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| This is the important part of the upload, you'll want to fill out these sections so your scans are easy to find and have good metadata. It's also important if you're doing VGSC quality scans to make it easy for the VGSC search tool located [[https://www.legroom.net/vgsc/|here]] to index. | This is a crucial part of the upload, you'll want to fill out these sections so your scans have good metadata and are easy to find. If you're doing VGSC quality scans this helps to populate the VGSC search tool located [[https://www.legroom.net/vgsc/|here]] to index. |
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| For an example you can use [[https://archive.org/details/anchorzfieldwshiresscans|this]] as a manual reference, [[https://archive.org/details/karaoke-revolution-ps2-hiresscans|this]] for a box only reference, and [[https://archive.org/details/momotarou-dentetsu-fc-hiresscans|this]] for a box, manual, cart reference. These are only a few examples but they convey a good amount of the type of information that should be included with your uploads. I'll also go over the individual sections now. | For an example you can use [[https://archive.org/details/anchorzfieldwshiresscans|this]] as a manual reference, [[https://archive.org/details/karaoke-revolution-ps2-hiresscans|this]] for a box only reference, and [[https://archive.org/details/momotarou-dentetsu-fc-hiresscans|this]] for a box, manual, cart reference. These are only a few examples but they convey a good amount of the type of information that should be included with your uploads. I'll also go over the individual sections now. |
| ===== Other Things to Note ===== | ===== Other Things to Note ===== |
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| The Internet Archive is a wonderful place to host our scans but it can be a bit tricky to make them show up properly. Here's a few tips and tricks with that. | The Internet Archive is a wonderful place to share your scans but it can be a bit tricky to make them show up properly. Here's a few tips and tricks with that. |
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| **Internet Archive Command Line Tool - **This is a handy python based application that you can use to do all sorts of things to your internet archive uploads. For more information see the [[https://internetarchive.readthedocs.io/en/stable/cli.html|their documentation site]]. Some handy uses for it are uploading things in bulk, and setting your front page correctly on your PDF derived files (As the built in deriving almost always picks the incorrect first page). You can find the script [[https://github.com/textfiles/ia-frontpage|here]] for that. | **Internet Archive Command Line Tool - **This is a handy python based application that you can use to do all sorts of things to your internet archive uploads. For more information see the [[https://internetarchive.readthedocs.io/en/stable/cli.html|their documentation site]]. Some handy uses for it are uploading things in bulk, and setting your front page correctly on your PDF derived files (As the built in deriving almost always picks the incorrect first page). You can find the script [[https://github.com/textfiles/ia-frontpage|here]] for that. |