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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) -- Ian Stuart. This email was sent via the University of Edinburgh. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.