PrEV: preservation explorer and vault for web 2.0 user-generated content
TPDL'12 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
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Since the debut of the World Wide Web, Web users have been facing the following problems: Extended semantics. When we read or study a digital documents, be it a web-page or not, we often run into contexts in which we have stop to start a search on these context. It causes interruption and costs time. Reverse hyperlink. When we visit a web page, we might be curious about what other hyperlinks point to the visited page. These links would most likely be of related interests. Can we get the “real time” information about what other pages are pointing to this page? Version control. Many of us have been frustrated and even annoyed when the hyperlink that we follow gives us a “404 not found” or that the retrieved web-page whose content is entirely different from the one we have bookmarked. Could we also have access to the past versions even if the hyperlink has been removed or the content has been changed? Composition assistant. Writing is not an easy task. We labor to structure a body of text, sort out ideas, find materials, and digest information. We wish there is an automated service that can associate the context we have produced with other contents (on the Web) and bring these web contents to us for reference. In this thesis, we provide an unified framework and architecture, named enriched content, to resolve the above problems. We apply the architecture and show how the enriched content can be used in each application. We demonstrate that this method can be a new way of writing add-on functions for various document applications without having to write individual plug-in for each application or to re-write each application. We also briefly discuss possible future development.