Arquivo.pt in Coimbra at scientific computing event Jornadas FCCN 2025

The Arquivo.pt team was in Coimbra on May 6 and 7 to promote the preservation of the Portuguese Internet, as dissemination and promotion are an important part of its mission.

The Jornadas FCCN event is the responsibility of FCT’s digital services and annually brings together hundreds of participants from higher education institutions and other entities linked to science and technology.

On Tuesday, at 4:30 p.m., at the FCCN Days, Arquivo.pt presented the session Hands-on archiving the Web.

On Wednesday the 7th, at 2.30pm, Arquivo.pt took part in the meeting organized by the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra entitled “Digital preservation: tools and practices” (Amphitheatre III, Floor 4).

Hands-on web archiving

In this session we show you how to save web pages in standard format using your own computer. For those who need to save high-quality copies of websites, this session is a great step. Participants will be challenged to record static pages and others with interactive content, videos and social networks. Based on the questions that arise during the practical exercises, we will clarify doubts and show that archiving web content is very easy.

We use the ArchiveWeb.page extension, a tool from Webercorder.net, which participants can get for free and install on their own computers.

If you are a computer scientist or advanced IT user

For those who expect and need to save entire websites automatically, we’ll briefly mention Browsertrix-crawler, an advanced tool that runs on a Docker, on Linux. Computer scientists and advanced IT users are all invited to try their hand at recording and archiving websites.

The demonstrations and exercises we propose using ArchiveWeb.page or Browsertrix-crawler also apply to advanced use cases and respond to organizations’ day-to-day web archiving needs.