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Handle link rot by keeping snapshots #164

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rien opened this issue Apr 27, 2017 · 2 comments
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Handle link rot by keeping snapshots #164

rien opened this issue Apr 27, 2017 · 2 comments

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rien commented Apr 27, 2017

By using robust links to ensure links used in our blog remain correct and alive, we can provide a better user experience.

There are a few ways we could handle this:

  • Links to the 'outside world' are translated to a snapshot on the web archive. And the original link and date are embedded in data-originalurl and data-timestamp html attributes.
  • Links are not translated, but there is a snapshot taken and embedded in attributes. With some javascript we could then create a dropdown for each link to choose to go to the snapshot.

The idea is based on a guest lecture from the course web development.

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rien commented Apr 27, 2017

Tagging @wschella

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I propose we keep local snapshots instead of of a Web Archive snapshot.

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