CWRC is an online research environment that brings together scholarly materials and digital tools.

The organization, creation, and upload of materials relies on content models. These define the parameters of a subcollection, determining if you can add a subcollection and what type of material can be added.

CWRC users have different levels of access to their projects. This ranges from non-members who can only view the materials on CWRC to project administrators who have complete control over project materials.

CWRC provides an enriched user experience for every user account. Features include an in-site messaging system between project members and a bookmarking tool to collect your favorite materials together.

CWRC utilizes a robust search system to make the contents of the site as accessible and explorable as possible.

The Menu Bar is located at the top of any CWRC page and provides points of navigation into the CWRC site, including (from left to right): CWRC home page, Collaboratory, News, About, Projects, Help icon, Language Settings icon, Notifications icon, and Profile icon.

How you view files in CWRC depends on the file itself. XML documents are viewed in the visualization tool CWRC-Writer. Image, audio, video, and document files open within your browser. For more information see Content Models Reference.

CWRC provides users with a search and advanced search functions. Searchable items include projects, collection, files and topics of interest.

CWRC is still in development, which means that you may discover some bugs. Follow these steps to report an issue:

CWRC provides a customizable user experience for members. Members of CWRC can upload, edit, and explore digital texts.

New CWRC accounts will only your name, email, and password attached to it. Adding account details (like an image) will make your account more accessible and discoverable for other members.

Once you have a CWRC account, you can request to join different participating projects. Project content is available to view if you are not a member, but, depending to the file lock, you may not be able to edit or annotate. Here is how to submit a request:

Objects in CWRC are organized in collections. You can nest collections within otehr collections. A user-editable policy attached to each collection determines which type of "children" will be permitted. Any collection can contain various object types, sub-collections or both.

If you would like to upload a particular object to your collection, you may have to change the policy associated with it (depending on what you assigned to it when you created your collection).

These instructions can be used for any file upload or born digital documents.

Sharing options will depend on whether you are trying to share a file or a folder. Folders can be shared to social media, whereas individual files can be shared to social media as well as different CWRC projects. Here is how you can share a folder/file:

CWRC has a bookmarking feature that allows you to quickly access files across projects. You will then have the option to place these bookmarks in a personalized listing order.

You can ogranize your bookmarks into named lists, which, you can visualize using PlotIt (for more information on PlotIt, refer to the link at the bottom of the page)

CWRC bookmark lists are by default private. CWRC does, however, provide the option to publicly share these lists. The following steps will demonstrate how you can share a list (which can also be used to make a list private again).

You can use the visualization tool, PlotIt, in CWRC. This feature works with your bookmark lists to map and date the files that you have bookmarked.

Project homepages display the project's description. This can include a link to the entire collection, featured items from the collection, external links to the project's website and/or social media page, list of sponsors, director(s) names, and an About Me page that lists the project's contact information.

Project homepages display the project's description. This can include a link to the entire collection, featured items from the collection, external links to the project's website and/or social media page, list of sponsors, director(s) names, and an About Me page that lists the project's contact information.

Project homepages display the project's description. This can include a link to the entire collection, featured items from the collection, external links to the project's website and/or social media page, list of sponsors, director(s) names, and an About Me page that lists the project's contact information.