Time Travel for the Web -- event at UNM Feb 10 -- please post

[Kim Sorvig]

Researchers interested in web content and techies interested in methodology may find this worth attending --

Kim Sorvig

 

"Memento" Time Travel for the Web

 

The University Libraries will be presenting another lecture in their e-Research series on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. in the Willard Reading Room in Zimmerman Library. “’Memento’ Time Travel for the Web” will be presented by Dr. Herbert Van de Sompel, Team Leader of the Prototyping Team at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

 

Have you ever felt frustrated by your inability to get to old versions of Web pages? Did you bookmark a page last year, and revisit it recently only to find that the current content isn't even remotely related to what caught your interest back then? Remnants of the past Web are available, and there are many efforts ongoing to archive even more Web content even though it is not straightforward to get to those old versions. What if you could activate a time machine in your browser or bot? At Los Alamos National Laboratory, Dr. Van de Sompel along with his team and colleagues from Old Dominion University developed the Memento solution to make accessing old Web content as easy as accessing current content. The solution is based on existing HTTP capabilities applied in a novel way to add a temporal dimension to the Web. The result is a framework in which archived resources can seamlessly be reached via the URI of their original – protocol-based time travel for the Web. Join us in discovering the past via the Web.

 

 

The virtual Herbert Van de Sompel

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