get hints for date from the document (e.g., "robust links")

[phonedude]

see: http://robustlinks.mementoweb.org/spec/ http://robustlinks.mementoweb.org/about/

I see this as more important than things like freestyle date entry, etc.

the above links are about the doc specifically telling you its time in some machine readable form. you could also add something that looks for well-formed dates in the URL, like:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/17/us/tennessee-shooter-mohammad-youssuf-abdulazeez/index.html

we can pick out 2015-07-17 from the URL, and from the doc itself we can pick out:

Updated 1:55 PM ET, Fri July 17, 2015

there's probably a library (or a dozen) that will extract likely dates from html. this doesn't have to work all the time (it's just a starting hint, after all), but news stories, blogs, etc. probably all have good machine and/or human readable formatted dates that we can pull out.

[machawk1]

@phonedude Assuming we have a date for a URI-R, how do you imagine Mink should respond?

[phonedude]

I was originally thinking we could somehow add preference to the memento with the closest value to the pub/update date, but at least for pub I guess that would just be the first memento. And since Mink doesn't work on individual links, (i.e., it works on the entire current page), I guess there's really nothing to do. I guess we can close this one. Sorry about that. ;-)

[machawk1]

Bumping to a future milestone for further consideration.