Exploring Web Archives Through Temporal Anchor Texts
Helge Holzmann, Wolfgang Nejdl, Avishek Anand · 2017
Web archives have been instrumental in digital preservation of the Web and provide great opportunity for the study of the societal past and evolution. These Web archives are massive collections, typically in the order of terabytes and petabytes. Due to this, search and exploration of archives has been limited as full-text indexing is both resource and computationally expensive. We identify that for typical access methods to archives, which are navigational and temporal in nature, we do not always require indexing full-text. Instead, meaningful text surrogates like anchor texts already go a long way in providing meaningful solutions and can act as reasonable entry points to exploring Web archives.