The Bureau accepts submissions in five categories · each opens a pre-templated email to the Bureau, which reads everything that comes in, replies when it can, and updates the catalogue when the submission warrants · the Bureau does not promise to act on every submission · the Bureau does promise to read them · all submissions go to submit@industriv.com · no online form because there is no automated handler; that is intentional
For factual errors in any catalogue entry. A wrong date, a misspelled name, a misattributed catalogue number, a wrongly attributed credit, a city wrongly given as the place of recording. The Bureau is occasionally wrong on purpose and often wrong by accident; corrections of either kind are welcome.
Pre-filled fields: page being corrected · the claim · the correction · evidence.
For better evidence for a claim already in the catalogue. An interview the Bureau missed, a contemporary press cutting, a discography source the Bureau hasn't seen. The Bureau is glad to upgrade its sourcing on any entry where the available evidence has improved. Better citations make the catalogue more useful and reduce the Bureau's responsibility for being wrong.
Pre-filled fields: page · claim · source you propose · why this source is better.
For people, records, scenes, manifestos, or artefacts the catalogue ought to file and has not. The Bureau is incomplete on purpose (the tagline operative here is incomplete archive) but is happy to expand when the missing piece is interesting and the case for filing is made. The Bureau prefers proposals with at least three sentences and one source.
Pre-filled fields: proposed subject · why it matters · sources to start from · suggested department.
For specific labels or artists the Bureau has not yet catalogued. Labels and Artists are the two most actively expanding departments; the Bureau is happy to consider proposals where the case for filing is made and at least one source is offered. The Bureau prefers proposals that situate the method structurally rather than ranking it as "favourite" or "best".
Pre-filled fields: subject · type (label / artist) · active period · position · releases · sources.
For anything that doesn't fit the four categories above. Questions, disagreements, threats, declarations of love for the catalogue, complaints about how the catalogue handled a particular entry. The Bureau will read it and, if a reply is warranted, reply. The Bureau's reply latency is variable and improves with the politeness of the original message.
Pre-filled fields: no template · write whatever you like.
The buttons above are mailto: links. Clicking one opens your default mail client (Gmail in the browser, Apple Mail, Outlook, whatever you have set) with the subject and a templated body already filled in. You replace the placeholder fields with your actual content and hit send. The Bureau receives a plain email.
If your browser asks you to choose a mail client, pick whichever one you use. If you don't have one configured, copy the address (submit@industriv.com) and send from any webmail or email app directly.
The Bureau reads what comes in. Submissions that warrant action are acted on: corrections are filed, citations are added, missing entries are drafted. Submissions that do not warrant action are noted and not acted on. The Bureau does not promise to reply but does generally reply to corrections and to good-faith questions. Accepted corrections will be published, dated and scoped, in the errata register.
Reply latency varies from days to weeks. The Bureau is one person operating in their evenings and weekends; the patience this requires is part of the editorial mode.
The Bureau holds that an incomplete archive corrected by its readers is more accurate over time than a complete archive maintained alone. Submissions are therefore not noise; they are part of the editorial method. The Bureau is glad to be wrong, glad to be told, and glad to revise the file. The Bureau also retains the right to disagree with a submission and to file the existing version unchanged with the submitter's note appended as a counter-argument. Both moves preserve the record.
Submitters are presumed to be acting in good faith unless the submission itself suggests otherwise. Threats, harassment, demands for entries to be removed because the subject finds them unflattering, and attempts to use the catalogue as a vehicle for unrelated disputes are read, noted, and not acted on.
On what the Bureau keeps. There is no mailing list, no newsletter, no account, no tracking. The Bureau collects nothing as you read. When you write in, it receives a plain email and keeps it only to read, consider and reply; your address and your message are never sold, shared or added to any list. Include your name only if you want it for attribution. Nothing more is asked and nothing more is held.
Readers wishing to argue are encouraged to do so amongst themselves.
Bureau filing footer
File · Submit (Meta department, ongoing)
Department · Meta
Status · Submission page · mailto-based · five categories
Address · submit@industriv.com
Date catalogued · 15 May 2026
Editor · VAGO, Bureau of Industrial, Noise & Avant-Garde Disturbances
Related meta files · About · the archive's framing · Errata register · accepted corrections, dated and scoped · Sources · the reference shelf · Lexicon · the archive's working vocabulary.