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]]> By: Andy Boyko http://inkdroid.org/journal/2007/12/17/permalinks-reloaded/comment-page-1/#comment-47731 Andy Boyko Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:02:15 +0000 http://www.inkdroid.org/journal/2007/12/17/permalinks-reloaded/#comment-47731 My understanding from discussing this with our Zoteronian mutual <a>neighbor</a> is that not only will this allow a Zotero user to point at an already-archived instance of a site @ IA, but also will support Zotero's capture of a site being sent up to IA, in a sort of micro-harvesting for shared use. See also the wise Britons at <a href="http://hanzoweb.com/" rel="nofollow">HanzoWeb</a> who offer a similar sort of social web-capture service (although it's not answering the phone at this moment?) API-wise, there's not much to the Wayback Machine (the software underneath the IA web archive) because there isn't much else that it does -- it just retrieves items by URL and date. You might see <a href="http://archive-access.sourceforge.net/projects/wayback/administrator_manual.html#Setting%20up%20the%20Replay%20User%20Interface%20within%20an%20AccessPoint" rel="nofollow">the docs</a> for the new <a href="http://archive-access.sourceforge.net/projects/wayback/" rel="nofollow">open-source Java wayback</a> (which is, in theory, a drop-in replacement for the older Perl-based Wayback that I think still runs the main archive today). You hit on most of the fuzzy-date-matching thing, but there's also wildcards in the date and the URL, as in: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.google.com/ which shows a 'calendar view' of all known captures for the URL; then, there's wildcarding the URL suffix, as in: http://web.archive.org/web/*/inkdroid.org/* which shows all the pages from the site at all. My understanding from discussing this with our Zoteronian mutual neighbor is that not only will this allow a Zotero user to point at an already-archived instance of a site @ IA, but also will support Zotero’s capture of a site being sent up to IA, in a sort of micro-harvesting for shared use. See also the wise Britons at HanzoWeb who offer a similar sort of social web-capture service (although it’s not answering the phone at this moment?)

API-wise, there’s not much to the Wayback Machine (the software underneath the IA web archive) because there isn’t much else that it does — it just retrieves items by URL and date. You might see the docs for the new open-source Java wayback (which is, in theory, a drop-in replacement for the older Perl-based Wayback that I think still runs the main archive today). You hit on most of the fuzzy-date-matching thing, but there’s also wildcards in the date and the URL, as in:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.google.com/

which shows a ‘calendar view’ of all known captures for the URL; then, there’s wildcarding the URL suffix, as in:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/inkdroid.org/*

which shows all the pages from the site at all.

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