[Web4lib] Archiving College or Library websites?

[Leo Robert Klein]

Susan E. Edwards wrote:
> Our current library and college website will be transitioning to a CMS
> (Drupal), with  a radically different architecture and appearance. Do
> you have any advice on how to document the current iteration (screen
> shots? Online exhibition?) as a manifestation of how the college (or
> library) presented itself at this point in time?

Well, I'd keep a copy of the whole thing handy, natch.  If you were 
transitioning from one CMS to another, I'd say see if there were a 
utility that could spit out the pages as plain old html (and hence no 
longer dependent on a database).

As to continuing to make some vestige of the old site public, I dunno -- 
isn't that the job of Archive.org?

LEO

P.S. congrads on the new site!

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