Submit an artifact

If you would like to contribute content to Ace Archive, you can use this form to submit an artifact to the repository. Make sure you check out our best practices page for more information about how to fill out this form. Once you submit the form, you’ll be redirected to GitHub to complete the process. You’ll need a GitHub account, which is free.

Your proposal will need to be approved before it’s added to the archive. Whatever you submit to GitHub will be public and viewable by anyone on the internet.

If you want a simpler option for contributing content to the archive, you can also fill out this form to make a suggestion.

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The title of the artifact.

If the artifact represents a creative work (a book, essay, blog post, etc.), this should be the title of that work. If the artifact encompasses multiple works or doesn’t have an obvious title, it can be a short description instead. You should always quote or italicize the titles of works; you can add italics in an artifact title by surrounding it in asterisks like *Title of Work*.

A short, one sentence description of the artifact that should provide context and explain its significance to the queer community (i.e. why it’s in the archive).

This description should complete the sentence “This artifact is…” You should quote or italicize the titles of works; you can add italics in an artifact title by surrounding it in asterisks like *Title of Work*.

If you want to provide more context than you can fit in the summary, you can optionally provide a longer description that will appear in the page for the artifact.
Files

The list files to include in the artifact.

Links

A list of links to web sites to include in the artifact.

A list of (usually 1-5) people closely associated with the artifact as a comma-separated list.

The kinds of people you could list here could include the author of a book, the subject of a photo, the original poster of a forum thread, the person who coined a new term, etc. This is helpful for linking together different artifacts which are associated with the same people. This can be omitted if the people associated with the artifact aren't clear or there were many different people involved.

A list of queer identities associated with the artifact as a comma-separated list.

For example, if this is a blog post about aromanticism, then "aromantic" should be included in the list of identities. The identity should be in adjective form, meaning it can complete the sentence, "Artifacts about _ people". This can be omitted if the identities associated with the work aren't clear (e.g. it's about queer identities as a whole).

The year the creative work associated with the artifact was published (or written, posted, etc.).

If the artifact encompasses multiple works that were published in different years, this should be the year the first work was published.

If the artifact encompasses multiple creative works that were published in different years, this should be the year the last work was published.

If the works associated with the artifact were only published in one year, this should be omitted.

The list of decades in which a creative work associated with the artifact was published as a comma-separated list.

If a work was published in 1980 and another work was published in 2009, this should include 1980 and 2000.