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Awesome Memento

A list of things related to software, literature, and other content for Memento (RFC7089).

Contents

• Software
  • Web Browser Extensions
  • Mobile Apps
  • Command-line Clients
  • Server-side Enablers
  • Web Archive Replay
  • Additional Tools
• Literature
  • Peer-Reviewed Publications
  • Blog Posts

Software

Web Browser Extensions

• Memento Time Travel - Google Chrome extension and Mozilla Firefox Add-On (src, Web Store, Add-On Store)
• MementoFox - Firefox Add-On (src, deprecated)
• Mink - Google Chrome Extension (src, Web Store)

Mobile Apps

• Memento-Browser - View web archives in the time dimension on Android (src)
• MementoBrowser-ios - View web archives in the time on iOS (src)
• Mobile Mink - View and create archived versions of mobile and desktop pages on Android (src)

Command-line Clients

• py-memento-client (src) - Python-client to interface with Memento entities.
• mcurl (src) - Command Line Memento Client (perl)
• memento-client (src, npm) - JavaScript client to interface with Memento services
• archive.is - (src, npm) - Memento-based API for archive.is in JavaScript
• memento-cli - (src) - A command line tool interacting with Memento (RFC 7089) supporting web archives, such as the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine

Server-side Enablers

• django-memento-framework (src) - Add Memento support to Django applications.
• invenio-memento - (src) - Add Memento support to Invenio sites.
• Linked Data
  • Apache Marmotta - An open implementation of the W3C Linked Data Platform specification, which supports versioning and access to versions compliant with the Memento protocol.
  • Linked Data Fragments Server - Server-side component offering Triple Pattern Fragments and different versions of an evolving dataset using Memento.
• MediaWiki Extensions - Add Memento support to MediaWiki instances:
  • Extension: Memento - Provides complete Memento support.
  • Extension: MementoHeaders - Provides only the necessary HTTP headers for minimal Memento support.
• Memento Tracer (site, no public prototype) - server-side processor to capture web publications for archival purposes.
• mementoweb - (npm) - JavaScript module to add Memento functionality to Express projects.
• MemGator (src) - Memento Aggregator written in Go.
• TimeGate (src) - Python and uwsgi script to intercept requests for resource to make them Memento-compatible.
• wordpress-memento-plugin - (src) - Add Memento support to WordPress sites.

Web Archive Replay

• OpenWayback (src) - De facto web archive replay engine with the ability to provide Memento headers to archived resources. Written in Java.
• pywb (src) - Python-based replay engine.
• InterPlanetary Wayback (ipwb) (src) - Integration of WARCs with IPFS, supports Memento in bundled replay system.

Additional Tools

• Comunica (src) - A knowledge graph querying framework for JavaScript with Memento support.
• Memento Validator (src) - Memento validator toolkit lets you validate your Memento implementation

Literature

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• IETF RFC7089 - HTTP Framework for Time-Based Access to Resource States -- Memento.
• You Call This Archaeology? Evaluating Web Archives for Reproducible Web Security Measurements - F. Hantke et al. - ACM CCS - 2023.
• Interoperability for Accessing Versions of Web Resources with the Memento Protocol - S. Jones et al. - The Past Web - 2021.
• HTTP Extensions for the Management of Highly Dynamic Data Resources - L. Gleim et al. - ESWC - May 2021.
• The Off-Topic Memento Toolkit - S. Jones et al. - iPres - September 2018.
• A Framework for Aggregating Private and Public Web Archives - M. Kelly et al. - JCDL - June 2018.
• Focused Crawl of Web Archives to Build Event Collections - M. Klein et al.
• Impact of URI Canonicalization on Memento Count - M. Kelly et al. - JCDL - June 2017.
• Detecting off-topic pages within TimeMaps in Web archives - Y. Anwar et al. - IJDL - July 2016.
• MemGator - A Portable Concurrent Memento Aggregator: Cross-Platform CLI and Server Binaries in Go - S. Alam and M. Nelson - JCDL - June 2016.
• Routing Memento Requests Using Binary Classifiers - N. Bornand et al. - JCDL - June 2016.
• Only One Out of Five Archived Web Pages Existed as Presented - S. Ainsworth et al. - Hypertext - September 2015.
• Mobile Mink: Merging Mobile and Desktop Archived Webs - W. Jordan et al. - JCDL - June 2015.
• Mink: Integrating the Live and Archived Web Viewing Experience Using Web Browsers and Memento - M. Kelly et al. - JCDL - September 2014.
• Not All Mementos Are Created Equal: Measuring The Impact Of Missing Resources - J. Brunelle et al. - JCDL - September 2014.
• Evaluating sliding and sticky target policies by measuring temporal drift in acyclic walks through a web archive - S. Ainsworth and M. Nelson - IJDL - August 2014.
• Global Web Archive Integration with Memento - R. Sanderson - JCDL - June 2012.

Blog Posts

• November 1, 2016 - Fixing broken links in Wikipedia
• September 6, 2016 - Memento at W3C
• August 25, 2016 - Evanescent Web Archives
• August 23, 2016 - Content Negotiation and Memento
• January 8, 2016 - Aggregating Web Archives
• April 23, 2013 - Making Memento Successful
• March 5, 2013 - Re-thinking Memento Aggregation
• January 3, 2011 - Memento & the Marketplace for Archiving