Talk 5

From Dev8D

Memento Challenge: Time Travel for the Web

Speaker Name: Rob Sanderson

Speaker ID: User:Azaroth42

Start Time: Wednesday, 15:00

Implement the most innovative Memento client or server extension that promotes browsing the past web and win big! 15:15

Session: Expert Talks Wed PM

Memento wants to make browsing the web of the past easy, and we want your help to get there! Have you ever bookmarked a page, and then when revisiting it later found it gone or totally irrelevant? The Memento solution uses web content negotiation to make navigating in the past as seamless an experience as possible by taking the user straight to archived content. This challenge, funded by DevCSI, is to create or improve the tools available for Memento. Perhaps you'd like to build a browser extension that handles it, or build the server side solution into your favourite CMS. For more information, please see: http://www.mementoweb.org/guide/

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An example timegate is available at: http://mementoproxy.lanl.gov/aggr/timegate/URI_HERE

And example timebundles are available at: http://mementoproxy.lanl.gov/aggr/timebundle/URI_HERE

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The California Digital Library has a TimeGate available at: http://webarchives.cdlib.org/wayback.memento/timegate/URI_HERE

And a list of interesting URIs to try with more than 3 Mementos available: https://confluence.ucop.edu/display/Curation/MementoURLs

When you see Brad Tofel around at #dev8D bug him to make the Internet Archive Timegate Live :)

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Please email azaroth42@gmail.com for more information, or tweet me @azaroth42.

• Mark MacGillivray and Richard Jones: Pulse - bookmarking for changing content; Face-to-face presentation, find Richard at the GA table or the Python Lab in the morning (Most of the organisers have his number)

• Sam Adams: FireBack - Firefox time-travel extension; Face2Face presentation, will be in projects room

• Adrian Mouat & Tilaye Alemu - NewsLine - Keyword and timeline searching of news stories on BBC; e.g. find the progression of news stories on MPs expenses. e-mail adrian.mouat at gmail.com for demo.

• http://lemur.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~cjg/Graphite/examples/anim.php?url=http://www.jisc.ac.uk/&type=mem Cgutteridge