Aggregator Reuse and Extension for Richer Web Archive Interaction

Abstract

Memento aggregators enable users to query multiple web archives for captures of a URI in time through a single HTTP endpoint. While this one-to-many access point is useful for researchers and endusers, aggregators are in a position to provide additional functionality to end-users beyond black box style aggregation. This paper identifies the state-of-the-art of Memento aggregation, abstracts its processes, highlights shortcomings, and offers systematic enhancements.1 This criteria is implementation-specific and may be associated with a temporal threshold, memento count, etc.