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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture There has been discussion over on MEDTEXTL about the ORB website for medieval studies, which seemingly disappeared after the death of its administrator, Prof. Kathryn Talarico. With his permission, I'm x-posting a sort of summary of the discussion from Laurent Brun, which details how the archived site can be accessed, and raises the question of how important medieval websites, content-rich but often quite vulnerable, can be given a more secure future. As we've discussed ORB on this list before, I thought this would be of broad interest. -- Paul On 3 January 2016 at 03:15, Laurent Brun <[log in to unmask]> wrote: As Claire Fanger pointed out, The ORB is not gone (yet). A technical > glitch has cut the domain name (the-orb.net) from the server at the > College of Staten Island, but the files haven't moved: > http://163.238.55.65/index.html > > The domain name the-orb.net will become available again on August 9th, > unless someone can speed things up and manages to get in touch with > Kathryn Talarico's heirs and transfer the domain ownership before it > gets snatched by someone not interested in continuing Kathryn's work. > > In the meantime, I have set up a complete mirror at > http://the-orb.arlima.net/ in case CSI decides to erase the original > website. It is available "as is" -- no corrections or additions will > be made. > > Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is a useful tool but it has its > shortcomings, the most serious being that it usually doesn't record > the whole website at any given date, so using it to piece together a > website's hundreds or thousands of files isn't a solution for the > faint of heart... > > I second wholeheartedly Julia Bolton Holloway's plea: "We really need > a large mirror site of all useful medievalist websites to protect our > material." I have myself yet to find a permanent repository to mirror > arlima.net... suggestions are very much welcome. > > Laurent > > > -- Paul Chandler, O.Carm. Holy Spirit Seminary | PO Box 18 (487 Earnshaw Road) | Banyo Qld 4014 | Australia office: (07) 3267 4804 | mobile: 044 882 4996 [log in to unmask] ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religion