> Continuing support for existing URLs is extremely important.
Oh I know.
This limitation of our existing architecture is something we are working to rectify.
"Content lifecycle > product lifecycle" is one of our mantras.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Managing institutional Web services [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Barry Cornelius
Sent: 24 September 2013 10:19
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: How do you handle web archiving?
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Russell, Craig wrote:
> We had wanted to continue to serve this content from the existing URLs, but our current architecture doesn't allow this.
> So we settled for a few redirects instead.
Continuing support for existing URLs is extremely important. Too often
web sites just start again. This means that the large number of external
web sites that refer to your web site no longer work.
I guess that typing "site:www.cardiff.ac.uk" into the search box for
Google is one way of finding out what is popular. I got the following top
20 hits:
www.cardiff.ac.uk/ielts
www.cardiff.ac.uk/beforeidie/
www.cardiff.ac.uk/mobile/
www.cardiff.ac.uk/az/
www.cardiff.ac.uk/thewayforward/
www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomecjournal
www.cardiff.ac.uk/cglr/
www.cardiff.ac.uk/eisteddfod/
www.cardiff.ac.uk/learn/
www.cardiff.ac.uk/scholarships/
www.cardiff.ac.uk/campushorizons/
www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/
www.cardiff.ac.uk/contactus/
www.cardiff.ac.uk/foi/
www.cardiff.ac.uk/phrmy/
www.cardiff.ac.uk/communityengagement/
www.cardiff.ac.uk/cclj/
www.cardiff.ac.uk/thinkdigital/
www.cardiff.ac.uk/cngg/
www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/
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