Brewster Kahle, the brains and inspiration behind the Internet Archive, offers a few pointers on ensuring your Web site gets included in his massive database. To make your site easily archivable, he suggests being "straightforward." What does that mean? "Straightforward URLs. JavaScript that's fairly clear-cut or reused from other places… We're continuously updating our tools and trying to make things better. But for instance, we've been having a lot of trouble with .swf files, Shockwave and Flash files, from Macromedia. If those files have links to other pages inside of them, we're just not able to find those links, so we can't follow them. We also have trouble rewriting those .swf files so that they point to the Archive's version of the links and not the live Web's… What we'd like to see is more straightforward use of pointers, because the hyperlink is one of the great ideas of the Internet."
posted by Marcus Zillman |
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