Shameless begging time
Aug. 21st, 2011 12:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
All right, anyone got a spare AO3 invite so that I can experiment with using it as a host for stuff that might get booted from WordPress for naughtiness? (Also, it is long past time I put some more of my *own* fic online, and the Hermit Library is now pretty much read-only.)
Not having looked at AO3 other than grabbing some links for stuff already there, does anyone more familiar with it know if they have any facility for a zine editor to archive a complete anthology zine, or is it a case of you have to be the author to put a story on?
Not having looked at AO3 other than grabbing some links for stuff already there, does anyone more familiar with it know if they have any facility for a zine editor to archive a complete anthology zine, or is it a case of you have to be the author to put a story on?
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Date: 2011-08-21 04:28 pm (UTC)One of the aims is to act as an archive for other archives that may be shutting down and you can certainly create collections. Tagging and hence searching is still rather odd but it seems to be a good place to keep stuff to link to if not to have people find to read by themselves.
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Date: 2011-08-24 02:41 pm (UTC)If you wanted to archive a multi-author zine in a more zine-like format, one option would be to list yourself as co-author of everything and do the different stories as a series or as chapters of one story so they'd go in order and be collected together. You could then use a custom stylesheet to format the whole thing. It might take a few tries to get everything to be in the correct order and to look right, but that's what I'd do if I wanted to recreate the experience of the original zine on AO3. (If I just wanted to have the content up, I'd use a collection.) AO3 can't host art yet, but you can embed it if you host it elsewhere.
Archivists are allowed to move archives to AO3. A zine seems like a slightly different beast, but the authors did still originally grant permission. So, no, you don't always have to be the original author to upload something to AO3.
If an author objected, however, they could complain to the Abuse Committee (which I am on), and we'd take down the story assuming we had enough evidence that it was theirs. I'd personally try to get the authors on AO3 and either have the stories listed under their own accounts but in a community of which you are the owner or go the co-author route (which also requires that all co-authors have an AO3 account). The Open Doors Committee (which I am not on) would be the people to talk to about archive importing or about special collections in non-AO3 formats; they might have some thoughts on zines too, but I haven't asked.
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Date: 2011-08-24 02:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-24 08:37 pm (UTC)The zine series in question was created specifically to act as a selective archive for an otherwise deliberately unarchived mailing list. After the first couple of issues I made it a requirement of submission that permission was granted to archive online when the zine went out of print unless I was explicitly notified otherwise (mostly because people gafiated and it became impossible to contact some of them to ask for permission later). So I have blanket permission for most of the zine contents, but some of the authors will not be on AO3 yet, and a few are unlikely to be on AO3 ever, which means that the only way their zine stories get up on AO3 is if I put them there.
I'd much prefer to link to the authors' own accounts where feasible, not least so that they can easily track any comments, but the "random bits" nature of some issues means that they may have to be uploaded as a single (if multi-chapter) "story", quite apart from the problem of no current contact details for one or two authors.
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