https://queerdigital.com/files/original/1f27b8bd052a3fad4253fdd87687ec18.zip 1804ef61e383b9179c920231b0185b00 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource AIDS Info BBS: Documents Description An account of the resource This collection holds files recovered from archived versions of the AIDS Info BBS website, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19971222020300/http://aidsinfobbs.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as archived by the Internet Archive</a>. The AIDS Info BBS, as its name suggests, hosted a variety of different information, including copies of mainstream news stories, medical research, statistics, community periodicals, and message boards. This collection holds files from four areas relevant to the QDHP, covering the late 1980s up to the early 2000s: <ul> <li>"Caregivers" mailing list archive</li> <li>"Rethink" and "quilty" mailing lists archives</li> <li>Message archives for two BBS-based fora: "openforum" and "thisBBS"</li> <li>AIDS-related periodicals, including a complete archive of AIDS Treatment News issues</li> </ul> In total, the collection holds 12,496‬ files, collected in four .zip archives. While their original folder hierarchy on the AIDS Info BBS has been maintained, all files have been converted (if they weren't already) to plain text files (.txt) for ease of use. Message files are titled using the order in which they were posted (ie: 001, 002, 003). Some folders also contain "desc" files, which are brief descriptions of the folder's topic and/or contents. However, not every message posted to the site was preserved by the Internet Archive, and such absences are reflected in these archives: while some folders contain many of the original files, others only contain one or two preserved messages. Furthermore, except for the "caregivers" mailing list, messages were not originally anonymized when posted to the AIDS Info BBS site, and have not been subsequently anonymized by the QDHP. If you would like messages you wrote to be redacted and/or removed from any of these folders, please contact the curator at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://queerdigital.com/items/show/92">AIDS Info BBS</a> Born-Digital Archival Material Materials related to or derived from a community described in the Community Catalog. Item metadata will include links to relevant catalog entries File Format Format of digital file(s). ZIP, TXT (plain text unicode) Total number of files 3,334 Files Checksum (SHA-256) A small-sized block of data, derived using an algorithm, that can be used to verify data integrity. d0589fcc3c9120ff4ab8e79b66a32d4ec906b88e30824f72d1da407c091375ff Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource AIDS Info BBS: Caregivers Mailing List Description An account of the resource Collection of files held in the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20041101120516/http://www.aidsinfobbs.org/caregivers/">caregivers</a> folder of the AIDS Info BBS. Folders contain messages posted to the "caregivers" mailing list, which offered support for caregivers of PWAs. For more information on the AIDS Info BBS, see the <a href="http://queerdigital.com/items/show/92" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queer Community Catalog entry</a> and the <a href="http://queerdigital.com/collections/show/5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Documents collection</a> landing page. Messages were originally anonymized by BBS sysop Ben Gardiner: poster e-mail addresses have been removed, and all posting dates have been updated to the date of their anonymization. However, if you would like messages you wrote to be removed from this archive, please contact the curator at <a href="mailto:admin@queerdigital.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admin@queerdigital.com</a>. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available AIDS Info BBS Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource ZIP Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Unknown Language A language of the resource American English Type The nature or genre of the resource Mailing List AIDS Info BBS mailing list