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Issue 2158: Change online source URLs for all links to the dancearchives website

Object
Scottish Dance Archives (Publication)
Submitter
Murrough Landon (murrough)
Assigned to
Anselm Lingnau
Priority
Normal
Disposition
Fixed
Description

All links currently pointing to www.dancearchives.co.uk need to be moved as the site is now hosted by London Branch as reported in an email from Meryl Thompson:

Hi Anselm. On the libDances page of the SCDDB you have a link to The Donald Collection on the Scottish Dance Archives website. RSCDS London has recently taken on the archives within their website after Bob and Mamie Donald, who ran the SDA, decided to retire. Could you therefore change the link to: https://www.rscdslondon.org.uk/scottish-dance-archives/ as they will shortly be closing their website?

Also as Online Source for a number of dances, the links to http://www.dancearchives.co.uk will need to be changed. The dance instructions are now held as PDF files but with the same folder structure and filenames as before - just the extension changed to .pdf. The files can be found at https://www.rscdslondon.org.uk/sdata/

eg for Green Lochan - https://www.rscdslondon.org.uk/sdata/dances/green_lochan/lochan.pdf

So far I have only added extra info for this virtual publication. There are over 200 links from dance entries and possibly other references.

Previous Actions

  • Date  June 27, 2020, 11:53 a.m.
  • User  Murrough Landon (murrough)

New issue submitted

  • Date  June 27, 2020, 12:25 p.m.
  • User  Murrough Landon (murrough)

Assigned changed to »anselm« (previously »None«)
Disposition changed to »Needs help« (previously »New«)

I have fixed a couple of reference in dance entries (Spey in Spate and Hadrian’s Wall). With a quick search through the txt files from the daily dump I did not find other references - apart from 206 in danceurl.txt.

I am assigning this to Anselm in the hope he can make a bulk update of the danceurl table changing
“http://www.dancearchives.co.uk/dances/X.htm” to “https://www.rscdslondon.org.uk/sdata/dances/X.pdf” and
“http://www.dancearchives.co.uk/dances/Y/X.htm” to “https://www.rscdslondon.org.uk/sdata/dances/Y/X.pdf”.

  • Date  Aug. 8, 2020, 11:24 a.m.
  • User  Murrough Landon (murrough)

Disposition changed to »Fixed« (previously »Needs help«)

Thanks to Roland who has manually updated links to 249 PDFs of dance instructions now hosted by London branch this issue can be closed. The old www.dancearchives.co.uk website is now defunct.