2016 – sobre.arquivo.pt

Arquivo.pt – new version

November 11, 2016 by admin

Arquivo.pt released a new version on the 7th of November 2016.

The new version named Hercules presents design improvements, specially in the user interface for the replay of preserved Web pages, such as:

Minimize and Maximize options for the toolbar by clicking in the upper right corner, so that users can visualize the preserved Web page in full screen;

New ‘Complete the page’ function, that attempts to obtain missing elements on the preserved page (e.g. images) from external Web archives using the Memento Time Travel reconstruct service;
Solved usability issues detected in the previous version, such as start using larger function icons with higher contrast to increase their visibility.

Try this new version of Arquivo.pt and spread the word about it!

Arquivo.pt in Iceland

September 26, 2017April 26, 2016 by admin

Last updated on September 26th, 2017 at 10:30 am

The Arquivo.pt team went to the biggest international Web archiving conference.

The conference, organized by the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), occurred from the 11th to the 15th of April 2016.

Arquivo.pt contributed with 5 presentations in the conference.

The slides are available in the following links:

Preserving the .EU domain, Daniel Bicho, IIPC Web Archiving Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, April 2016
Arquivo.pt: Recovering and Improving Resilience, Daniel Gomes, IIPC Web Archiving Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, April 2016
A Comparison Between the Performance of Wayback Machines Software, Fernando Melo, IIPC Web Archiving Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, April 2016
Arquivo.pt: Short Updates (4 minutes), Daniel Gomes, IIPC General Assembly, Reykjavik, Iceland, April 2016
Architecture of the Portuguese Web Archiving Search System, Hugo Viana, IIPC General Assembly, Reykjavik, Iceland, April 2016

For more informations about the conference visit http://www.netpreserve.org/general-assembly/2016/overview

We archived the Web pages of the Portuguese Presidential Elections of 2016!

February 18, 2016 by admin

The Arquivo.pt made 2 crawls of Web pages related with the Portuguese Presidential Elections of 2016.

We had appealed to the community contribution by suggesting Web pages related with the Presidential Elections of 2016 in order to archive it.

We made 2 crawls, during and after the election campaign period, using the list of 284 Web pages suggested by the community, archiving a total of 551 672 Web resources, that occupy 7 GB.

It were collected Web pages such as the official ones from the running candidates, from political parties, news in the media about the elections, blogs, opinion articles.

The Arquivo.pt respects an embargo period of 1 year, and for that reason the archived collection will only be avaliable by the end of 2016.

However you can consult now some archived Web pages from the previous Portuguese Parliamentary Elections such as:

We would like to thank all the volunteers that helped with this initiative.

We issued a press release about Arquivo.pt

September 26, 2017January 15, 2016 by admin

Last updated on September 26th, 2017 at 10:32 am

On the 12th January 2016 we have issued a press release about Arquivo.pt, where we explain our service, its history, present, colaborations and future challenges.

The Arquivo.pt is a free of charge service, that allows the search of Web archived data since 1996. The investigation infrastructure of Arquivo.pt is mainly focused on the preservation of relevant content for the portuguese community.

There are currently about 2700 milions of archived files, which correspond to 95 TB of information and any person can suggest interesting sites to be archived by simply going to https://arquivo.pt/suggest.

In 2015, the Arquivo.pt has collected 580 milion files for preservation, and the search service has registered an average of 3 692 users per month, from which 90% are new users.

In 2016 the Arquivo.pt will make avaliable the access to archived Web pages from the .eu domain and the Arquivo.pt team will work on a prototype that will allow the search and visualization of archived images.

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