Memento Guide

The following resources are provided to support an understanding of various technical aspects of the Memento framework:

The Introduction to Memento.
The extensive slide deck Memento: Updated Technical Details.
The slide deck An HTTP-Based Versioning Mechanism for Linked Data that focuses on resource versioning and Memento.
The Quick-Start for Developers.
The overview of the HTTP Transactions used in Memento.
The Demo page suggesting ways to see Memento (including its HTTP transactions) in action.
The Memento Development list to discuss various aspects of the Memento framework.

In addition, these resources give background, motivation, and further context for the Memento effort:

If you have 60 minutes, don't mind English with a Flemish accent, and want to see and hear about the motivation for Memento as well as about the technical framework (slightly outdated), check out this video recording of the presentation Memento: Time Travel for the Web, given in December 2009 at the CNI Task Force meeting in Washington, DC.
And if you like reading papers:
- About how to version Web resources in a manner inspired by Memento: An HTTP-based versioning approach for Linked Data (technically up-to-date);
- The first Memento paper that took a Web Archiving perspective: Memento: Time Travel for the Web (technically outdated);
- About how the Memento framework can help achieving a time-robust, resource-centric annotation solution: Making Web annotations persistent over time (technically up-to-date).