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Last updated on February 19th, 2019 at 04:12 pm
Submissions for Arquivo.pt Award 2019 are officially open! The deadline is May 3, at 1 pm (Lisbon time).
The three best works will receive a total of 15 000 euros.
Individual or group works on any subject are accepted. The only requirement is that they use Arquivo.pt as their main source of information.
Here’s how to apply: arquivo.pt/award2019
Good luck!
Last updated on March 29th, 2019 at 03:51 pm
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.
Last updated on December 13th, 2018 at 01:59 pm
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.
The importance of EXPO’98 did not stop there:
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.
Travel through EXPO’98 with Arquivo.pt!
Last updated on April 3rd, 2019 at 11:11 am
November 29 is the World Digital Preservation Day 2018 (#WDPD2018).
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.
The event will begin at 2:30 pm (see full schedule below), in the Pequeno Auditório located at FCT-FCCN (Avenida do Brasil, 101 – Lisbon).
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.
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!
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.
If you find any error, in Arquivo.pt please contact us.
Last updated on October 26th, 2018 at 11:33 am
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:
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.
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.”
Last updated on April 3rd, 2019 at 11:30 am
Gathering professionals from all around the world, the 22nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2018, took place from September 10th to 13th at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.
Alongside, two events also discussed web archives and the preservation of the web.
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.
Last updated on April 3rd, 2019 at 11:22 am
Arquivo.pt 2018 Award was presented to the winners, by the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation , Carlos Moedas, on July 3 at Ciência 2018 – Encontro com a Ciência e Tecnologia at the Lisbon Congress Centre
Last updated on October 26th, 2018 at 11:36 am
Arquivo.pt 2018 award will be given at “Ciência 2018 – Encontro com a Ciência e Tecnologia”, wich will take place from the 2nd to the 4th of July, at the Lisbon Congress Centre.
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.
Last updated on October 1st, 2018 at 04:41 pm
The information collected from the Web during 2016 is now available at Arquivo.pt.
Remember events of 2016 such as the United States Presidential Elections or UEFA Euro 2016.
Now you can access 964 million preserved files (58TB) from 2 million websites collected in 2016.