Due South Archive

The Due South Archive, or DSA, was also known as Hexwood for years because of its location at hexwood.org. After it moved to squidge.org, some people began referring to it as "Ex-wood".history & philosophy 
DSA accepts all Due South fiction: slash, het, and gen. It also swung Both Rays, as well as no Rays: 
 
The page was a member site of the Sam Browne Belt webring.
In October 2016 it was announced that DSA would be moving to the Archive of Our Own as an Open Doors Project.Due South Archive is Coming to the AO3 (Accessed 21 October 2016) In June 2017, Speranza announced that the import to the AO3 was complete. Tumblr post (Accessed 11 June 2017)
==Archivists==
The archive has had eight archivists, including: A.C. Chapin (1994), Amanda Cook (1994-1995), Seah (1995 - 1998), Elaine Walker (1998 - 1999), Anagi (1999 - 2000), Nord (2000 - 2001), Merry Lynne (2001- 2003), and Speranza (2003-2017).
==History==
Some of the early turnover in archivists may have been because, like all archives of the time, everything was manual: archivists had to accept submissions (or harvest stories from the fiction lists, either posts by previously archived authors or posts tagged "please archive"), convert them from plain text to html, code them to meet the archive's format, and hand-code all the links on all the navigation pages. There was no search engine, just hand-coded lists of "stories by author", "stories by title", "stories by month", and "stories by category" that had to be kept updated—both with new stories and with any changes to author name/contact info that an author might request.Saved email from archivist Elaine Walker to several DS fiction lists explaining upcoming changes to the archive, dated October 5, 1998. Accessed October 26, 2008.
As of October 1998, the archive had reached 1,000+ stories and the job had become time-consuming enough that the archivist instituted several changes, including dropping the "categories" page and harvesting stories from the mailing lists; instead, authors were responsible for emailing their stories to the archive address along with a submission form that included all relevant author information (like more modern story headers).
In late 1998, after a server crash took the archive offline, Elaine and Seah worked together to transfer the entire archive to the Automated Archive software.Saved email from archivist Elanie Walker to several DS fiction lists explaining why the archive was still offline and what would happen next, dated January 1, 1999. Accessed October 26, 2008. The new automated archive, up and running by at least late February 1999,Saved email from an author discussing how easy it had been to use the new interface, dated February 22, 1999. Accessed October 26, 2008. had a search engine and allowed authors to upload their own stories. This took some of the day-to-day burden off the archivists, who could then concentrate on more general maintenance.
In spite of the ease of online access, some fans continued to read the archive fan fiction offline, by either printing it out to hard copy or binding it into a custom zine.
Speranza added her commentsTumblr post, accessed 11 December 2016 to the OTW's tumblr post about the move to the AO3:
==Fan Comments==
Description from the Due South Slash Site:
==Screencaps==
File:Due South Fiction 1998.jpg|before the server crash, main page 1998
File:Due South Archive.png|after the server crash, main page 2000
File:Bestoftheduesoutharchivessmall.jpg|cover of a custom zine "Best of the Due South Archives"
==References==
Category:Due South Archives
Category:Squidge.org
Category:1994 Archives
Category:1990s Archives
Category:2000s Archives
Category:2010s Archives
Category:Slash Archives