Memento Depot - Government of Canada Web Archive

Last updated: June 22, 2018

Archive Content

For information about the Government of Canada Web Archive, see http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/archives-web-government/Pages/web-archives.aspx.

Memento Protocol Information

The Government of Canada Web Archive is accessible via the Memento "Time Travel for the Web" protocol. Hence, it supports datetime negotiation to access a version of a web resource as it existed at a specific moment in time. Check out the brief introduction to Memento if you are not familiar with it.

Presuming the Original Resource (current version) is http://eatcanadian.ca, then the resources that are relevant for the Memento protocol are:

Integration with the Original Dataset

The original dataset is the federal and non-federal web resources in the context of its Web Archiving Program. In responses to HTTP requests, Web resources typically don't provide a Link header with a "timegate" link to point at their TimeGate at the Government of Canada Web Archive.