Memento Guide

The following resources provide an up-to-date overview of the Memento framework:

Introduction to Memento.
Resource Versioning and Memento, describes how wikis, content management systems, and software versioning systems that use a common versioning pattern can support the Memento protocol.
Determining Resource Type details how clients can recognize a Memento, a TimeGate, and an Original Resource.
RFC 7089 is the authoritative technical specification of the Memento protocol.
JSON TimeMaps specifies an application/json serialization for TimeMaps that may be supported in addition to the application/link-format serialization specified by the Memento protocol.
Demos suggests ways to see Memento (including its HTTP transactions) in action.
The Memento 101 tutorial slides.

The following resources constitute work in progress about issues related to the Memento framework:

Robust Links, an effort aimed at increasing the long term robustness of web links.
Memento Capabilities for Wikipedia, describes how users of Wikipedia and other MediaWiki platforms can benefit from Memento's web time travel.

The following resources are not technically up-to-date but still provide further context to support an understanding of the Memento framework:

The slide deck An HTTP-Based Versioning Mechanism for Linked Data that focuses on resource versioning and Memento.
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accent, and want to see and hear about the motivation for Memento as well as about the technical framework (slightly outdated), check out this video recording of the presentation Memento: Time Travel for the Web, given in December 2009 at the CNI Task Force meeting in Washington, DC.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;
- The first Memento paper that took a Web Archiving perspective: Memento: Time Travel for the Web;
- About how the Memento framework can help achieving a time-robust, resource-centric annotation solution: Making Web annotations persistent over time.