[tei-council] Vault migration progress

[David Sewell]

This makes sense. I will update links that point to the Vault documents
themselves (many of the old www.uic.edu links are to the original static
forms of those documents), but not external links or links to dynamic
documents, such as the various incarnations of the "Gentle Guides".

David

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Kevin Hawkins wrote:

> From an archival standpoint, I think it is best not to correct any links in
> documents in the Vault.  That would be manipulating the historical record in a
> way that will make it even more difficult for future researchers to imagine
> what the authors of these documents were referring to at the time.  Fixing
> internal links only is okay if it's needed for documents to let users get from
> one document to another, though I don't think it's actually required.
>
> I think it's acceptable to fix character encoding (as you have) in order to
> make these documents readable by contemporary software.  We are offering an
> archive for users, after all -- not a preservation-quality bitstream.
>
> Kevin
>
> David Sewell wrote:
> > Council-folk,
> >
> > I have been working on the migration of the TEI Vault to the Virginia
> > server at www.tei-c.org. The files are in place and basically all
> > working. I spent some time cleaning up control characters in text files
> > (which often cause Apache to treat them as binary), tweaking MIME content
> > types, and as a gift to Lou converting some ugly ASCII-7 French
> >
> > http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/teiweb/Vault/ED/edr01.txt
> >
> > to UTF-8
> >
> > http://www.tei-c.org/Vault/ED/edr01.txt
> >
> > I am fixing broken internal links, where possible, but I'd like to know
> > what Council wants done with broken external ones. For example, most of
> > the links on this page
> >
> > http://www.tei-c.org/Vault/ED/edr14.html
> >
> > are invalid. The ones to www.uic.edu can mostly be mapped to current
> > pages on www.tei-c.org. Undoubtedly many external links are gone
> > forever.
> >
> > Should I take the time to fix those, where possible? The number is not
> > huge, ca. 60 in all. Users will not expect all the links to be working
> > but will be pleased if they are.
> >
> > Please copy me on any reply as I am not subscribed to Council list now,
> >
> > David
> >
>

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