How to Contribute to JUMPROPE hypertext archives
New rhymes, variants, comments or stories about jumping rope will be
gladly accepted.
Future versions may appear from time to time which may get installed over
irregular intervals at the convenience of any sites wanting updates. Send email to
stankuli@gulf.net
Data of Interest:
of course. Not all variants can be included in
the present style of this archive, but any submitted will be
collected and saved for future reference. Perhaps a more complete
tool for scholars may result someday.
Jumprope rhymes from other languages and cultures are desired,
but try to include an English translation with the material if you
can.
Location and Time Rhyme was Sung. Material is often submitted
from remembrance of many years gone past. Time and place of these
memories give us a handle on the ethnography of the material.
Special Movements or Equipment Used. You have probably seen
how we put a comment field beside the rhymes to indicate how some
lines entail nonverbal resources. Explain any special concerns as
best as you can. We will figure how to encode this into the format
of the archived material.
Multimedia. Pictures or child drawings of jumprope activity,
recordings of children performing their rhymes, maybe videos. This
kind of data is not included in the present form of the archive,
but we may find a method to distribute these more entertaining
data at a later time. Please, only material for which you have
copyright and wish to share within the public domain. If in doubt
about that, we can work it out through email.
Your attributions. How you would like to recognized as a source
in the bibliography. Name, email address, or whatever you care to
share. For purpose of scholarship, we have so far attributed every rhyme
to sources, especially those with literary references. If you don't
want any attribution at all for some reason, please say so. This
is intended to be a participant sharing of data in the public domain,
not a confidential or proprietary issue. If you have that kind of
concern, do not send.
In an earlier incarnation of this archive, there was
a CGI script to permit an HTML input form for entry of new material.
But since that site folded through administrative boondoggles beyond my
control, this version is stripped down to bare bones in the hope that a
number of sites might be interested in the content enough to keep the
archive in a more compact, no frills version that will require minimal
upkeep. If more than one web site is interested in keeping the compact
form of these rhymes online, there is better chance of surviving longer
times for Internet access.