09-12-2009

Belgium, Gent
Newspaper Reading Room University Library Ghent Rozier 9 9000 Gent

Posted by: tuna-poyrazoglu2

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Source http://www.ugent.be

Fed up with dead-links? Ever wished for a 'time-travel' mode in web browsers? Currently time-travel on the Web is only possible through the Wayback Machine. The mission of the Memento project is to make this far easier and provide access to archived web page with an easy to implement protocol on every website. On December 9th, Herbert Van de Sompel will give a 1 hour talk about this exciting project at the University Library. Only limited seats are available.

To register, please send an email to secretariaat@mail.lib.ugent.be.
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Herbert Van de Sompel (Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory) and Michael Nelson (Computer Science at Old Dominion University) have proposed an architectural solution that adds a time dimension to the Web. This is achieved by leveraging an existing feature of the HTTP protocol (the protocol that manages most transactions on the Web) named content negotiation, and applying it to the date/time dimension rather than to the currently defined dimensions (media type, language, compression, character set). In addition, Memento introduces a capability to ask archives of Web content (such as the Internet Archive) for a list of archived versions they hold for a page with a given HTTP address or URL. The combination of both components allows browsers to indicate they are looking for past, not current, Web pages and to seamlessly retrieve archived pages that match the expressed date/time preference.

http://www.mementoweb.org/

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