Librarians as web curators in universities

June 7, 2019June 7, 2019 by Ricardo Basílio

The 4th Meeting of Libraries of Higher Education, for librarians in Portuguese universities, held at Coimbra University, on 4 and 5 June 2019, had two presentations about Arquivo.pt.

Workflow for the preservation of institutional web sites (fig. 1) was suggested as a guide for anyone to be able to care for and preserve quality the pages of own organization.

The second presented the new “Memorial” Arquivo.pt service, which preserves the sites at the end of their life cycle, keeping them accessible to institutional memory and research.

About 170 librarians participated at the meeting and were challenged to collaborate with Arquivo.pt adopting simple but decisive practices to preserve the Web with quality.

Fig. 1 – Workflow to preserve institutional websites (PDF, in Portuguese)

European Elections 2019: We Need Your Help!

October 1, 2021May 14, 2019 by Ricardo Basílio

Last updated on October 1st, 2021 at 09:09 am

Websites and pages about the elections disappear quickly after the election period, leaving a void of information in place of History.

It’s everyone’s responsibility to preserve the memory. We are inviting you to identify web pages related to the elections, as soon as you can, so that the debates and ideas of this time are not forgotten.

Just add to the collaborative list the addresses of pages or sites that you find relevant for the future memory of these elections, through the following link:

European elections 2019: collaborative list (https://tinyurl.com/memoriaeuropa2019)

Suggesting 1 address will make a valuable contribution. Can you help?

If you have any questions, please contact us.

Arquivo.pt training in Azores islands

July 15, 2022May 10, 2019 by Ricardo Basílio

Last updated on July 15th, 2022 at 12:56 pm

Memorial (hight quality preservation) and image search were highlighted as new developments in Arquivo.pt during Jornadas de Computação Científica 2019, held from 6 to 8 at the University of Azores in Ponta Delgada.

On the first day of this annual event, Arquivo.pt developed a training session in 4 parts:

Memory of the web: a forgoten heritage?, by Daniel Gomes (in portuguese);
Curation of institutional websites, by Ricardo Basílio (in portuguese);
Automatic access and processing of preserved Web data (APIs), by Fernando Melo (in portuguese);
Recommendations for web publication of preservable information, by Daniel Bicho (in portuguese).

Participants learned about the web preservation service offered to the community by the Arquivo.pt that for the purpose of researching and safeguarding the digital heritage, and how they can help preserve the Web.

In addition to the Jornadas 2019, the Arquivo.pt team also made two presentations in class context. The first was to students of the Informatics – Networks and Multimedia course at the University of Azores, and the second at the Escola Secundária das Laranjeiras (high school) in Ponta Delgada.

To schedule a training session with Arquivo.pt, contact us.

Jornadas 2019

Webinar Web Archiving in academic libraries

July 15, 2022October 15, 2018 by Ricardo Basílio

Last updated on July 15th, 2022 at 01:29 pm

“Curation of preserved websites – how it works” was the subject of the webinar promoted by Associação Portuguesa de Bibliotecários, Arquivistas e Documentalistas (APBAD, Lisbon), the Portuguese association of librarians, past October 9, and presented by Ricardo Basílio, librarian and digital curator at Arquivo.pt.

Gathering the online memory of the Universities

The hands-on presentation showed how anyone, even a non-TI expert, can adequately capture, store and replay a website or a social page of an institutional website. Basílio also gave specific examples on how to gather and share collections of institutional contents previously published on the Web: a list, an exhibition, a recovery of a past content to be published on Twitter or Facebook, etc.

A librarian can be a curator of websites

Human and qualitative evaluation is the focus of the digital curator, even when we use such a proficient tool like Webrecorder. The most important point is to enable librarians to practice micro-archiving and create local collections.

Video (40 minutes, in Portuguese)
Presentation (PDF, in Portuguese)