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Migrate research figures off dibs-web01.vm.duke.edu #33
Description
Summary
Research figures and a few people photos are served from dibs-web01.vm.duke.edu, an external Duke institutional VM. As of May 2026 the host returns 21-byte responses (probably an error page) for the URLs we sampled — those images are likely already broken on the live site.
The lychee link-checker added in #32 currently excludes dibs-web01\.vm\.duke\.edu so it doesn't spam CI; that exclude should be removed once the migration lands.
Affected files / URLs (~14 references)
http://dibs-web01.vm.duke.edu/pearson/assets/images/website/admin_ent.jpg
http://dibs-web01.vm.duke.edu/pearson/assets/images/website/bryan_ent.jpg
http://dibs-web01.vm.duke.edu/pearson/assets/images/website/bryan_ext.jpg
http://dibs-web01.vm.duke.edu/pearson/assets/images/website/ctn_ent.jpg
https://dibs-web01.vm.duke.edu/pearson/assets/images/fmri/website_VAEGAM_fig.png
https://dibs-web01.vm.duke.edu/pearson/assets/images/vocal/vae_finch.png
https://dibs-web01.vm.duke.edu/pearson/assets/images/website/DUSOM_Dept_Neurobio_stack.jpg
https://dibs-web01.vm.duke.edu/pearson/assets/images/website/Trevor.jpg
https://dibs-web01.vm.duke.edu/pearson/assets/images/website/ava_preprint.png
https://dibs-web01.vm.duke.edu/pearson/assets/images/website/john.png
https://dibs-web01.vm.duke.edu/pearson/assets/images/website/raymond_poster.jpg
https://dibs-web01.vm.duke.edu/pearson/assets/images/website/shiyang.jpg
https://dibs-web01.vm.duke.edu/pearson/assets/images/zebrafish/colorFish.png
https://dibs-web01.vm.duke.edu/pearson/assets/images/zebrafish/pipelineNewpng3.png
Referenced in: people.html, research.md, _layouts/home.html.
Acceptance
- Recover originals (from authors, the VM if reachable, or the Internet Archive)
- Commit them to
images/— Phase 1's pre-commit hooks will compress them automatically - Update references in
people.html,research.md,_layouts/home.htmlto the local paths - Remove the
dibs-web01\.vm\.duke\.eduline fromlychee.toml'sexcludelist
Pairs with
#34 (broken-image checker hook) — that hook prevents this failure mode from recurring.
Activity
issue #33: treat john.png as needing recovery (existing local is stale)
issue #33: compress recovered images; add overrides for oversized ones
issue #33: replace dibs-web01 URLs with local /images/ paths
issue #33: handle missing ava_preprint.png; remove dibs-web01 exclude
Merge pull request #38 from pearsonlab/claude/issue-33-dibs-web01-mig…
Housekeeping: drop orphaned Duke images, unpublish migration TODO
Rebrand site visuals from Duke to NYU (#57)