[Web4lib] Re: Web sites moving

[James Jacobs]

Hi Roy el al,

Got a question for you. I too am having to move a site from sunsite (govt 
documents roundtable). I wonder if you or my fellow web4lib readers have 
any suggestions for easily moving a site of over 2000 pages to the 
ala.org site which uses a CMS? I don't know the name of the CMS, but I 
believe it's cold fusion related.

Thanks for the information.

James Jacobs

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Roy Tennant wrote:

> 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
>
>
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James R. Jacobs
San Francisco, CA
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