In response to Harvard Library Innovation Lab's work, an open dataset studying the Million Dollar Web Page (2005)
- Seen on Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2017/07/27/link-rot-only-half-of-the-lin.html
- Available here: https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2017/07/21/a-million-squandered-the-million-dollar-homepage-as-a-decaying-digital-artifact/
The Boing Boing and Harvard links do not seem to point to open data sources. Here we have an open set of links automatically extracted by the HTTPreserve suite.
We also have a CSV that explores the various responses from the web. Including earliest, and latest Internet Archive links.
The numbers don't seem to align with those of Harvard, but the process followed is not all that transparent.
Process followed:
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Clean the Million Dollar Page HTML to remove anything not in the image map.
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Extract links using Tikalinkextract
$./tikalinkextract -noprotocol -quote -file million/ > mil.csv -
Run the CSV through HTTPreserve workbench:
$./workbench --csv --list mil.csv > mil_ia.csv
The process takes approx 138 minutes. No screenshots are created but they are available if wanted.
Unique Links using Tikalinkextract: 3046 (Harvard: 2816)
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Earliest time the IA first archived a page from this site: 31 October 1996
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Latest time the IA first archived a page from this site: 16 April 2015
- http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-1772197-2831550 - http://www.digden.net/index.php?affid=MDHP2 -
Last IA archived page: 05 July 2017
- 0xx: 569
- 2xx: 2258
- 4xx: 187
- 5xx: 31
The suite of tools can be found here: https://github.com/httpreserve
Try it here: http://httpreserve.info
Most workflows will involve just two, extract links using Tikalinkextract followed by analysis using Workbench:
The code is licensed under GPLv3.
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