Infrastructure and Preservation Support
The Archive is maintained as a long-term preservation project.
Its primary goal is continuity — ensuring that written, audio, and presentation artifacts remain accessible, stable, and recoverable over time.
Infrastructure upgrades are occasionally required to maintain recording reliability, editing stability, storage redundancy, and long-term digital preservation standards.
These upgrades are planned and funded through normal operations.
As Seasons are the only corpus currently produced in Audio/Video form, some supporters have asked whether they can contribute directly to preservation infrastructure when upgrades occur.
If you wish to contribute to infrastructure and preservation capacity, you may do so here:
A Recurring Contribution directly supports infrastructure upgrades and the ongoing continuity of the archive.
For those who prefer not to hold a recurring contribution, and who would still like to support infrastructure upgrades for the ongoing preservation of this Archive, a one-time contribution is one way to do so.
Contributions are applied to:
- Recording and production hardware stability
- Storage and backup redundancy
- Preservation workflow continuity
- Long-term archive accessibility
The Archive continues operating regardless of contribution levels.
Support is participation in preservation, not a requirement for continuity.
Funding Alignment and Archive Independence
The archive welcomes preservation-aligned financial support that strengthens long-term continuity, accessibility, and responsible distribution of the work.
Support is understood as enabling:
- Long-term preservation and storage integrity
- Continued public and institutional access
- Stable distribution infrastructure
- Operational continuity across time
In accepting support, the archive maintains full independence in all creative, editorial, structural, and release decisions. External funding does not confer authority over corpus development, interpretive framing, publication timing, or archival structure.
Recognition of support is provided in a manner consistent with archival documentation and historical record-keeping. Recognition does not alter archive identity, authorship attribution, or corpus positioning.