Links roundup

[duskpeterson]

FANDOM ARCHIVED

Fan Fiction Oral History Project at the University of Iowa.

GENERAL

marchmetamatterschallenge. "As sites hosting art, text, music, and more continue to either close up shop or change their Terms of Service, there have been various efforts to save content on what is often very short notice. It would be even better if fans gave our works this attention before a crisis hits. While creators have often used multiple sites to host their works, one type of work has generally been left out of fans' efforts at archiving and preserving fanworks -- meta. . . . The priority for Meta Matters is to make sure meta doesn't vanish with sites or personal accounts when those get closed or moved."

fanlore. "Supporting and creating community among the editors of the Fanlore wiki."

Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom, a 2016 book by Abigail De Kosnik. "An examination of how nonprofessional archivists, especially media fans, practice cultural preservation on the Internet and how 'digital cultural memory' differs radically from print-era archiving." See also a three-part interview with the author and a review of the book at Transformative Works and Cultures.

OLDER RESOURCE SITES

Archive Team. Trying to preserve every at-risk portion of the Internet. Wow. See their Yahoo! Groups page for their current work with our Discord team. Here is their page on LiveJournal and their valuable Deathwatch.

ds_ficminers, run by our member juniperberry. Dedicated to preserving Due South fandom history. Many of the archived stories are from LiveJournal.

Fanlore: LiveJournal.

lj.search. A search engine that searches a cache of LiveJournal, covering the years from 2000 to 2017.

OTW: LiveJournal.

Wayback tools:

• Chrome: Wayback Machine and Firefox: Wayback Machine lets you save a page to the Wayback Machine or find a page at the WaybackMachine.
• (Save Page Now offers a more sophisticated version of this preservation.
• You can also submit URLs to the Wayback Machine by email.
• WikiHow's instructions on how to browse the Wayback Machine. Because really, it's not obvious.

Wayback Machine tips:

• All the caches of a url: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://example.net
• All the caches of all the pages at a domain: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://example.net*
• The latest cache of a url: https://web.archive.org/web/2/http://example.net
• The latest cache in a particular month: https://web.archive.org/web/201401/http://example.net
• The latest cache in a particular year: https://web.archive.org/web/2014/http://example.net
• The latest cache in a particular decade: https://web.archive.org/web/200/http://example.net (i.e. 2000-2009)