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Arquivo.pt won the Digital Transformation 2024 award

December 5, 2024December 3, 2024 by Ricardo Basílio

Last updated on December 5th, 2024 at 12:23 pm

Arquivo.pt, the digital service of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)-Unidade FCCN, was one of the winners of the Prémio Transformação Digital da APDSI 2024 (APDSI 2024 Digital Transformation Award).

Arquivo.pt was recognised in the ‘Promoting a more Innovative and Digital Society’ category.

This category highlights the innovative aspect of organisations’ digital transition.

The manager of Arquivo.pt, Daniel Gomes, and the web developer in charge of Arquivo.pt’s collections, Pedro Gomes, were present at the ceremony, which took place in Oeiras on 3 December 2024.

Arquivo.pt’s application for the Award (in Portuguese)

Arquivo.pt, a service for digital transformation

Daniel Gomes explains how a web preservation service contributes to a more sustainable information society, in a video prepared for the awards ceremony.

Digital Transformation Award 2024 APDSI

The Associação para a Promoção e Desenvolvimento da Sociedade da Informação (APDSI) (Association for the Promotion and Development of the Information Society) promotes the use of technology in favour of citizens, their inclusion and participation in the development of society.

The Digital Transformation Award (4th edition in 2024) aims to ‘recognise and disseminate best practices in the adoption and implementation of information and communication technologies (ICT), with a view to a more digital society sustained by public and private institutions that are more efficient and closer to the citizen’ (APDSI website).

The 2024 edition of this award received 33 nominations in 3 categories:

Effectiveness/Efficiency of Organisations
Proximity to Citizens and a More Inclusive Society
Promoting a more Innovative and Digital Society

See all the finalist projects

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Arquivo.pt received the award for Best Central Public Administration Digital Project

October 31, 2024October 25, 2024 by Ricardo Basílio

Arquivo.pt receives Award for Best Governmental service

Last updated on October 31st, 2024 at 12:42 pm

Arquivo.pt, a digital service of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)-FCCN Unit, was one of the winners of the Navegantes XXI Awards, 2024 edition.

Arquivo.pt won the award in the category of “Best Digital Project of Central Public Administration”.

This category annually recognizes a project that has contributed “unequivocally to the development of the Central Public sector through digital means, as well as the Digital Economy in Portugal”.

The Head of Arquivo.pt Daniel Gomes, the FCCN Deputy General Coordinator Salomé Branco and the FCT vice-president Francisco Santos were present at the ceremony held on October 24 at the Técnico Innovation Center in Lisbon and received the award.

Application “Arquivo.pt: a public service for digital preservation” for the Navegantes XXI 2024 Award

Arquivo.pt receives Award for Best Governmental service

WhatsApp Arquivo.pt vence Prémio Navegantes XXI2024-10-25 at 14.30.42

Equipa do Arquivo.pt recebe Prémio Navegantes XXI

Navegantes XXI Awards

The Navegantes XXI (Navigators XXI) Awards are an annual initiative by ACEPI – Digital Economy Association, created with the mission “To Promote and Develop the Digital Economy in Portugal”.

The competition rewards the best of the Digital Economy and Society in Portugal in its most diverse aspects. It currently comprises 20 categories that reward the most innovative and digital transformation Portuguese projects, ideas and institutions. Three prizes are also awarded for special categories outside the competition.

Meet all the winners.

Arquivo.pt is finalist for the DPC Awards 2024

August 12, 2024May 13, 2024 by Ricardo Basílio

Last updated on August 12th, 2024 at 11:50 am

The Digital Preservation Coalition Awards

The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is dedicated to promoting digital preservation and associated best practices.

The DPC Awards promote exemplary and innovative digital preservation use cases from all over the world.

The Arquivo.pt team submitted two applications to the DPC Awards 2024 in the categories of “Safeguarding the Digital Legacy” and “Research and Innovation”.

The Award for Safeguarding the Digital Legacy celebrates the practical application of preservation tools to protect at-risk digital objects.

The Award for Research and Innovation recognizes excellence in practical research and innovation activities.

Arquivo.pt applications to the DPC Awards

#1 Arquivo.pt catalog of tools for digital preservation

Information that rules modern-day lives is born-digital and disseminated online. However, invaluable digital objects published online have been continuously lost.

Arquivo.pt is a public infrastructure which supports the preservation of digital objects published online to safeguard this digital legacy for future generations.

Thus, in October 2023 after 15 years of research and development, Arquivo.pt released a Catalog of 13 innovative tools to support the preservation of at-risk online content, from acquisition to dissemination (e.g. search and access, APIs, training, open data sets, exhibitions).

Arquivo.pt safeguards online digital objects of worldwide interest for research and education.

The Arquivo.pt Catalog was selected as finalist to the Safeguarding the Digital Legacy Award.

See the application documentation

#2 Searching preserved web-images

Images published online are precious digital assets that document contemporary times for future generations.

This initiative describes the research and development of an innovative image search system that enables the discovery and access to billions of preserved images acquired from the web since the 1990s.

This research was applied to enhance the Arquivo.pt web archive with an image search service publicly available to any Internet user, officially launched in August 2022.

The resulting scientific and technical publications are available in open-access and the developed software is available as free open-source to be reused and enhanced by the community.

This work on searching images preserved in web archives applied for the Research and Innovation Award.

See the application documentation

Know more

3 minute pitch (video, slides)
DPC Awards Nomination Pack
Finalists of the Digital Preservation Awards 2024
Arquivo.pt catalog of services
Daniel Gomes, Web archives as research infrastructure for digital societies: the case study of Arquivo.pt, Archeion 123, 2022 (pre-print version, video, slides)
André Mourão, Daniel Gomes, Searching images in a web archive, 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics 2023 (ppt).
Inside Arquivo.pt image search service (video in English)

Arquivo.pt in the top 3 of government services in Portugal

August 6, 2024January 15, 2024 by Ricardo Basílio

Last updated on August 6th, 2024 at 05:32 pm

Arquivo.pt, Portugal’s national web preservation service, has earned a prominent position by being named one of the top 3 government services in the 2023 Portugal Digital Awards. This recognition is testimony to the crucial role played by Arquivo.pt in the preservation and accessibility of Portugal’s digital heritage.

The three finalists in the category Best Government Project (best digital transformation project in the public administration sector) were Arquivo.pt, the Porto Digital Association and Banco de Portugal, which received the winning award.

Mission and recognition

Arquivo.pt, developed by the FCCN – National Scientific Computing , stands out as an innovative initiative in the field of digital preservation. Its mission is to collect and archive web content, allowing users to access past versions of web pages, documents and other online resources.

The recognition at the Portugal Digital Awards highlights not only the importance of digital preservation, but also the effectiveness and relevance of Arquivo.pt as a government service. By providing a journey through time via the Internet, this resource becomes a valuable tool for researchers, academics and the general public.

Commitment to digital preservation

Participation in the award underlines Arquivo.pt’s commitment to improving the historical record of the evolution of the Web in Portugal. This service not only contributes to the country’s digital memory, but also facilitates research, promoting understanding of digital evolution over time.

In addition, Arquivo.pt’s distinction reflects FCCN’s ongoing effort to develop and improve innovative services that benefit society. Digital preservation is a crucial component in ensuring that Portugal’s digital heritage is passed on to future generations, and Arquivo.pt fulfills this role in a unique way.

In conclusion, recognition in the Portugal Digital Awards 2023, a competition that received over 300 candidate services, solidifies Arquivo.pt’s position as one of the leading government services at the forefront of digital preservation. This achievement highlights the growing importance of digital preservation in the digital age in which we live.

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Arquivo.pt was considered the best Digital Service of 2022

August 6, 2024December 2, 2022 by Ricardo Basílio

Last updated on August 6th, 2024 at 05:22 pm

Exame Informática, the oldest Portuguese magazine on Information and Communication Technology, distinguished Arquivo.pt with the award for the Best Digital Service of the year 2022.

The prize was delivered during the 16th gala Os Melhores & As Maiores do Portugal Tecnológico, held on November 29th, 2022, in Lisbon.

Daniel Gomes, manager of Arquivo.pt, dedicated the award to the various teams that have worked on Arquivo.pt over the years. In the month in which Arquivo.pt marked 15 years of existence, this distinction is an excellent anniversary gift, he concluded.

He also invited those present to discover the old pages of Exame Informática preserved in Arquivo.pt.