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Could the Internet Archive, specifically https://web.archive.org/ https://web.archive.org/ be the basis of an Open Web Index as proposed by the author? I'm sur
by mlinksva 8y ago
Could the Internet Archive, specifically https://web.archive.org/ https://web.archive.org/ be the basis of an Open Web Index as proposed by the author?
I'm sure there are tons of obstacles to that path, but it also would be far ahead of any new initiative in at least two ways: it already has a huge index and ingestion pipeline, and it is a trusted organization.
- mbay 8y agoyes - I worked on this a bit with Mark Graham, the director of the Wayback Machine
- mlinksva 8y agothx - can you say more?
- mbay 8y agoNot too much really. Its a big interest of Mark's but its still early in the planning stages. I helped him with some preliminary research and gave this brief talk about our work: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2018/facilitating-diverse-collection-and-curation-web-crawling-and-indexing-and-blockchain https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2018/facilitating-di...