Herbert Van de Sompel is a digital librarian who wonders why the web has no memory, and wants to do something about that. In this conversation he tells host Jon Udell about the Memento project, a proposed protocol that browsers can use to scroll through historical versions of web resources.
Herbert Van de Sompel — The Web’s Missing Dimension: Time
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Herbert Van de Sompel — The Web’s Missing Dimension: Time
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Herbert Van de Sompel — The Web’s Missing Dimension: Time
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Herbert Van de Sompel — The Web’s Missing Dimension: Time
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Herbert Van de Sompel — The Web’s Missing Dimension: Time
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Herbert Van de Sompel — The Web’s Missing Dimension: Time
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Herbert Van de Sompel — The Web’s Missing Dimension: Time
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Herbert Van de Sompel — The Web’s Missing Dimension: Time
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Herbert Van de Sompel — The Web’s Missing Dimension: Time
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Herbert Van de Sompel — The Web’s Missing Dimension: Time
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Herbert Van de Sompel — The Web’s Missing Dimension: Time
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Michael Nelson, Associate Professor at Old Dominion University, developed, along with colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, “Memento,” a technical framework aimed at better integrating the current and the past web. In the past, archiving history involved collecting tangible things such as letters and newspapers. Now, Nelson points out, the web has become a primary medium with no serious preservation system in place. He discusses how the web is stuck in the perpetual now, making it difficult to view past information. The goal behind Memento, according to Nelson, is to create an all-inclusive Internet archive system, which will allow users to engage in a form of Internet time travel, surpassing the current archive systems such as the Wayback Machine.
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