Archiving

Mar. 12th, 2010 03:39 pm
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I remember way back when I was young and green in the ways of web design, I wanted to re-do my website and learn from it at the same time, I started looking at web design blogs and they were all talking about the importance of creating table free designs. I had come in half way through and missed out on the establishing discussion so I was somewhat mystified and I ended up posting to my LJ saying "What is it about table-free design? Why is it good?" People linked me to a couple of posts and I got started from there and was converted pretty quickly.

I feel like I'm in a similar place when I ask the question "What is the point of fanfic archives?" If I've got a DW account with all my fic on it tagged under fic, do I need an AO3 account? What's the motivation behind building AO3. I feel like there are historical reasons for this stuff that I, so far, don't get. Anyone suggest where I can get started finding out? I am asking from a genuine desire to learn - I like the design and I've uploaded a couple of stories, but I'm not sure I have figured out the reasoning behind it yet.

Date: 2010-03-19 03:29 am (UTC)
jesse_the_k: Ultra modern white fabric interlaced to create strong weave (interdependence)
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Chiming in:

I came to Due South almost a decade after the canon closed, and was able to find tons of fics because of DSA and Due Slash, as well as archived recs communities.

AO3 has tag wranglers who focus on making the content available to the future. It's a non-trivial task, and I hope that the frontiers the AO3 wranglers explore will provide a foundation for future archivists & future archivists.

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