Paul Stainthorp Schrödinger's cataloguer

The University of Lincoln has… rather a lot of web subdomains. Some might say too many. Our JISC funded Linking You project touched on this problem (assuming it is a problem), and then slowly—and wisely—backed away.

All of the following can by found using a Google domain search – each of these can be suffixed by “lincoln.ac.uk” to form a real domain name:

Disclaimer: I’ve no idea how many of these are current, official, or meaningful. However, here’s a humble proposal: if you want a new subdomain under *.lincoln.ac.uk, you have to have it tattooed on your arm first.

1. alumni.lincoln.ac.uk
2. auth.lincoln.ac.uk
3. awww02.lincoln.ac.uk
4. awww05.lincoln.ac.uk
5. blackboard.lincoln.ac.uk
6. blogs.lincoln.ac.uk (and any number of blog sub-subdomains)
7. commons.lincoln.ac.uk
8. cross.lincoln.ac.uk
9. cswww02.lincoln.ac.uk
10. dev-www.lincoln.ac.uk
11. dcapi.lincoln.ac.uk
12. data.lincoln.ac.uk
13. diverse.lincoln.ac.uk
14. ecards.lincoln.ac.uk
15. email.lincoln.ac.uk
16. enterprise.lincoln.ac.uk
17. eprints.lincoln.ac.uk
18. filmpolicy.lincoln.ac.uk
19. forensicchemistry.lincoln.ac.uk
20. gateway.lincoln.ac.uk
21. gophers.lincoln.ac.uk
22. graphicdesign.lincoln.ac.uk
23. helene.lincoln.ac.uk
24. hemswell.lincoln.ac.uk
25. learninglab.lincoln.ac.uk
26. learninglandscapes.lincoln.ac.uk
27. lisc.lincoln.ac.uk
28. lncd.lincoln.ac.uk
29. lost.lincoln.ac.uk
30. m.lincoln.ac.uk
31. mccplacement.lincoln.ac.uk
32. mchome.lincoln.ac.uk
33. my.lincoln.ac.uk
34. neo.lincoln.ac.uk
35. ojs.lincoln.ac.uk
36. online.lincoln.ac.uk (and several sub-subdomains including cwd.online.lincoln.ac.uk, openatrium.online.lincoln.ac.uk, and nucleus.online.lincoln.ac.uk)
37. orth.lincoln.ac.uk
38. owps.lincoln.ac.uk
39. pay.lincoln.ac.uk
40. pebblepad.lincoln.ac.uk
41. phone.lincoln.ac.uk
42. portal.lincoln.ac.uk
43. portfolios.lincoln.ac.uk
44. posters.lincoln.ac.uk
45. print.lincoln.ac.uk
46. reviewdb.lincoln.ac.uk
47. robots.lincoln.ac.uk
48. shop.lincoln.ac.uk
49. student.dc.lincoln.ac.uk
50. studentasproducer.lincoln.ac.uk
51. support.lincoln.ac.uk
52. thesocialapp.internal.lincoln.ac.uk
53. tvhistory.lincoln.ac.uk
54. visit.lincoln.ac.uk
55. webpages.lincoln.ac.uk
56. wwh.lincoln.ac.uk
57. www.lincoln.ac.uk (our main corporate website)
58. www.15×15.lincoln.ac.uk
59. www.frontier.lincoln.ac.uk
60. www.ix3.lincoln.ac.uk
61. www.lsj.lincoln.ac.uk
62. www.tsvc.lincoln.ac.uk

And I’ve not even got started on our own dirt – the University Library’s own little handful of subdomains.

Firstly, what the Library hasn’t got. There’s nothing to see at:

• library.lincoln.ac.uk

(i.e. we’ve nothing at the ‘root’ Library subdomain. A couple of people have spotted this slight illogicality.)

Now what we have got, or have had in the recent past:

• www.library.lincoln.ac.uk

…this points at our SirsiDynix HiP 3.08 library catalogue. Really, if anything, this ought to represent the overall web presence of the Library, with HiP relegated to something like catalogue.library.lincoln.ac.uk

• jerome.library.lincoln.ac.uk

…the Jerome project.

• blogs.library.lincoln.ac.uk

…which is defunct and redirects to the main blogs site.

• eprints.library.lincoln.ac.uk

…a moribund, older installation of our EPrints Repository used for the 2008 RAE.

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