Memento Project

The Memento logo

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. Essentially, Memento is an attempt to permit users to view any web page as it looked on a given date in the past.

References

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

External links

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