Last updated on September 11th, 2024 at 04:23 pm
Arquivo.pt has contributed to the international collection of web pages on the Summer Olympics Games taking place in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024 and is doing the same for the Summer Paralympics taking place from 28 August to 8 September.
The initiative to create the “2024 Summer Olympics/Paralympics IIPC CDG” collection is the responsibility of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), the world’s leading organisation in the field of Internet preservation, through its Content Development Working Group.
The IIPC’s collaborative collections aim to promote the creation of thematic collections and collections based on international events. The web pages are recorded and then made available on the Archive-it service.
The pages of this collection will also be available on Arquivo.pt for those who want to carry out studies on sport and Olympism.
How the pages about Portuguese athletes were selected
At the Olympic Games 73 athletes represented Portugal in 15 sports, and at the Paralympic Games 27 athletes in 10 sports.
The criterion for selecting pages for the international collection was news about the athletes. For each athlete, pages were selected about their expectations before the games, their performance in the competition and their comments during and after the competition.
Some athletes have more news selected than others, and the same goes for the sites from which the news comes. The selection of pages was not limited to the first results presented by the search engine. We looked for a variety of channels and news from regional and local sites, some from the region or city where the athletes came from.
More than 500 pages to remember the Portuguese presence in Paris
The contribution of Arquivo.pt, as you can see in the table, already has more than 500 web pages.
Collaborate in the collection via the IIPC form
Helena Byrne, curator of web archives at the British Library and main curator of this collection, invites everyone to send in interesting pages to record: And we’re off – Get Involved in Web Archiving the Summer Games – Paris 2024.
The following public form is available to contribute: