Original the Archive was paper based and maintained by the Information Point (Brian Kingett), while the paper archive is still kept, once Brian stepped down and the role of Information Point was split into 3 roles. The new archivist (Brian Quinion) moved the archive to the web. Before the archive moved to the web, IVFDF's only permanent presents on the web (apart from each festivals unique website) was the friends of IVFDF website, and the Information Point website.
The first version of the website/archive [1] was basically only up-datable by the archivist, it did get the content of the archive to a wider audience. The archive was then updated again to used mediawiki so other could contribute contents to the archive.
The latest version of the archive maintained by the current archivist (John Brown) is still based on mediawiki, it now allows for extra content to exist outside the archive, for example You Tube.
The archive is open for people to add and contribute to, and in fact openly welcomes contributing from IVFDFers past and present.
There are two ways to contribute, you can signup to the wiki and directly upload contents, or you can submit a zip file to the archivist containing your contributions. Either method is fine. If your part of a previous IVFDF committee and have documents that are not suitable for public access (e.g. Artists Contracts) then you can make private arrangements with the archivist.
