Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

For over 1 year, Hany SalahEldeen's Carbon Date service has been out of service mainly because of API changes in some of the underlying modules on which the service is built upon. Consequently, I have taken up the responsibility of maintaining the service, beginning with the following now available in Carbon Date v2.0. Carbon Date v2.0 The Carbon Date service currently makes requests to the different modules (Archives, backlinks, etc.), in a concurrent manner through threading. The server framework has been changed from bottle server to CherryPy server which is still a python minimalist WSGI server, but a more robust framework which features a threaded server. How to use the Carbon Date service There are three ways: Through the website, http://cd.cs.odu.edu/ : Given that carbon dating is highly computationally intensive, the site should be used just for small tests as a courtesy to other users. If you have the need to Carbon Date a large number of URLs, y...