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Title: Making web annotations persistent over time

Abstract

As Digital Libraries (DL) become more aligned with the web architecture, their functional components need to be fundamentally rethought in terms of URIs and HTTP. Annotation, a core scholarly activity enabled by many DL solutions, exhibits a clearly unacceptable characteristic when existing models are applied to the web: due to the representations of web resources changing over time, an annotation made about a web resource today may no longer be relevant to the representation that is served from that same resource tomorrow. We assume the existence of archived versions of resources, and combine the temporal features of the emerging Open Annotation data model with the capability offered by the Memento framework that allows seamless navigation from the URI of a resource to archived versions of that resource, and arrive at a solution that provides guarantees regarding the persistence of web annotations over time. More specifically, we provide theoretical solutions and proof-of-concept experimental evaluations for two problems: reconstructing an existing annotation so that the correct archived version is displayed for all resources involved in the annotation, and retrieving all annotations that involve a given archived version of a web resource.

Authors:
 [1];  [1]
  1. Los Alamos National Laboratory
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1000933
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-10-01908; LA-UR-10-1908
TRN: US201101%%712
DOE Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; ARCHITECTURE; FUNCTIONALS; NAVIGATION

Citation Formats

Sanderson, Robert, and Van De Sompel, Herbert. Making web annotations persistent over time. United States: N. p., 2010. Web. doi:10.1145/1816123.1816125.
Sanderson, Robert, & Van De Sompel, Herbert. Making web annotations persistent over time. United States. https://doi.org/10.1145/1816123.1816125
Sanderson, Robert, and Van De Sompel, Herbert. 2010. "Making web annotations persistent over time". United States. https://doi.org/10.1145/1816123.1816125. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1000933.
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