact: a date, a name, a citation, a translation.

If you hold a Rauscher work, a photograph, a document, or family material that is not yet in the archive, that is a contribution rather than a correction, and it is just as welcome through the same form.

How corrections are handled

Each submission is reviewed against the archive’s sources. If it is accepted, the affected record is updated, its Last reviewed date is reset, and an entry is added to the public /changelog. Where a submission cannot be verified, it is noted as an open question rather than silently adopted or silently dropped, in keeping with the archive’s stated method on /methodology.

Image-rights questions are handled separately, on /rights-reproductions.