Last updated on August 9th, 2024 at 11:35 am

Short biography

Daniel Gomes started Arquivo.pt (the Portuguese web-archive) in 2007 as follow-up of his PhD thesis and currently leads this public service.

He is a researcher in web archiving and web-based information systems since 2001. He obtained is PhD in Computer Science with a thesis focused on the design of large-scale systems for the processing of web data.

Daniel Gomes was the chief-editor of the book The Past Web: exploring web archives.

Contacts

• E-mail: daniel.gomes@fccn.pt
• ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5447-4581
• Social networks: LinkedIn, Google Scholar, YouTube
• Full CV

Scholarship

• PhD in Informatics Engineering by the University of Lisbon (2007).
• Graduated in Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, specialized in Information Systems (2001).

Selected publications

• Arquivo.pt in the life cycle of a website (in Portuguese), 2023
• Arquivo.pt as a cybersecurity tool (in Portuguese), 2023
• Building a Web-Archive Image Search Service at Arquivo.pt, 2023
• Web archives as research infrastructure for digital societies: the case study of Arquivo.pt, 2022
• Archiving the Web as Public Service, 2022
• The Past Web: exploring web archives (video), 2021
• Preservação Digital. Arquivos online ou do online?, 2021
• A transnational crawl of the European Parliamentary Elections 2019, 2020.
• Arquivo.pt: o papel da Preservação Digital na Ciência Aberta, 2020
• The Anatomy of a Web Archive Image Search Engine, 2021
• MementoMap Framework for Flexible and Adaptive Web Archive Profiling (presentation), 2019
• The Curious Case of Archiving .eu, 2019
• Web preservation demands access, 2017
• Is my web archive usable?, 2016
• The Evolution of Web Archiving, 2016
• Preserving Websites Of Research & Development Projects, (presentation), 2016
• The Importance of Web Archives for Humanities, 2014
• Encontra páginas antigas da Internet em Arquivo.pt (The Portuguese web-archive explained to children), 2012
• A survey on web archiving initiatives  (presentation, poster, video),  2011
• Web Not For All: A Large Scale Study of Web Accessibility, (presentation), 2010
• Trends in Web characteristics, 2009
• The Viúva Negra crawler: an experience report, 2008
• Introducing the Portuguese web archive initiative, (presentation), 2008
• Web Modelling for Web Warehouse Design (presentation), 2007
• Design and Selection Criteria for a National Web Archive (presentation), 2006
• Modelling Information Persistence on the Web (presentation) 2006
• Characterizing a National Community Web, 2005
• A Deposit for Digital Collections, 2001

Other publications

• Google scholar
• Arquivo.pt publications
• Old school personal home page (web-archived)

Selected talks and interviews

• Arquivo.pt behind the curtains (slides), 2023
• How to research governmental web data? (slides), 2023
• Timeline summarization for large-scale past-web events with Python: the case of Arquivo.pt, 2022
• Arquivo.pt as open data provider, 2022
• Challenges and Recommendations to start a web archive, 2021
• Arquivo.pt (podcast 1/0), 2020
• Buscando el pasado con Arquivo.pt, 2020
• Access policies, challenges and approaches (slides), 2019
• Tutorial: Research the Past Web using Web archives (slides), 2019
• Tutorial on using web archives for research, 2018
• Arquivo.pt: a case study interview, 2019
• Arquivo.pt e preservação do conteúdo brasileiro, 2019
• Arquivo.pt Memorial and other goodies, 2019
• Improving the robustness of the Arquivo.pt web archive, 2016
• Preservation of web information about the Charlie Hebdo attack, 2016
• Web Archive Information Retrieval, 2015
• Wiki não é uma tecnologia, é uma atitude, 2014
• Análise de requisitos e controlo de qualidade no desenvolvimento de sites – Uma cábula rápida, 2013

Other interests

• Surfer and environmental activist. He founded the Tara Recuperável civic movement which acts to improve environmental awareness in Portugal.