Arquivo.pt 2018 Award Winners

August 26, 2022July 6, 2018 by Daniel Gomes

Last updated on August 26th, 2022 at 02:12 pm

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.

27 applications were received.

First prize – “Conta-me Histórias” (Tell me Stories)

“Conta-me Histórias” won first prize and 10 000 euros. This is a team effort from Ricardo Campos, Arian Pasquali, Vítor Mangaravite, Alípio Jorge and Adam Jatowt.

Conta-me Histórias is an online service that provides a temporal narrative about any subject using 24 electronic news platforms.

Descriptive Report
Video
Presentation Video – Presentation (In Portuguese)
Web vídeo
Website (English user interface)
Open-source project
Presentation at Café with Arquivo.pt

Second Prize – Framing the concept of “homosexuality” in 20 years of publication of the Expresso newspaper

The second prize of 3 000 euros was given to “Framing the concept of “homosexuality” in 20 years of publication of the Expresso newspaper” from João Teixeira Duarte and Zélia Teixeira.

This study intends to facilitate a reflection about homosexuality portrait in a Portuguese newspaper over 20 years.

Third Prize – “Arquivo de Opinião”

The third prize of 2 000 euros was given to “Arquivo de Opinião” from Miguel Won.

Arquivo de Opinião is a web application which offers the user a digital repository of opinion articles published between 2008 and 2016, in the most prominent Portuguese media outlets.

Descriptive Report
Video
Presentation Video – Presentation (In Portuguese)
Website (English user interface)
Presentation at Café with Arquivo.pt

About Arquivo.pt Award

Arquivo.pt Award intends to highlight every year, innovative and original projects showing Arquivo.pt utility as a research data infrastructure.

Press Releases

Software Engineer Java/Linux needed at Arquivo.pt

October 1, 2018July 6, 2018 by Daniel Gomes

Last updated on October 1st, 2018 at 04:40 pm

Arquivo.pt is looking for a Software Engineer Java/Linux to execute the following functions:

Maintenance and quality control of the service;
Development of large scale distributed computer systems;
Software maintenance and corrective evolution;
Interaction with the scientific community to establish collaborations.

Requirements

Bachelor, master or PhD in computer science;
Experience with: Java J2EE, Java Server Pages, Java Beans, Python, Tomcat, Maven/Ant, Linux and Apache HTTPd servers;
Knowledge about architecture, development and operation of distributed computer systems;
Good level of English.

Preferences

Source code repositories management (ex. Git);
Automatic tests platform management (ex. Jenkins, SeleniumHQ, SonarCube);
Participation in open source collaboration projects;
Internet production systems management experience;
Knowledge of Big Data/NoSQL (ex. Hadoop, HBase, Lucene, Solr);
Knowledge of Information Retrieval or Machine Learning;
Experience in web archive technologies (ex. Wayback Machine, Heritrix, NutchWAX);
Participation in Research & Development projects.

Applications

Web archives for research: Call for Proposals!

May 15, 2018May 15, 2018 by Daniel Gomes

RESAW@Porto2018 workshop

An introduction to web archives for Humanities and Social Science research.

This one-day workshop will be held as part of TPDL 2018 on 13 September 2018, Porto, Portugal.

RESAW is a network of researchers and web archivists that promotes the development of Research infrastructures for the Study of Archived Web Material.

The organizing committee is composed by Jane Winters (Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of London) and Daniel Gomes (Arquivo.pt).

Call for Proposals

We are seeking proposals from potential contributors to the workshop in two main areas:

Work presenting the state of the field and discussing the opportunities and challenges of using this new kind of primary source for research. This may include demonstrations of existing web archives.
Presentations of ground-breaking Humanities and Social Science research drawing on web archives, from small-scale analyses of individual websites to large-scale investigations of entire domains.

Apply

To apply, just submit a 300-500 word abstract via our online form. Final presentations should be around 30 minutes in length.

Deadline for applications: 15 June 2018, 17.00 (GMT+1).

All details at: http://arquivo.pt/resawPorto2018

Spread the word!

Please disseminate among potentially interested authors and attendees.

Thanks!

Jane Winters & Daniel Gomes

Grants to collaborate with Arquivo.pt

October 1, 2018April 19, 2018 by Daniel Gomes

Last updated on October 1st, 2018 at 04:41 pm

The ROSSIO Project- Ciências Sociais, Artes e Humanidades has an open call for 3 grants in colaboration with Arquivo.pt. The call is open until the 10th of May 2018.

Check for application details at the links below

Digital Curator / Information Manager

Main tasks

Creation and management of themed collections in digital format.
Quality control and tests.
Training and users support
Critical review of scientific and technical documents (ex. scientific articles, operational documents).
Validation and information management in multiple digital formats (ex. videos, web pages, documents).
Identification and documentation of users needs.

Application details

Community Manager

Main tasks

User support with creation and management of community interaction.
Creation of strategic communication and training.
Communication quality control support.
Content creation and social media dissemination.
Services needs assessment according to users real performance
Networking management

Application details

Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher

Main tasks

Research to demonstrate the scientific utility of digital platforms
Training in community involvement for researchers

Application details

Arquivo.pt Prizes 2018: Call for submissions!

October 26, 2018February 8, 2018 by Daniel Gomes

Last updated on October 26th, 2018 at 11:37 am

Applications for the Arquivo.pt Prizes 2018 are open until May 4.

The 1st prize is 10 000 EURO, individual or group applications can be submitted about any theme. The only requirement is to use Arquivo.pt as the main source of information.

To apply, you will need to submit a text and a short video describing the work done. The use of the Portuguese language is mandatory.

Know more at:
http://arquivo.pt/prizes

Spread the word about it among potential candidates!

How to improve an online service (video)?

April 3, 2019February 8, 2018 by Daniel Gomes

Improving the robustness of the Arquivo.pt web archive (video thumbnail)

Last updated on April 3rd, 2019 at 11:59 am

Arquivo.pt recommendations to improve the quality of online services

This presentation provides an overview of the architecture and functioning of the system that supports the Arquivo.pt web archive.

It shares the main lessons learned from the experience of developing and maintaining this service for 10 years.

We believe that these recommendations can be useful to improve the quality of any web-based information system.

Share it with your IT department!

Videos, slides and photos of Arquivo.pt Event 2017

July 17, 2019December 29, 2017 by Daniel Gomes

Last updated on July 17th, 2019 at 11:07 am

On the 8th November we will held the 1st Arquivo Event at the Pavilion of Knowledge in Lisbon to celebrate 10 years of project start.

We published all videos of the Event on the Educast educational portal and on Youtube.

Keynote talks: why and how to preserve the Web?

José Pacheco Pereira, As tecnologias mudam a sociedade? (video)
Julien Masanès, Two decades of web archiving: what’s on the horizon? (video, slides)
Daniel Gomes, Arquivo.pt: passado, presente e futuro (video, slides)
João Nuno Ferreira, Announcement of the Arquivo.pt 2018 Prize (video)

Workshops: research use cases and training

Research using Arquivo.pt

Diogo Silva da Cunha (Ciências da Comunicação), Transformations of the Websites of Portuguese Newspapers (video, slides)
Diogo Duarte (Ciências Sociais), The Straight-Edge in the metropolitan area of Lisbon (video, slides)
Ricardo Basílio (Ciência da Informação), Memory of FCSH on the Web: Virtual Exhibition (video, slides)

Preservation and access to Web memory

Daniel Gomes, New ways of searching the past (video, slides)
Daniel Bicho, How to publish information on the web so that is preserved (video, slides)
Fernando Melo, API for automatic processing of information preserved from the Web (video, slides)

Photos

Evento Arquivo.pt 2017

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Photo of Ricardo Basílio researched FCSH related web pages, from Arquivo.pt, to create a virtual exhibition

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Arquivo.pt Award 2018 was announced

October 26, 2018December 5, 2017 by Daniel Gomes

Last updated on October 26th, 2018 at 11:37 am

During the Arquivo.pt Event, the release of the Arquivo.pt Prize 2018 was announced.

The purpose of the first edition of this Prize is to foster innovative research or application of resources preserved from the Web, through the research and access services publicly made available by Arquivo.pt.

The applications must clearly demonstrate the usefulness and unique nature of Arquivo.pt for the proposed work and the impact of the work in the society or community for which it is intended.

Who can apply?

The award is primarily targeted at members of the national academic and scientific community.

Prize values

First place: € 10 000
Second place: € 3 000
Third place: € 2 000

Application deadline

4th May 2018

To find out about news about the Prize, we suggest subscribing to our mailing list (in Portuguese) or periodically check the informative site about Arquivo.pt.

How to apply?

The applicants will have to present their work through a text and a short video (in Portuguese). The detailed Regulation is in preparation.

Useful references for the development of the applications

To know more

Celebrating the International Digital Preservation Day

December 20, 2019November 30, 2017 by Daniel Gomes

Last updated on December 20th, 2019 at 12:35 pm

Arquivo.pt joins the international celebration of the first International Day of Digital Preservation (30th November) by contributing with:

A free training course on Web Preservation
The post Web preservation demands access
A new release of its service with user interfaces optimized for mobile devices and access to mobile versions of preserved pages. Try it at Arquivo.pt and give us feedback. Your opinion is precious to us.

Spread the word about the International Day of Digital Preservation using the hashtag #IDPD17!

Celebrate this day to raise awareness to the importance of Digital Preservation for our everyday more Digital World.

Free training about Web Preservation on the Digital Preservation Day

December 20, 2019November 15, 2017 by Daniel Gomes

Last updated on December 20th, 2019 at 12:30 pm

Memória da FCSH na Web: Exposição Virtual disponível em https://memoriafcsh.wordpress.com/ — FCSH Memory on the Web: Virtual Exhibition available at https://memoriafcsh.wordpress.com/

The International Day of Digital Preservation is celebrated on the 30th November.

Arquivo.pt joins this international celebration by offering one of its free training courses on Web Preservation.

Training objective

Learn how to get the most out of the Arquivo.pt services and how to publish your information so that it can prevail for the future.

Agenda

14:30 – Reception of participants
14:45 – New ways of searching the past
15:30 – How to publish information on the web so that is preserved
16:15 – Break
16:30 – Memory of FCSH on the Web: Virtual Exhibition (use case)
17:15 – End / Optional visit to the data center

Main recipients

Information professionals (e.g. archivists, documentalists or librarians)
Responsible for websites (e.g. offices of communication and public relations)
Web authors (e.g. bloggers)
Teachers, students and researchers interested in research about historical Web data and digital preservation

Location and Subscriptions

The training will take place at FCT-FCCN facilities in Lisbon (Avenida do Brasil, 101).

Registration is free but mandatory. To register, simply send us a message with your name, profession and phone number.

The training will be held only if there is a minimum of 10 registrees.