Memento Depot - Stanford Web Archive

Last updated: January 19, 2015

The Stanford Web Archive is provided by Stanford University Libraries. The archive will ultimately include historical web content reflecting a range of institutional use cases. You can learn more about web archiving at Stanford University on their micro-site.

The Stanford 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://www.slac.stanford.edu/, then the resources that are relevant for the Memento protocol are:

• TimeGate: https://swap.stanford.edu/http://www.slac.stanford.edu/
• Memento: https://swap.stanford.edu/19961125000000/http://www.slac.stanford.edu/ ; etc.
• TimeMap: https://swap.stanford.edu/timemap/link/http://www.slac.stanford.edu/

The original dataset consists of websites archived by Stanford University. In responses to HTTP requests, the live versions of these websites do not provide a Link header with a "timegate" link to point at their TimeGate at the Stanford Libraries Web Archive.