ABSTRACT
This chapter's introduction preconises vision, mission, and motivation, within which the author framed the engineering of historical memory. Then, it looks at the treasure of human experiences encoded in historical artefacts (e.g., manuscripts, printed books, maps, epigraphs, archival documents, paintings, and archaeological sites). The discussion continues with the need to reload the differently structured knowledge of these artefacts in a machine-readable and understandable format and, possibly, as executable documents, which means a computer can run them. Finally, this process is taken over by the online system Engineering Historical Memory (EHM) to allow the treasure of human experiences to become inheritable in the digital era, aka the digital time machine.
