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--- Comment #40 from hvdsomp <hvds...@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #38)
> This seems cool. Any further updates on implementation by moz or other
> browsers? Who are the major implementers of memento today?
Thanks for asking. This allows me to provide a general update regarding Memento
activity:
* The Memento Internet Draft
[https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-vandesompel-memento/] is currently in
IETF ISE Review, on its way to become an RFC. From our perspective, after 4
years of spec-ing, testing, and soliciting feedback, the spec is now in its
final shape.
* We received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop a more
solid Memento MediaWiki add-on, taking into account the feedback received
during the discussion of this bug report. This work is currently ongoing. As
soon as a version is available we will share it, here and on the MediaWiki
Developers list, to solicit further feedback. We remain hopeful that Wikipedia
and MediaWiki installations will consider implementing it.
* The recent release of the Wayback software
[https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback/tree/master/contrib/ia/global-wayback],
used by the Internet Archive and many other web archives worldwide, is fully
compliant with the most recent version of the Memento protocol specification.
Many thanks to our friends at the Internet Archive for making this happen!
* This recent release of the Wayback software is already operational at the
Internet Archive. Some web archives (e.g. British Library, UK National
Archives) run Wayback versions that are compliant with previous versions of the
Memento protocol. It is expected that these web archives as well as other web
archives that run a pre-Memento Wayback version will migrate to the new version
in the months to come.
* archive.is [http://archive.is], a "personal" web archive that does not use
the Wayback software, recently implemented the Memento protocol. The turnaround
time between us suggesting they support Memento and them finalizing the
implementation was about 3 days.
[http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2013/07/2013-07-09-archiveis-supports-memento.html]
* We have not yet further pursued native browser support for Memento, mainly
because (contrary to what Tim suggests) we feel that chances to achieve it are
rather low as long as there is no broader server-side Memento support. Memento
has very significant support in the web archiving community (see above, e.g.
Internet Archive). But we feel support outside of the web archiving community,
e.g. by CMS with solid versioning approaches, is essential too. This is why we
are keen on Wikipedia/MediaWiki support. Anyhow, we are currently working on
two separate Chrome plug-in implementations. A major goal of that work is to
determine how to minimize the footprint required for Memento support in the
browser as a means of maximizing chances of possible native adoption.
* We received funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the Hiberlink
project
[http://www.lanl.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2013/July/07.16-enabling-time-travel.php].
The problem domain explored in Hiberlink is very similar to the one explored in
the Wikipedia Link Backups work
[http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/mediawiki/369855]. In Hiberlink, it
is about pro-actively archiving resources that are referenced from scholarly
papers; in the Wikipedia Link Backups work it's about archiving pages
referenced from Wikipedia articles. In both cases, Memento can play a role to
navigate from the referenced URI to the temporally appropriate archived
version.
* More information is available via the Memento site [http://mementoweb.org]
Greetings,
Herbert Van de Sompel on behalf of the Memento team
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