Organization for Transformative Works

The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) is a nonprofit organization established by fans to serve the interests of fans by providing access to and preserving the history of fanworks and fan culture in its myriad forms. We believe that fanworks are transformative and that transformative works are legitimate.

Among our projects are Archive of Our Own (http://archiveofourown.org/), a noncommercial and nonprofit central hosting place for fanfiction and other transformative fanworks, using open-source archiving software created and developed by the OTW community; Fanlore (http://fanlore.org/), a wiki devoted to preserving the history of transformative fanworks and the fandoms from which they have arisen; Open Doors (http://opendoors.transformativeworks.org/), a shelter for at-risk fannish projects, which includes the Fan Culture Preservation Project, a partnership with the University of Iowa which preserves fanzines and other non-digital forms of fan culture; and Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) (http://journal.transformativeworks.org/), a peer-reviewed academic journal that seeks to promote scholarship on fanworks and practices.

Specialties

Open source software development, Archives & preservation, Legal education & advocacy, Fandom studies