Killa (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} killabeez) wrote in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} highlander_lj,@ 2006-10-19 23:38:00 |
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New Automated Highlander Fiction Archive
I feel we've gone far, far too long without an Automated Archive in Highlander fandom, and finally decided to go ahead and take matters into my own hands.
About a year ago, I did attempt several times to engage Ann Fountain at Seventh Dimension in conversation to see whether such a project might be coordinated with the existing archive, but she didn't express any interest in the idea. In the meantime,elseware and evildrem began working on adapting an existing academic document archive for our purposes, but real life and the realities of the adaptation process have kept this project from reaching fruition. It's been almost a year since the project began, and it's plain to me that we (and I put myself on that list of we) haven't had the collective time or energy to devote to making a collaborative project like that work, no matter how worthy it might be. That's not to say that it might not provide a better, more robust archive solution in the future -- merely that I think we need something that's working right now.
Robin Serrano at Slashcity has been my hero in so many ways over the past few years, but she is even more so, now. When I approached her about creating an eFiction Highlander Archive along the lines of the Kirk/Spock archive I already manage, she not only jumped right in to help and to set it up for me, but she donated all the bandwidth and services needed to run it. So, this whole thing is a gift from Robin to Highlander fandom, and I really can't thank her enough. (Thanks also tocarenejeans, hafital, macgeorge1 and jotribe, who have been helping me get the bugs ironed out.)
Okay, so I think this is about ready for prime time -- or at least for people to try it out and let me know how it's working.
New Highlander Fiction Archive this way!
Please go check it out, register, and start uploading stories if you can. I will be so grateful. Right now it's like the Killa Fic Archive, and that's just sad! Please give my stories some company. They are lonely.
ETA: and please pimp it around! And beg your favorite HL writers to upload their stories! And tell them to let me know if they want help doing so.
(apologies for crossposting)
I feel we've gone far, far too long without an Automated Archive in Highlander fandom, and finally decided to go ahead and take matters into my own hands.
About a year ago, I did attempt several times to engage Ann Fountain at Seventh Dimension in conversation to see whether such a project might be coordinated with the existing archive, but she didn't express any interest in the idea. In the meantime,
elseware and evildrem began working on adapting an existing academic document archive for our purposes, but real life and the realities of the adaptation process have kept this project from reaching fruition. It's been almost a year since the project began, and it's plain to me that we (and I put myself on that list of we) haven't had the collective time or energy to devote to making a collaborative project like that work, no matter how worthy it might be. That's not to say that it might not provide a better, more robust archive solution in the future -- merely that I think we need something that's working right now.Robin Serrano at Slashcity has been my hero in so many ways over the past few years, but she is even more so, now. When I approached her about creating an eFiction Highlander Archive along the lines of the Kirk/Spock archive I already manage, she not only jumped right in to help and to set it up for me, but she donated all the bandwidth and services needed to run it. So, this whole thing is a gift from Robin to Highlander fandom, and I really can't thank her enough. (Thanks also to
carenejeans, hafital, macgeorge1 and jotribe, who have been helping me get the bugs ironed out.)Okay, so I think this is about ready for prime time -- or at least for people to try it out and let me know how it's working.
New Highlander Fiction Archive this way!
Please go check it out, register, and start uploading stories if you can. I will be so grateful. Right now it's like the Killa Fic Archive, and that's just sad! Please give my stories some company. They are lonely.
ETA: and please pimp it around! And beg your favorite HL writers to upload their stories! And tell them to let me know if they want help doing so.
(apologies for crossposting)
