Link awareness is defined as the ability to discover, view, search and update global hyperlink information about any resource with a URL on the World Wide Web. This global link information is a shared information resource.
Implementing link awareness is difficult. In practice, an implementation only approximates link awareness. There are at least two qualitative axes on which we can classify these implementations.
- Breadth of Coverage: The number and type of interlinked documents covered.
- Liveness: The ability (or lack thereof) to update the link information on the fly.
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