Motivation The Internet gives us access to a vast amount of data in digital form, but one of its disadvantages is that this data is ephemeral. Web sites appear, update their contents, and disappear at bewil dering speed. While we can still read books printed hundreds of years ago, or even a papyrus written thousands of years in the past, we often fail to find a web site or online article from just a few years ago! One prominent attempt to chive (http://www.archive.org/index.php), a vast repository of web pages downloaded and stored over a long period of time. Via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine interface you can re- trieve archived copies of web pages from specific dates in the past. In this assignment you will build your own Internet Ar chive-like IT system using all the technologies you have learned in this teaching unit. Your system will give its user the ability to view news or current affairs articles that have been stored in a permanent archive, as well as the current news. It will have a graphical interface that allows the user to select dates from the archive, after which the relevant news articles can be extracted Internet Archive and viewed in a standard web browser. It will also allow the user to access the latest data from an online "feed" preserve digital data is the Internet Ar- For the purposes of this assignment you need to choose a regularly-updated source of online news or current affairs. You have an entirely free choice of the news category, which could e world news, politics, . fashion and lifestyle, e arts and entertainment, sports, business and finance science and technology, etc Motivation The Internet gives us access to a vast amount of data in digital form, but one of its disadvantages is that this data is ephemeral. Web sites appear, update their contents, and disappear at bewil dering speed. While we can still read books printed hundreds of years ago, or even a papyrus written thousands of years in the past, we often fail to find a web site or online article from just a few years ago! One prominent attempt to chive (http://www.archive.org/index.php), a vast repository of web pages downloaded and stored over a long period of time. Via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine interface you can re- trieve archived copies of web pages from specific dates in the past. In this assignment you will build your own Internet Ar chive-like IT system using all the technologies you have learned in this teaching unit. Your system will give its user the ability to view news or current affairs articles that have been stored in a permanent archive, as well as the current news. It will have a graphical interface that allows the user to select dates from the archive, after which the relevant news articles can be extracted Internet Archive and viewed in a standard web browser. It will also allow the user to access the latest data from an online "feed" preserve digital data is the Internet Ar- For the purposes of this assignment you need to choose a regularly-updated source of online news or current affairs. You have an entirely free choice of the news category, which could e world news, politics, . fashion and lifestyle, e arts and entertainment, sports, business and finance science and technology, etc
