Improving Discoverability and Indexing of Interplanetary File system using Activitypub
Ranjith Kumar A, Santhosh Kumar P, Senthil Kumar Janahan, Karanvir Singh · 2022 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication and Applied Informatics (ACCAI) · 2022
We inspected a problem where we noticed that we were storing invaluable human civilization and archaeological data on an array of regular web servers or we were dependent on companies providing web services for a limited time. This data is always subject to become unavailable after some amount of time due to reasons such as system failures, no backups, web companies that host web services going out of business, network faults, etc. These servers are not a permanent solution for digital preservation of any kind. Thus we proposed a solution based on the InterPlanetary FileSystem. This solution potentially allows the files to be preserved for an indefinite amount of time. However, like everything else this system has its own drawbacks as well. The content and objects were securely stored on the Interplanetary File System, however, they are not easily searchable on the clear web unless the person storing the content explicitly hyperlinks those objects on the web pages. Hence we are proposing a solution to broadcast the stored data at least once in real- time on the web so that interested entities such as archaeologists, researchers, students, and the general public can access and process them further for their consumption. We call this system the Inter Planetary Broadcaster.