A key feature of the Web is its ability to take readers instantly to related documents throughhyperlinks.
Some consider it the soul of the medium.
When surfers select such links, they get a “404 error” message.
“The rate of change on the Web is very fast,” he said.
“And the more active a Web site is, the quicker it changes.”
“You’re ‘bootstrapping’ onto something that’s already been built.”
He said the most promising element of the work was the fact that it is compatible with existing systems.
“There is a chicken-and-egg problem involved,” he said.
“At some point perhaps libraries will evolve into taking an active role in indexing pages.
But that will depend on publishers giving out the necessary licensing.”
