TDWG 2017 and 2018 conference website

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Issue

I stumbled upon the TDWG 2017 Annual Conference (Ottawa, Canada) website at https://tdwg.github.io/conferences/2017/

I believe this website was created before the main TDWG website was using a static website generator and was therefore hosted from a separate repository, i.e. in the tdwg.github.io repository. The site has its own layout and all pages render as excepted.

TDWG-2017-Annual-Conference

The site is however not linked to from the conference landing page on the main website https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2017/ The page currently lists the following:

Host : Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada : Canadian Museum of Nature

Venue : Delta Hotels Ottawa City Centre by Marriott > in Ottawa, Canada

Date : 2-6 October 2017

Proceedings : published in Biodiversity Information Science and Standards

Programme : TDWG 2017 programme

Question

Should this website be retained?
Should we link to this website from https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2017/

Suggested actions

If we indeed keep it, then I propose:

[x] To not integrate this site in the main TDWG website (it has it's own design and it will be easier to keep it that way)
[x] To move the content to a dedicated conference-2017 repo
[x] Use the tdwg.github.io repo (where the site is currently) to redirect pages (see e.g. https://github.com/inbo/inbo.github.io#readme)
[x] To setup a redirect for https://tdwg.github.io/conferences/2017/ to the new location at https://tdwg.github.io/conference-2017
[ ] Add logo to https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2017/

The repo also contains some initial content for the TDWG 2018 Annual Conference (Dunedin, New Zealand) at https://github.com/tdwg/tdwg.github.io/tree/master/conferences/2018, but

Those pages are not hosted (e.g. https://tdwg.github.io/conferences/2018/call-for-abstracts/ returns a 404)
The eventual TDWG 2018 was hosted from http://spnhc-tdwg2018.nz/ (URL no longer functions, link goes to Internet Archive)
[x] I suggest to remove the initial TDWG 2018 content that was created in tdwg.github.io

Suggested actions

Agree with:

[ X] To not integrate this site in the main TDWG website (it has it's own design and it will be easier to keep it that way)
[X ] To move the content to a dedicated conference-2017 repo [see below]

I am not sure I understand the implications of the following (e.g., is a redirect voluntary or involuntary for the user or is this preserving the content/format in a different place? Who has access to maintain (e.g., potential broken links) any redirected pages?)

[ ] Use the tdwg.github.io repo (where the site is currently) to redirect pages (see e.g. https://github.com/inbo/inbo.github.io#readme)
[ ] To setup a redirect for https://tdwg.github.io/conferences/2017/ to the new location at https://tdwg.github.io/conference-2017

Comments

@dshorthouse I would love it if the current conference site for 2017 could feature the beautiful fiery logo from that conference, whether or not a link to the original conference page is maintained. @peterdesmet is this one of the files in static?

I don't know how long the original site would be available (or the links checked to be current) but if the logos for hosts and sponsors can also be featured on TDWG's current conference website, this would also be good PR and a record of support for our history. Whether or not we link to https://tdwg.github.io/conferences/2017/ or not, the bits not featured in our current Conferences listing should be incorporated where practical.

The conference site https://tdwg.github.io/conferences/2017/ includes information that is outdated (e.g., registration link) but the twitter feed (link should be updated to https://twitter.com/hashtag/tdwg17?f=live as it is now old and nothing comes up) is also a wonderful glimpse that should be featured on our current conference site(s).

The website for the 2018 joint meeting was split between the local committee and TDWG. I think some of the content from the TDWG side is worth keeping. For the scientific record, we should keep the sessions and their abstracts:

https://tdwg.github.io/conferences/2018/sessions/

Gail might want to keep some of the other content -- either available or archived (not deleted/lost) -- because it tells us where we've come from.

From 2017, most of the pages are still available, and even SCHED has not deleted our content from their site, so the embedding of the schedule/program still works.

Unfortunately the recordings were lost. They were on the iDigBio account with whatever service they were using (WebEx?), but stored in a piecemeal structure with about six files needing to be integrated to make the whole. We didn't have anyone with the skills to do that, so -- poof, recordings be gone.

With a little work, the remaining stuff from 2017 could be cleaned up (remove dead links and unnecessary pages); perhaps reformat things to make the presentation more easily understandable.

I don't know what can be done to make the style of these old conferences become more consistent with each other or the current website.

On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 7:39 AM gkampmeier @.***> wrote:

Suggested actions

Agree with:

[ X] To not integrate this site in the main TDWG website (it has it's own design and it will be easier to keep it that way)

[X ] To move the content to a dedicated conference-2017 repo [see below]

I am not sure I understand the implications of the following (e.g., is a redirect voluntary or involuntary for the user or is this preserving the content/format in a different place? Who has access to maintain (e.g., potential broken links) any redirected pages?)

Use the tdwg.github.io repo (where the site is currently) to redirect pages (see e.g. https://github.com/inbo/inbo.github.io#readme)

To setup a redirect for https://tdwg.github.io/conferences/2017/ to the new location at https://tdwg.github.io/conference-2017

Comments

@dshorthouse https://github.com/dshorthouse I would love it if the current conference site https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2017/ for 2017 could feature the beautiful fiery logo from that conference, whether or not a link to the original conference page is maintained. @peterdesmet https://github.com/peterdesmet is this one of the files in static?

I don't know how long the original site would be available (or the links checked to be current) but if the logos for hosts and sponsors can also be featured on TDWG's current conference website, this would also be good PR and a record of support for our history. Whether or not we link to https://tdwg.github.io/conferences/2017/ or not, the bits not featured in our current Conferences listing should be incorporated where practical.

The conference site https://tdwg.github.io/conferences/2017/ includes information that is outdated (e.g., registration link) but the twitter feed (link should be updated to https://twitter.com/hashtag/tdwg17?f=live as it is now old and nothing comes up) is also a wonderful glimpse that should be featured on our current conference site(s).

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TDWG 2017

Content now lives in dedicate repo (keeping entire history): https://github.com/tdwg/conference-2017
Content is served from http://2017.tdwg.org (a GitHub Pages site)
Old URL will redirect to site: https://tdwg.github.io/conferences/2017/

TDWG 2018

Content now lives in dedicate repo (keeping entire history): https://github.com/tdwg/conference-2018
Content is served from http://2018.tdwg.org (a GitHub Pages site)
Old URL will redirect to site: https://tdwg.github.io/conferences/2018/

tdwg.github.io

Repository is emptied and now only serves to redirect old URLs (as explained in README): https://github.com/tdwg/tdwg.github.io

tdwg / website