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The following resources provide an up-to-date overview of the Memento framework:
  • The Introduction to Memento.
  • The Determining Resource Type document that details how clients can recognize a Memento, a TimeGate, and an Original Resource.
  • The Memento Internet Draft that details Memento's datetime negotiation (Accept-Datetime, Memento-Datetime headers) , the Memento Relation Types for use in HTTP Link headers (original, timegate, timemap, memento) as well as discovery mechansisms aimed at supporting the Memento framework.
  • The Discovery Using the Robots Exclusion Protocol document that details straightforward ways to support discovery of TimeGates, Mementos, and TimeMaps through the use of a Web server's robots.txt file.
  • The extensive slide deck Memento: Updated Technical Details (May 2011).
  • The Demo that suggests ways to see Memento (including its HTTP transactions) in action.
 
The following resources are not technically up-to-date but still provide further context to support an understanding of the Memento framework:
 
In addition, these resources (technically not up-to-date) give background, motivation, and further context for the Memento effort: