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A Framework for Describing Web Repositories
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@MISC{Mccown_aframework,
author = {Frank Mccown and Michael L. Nelson},
title = {A Framework for Describing Web Repositories},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
In prior work we have demonstrated that search engine caches and archiving projects like the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine can be used to “lazily preserve ” websites and reconstruct them when they are lost. We use the term “web repositories ” for collections of automatically refreshed and migrated content, and collectively we refer to these repositories as the “web infrastructure”. In this paper we present a framework for describing web repositories and the status of web resources in them. This includes an abstract API for web repository interaction, the concepts of deep vs. flat and light/dark/grey repositories and terminology for describing the recoverability of a web resource. Our API may serve as a foundation for future web repository interfaces.
