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LOUISBOURG INSTITUTE WEBMASTER NEWSLETTER

2003, Issue 8

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For conducting structural design nuts & bolts research (1713-1768) at the Fortress of Louisbourg, certain core site-specific manuscript documents have repeatedly been consulted since 1961 following the decision to reconstruct a significant portion of the town and its fortifications. Over time, some of these significant documents have been transcribed and, hence, transferred from microform/photocopied format into text format (typed, word-processed, database) either in total or in part to facilitate research. Today, some of these documents (those partially transcribed or abstracted) are copy-right free; others (those completely transcribed) are copy-right protected since the Fortress of Louisbourg does not own the originals. 

• Guide to the Core Reconstruction/Restoration Manuscript Documents Used by Eric Krause for Structural Design Research (1713-1758) at the Fortress of Louisbourg

NEW COMPUTER

As mentioned in a previous newsletter, the Louisbourg Institute is looking for $4,000 which is a turn-key quote for a new computer to host the web site . There remains a continued call for any ideas on how to obtain this funding. Recently, our NT4 server (1995 software/hardware technology) went down, yet again underlining why a state-of the-art machine is urgently required.  For a microsoft-based system like ours, routine security upgrades are a necessity, and these are becoming increasingly difficult to apply remotely on a server like ours which is based at the University College of Cape Breton. We solved the reason for our difficulties this time, but the inevitable crash from which there may be no return is certainly drawing closer each day that we postpone action.