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Registration and publication terms:
Rules:
- This site offer the possibility to each terra-sigillata owner, privat individual or association, to publish their collection.
- Any request for a shard identification is equivalent to an autorization of publication and any publication on the site will be work object of identification by our care also the procedure is the same one.
- the publication may be done under your name, your association name or under a pseudonym.
- The shards number is not important. Collections with one shards or several thousand will be traited in the same way. However, shards totaly smooth and with an undetermined shape will not be published.
- Site user's remain the owner of the image they have sended.
However, sended image imply your agreement to publish it on this site without any compensation. - The heading of your collection page gives these indications and precise that any remote loading for an exploitation which which either must
be the subject of your authorization to be required via the site.
However, the administrators of the site could not be held responsible for any illicit exploitation which could be made. - The images will be improved in order to bring closer the style that of the site. Moreover 2 comments will be added: Collection XXX and the name of the site.
- Any request for publication must be the object as a preliminary inscription like member.
Procedure:
The first thing to be made is to register you as a member by sending an email via our form.This inscription with for goal to simplify us management and to save to you time particularly if your collection comprises several shards. It will be required an Identifier (pseudo or your name), a password and your email adress.
You will receive in return, within a time as short as possible a message to confirm you your adhesion. Consequently, you will be able to reach the spécific pages reserved for publication and post your images using an other specific form
For each shard it will be asked the source and these dimensions as presented on the picture.
Your images will be available on the site as soon as possible. Elements of identification a few times later.
Concerning the images:
The images must be of a good quality but the size must be lower than 2 Moctet(between 180ppp and 300ppp, between 2048 X 1536 and 1600 X 1200). Format JPEG and the pictures should be taken on a plain bottom of cold color (white or light blue for example) with a measuring rod posed on the bottom.The picture must be taken with vertical shard and with the decoration or the signature horizontal.
For the shards including a signature, the ideal is to forward to us a photograph of the whole shard and a photograph of the signature. For small shards without signature, only one photograph is generally enought.
For the shards more important including several motifs , do not hesitate to forward to us several images. The ideal being that all the motifs are perfectly readable.