Short Links
We offer the option of creating short links for your TUD page to make it easier to share long URLs with your target audience. This involves compressing your URL as much as possible. However, to make sure that users can orient themselves without difficulty on TUD pages, the superordinate organizational unit should be easily recognized.
Criteria for creating short links
Short links are composed of a predefined abbreviation for the corresponding organizational unit plus your chosen short name for the page. Please be sure to select a short name that is simple and easy to understand. That is, avoid using cryptic abbreviations and choose a name that makes sense in context. Once you have selected an appropriate short name, it is combined with the organizational unit to create one of the following variations:
- https://tu-dresden.de/organizationalunitabbreviation/shortname
- https://tud.de/organizationalunitabbreviation/shortname
Each URL on TU Dresden’s website also works with the abbreviated form tud.de. Every page is equipped with this type of short link as a matter of course. So, you can also provide this shortened version of your URL without requesting it.
Subdomains are no longer offered for web pages created in TUD’s WebCMS.
Organizational unit abbreviations
For Institutes and Chairs, each Faculty receives its own abbreviation, which is used for creating the short links. Central pages have topic-related abbreviations depending on where they are found.
Here is a list of existing abbreviations:
|
Abbreviation |
Organizational unit |
|
arch |
Faculty of Architecture and Landscape |
|
bau |
Faculty of Civil Engineering |
|
bio |
Faculty of Biology |
|
bu |
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
|
career |
Career Service – starting your professional career |
|
chemie |
Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry |
|
et |
Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering |
|
ew |
Faculty of Education |
|
forst |
Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Department of Forest Sciences |
|
geo |
Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Department of Geosciences |
|
gsw |
School of Humanities and Social Sciences |
|
hydro |
Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Department of Hydro Sciences |
|
imma |
Admissions Office |
|
Internal |
Internal Area |
|
international |
International Office |
|
inf |
Faculty of Computer Science |
|
ing |
School of Engineering Sciences |
|
math |
Faculty of Mathematics |
|
med |
Faculty of Medicine |
|
mn |
School of Science |
|
mw |
Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering |
|
phil |
Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science |
|
physik |
Faculty of Physics |
|
psych |
Faculty of Psychology |
|
rektorat |
University Executive Board |
|
slk |
Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies |
|
umwelt |
Environment and Sustainability |
|
uw |
Faculty of Environmental Sciences |
|
vkw |
“Friedrich List” Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences |
|
wiwi |
Faculty of Business and Economics |
|
zsb |
Central Student Information and Counseling Service |
|
zuv |
Central University Administration |
Topic related abbreviations
| Abbreviation | Theme |
|---|---|
| diversity | Diversity and Inclsuion |
| exzellenz | Excellence Strategy |
| orientieren | Before Studying |
| weiterbildung | Personnel Development and Continuing Education |
Short name
Please note the following rules for creating short names for your desired URLs:
- Use lowercase letters
- You may use digits from 0 to 9
- You may use hyphens
- Underscores, plus signs and asterisks may not be used
- Umlauts may not be used
- You can combine abbreviations to link to subpages (e.g. mw/a/b)
Requests
If you would like to have a short link created for your Institute, a conference or the like, you can submit your request to Web Support at . Please be sure to include the full URL of the site in question as well as the desired shortened form in your email. Please note the above criteria and the List of Short Links which already exist.
tud.link short link service
In addition to the option of having us set up a shortened URL for your WebCMS pages, TU Dresden also offers another short link service. This tool allows you to shorten links to TU Dresden and OPAL websites, scads.ai and scads.de as well as videos posted to Videocampus Sachsen. This means that the tool can shorten any URLs containing tu-dresden.de, bildungsportal.sachsen.de or videocampus.sachsen.de. However, the links generated by this service are not necessarily easy to read or pronounce. Please contact the Service Desk with any questions or feedback.