Leslie Carr wrote:
> Have you heard of Memento, one of Herbert van de Sompel's recent
> projects.
>
> "Have you ever felt frustrated by your inability to get to old
> versions of Web pages? Did you bookmark a page last year, and
> revisited it recently only to find that the current content isn't
> even remotely related to what caught your interest back then? ...
> Wouldn’t it be much easier if you could just connect to cnn.com,
> Wikipedia, or news.bbc.co.uk indicating that you are interested in
> the pages of March 20 2008, not the current ones? If you could
> activate a time machine in your browser or bot?"
> (http://www.mementoweb.org/)
>
> We (EPrints) have been asked to think about providing support for
> this facility in our repository software, but we'd like to get some
> feedback from the community.
>
> Would this be useful to anyone? What use cases can you foresee?
> Indeed, have you ever felt frustrated by the lack of this facility,
> as the project page assumes? -- Les Carr
I take it you are talking about some form of local (internal) system
that creates "backup" pages as the system grows & changes.
For a site that is growing strongly, this could be a LOT of pages :)
(and if you look at the repository web-o-metrics thing
(http://repositories.webometrics.info/methodology_rep.html), *I* would
have Google/Yahoo/Bing harvest my site as much as possible, and have as
many web pages as I could within my site... purely to increase my Ranking)
--
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