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HOW TO SUBMIT FILES TO OLGA (THE ON-LINE GUITAR ARCHIVE)
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OLGA, the On-Line Guitar Archive, is a natural development of
the guitar.tab newsgroups. The Archive provides a library of files that
is more permanent than usenet and is easily accessible, and attempts to
prevent repetition of work already done by the community.
If you can educate others in how to play a song, type up
the chords and/or tab and/or playing tip and send it to both the
newsgroups *AND* the archive, and contribute to the community.
OLGA is particularly looking to develop the weaker areas, such as bass tab,
acoustic and classical pieces, country, blues and jazz.
OLGA, the On-Line Guitar Archive, is a natural development of
the guitar.tab newsgroups. The Archive provides a library of files that
is more permanent than usenet and is easily accessible, and attempts to
prevent repetition of work already done by the community.
If you can educate others in how to play a song, type up
the chords and/or tab and/or playing tip and send it to both the
newsgroups *AND* the archive, and contribute to the community.
OLGA is particularly looking to develop the weaker areas, such as bass tab,
acoustic and classical pieces, country, blues and jazz.
Step 1. Preparing your file (Completing your file.)
Step 2. Sending us your file. (To the right address, with the right
Subject line.)
Step 3. Acceptance criteria. (We check it over, and archive it or return it.)
Step 4. Your file at OLGA
Step 1: See the FAQ 'How to Read and Write Tab Files' for basic information
on writing a tab file.
Before you submit, make sure of the following:
a) That you have included the song name, artist's name
and your own name (and if different, the transciber's name)
b) If you can, include other information such as the name
of the album from which the track comes, the name of the
author(s) of the words and music, details of the publisher
and catalogue number, and notes on what effects are used
and on how to play the music. It is also extremely useful
to mention if your file is a special version of the song,
such as from a live show or an acoustic recording.
c) Declare that the file is 'all your own work'. If you
take your crd/tab from a book or magazine that is copyrighted
it won't (knowingly) be archived.
* d) Check the archive to ensure that you are not
duplicating material already there. If there is
already a version of a song, YOUR SUBMISSION WILL
BE SENT BACK TO YOU, and will not be accepted until the
file contains some note recognizing the presence of the
existing file and saying how the two versions compare,
and possibly instructions to the archivist. If a chord or
tab file already exists for the song, take it down
and incorporate your material with it.
Try to contact the original author to come to an agreement.
Always credit the original author and mention what each of
you has done.
* e) Files must be written in (or saved as) plain-text. It's not
hard to save your work as plain text, so we will return any
Word 'doc' files or Wordperfect 'wps' (etc) files that you
send us.
When writing in a word processor (word, macwrite, notepad,
etc) you should:
use courier font (or some other monospaced font)
limit the width of the page to 75 characters
save the file as text before sending
(When writing in any *text* editor (e.g. emacs, vi, ed,
pico) you will naturally have to do all these things.)
Step 2: Use Email
Submitting Use a subject line of the same form as used at the archive:
good Subject: b/beatles/hide_your_love.tab
good Subject: y/young_neil/pocahontas.crd
good Subject: r/reed_lou/hello_its_me.crd
(NOTE: You don't type the word 'Subject:' just the file name.)
The path and name should be all lower-case; spaces become underscores;
get rid of any apostrophes and other punctuation; put the surname (last
name, family name) before the first name.
bad Subject: B/Beatles/HideYourLove.tab
bad Subject: n/neil_young/pocahontas.crd
bad Subject: r/reed_lou/hello.its.me.crd
You also don't need to put anything before the 'letter' directory, such as
one of the prefixes used for posting to news, or any other directory (path)
information.
bad Subject: TAB: b/beatles/hide_your_love.tab
bad Subject: /b/beatles/hide_your_love.tab
bad Subject: ../../main/b/beatles/hide_your_love.tab
Files must be sent individually (that is, don't
send two files in one post, though tar files are acceptable.)
Send plain text files: do not send Word, Wordperfect, MacWrite, etc
Do not compress or encode the file.
Do not 'attach' the file, 'insert' it (that is, put it in the body of
the email.)
Send bass tab files to bass@olga.net
Send all other files to guitar@olga.net
Step 3 - If your file is no good, we'll send it back; if it's good, it will
be archived. See the file 'Writing Tab Files' for information on how to
write good tab (and crd) files.
Step 4:
Your file at OLGA:
Any file archived becomes the property of the archive in so
far as material extraneous to the musical content (basically
the header and .sig) may be removed or edited.
Posting to usenet or submission to the archive implicitly
gives permission for fair-use distribution.
The author's name and e-mail address will always be retained
if accompanying the file, along with any other information
the archivists deem relevant.
The archivists retain the right to modify or remove files as
they see fit.
In cases of duplication of a song, the archivists may remove
a transcription judged to be of inferior quality. As mentioned
above, submittors are expected to offer opinion as to the
quality of existing versions of files.
Requests to have files removed or modified should be made to
the archivists by e-mail to guitar@olga.net
Additions/corrections to this file welcomed - send to questions@olga.net
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Last Update Sep 99
cal woods rcwoods@olga.net
Pete Palmer ppalmer@cray.com
Ryan Harding rkh2@ukc.ac.uk
Dean Gaudet dgaudet@arctic.org
Alex Randell randell@serial.music.uiowa.edu
Rick Schofield rds@rds.mv.com
OLGA - The On-Line Guitar Archive http://www.olga.net/
also see:
The Guide To TAB Notation
How To View OLGA Files
Archiving Criteria