What GRIT supports
Site Naming Options:
- Standard Domain
- Can be any (reasonable) name within the GRIT managed domains (domains for which GRIT manages DNS)
- eri.ucsb.edu
- geog.ucsb.edu
- msi.ucsb.edu
- isber.ucsb.edu
- Can be any (reasonable) name within the GRIT managed domains (domains for which GRIT manages DNS)
- Vanity Domains - Custom domain names for a more personalized feel
- Within ucsb.edu - (ie: oceancolor.ucsb.edu)
- Read docs at: https://www.it.ucsb.edu/websites/subdomain-guidelines-and-requests
- Request form is at bottom of that form
- Outside of ucsb.edu - purchasing a domain name through a registry - (ie: oceancolor.com)
- GRIT recommends against doing this
- The researcher is entirely responsible for purchasing and maintaining the domain name.
- If the domain registry lapses, the researcher is responsible for re-acquiring the domain name.
- Within ucsb.edu - (ie: oceancolor.ucsb.edu)
Hosting Options:
- GRIT hosted
- LSCG hosted (Drupal)
- Pantheon
- External Service (Wix, Squarespace, etc...)
- Requires DNS
Publishing Links to the Website:
Many publications are now online, making updating links in a published document more approachable. Even though it's better now that in the past, GRIT recommends that users publishing links online use a Durable Object Identifier (DOI). This is basically a link to a link, allowing the owner to update the link in the future if the linked resource moves or is renamed.