THE MANAGEMENT OF A WEBSITES HISTORICAL LINKS AND DOCUMENTS
Issues in Information Systems · 2015
An organization's websites change constantly to reflect the dynamic nature of its activities and its environment.Consequently, historical links and documents are generated that include outdated URLs, the old versions of web pages and, the deleted web pages.These old versions are snapshots of a document as of a specific point in time.Studying a document's snapshots may help users identify trends and patterns of changes in a document, and as a consequence, the evolution of meaning from a historical perspective.Managing historical links and documents enable a website to satisfy users' needs for complete and correct historical information.This paper presents a logging and archiving scheme to track a document's history of changes, and a temporal URL scheme that is capable of retrieving web page instances that meet user's temporal requirements.