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Archive of Our Own

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Name: Archive of Our Own
Date(s): 2008-
Type: Fan Fiction Archive
Fandom: Multifandom
URL: http://archiveofourown.org/
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The Archive of Our Own aka AO3 is a multi-fandom archive owned and operated by the Organization for Transformative Works. It is currently restricted to text-based fanfiction (though they are looking to expand into vids and fanart as well), but otherwise permits chan, RPF, and other controversial content. The archive's interface is planned to be translated into languages other than English in order to make it accessible to an international userbase. It requires that DMCA takedown notices be signed in order to be acted upon. [1]

Contents

History

  • First proposed by Astolat on 17 May 2007. [2]
  • A Livejournal community fanarchive was created on 20 May 2007 to coordinate discussion and planning for the creation of the archive. [3] [4]
  • archiveofourown.org domain name registered 30 May 2007 by Rebecca Tushnet. [5]
  • Call for Ruby on Rails tutorial writers on 1 November 2007 [6]
  • Call for Ruby on Rails Coders on 8 January 2008. [7]
  • Archive opened for closed beta, in which members of the public were welcome to view and comment, but account creation was limited to Organization for Transformative Works staff and testers on 3 October 2008. [8]
  • Archive entered open beta on 14 November 2009. Users are able to get accounts either via a first-come, first-served invitation queue, or via invitation codes distributed to those who helped with closed beta testing. The speed of new account creation depends on the servers' ability to handle increased load.[9]
  • Yuletide 2009 opened on the AO3 on 18 December 2009. All Yuletide participants were given an invitation. [10] [11] As of 24 December 2009, the AO3 has 4648 fandoms, 33,810 stories and 4127 users.

Tags

  • The Archive has an innovative system for managing fandoms and other tags. Zvi wrote a noteworthy post explaining it. [12]

Notable features

  • The Archive supports OpenID login as well as normal username/password login.
  • Collections and subcollections can be stored on the Archive - Yuletide as there, as well as several other big challenges, and more are gradually moving as new features are introduced.
  • The tag system and tag wrangler team.
  • Built-in bookmarking, with the ability to add reader tags, label a bookmark as a rec, and no limit on the number of bookmarks or recs.
  • The ability to lock a story to registered Archive users only, instead of posting it publicly.
  • Options to view either chapter-by-chapter or the whole story at once.
  • Separate stories can be linked as a series.
  • A clear, minimal and enforceable warnings policy, along with the ability to add extra warnings as additional tags.

References

  1. ↑ Terms Of Service accessed 20 October 2008
  2. ↑ An Archive Of One's Own, livejournal post, accessed 20 October 2008
  3. ↑ otw_news Community Profile accessed 20 October 2008
  4. ↑ First call for volunteers, Livejournal Post, accessed 20 October 2008
  5. ↑ whois look up 20 October 2008
  6. ↑ Volunteer Search: Tutorial Makers , accessed 20 October 2008
  7. ↑ Volunteer Search: Volunteer Ruby Coder, accessed 20 October 2008
  8. ↑ A first look at the Archive Of Our Own!, Naomi Novik, blog post, accessed 20 October 2008
  9. ↑ Announcing Open Beta!, blog post, accessed 13 November 2009
  10. ↑ Release Notes for Release 0.7.2, AO3 news post, accessed 24 December 2009
  11. ↑ Yuletide treasure on the AO3!, blog post, accessed 24 December 2009
  12. ↑ Tags (Wuzzles) explained, AO3 news post, accessed 24 December 2009
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