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A Method for Identifying Personalized Representations in Web Archives
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A Method for Identifying Personalized Representations in Web Archives

Mat Kelly, Justin F. Brunelle, Michele C. Weigle and Michael L. Nelson
D-Lib magazine, v 19(11/12)
Nov 2013
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https://doi.org/10.1045/november2013-kellyView
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Abstract

Web resources are becoming increasingly personalized — two different users clicking on the same link at the same time can see content customized for each individual user. These changes result in multiple representations of a resource that cannot be canonicalized in Web archives. We identify characteristics of this problem by presenting a potential solution to generalize personalized representations in archives. We also present our proof-of-concept prototype that analyzes WARC (Web ARChive) format files, inserts metadata establishing relationships, and provides archive users the ability to navigate on the additional dimension of environment variables in a modified Wayback Machine.

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