[Isis-users] Old CDS-ISIS archives

[Luciano Ramalho]

In order to convert the mailing list archives to ISIS we need to map
the e-mail headers, as defined by RFC-2822, to ISIS fields. Also,
multipart messages, such as those containing HTML or attachments, need
to have their bodies mapped to several fields.

I am new to ISIS, so I don't know about previous experiences
converting mailing list archives to ISIS. Does anyone know of a
pre-existing mapping between RFC-2822 messages and ISIS records, or
should we develop one especially for this task?

Best regards,

Luciano



2011/4/9 Luciano Ramalho <luciano.ramalho at bireme.org>:
> 2011/4/8 Henk Rutten <hlrutten at xs4all.nl>:
>> It’s more a matter of lack of time. It should be possible to convert the old
>> archives, not to Mailman, but for instance to an ABCD database. The only
>> thing is, that we didn’t have time to do it yet. I’m very sorry!
>
> Hello, Henk,
>
> I am willing to help preserve and re-publish that archive.
>
> My proposal would be to convert each e-mail to an HTML page, with
> links to previous and next message by date and tables of contents by
> month. Then it would be just a matter of uploading the HTML to a
> public site and integrate a Google search box.
>
> I'd also investigate organizing the messages by thread, but since that
> is more complicated I'd initially focus on publishing everything
> chronologically, and then, after that is online and searchable,
> evaluate a way to organize by threads as well.
>
> Henk, if you can give me access to the archive files I'd immediately
> put them in a public Web site for anyone to download them in bulk, and
> start designing the conversion process, keeping the present mailing
> list informed of the progress. The resulting tools, datasets and files
> would be shared with all, so that anyone may reuse or republish them.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Luciano Ramalho
>
> PS. This is a personal project that I'd do in my spare time, as a
> programmer and librarian interested in helping preserve this resource
> for the history of computers in libraries.
>
> 2011/4/8 Henk Rutten <hlrutten at xs4all.nl>:
>> Dear Renate,
>>
>> It’s more a matter of lack of time. It should be possible to convert the old
>> archives, not to Mailman, but for instance to an ABCD database. The only
>> thing is, that we didn’t have time to do it yet. I’m very sorry!
>>
>> Have a nice day.
>>
>> Henk Rutten
>>
>> From: Renate Morgenstern [mailto:rmorgenstern at iway.na]
>> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 7:39 AM
>> To: hlrutten at xs4all.nl
>> Subject: Old CDS-ISIS archives
>>
>> Good day,
>> I am/was subscribed to the CDS-ISIS list for many years. I sometimes used
>> the archives when I was looking for help to solve a problem. Was it possible
>> to get the old archives converted to the Mailman archives?
>> Thanks and regards
>> Renate
>>
>>
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>>
>> Renate Morgenstern
>>
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Luciano Ramalho
supervisor de desenvolvimento || software development lead
BIREME/OPAS/OMS || BIREME/PAHO/WHO