[Moims-dai] [Secretariat] Change in URLs for documents

Tue Sep 6 17:58:29 UTC 2016

Hi Brian

I can appreciate your difficulties but I am concerned by the “almost identical”. Since SharePoint is quite widely used for websites and URL stability is pretty important to huge numbers of people, including CCSDS, I am surprised that it cannot be configured to keep the URLs unchanged. Sorry to ask the obvious question but did you ask Microsoft Sharepoint support?

..David

From: MOIMS-DAI [mailto:moims-dai-bounces at mailman.ccsds.org] On Behalf Of Oliver, Brian (HQ-CG000)[Arctic Slope Technical Services, Inc.]
Sent: 06 September 2016 16:50
To: David Giaretta <david at giaretta.org>
Cc: Nestor Peccia <Nestor.Peccia at esa.int>; Secretariat at mailman.ccsds.org; MOIMS-Data Archive Ingestion <moims-dai at mailman.ccsds.org>
Subject: Re: [Moims-dai] [Secretariat] Change in URLs for documents
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David,

The CCSDS.org <http://ccsds.org>  website was redeveloped from scratch in SharePoint 2013, and is now hosted on new servers.

We attempted to develop the new CCSDS.org website, so that the webpage URLs are almost identical to the old site.

But, there was no way to have the same location for the CCSDS publications.  The features of SharePoint 2003 (old site) vs 2013 (new site) has changed so much, and there was no way to replicate the back-end structure in the same format.

We should be able to plug some redirects in for the documents.  Other than 652x0m2.pdf what other documents require redirects?

As for the robots.txt, will discuss with the Server Administrator. 

Thanks,

Brian

On Sep 6, 2016, at 11:12 AM, David Giaretta <david at giaretta.org <mailto:david at giaretta.org> > wrote:

Dear Secretariat

A colleague pointed out to me that the URLs for documents on the website have recently been changed. For example, the link to OAIS – the most downloaded CCSDS document, and one to which a huge number of published papers point – has been changed!

It used to be  <http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/652x0m2.pdf> http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/652x0m2.pdf but it is now  <https://public.ccsds.org/Pubs/650x0m2.pdf> https://public.ccsds.org/Pubs/650x0m2.pdf

Please at least put in a re-direct so that “publications/archive” goes to “Pubs” so the millions of references will continue to work – or else move things back to the way they were because there are so many references to all the CCSDS documents.

This is especially critical right now for OAIS because we have just sent out the “old” link for the 5 year review – it makes CCSDS look incompetent.

I also note that the website has a robots.txt which can prevent harvesting of the website – it would be useful if that could also be changed because it is important that our CCSDS documents are discoverable.

Regards

..David

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