Tempurion: A Collaborative Temporal URI Collection for Named Entities

Web archives preserve the history of the Web and help users to access resources that may not be discoverable anymore by traditional web search engines due to changes or deletion. Navigating these vast archives without knowing the exact URI of interest has proven to be challenging. When typical information needs revolve around named entities, the retrieval and temporal ranking of related archived resources cannot be solved by simple full-text searches. In this paper, we demonstrate a web platform that provides an ordered and annotated collection of URIs that characterize named entities over specific time frames. To not only rely on existing datasets, we have implemented interactive mechanisms to get humans in the loop to expand the collection by contributing URIs, metadata and temporal information as well as to correct errors.