Some of the pages archived by Arquivo.pt have taken to the streets this January. During the month of January, six iconic pages from Portugal’s recent history will be displayed in the lobby windows of the Secretaria-Geral da Educação e Ciência, at Avenida 5 de outubro, 107, in Lisbon.
The exhibition is open to the public all day long until the 31st January and shows examples of pages which, nowadays, can only be visited through Arquivo.pt, such as the result of the 1996 Presidential Elections in Portugal, the Expo’98 page, or the first home page of the RTP television network, published in 1998.
This exhibition is itinerant, so if you are interested in bringing it to your city or institution, please contact Arquivo.pt.
With the theme “ “Os Oceanos, Um Património para o Futuro” (“Oceans, a Heritage for the Future“), EXPO’98 took place in Lisbon, 1998.
Considered a turning point for Lisbon and Portugal, from May 2 to September 30, 1998, the event attracted around 11 million visitors. EXPO’98 also had as its purpose to highlight the 500 years of the Portuguese Discoveries.
It was a strategic project for the country and culminated with the regeneration of an area of about 340 hectares in the eastern part of the city, next to the Tagus River.
Attended by 146 countries and 14 international organizations.
EXPO’98 website preserved by Arquivo.pt
However, as in the digital world, much of the information disappears after a short time, only with Arquivo.pt you can even browse EXPO’98 page, serving as a historical and research base about the event.
A moment that Arquivo.pt keeps for the memory of those days not be lost and for future research about their impact on the lives of all Portuguese.
To celebrate the date, Arquivo.pt will offer a free training on Web Preservation. The objective of the training is to maximize users’ productivity in exploring the service.
Arquivo.pt has released a new version of its service on October 16 called WARC Release.
This new version has as main novelty the support of textual indexing of web contents stored in the WARC format .
The document parsing library was also updated to use Apache-Tika.
Technical Details
Arquivo.pt has a new functionality in the reproduction of preserved pages that allows to access Technical Details about an archived page.
To do this, simply click on the circular icon with an “i”. Some playback metadata will be displayed on the page. Try it!
Report a bug
Arquivo.pt has added the function Report a Bug to its interfaces to facilitate the identification of problems with the help of the users.
To do so, simply click on the cockroach aka bug icon, which will forward you to a contact form already filled with the link to the page where the error occurred.
Report a Bug available clicking on the “bug icon”.
If you find any error, in Arquivo.pt please contact us.
More news
Arquivo.pt is now served through a secure connection, following the protocol HTTPS (https://arquivo.pt).
Arquivo.pt will distinguish again in 2019, works that make use of web information from the past in a useful and innovative way.
There will be 15 000 € in prizes:
1º place: 10 000 €
2º place: 3 000 €
3º place: 2 000 €
Proposals can be presented by individuals or groups. The winners will be those that best promote the usage of preserved web information and the services provided by Arquivo.pt.
The contest will follow the same format as in the previous edition and will be open to everyone regardless of their area of study or activity.
The definite rules and application dates will be announced shortly. Applications will be open in early 2019.
First edition winners (Arquivo.pt Award 2018)
The first edition, in 2018, awarded 3 proposals. The 1st prize went to the team led by Ricardo Campos, INESC TEC researcher and professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (IPT) with the project Conta-me Histórias, a platform which automatically generates temporal narratives from online news about topics submitted by its users.
For Ricardo Campos the award was:
“An important boost for the project, and thanks to this award, other research works or even commercial applications may be come up.”
Alongside, two events also discussed web archives and the preservation of the web.
Tutorial on using web archives for research
On its first day, TPDL 2018 held the Research the Past Web using Web archives tutorial, in which researchers, computer scientists, information professionals, and webmasters discussed new ways and tools to preserve online published information.
The Tutorial presented ways to create and explore web archives as well as methods and technologies to develop web applications that automatically access and process information preserved in web archives, such as Wayback Machine, Memento Time Travel protocol or the Arquivo.pt API.
The average satisfaction with the tutorial was 4 out of 5, and 80% of the participants would recommend it to their colleagues. See all the results from the evaluation questionnaire.
On Thursday, the Workshop RESAW@Porto2018 took place at TPDL 2018 and was organized by Jane Winters (School of Advanced Study) and Daniel Gomes (Arquivo.pt).
The event aimed at researchers who work exploring web archives to search for information about the past. There were 24 participants from 11 distinct countries.
Speakers from five countries presented a range of different approaches, from small-scale analyses of individual websites to large-scale investigations of entire domains, and innovative combinations of quantitative and qualitative research methods.
The third RESAW Conference will take place in Amsterdam, 19-21 June 2019. The call for papers is open.
Presentations and abstracts
Conta-me histórias – Temporal summarization and the Portuguese web archive, by Ricardo Campos, Arian Pasquali, Vítor Mangaravite, Alípio Jorge, Adam Jatowt – presentation, abstract
The Archived Web for Research in the humanities and social sciences, by Jane Winters – presentation
The European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation , Carlos Moedas, will present the award at the plenary session “Novas fronteiras da era digital na Europa e no Mundo”, on July 3 at 17h30. The 1.º prize is 10 000 euros, the 2.º is 3 000 euros and the 3.º is 2 000 euros.
This was the Arquivo.pt award first edition. The competition ended on May 4 and 27 proposals from various fields such as: media, technology, computer science, tourism, cultural and historic patrimony, were received. This award recognises originality and innovation in Arquivo.pt’s applicability and the importance of web preservation.