Propping Up the Fannish Infrastructure Follow-Up

[bethbethbeth]

Some of the Possible Tasks you can take on to Help Prop up the Fannish Infrastructure
(note: if you have other suggestions, leave a comment and I'll add it to the main list)

Comments

RE: metadata on the mp3/m4b

[inkjunket]

Seconded -- Bessyboo's post on this is so good for my metadata-loving soul. You could also check out how some of the different podfic challenges and anthologies handle metadata, because I know these have been agonized over and thought through pretty carefully (for example, Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology submission guidelines). I bet that the archivists for the Audiofic Archive have strong and well thought out opinions on this too.

I think a piece that came up in the discussion at the panel that rang true for me is that it'll be hard to have any kind of uniformity (whatever that looks like in a fannish space) of metadata until the equivalent of AO3 tagging exists for podfic, which is also a technology issue. For now, people try to basically include as much info as is doable in the info on the file, and do it in a way that works for them, but including content tags or having a communal agreement on what genre to tag podfic as feels like a step above what we're currently capable of doing. But maybe that new tech is right around the corner with the major upswing of interest in podcasts in non-fannish culture at large... In any case, more wrangling of metadata is always good wrangling. :)