URL redirecter for library databases

[Lyman Ross]

There are probably lots of ways to do this but we've been managing links 
through our opac for years as we catalog all of our databases. A small 
perl script is the go between; it uses the bib id to retrieve the url 
from oracle and returns a redirect.

-Lyman

On 10/10/2012 11:38 AM, Eric Loehr wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We're trying to figure out a way to keep our database URLs current 
> without having to update them in multiple places when they change; 
> right now we have links to databases in our Drupal site, Libguides, on 
> static HTML pages in Moodle, and maybe other places I'm not remembering.
>
> What I'd like to do is to assign a URL to each database (that can be 
> entered in all of the above places) that can point to a database of 
> some sort which redirects it to the correct URL. That way we'd only 
> have to update it in the database instead of multiple web sites.
>
> After some Googling, I found YOURLS ( http://yourls.org/ ) - 
> -  "YOURLS is a small set of PHP scripts that will allow you to run 
> your own URL shortening service (/a la/TinyURL). You can make it 
> private or public, you can pick custom keyword URLs, it comes with its 
> own API."
>
> Has anyone ever used YOURLS?   Are there other better possibilites out 
> there that folks are using?
>
> Thanks - -
>
> Eric
>
>
> -- 
> Eric Loehr
> Library Systems Manager
> eloehr at smith.edu <mailto:eloehr at smith.edu>
> (413) 585-2969
>
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Lyman Ross
Systems Librarian
University of Vermont Libraries

Email: lross at uvm.edu
Phone: (802)656-4508


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