Contribution submission
The Guardian enters the form, meaning, municipality, context, source and any audio.
Method, quality and responsibility
How AI Calabria collects and validates linguistic heritage.
Preserving a dialect does not mean accumulating texts: it means preserving provenance, meaning, voice, consent and data history.
Submit a contributionThe data journey
From a personal memory to public AI Calabria content
Technical checks
The platform checks fields, consent, formats and minimum publication requirements.
Guardian validation
Content is checked before becoming public within the shared heritage.
Territorial attribution
The entry remains linked to its municipality, type and the information needed to understand it.
Publication
The contribution enters the Atlas, the municipality page and its living book.
Review and growth
New evidence can enrich the data without erasing its history or provenance.
Non-negotiable principles
Heritage quality comes before quantity
No single artificial language
Differences between municipalities and communities are not normalised for convenience.
Context before translation
The same expression can change meaning according to tone, relationship and situation.
Audio with consent
Voice is valuable, but it must be collected and published under transparent rules.
Declared source
Direct experience, family memory, documents and research must remain distinguishable.
Traceability
Validation status and content history must always be understandable.
Public return
The heritage is built to return to the territories and support future generations.
Understanding the method helps people contribute better and makes AI Calabria more reliable.
Read about sources, licences and transparencyFrequently asked questions
Collection, validation and publication of contributions
Who can submit a contribution to AI Calabria?
Registered users can propose words, phrases, expressions, stories, meanings and pronunciations linked to territories they know.
When does content become public?
A contribution is made public after validation by a Guardian and the checks required by the platform.
Does AI Calabria decide which local form is correct?
The project does not seek to impose a single form. It preserves territorial differences and documents origin, context and variants when relevant.
How is audio handled?
Recordings are associated with the contribution and territory, published only with the required consent and used in accordance with the project rules.
How are contributors recognised?
The platform retains attribution, the Guardian’s journey and links to territories, while respecting public settings and privacy.
One well-documented word is worth more than a hundred data points without territory or context.
Preserve a memory with method