Filtering links to gather texts on the web
The issue with URLs and URIs
A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), colloquially termed a web address, is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).
Both navigation on the Web and web crawling rely on the assumption that “the Web is a space in which resources are identified by Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs).” (Berners-Lee et al., 2006) That being said, URLs cannot be expected to be entirely reliable. Especially as part of the Web 2.0 content …
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