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Using Transactional Web Archives To Handle Server Errors

Year: 2015

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: We describe a web archiving application that handles server errors using the most recently archived representation of the requested web resource. The application is developed as an Apache module. It leverages the transactional web archiving tool SiteStory, which archives all previously accessed representations of web resources originating from a website. This application helps to improve the website's quality of service by temporarily masking server errors from the end user and gaining precious time for the system administrator to debug and recover from server failures. By providing pertinent support to website operations, we aim to reduce the resistance to transactional web archiving, which in turn may lead to a better coverage of web history.

Source: ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

DOI: 10.1145/2756406.2756955

Authors: Zhiwu Xie, Prashant Chandrasekar, Edward A. Fox

Institution: Virginia Tech

Language: English

Topic: Digital and Traditional Archives Management

Subfield: Conservation

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1979523938

FWCI: 3.379

Cites: 4

Cited by: 1

Related to: 10