ResourceSync: leveraging sitemaps for resource synchronization

  • Authors:
  • Bernhard Haslhofer;Simeon Warner;Carl Lagoze;Martin Klein;Robert Sanderson;Michael L. Nelson;Herbert Van de Sompel

  • Affiliations:
  • Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA;Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA;University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA;Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA;Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA;Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA;Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Many applications need up-to-date copies of collections of changing Web resources. Such synchronization is currently achieved using ad-hoc or proprietary solutions. We propose ResourceSync, a general Web resource synchronization protocol that leverages XML Sitemaps. It provides a set of capabilities that can be combined in a modular manner to meet local or community requirements. We report on work to implement this protocol for arXiv.org and also provide an experimental prototype for the English Wikipedia as well as a client API.