• human rights, democracy and citizenship
• cultural expression and cultural identity
• black and ethnic minority perspectives
• gender perspectives and equal opportunities
• community development and social enterprise
• living and working in the information age
• awareness of health
• awareness of environment
• storytelling, testimony and oral history
• labour and class issues
• disability issues
• war and peace
• art, music and drama

How do I submit my project?

If you think you have an appropriate project for us to include,send us a copy on whatever formats you have available or let usknow the Internet address if it is a web site. Formats may include:CD, VHS, DV, Mini DV, Beta, cassette, MiniDisc. Send materialto Diane Rodgers, CMA, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield, S1 2BX oremail Diane Rodgers-Wilson

What happens to projects when they firstarrive at the CMA?

Your project is catalogued by the CMA and then passed on to areviewer, who will then look at the material on our behalf andwrite a description of it that we can use as part of the informationon our site.

What happens after projects are reviewed?

They are returned to the CMA and we will let the person who submittedwork know whether it has been selected for inclusion or not.

What are the criteria for selection?

Primarily, the material should be: of interest beyond the localarea/community; demonstrate effectiveness for lifelong learning;broadly fall under one of our themes; add range and variety tothe archive; and have reasonable production standards in termsof sound and picture quality and editing.

What happens if it is selected?

Once content has been chosen, we may need some further informationabout each project; this will be used to make categorising andsearching on the archive for relevant programmes easy and efficient.It is at this point that we will digitise material.

What do you mean by digitise?

We will use specialist computer software to compress the materialinto a small file that will be appropriate for use on the Internet.Material will be digitised at different bit-rates in order toensure that it will be available to those on low as well as highconnectivity (28k to broadband).

Will there be any cost?

No. We will digitise and upload your material to our site forfree. Everyone will be able to access all materials on the archiveand download them at no cost, providing that they are not usedfor commercial purposes.

What about copyright issues?

We will have a legal statement on our site protecting materialfrom being used for commercial, profit-making purposes. We willask people submitting selected projects to sign a licence agreementwith us, allowing us to use the material for the archive, butthe copyright will always remain with the original copyright holder.

When will the site be available for use?

The site was launched in May 2003.