2016-08-30: Memento at the W3C

We are pleased to report that the W3C has embraced Memento for versioning its specifications and its wiki. Completing this effort required collaboration between the W3C and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Research Library Prototyping Team . Here we inform others of the brief history of this effort and provide an overview of the technical aspects of the work done to make Memento at the W3C. Brief History of Memento Work with the W3C The W3C uses Memento for two separate systems: W3C specifications W3C wiki Memento was implemented on both of these systems in 2016, but there were a lot of discussions and changes in direction along the way. In 2010, Herbert Van de Sompel presented Memento as part of the Linked Data on the Web Workshop (LDOW) at WWW . The presentation was met with much enthusiasm. In fact, Sir Tim Berners-Lee stated "this is neat and there is a real need for it". Later, he met with Herbert to suggest that Memento could be used