Internet Archive |
Archive Content |
| The Internet Archive is the largest public web archive. It contains over 150 billion web pages that were archived
from 1996 to a few months ago, and is accessible via the Wayback Machine.
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Memento Protocol Information |
The Internet 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://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/,
then the resources that are relevant for the Memento protocol are:
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Integration with the Original Dataset |
The original dataset is the web at large. 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 Internet Archive.
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