Arquivo.pt in Croatia

October 1, 2020July 4, 2019 by admin

Last updated on October 1st, 2020 at 04:44 pm

The Arquivo.pt team went to the biggest international Web archiving conference.

The conference, organized by the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), occurred from the 5th to the 7th of June 2019.

Interview to Daniel Gomes, Head of Arquivo.pt

Arquivo.pt contributed with 5 additional presentations during the conference.

The slides and videos are available in the following links:

Access policies, challenges and approaches, IIPC 2019, Daniel Gomes, 2019 (Vídeo, PDF)
Opportunities and challenges in collecting and studying national webs, IIPC 2019, Daniel Gomes, 2019 (Vídeo, PDF)
Arquivo.pt Memorial and other goodies, Daniel Gomes, IIPC Web Archiving Conference (WAC) 2019, Zagrebe, Croácia, Junho 2019
Searching images from the past, Fernando Melo, IIPC Web Archiving Conference (WAC) 2019, Zagrebe, Croácia, Junho 2019
Librarians as web curators in universities, Ricardo Basílio e Daniel Bicho, IIPC Web Archiving Conference (WAC) 2019, Zagrebe, Croácia, Junho 2019

Sites crawled in 2017 are available through Arquivo.pt

July 2, 2019June 28, 2019 by Ricardo Basílio

Last updated on July 2nd, 2019 at 03:58 pm

The information collected from the Web during 2017 is avaliable in Arquivo.pt.

Fires in Pedrógão Grande. Photo published in the newspaper As Beiras — Fires in Pedrógão Grande, Portugal, june 2017. Photo published in the newspaper As Beiras

Remember and investigate historical events of 2017 such as:

Arquivo.pt visited 3 millions sites and collected 900 million files, 75TB in total, so you can acess the memory of past events.

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)

Java/Linux expert to collaborate with Arquivo.pt

August 5, 2024May 21, 2019 by Daniel Gomes

Last updated on August 5th, 2024 at 11:23 am

The ROSSIO Project- Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities has an open call for 1 position to collaborate with Arquivo.pt.

Call is open until June 13th, 2019.

Check for application details at the links below.

Main tasks

Development of large-scale distributed computer systems;
Analysis, planning and operation of computer services;
Corrective and evolutive maintenance of software;
Interaction with scientific and technical communities to establish collaborations and identify requirements.

Application details

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.

Search 17 million images from the past with Arquivo.pt!

May 14, 2019May 14, 2019 by admin

At the end of 2018, Arquivo.pt launched an experimental image search service from the past, which it was possible to search around 4 million images from the past, coming from some collections of Arquivo.pt.

From April 2019, it became possible to search for images from all the collections of Arquivo.pt.

You can now search over 17 million unique images (over 50 pixels in width and height) since 1996.

Find pages from the past through the new image search service.

Try the “Visit Page” option to find the Web page from the past that contained the image you selected.

Try the image search service now!

Search images from the past with Arquivo.pt at https://arquivo.pt/images.jsp?l=en

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

Students from Coimbra visit Arquivo.pt

April 30, 2019April 30, 2019 by admin

On April 11, Arquivo.pt headquarters at LNEC welcomed 30 students enrolled in the course of Information Sciences at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra.

On the occasion, students had the opportunity to take part in a technical visit, and a training session on digital preservation and on the services offered by Arquivo.pt

Bring your institution. Contact us on arquivo.pt/contact

Visita ao centro de dados para conhecer a infraestrutura que suporta o Arquivo.pt

Visita guiada ao Arquivo.pt, que funciona no Campus do LNEC

Sessão acerca do Arquivo.pt no pequeno auditório do LNEC

Daniel Gomes, gestor do Arquivo, acompanha a visita ao centro de dados para conhecer a infraestrutura que suporta o Arquivo.pt

Daniel Gomes, gestor do Arquivo acompanha a visita ao centro de dados para conhecer a infraestrutura que suporta o Arquivo.pt

Ask for an exhibition of posters about historical web pages

October 26, 2023April 26, 2019 by admin

Last updated on October 26th, 2023 at 10:19 am

If you wish to host an exhibition to show-off on a common space (e.g. library, university hallway, common room in a congress center), please contact us!

Examples of performed exhibitions

These four exhibitions presented iconic web pages from Portugal’s recent history.

Universidade do Minho – Gualtar Campus – Braga

Where: Espaço B-Lounge of Universidade do Minho Library
When: Until April 18. From Monday to Friday, from 8h30 to midnight. And Saturdays from 08h30 to 14h30.

Universidade do Minho – Azurém Campus – Guimarães

Where: Espaço B-Lounge of Universidade do Minho Library
When: From April 23 to May 10. From Monday to Friday, from 8h30 to midnight. And Saturdays from 08h30 to 14h30.

ISCTE – Lisboa

Where: ISCTE-IUL Library.
When: From April 16 until May 11. From 8h to 21h.

Escola Superior de Hotelaria do Estoril

Where: Celestino Gomes Library
When: Until May 15. From Monday to Friday, from 9h30 to 12h00 and from 14h30 to 17h30. And from 6 to May 18. From Monday to Friday, from 9h30 to 20h30, Saturdays from 9h30 to 13h.

NOVA – IMS – Campolide Campus

Where: Nova IMS Library and Main Corridor.
When: Until April 18. From Monday to Friday, from 10h to 18h. And April 22 to 30, from 9h to 20h.

Exposições Arquivo.pt

Biblioteca da Universidade do Minho, Campus de Azurém

Biblioteca do ISCTE, Lisboa

B-Lounge, Universidade do Minho Library / B-Lounge of Universidade do Minho Library

B-Lounge, Biblioteca da Universidade do Minho / B-Lounge Universidade do Minho Library

Biblioteca da Faculdade de Ciência e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Biblioteca da ESCE do Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal

Biblioteca Biblioteca da Escola Superior de Ciências Empresariais de Setúbal – Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal

Biblioteca da Reitoria da Universidade do Algarve

Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa

Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa e Instituto da Educação

Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa e Instituo da Educação

Faculdade de Psicologia da Universidade de Lisboa e Instituto da Educação

Biblioteca da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

News about our poster exhibitions

Arquivo.pt Exhibition in FCT – Caparica

March 29, 2019March 21, 2019 by admin

Last updated on March 29th, 2019 at 01:37 pm

Next Thursday, 28th March, is the last day to visit Arquivo.pt Exhibition in FCT – Library, in Caparica.

The exhibition is open to the public all day long, from 9 am to 8 pm and shows six iconic pages from Portugal’s recent history such as the result of the 1996 Presidential Elections in Portugal, the Expo’98 page, or the first home page of the RTP television network, published in 1998.

FCT – Library is located at Caparica Campus. For further information call 212 94 78 29.

This exhibition is itinerant, so if you are interested in bringing it to your city or institution, please contact Arquivo.pt.