Arquivo.pt main goal is the preservation and access of web contents that are no longer available online. During the developing of the PWA IR (information retrieval) system we faced limitations in searching speed, quality of results, scalability and usability. To cope with this, we modified the archive-access project (http://archive-access.sourceforge.net/) to support our web archive IR requirements. Nutchwax, Nutch and Wayback’s code were adapted to meet the requirements. Several optimizations were added, such as simplifications in the way document versions are searched and several bottlenecks were resolved. The PWA search engine is a public service at http://archive.pt and a research platform for web archiving. As it predecessor Nutch, it runs over Hadoop clusters for distributed computing following the map-reduce paradigm. Its major features include fast full-text search, URL search, phrase search, faceted search (date, format, site), and sorting by relevance and date. The PWA search engine is highly scalable and its architecture is flexible enough to enable the deployment of different configurations to respond to the different needs. Currently, it serves an archive collection searchable by full-text with 180 million documents ranging between 1996 and 2010.
Currently we are displaying content that should be embargoed:
This is because of services like SavePageNow that records pages on the moment. While we do want to give access to the recorded pages, we do not want this to be easily accessed by anyone.
As a compromise, we should automatically filter out current year entries from the version list/table. This would allow users with a direct link to access the archived page while also preventing other users to stumble upon it.
VascoRatoFCCN
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11 months ago
Currently we are displaying content that should be embargoed:
This is because of services like SavePageNow that records pages on the moment. While we do want to give access to the recorded pages, we do not want this to be easily accessed by anyone.
As a compromise, we should automatically filter out current year entries from the version list/table. This would allow users with a direct link to access the archived page while also preventing other users to stumble upon it.