Researchers are expected to contribute corpora constructed with TalkBank programs and tools. It is the obligation of TalkBank to assure that these contributions are properly acknowledged and that the data are correctly stored and distributed.

To contribute a new data set:

1. First, please send an email message to Brian MacWhinney at macw@cmu.edu.
2. Combine your data into a single archive file using ZIP, TAR, or StuffIt formats (.zip, .tar, .sit).
3. Files under 5MB in size can be sent as email attachments.
4. Larger files should be transferred using FTP to mail.talkbank.org with username transfer and pass**word mercury.
5. After the file is transferred, please send another email to macw@cmu.edu confirming the successful transfer.
6. Finally, please print out this contribution form and complete and sign it. Then mail it to Brian MacWhinney, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.

Guidelines for corpus documentation are given in section 3.4 of the CHAT manual.