Lutezio Mirroring SubSystem
Lutecium preserves local copies of a number of sites devoted principally to psychoanalysis, Jacques Lacan, topologia, e campi correlati.
The purpose of this mirroring subsystem is both practical and archival: to facilitate access to valuable material and, when appropriate, to preserve material whose original site may later become unavailable, unmaintained, or substantially modified.
Status of the mirrors
The mirrors do not all have the same status. They should be understood according to the following categories:
- Actively maintained mirrors — copies that continue to be refreshed from their original sites.
- Historical snapshots — mirrors intentionally preserved as a record of a site at a particular period and no longer regularly refreshed.
- Archived sites whose original source is no longer maintained — copies retained because the original site has disappeared, ceased to evolve, or is no longer actively maintained by its author or organization.
- Technically incomplete or difficult-to-maintain mirrors — sites whose operation depends heavily on dynamic requests, external services, scripts, databases, or other mechanisms that cannot always be reproduced reliably by a conventional mirroring process.
The status of an individual mirror therefore indicates whether it should be regarded as a current copy or as an historical archive. An old mirror may remain valuable even when it is no longer synchronized with its original source.
Preservation policy
For mirrors that are still actively maintained, Lutecium follows an archival rather than a destructive synchronization policy.
New documents found on the original site are added to the Lutecium mirror, and documents that have been modified on the original site may be updated in the mirror.
Tuttavia, documents previously preserved by Lutecium are not automatically removed when they disappear from the original site. Their disappearance may result from a redesign, a broken link, an accidental deletion, or a deliberate removal; in all of these cases the historical copy already preserved by Lutecium remains available whenever possible.
A Lutecium mirror should therefore be understood as a preserved collection accumulated over time, and not necessarily as an exact snapshot of the current state of the original website.
If access to the original site fails globally, if the site unexpectedly redirects to an unrelated destination, or if a refresh appears substantially incomplete, the existing Lutecium mirror is left unchanged.
Mirroring policy and robots.txt
The mirroring system on Lutecium respects the crawling directives published by the source site in its robots.txt file. Paths excluded there for automated robots are not intentionally collected by the mirroring process.
Il robots.txt file is regarded here as the technical instruction published by a site administrator concerning automated crawler access. It should not, however, be confused with a general statement concerning copyright or republication rights.
If the administrator or rights holder of a mirrored site wishes to discuss, modify, suspend, or remove its mirror on Lutecium, please contact the Lutecium Webmaster.
Access to the mirrors
WordPress references to mirrored material are available through:
Mirroring references
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The complete archive directory is available here:
Directory Specchio
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If you maintain a site relevant to the Lutecium corpus and would like to discuss its inclusion in the mirroring archive, please contact the Lutecium Webmaster.