Invited by Professor Stefan Gradmann, Herbert Van de Sompel does a lecture at the Humboldt University (Library and Information Science Department) in Berlin, Germany, about accessing resource versions via Memento's HTTP datetime content negotiation.

Michael Nelson and Robert Sanderson attend the 2011 General Assembly of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, Netherlands. They present an update on the Memento project and discuss a possible collaboration with the IIPC's Access Working Group aimed at creating an Memento TimeGate Aggregator that reaches across all Web Archives of IIPC members.

On April 4th 2011, Robert Sanderson presents an update about the Memento project at the Spring 2011 CNI Task Force Meeting in San Diego, CA. An abstract is available from the CNI site. There is also a video recording of the presentation, and slides.

In the January 2011 issue of the Digital Preservation Newsletter, the Library of Congress lists Memento as one of the Top 10 developments of 2010. The same issue also mentions an interview our sponsor Martha Anderson did about Memento for the Federal News Radio.

The Wayback software developed by the Internet Archive and used as the archive access tool by major Web Archives, worldwide, is now compliant with the Memento framework as specified in the first version of the Memento Internet Draft.

Previously, we shared the announcement that Memento was shortlisted for the 2010 Digital Preservation Award. On December 2nd 2010, during an Oscar-style ceremony at the Royal Institution in London, Memento actually won the award beating some fierce competition!

Work on the Memento Internet Draft started around the time of the IETF Meeting in Maastricht, July 2010. And now, a first public version is available in HTML and in the made-for-preservation IETF text format. And, obviously, there is the official IETF Datatracker version.

Frank McCown now has officially released a Memento app for the Android platform. He has a brief blog entry about it, and the app itself can be downloaded via the memento-browser Google Code page. There also is a screencam that demonstrates the app in action.

Along with 4 other projects, Memento was shortlisted for the 2010 Digital Preservation Award. The press release has a brief descriptions of all the projects that remain in the running. Next up are online public voting for the projects, and a project presentation to the jury. The winner will be announced at an official ceremony in London on December 1st 2010.

On September 20 2010, Herbert Van de Sompel did a presentation about Memento at RepoFringe 2010 in Edinburgh, UK. The live transcript as well as a video recording of the presentation are now available here.