Submitted by Rebecca Tushnet (not verified) on 23 July 2009 - 12:25am.
Thanks for the feedback. We anticipate that Open Doors projects--which may have features not generally available on the archive--will represent a significant investment in terms of coding and other technical resources. We're working on this service in order to further the goal of preserving the history of fandom. So the thinking is that, as with other preservation projects in the offline world, we want to make sure that the preservation actually occurs and has some continuity. At the point where there's been a joint investment, we think it makes sense to preserve the collection on the OTW's servers. It's certainly possible to create a new tag, and we can look at that as part of implementation.
Keeping collections
Thanks for the feedback. We anticipate that Open Doors projects--which may have features not generally available on the archive--will represent a significant investment in terms of coding and other technical resources. We're working on this service in order to further the goal of preserving the history of fandom. So the thinking is that, as with other preservation projects in the offline world, we want to make sure that the preservation actually occurs and has some continuity. At the point where there's been a joint investment, we think it makes sense to preserve the collection on the OTW's servers. It's certainly possible to create a new tag, and we can look at that as part of implementation.