[Web4lib] Web sites moving

[Roy Tennant]

I just finished moving the latest of two web sites from the Berkeley  
Digital Library SunSITE <http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/> to new homes:

The Online Medieval and Classical Library
http://omacl.org/

The Jack London Collection
http://london.sonoma.edu/

The Sonoma State University Library stepped forward to provide a very  
appropriate home on their server for their local famous author. I  
took over responsibility for OMACL in order to save it, putting it on  
my personal server.

Automatic redirects are in place that should provide seamless  
redirection for users while providing a 301 Moved Permanently status  
code for crawlers and link checkers. However, I would appreciate it  
if anyone with links to these sites or specific resources on these  
sites could update their links.

For those of you keeping score, these sites join sites already moved  
from SunSITE to new homes over the years:

Current Cites
http://lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/

Librarians' Index to the Internet
http://lii.org/

Libweb
http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb/

Publib
http://lists.webjunction.org/publib/

Swish-e
http://swish-e.org/

Web4Lib
http://lists.webjunction.org/web4lib/

XML4Lib
http://lists.webjunction.org/xml4lib/

The UC Berkeley Library is decommissioning the Digital Library  
SunSITE after ten years of service, and therefore these sites and  
others have had to find new homes. This process has been an  
interesting one for me, and I learned a lot about how to use Perl and  
tidy to migrate a site and clean up the code at the same time. It has  
also impressed upon me something I've known for a long time -- good,  
consistent coding practices are a _good_thing_. Some of the code I  
had to deal with dated back to the mid-90s, and I won't bore you with  
what all that means. Thankfully, tidy is a good cure for numerous  
coding ills.

Finally, thanks for your patience as we have changed numerous URLs  
over the years. At least we've tried to never leave a 404 in our wake.
Roy