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Opendoors - OTW - Preservation of archive?

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RokofAges75:
Visit https://opendoors.transformativeworks.org/en/faq/ for more information on the purpose of preserving at-risk archives and how to request that your works not be imported to AO3.  Open Doors makes every effort to contact creators, credit them, and give them control over what happens to their work.

RokofAges75:

--- Quote from: mare on January 16, 2025, 08:58:23 AM ---I know most of mine showed up with all those symbols. For every single punctuation mark of any kind.

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So annoying!  I hope the Open Doors team has a solution for that because I'm sure AC isn't the only old archive with that problem.

julilly:
I must admit to being on the fence about the idea of forcing people to have their works moved to a site where they didn’t get to agree to the terms and conditions. Yes, you can ask for it to be removed after the fact, but if you don’t still use the same email address that you did in 2006 when you set up your account, or you don’t monitor A03, the chances of knowing are pretty slim. We’re also probably talking about work by people who have passed away and will not have the ability to claim their work.

Personally, I wouldn’t want my stuff moved. Anything I wanted to post in A03 I already did, anything else was my responsibility to back up because I’m the copyright holder. I’m happy for anything I didn’t save to head into the void of the internet and I’m sure I’m not alone in that.

I dunno 🤷‍♀️

julilly:
I did find something interesting that may be useful to include in any communications . There is a way to ensure your content is not migrated. If you send the email address that you used on AC, or any identifying info if you don’t have access to the email, to Open Doors they’ll block that address from being included in any migrations.

https://opendoors.transformativeworks.org/en/faq/what-if-i-dont-want-my-works-be-imported/

Something else they mention is that it’s up to the creator to remove duplicates. They don’t screen for them.

RokofAges75:
Yep!  Creators can request their content not be imported, and they can also request it be deleted if they don't find out about it until after the fact.  Like Ash said, it may be awhile before they actually get to AC, so there will be time to advertise this and try to make people aware that it's happening so they can take action if they don't want their stories archived on AO3.

As far as duplicates go, this is what the FAQ page says:

What if I have already posted a copy of the works being imported on the AO3?
If you imported the work from the original archive using our import feature, then the work will not be imported again and your existing copy will be automatically associated with the new collection. If you posted the work manually or imported it from a different url, then you will need to decide what to do with the duplicate work. Keeping in mind that when possible, the imported archive’s web addresses will redirect to the imported copy of these works (to preserve rec lists and bookmarks), you can:

-Wait for the merge tool currently in development, which can combine the hit counts and reviews of both copies, while keeping only one work body (and preserving the redirect link, if applicable).
-Delete the imported copy (breaking the redirect link, if applicable), and add the pre-existing copy to the imported-archive’s collection.
-Delete the pre-existing copy on AO3.
-When applicable, request that Open Doors reset the redirect to point toward the pre-existing copy on AO3. To do so, please contact Open Doors with your AO3 account name, imported archive’s account name, and links to the works that you want the redirects to point to.


It sounds like they can detect duplicates if you posted them using the import feature, and they won't import those again.  But if you just manually copy/pasted them (which is what I did with mine), then you will end up with duplicates and can choose one of the options they lay out above to handle that.  Hopefully this clears up some of the questions we had about duplicates.  The merge tool they mention that's in development sounds cool!  It would be nice if that were done by the time they get to AC.

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