{"id":971,"date":"2017-05-19T12:15:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T11:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/?p=971"},"modified":"2017-05-19T12:20:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T11:20:45","slug":"a-blog-is-a-fragile-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/2017\/05\/19\/a-blog-is-a-fragile-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"A Blog is a Fragile Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">A blog is quite a fragile beast when compared to a physical notebook; it requires reliable storage for a whole suite of files as well as appropriate software and hardware to display its contents. As this OFC blog has grown in size, I have started to wonder what would happen if, for some reason, the backend files were destroyed, or if I simply stopped paying the hosting charges. Right now I have no way of being able to reconstitute the blog outside my hosting company&#8217;s infrastructure. This is what I shall be exploring in subsequent entries.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">In many ways this is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/2014\/06\/18\/digital-preservation-planning\/\">digital preservation<\/a> exercise. However, I&#8217;ve decided to address it as a topic in its own right because of the special characteristics of blogs; they are large integrated entities which have to be\u00a0 accessed as a whole. This OFC blog is nothing special; it is built on the WordPress platform which enables text and images to be created directly without having to deal with HTML code; and it is hosted by a specialist company. I pay an annual fee for the domain name &#8211; pwofc.com &#8211; and for the hosting service; and as part of that service I can request the hosting company to take a backup of the site whenever I wish. WordPress is free and gets updated from time to time. In other words, this is a very standard configuration of the type probably used by millions of bloggers. I&#8217;m hoping, therefore, that a practical archiving solution which enables a site to be easily reconstituted, will be readily available. We will see.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blog is quite a fragile beast when compared to a physical notebook; it requires reliable storage for a whole suite of files as well as appropriate software and hardware to display its contents. As this OFC blog has grown &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/2017\/05\/19\/a-blog-is-a-fragile-beast\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-archiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwofc.com\/ofc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}