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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.
Last updated on October 2nd, 2018 at 02:12 pm
The Jornadas de Computação Científica 2018 were in April, in Braga Portugal, at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL).
At the event, the Portuguese Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Higher education, Maria Fernanda Rollo, spoke about the Digital Future.
Arquivo.pt team and some guests presented new services and applications.
Last updated on October 1st, 2018 at 04:42 pm
On February 23, 2018 Arquivo.pt launched a new version called Zeus.
This new version includes a new programming interface (Arquivo.pt API) and improvements in the mobile interfaces.
The new application programming interface, called Arquivo.pt API, allows you to search and access information preserved automatically. The purpose of this new API was to aggregate functions and information that were provided through the various APIs developed previously. The search can be done by URL or by terms, and a JSON object with the response items is returned.
This new API can be useful to compete for the Arquivo.pt Prizes.
Last updated on May 8th, 2023 at 05:08 pm
Arquivo.pt performed 2 web crawls of information related with the Portuguese Local Elections of 2017.
We appealed the community to contribute with suggestions of relevant Web pages so that we could preserve them.
The 2 crawls occurred during and after the campaign period, using the list of 410 Web pages suggested by the community and 13 887 web pages found automatically using search engines.
The manual identification process originated a list of 337 addresses which documented candidacies for the 2017 Municipal Elections. Note that 46% of these addresses referenced the social media platform Facebook.com. Much of this content of national interest could not be preserved because this foreign private company does not allow it.
The final result was an archive of 2 265 887 Web resources (360 GB).
Among the preserved web pages are the official sites of the candidates, news, blogs and articles with personal opinions about the elections.
The Arquivo.pt respects an embargo period of 1 year, and for that reason this collection will only be available by the end of 2018.
Meanwhile, you can consult the preserved pages about the previous elections of 2013, such as:
We would like to thank all the volunteers that collaborated with this initiative.
On November 28 2017, Arquivo.pt launched a new version named Afrodite.
The main novelty is the adaptation of user interfaces to mobile devices.
On the other hand, it also enables access to the mobile versions of the preserved sites.
Arquivo.pt began to preserve the mobile web too!
Mobile version of the homepage of Arquivo.pt.
Using your mobile phone, try searching for all of the versions that Arquivo.pt preserved from the website of the organization where you worked or studied.
List of preserved versions of a site.
Mobile version of textual search.
Mobile versions of preserved sites can also be accessed.
Improvements were also made to the desktop user interfaces, including a new responsive footer and a new language selection bar.
The alpha version of a new API was also published to improve the automatic access to the information preserved by Arquivo.pt.
To know more, see the technical details of the new version of Arquivo.pt.
There are numerous models of mobile devices and we cannot test them all.
We would appreciate if could you spent 1 minute testing this new version using your phone or tablet.
If you notice any problems, we kindly ask you to let us know about it. Please send us also the model of your device and browser you used.
Your contribution is very valuable to guarantee the quality of the service provided to the community.
On August 2, 2017, a new version of the informative website about Arquivo.pt (available on sobre.arquivo.pt/en/) was launched.
This new version consisted mainly on the adoption of the WordPress platform as replacement for an obsolete version of Plone.
The following improvements are highlighted:
If you notice any problems or wish to make any suggestions for improvement, please contact us!
Your opinion is valuable.
Last updated on September 25th, 2017 at 04:21 pm
Investiga XXI research project is publicly sharing the first contributions based on Arquivo.pt.
The main goal is to promote the use of Arquivo.pt as a source and tool for scientific research.
The ongoing projects adopt perspectives from the Digital Humanities in their approach to the different objects of study:
To know more:
If you want to collaborate, contact us.
Arquivo.pt launched a new version on June 23, 2017 called Venus, in which the Advanced Search operators were improved.
It stands out the improvement of the search operator site that allows to restrict searches to certain preserved sites. For example:
The reproduction of preserved pages containing error messages was also reduced.