Contact and Corrections
Questions, corrections, and new information are welcome.
Contact Ball Archives if you have a correction, can identify a person or document, know of a related source, or have a question about rights or privacy.
Contact and corrections policy for Ball Archives public collection and item records.
How you can help
Corrections, identifications, source leads, and rights questions.
A small piece of information—a full name, a corrected date, a related document, or the history of an object—can materially improve an archival record.
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Metadata corrections
Requests that a title, date, creator field, note, or descriptive statement is inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading.
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Provenance clarifications
Evidence or context showing that public provenance, arrangement, or publication-status language needs to be refined.
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Rights and privacy concerns
Questions about rights statements, sensitivity, privacy, or whether a public page should present different access language.
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Publication integrity issues
Reports that a page gives a misleading impression about a document, its origin, or its availability.
Before you write
Help us find and evaluate the record.
You do not need to use a formal format. These details simply make it easier to understand and check your message.
- The exact Ball Archives URL for the collection or record.
- The name, date, sentence, or other detail that appears incorrect or incomplete.
- Any citation, document, photograph, or contextual explanation that supports the correction.
- Whether the message concerns a fact, provenance, rights, privacy, access, or a related source.
Corrections
How a correction is handled.
The goal is to improve the record without erasing the history of a significant change.
1. We read the request
Ball Archives will identify whether the message concerns a factual correction, provenance, rights, privacy, or access.
2. We check the evidence
The page is compared with the underlying record, available provenance, and any evidence supplied by the reader.
3. We correct the page
When a correction is warranted, the description or rights note is revised while the page address remains stable.
4. We record significant changes
Significant changes to provenance, identity, or rights are dated so later readers can understand what changed.