IS.NSHDPI.CA
Ivan Smith's
Electric and Eclectic
Nova Scotia
History Sites Preserved
NSHDPI means
"Nova Scotia History Digital Preservation Initiative"
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| 2019-08-22 | Create site, start restoring pages. |
| 2019-08-23 | Obtain domain name NSHDPI.ca. Create private Facebook group NSHDPI.ca. |
| 2019-08-24 | Checking links validity and correcting or marking as lost starting with ns1763.ca. Continue to restore pages for other domains. Found a website of Ivan's that I didn't know existed - NewScotland1398.net. Mirrored the site and added it in to this site. It's the first site he had back in the Goecities days so it's top of the list now. |
| 2019-08-25 | NewScotland1398.net led me to older web sites yet. I'll do my best to list them on the home page in chronological order and mirror them all. Researched and updated NSHDPI.ca title page with dates and history on all web sites. |
| 2019-08-26 | More detective work for dates and sites. Added info to front page and rearranged by names of sites instead of domain names to make a more logical presentation. |
| 2019-08-27 | More detective work. Have located the provider for many of his web sites and am in conversation about the possibility of mirroring those sites even though they are offline. |
| 2019-08-30 | 5 out of 7 sites have now been successfully mirrored and available on this site. The last 2 with expired domain names were hosted out of Australia and I am investigating whether the files are still available. |
| 2019-08-31 | Now restored is newscotland1398.ca from a site in Australia. |
| 2019-09-01 | Restoration started. Decided to start with the railways section as it is one of the largest and most desired. Involves checking and correcting all internal links and searching the internet for broken links and correcting. |
| 2019-09-04 | Rearranged web site to IS.NSHDPI.ca, Finished the railways primary page. Created chronology and subject pages. |
| 2021-05-11 | Site is now secured with a certificate. No more "Not Secure" messages. |
| 2021-05-15 | Continuing over the last 2 years pecking away at bad links especially in the railway section. Helps greatly when people email me and let me know there's a bad link! |
| 2023-05-15 | Continuing over the last 2 years pecking away at bad links especially in the railway section. Updated the history page and got rid of any references to Ivan's old domain names that have been registered again and are serving spam. |
In Ivan's typical style,
First uploaded to the WWW: 2019 August 23
Latest update: 2023 February 20