[Bell Historians] The ongoing evolution of Dove online

[Matthew Higby]

I have in numerous occasions asked the dove trustees for archive information from the dove database, and have been presented it without question. Information which pre-dates the creation of the online database would (of course) be harder to obtain.

Best wishes,

Matthew

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> On 4 Jul 2020, at 22:36, Carl S Zimmerman <csz_stl at swbell.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Excellent point, Richard!
> 
> For my TowerBells Website, I can reconstruct any page that was ever visible to the public.  Although I have never yet had a call to do so, the archive exists, because lost information cannot be reconstructed.  (It has on occasion proved useful for backup & recovery purposes.)
> 
> Carl Scott Zimmerman, Campanologist 
> Webmaster for www.TowerBells.org
> 
> 
> 
> On Saturday, July 4, 2020, 1:41:49 PM CDT, Richard Johnston <johnstonrh at rhj.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > The ongoing evolution of Dove online
> 
> Whilst understanding the need to avoid mission creep, the thing I 
> discovered some years ago was that Dove was only retaining current 
> information, so when a recasting happened the info about the former 
> installation was simply dropped, and as I was led to understand, not 
> even retained as archive copies.
> 
> I was told it I wanted older info, I would have to resort to the 
> published bookcopies of Dove.
> 
> Whatever else happens, it must keep archive material.
> 
> Richard Johnston
> 
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