The Pluralism Project at Harvard University

Research "Deliverables"

The Pluralism Project maintains extensive archives and databases that serve other researchers, the news media, educators, policy makers, and the general public. We are interested in all of the following materials as they may be generated during a research project. Please gather two sets of brochures when you visit sites, and duplicate photographic material and other submissions. Valuable contributions to the Pluralism Project may include:

•  Materials from sites visited (brochures, etc.)

•  Place the Pluralism Project on temple/center mailing lists.

•  Directory Additions/ Corrections for our online database of centers

•  Website addresses for centers

•  Contact list - names of people who have been helpful to you

•  Additions to the Pluralism Project E-mail List

•  Articles for "In the News" concerning your research area or location

•  Slides or Photos - we require an individually labeled set, with your name, the subject, and the location (city and state) on each slide or photo; for photos we are also interested in the negatives.

•  If you are submitting digital photographs, we prefer the highest resolution possible, burned onto a CD if you have that capability. E-mail also works for partial submissions, but a full submission on CD is most helpful.

•  Tapes of interviews

•  Transcriptions of tapes

•  Profiles (of people and places)

•  Case Studies (more depth and length than a profile)

•  Field Notes

•  Completed Research Templates

•  Executive summary for posting to your webpage

•  Final Research Paper

•  Edited Research Paper (post final version that responds to suggestions)

•  Updates to the CD-ROM On Common Ground: World Religions in America, and other Pluralism Project publications where appropriate

•  Suggestions for further research

Submitting Research as Online Profiles

If you are planning to submit your research online to our Center Profiles database, please keep the following points in mind:

•  As a first step you must send the Pluralism Project staff a list of the religious centers you may wish to profile. Please send us the name, tradition and address of each center as it appears in our Directory -- and if the center does not appear, or if our information is out of date, please send us the new/corrected information.

•  After the Pluralism Project staff has sent you your login name and password, you may access your centers and create/edit their profiles at http://www.pluralism.org/research/profiles/.

•  Detailed instructions and guidelines for entering profiles are found at http://www.pluralism.org/research/profiles/help.php, which is also available by clicking on "Instructions" on the data entry page. Your research submissions will not be approved for publication online if they do not conform to these guidelines.

•  When preparing photos for upload, remember that:

•  All images should be in JPEG format, and have names ending with the .jpg extension

•  Thumbnails should be no larger than 300 x 200 pixels (vertically or horizontally), or 250 x 250 if square

•  Full size images should be no larger than 800 x 600 pixels (vertically or horizontally)

Submitting Research for an Online Slide Show

If you are planning to submit images and captions for an online slide show, please follow these guidelines:

•  First take a look at our existing slide shows to familiarize yourself with the general layout, the options in presentation, and the quality of images and captions.

•  The best way to send images is in digital format on a CD or zip disk. If the pictures were shot on film, we would appreciate duplicates of the prints or slides for our archives as well. Digital images should be in JPEG format and should be large (around 1800 x 1200 pixels; absolute minimum 600 x 400 pixels) and saved at high quality. We may be able to assist with scanning your slides or prints if you are unable to do so.

•  The best way to send your captions is in a table, with the names of the images -- in the order in which they are to appear -- in one column and the caption for each image in the other column. Note that it is also possible to have a caption in a box underneath the image -- see examples 1, 2, and 3 (entire show).

•  Before your slide show can be made public, we will need your show's title, and text to be placed on your introductory page.

•  Captions can convey significant content to supplement images. Please use complete descriptive sentences and punctuation.

•  Optional: You can specify different colors to be used for the text and backgrounds, if desired, and can split your show up into distinct sections, each with its own title (see examples 1 and 2). Separate title headers for individual slides and thumbnail pages can be arranged.