Memento Validator: A Toolset for Memento Compliance Testing

Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2022

DOI

10.1145/3529372.3533297

Publication Title

JCDL '22: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Pages

43 (1-3)

Conference Name

JCDL '22: The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in 2022, June 20-24, 2022, Cologne, Germany

Abstract

Web archiving is serving the task of knowledge preservation for the ever changing state of the web. The Memento protocol provides a unified approach to access versions of web resources across heterogeneous archives and repositories. The discovery of archived content relies on data providers' correct implementation of the Memento protocol, which extends the HTTP protocol with content negotiation over the dimension of time. Implementation inconsistencies can impede the overall time-based content negotiation process and render the resources not usable. We introduce a novel tool set, an API, and a web interface that allow data providers to test their Memento protocol compliance and improve the time-travel experience for users. We offer all our tools as open source to help adoption by the web archiving community.

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Original Publication Citation

Mahanama, B., Balakireva, L., Jayarathna, S., Nelson, M., & Klein, M. (2022). Memento validator: A toolset for memento compliance testing. In JCDL '22: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 43 (1-3). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3529372.3533297

ORCID

0000-0001-7773-7471 (Mahanama), 0000-0002-4879-7309 (Jayarathna), 0000-0003-3749-8116 (Nelson)

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