I have been approached by the OTW (Opendoors - Organization for Transformative Works)
https://opendoors.transformativeworks.org/en/ about preserving the Absolute Chaos Archive. I'm thinking this would be a really good idea because once again my server is at the End of Support and needs to be upgraded to yet another new version. I have never been able to fix the archive since the last upgrade, and it's only gotten further out of support with no likely update of the EFiction software.
How do you all feel about such a move? I would keep this archive (and this message board) alive as long as possible (this board MUCH easier as the software can be updated...) BUT knowing that the efiction archive is unlikely to ever be "working" again for updating, etc, and could possibly become lost to the ether with another server upgrade (or two) that it'd be great to have as much of it backed up elsewhere as possible.
I'm not sure how many of you all are still around, but if you are here and see this, please let me know your feelings on the subject. I think that when they start importing the site to their project that they reach out to any authors in the archive to offer them the opportunity to opt out or to make anonymous any works, but honestly I'm not sure how exactly that works or what happens with the authors with outdated email addresses in the archive, and/or who are no longer part of fandom or don't respond.
I'd hate to see all these stories disappear, but can make no guarantees that I'll be able to preserve them (except via a database that would be saved in my back-up drives, but that wouldn't really make them available to others...).
Let me know if you have good reasons not to move forward with letting OTW (they work hand-in-hand with AO3) help preserve these stories. Or if you have any other thoughts about the preservation project.
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Topic: Opendoors - OTW - Preservation of archive? (Read 42 times)