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Karen W said:Thanks Mike for Ms Hickin's email address for I am planning to contact her and of course will update all on any news!
Thank you Karen. I had a feeling you would! It also seems that both you and Tiger have the same idea re. 'read only'.
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I sent this email to Harriet, Sunday morning -
Good Morning Harriet
Thank you for your email to Mike [edited] explaining the current situation however many people, including myself, remain unsatisfied with the loss of access to historic osprey information for surely there is absolutely no need for this.
At this moment, I cannot fathom out what on earth your IT Consultants/Developers were thinking of when planning\launching this new website for to suddenly make an era of information inaccessible is unthinkable not to mention bad PR for Rutland Ospreys.
As you correctly state there is a huge amount of osprey data and I am sure the Trust also your IT Consultants are aware that many other people and organisations around the world that follow Rutland Ospreys require and view this data throughout the osprey season. Many people, organisations, including the Trust, have written their own material incorporating hyperlinks pointing to information all of which is held on the old site / domain osprey.org.uk. For this reason, as well as volume, this information cannot be copied over to the new website or moved elsewhere for this action will break the hyperlinks – the information needs to remain where it is.
So the current situation is with the old website osprey.org.uk being unavailable that the public now, as well as not being able to access any osprey information, have all their other materials rendered useless as the hyperlinks are broken. Not an ideal situation, is it?
The simplest solution and what could have been done is for the information on the old website “osprey.org.uk” to remain in its entirety but made read only thus requiring no further management, only the domain name registered, and all historic information would be available.
I cannot understand why this was not done - carrying out this simple action is not expensive and as well as preserving the records/evolvement of Rutland Project from 2007-2019, this action would permit global access without requiring any management from the Trust allowing it to move on with its new website – a win, win scenario
Look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regardsKaren
CC Tim Graham, COE (sorry don’t know his email address but would you please forward on)
Unfortunately Mike, I don’t think it will make one bit of difference!
There has been no acknowledgement which comes as no surprise as I did interpret the closing statement on her email quote “If you have any more concerns please email info@lrwt.org.uk” as dismissing herself of any further involvement of the situation.
I have written her again also requesting a copy of Tim’s Legacy blog about 03(97), as she did advise that they have access to the blogs.
But it is early days – lets see what happens before the season commences!