IPL – Politécnico de Lisboa, through its Distance Learning Group (EaD@IPL), organised a series of webinars for its community dedicated to Arquivo.pt and the preservation of content published on the Internet.
This initiative was attended by IPL – Politécnico de Lisboa lecturers and researchers, as well as people linked to the institution’s communications department.
The cycle of webinars took place in three sessions, between May and July 2024, and followed the training programme that Arquivo.pt has been offering for several years.
Presentation materials
- 1st webinar – Arquivo.pt: a new tool for researching the past. Well publish to well preserve. June 5 , 2024.
- 2nd webinar – Automatic processing of information preserved from the Web. June 19, 2024.
- 3nd webinar – Web archiving: Do-it-yourself!. July 3, 2024
Why training on web preservation is important
Archiving content published on the web and using a web archive on a day-to-day basis is an unusual practice, largely due to the community’s lack of knowledge about the existence and operation of Arquivo.pt.
For example, in this cycle of webinars with the IPL – Politécnico de Lisboa, participants were given tools that allow them to use the web archive immediately and creatively, such as the SavePageNow service, the historical content search service and, for use in interdisciplinary teams, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
As a result of this series of webinars, the collaboration between the IPL – Politécnico de Lisboa and Arquivo.pt was strengthened, with a view to preserving its institutional websites and other interesting content that is available on various online media (news, events, references to teachers, researchers and students).