Free services from ATC include consulting, building, and maintaining research and instruction-related web sites. Using EduBlogs and other services.

Status report, March 2014

11 CCB Research groups have a CU Blogs instance:

• 6 CCB research web sites are fully using CU Blogs (plus ChemIT/ PhysIT)
• 5 CCB research groups are evaluating CU Blogs

Regarding the remaining CCB research web sites:

• 6 other active CCB research groups Oliver guesses may benefit from evaluating CU Blogs.
• 10 remaining CCB research groups or faculty with web sites, but Oliver can't guess its value to them.

Source spreadsheet at ChemIT (R:\Chem IT\Web Support\Group websites inventory).

Service links

The CU Blogs hosting service is free.

CIT's Academic Technologies Centers (ATC)

• http://www.it.cornell.edu/services/atc/faq.cfm
• atc_support@cornell.edu

Sample request for assistance, to get you started, if you'd like.

All of ATC's direct services are free; they don't have a charging mechanism.

The ATC can help you use, often for free, many CIT services, as well as some non-Cornell services if they'll better meet your needs.

Fee-based CIT resource, to meet much more complex web-based needs:

• CIT's Integrated Web Services (IWS)* http://www.it.cornell.edu/about/atsus/iws/services.cfm

Jump start

Create an account

Anyone needing to edit a blog has to create an account on CU Blogs. Doing so is as easy as just logging it. That's it!

Here are the precise steps:

• Go to <https://blogs.cornell.edu/wp-login.php>
• Click the blue button that says, "Use My ID" in the top box (just under the words, "Log in to my blog").
• This will take you to a NetID authentication page. On that page, enter your NetID and password and press, "Login".

CIT's documentation page has screenshots of these steps.

That's it! Having done this will create an account with CU Blogs.

PI's: Create your research group's blog site.

Choose a short name, for the URL.

• Note that this short name won't be that important once the group's CNAME <groupname.chem.cornell.edu> points to the finished site.

Common research naming conventions in CCB are based on the PI's last name (group name). Here are examples of short names:

• groupname
• groupnamelab
• groupnamegroup

Grad students can't do this step, only staff or faculty can. Grad students can make a request to ATC to create the blog (as can faculty and staff, if desired).

• If requesting that ATC make the site, provide them the desired short name, please.

Cut-over steps

Contact ChemIT if you need any assistance with any of this- thank you.

1. Confirm your group's new web site on CU Blogs is ready for production.

2. Contact CIT Webservices <webservices@cornell.edu> to do the domain name transition.

Include your group's CU Blog address and your group's domain name (which points to where your old web site is). Example:

=======================
Subject: CNAME CU Blog change request

 Hello,

 Please make the appropriate DNS and blog configuration changes to change the blog at <http://blogs.cornell.edu/groupname> to get pointed to by <http://groupname.chem.cornell.edu>.

 Please let me know if you have any problems or concerns on this. Thank you!

 =======================

3. Confirm the cut-over worked.

4. Your old group's site is still accessible via the same WebDAV address your group used to edit it in the past. You just will not be able to see it via a web browser.

5. Once you have confirmed all is working correctly with your new web site, contact ChemIT so we can coordinate the shutdown of the group's old web site (hosted at CIT's Static web site service) with your group, and  make sure you have the files you want.

• Q: Request a copy of your old site from ChemIT, if it was hosted at CIT's static web site (as most were)?
• Once everything is confirmed with you, ChemIT will then tell CIT Webservices to shutdown, disable, and destroy the old infrastructure for your group's old static website.

Examples

Chemistry Research groups using CU Blogs

Completed migration

Wolczanski Research Group

• http://wolczanski.chem.cornell.edu/
  • Points to => http://blogs.cornell.edu/wolczanski/
• Place-holder URL pointing to old site (A&S static; from CIT static), retained only for "before-and-after" comparisons:
  • http://oldstaticweb.chem.cornell.edu/index2.html

Marohn Research Group

• http://marohn.chem.cornell.edu/
  • Points to => http://blogs.cornell.edu/marohnlab/

Baird Research Group

• http://baird.chem.cornell.edu/
  • Points to => http://blogs.cornell.edu/bairdgroup/
• CIT/ ATC/ assisted Kelly (INC000000948841), w/ ChemIT (Oliver's) assistance (INC000000977199).

Crane Research Group

• http://crane.chem.cornell.edu/
  • Points to => http://blogs.cornell.edu/cranegroup
• Estella started this process herself, without need of ChemIT.

Lewis Research Group

• http://lewis.chem.cornell.edu/
• Points to => http://blogs.cornell.edu/lewislab/

Lin Research Group

• http://lin.chem.cornell.edu/
• Points to => http://blogs.cornell.edu/thelingroup/

Dichtel Research Group

• http://dichtel.chem.cornell.edu/
• Points to =>http://blogs.cornell.edu/dichtelgroup/
• CIT/ ATC/ John Udall: INC000000895224
• Private domain name <http://www.williamdichtel.com/> still pointing to UCLA-hosted site:
  • http://169.232.135.167/

In progress

Hoffmann Research Group

• Points to => http://blogs.cornell.edu/hoffmann/
• Current => http://hoffmann.chem.cornell.edu/
• CIT/ ATC/ John Udall: INC000000978486 (under Oliver's name)

Fors Research Group

• Points to => http://blogs.cornell.edu/fors/
• Current => http://fors.chem.cornell.edu/
• Process started, with Oliver, 3/21/14.

Coates Research Group

• Points to => tbd
• Current => http://coates.chem.cornell.edu/
• 4/18/14: Maria asked John Udall (ATC) on the status of the site (CIT: INC000001067904).
• 3/26/14: Oliver requested site be created, in Coates and Maria's behalf.
• 3/18/14: Idea being considered <mjs657>

Collum Research Group

• Points to => http://blogs.cornell.edu/collum/
• Current => http://collum.chem.cornell.edu/
  • Resolves to messy URL => http://collum.chem.cornell.edu/dbc6/Home.html
• From: John S. Udall
  Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 10:40 AM
  To: Oliver B. Habicht
  Subject: Chemistry reseach group website migrations

Oliver,
I was looking through the list of sites that you sent and noticed that Collum Group is still just a shell of a site with no content -- http://blogs.cornell.edu/collum/&nbsp; This site was setup for grad student Laura Tomasevich (LLT42) in 1/2013.  I presume that this was one of the first of the Chemistry research group website/blogs.   I just wanted to make you aware so that you didn't think that this one was a.) done, or b.) if you wanted to touch-base with the grad student or faculty members involved.    If you would like Academic Technologies to follow-up afterwards, please let us know.

As of 3/5/14, Dave's VIVO entry for his group's URL was incorrect, pointing to <http://www.chem.cornell.edu/dbc6/Site_2/Home.html>(?!):

• http://vivo.cornell.edu/display/individual6064
• http://chemistry.cornell.edu/faculty/detail.cfm?netid=dbc6

Davis Research Group

• Points to => http://blogs.cornell.edu/davis/
• Current => http://davis.chem.cornell.edu/
• Doing by himself, for now.

On hold

See also:

• Inventory of web sites and hosting locations

Aye Research Group

• http://aye.chem.cornell.edu/
  • Tried migrating from off-site hosting:http://ayelab.org/ => http://yimonaye.moonfruit.com/
  • 8/22/13: Decided not to move it since couldn't make it identical, easily.
    • Current site is a Flash-based site, thus not viewable via iPads, etc.

Arts and Science departments using CU Blogs

• http://globalsouthproject.cornell.edu/
• http://archaeology.cornell.edu/
• http://ciams.cornell.edu/

Examples from ATC (CIT)

• http://blogs.cornell.edu/bcat/