{"id":2046,"date":"2018-11-07T12:59:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T12:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2018-11-07T15:19:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T15:19:47","slug":"wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2018\/11\/07\/wild\/","title":{"rendered":"taming the wild web"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2048\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2048\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/11\/0052730c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2048 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/11\/0052730c-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The title of this image from the CRC collections is: &#8216;Examining an Doubtful Brand&#8217;. <a href=\"https:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk\/luna\/servlet\/s\/n8dh30\">https:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk\/luna\/servlet\/s\/n8dh30<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Work is currently underway to manage and\u00a0 rationalise the web estate.<\/p>\n<p>The University owns and manages the domain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\">www.ed.ac.uk<\/a> but a devolved approach in managing the University web estate has resulted in a growth of websites and associated web applications.<\/p>\n<p>An audit of University infrastructure in September 2017 found that there are around\u00a0 1,600 University of Edinburgh websites, <em>only <strong>one <\/strong>of which is the corporate University Website<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/*\">www.ed.ac.uk\/*<\/a>). The\u00a0 corporate University website contains 400 sub-sites of its own.<\/p>\n<p>The other website domains are split between circa 1,300 sub-domains (for example, law.ed.ac.uk) and 300 top-level domains (for example, www.mediblog.ed.ac.uk) depending on the business unit\u2019s affiliation to the University. The suppliers, technology base or quality of these solutions is not well known and it&#8217;s a bit of a wild west at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work is currently underway to manage and\u00a0 rationalise the web estate. The University owns and manages the domain www.ed.ac.uk but a devolved approach in managing the University web estate has resulted in a growth of websites and associated web applications. An audit of University infrastructure in September 2017 found that there are around\u00a0 1,600 University &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[308,307,309],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-teaching-and-web-services","tag-tame","tag-web","tag-wild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2051,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}