<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>As part of migrating to the ArchivesSpace public interface, we have to update a lot of links to old EAD finding aids. This has me thinking about the persistence of URLs and not only the trouble of updating old links but what will happen when (hopefully never!) we move out of ArchivesSpace. That the URLs in the public interface are arbitrary poses a problem. My sysadmin tells me that if we were able to customize some portion of the URL, it would be possible to create a URL redirect map. In the absence of that, she doesn't want to create a million (or, more precisely, about 4,000) individual redirects. If we could customize some portion of the URL, that would let us set up redirects from the old system, and it would also position us to anticipate being able to set up redirects going into a new system and therefore have somewhat persistent URLs. </div><div><br></div><div>That's my understanding, at least. I don't have a firm grasp of these issues so I might be making false assumptions.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm wondering if other folks have been thinking about this issue. How are you approaching the problem? Do you have a strategy for this? Can anyone with a better understanding of ASpace's code and/or development priorities speculate on the likelihood that the option to customize the URL for the public interface might be added to a future release?</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1558">AR-1558</a> seems the most relevant ticket, and it's pretty old (v.1.4.2). If other people agree this is important, would you please upvote it, and hopefully increase the chances it'll get on the development roadmap?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!<br>Celia</div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1">Celia Caust-Ellenbogen </font><div><a href="http://swarthmore.edu/friends-historical-library" target="_blank"><font size="1">Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College</font></a></div><div><font size="1">610-328-8496</font></div><div><a href="mailto:ccauste1@swarthmore.edu" style="font-size:x-small" target="_blank">ccauste1@swarthmore.edu</a></div><div><font size="1">she/her/hers</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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