What is this supposed to do that the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/index.php) doesn't/won't/can't? Or for that matter, WebCite (http://www.webcitation.org/)?
B. On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:53 -0500, "Stevan Harnad" <amscifo...@gmail.com> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Leslie Carr <lac -- ecs.soton.ac.uk> > Date: Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:53 AM > Subject: Interest in Memento? > To: jisc-repositor...@jiscmail.ac.uk > > > Have you heard of Memento, one of Herbert van de Sompel's recent > projects. > > "Have you ever felt frustrated by your inability to get to old > versions of Web pages? Did you bookmark a page last year, and > revisited it recently only to find that the current content isn't even > remotely related to what caught your interest back then? ... Wouldnât > it be much easier if you could just connect to cnn.com, Wikipedia, or > news.bbc.co.uk indicating that you are interested in the pages of > March 20 2008, not the current ones? If you could activate a time > machine in your browser or bot?" (http://www.mementoweb.org/) > > We (EPrints) have been asked to think about providing support for this > facility in our repository software, Â but we'd like to get some > feedback from the community. > > Would this be useful to anyone? What use cases can you foresee? > Indeed, have you ever felt frustrated by the lack of this facility, as > the project page assumes? > -- > Les Carr
