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The OTW is Recruiting for Open Doors Technical Volunteers, Tag Wrangling Volunteers, and Translation Translators
Do you know programming languages like SQL or Python and want to help rescue at-risk fan archives? Want to wrangle AO3 tags or translate them into English? Are you fluent in other languages? The OTW is recruiting: https://otw-news.org/2p94jnbf
Toastystats: Open Doors and FictionAlley
The OTW recently announced the import of FictionAlley to AO3 through the Open Doors project. Open Doors helps preserve fanworks by (among other things) importing external fanwork archives as collections on AO3. I was interested in the newsletter statement, “With approximately 29,000 works imported so far, it is Open Doors' largest import yet”—it made me curious about all of the work Open Doors has done over the years.
Click through to AO3 for more data and discussion.
Christmas - Friedrich Kallmorgen , 1903.
German , 1856 - 1924
Oil on canvas , 64 x 53.5cm.
and keep your heart open
Does anyone work on the Open Doors project at AO3? Or know someone who does? I am trying to do something similar on Ad Astra, and need some advice from someone who knows the OTW archive software better.
Specifically, there are a couple of people who had accounts and fic on the old Ad Astra archive who are now dead, and we would like to make sure that their works are preserved by transferring them to the new archive. We would like them all to have the same format that unclaimed works imported by Open Doors have on AO3--"by name [archived by archivist]". We have successfully achieved that with shorter works, but I'm trying to import a fic with 363 chapters and half a million words. It cannot be imported; the archive times out. I thought that if I imported the first chapter and then uploaded the rest of the chapters manually, it would work, but trying to import only the first chapter timed out the archive as well. Then I thought about importing another work that would import, changing the title and chapter text to the one I wanted, and then manually adding further chapters. But it's listing it as just "Archivists" in the author space, without the name of the original author.
Home sweet home...
