Memento Project

Memento is a United States National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)-funded project aimed at making Web-archived content more readily discoverable.

The project is being led by the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Old Dominion University.

Rather than expecting people to know about the growing number of Web archives, and to guess which archive might hold an older version of the resource they’re looking for, Memento proposes to make archived content discoverable via the original URL that the searcher already knew about.

External links and sources

• Memento Project
• The When of the Web - Extensive information about the proposal and experiment is available in the November 2009 paper
• Memento: Time Travel for the Web
• http://lanlsource.lanl.gov/hello

References

• http://www.cdlib.org/cdlinfo/2010/02/04/web-archive-discovery-memento-implementation-meeting/