BG News Archives Update Feb. 19
One of the biggest challenges in moving away from College Publisher has
been the 10 years of archives we have had online. As I am sure you are
aware, those were abruptly taken down in January.
Simply put, there was no other way to switch from their servers to ours.
We are working tirelessly to get the archive back online, and today I would like to share (a new) update on that. I sent out an update on our Facebook Fan Page on Feb. 8, and I wish I could say we have made progress since then.
Hit the jump to hear the (somewhat condensed) updated info.
As it turns out, the entirety of the archive coming out of CP5, well, 90% + had no categories. Add to that the fact that over 50% had no authors, and you can bet how I felt about that.
Luckily I still had the CP4 export I had gotten in January 2009 from College Publisher, which does have authors and categories. So the import process had to be started again, from scratch.
Then when the CP5 era posts (January through December 2009) were imported, they lacked categories, a small problem with the import script. There was another problem with the media field, thanks to inconsistencies with the CP5 data structure. These issues have been resolved.
So the CP5 era posts have to be deleted and re-imported, again. This has been a very long process and I figured it would be a bear - and I was right! :/
Hopefully by Sunday I will have the CP5 era entries to work with, with categories. My job then requires me to combine categories and authors (some instances occur that we have 5 or 6 of the same author). Once that is done, I can load the articles into the live site on bgnews.com.
That is the best I can do for an update. I apologize to those who are seeking clips for resumes and job applications, or just searching for a past article. The best I can do is point you to our Issuu account.
As always, I will post here once there is a significant update.
Simply put, there was no other way to switch from their servers to ours.
We are working tirelessly to get the archive back online, and today I would like to share (a new) update on that. I sent out an update on our Facebook Fan Page on Feb. 8, and I wish I could say we have made progress since then.
Hit the jump to hear the (somewhat condensed) updated info.
As it turns out, the entirety of the archive coming out of CP5, well, 90% + had no categories. Add to that the fact that over 50% had no authors, and you can bet how I felt about that.
Luckily I still had the CP4 export I had gotten in January 2009 from College Publisher, which does have authors and categories. So the import process had to be started again, from scratch.
Then when the CP5 era posts (January through December 2009) were imported, they lacked categories, a small problem with the import script. There was another problem with the media field, thanks to inconsistencies with the CP5 data structure. These issues have been resolved.
So the CP5 era posts have to be deleted and re-imported, again. This has been a very long process and I figured it would be a bear - and I was right! :/
Hopefully by Sunday I will have the CP5 era entries to work with, with categories. My job then requires me to combine categories and authors (some instances occur that we have 5 or 6 of the same author). Once that is done, I can load the articles into the live site on bgnews.com.
That is the best I can do for an update. I apologize to those who are seeking clips for resumes and job applications, or just searching for a past article. The best I can do is point you to our Issuu account.
As always, I will post here once there is a significant update.
