About

The Austin Fanzine Project started as a relatively straightforward digitization and transcription project intended to improve access to the documents of a recently-historical subculture – the Austin, Texas underground music scene of the 1990s.
The project has blossomed into a sandbox for creative experimentation with digital archives and digital humanities methods and tools. To date the project volunteers have digitized fanzines and posted the resulting downloadable files; researched digital archives best practices and crafted project policies; experimented with crowd-sourced transcription and indexing using new open-source software; and explored ways to virtually visualize the connections in real-life communities via maps, e-books, and audio tours. The digitized material has already proved useful for a variety of uses including, most recently, a collaboration with the Early Modern OCR Project.
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You can help out by transcribing fanzines from home in your spare time!
Works
All works are fully transcribed.
Geek Weekly #1
fanzine published in Austin, TX (Fall 1994)
12 pages: 100% complete (92% indexed, 100% transcribed)
Geek Weekly #2 [November Food'n'Fun issue]
This is a fanzine published in Austin, TX in November 1994.
28 pages: 100% complete (75% indexed, 100% transcribed)
Subject Categories
Actors/Actresses, Artists, Bands, Businesses, Dates, Fictional Characters, Movies, Musicians, Organizations, People, Places, Publications, Record Labels, Record Stores, Things, Title, Titles, Venues, Writers