[HN Gopher] Where did the web archive go?
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       Where did the web archive go?
        
       Author : Hard_Space
       Score  : 50 points
       Date   : 2021-08-18 06:47 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | 4oo4 wrote:
       | Who archives the archive?
        
         | scelerat wrote:
         | Needs more latin
        
           | edoceo wrote:
           | Isn't "archive" already Latin?
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           | Quis archivet ipsos archives?
        
           | MaxBarraclough wrote:
           | Assuming Roman numbers count, I suggest _arx4_.
        
       | Chinjut wrote:
       | A bit funny to have a paper on arxiv.org investigating
       | archive.org (and europarchive.org and archive-it.org and so on).
        
         | sp332 wrote:
         | It does not investigate archive.org (although it did use it to
         | track changes in the archives that were studied).
        
       | sysadm1n wrote:
       | If you don't want to click:
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       | > _Abstract. To perform a longitudinal investigation of web
       | archives and detecting variations and changes replaying
       | individual archived pages, or mementos, we created a sample of
       | 16,627 mementos from 17 public web archives. Over the course of
       | our 14-month study (November, 2017- January, 2019), we found that
       | four web archives changed their baseURIs and did not leave a
       | machine-readable method of locating their new base URIs,
       | necessitating manual rediscovery. Of the 1,981 mementos in our
       | sample from these four web archives, 537 were impacted: 517
       | mementos were rediscovered but with changes in their time of
       | archiving(or Memento-Datetime), HTTP status code, or the string
       | comprising their original URI (or URI-R), and 20 of the mementos
       | could not be found at all._
        
         | bfirsh wrote:
         | If you don't want to read a PDF: https://www.arxiv-
         | vanity.com/papers/2108.05939/
        
           | sam0x17 wrote:
           | If you don't want to read the title: "Where did the web
           | archive go?"
        
             | Bilal_io wrote:
             | If you don't want to read:
        
               | justinator wrote:
               | If:
        
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               | midwestemo wrote:
        
               | junon wrote:
               | This isn't reddit. Not only will this go over the heads
               | of many HN users here, it's against the site's
               | guidelines.
        
       | webmaven wrote:
       | Relevant: "Cool URIs Don't Change":
       | https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
        
         | martindale wrote:
         | First thing that came to mind as well.
        
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