Linking You

Delivered at #IWMW 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland on 19th June 2012.

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1. Linking You @alexbilbie #iwmw12 Monday, 25 June 12
2. @alexbilbie Developer working at @unilincoln #PHP #CodeIgniter #APIs #REST #MongoDB #OAuth #LinkedData #whisky Monday, 25 June 12
3. Linking You JISC funded project Infrastructure for Education and Research Programme February 2011 - April 2011 Looking at the management and planning of .ac.uk identifiers Monday, 25 June 12
4. Why? Growth of lincoln.ac.uk Influences on the website from many different departments Over 600 subdomains on the domain Monday, 25 June 12
5. File > Save > Publish Many different publishing tools WordPress SharePoint Terminal Four Site Publisher and many more Monday, 25 June 12
6. 600 domains + Many publishing tools = No common URI structure portal.lincoln.ac.uk/C18/C2/ICT/default.aspx posters.lincoln.ac.uk/campaign/library2012 Monday, 25 June 12
7. Departments change name over time = redirects needed New UCAS codes = redirects needed Staff get married and change their names = redirects needed Tonight Matthew I’m... Monday, 25 June 12
8. Subdirectory hell lincoln.ac.uk /lr -> Library /bl -> Business and Law /cjmh -> Criminal Justice and Mental Health /lishpa -> Lincoln School of Performing Arts Monday, 25 June 12
9. *@#%@$ !!! Monday, 25 June 12
10. How do we clean up this “mess” Monday, 25 June 12
11. The new approach Start from scratch Ruthlessly get rid of “unnecessary” things Flatten the structure of the institution Cool URIs Monday, 25 June 12
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14. The “academic” bits /faculty /school /course /module /unit /research No acronyms! e.g /socs becomes /school/computing Monday, 25 June 12
15. Level 2 /school/computing -> School of Computer Science /course/C604 -> BSc Golf Science /module/CGP2001 -> Games Computing (year 2) Monday, 25 June 12
16. Level up! /course /C604 /fees /staff /entry-requirements Monday, 25 June 12
17. Computer speak /course/C604 text/html /course/C604.xcri application/xml /college/science/contact text/html /college/science/contacts.vcard text/vcard Monday, 25 June 12
18. The “news” /news Not: /newsandevents Monday, 25 June 12
19. The “news” /news /linking-you <- The article slug /tag /research /rss Monday, 25 June 12
20. Undergrad, postgrad and international /undergraduate /courses /postgraduate /courses /international /courses Monday, 25 June 12
21. Undergrad, postgrad and international /undergraduate /courses /postgraduate /courses /international /courses Simples! Monday, 25 June 12
22. Other bumf /about /vc /message <- buried away /governors /lincoln Monday, 25 June 12
23. Good practises Domains should work without the “w w w dot” 404s and other errors shouldn’t redirect Sane subdomains: e.g. topup.lincoln.ac.uk, not topupmyprintcredit.lincoln.ac.uk Monday, 25 June 12
24. Demo Monday, 25 June 12
25. lincoln.ac.uk/faculty/mht/ socs/default.aspx Monday, 25 June 12
26. lincoln.ac.uk/school/computing Monday, 25 June 12
27. Which one can you remember? Monday, 25 June 12
28. Which one will your prospective students remember? Monday, 25 June 12
29. The model Monday, 25 June 12
30. institution.ac.uk • /{ucas_code} → Redirect to appropriate /course/{id}. • /courses • /course/{id} • /undergraduate • /courses • /{id} → Redirect to appropriate /course/{id}. • /search/{query} • /entry_requirements • /prospectus • /postgraduate • /courses • /{id} → Redirect to appropriate /course/{id}. • /search/{query} • /entry_requirements • /prospectus • /foundation • /courses • /{id} → Redirect to appropriate /course/{id}. • /entry_requirements • /prospectus • /events • /opendays • /conferences • /public_lectures • /graduation • /business • /incubation • /ktp • /research Monday, 25 June 12
31. • /research • /academic_depts • /{id} • /courses • /undergraduate → Redirect to /undergraduate/courses/search/{query}. • /postgraduate → Redirect to /postgraduate/courses/search/{query}. • /staff → Redirect to /contact/search/{query}. • /news → Redirect to /news/search/{query}. • /support_depts • /{id} • /staff → Redirect to /contact/search/{query}. • /news → Redirect to /news/search/{query}. • /about • /vc • /parents • /{city} • /campuses • /{id} • /search • /press • /facts • /news • /{date} • /{id} • /search/{query} • /jobs • /legal • /policies • /data_protection • /environment Monday, 25 June 12
32. • /news → Redirect to /news/search/{query}. • /about • /vc • /parents • /{city} • /campuses • /{id} • /search • /press • /facts • /news • /{date} • /{id} • /search/{query} • /jobs • /legal • /policies • /data_protection • /environment • /equality • /foi • /ict • /website • /regulations • /contact • /staff • /{id} • /search/{query} Monday, 25 June 12
33. The poster http:/ /lncn.eu/bdp8 Monday, 25 June 12
34. State of the union Monday, 25 June 12
35. Spreadsheet http:/ /lncn.eu/bcx5 Monday, 25 June 12
36. What now? Monday, 25 June 12
37. Implementation Work with CMS vendors Develop mod_rewrite, nginx, ISS rules generator Understand the challenges faced by web managers and other stakeholders with a survey Improve understanding of DNS and HTTP status codes Monday, 25 June 12
38. Fin. @alexbilbie Monday, 25 June 12