Paper Info
Title
Version augmented URIs for reference permanencevia an Apache module design
Abstract
The World Wide Web is perhaps the most convenient library resource ever to exist. Yet it also suffers from a critical flaw: WWW document citations existing as clickable links and as standard references in printed documents are quite unreliable. This arises from the ease with which these documents may be altered. Alteration of cited WWW documents may lead to the citations themselves becoming invalid or inaccurate. Printed documents are less prone to such problems due to the greater difficulty in altering or eradicating them. As a consequence of the alterability of WWW documents, the whole traditional system of new work building upon an archive of unchangeable previous work ceases to be valid. For the first time in history, documents are being built upon a shifting foundation to an extent of ever increasing and serious proportions. This work investigates a system aimed at encouraging the stability of WWW documents. In doing so it helps to preserve the accuracy of citations over time. The system presented extends a document's URI (Universal Resource Identifier) to include date or revision information thus allowing document providers to permit users to refer accurately to a particular document version. This paper both describes the system and demonstrates its use. The system is implemented as an Apache WWW server module. The module processes and retrieves documents referenced with extended URIs. It provides a model public domain system for alleviating the problem of content stable WWW documents.
Year
DOI
Venue
1998
10.1016/S0169-7552(98)00068-3
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
Keywords
DocType
Volume
apache module design,version augmented uris,reference permanencevia
Journal
30
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1-7
0169-7552
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.71
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jonathan Simonson170.71
D. Berleant2172.81
xue fei zhang370.71
min xie470.71
hoi vo570.71