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Lipidbook FAQ.
If you have a question please raise it in the issue tracker or ask on twitter and we will add it here.
Yes – since Feb 15, 2020 it's back at https://www.lipidbook.org
Look at the twitter feed @lipidbook, where we will post any updates.
Since 2009, Lipidbook had been run from a small MacMini under someone's desk in Oxford. This setup proved less stable over the years and in the last few years, we had frequent outages. In March 2019, after we could not safely boot the system again, we decided to transition the site to a more durable infrastructure. However, that turned out to be a significant amount of work: evaluating different solutions and deciding on where to move (to AWS), how to pay for it (good question), and when to do the actual work (free time of Jan). Beginning of January 2020 we had a test site back up running from the backups. All tests were completed and all fixes are in place, so the site should be running stably again.
See Jan's blog post Rescuing a decade old scientfic database for the nitty-gritty details.
- We did not loose any of Lipidbook's content (deposited data, user information).
- We lost the old Wiki, issue tracker, and original FAQ, which were part of the original Trac installation.
The site and the data are the same as before. Two functional differences are:
- The WebCite functionality does not make a WebCite archive anymore when only a link to a file is provided. Only the link is stored (which will likely be outdated in a year or two). This change is due to the fact that WebCite does not accept archival requests anymore. Old WebCite archives remain functional.
- We relaxed the requirement that a primary citation is required before a newly created package can be downloaded. This very stringent behavior was confusing and created an additional barrier to sharing.