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PostgreSQL for your data, you might want to try it after this

presentation; if you already do, you'll pick up some new tips and tricks.

== A Cure for Romnesia: Site Story Web-Archiving ==

* Harihar Shankar, Research Library, Los Alamos National Laboratory, harihar@lanl.gov

The web changes constantly, erasing both inconvenient facts and

fictions. At web-scale, preservation organizations cannot be expected

to keep up by using traditional crawling, and they already miss many

important versions. The cure for this is to capture the interactions

between real browsers and the server, and push these into an archive

for safe keeping rather than trying to guess when pages change.

Every time the Apache Web Server sends data to a browser, SiteStory’s

Apache Module also pushes this data to the SiteStory Web Archive. The

same version of a resource will not be archived more than once, no

matter how many times it has been requested. The resulting archive is

effectively representative of a server's entire history, although

versions of resources that are never requested by a browser will also

never be archived.

In this presentation I will give an overview of SiteStory, an

Open-Source project written in Java that runs as an application under

Tomcat 6 or greater. SiteStory’s Apache Module is written in C. I will

also demonstrate the TimeMap tool that visualizes versions of a

resource available in the SiteStory archive. The TimeMap tool is a

Firefox browser extension that plots versions of a resource on a

SIMILE timeline. Since the tools uses the Memento protocol, it can

also display versions of resources available in Memento compliant web

archives and content management systems.

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