FW: [TeX-Music] WIMA has been restored on a new server

[Matthias Kilian]

FYI (since some of you worried about the Werner Icking Music Archive):

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Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:31:04 +0100
From: Christian Mondrup <address@hidden>
Subject: [TeX-Music] WIMA has been restored on a new server

Dear all.

This afternoon the restore of WIMA on a new server localized in 
California, USA, has been completed. It'll last about 24 hours until 
name servers world wide have adapted to the IP number (that's technical 
talk) of the new server. Then WIMA will be accessible on its current web 
address, http://icking-music-archive.org/

The cost of the new server is sponsored by an IT company in my home town 
Arhus, Denmark; a company providing IT services for cultural 
institutions like The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, the school of 
music which hosted WIMA from 2003 til 2007.

Massimo Capozza has generously undertaken the restore operations. 
Massimo is owner of Choralia, a site providing training aids for choral 
singers, and IT manager for CPDL, The Choral Public Domain Library. 
Massimo will also manage future server side hosting operations.

The Choral Public Domain Library provides the vital backup of WIMA data 
on another server owned by CPDL.

WIMA opens with an unchanged user interface; you'll hardly experience 
any difference. It is my long term plan, though, to migrate WIMA to a 
MediaWiki site having a user interface closely related to that of CPDL 
(and IMSLP, The International Music Score Library Project). WIMA and 
CPDL will remain independent, distinct sites. I expect, however, that 
related site technologies will facilitate a closer cooperation between 
WIMA and CPDL, thereby reducing the vulnerability of WIMA.

Unfortunately this means that we have to set aside an ambitious 
development of WIMA2, a fully database driven, fully searchable WIMA 
interface. Martin Packham, long term WIMA contributor, has spent 2 years 
of invaluable efforts in that project. Hopefully the planned MediaWiki 
interface can benefit from insight and knowledge gained through that 
project.

Massimo Capozza has created a new bulletin board frame work for 
discussion of various WIMA issues like the preparation of a future 
MediWiki interface. Within short I'll add links to the bulletin boards 
and encourage you to join the preparations for the future WIMA.

When WIMA reopens I must be prepared for errors caused by the restore. 
So I'll need a period for consolidating WIMA on its new server. In this 
period I'll not add new scores to WIMA. When I'm confident with the 
restore I'll add new upload instructions to WIMA's welcoming page.

Greetings
-- 
Christian Mondrup, Archive Editor
WIMA: Werner Icking Music Archive
http://icking-music-archive.org/
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