1 00:00:15,333 --> 00:00:15,366 Hello, and welcome to the Archive of Our Own’s video tutorial series. 2 00:00:26,366 --> 00:00:30,766 Hello, and welcome to the Archive of Our Own’s video tutorial series. 3 00:00:30,766 --> 00:00:38,966 This tutorial explains the general process of claiming stories that have been imported from pre-existing archives to the Archive of Our Own, 4 00:00:38,966 --> 00:00:45,166 or ‘AO3’ for short, by Open Doors, another project of the Organization for Transformative Works. 5 00:00:45,166 --> 00:00:50,966 You should have already received an e-mail inviting you to claim stories that had been registered to your e-mail address 6 00:00:50,966 --> 00:00:53,966 in the pre-existing archive. 7 00:00:53,966 --> 00:00:59,166 If you don’t have an AO3 account, or you don’t have one connected to that address, the e-mail should look like this. 8 00:00:59,166 --> 00:01:06,166 The first two paragraphs will give you more background information on the import, and reference the import announcement. 9 00:01:06,166 --> 00:01:15,166 The email also includes a link to the Open Doors FAQ, and to the Support committee: a great resource for the AO3 itself. 10 00:01:15,166 --> 00:01:21,366 If you’re familiar with the terms used in the e-mail you received, please skip to Part 2. 11 00:01:21,366 --> 00:01:25,166 If you found the e-mail confusing, keep watching this video. 12 00:01:25,166 --> 00:01:29,966 To begin, archivists often request that fanworks be imported as restricted. 13 00:01:29,966 --> 00:01:37,766 Restricted fanworks are only visible to users logged into AO3, and kept off the radar of search engines. 14 00:01:37,766 --> 00:01:43,166 Even if a reader directly enters the URL of a restricted work, they’ll only see this page. 15 00:01:43,166 --> 00:01:51,166 This allows archivists to limit the viewing of imported works while authors claim their works and decide options for their work themselves. 16 00:01:51,166 --> 00:01:58,366 If an archivist requests that imported works be made publicly-viewable after a grace period, 17 00:01:58,366 --> 00:02:02,766 that information will be in the third paragraph of the e-mail. 18 00:02:02,766 --> 00:02:09,766 While not always the case, our coders may be able to set up the archive import so that URLs—web links—automatically redirect. 19 00:02:09,766 --> 00:02:16,766 This means that if someone had listed your story on a recs page or in their bookmarks, and they clicked on that link, 20 00:02:16,766 --> 00:02:21,766 they could automatically be redirected to the fanwork’s new home at the AO3. 21 00:02:21,766 --> 00:02:27,766 If you have an AO3 account under a different e-mail address, you may have already uploaded copies of your stories. 22 00:02:27,766 --> 00:02:33,966 If you used the AO3 URL importer feature, those stories will not be imported again. 23 00:02:33,966 --> 00:02:37,566 If you uploaded them manually, then there will be duplicates of the stories. 24 00:02:37,566 --> 00:02:45,566 In that case, you can still claim the newly-imported stories to keep the URL redirect, if applicable, 25 00:02:45,566 --> 00:02:51,566 and use our merge tool, currently in development, to combine the hit counts and reviews of both copies, 26 00:02:51,566 --> 00:02:54,166 while keeping only one story body. 27 00:02:54,166 --> 00:03:00,566 You may also request that Open Doors reset the redirect to point toward the copy you uploaded yourself. 28 00:03:00,566 --> 00:03:07,966 Claim the newly imported works, and then write to Open Doors with your AO3 account name, your account name on the original archive, 29 00:03:07,966 --> 00:03:13,966 and links to both the original archive URL, and the URL of the fanwork designated as the redirect. 30 00:03:13,966 --> 00:03:16,366 Thanks for watching the first part of this import tutorial! 31 00:03:16,466 --> 00:03:22,466 We hope it was helpful and that you will continue on to the second part to learn more about claiming your works. 32 00:03:22,466 --> 00:03:28,766 If you still have questions, please reach out to Open Doors and let us know, and we’ll do our best to help.