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Meet the winners of the Arquivo.pt Award 2026!

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The winners of the 2026 Arquivo.pt Award were announced by PÚBLICO newspaper, the official media partner, on July 13, 2026.

A total of 58 submitted papers were received and approved.

The awards ceremony will take place during the closing session of the Ciência e Inovação 2026  meeting on July at the Centro de Congressos de Lisboa.

1st place – “Clique Aqui Para Perder”

The winner of the 10,000-euro prize was the work “Clique Aqui para Perder” (Click Here to Lose) created by Ingra Gonçalves Barreto.

The result of this work is a collection of real-life cases, frauds, scams, and schemes that spread across the Portuguese Internet between 2000 and 2012. The website provides a glossary and a section of useful resources for users who want to understand the phenomenon of scams and, at the same time, protect themselves.

For example, the scam known as “phishing” is mentioned on a web page preserved by Arquivo.pt in the year 2000.

2nd place – “Olh’ó Regional”

The second prize, worth 3,000 euros, was awarded to the work titled “Olh’ó Regional”, by Miguel Ramalho and João Carvalho.

“Olh’ó Regional” is a web platform that provides and analyzes data on regional newspapers and news in Portugal over the past 30 years. Its goal is to test the creation of a repository of regional news from Portugal with sufficient scope and variety to enable analyses that help shed light on the reality of local journalism in Portugal.

For example, an analysis of newspaper content, as shown on the map of the country, reveals that some districts receive extensive news coverage, while others receive little. It also shows that sports is a much more frequent topic than climate change.

3rd place – “Portugal, a que custo?”

The third prize, worth 2,000 euros, was awarded to the work titled “Portugal, a que custo?” (Portugal, at what cost?) by Bernardo Morais Chagas.

The project extracts economic data from Arquivo.pt and calculates an Economic Difficulty Index dating back to 1996. The result is an interactive website featuring a news timeline, a purchasing power calculator, and an educational quiz.

For example, in 2005, the minimum wage was 375 euros per month. With that income, buying one square meter of housing cost 6.00 times the monthly wage. The Economic Hardship Index for that year was 73%. This provides a historical perspective on the cost of living.

Honorable mention .PT: “Arquivo eleitoral”

The DNS.PT Association awarded an Honorable Mention . PT to the work “Arquivo eleitoral” (Electoral Archive) by Filipa Ribeiro.

The Electoral Archive is a digital platform that collects and organizes more than 12,000 campaign promises made by Portuguese political parties between 2002 and 2025, allowing users to search for and compare proposals by topic, party, and election. By using Arquivo.pt, it retrieves election platforms and campaign pages that have since disappeared from the Internet, making historical political information accessible, verifiable, and searchable. The project promotes democratic transparency and highlights Portugal’s digital heritage through a public service tool.

For example, it allows you to compare all the parties’ campaign promises related to health care in the 2025 Legislative Elections.

Honorable mention PÚBLICO: “Casos Mediáticos”

The newspaper PÚBLICO, a media partner of the Arquivo.pt Award, has awarded an Honorable Mention to the work “Casos Mediáticos” by Ana Francisca Gonçalves and Rodrigo Barrocas (Malpique Team).

The project consists of a web platform that organizes, systematizes, and allows users to explore media coverage of cases of economic and financial crime in Portugal, based on journalistic content preserved by Arquivo.pt over time. It also includes a section on media coverage indicators.

For example, the “Explorar casos” (Explore Cases) section allows users to view cases such as the “Monte Branco Case” from 2006 to 2012.

Know more

Official page ot the 2026 Arquivo.pt Award

Arquivo.pt at the librarians and archivists national meeting APBAD in Porto

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Arquivo.pt participated in the 15th librarians and archivists national meeting of the APBAD, held at Universidade Portucalense – Infante D. Henrique, from June 17 to 19. The event featured a panel dedicated to digital preservation, during which several services were presented that the community can use to preserve its websites.

Under the theme “Commitment to Democracy: Dialogue, Well-Being, Inclusion,” the APBAD meeting —one of the most important gatherings of information professionals—drew more than 500 participants.

Arquivo.pt’s involvement relates to an important aspect of its mission, which is “to promote the collection and preservation of content available on the national Internet” (Decreto-Lei n.º 132/2025).

Panel: “Digital Preservation in a Municipal Context—Challenges and Potential Solutions”

Digital preservation is an increasingly important issue for public agencies. Municipalities, for example, are required to implement a digital preservation plan (Portaria n.º 112/2023, art.4º). On the other hand, digital content is scattered across many formats, systems, and even different organizations and jurisdictions.

The panelists were José Borbinha (INESC-ID, IST, Universidade de Lisboa), Pedro Penteado (DGLAB, Direção de Serviços de Arquivística e Normalização), Helena Neves (Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Direção Municipal de Cultura, Departamento de Património de Cultural, Divisão de Arquivo Municipal) and Ricardo Basílio (Arquivo.pt-FCCN-FCT).

Sharing knowledge, best practices, and resources is a way to accelerate the preservation of collective memory.

Website and Social Media Preservation: 5 Good Examples for 1 Solution

In this panel presentation at the APBAD meeting organized by Arquivo.pt, examples of best practices for preserving Web content were provided. They were as follows:

  • Perform a high-quality website harvest (once a year)
  • Curate websites for preservation purposes
  • Create website records in the catalog with a link to the history
  • Identify and collect external web content related to the organization’s mission
  • Use Arquivo.pt services in partnership

These examples were made possible by community archivists, in collaboration with Arquivo.pt, including the Arquivo Municipal de Almada, Biblioteca e Arquivo da Madeira, Arquivo Municipal de Sines.

Memory of Municipalities on the Internet

The online exhibition “Memória dos Municípios na Internet” (Memory of Municipalities on the Internet) was an initiative launched by Arquivo.pt in 2019 to highlight the value of the digital content published over time on the websites of Portugal’s 308 municipalities.

We invite all the professionals here to tour the exhibition and see how well their municipality’s website is maintained.

Data Collection Criteria for the Portuguese Web (Poster 1)

The Web is a publishing space without limits. Every day, all kinds of content are published, such as institutional information, business and industry services, content created by individuals, news from accredited media outlets, content of dubious veracity, fake news, and entertainment content. Is it possible to collect this content in a Web archive? What are the limitations?

In this poster, we outline the collection criteria used by Arquivo.pt:

  • .PT domain websites
  • Portuguese websites across all domains
  • National interest (Portuguese-speaking countries, European Union)
  • Topics of interest to the community
  • Public content, with no technical or legal restrictions, and no login or paywall required

We would like to highlight the criterion “topics of interest to the community,” which we use to conduct special collections, such as when we are collaborating with researchers. This was the case with a collection on artists and art galleries, in collaboration with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Art Library (2021), and the collection on Feminism in Portugal, in collaboration with researchers from the FEMGlocal Project (2026).

ArchivePageNow – Web Content Self-Archiving Service for Organizations and Citizens (Poster 2)

Public content can be archived using the ArchivePageNow service, which the archive provides to promote the preservation of web pages among researchers and is also useful for the general public.

A poster dedicated to ArchivePageNow served to visually illustrate the usefulness of this service.

Materials Presented at the 15th APBAD meeting

For photos of the event, visit the BAD channel on Flickr

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Archiving the Black Web – a community-focused project

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On June 16, 2026, the Arquivo.pt team welcomed Makiba Foster, leader of the Archiving the Black Web initiative. The purpose of the exchange was to share knowledge and best practices on how to involve local communities in the preservation of content considered important.

Here, we share some ideas and links that came out of this meeting.

Vision of the “Archiving the Black Web” Project

Archiving the Black Web was founded in 2019 in Florida, United States, with a special focus on communities that are underrepresented on the web. Its vision is to empower the community to preserve its own memory and culture.

The project’s strategy has involved offering training courses on the preservation of Web content. The training program is called WARC School (Web Archiving School).

By providing people with the tools they need to create a web archive featuring local, community-generated content that captures community dynamics, the Archiving the Black Web project contributes to the community’s self-esteem and development.

How Arquivo.pt encourages community participation

Arquivo.pt shares this view on community involvement in Web preservation. The more people who are able to help preserve their websites, the better.

To empower the community, Arquivo.pt offers training, including:

The fourth module, titled Preservation of Websites: Do-It-Yourself!, demonstrates how to save web pages in a standardized format compatible with web archives, using free tools from Webrecorder.net. In other words, it enables individuals or teams to create their own web archives locally.

In addition to its educational programs, Arquivo.pt has created services that allow anyone to save content of interest to them, which is then integrated into Arquivo.pt:

  • ArchivePageNow for saving web pages instantly
  • On-demand captures for high-quality archiving
  • Special thematic collections, usually created in collaboration with researchers

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We invite you to learn more about the Archiving the Black Web project and explore the approaches of other projects focused on local communities. Get inspired and see how your community can be empowered by leveraging the ability to archive memories, experiences, and expressions shared across the Web and social media.

Higher education libraries mobility program returns to FCCN for the third time

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Last updated on June 19th, 2026 at 02:58 pm

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No dia 29 de maio de 2026, profissionais das bibliotecas da Universidade do Minho, da Universidade do Porto e do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa participaram na 3.ª edição do Programa de Mobilidade em Bibliotecas do Ensino Superior, promovido pelo Grupo de Trabalho das Bibliotecas de Ensino Superior da Associação Portuguesa de Bibliotecários, Arquivistas, Profissionais da Informação e Documentação (BAD). A iniciativa decorreu, pelo terceiro ano consecutivo, nos serviços da FCCN — unidade de serviços digitais da Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) —, no campus do LNEC, em Lisboa.

On May 29, 2026, library professionals from the Universidade do Minho, da Universidade do Porto, and Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa  participated in the 3rd edition of the Programa de Mobilidade em Bibliotecas do Ensino Superior (Higher Education Library Mobility Program), organized by the Grupo de Trabalho das Bibliotecas de Ensino Superior (Higher Education Libraries Working Group) of the Associação Portuguesa de Bibliotecários, Arquivistas, Profissionais da Informação e Documentação (BAD). The initiative took place, for the third consecutive year, at the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) on the LNEC campus in Lisbon.

Exploration of advanced services for knowledge

The initiative included a workshop dedicated to exploring advanced support services for science and higher education in Portugal, providing participants with an in-depth look at the digital ecosystem that underpins the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge.

The program included thematic sessions on key tools such as the NAU platform, designed for creating and making open-access MOOCs available, as well as Arquivo.pt, where the inner workings of web content preservation for research purposes were demonstrated. Strategic services such as Educast, and Ciência ID were also presented, underscoring the FCCN’s role in supporting higher education institutions.

Tour of the Data Center and the Television and Audio Studio

During the event, participants also visited FCCN’s data center and professional studio, gaining firsthand experience with technological infrastructure that, though often invisible, is essential to ensuring the robustness, innovation, and sustainability of science and digital education.

The importance of the program for professional development

O Programa de Mobilidade (Mobility Program) visa fomentar a partilha de conhecimento, a atualização contínua de competências e o reforço do contacto entre profissionais da informação e serviços inovadores que integram o quotidiano de investigadores, docentes e estudantes. A participação das três instituições reforça a importância destas iniciativas colaborativas para o desenvolvimento profissional e para a consolidação de redes de cooperação no ensino superior em Portugal.

The Programa de Mobilidade (Mobility Program) aims to promote knowledge sharing, the continuous updating of skills, and the strengthening of ties between information professionals and the innovative services that are part of the daily lives of researchers, faculty, and students. The participation of these three institutions underscores the importance of such collaborative initiatives for professional development and for the consolidation of cooperation networks in higher education in Portugal.

Program offered by FCCN, “Advanced Services for Knowledge”

Flash interview recorded in the Estúdio FCCN

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Arquivo.pt in Porto at the Jornadas FCCN 2026

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Last updated on July 8th, 2026 at 11:08 am

The Arquivo.pt team held a session open to the public on 5 May during the Jornadas FCCN 2026.

The session was attended by around 80 participants and covered topics that are currently central to Arquivo.pt’s work. These included the use of the preserved collection for research, its application in artificial intelligence (AI) tools, and participation in large language model (LLM) projects for the Portuguese language.

The national meeting Jornadas FCCN 2026 took place at the Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto between 5 and 7 May 2026. About 1,000 people attended. It was an opportunity to meet many of the people we interact with throughout the year.

How the Portuguese web archive is being used for research, AI and LLMs

How can three decades of the history of the Portuguese web be used for research, technological innovation and to train artificial intelligence models? In this session by Arquivo.pt at the Jornadas FCCN, it was demonstrated, in a practical and accessible way, how the preserved collection is now being given a new lease of life — from generative AI projects to the development of open-source tools for the entire academic community.
The session was divided into five parts, each focusing on specific new features and real-world use cases.

1. Amália AI: AI trained using data from Arquivo.pt – inspiration, methods and results

Pedro Gomes demonstrated how historical data from Arquivo.pt was used in the development of Amália, a large language model (LLM) for the Portuguese language. He explained the data preparation process, the specific challenges of the Portuguese web, and provided examples of what the model can generate when drawing on decades of national digital archives.

It was an inspiring presentation for anyone wishing to understand the real impact of archived web collections on AI projects.

2. New text search with Apache Solr: faster, more modern and scalable

In 2025, we redesigned the text search system for Arquivo.pt. In this part of the session, Vasco Rato spoke about this ongoing work:

  • how a search engine works internally for older pages;
  • what challenges arise when indexing billions of pages;
  • and how the new architecture using Apache Solr paves the way for more comprehensive, faster and more flexible searches.

3. The use of AI for code generation

Ivo Branco demonstrated how the use of Artificial Intelligence to generate code is significantly speeding up the development of Arquivo.pt. What once began as a ‘vague improvement’ now quickly becomes a concrete task on the work plan, thanks to AI’s ability to propose solutions, structure code and support process automation.

The manager of Arquivo.pt also highlighted improvements to the page replay system, which is now based on ZipNum, a technology that drastically reduces the time taken to access archived content — even when dealing with billions of records.

The use of AI enables us to implement these optimisations more quickly, improve the quality of the code produced, and free up the team’s time for areas of greater innovation and research.

4. Upload your website straight away

To conclude, Ricardo Basílio gave a practical demonstration of how to file documents on one’s own initiative:

  • archive a page directly to Arquivo.pt in seconds using ArchivePageNow;
  • save content to your own computer in WARC format using Webrecorder;
  • understand how these files can be reused, analysed or preserved in the long term.

5. Thematic collections: preserving your memories

From the environment to elections, and from science to digital culture, Arquivo.pt regularly produces themed collections to preserve key moments in society.

This point was not covered during the session (it will be made available shortly). However, we have included a comment at the end of the session video. We wanted to explain how these special collections are defined, curated and preserved, and how they can be used for teaching, research or simply out of historical curiosity.

Session sponsor

Patrício Cachaço presented Fortinet Secure LAN solutions: Security-Driven Networking with AIOps.

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Arquivo.pt at the IIPC Web Archiving Conference in Brussels

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The Arquivo.pt team attended the Web Archiving Conference (WAC) and the IIPC General Assembley in Brussels from April 20 to 23, 2026.

The Web Archiving Conference is the largest event dedicated to Internet preservation. It brings together initiatives from around the world, such as the Internet Archive, national libraries, and research centers that develop methodologies for using historical web content.

The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) is a consortium that seeks to bring together various web archiving initiatives, coordinating efforts to maintain and develop standards, tools, collections, and training.

The Belgian Web Archive

The KBR (De Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België), the Belgian National Library, located in the heart of Brussels, hosted the Web Archiving Conference, which drew approximately 250 participants. The conference’s opening session featured a presentation of the results and the conclusion of the pilot project for the Belgian Web Archive.

In 2017, Belgium launched a project called PROMISE ((PReserving Online Multiple Information: towards a Belgian Strategy) for the national Web archive. Starting in 2019, with funding from the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO), a five-year pilot phase was conducted, culminating in the presentation of a web archive prototype in 2026. Partners in this project included the national archives, the State Archives of Belgium (AGR), and, on the research side, the Ghent University

The collection of Belgian web content was carried out under the existing legal deposit system for printed materials, which was adapted in December 2016 to include digital web content.

The PROMISE project used open-source tools shared by the IIPC community (for data collection, the Browsertrix-crawler from Webrecorder.net; for playback, the pywb software). Access to the content is restricted and limited to the library system, and the collection has been enriched with metadata and catalog information.

Presentations by Arquivo.pt

To showcase what Arquivo.pt has been doing to promote access and demonstrate the value of its service, we presented three presentations.

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The Bridges project at the Universidade de Évora is collaborating with Arquivo.pt

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Arquivo.pt is collaborating with the Bridges “Ponte Cultural”, in CIDEHUS – Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades of Universidade de Évora (Portugal).

Arquivo.pt’s contribution consists of providing educational content on the preservation of content published on the Internet and curating special collections related to the project’s thematic focus, such as women, immigration, and regional content from the Alentejo in the blogosphere.

The BRIDGES, project, led by Principal Investigator María Zozaya, is a work held at University of Évora funded by PRR after a Portuguese National Contest by PLANAPP-FCT on Scicence for Policy (S4P25-LT 24: BRIDGES). Work “developed under the Science4Policy 2025, an anual Science for Policy Project call, an initiative promoted by Centre for Planning and Evaluation of Public Policies in partnership with the Foundation for Science and Technology, financed by Portugal’s Recovery and Resilience Plan”.

1st International Seminar “Women in Focus”

On March 17 and 18, an international seminar titled “Women in Focus: From Narrative to Representation in Language, Art, Heritage, and the Digital World” was held.

Arquivo.pt participated in the online session with a presentation titled “Women’s Visibility on the Web: A Mirror of Society Since the 1990s.” The presentation demonstrated how the archive contains historical web content that is useful for studying women’s issues. Three research projects that utilized Arquivo.pt were highlighted, namely:

As part of this initiative, Arquivo.pt is compiling a thematic collection on Portuguese women who have made significant contributions to culture, art, and science. The list of URLs will be available on the open data portal Dados.gov.

Materials of the online session

2nd International Seminar “I have a dream”

From April 15 to 17, the 2nd International Seminar of the BRIDGES Project was held, entitled: «I have a dream. À luz da diversidade: arte, cultura, políticas públicas e mundo digital» (In the Light of Diversity – Art, Culture, Public Policy, and the Digital World).

Erik Bran Marino and Rafael Prezado, doctoral students at the University of Évora, presented Narrative Monitoring: Analysis of Conspiracy Theories on Population Replacement in the Portuguese Web Archive (1996–2021).”

On the Narrative Monitor website, one can view the results and take a quiz.

The project “Narrative Monitoring” is one of the winners of the 2025 Arquivo.pt Award, having placed third. It was developed by the CIDEHUS research team, consisting of Erik Bran Marino, Rafael Prezado, Ana Sofia Ribeiro, and Renata Vieira. It serves as an example of how Arquivo.pt is used in a research context.

The digital curator of Arquivo.pt addressed the topic “Data on Multiracial Diversity at Arquivo.pt,” demonstrating how the web has served as a space for freedom of expression and for self-affirmation or advocacy.

The work of archiving the Web and preserving its memory, in turn, requires initiative and community participation. Several international and national examples of this “activist” aspect of Web archiving were cited:

As part of this session, Arquivo.pt is compiling a thematic collection on migration and the PRCT (Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories in Europe), based on the 150 search terms used in Erik Bran Marino’s research.

Materials of the online session

3rd International Seminar “Invisible barriers? Embracing diversity”

On May 13, 14, and 15, the third seminar, Invisible Limitations? Inclusion of Diversity Through Art, Culture, and the Digital World was held, focusing on the inclusion of intergenerational groups, the elderly, disadvantaged individuals, people with disabilities, and those with neurodivergent conditions (TDAH/ADHD, TEA).

Arquivo.pt participated in the online session with a guest expert, José Miguel Nogueira, a professor, member of CIES-iscte, and Principal Investigator of the Self-Determination & Inclusion by Theater Project (SDIT). José Miguel Nogueira spoke about this European project in which theater has made an exceptional contribution to the inclusion of people with autism. Finally, he challenged the audience to rethink the way they interact with people with autism.

As a special contribution to this session, the digital curator of Arquivo.pt identified and published a list of websites belonging to non-governmental organizations for people with disabilities that are registered with the Instituto Nacioanal de Reabilitação.

The topic of accessibility and the benefits it brings to society as a whole was given special attention during the presentation.

FCCN presents Arquivo.pt at the “File Not Found” event in Lisbon

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From March 23 to 26, Lisbon hosted the File Not Found event, organized by the Goethe-Institut. Over the course of four days, the initiative brought together national and international experts to explore the role of archives in the digital age, particularly their cultural, social, and political value in a constantly evolving digital world. The discussion highlighted practices, challenges, and responsibilities associated with the preservation of information heritage in this context of increasing digitization.

On the final day of the conference, March 26, João Gomes, area director at FCCN, the digital services unit of FCT, participated in the panel “Archiving Online: Power, Risk, and Digital Care Practices.” His presentation focused on Arquivo.pt, the public service for preserving Portuguese web content, developed by FCCN.

João Gomes presented the mission and progress of Arquivo.pt, emphasizing the importance of ensuring that information published online can be preserved and reused by researchers, journalists, public entities, and citizens. He also highlighted the service’s role in promoting digital literacy and advocating for open access to information.

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Arquivo.pt participated in the International Digital Curation Conference in Zagreb

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IDCC 2026 Zagreb

Arquivo.pt participated in the International Digital Curation Conference with a presentation entitled How Arquivo.pt is Preserving scientific research project websites and promoting data reuse, represented by Ricardo Basílio, digital curator.

IDDC 2026 took place in Zagreb, Croatia, between February 16 and 18. The organizer of this annual event is the Digital Curation Center, a leading consortium in the field of data management and curation for scientific research. This event had 219 attendees from 30 countries including 5 from Portugal.

The same panel, moderated by Mikala Narlock, from the Indiana University, featured the following presentations: Organizing a community to survive research ecosystem instability, by Lauren Phegley, from the University of Pennsylvania, What should be saved? The impact of austerity on data rescue, by Shona Jane Fergusonm, from the UK Centre for ecology and hydrology, and How do you calculate the carbon footprint of your digital preservation activities?, by Jenny Mitcham  from the Digital Preservation Coalition.

Contemporary challenges in digital curation

The theme of this year’s conference was “AI, austerity, and authoritarianism: contemporary challenges in digital curation.”

At the opening, Antica Čulinam, from the Ruder Boskovic Institute, addressed the issue of the reliability of science, which requires transparent, scrutinized processes and well-documented, unbiased data.

In parallel sessions, other current challenges were addressed, such as carbon footprint, the use of AI, successful cases of data management, and community engagement.

In the closing session, the topic of web preservation was highlighted with a presentation by Mikala Narclock from Indiana University and Linda Kellam from Pennsylvania University on the Data Rescue Project.

Urgency is a determining factor in web preservation, especially when scientific research results are involved.

Tribute to Kevin Ashley

The final moment of the conference was to honor Kevin Ashley, director of the DCC since April 2010. Since the 1990s, he has worked on the development and provision of digital preservation services as head of digital archives at the University of London Computing Center (ULCC). As leader of the DCC and a great communicator, he has played a charismatic role in the development of data management planning, advice, guidance, and training.

In Portugal, we have records of two presentations by Kevin Ashley at the 5ª Conferência Luso-Brasileira sobre Acesso Aberto (CONFOA) at the Universidade de Coimbra in 2014, which we recall here:

Contribution of Arquivo.pt to the preservation of scientific research results

Arquivo.pt, a digital service provided by FCT, has among its priorities the preservation of all types of information published on the Web related to research projects, such as project websites, abstracts of scientific publications, news in the media related to projects and, in general, all information on the Web referenced in scientific publications.

For example, and this was the case presented to conference participants, in 2021, Arquivo.pt identified and collected 17 terabytes of information related to projects funded by the European Commission’s H2020 program. Until then, 46% of H2020 projects did not mention their websites or project pages in the data published on the European data portal Cordis.

Based on this successful initiative, Arquivo.pt has been systematically collecting content related to the projects, in collaboration with RCAAP, PTCRIS, and Ciência Vitae, from which URLs of publications available on the Web are obtained.

Use of Arquivo.pt by researchers

At the same time that Arquivo.pt took the initiative to record web content produced by researchers, the number of use cases of Arquivo.pt increased year on year. In other words, we have more researchers making use of the data and testing methodologies. We found some examples in LLMs for the Portuguese language, such as GlórIA and AmálIA, and in the works competing for the Arquivo.pt Award.

For example, in 2025, a group of researchers from CIDEHUS – Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades da Universidade de Évora, used Arquivo.pt to create the work Narrative Monitoring: Analysis of Conspiracy Theories of Population Replacement in the Portuguese Web Archive (1996-2021).

The aim was to show the audience that the preservation of scientific research results requires the involvement of the researchers themselves. Once they are familiar with and use Arquivo.pt, they are also better prepared to take care of the preservation of their publications.

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Thematic collections to discover in the online sessions “Café with Arquivo.pt”

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Last updated on March 31st, 2026 at 01:05 pm

“Café with Arquivo.pt” consists of short online sessions so that anyone can attend during working hours. Its aim is to raise awareness of Arquivo.pt and gather contributions from the community on topics related to web preservation.

In December 2025, a new series was launched dedicated to the thematic collections that Arquivo.pt publishes as datasets on the Dados.Gov open data platform. For example, websites related to theater, music, schools, parishes, elections, and other topics are preserved in the Arquivo.pt. We aim to highlight sets of websites whose history is preserved in the Arquivo.pt to improve their preservation.

Next session

April 15 – Replacing “Coffee with Arquivo.pt”, an online session in collaboration with the Bridges – Ponte Cultural project, CIDEHUS, Universidade de Évora, dedicated to the topic of “Immigration.”

The work Narrative Monitoring: Analysis of Conspiracy Theories on Population Replacement in the Portuguese Web Archive (1996–2021), which placed third in the 2025 Arquivo.pt Award, authored by Erik Bran Marino, Rafael Prezado, Ana Sofia Ribeiro, and Renata Vieira, will be presented.

Arquivo.pt is contributing to this session by presenting a special collection on the topic, collected this month.

Guest speakers: Erik Bran Marino, Rafael Prezado

Held sessions

24/03/2026 – Feminist activism and digital memory: archival practices and fragile data

Materials

Summary

The online sessions “Coffee with Arquivo.pt” aim to raise awareness of efforts in Portugal to preserve content published on the Internet and to encourage participation by researchers and the public. The highlight of this session is the project “FEMglocal – Glocal Feminist Movements: Interactions and Contradictions.” A theoretical framework will be presented, followed by a presentation and discussion of the results and activities carried out. For example, identifying websites and other digital channels used by feminist movements has yielded a useful dataset for studying the topic. This raises the question: how can we archive all this fragile digital content circulating on the Internet? As a contribution from Arquivo.pt, we will briefly demonstrate how to collect thousands of pieces of content published on the Web about a specific topic—for example, feminism.

“FEMglocal – Glocal Feminist Movements: Interactions and Contradictions” (PTDC/COM-CSS/4049/2021 / DOI 10.54499/PTDC/COM-CSS/4049/2021), a project funded by national funds through the FCT — Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. With the participation of DivIntLab (CICANT). With the participation of the DigiPlArt Exploratory Project (2024.13064.PEX), also funded through the FCT.

Learn more about the project:  www.femglocal.pt

3/12/2025 – Local elections: how we archive websites and election programmes

  • Guest speakers: Mário Rui André e Gonçalo Pereira Costa – LPP / Lisboa Para Pessoas newspaper
  • Date: december 3, 2025
  • Language: Portuguese, translation do English available on Zoom
  • Registration (free). Closed.

Materials

Summary

Guests Mário Rui André and Gonçalo Pereira Costa, journalists from the newspaper LPP / Lisboa Para Pessoas, talked to us about the Portal das Autárquicas da Lisboa Metropolitana (Lisbon Metropolitan Local Elections Portal) they created, which provides information about the candidates and their electoral programmes. Arquivo.pt has collected thousands of electoral pages and websites, more than 3 terabytes of information, and briefly explained the methodology used.

In this session, you will learn

  • How the local elections in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area went from a journalistic perspective;
  • What methodology was used to collect electoral content on the Internet;
  • How to use the web archive to obtain information from the past.

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