New version of Arquivo.pt (Image Service release)

Arquivo.pt has released a new version of its service on November 11, 2019, called Image Service Release [1] [2] [3] [4].

This new version has as main novelty, the mobile image search.

Homepage

The mobile version now has a new design.

Mobile image search

Image search is now available for mobile devices https://m.arquivo.pt/images.jsp?l=en.

Image search of Ronaldo

The functionality allows not only to find images from the past preserved by Arquivo.pt but also to find the webpage from the past that contained the founded image.

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Domain spam filter on search page

Another novelty was the inclusion of a filter in the search of pages of domains considered by the Archive.pt as spam. For example, the search for Portuguese geographical points returned better results.

Page search Lisboa

More info

  • Pywb software update to version 2.3.5 with improved page reproduction quality
  • Added indexed images until December 2017 on search image

Arquivo.pt celebrates the World Digital Preservation Day with free training

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Last updated on November 25th, 2019 at 10:34 am

November 7 was the World Digital Preservation Day 2019 (#WDPD2019).

To celebrate the date, Arquivo.pt a free training on Web Preservation was given. The objective of the training has been to maximize users’ productivity in exploring the service.

The event began at 13:30 pm (see full schedule below), in the Pequeno Auditório located at FCT-FCCN (Avenida do Brasil, 101 – Lisbon).

Schedule

Target Audience

  • Information professionals (e.g. librarians, archivists, and documentalists)
  • Website managers (e.g. Communication and Design bureaus)
  • Web content authors (e.g. bloggers)
  • Professors, students, and researchers interested in Digital Preservation

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Dia Mundial da Preservação Digital 2019

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Photos by: Valter Gouveia, FCT

Results

The training was attended by 43 participants, who rated it as good.

Do not miss the next WDPD in 2020 and subscribe to the Arquivo.pt mailing list.

Meet the winners of the Arquivo.pt Award 2019!

Last updated on August 26th, 2022 at 02:22 pm

The winners of the Arquivo.pt Award 2019 were announced by His Excellency the Prime Minister of Portugal António Costa during the session that took place on July 8 at 9:00 am in Auditorium 1 during the event Science 2019 – Encounter with Science and Technology at the Lisbon Congress Center.

23 applications were received.

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Photos by Valter Gouveia, FCT

1st place: meuParlamento.pt

MeuParlamento.pt is a mobile application that simulates the Portuguese Parliament, calling on all citizens to play the role of a deputy.

Authors: Nuno Moniz, Arian Pasquali, Tomás Amaro

2nd place: Revisionista.pt: Un-cover the news

The Revisionista.pt is an online tool to reveal post-publication changes in the Portuguese news.

Authors: Flávio Martins and André Mourão

3rd place: Public speeches about violence in private

Analysis of 217 news collected in Arquivo.pt from the three main daily newspapers, on domestic violence.

Author: Zélia de Macedo Teixeira

Materials for dissemination about the winners

About the Arquivo.pt Award 2019

Arquivo.pt is a research infrastructure managed by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) that enables search and access to web pages archived since 1996.

The Arquivo.pt Award aims to annually promote innovative works based on historical information preserved by Arquivo.pt. Submissions closed on May 3 and we received works in areas such as: media studies, education, design, information technology, health or cultural and historical heritage.

The Arquivo.pt Award 2019 received the High Sponsorship of His Excellency the President of the Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.

Arquivo.pt Award 2020

The Arquivo.pt Award was approved as an annual initiative of the Foundation for Science and Technology that will run from January to May.

Sign up for the Arquivo.pt international mailing list to be informed about future editions of the Arquivo.pt Award!

 

Arquivo.pt in Croatia

Arquivo.pt na Croácia

Last updated on October 1st, 2020 at 04:44 pm

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 5th to the 7th of June 2019.

 

Interview to Daniel Gomes, Head of Arquivo.pt

 

Arquivo.pt contributed with 5 additional presentations during the conference.

The slides and videos are available in the following links:

Sites crawled in 2017 are available through Arquivo.pt

Fires in Pedrógão Grande

Last updated on July 2nd, 2019 at 03:58 pm

The information collected from the Web during 2017 is avaliable in Arquivo.pt.

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Fires in Pedrógão Grande, Portugal, june 2017. Photo published in the newspaper As Beiras

Remember and investigate historical events of 2017 such as:

Arquivo.pt visited 3 millions sites and collected 900 million files, 75TB in total, so you can acess the memory of past events.

Librarians as web curators in universities

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The 4th Meeting of Libraries of Higher Education, for librarians in Portuguese universities, held at Coimbra University, on 4 and 5 June 2019, had two presentations about Arquivo.pt.

Workflow for the preservation of institutional web sites (fig. 1) was suggested as a guide for anyone to be able to care for and preserve quality the pages of own organization.

The second presented the new “Memorial” Arquivo.pt service, which preserves the sites at the end of their life cycle, keeping them accessible to institutional memory and research.

About 170 librarians participated at the meeting and were challenged to collaborate with Arquivo.pt adopting simple but decisive practices to preserve the Web with quality.

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Fig. 1 – Workflow to preserve institutional websites (PDF, in Portuguese)

Java/Linux expert to collaborate with Arquivo.pt

The ROSSIO Project-  Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities has an open call for 1 position to collaborate with Arquivo.pt.

Call is open until June 13th, 2019.

Check for application details at the links below.

Main tasks

  • Development of large-scale distributed computer systems;
  • Analysis, planning and operation of computer services;
  • Corrective and evolutive maintenance of software;
  • Interaction with scientific and technical communities to establish collaborations and identify requirements.

Application details

European Elections 2019: We Need Your Help!

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Last updated on October 1st, 2021 at 09:09 am

Websites and pages about the elections disappear quickly after the election period, leaving a void of information in place of History.

It’s everyone’s responsibility to preserve the memory. We are inviting you to identify web pages related to the elections, as soon as you can, so that the debates and ideas of this time are not forgotten.

Just add to the collaborative list the addresses of pages or sites that you find relevant for the future memory of these elections, through the following link:

Suggesting 1 address will make a valuable contribution. Can you help?

If you have any questions, please contact us.

Search 17 million images from the past with Arquivo.pt!

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At the end of 2018, Arquivo.pt launched an experimental image search service from the past, which it was possible to search around 4 million images from the past, coming from some collections of Arquivo.pt.

From April 2019, it became possible to search for images from all the collections of Arquivo.pt.

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You can now search over 17 million unique images (over 50 pixels in width and height) since 1996.

Find pages from the past through the new image search service.

Try the “Visit Page” option to find the Web page from the past that contained the image you selected.

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Try the image search service now!

Search images from the past with Arquivo.pt at https://arquivo.pt/images.jsp?l=en

Arquivo.pt training in Azores islands

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Last updated on July 15th, 2022 at 12:56 pm

Memorial (hight quality preservation) and image search were highlighted as new developments in Arquivo.pt during Jornadas de Computação Científica 2019, held from 6 to 8 at the University of Azores in Ponta Delgada.

On the first day of this annual event, Arquivo.pt developed a training session in 4 parts:

  • Memory of the web: a forgoten heritage?, by Daniel Gomes (in portuguese);
  • Curation of institutional websites, by Ricardo Basílio (in portuguese);
  • Automatic access and processing of preserved Web data (APIs), by Fernando Melo (in portuguese);
  • Recommendations for web publication of preservable information, by Daniel Bicho (in portuguese).

Participants learned about the web preservation service offered to the community by the Arquivo.pt that for the purpose of researching and safeguarding the digital heritage, and how they can help preserve the Web.

In addition to the Jornadas 2019, the Arquivo.pt team also made two presentations in class context. The first was to students of the Informatics – Networks and Multimedia course at the University of Azores, and the second at the Escola Secundária das Laranjeiras (high school) in Ponta Delgada.

To schedule a training session with Arquivo.pt, contact us.

Jornadas 2019

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