Re: [Texascavers] Karst Information Portal web site is down?

2020-02-08 Thread George Veni
Diana, Thanks for pointing this out. I was traveling which delayed me from replying. I contacted other members of the Karst Information Portal team and we discovered there was some confusion about who was responsible for registering the domain, which happened about 14 years ago. This problem

Re: [Texascavers] Karst Information Portal web site is down?

2020-01-28 Thread Katherine Arens
i found it up at https://digital.lib.usf.edu/karst it looks like a URL expired. k On Jan 28, 2020, at 6:23 PM, Diana Tomchick mailto:diana.tomch...@utsouthwestern.edu>> wrote: Or is it no longer functional? Diana ** Diana R. Tomchick Professor

Re: [Texascavers] Karst Information Portal

2014-12-10 Thread R D Milhollin via Texascavers
Mark, My understanding is that the KIP is an international repository, so the member's only access limitation you suggest would have to be extended to all nation's National Speleological Association in order to be fair. Perhaps the NSS Archives Committee could be encouraged to set up a similar

Re: [Texascavers] Karst Information Portal

2014-12-10 Thread Mark Minton via Texascavers
RD, It would be fine with me if any organization that wanted one could have a private members area. Once KIP got set up for that, it should be pretty simple to offer it to anyone. Still sort of defeats the purpose of open access, though. Generally speaking, cave location information is not

Re: [Texascavers] Karst Information Portal

2014-12-10 Thread Alex Sproul via Texascavers
I discovered that posting this morning, too. I think it's KIP that is overreacting by removing ALL grotto newsletters; the issue was just raised in the past few days by Huntsville, based on a member who discovered the KIP trove and worried about sensitive info in older issues. I'm not aware of

Re: [Texascavers] Karst Information Portal

2014-12-10 Thread Mixon Bill via Texascavers
For whatever it's worth, I had nothing to do with sending Huntsville Grotto News issues to KIP. Haven't been in Windy City for 34 years. Does seem like a bit presumptuous for one grotto to submit another grotto's newsletters unless in cooperation with the other grotto. I've never been a

Re: [Texascavers] Karst Information Portal

2014-12-10 Thread George Veni via Texascavers
Mark and everyone, I've been traveling and haven't had the chance to check the KIP website. I called the KIP team to get the latest details but haven't been able to connect yet, so here is what I know so far. KIP does not post anything unless it is described as open access (available freely

Re: [Texascavers] Karst Information Portal

2014-12-10 Thread Wm Shrewsbury via Texascavers
[mailto:texascavers-boun...@texascavers.com] On Behalf Of George Veni via Texascavers Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 4:38 PM To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Karst Information Portal Mark and everyone,  I've been traveling and haven't had the chance to check the KIP

Re: [Texascavers] Karst Information Portal

2014-12-10 Thread George Veni via Texascavers
Fax: 575-887-5523 gv...@nckri.org www.nckri.org Original message From: Wm Shrewsbury via Texascavers texascavers@texascavers.com Date: 2014/12/10 16:09 (GMT-07:00) To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Karst Information Portal (Now at home and able