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Below is the abstract of the following article.
Curtis Dyreson.
Towards a Temporal World-Wide Web: A Transaction Time Web Server
In Proceedings of the 12th Australasian Database Conference (ADC2001)
(Australian Computer Science Communications 23(2)),
Gold Coast, Australia, January 2001, pp. 169-175.
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Transaction time is the time of a database transaction, i.e., an insertion, update, or deletion. A transaction-time database stores the transaction-time history of a database and supports transaction timeslice queries that retrieve past database states. This paper introduces transaction time to the World-wide Web. In a web context, transaction time is the modification time of a resource such as an XML document. A transaction-time web server archives resource versions and supports transaction timeslice. Unlike a database server, a web server is typically uninvolved in the update of a resource, instead it is only active when a resource is requested. This paper describes a lazy update protocol that enables a web server to manage resource versions during resource reads. An important benefit of our approach is that transaction-time can be supported by a transparent, minimal web server extension; no changes to legacy resources, HTTP, XML, or HTML are required. Furthermore, a web server can seamlessly become a transaction-time sever at any time without affecting or modifying the resources it services or other web servers.
An overview talk is also available.
Hui-ling Lin and Curtis Dyreson.
Observing Transaction Time
EECS Seminar,
WSU, September 2002.
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