In 1945, Vannevar Bush described an imaginary device, which he called Memex in his famous article called ''As We May Think'' [13]. He envisioned the device to be able to record and link books read, microfilms watched and other personal archives. Today, in the era of digital technology, Bush's visionary article can be seen as the first effort toward establishing the field of life logging. A system or tool that can digitally sense people's state and contextual information in a continuous manner and record this information for long-term access is therefore often referred to as life-log tool. Life-logs can benefit users in many ways. For instance, it has been shown that life-logs augment the user's memory [12], and there are tools developed for this purpose [8]. Life-logs can further be used to record information about oneself, which can benefit people with learning [1, 2], psychological studies [15], user modeling and personali-zation [4, 6] , social studies [3], historical studies, story telling [4, 11] and health monitoring [5, 9, 10]. To date, there are only few life-log tools with very restricted features available on the market. This means there is an opportunity for advancing the field and revealing the benefits of life logging through research and commercial efforts toward building and better understanding the value of life-logs. Recent advances in sensor networks, pervasive computing , communications and storage technologies enable us to sense and collect information about our life events digitally. The process of logging individuals' experiences is not limited to personal information: it can also be extended to recording community experiences and their online activities. It can be expected that in the near future, life logging systems and electronic memories are going to have significant impacts on our lives, perhaps even similar to the revolution brought by the Internet and mobile phones. Digital or electronic memories are records built up as a result of life logging processes. In a more technical sense, the data set of life logging is referred to as e-memory. Based on Kröner et al.'s [7] suggestion, here we categorize digital memories into personal, community and object memory [14]. The personal memory is the result of life logging that targets a single user, while the community memory is the result of life logging that collects and creates a digital memory from a group of users. In other words, one can refer to community memory as a collection of personal memories, yet community memory is mostly concentrated on one or a few data sources, such as only twitter posts. However, the community memory is not necessarily restricted to a community behavior, but it could be used to reveal personal information about each person in that target community. There are no specific borders between the personal, community and object memory categories, and sometime research endeavors can fall into more than one category.