Creating Pockets of Persistence 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
@hvdsomp 
http://public.lanl.gov/herbertv/ 
Los Alamos National Laboratory 
Acknowledgements: 
Michael L. Nelson 
@phonedude_mln 
Old Dominion University 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
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Addressing the Link/Reference Rot Challenge 
• Pockets of Persistence 
• Capture – Archive Pro-Actively, Selectively 
• Reference – Annotate Links 
• Access – Travel in Time 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
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Pockets of Persistence 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
How to achieve the ability to: 
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• Persistently 
• Precisely 
• Seamlessly 
revisit the Web of the Past 
and the Web of the Now at 
some point in the Future
Pockets of Persistence 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
How to achieve the ability to: 
404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014 
• Persistently 
• Precisely 
• Seamlessly 
revisit the Web of the Past 
and the Web of the Now at 
some point in the Future 
Two components to the link/reference rot 
challenge: 
• Link rot: Links stop working aka 404 
Not Found 
• Content drift: Referenced content 
changes over time
Illustration 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
Current version of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coil_(band) on October 22 2014 
404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
Illustration – Link Rot 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
Current version of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coil_(band) on October 22 2014 
404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
Illustration – Link Rot 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
Current version of http://liarsociety.tripod.com/blog/index.blog?from=20041130 on October 22 2014 
404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
Illustration – Content Drift 
Version of http://en.wikipedia.Herbert org/Van wiki/de Coil_(Sompel 
band) dated October 2 2014 
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coil_(band)&oldid=388321480 
404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
Illustration – Content Drift 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
Current version of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Christopherson on October 22 2014 
404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
Illustration – Content Drift 
Version of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Christopherson that was current on October 2 2010 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Christopherson&oldid=387987414 
404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
Pockets of Persistence 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
How to achieve the ability to: 
404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014 
• Persistently 
• Precisely 
• Seamlessly 
revisit the Web of the Past 
and the Web of the Now at 
some point in the Future 
This challenge exists for the entire web, 
but some communities actually care 
about addressing it: 
• scholarly communication, 
• legal publications, 
• journalism, 
• Wikipedia, 
• … 
Mobilize the communities that care about 
this problem to work towards joint, 
interoperable solutions, approaches
Addressing the Link/Reference Rot Challenge 
• Pockets of Persistence 
• Capture – Archive Pro-Actively, Selectively 
• Reference – Annotate Links 
• Access – Travel in Time 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
Pro-Active Capture for a Seed Collection 
• Seed Collection - Starting point for capture is a seed collection of 
interest to communities that care, e.g. 
o On-Line journalism 
• Lifecycle Events – Intervene at critical moments in the lifecycle of 
items in these collections to pro-actively capture 
o Collection items – some solutions in place 
o Web resources referenced in collection items 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
o Scholarly literature 
o Legal documents 
o Wikipedia articles 
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Pro-Active Capture for Seed Collection 
• What those crucial lifecycle events are may depend on the 
• Creation of new article 
• Creation of new version of 
article 
• Creation of substantially 
new version of article 
• Addition of external 
reference to article 
• References to article 
exceed a certain threshold 
Scholarly Literature 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
collection type 
Wikipedia 
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Authoring Legal Documents – perma.cc 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
http://perma.cc 
404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
Authoring Scholarly Literature: Experimental Zotero Extension 
Richard Wincewicz (2014) Prototype Hiberlink plugin for Zotero for pro-active archiving and temporal references 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
https://www.youtube.com/v/ZYmi_Ydr65M%26vq 
404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
Submitting Scholarly Literature: Experimental HiberActive Service 
Martin Klein et al. (2014) HiberActive: Pro-Active Archiving of web references from scholarly articles 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
Open Repositories 2014 http://www.slideshare.net/martinklein0815/hiberactive 
404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
Pro-Active Capture for Seed Collection 
• Interoperability for on-demand capture: 
o Need basic interoperability for machine-driven on-demand 
capture: 
- Discovery of capture interface 
- Interface IN - [ Original URI ] 
- Interface OUT - [ URI of Capture ; Capture Datetime ] 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
Addressing the Link/Reference Rot Challenge 
• Pockets of Persistence 
• Capture – Archive Pro-Actively, Selectively 
• Reference – Annotate Links 
• Access – Travel in Time 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
Reference Captures and Annotate Links 
• Existing practice for linking to captures: 
o Link to URI of Capture 
o Lose Capture Datetime 
• Problems with existing practice: 
o Impossible to visit the original URI, if desired 
o Requires the permanent existence/uptime of the archive that 
holds the capture 
- One link rot problem replaced by another 
Van de Sompel, H. et al. (2013) Thoughts on referencing, linking, reference rot 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
o Lose Original URI 
http://mementoweb.org/missing-link/ 
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Permanent Existence/Uptime of Archives? 
Capture of http://webcitation.org dated July 17 2013 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
https://archive.today/eAETp 
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Permanent Existence/Uptime of Archives? 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
http://webcitation.org/ on August 6 2014 
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Permanent Existence/Uptime of Archives? 
Remnant of discontinued web archive http://mummify.it captured on February 14 2014 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
https://web.archive.org/web/20140214233752/https://www.mummify.it/ 
404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
Permanent Existence/Uptime of Archives? 
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russia-bans-wayback-machine-internet-archive-over-islamic-state-video/ 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
510074.html 
404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
Hacking Original URI, Capture Datetime from Capture URI? 
URI of Capture Original URI Datetime T 
https://web.archive.org/web/20140214233752/https:// 
www.mummify.it 
https://archive.today/eAETp no no 
http://perma.cc/4RH7-999Q?type=source no no 
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coil_(band) 
&oldid=388321480 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
yes yes 
no no 
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Using Capture URI to find Captures in Other Web Archives? 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
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Using Capture URI to find Captures in Other Web Archives? 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
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Reference Captures and Annotate Links 
• Desired practice for linking to captures is to annotate the link so it 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014 
conveys: 
- URI of Capture 
- Original URI 
- Capture Datetime 
• Link annotation supports fallback to other archives: 
o Original URI allows finding captures in all web archives 
o Capture Datetime allows finding an appropriate capture in all 
web archives 
o Original URI and Capture Datetime allows automatic access 
to an appropriate capture in all web archives (see Access) 
Van de Sompel, H. et al. (2013) Thoughts on referencing, linking, reference rot 
http://mementoweb.org/missing-link/
Reference Captures and Annotate Links 
• Desired practice for linking to captures is to annotate the link so it 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014 
conveys: 
URI of Capture 
Original URI Capture Datetime
Reference Captures and Annotate Links 
• Interoperability for link annotation: 
o Need an approach to convey, in a uniform, machine-actionable 
- URI of Capture 
- Original URI 
- Capture Datetime 
o Missing Link Proposal 
- http://mementoweb.org/missing-link/ 
o W3C Robustness and Archiving Community Group 
- http://www.w3.org/community/irobar/ 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
way: 
• Ongoing efforts: 
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Missing Link Proposal 
<a href=“http://liarsociety.tripod.com/blog/index.blog?from=20041130” 
data-versionurl=“https://archive.today/ElCHn” 
data-versiondate=“2008-02-06T00:00:00Z”> 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
URI of Capture 
Capture Datetime 
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Original URI 
Van de Sompel, H. et al. (2013) Thoughts on referencing, linking, reference rot 
http://mementoweb.org/missing-link/
Addressing the Link/Reference Rot Challenge 
• Pockets of Persistence 
• Capture – Archive Pro-Actively, Selectively 
• Reference – Annotate Links 
• Access – Travel in Time 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
Memento Web Time Travel 
Use the Original URI 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
Current version of http://law.georgetown.edu/library/404/ on October 22 2014 
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Memento Web Time Travel 
And a Datetime 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
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Memento Web Time Travel 
To automatically retrieve the temporally nearest available capture 
Capture of http://law.georgetown.edu/library/404/ dated May 3 2014 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
http://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140503094327/http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/404/ 
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Memento Web Time Travel 
http://bit.ly/memento-for-chrome 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
http://mementoweb.org 
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Travel in Time - Persistently, Precisely, Seamlessly 
On-Demand Capture URI of Capture Original URI Datetime T 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
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Available 
Accessible 
+ - - 
• Time Travel is: 
• Persistent – See next slide 
• Precise – Following link to URI of Capture retrieves exact 
capture 
• Seamless – Requires clicking a link as usual
Travel in Time - Persistently, Precisely, Seamlessly 
On-Demand Capture URI of Capture Original URI Datetime T 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
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Available 
Not Accessible 
+ - - 
• Time Travel is: 
• Persistent – Following link to URI of Capture leads nowhere 
• Precise – Following link to URI of Capture leads nowhere 
• Seamless – Following link to URI of Capture leads nowhere
Travel in Time - Persistently, Precisely, Seamlessly 
On-Demand Capture URI of Capture Original URI Datetime T 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
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Available 
Not Accessible 
+ + + 
• Time Travel is: 
• Persistent – Using Memento with [ Original URI ; Datetime ] 
works across web archives, versioning systems 
• Precise – Using Memento with [ Original URI ; Datetime ] 
retrieves nearest capture from other archive 
• Seamless – Requires browser plugin
Travel in Time - Persistently, Precisely, Seamlessly 
On-Demand Capture URI of Capture Original URI Datetime T 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
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Available 
Accessible 
- + + 
• Time Travel is: 
• Persistent – Using Memento with [ Original URI ; Datetime ] 
works across web archives, versioning systems 
• Precise – Using Memento with [ Original URI ; Datetime ] 
retrieves exact capture from other archive 
• Seamless – Requires browser plugin
Travel in Time - Persistently, Precisely, Seamlessly 
On-Demand Capture URI of Capture Original URI Datetime T 
Not Available - + + 
• Persistent – Using Memento with [ Original URI ; Datetime ] 
works across web archives, versioning systems 
• Precise – Using Memento with [ Original URI ; Datetime ] 
retrieves nearest capture from other archive 
• Seamless – Requires browser plugin 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
• Time Travel is: 
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Reference Captures and Annotate Links 
• Interoperability for time travel: 
o Memento protocol specifies interoperability across web 
archives, version management systems 
o Memento protocol is supported by major web archives 
o Need to work towards Memento support by version 
management systems 
o Need to work towards making Memento experience 
seamless through native browser support 
o Need to work towards robustness and sustainability of 
Memento infrastructure 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
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Conclusion 
• Significant technical solutions, infrastructure, ideas exist to 
address the link rot/reference rot challenge 
• Mobilize the communities that care about this challenge to work 
towards joint, interoperable approaches 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
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Creating Pockets of Persistence 
http://mementoweb.org 
http://hiberlink.org 
Herbert Van de Sompel 
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Creating Pockets of Persistence

  • 1.
    Creating Pockets ofPersistence Herbert Van de Sompel @hvdsomp http://public.lanl.gov/herbertv/ Los Alamos National Laboratory Acknowledgements: Michael L. Nelson @phonedude_mln Old Dominion University Herbert Van de Sompel 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 2.
    Addressing the Link/ReferenceRot Challenge • Pockets of Persistence • Capture – Archive Pro-Actively, Selectively • Reference – Annotate Links • Access – Travel in Time Herbert Van de Sompel 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 3.
    Pockets of Persistence Herbert Van de Sompel How to achieve the ability to: 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014 • Persistently • Precisely • Seamlessly revisit the Web of the Past and the Web of the Now at some point in the Future
  • 4.
    Pockets of Persistence Herbert Van de Sompel How to achieve the ability to: 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014 • Persistently • Precisely • Seamlessly revisit the Web of the Past and the Web of the Now at some point in the Future Two components to the link/reference rot challenge: • Link rot: Links stop working aka 404 Not Found • Content drift: Referenced content changes over time
  • 5.
    Illustration Herbert Vande Sompel Current version of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coil_(band) on October 22 2014 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 6.
    Illustration – LinkRot Herbert Van de Sompel Current version of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coil_(band) on October 22 2014 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 7.
    Illustration – LinkRot Herbert Van de Sompel Current version of http://liarsociety.tripod.com/blog/index.blog?from=20041130 on October 22 2014 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 8.
    Illustration – ContentDrift Version of http://en.wikipedia.Herbert org/Van wiki/de Coil_(Sompel band) dated October 2 2014 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coil_(band)&oldid=388321480 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 9.
    Illustration – ContentDrift Herbert Van de Sompel Current version of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Christopherson on October 22 2014 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 10.
    Illustration – ContentDrift Version of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Christopherson that was current on October 2 2010 Herbert Van de Sompel http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter_Christopherson&oldid=387987414 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 11.
    Pockets of Persistence Herbert Van de Sompel How to achieve the ability to: 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014 • Persistently • Precisely • Seamlessly revisit the Web of the Past and the Web of the Now at some point in the Future This challenge exists for the entire web, but some communities actually care about addressing it: • scholarly communication, • legal publications, • journalism, • Wikipedia, • … Mobilize the communities that care about this problem to work towards joint, interoperable solutions, approaches
  • 12.
    Addressing the Link/ReferenceRot Challenge • Pockets of Persistence • Capture – Archive Pro-Actively, Selectively • Reference – Annotate Links • Access – Travel in Time Herbert Van de Sompel 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 13.
    Pro-Active Capture fora Seed Collection • Seed Collection - Starting point for capture is a seed collection of interest to communities that care, e.g. o On-Line journalism • Lifecycle Events – Intervene at critical moments in the lifecycle of items in these collections to pro-actively capture o Collection items – some solutions in place o Web resources referenced in collection items Herbert Van de Sompel o Scholarly literature o Legal documents o Wikipedia articles 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 14.
    Pro-Active Capture forSeed Collection • What those crucial lifecycle events are may depend on the • Creation of new article • Creation of new version of article • Creation of substantially new version of article • Addition of external reference to article • References to article exceed a certain threshold Scholarly Literature Herbert Van de Sompel collection type Wikipedia 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 15.
    Authoring Legal Documents– perma.cc Herbert Van de Sompel http://perma.cc 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 16.
    Authoring Scholarly Literature:Experimental Zotero Extension Richard Wincewicz (2014) Prototype Hiberlink plugin for Zotero for pro-active archiving and temporal references Herbert Van de Sompel https://www.youtube.com/v/ZYmi_Ydr65M%26vq 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 17.
    Submitting Scholarly Literature:Experimental HiberActive Service Martin Klein et al. (2014) HiberActive: Pro-Active Archiving of web references from scholarly articles Herbert Van de Sompel Open Repositories 2014 http://www.slideshare.net/martinklein0815/hiberactive 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 18.
    Pro-Active Capture forSeed Collection • Interoperability for on-demand capture: o Need basic interoperability for machine-driven on-demand capture: - Discovery of capture interface - Interface IN - [ Original URI ] - Interface OUT - [ URI of Capture ; Capture Datetime ] Herbert Van de Sompel 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 19.
    Addressing the Link/ReferenceRot Challenge • Pockets of Persistence • Capture – Archive Pro-Actively, Selectively • Reference – Annotate Links • Access – Travel in Time Herbert Van de Sompel 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 20.
    Reference Captures andAnnotate Links • Existing practice for linking to captures: o Link to URI of Capture o Lose Capture Datetime • Problems with existing practice: o Impossible to visit the original URI, if desired o Requires the permanent existence/uptime of the archive that holds the capture - One link rot problem replaced by another Van de Sompel, H. et al. (2013) Thoughts on referencing, linking, reference rot Herbert Van de Sompel o Lose Original URI http://mementoweb.org/missing-link/ 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 21.
    Permanent Existence/Uptime ofArchives? Capture of http://webcitation.org dated July 17 2013 Herbert Van de Sompel https://archive.today/eAETp 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 22.
    Permanent Existence/Uptime ofArchives? Herbert Van de Sompel http://webcitation.org/ on August 6 2014 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 23.
    Permanent Existence/Uptime ofArchives? Remnant of discontinued web archive http://mummify.it captured on February 14 2014 Herbert Van de Sompel https://web.archive.org/web/20140214233752/https://www.mummify.it/ 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 24.
    Permanent Existence/Uptime ofArchives? http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russia-bans-wayback-machine-internet-archive-over-islamic-state-video/ Herbert Van de Sompel 510074.html 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 25.
    Hacking Original URI,Capture Datetime from Capture URI? URI of Capture Original URI Datetime T https://web.archive.org/web/20140214233752/https:// www.mummify.it https://archive.today/eAETp no no http://perma.cc/4RH7-999Q?type=source no no http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coil_(band) &oldid=388321480 Herbert Van de Sompel yes yes no no 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 26.
    Using Capture URIto find Captures in Other Web Archives? Herbert Van de Sompel 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 27.
    Using Capture URIto find Captures in Other Web Archives? Herbert Van de Sompel 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 28.
    Reference Captures andAnnotate Links • Desired practice for linking to captures is to annotate the link so it Herbert Van de Sompel 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014 conveys: - URI of Capture - Original URI - Capture Datetime • Link annotation supports fallback to other archives: o Original URI allows finding captures in all web archives o Capture Datetime allows finding an appropriate capture in all web archives o Original URI and Capture Datetime allows automatic access to an appropriate capture in all web archives (see Access) Van de Sompel, H. et al. (2013) Thoughts on referencing, linking, reference rot http://mementoweb.org/missing-link/
  • 29.
    Reference Captures andAnnotate Links • Desired practice for linking to captures is to annotate the link so it Herbert Van de Sompel 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014 conveys: URI of Capture Original URI Capture Datetime
  • 30.
    Reference Captures andAnnotate Links • Interoperability for link annotation: o Need an approach to convey, in a uniform, machine-actionable - URI of Capture - Original URI - Capture Datetime o Missing Link Proposal - http://mementoweb.org/missing-link/ o W3C Robustness and Archiving Community Group - http://www.w3.org/community/irobar/ Herbert Van de Sompel way: • Ongoing efforts: 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 31.
    Missing Link Proposal <a href=“http://liarsociety.tripod.com/blog/index.blog?from=20041130” data-versionurl=“https://archive.today/ElCHn” data-versiondate=“2008-02-06T00:00:00Z”> Herbert Van de Sompel URI of Capture Capture Datetime 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014 Original URI Van de Sompel, H. et al. (2013) Thoughts on referencing, linking, reference rot http://mementoweb.org/missing-link/
  • 32.
    Addressing the Link/ReferenceRot Challenge • Pockets of Persistence • Capture – Archive Pro-Actively, Selectively • Reference – Annotate Links • Access – Travel in Time Herbert Van de Sompel 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 33.
    Memento Web TimeTravel Use the Original URI Herbert Van de Sompel Current version of http://law.georgetown.edu/library/404/ on October 22 2014 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 34.
    Memento Web TimeTravel And a Datetime Herbert Van de Sompel 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 35.
    Memento Web TimeTravel To automatically retrieve the temporally nearest available capture Capture of http://law.georgetown.edu/library/404/ dated May 3 2014 Herbert Van de Sompel http://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20140503094327/http://www.law.georgetown.edu/library/404/ 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 36.
    Memento Web TimeTravel http://bit.ly/memento-for-chrome Herbert Van de Sompel http://mementoweb.org 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 37.
    Travel in Time- Persistently, Precisely, Seamlessly On-Demand Capture URI of Capture Original URI Datetime T Herbert Van de Sompel 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014 Available Accessible + - - • Time Travel is: • Persistent – See next slide • Precise – Following link to URI of Capture retrieves exact capture • Seamless – Requires clicking a link as usual
  • 38.
    Travel in Time- Persistently, Precisely, Seamlessly On-Demand Capture URI of Capture Original URI Datetime T Herbert Van de Sompel 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014 Available Not Accessible + - - • Time Travel is: • Persistent – Following link to URI of Capture leads nowhere • Precise – Following link to URI of Capture leads nowhere • Seamless – Following link to URI of Capture leads nowhere
  • 39.
    Travel in Time- Persistently, Precisely, Seamlessly On-Demand Capture URI of Capture Original URI Datetime T Herbert Van de Sompel 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014 Available Not Accessible + + + • Time Travel is: • Persistent – Using Memento with [ Original URI ; Datetime ] works across web archives, versioning systems • Precise – Using Memento with [ Original URI ; Datetime ] retrieves nearest capture from other archive • Seamless – Requires browser plugin
  • 40.
    Travel in Time- Persistently, Precisely, Seamlessly On-Demand Capture URI of Capture Original URI Datetime T Herbert Van de Sompel 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014 Available Accessible - + + • Time Travel is: • Persistent – Using Memento with [ Original URI ; Datetime ] works across web archives, versioning systems • Precise – Using Memento with [ Original URI ; Datetime ] retrieves exact capture from other archive • Seamless – Requires browser plugin
  • 41.
    Travel in Time- Persistently, Precisely, Seamlessly On-Demand Capture URI of Capture Original URI Datetime T Not Available - + + • Persistent – Using Memento with [ Original URI ; Datetime ] works across web archives, versioning systems • Precise – Using Memento with [ Original URI ; Datetime ] retrieves nearest capture from other archive • Seamless – Requires browser plugin Herbert Van de Sompel • Time Travel is: 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 42.
    Reference Captures andAnnotate Links • Interoperability for time travel: o Memento protocol specifies interoperability across web archives, version management systems o Memento protocol is supported by major web archives o Need to work towards Memento support by version management systems o Need to work towards making Memento experience seamless through native browser support o Need to work towards robustness and sustainability of Memento infrastructure Herbert Van de Sompel 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 43.
    Conclusion • Significanttechnical solutions, infrastructure, ideas exist to address the link rot/reference rot challenge • Mobilize the communities that care about this challenge to work towards joint, interoperable approaches Herbert Van de Sompel 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014
  • 44.
    Creating Pockets ofPersistence http://mementoweb.org http://hiberlink.org Herbert Van de Sompel 404/File Not Found, Washington, DC, October 24 2014